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[singsong voice] do you stan the oyster man who lives in dreary maine??

joining the growing chorus to say that i truly madly deeply would love to hear you lay this out at length!

related—does this view extend to their first paper on the topic, Colonial Origins of Comparative Development?

there's like one (lynx? MAYBE) that is a different animal and i can never remember which it is.

More than 500 Dartmouth faculty urge college to reject Trump’s compact - The Boston Globe Professors delivered a petition to the university’s president on Thursday, calling the compact an “unprecedented attack on higher education."

the faculty and students of Dartmouth don't seem convinced that statement was a "no" from the president www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/09/m...

Just in case someone missed this detail:
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck

Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs

A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

a nice thing about being neck-deep in writing my own book is i can tell myself that i intellectually NEED to buy a lot of books, i emotionally will read every single one AFTER i finish the manuscript, and financially tk tk

thinking about it more this is kinda the point of the chaos theory stuff in the book!

this is a great metaphor, but i think it actually suggests it's both trend and dramatic shift: the raptors are still raptors once they're out of the pen but them being out of the pen is a pretty dramatic break from trend!!

HFAs aren't as harmful for the ozone layer as chlorofluorocarbon formulation inhalers that were phased out in the US from 2009 to 2013. But HFA inhalers aren't the most earth-friendly option, either.

this is a very funny paragraph, given the overall framing. actual "inhaler emissions" are getting better over time?? better drop that in paragraph like 11.

you WOULD say that, Mr. Nomsky

Where Does the Olivia Nuzzi–RFK Jr. Fallout End? vanityfair.com › news › story › olivia-nuzzi-rfk-jr-fallout Sep 26, 2024 On a Tuesday morning late last October, star New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi met with then presidential candidate Robert F. ... Recently our Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi acknowledged to the magazine’s editors that she had engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while she was reporting on the campaign, a violation of the ... Vanity Fair Announces New Hires Across Departments Yesterday Olivia Nuzzi joins Vanity Fair as West Coast Editor. In this new role, she will be editing stories across platforms and topic areas, with a ...

love this pair of headlines

what are you the queen of england nobody needs to wave more than three times

putting this in the book

i'm noting the firm hand on him 😭

i assume this is by economists and the answer is that they don't think the historian would have anything to add of importance

i clicked through the whole way to the bottom and yours was the worst lol

tough pill to swallow that, between Cook and Powell, "economists" might get added to the list

(i mean utilising it appropriately within the bounds of the copyright policy)

we're all copying this for our syllabi fyi thx

To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice - Boston Review How the history of slavery prompts us to rethink our notion of justice.

seems like we're due for a rereading of Walter Johnson against "dehumanization": www.bostonreview.net/forum/walter...

reading this in Nate Bargatze's George Washington voice

you're bringing Osita on the pod right??

some of these comments sound like Yelp reviews. "This essay is not what I ordered!" ...very strange

"It's 315 habibi" lol

i believe it's 3 interlocking plates...if i remember the correction he posted when it came out lol

Infantino on 64-team WC: Every idea a good idea FIFA President Gianni Infantino appeared on Thursday to give some support to South American confederation CONMEBOL's idea of having 64 teams in the 2030 World Cup.

not just American sports! www.espn.com/soccer/story...

funny ("funny") bc the original claims—"DC crime is the lowest in decades"—actually lead naturally to "so obviously, the man is full of shit, just using the big balls-beatdown as an excuse to dress up as an authoritarian" or w/e. the fact of low crime can communicate that this is BS—if you let it!

(signed, an economist who has written in favor of rent control)

this isn't even a good summary of arguments against! economists may argue it can "trap" households who want to move (eg to a bigger unit after having a kid) but can't bring stabilized rents with them. and then they def argue that too-low rents slow construction. but these are different concerns!

my understanding is that Jon Ossoff is a real one