Hillel

also pritzker seems to have understood this assignment (e.g. isp.illinois.gov/Director/Lea...)

i now have wine-braised lamb with cumin, garlic, shallots, coriander, pepper, and celery seed. i have added a generous slug of the grape pickling liquid, am reducing the braising liquid and tomorrow i am going to make lamb carnitas.

it is fucking disgusting how the ADL has accepted "we will kill the jews last"

somewhere between the two. she can get up on her knees and then push herself backward but she turns in army crawl mode.

she is, uh, a J6er

the sense of agency thing is so fucking true. maybe my biggest frustration with the broader left is just how conservative and helpless and backward-looking it is. there's almost no vision that isn't basically just 1960s back to the land, marx/lenin fundamentalism, or (on the lib end) "Be europe."

i didn't include it in the essay but i will mention it in the book – i had a discussion with an aging marxist philosophy professor who said straight to my face "what could activists possibly get out of a service like signal?" 😱😱😱

one major problem for this theory of the case is that it did not happen

Like there's this massive hole in their brains where electoral politics should be where they simply assume that what's good for material conditions is electorally popular in a vacuum and that's just not at all how politics works.

It's wild how many leftists physically cannot imagine an electorate that doesn't want what they think is good policy

115) Cyber Knights: Flashpoint. Excellent turn-based stealth/shooter/hacking combination from a tiny indie studio. Feels like the greatest game of 2003, and I mean that as a compliment - except that the UI and tooltips are much better than they would have been. And they constantly add stuff.

bsky leftists really don't think J6 mattered at all, lol

“what does the electorate want”

that’s easy, they want limitless consumption driven by policies which will bring economic ruin. the job of policymakers is bridging that gap

Convincing Trump he can't crash the stock market is how you convince Trump to crash the global economy

Wall Street: Haha TACO

Trump: I'm god. I cannot die. I will ban the drinking of water and kill Jerome Powell.

honeslty when the Democrats take over they should move BLS over to the Fed

My concern is that Wall Street is going to do the usual “TACO, he’s bluffing, it’s just talk, not gonna happen, you liberals are so anxious” yadda yadda until it’s actually real (see also: the most recent new tariff numbers) and by then it’ll be too late, he’ll have gutted the statistics apparatus

it's so cool how society will never work through the trauma of the oil shock and the collapse of bretton woods

a take I've been sitting on is that people mock software engineers for unionizing one of the cushiest industries in all of human history but tbh "give us more of your colossal monopoly profits" is like the only way 20th century unions seemed to work.

oh never mind this is actually true in Britain

a significant recession has not happened during any zoomer's adulthood

the good news is that those entrenched interests will be industries which have bribed trump

baby crawled backwards under couch (she can only crawl backwards) and is reacting like she is stuck in nutty putty cave

it genuinely is not enough that Israel stop slaughtering the people of Gaza. the people responsible for it have to die in prison or at the end of a rope.

the next big-D Democratic administration should not be a small-d democratic administration. they should come as close to a proscription of the Republican party as they can get.

right, yeah, the basic issue is that you have essentially given up on democracy entirely and are casting about for something to replace it

the approval rating of trump's tarriffs is 36%, almost literally all of which is co-partisan approval

i'm going to call a shot here: the tarriffs will be ruled illegal by the end of the year

there is one (1) thing that stops the GOP from doing this, and that is a viable threat of retaliation. that’s it. that’s the only way you stop them.

👇🎯 A lot of folks don't seem to understand that 90+% of our authoritarian problem is the total failure of Article I of the Constitution, not Article III.