Will Thorne

I have never felt more patriotic

New NYT piece on price/rent control from
@bharatramamurti.bsky.social and @nealemahoney.bsky.social
suggests a middle ground of careful use.

it looked like an effort to bypass midfield & press and play over the top, but rarely actually did so

Been called 4 times!

I do not believe rationing healthcare with prices is all that great, but this is probably the worst rationing mechanism available:

I suspect we will see lots of GOP seeking to create a "brand" for themselves, as they prepare for a post-Trump political scramble for power.

Hawley and MTG are already starting, and I think those are the first dominoes to fall.

Council demolishes play area after noise complaints Parents in a Derbyshire town say their children are 'devastated' they have lost the facility.

Sometimes you think 'oh it can't really be that bad can it' and then you click on the link and it turns out it is exactly that bad www.bbc.com/news/article...

If they actually wanted me to peel fresh ginger, they should have designed it better.

Chris Van Hollen Is Angry—at Trump, and at His Party’s Lame Pollsters The Maryland senator explains why he went to El Salvador earlier this year while the rest of the party tried to downplay immigration issues, and his decision to go to Iowa and flirt with a 2028 presid...

"You can be angry about the assault on our democracy and our freedoms and still be a happy warrior in how you confront that. Roosevelt, when he was going after big-money special interests, said, 'I welcome their hatred," says @vanhollen.senate.gov. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

bought wifi on my last flight and spent the whole time reading about civil war Massachusetts infantry regiments

One movie I am glad that nearly every MA student watches in school.

Being a Massachusetts Sumner definitely elevates it a bit for me.

"I would prefer not to"

The Bartleby the Scrivener economy

Enjoying the Say Nothing tv series about the IRA.

we have a spa/baths nearby that is apparently warmed via bitcoin mining or something similar. So there's precedent

At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.

Last weekend, I was thrilled to spend an evening with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, Anya Schiffrin and a group of brilliant policy minds they gathered to discuss a range of issues facing our city.

Boy, do we need more of this in Economics.

(The comments are still filled with garbage, but I think this is pretty close to the gold standard for explaining what we know, don't know, and can't ever know in the context of complicated scientific material.)

An Engineer's Perspective on the Texas Floods YouTube video by Practical Engineering

It's a bit of an odd source/version of this, but I thought this (Practical Engineering on Texas Floods) was a great way of presenting "shortcomings" without yielding room to the monsters:

youtu.be/3FfMzWa6LKg?...

A Group of Socialists Created a Hit Game That Tore Them Apart (Gift Article) The role-playing game Disco Elysium wowed critics by lacerating capitalism, communism and fascism. But instead of a sequel came bitter lawsuits and five rival studios.

this is excellent www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I remember encountering a dataset that (at least in-part) determined how corrupt a country was, based on how many gov't officials were prosecuted on corruption charges.

WSJ reported the "transgender ideology" then retracted.

Guardian reported he was leftist according to a high school friend and then retracted.

So, the WSJ and the Guardian both printed damaging and irresponsible reporting and then issued quiet edits/corrections after the fact.
And someone who blames political violence on universities might take over at CBS.
What is the path forward here?

If that was what GOP wanted, why wouldn't they just force the shutdown themselves?

Now that they see what this actually looks like, (not just deporting dangerous criminals) they have cooled on the idea.

Polls initially shower support for these policies because the average American is completely ignorant of who undocumented immigrants are, they were painted a picture by Trump of murderers and rapists with almost zero push back from the cowards who lead the democratic party, and they believed it.

You are out of touch and have no grasp on the polling data on the subject. This is not a popular issue with strong bipartisan support.

Schumer's legacy will be the complete and utter incompetence of his "leadership" in this moment.

The most patriotic thing he could do is resign and let someone who understands politics take control.

Because politics & perception are important, and one of the best possible things to stop Trump would be a scandal that alienates his base.