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Lawyer, Los Angeleno, antiquarian, double Wolverine (Go Blue!), lover of fine music, architecture, Chicago, ships, planes, trains, cars; West Michigan native. Also, I have an unnatural interest in the dreadnought era Royal Navy.
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submitted 1 day ago • 217 comments

I lost track of who linked this story (I close tabs too frequently, if you can believe it) but THIS IS SO COOL #agriculture 🧪

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Reading is fundamental!

submitted 3 days ago • 349 comments

Watch me scramble in real time as I try to find the economic angle on the Musk-Trump tiff. (I think I found one, and the issues it highlights are terrifyingly important.)

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

These two psychos have access to all your personal data, by the way.

submitted 3 days ago • 760 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 3 days ago • 1700 comments

Whether it's a random liberal nobody praising Luigi on Facebook or a Republican cabinet nominee calling for genocide against all non-whites, there's plenty of incendiary rhetoric on both sides.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

"The official also said that the timing of the announcement -- occurring during Pride month -- was intentional." I've seen enough. We can confidently declare the Trump administration to be the biggest collection of assholes in American history.

submitted 5 days ago • 106 comments

Overheard: Apparently Zelenskyy had some cards, and he didn’t need a suit.

submitted 7 days ago • 692 comments

There's a lot of day-to-day economic noise. But to keep your eye on what really matters, ask yourself: What makes some countries rich, and others poor? And keep your eyes on those factors, because they're the ones that'll really matter in the long run.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

NEW | Pictures are emerging of the preparation of the operation Ukraine carried out today, using drones inside trucks. Ukrainian sources suggest the attack has been in the works for the past year and a half.

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

That works for me.....

submitted 7 days ago • 83 comments

Please share. Thank you. #NationalParks

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Stephen Miller watching his wife go work for Elon

submitted 9 days ago • 217 comments

Thread of the day @sodrock.bsky.social @marcusfaulkner.bsky.social @alanallport.bsky.social @dustinducane.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Let me try to explain what the big budget bill is, why it matters, and how you can think about budgets (yes, yawn! I get it). But if you get past yawning, you'll see that budgets really matter, and I want to give you a framework for how and why.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Trump claims Golden Dome will cost $175 billion; protect America not only against ICBMs but also hypersonic missiles, cruise missiles & drones; and be operational by the time he leaves office. And, if you believe that, the president has some memecoins he would be happy to sell you. wapo.st/4kWWfZh

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

“What you are feeling is the disconnect between seeing that systems are failing, that things aren’t working … and yet the institutions and the people in power just are, like, ignoring it and pretending everything is going to go on the way that it has,” … www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

(from the archives)

submitted 13 days ago • 73 comments

Australian woman, a former police officer, was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the US despite traveling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband. Is there no end to our shameful behavior? www.news.com.au/travel/trave...

submitted 16 days ago • 74 comments

Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

submitted 16 days ago • 415 comments

The Secretary of the Interior has ordered the National Park Service to review all sites for recent content/interpretive changes since 2020 that violate Trump's recent EO to "Restore Truth and Sanity to American History." This is a public history disaster. #NationalParks www.doi.gov/document-lib...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Gov. Tim Walz speech to law school graduates at the University of Minnesota: "Right now, more than any other time in my lifetime, we need you to live up to the oath that you’re about to make. Because, I have to be honest with you: You are graduating into a genuine emergency."

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

When will this media reckoning come? I’m thinking never. New from me https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/trump-biden-election-media-coverage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

submitted 22 days ago • 112 comments

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Strains bounds of propriety? Strains…bounds…of…proprietary? Am I having a stroke? What is happening?

submitted 27 days ago • 1943 comments

Guess which is going wind up killing more Americans.

submitted 28 days ago • 702 comments

The Trump administration is defying the Supreme Court, arresting judges and mayors, talking about arresting congressmen, denying due process and openly musing about suspending habeus corpus too. There’s no constitutional crisis coming. It’s here.

submitted 28 days ago • 101 comments

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

submitted 29 days ago • 872 comments

Today's front page.

submitted 30 days ago • 149 comments