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21 Aug 2025
In my latest for @curaffairs , I show how the administrative state was once a powerful force for good in many Americans’ lives, and how it can be again: currentaffairs.org/news/make…
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Woke up this morning and realized that I can’t remember the last time I saw a butterfly. Can you? Then I read this about how butterflies are rapidly disappearing. We live in an unbelievably bleak world. xerces.org/press/study-finds…
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This website is a trash pit. Get me off.
Today I saw a homeless guy yank the bag out of an NYC trash can and spread garbage all over the sidewalk. I don’t know if he was looking for recyclables he could sell or just making a mess for the love of the game.
But that guy made my day worse. Billionaires did not.
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To become rich from curing cancer, you have to withhold the cure from people suffering and dying from cancer. So yes, you don't deserve to get rich from curing cancer. Only in an exploitative and unethical system is this seen as acceptable.
Jun 13
If I cure cancer I will get very rich. And a bunch of people on this site will apparently find my sudden wealth outrageous.
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exactly. the WSJ called the IRA a "boon for the fossil fuel sector."
currentaffairs.org/news/2022…
This whole discourse has really memory-holed the fact that the climate movement did not try to block anything under Biden. The IRA had a mandate for fossil fuel leasing in it. By 2024 US fossil-fuel production was at record heights.
Get the facts right, people.
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Jun 15
"AI is likely to produce neither a job apocalypse nor productivity utopia, but something harder to measure: a quiet degradation of the quality of the jobs that remain," per Bloomberg
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They will mostly buy positional assets like luxury items and housing and go on holiday in Europe.
Jun 13
The 10,000 San Franciscans who are about to become millionaires in 2026 are going to fund a new generation of art, architecture and ideas that will shape the world
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“We will not always pump a carcinogenic cocktail of fossil fuels into our vehicles just to run errands or go to work, just as we no longer illuminate our homes with kerosene.”
Such a beautiful, inspiring essay by @robinsonmeyer! Please read and share.
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0.3% of the water consumed by US golf courses last year
BREAKING: Amazon data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025
Community note
Amazon's data centers withdrew 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, down 2% from 2024 despite expansion, or less than 0.1% of annual U.S. landscape irrigation. aboutamazon.com/news/sustainab…
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America is fundamentally about making your own individual life easier at the expense of everyone else.
Jun 14
I am once again making a plea. Someone please get these headlights under control!
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Jun 15
Housing security is deteriorating in the country that just produced the world’s first trillionaire. Nearly 1 in 4 tenants fell behind on rent in 2025.
ALT Nearly 1 in 4 US renters fell behind on rent in 2025. Share behind on rent in the past 12 months, by income. All incomes: 2019, 10%; 2021, 17%; 2022, 17%; 2023, 19%; 2024, 21%; 2025, 23%. Incomes under $50,000: 2019, 12%; 2021, 23%; 2022, 23%; 2023, 27%; 2024, 28%; 2025, 32%. Incomes from $50,000 to $100,000: 2019, 6%; 2021, 9%; 2022, 8%; 2023, 14%; 2024, 16%; 2025, 17%. Incomes over $100,000: 2019, 2%; 2021, 2%; 2022, 2%; 2023, 2%; 2024, 6%; 2025, 5%. Data: Federal Reserve Board, Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED). Chart and analysis by Stephen Semler.
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5 percent of Elon’s full wealth could fund two full years of free national childcare.
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It used to be that critics of wealth taxes for billionaires would argue that the revenue was primarily symbolic and wouldn’t cover much of the cost of government. But tax Elon’s gains from one day and you raise more money than taking five percent of Gates’ lifetime wealth.
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This whole discourse has really memory-holed the fact that the climate movement did not try to block anything under Biden. The IRA had a mandate for fossil fuel leasing in it. By 2024 US fossil-fuel production was at record heights.
Get the facts right, people.
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Jun 15
Yes, the climate mvmt's focus on blocking bad stuff has little to show for it. A union-led politics of *delivering* infrastructure has much more promise.
Yes, it should be basic to Marxism that labor productivity gains under capitalism can be harnessed for social good/free time.
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A family of 4 with a household income of $45,000 has had to pay $41 a month. Under the new, very broken plan under this Department of Education, that monthly payment is now $150. That's a 265% increase.
❌ Runaway student loan interest.
❌ Ballooning principal balances.
❌ Years of payments with no progress.
The cycle of student loan debt ends with the Repayment Assistance Plan.
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Summer cooling costs are expected to jump to nearly $800 (!) this summer as the impacts of Trump's agenda crush our budgets once again.
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The winners of a war usually get reparations, yes.
Jun 14
Trump is giving the autocrats in Tehran $25 billion to reopen the Strait of Hormuz? Am I reading this right? reuters.com/business/energy/…
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BREAKING: Manhattan rents have hit a new record high of $5,125/month.
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"James Carville looks around to see who is clearly winning, and makes statements that can be easily mistaken as predictions."
Carville says El-Sayed can defeat Rogers in Michigan Senate race
thehill.com/homenews/campaig…
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