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Austin wants taxpayers to tighten their belts. City Hall isn’t doing the same. Austin City Council members gave themselves 55% more money for travel and 43% more for food in a budget that raises property taxes more than 20%. Voters will decide on the hike Nov. 4.

Eleven paragraphs into the story, the Statesman grants that the $77k that Republicans are complaining city council spent on travel and food "pales in comparison" with the city's $6.3 billion budget and has no bearing IRL on the math of whether Austin needs a tax rate election. So disingenuous.

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Well worth it -

The Federal Reserve’s Neglected History of Racial segregation Recent events regarding Lisa Cook’s attempted firing by Donald Trump have convinced me to do a premium series on the history of racial segregation and the Federal Reserve. This is for a few reasons. F...

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: With the attempted firing of Lisa Cook by Donald Trump, the first Black woman appointed to the Federal Reserve Board, I think its important to examine the @federalreserve.gov's history of Racial Segregation. This is a long one

www.crisesnotes.com/the-federal-...

The Federal Reserve’s Neglected History of Racial segregation Recent events regarding Lisa Cook’s attempted firing by Donald Trump have convinced me to do a premium series on the history of racial segregation and the Federal Reserve. This is for a few reasons. F...

www.crisesnotes.com/the-federal-...

JAWS at 50: Birth of the Neoliberal Blockbuster In honor of the 50th anniversary of JAWS (1975), we are proud to publish a 2020 lecture about Steven Spielberg’s film by Scott Ferguson. Far from a simple celebration, the lecture c…

In this new aesthetic regime, abstraction is repressed, physics reigns supreme, and cinematic movement is reduced to zero-sum displacements of material forces and entities.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Bayard Rustin and A Philip Randolph began planning the March on Washington for Jobs and Justice in late 1961. The actual March took place in Aug 1963. 250,000 attended.

We can set an example for the whole nation in this election.

(Getting out Econ 101 book)
But a seller's market should lead to lower prices...

The irony is not lost on me that a central pillar of US capitalism for the past century may collapse due to its refusal to defend a Black woman…the past half decade has been a parade of institutional failure at vital points

Really good analysis of the Fed's and Chair Powell's failure to respond to the efforts to undermine central bank independence.

Powell Will Hang Separately: The Federal Reserve Has Already Failed its Duty to Lisa Cook and the Constitution This is a free Notes on the Crises article. A reminder to readers that the various activities run out of the still-new Notes on the Crises office cost money, while an enormous amount of time and effor...

Very well put by @nathantankus.bsky.social:
“Powell must do everything in his power to compel the conventional wisdom of market traders to more adequately “price in” the degradation of the rule of law.”

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Powell Will Hang Separately: The Federal Reserve Has Already Failed its Duty to Lisa Cook and the Constitution This is a free Notes on the Crises article. A reminder to readers that the various activities run out of the still-new Notes on the Crises office cost money, while an enormous amount of time and effor...

Excellent article from @nathantankus.bsky.social

“The Trump administration has provided no evidence for its allegations of “mortgage fraud” against Lisa Cook and an individual can have multiple “principal residences”, as President Trump himself has.”

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Nathan’s articles will become more and more important as we get deeper into the insanity of Trump’s admin. Crisesnotes is well worth subscribing to and sharing.

An excellent piece with new-to-me detail on the ‘accusations’ against Cook. I agree that Powell faces a choice between trying to use the power of market panic to compel Trump to back down or losing.

Must Read!!!!

NEW PIECE: Powell and the Federal Reserve System has already failed to meet the moment and not defending Lisa Cook will seal both Powell's and the Fed's fate.

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As kids return to school, another mass shooting has stolen young lives.

Children shouldn’t fear their classrooms. Teachers shouldn’t risk their lives. Parents shouldn’t wonder if their kids will come home.

We are the only country with more guns than people—and this is the devastating result.

Coalition as Credit Reading the Mamdani-Lander-Warren Coalition as a Credit Event by Will Beaman How do you keep governing when opponents try to stage a fiscal loss? In New York, that will be the fight: not just what …

✨New Essay✨

Coalition-building isn't just a pact, it's a practice of public underwriting. @greenbackbetter.bsky.social analyzes the current political moment as a "crediting event" that makes a powerful next step intelligible: a democratic "Blue Bonds" drive to fund public life.

The plan? Change none of Pete Buttigieg's policies but give him a beard and run him again in 2028

just wait until you see this in some actual context, Autopilot is the biggest high-tech scandal in modern history

Autopilot plaintiffs straight up telling Elon Musk he can't afford to settle, you absolutely love to see it

This is what Harvard is gonna do with all your resistance donations, congrats

many pushed & intimidated out

Denver Pastor and Wife Face Charges in ‘God-Inspired’ Cryptocurrency Scheme

This is possibly the most quintessentially American news story ever written. “Mr. Regalado and his wife said their cryptocurrency platform ‘blends biblical kingdom principles of wealth creation with cutting-edge blockchain technology.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

Very cool that Grok hallucinated the Manhattan shooter being associated with "Free Palestine" thanks to some input hacking by a Twitter Nazi and now this LLM slop is being presented as factual

Posted this 11/01/2023: "What the apologists don't know about and don't care is that the definitions of Genocide were designed as *warning signs* not autopsies. They didn't define it as millions dead or % killed to try to head off that definitionally impossible standard when the goal is prevention"

translation: in case it somehow isn't obvious yet, Tesla hasn't been serious about being a car company for a while now