Chance Phillips

Ah, thanks!

With Chuy out, Ald. Sigcho-Lopez explores independent bid for Garcia's congressional seat Sigcho-Lopez confirmed to the Chicago Sun-Times that he has formed an exploratory committee after being encouraged to run by community members following U.S. Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia's surprising exit...

Is it quietly? There was definitely some reporting ahead of time that he was planning on doing so. (I don't follow Chicago politics so maybe the filing itself went under the radar of course.)
chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

A selection from a Joan Robinson paper on the topic that I like to share: "The case for pricing according to market demand is very much stronger in a socialist society than in a capitalist one ... In the socialist economy every family has the money income ... which it has ... the right to have"

There's a reason it's one of Sanders' go-to lines.

As @chancephillips.bsky.social observed www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-cares...

Leaked files show far-right influences among Project 2025 applicants Applicants reportedly cited Nazi theorists and other extremists as inspiration for Trump administration roles

Another analysis of the Project 2025 leaked data @ddosecrets.com is hosting written by @jasonaw.bsky.social was published today. Definitely worth a read.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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It was *obvious* following his appearance on the Odd Lots podcast, but could be ascertained well before then.

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I've really enjoyed The Umbrellas of Cherbourg the two or three times I've watched it, but I'm unsure how it would be classified as a comedy

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

For contrast, one of my favorite sentences from Catherine Drinker Bowen’s Miracle at Philadelphia: “A single executive for the national government conjured up visions from the past — royal governors who could not be restrained, a crown, ermine, a scepter!”

In order to work, the gears of government must mesh, giving the departments a ‘partial agency in’ one another’s activities (F 47.325).”

Garry Wills in A Necessary Evil: “How did Madison respond to such accusations [of mixing the legislative, judicial, and executive powers]? He calmly admitted them. There is no perfect separation of the departments, and—given his functional defense of separation—there could not be. ...

“If I hate what the Securities and Exchange Commission is doing, or the Federal Trade Commission, or name your alphabet, what do I do about that? I can’t go to Congress. I can’t elect a different president.”

... Congress can and obviously does have power here & both changed markedly under Biden.

A selection from Pareto’s Manual of Political Economy “The study of the evolution of economic phenomena in times close to our own and in societies that do not differ vastly from ours is much more useful than the study of their origins; and this is so from two points of view. It enables us first to replace direct experimentation, which is impossible in the social sciences. When we are able to carry out experiments, we try to bring about the phenomenon under study, in various circumstances, in order to see how the latter act upon it, whether they modify it or not. But when we cannot proceed in this way, the only thing we can do is to see whether we can find in a natural state in space and time those experiments which cannot be performed artificially. Secondly, the study of the evolution of the phenomena may be useful to us in facilitating the discovery of the uniformities that are present in this evolution, and in enabling us to predict the future on the basis of the past. It is obvious that the longer the chain of deductions between the past and the future facts, the more these deductions become uncertain and doubtful; it is thus only on the basis of the very recent past that one can predict the very near future; and, unfortunately, even within these narrow limits, predictions are very difficult to make.”

It’s mildly interesting to see Pareto arguably praised/called for what economists would call natural experiments today: “the only thing we can do is to see whether we can find in a natural state in space and time those experiments which cannot be performed artificially.”

In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 162 years ago today, President Lincoln gave one of the most famous speeches in American history, extolling the sacrifices of the men who died in the battle there. There are five known manuscript copies of the Gettysburg Address. The Library of Congress has two of those.

It was quite literally a major controversy surrounding the Clint Eastwood movie Richard Jewell!

I- I just- I-

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I rather enjoyed writing my 33rd and almost certainly final article for The Crimson White last week, now as a guest columnist and UA alum.

TL;DR: If UA’s administration was forced to help workers, it shouldn’t make parking free. It needs to pay them more.
thecrimsonwhite.com/124975/opini...

In the leaked Project 2025 responses published by @ddosecrets.com, Burra's name is tied to a response saying the fascist text Bronze Age Mindset "shaped my view in that it perfectly describes the enemies of America and the condition America currently finds itself in."

So this is hardly surprising.

Two English Republican Tracts Neville and Moyle were two of the leading spokesmen for republicanism of the kind proposed by English publicists in the seventeenth century. In Plato Redivivus, Neville examines the decay of 'gothic' ...

I actually think very simple text only covers can be appealing (see this book "Two English Republican Tracts") but an all white background paired with a rather self-important title is a bit much, yeah.
books.google.com/books?id=v0t...

White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation

New from me this morning, a deep dive on Elon Musk's Grokipedia-- the forthrightness of the white nationalist and eugenic advocacy in many entries surprised me and the experts I spoke to www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The War on Professionalism and Professional Competence Incompetence and sloppiness are the self-conscious ethos of the administration.

“The juvenile actions and accusatory language spouting from every orifice of government may be among the most superficial features of our current crisis, but it is symptomatic of a larger disrespect for professionalism and professional competence.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-p...

(Mainly because I'm not even sure that the summary is wholly accurate at first skim. The paper appears to be wholly focused on whether wealth effects for landlords are counterbalanced by gains for tenants, and not so much on investment or availability of rental units.)

You should probably link to the actual working paper, not the summary produced by the landlord advocacy org.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

There was one at a student volunteer led musical theater performance I attended just the other day. I believe that's the only time I've heard one outside of perhaps a DSA event I attended in the past or something?