1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

This lofty language has two key caveats: (1) they feel an obligation solely in terms of "defense," not more broadly, such as common welfare, public health, or even democracy; (2) they admit a "debt" yet offer no repayment, instead demanding the exact opposite, that the country pay them even more.
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anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature

The fundamental lie at the heart of this is that Democrats as a party by default optimize their positions to win as many voters as possible.

This is despite a cursory glance at how the party operates demonstrating they default to what their rich donors want and shoehorning in electoral arguments.

The Class Politics of the Feed By targeting the addictive design features of social media platforms, K.G.M. v. Meta marks a breakthrough in product liability law. Yet the case also reveals a neglected class dimension: the harms of…

Today, Vincent Joralemon examines how the harms of addictive platform design are stratified by class. To address this issue, we must pair platform-side regulation with renewed investment in the public commons.

But behind the scenes, Israeli officials have conveyed a more targeted message. In private calls to local leaders across southern Lebanon, Israeli military officials have assured several Christian and Druse communities that they could remain in the evacuation zone. They have pressed them, however, to force out any Lebanese from neighboring Shiite Muslim communities who have sought refuge among them as Israeli bombardment flatten Shiite towns, according to local Christian, Druse and Shiite leaders who spoke to The New York Times. The Shiites make up the majority of southern Lebanon.

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

It's pub day!

This is so nauseatingly Un-American

Screenshot of 2 NYT headlines: Some Judges See Risks in Fiery Opinions Warning of Threats to Democracy; and Trump Calls for Law Cracking Down on Crime and Rogue Judges

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Satellite image of two blended photos from above Gamal Abdel Nasser Street in Khan Yunis in central Gaza. The bottom half shows densely packed neighborhoods with, many of which appear to have sustained damage from aistrikes, with some small patches of trees. The top half shows continuations of the neighborhoods in the south, but with much of them now completely flattened to yellow sand and smudges of grey rubble. Google Maps pins indicate that this area contains 2 restaurants and 3 mosques.

Satellite image of two blended photos of northern Gaza. The bottom half shows a small coastal farming community next to a blue sea, with multiple fields of crops visible. The top half gives way to fields completely packed with white and blue tents belonging to refugees.

Image of three satellite photos of an area southwest of Gaza City. The bottom left corner shows small neighborhoods of white-roofed houses lined with green trees, giving way on the bottom right to flattened neighborhoods covered in rubble, red sand, and bulldozer tracks. The top half of the image is a wasteland of yellow sand and grey rubble from dozens of demolished buildings, including Google Maps pins for a mosque and an site marked UNRWA-GFO

Two blended satellite photos of northeast Gaza, showing stands of green trees in the left half giving way to barren yellow sand marked by tree stumps and bulldozer tracks on the right.

Apparently Google has only partially updated its satellite photos of Gaza, so there are currently these weird images where whatever algorithm they use is utterly failing to blend before and after shots

Dostoyevsky has (well, had) thoughts. The Grand Inquistor.

Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.

BENDING THE KNEE: How the Legal Establishment and Corporate America Embraced Corruption YouTube video by Economic Liberties

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This has always been one of the big problems with Trump btw. The demand for people to make him seem more complex and interesting than he actually is makes careers but also leaves people misinformed in basic ways.

“Ideology-free populist who can’t be trusted” is one problem.

Handing Republicans a giant whatabout that will resonate with both media and less engaged voters is another.

It’s not tattoo proves devout Nazi. It’s why would Dems want to muddy the picture on who’s pro- or anti-fascism in this moment?

AIPAC is terrible. Its embrace of Bibi’s lies & extremism, & the full embrace of its policy positions by most of the organized 🇺🇸 Jewish community is a shanda far di goyim.

And also, the level of antisemitism here about AIPAC as the controlling cabal of US foreign policy is appalling. Just stop.

Too many students are convinced by their own universities, by some of their teachers and professors, and by the AI companies themselves that ‘using ai to study is getting ahead of the game’
But the process they seek to get ahead of is the point.

🚨 Just published in Socio-Economic Review! 🚨
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The "power to pollute" and "post-neoliberal" climate finance

By Benjamin H. Bradlow and Aishwarya Swamidurai

The article is available open access at the following link.

doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

What a paragraph.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The NYT has serial understatement brain, in which they believe they are using arch understatement to convey how emphatic they are being but instead it reads as confusing and euphemistic

Strong Intellectual Property and Weak Antitrust: How the End of Vertical Restraints Fissured the US Political Economy Abstract. What explains rising inequality after 1980? Explanations describing immediate causes, like skill-biased technological change, financialization, o

pleased to announce the merger of @erikpeinert.bsky.social (antitrust) and my (corporate organization / franchise) interests in a paper on what the end of regulation banning vertical restraints meant for the US political economy = not good !
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Part of how we got here is that a bunch of our elites in industries like global finance in particular lacked the imagination to think about what Trump was actually capable of

The most pernicious assumption of the whole argument is that the works have no market value to them, the companies who went to great length to steal it all. "None of us ever paid a cent for something we clearly value a great deal, ergo there's no market substitution in us robbing you."

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Not intentional, but weird to read both of these by Stefan Link and @patrickmcgee.bsky.social within two weeks of each other.

Both great reads, with a common through-line of deeply illiberal and bleak versions of industrial progress, aided by the US technological leader (Ford/Apple)

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

Other countries do accountability, we do…attempted diversionary kinda-sorta-regime-changes affecting millions of people in other countries?