Simon Johnson and I have a new article out at
@thedispatchmedia.bsky.social, explaining why Section 122 does not authorize the administration's latest round of worldwide tariffs.
thedispatch.com/article/trum...
Another poly has struck the crisis
Where are the polycrisis dorts when you need them
Latest in @theatlantic.com The Ukrainians are now longer pretending that Donald Trump's USA is their friend. Their honesty is important as they seem to understand how much Trump is helping Putin and how important it is that Europe stick together. Gift Link. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Love that
Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891
Hmm my argument isn’t working. Let me just yell about developers and hope nobody notices.
She’s right
Meanwhile, back in reality nominal manufacturing construction spending fell off a cliff starting in…. November 2024
They can do all the slopulist income tax cuts they want as long as we make up the gap and more with a VAT. Add in a payroll tax grand bargain (lower rate, no cap) and you’ve got a good fiscal stew going.
they don't want you to know this but you can improve the nation's fiscal health and imprison Trump's criminal buddies with this one neat trick:
give ICE's budget to the IRS
Read @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social today in the urgent need to fix the IRS as soon as possible
They don’t have to be. Depends how they interact with the rest of the tax and spending system - a million ways to implement a VAT that doesn’t have a net impact below a given income threshold.
But they are harder to dodge with accounting games. If you buy it we tax it 🤷🏻♂️
Consumption taxes can solve this
Donald Trump gutted the IRS to build a system that allows his wealthy friends cheat on their taxes with no consequences.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Oh my god he admit it
A tribute to the King, Charles Schulz. Lucy Van Pelt is sitting in her psychiatry booth, looking depressed. Sitting on a stool next to the booth is Charlie Brown, looking depressed. Instead of the normal text on the front of the booth it reads, ‘Maybe it will happen today’. With the ‘today’ being on a little removable placard.
A SKELATAN WHOSE MAD AND YELLING "DONT LIKE MY FUCKEL LANGUAGE? ME EITHER ITS A DISGUSTIG COMBINATION OF OLD GERMAN NORSE AND DUTCH WITH INCONSISTENT PRONUCIATION, MESSY GRAMMAR LOAN WORDS FROM EVERY OTHER LANGUAGE, SPELLED DIFFERETLY FROM COUNTRY COUNTRY, 5 VOWEL'S SOMETIME'S 6 SOMETIME SCHWA " THE UPSIDE DOWN E "Ə" ,IF YOUR FROM DA MIDWEST YOU CAN PRONOUCE EVERY VOWEL LIKE Ə, NEVER PRONOUNCE T AT END OF WORD, MUSH ALL WORDS TOGETHER, OPEN MOUTH AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE, FUCK IT, EXTREME DISRESPECT TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE, NAMED AFTER DEVIL ISLAND RUN BY BLOOD-TAINTED INBRED NOBLES AND RED FACED PEA EATING BULLDOG SOCCER WATCHERS IN WHITE WIGS, WE SOULD BE SPEAKING CHEROKEE OR ESPERANTO RIGHT NOW , BUT THIS IS A PRISON PLANET WHERE THE DOOMED ARE SENT TO SUFFER, TO BAD I HATE SUFFERING AND SPEND MOST OF MY TIME EITHER SPACING OUT AND DISSOCIATING , OR SMOKEN WHEED , OR ASLEPP, OR KICKEN ASS AND SMOKEN WHEED - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
DONT LIKE MY LAGUAGE???? - dashare.zone ADMIN
Cadence is off, no cute phrases, capitalization is too consistent. An aide has a grudge against Catholics, or maybe it’s the stroke(s) rewiring his brain.
Some of the Framers understood.
George Mason, namesake of my university, gave the warning below as Virginia debated ratifying the new US Constitution on June 18, 1788.
Perversion of our Constitution will harm all Conservative and Liberal Americans.
press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/doc...
Genki Sudo WE ARE ALL ONE flag.
There is another way.
Next stop: overturning the 100+ year bans on dense, mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods?
Idk much about this but when the south converted their rail to the same gauge as the rest of the country in 1886 it was led by a private cartel www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/defaul...
This is a nice of thinking about zoned capacity. Now if only we could estimate those curves…
Stop that.
Sign me up. Gimme tha vax. Spray me with that.
Core inflation is about 80% of expenditures in the CPI basket
Congratulations magawa the hero rat
I thought curse words weren’t allowed in this game 🤷🏻♂️
Look it’s me in my favorite show. And again I must stress: I am NOT doing this show because of Jason. I was a fan before him.
Thrilled to be on my favorite show with people I genuinely love. Alex is there as well.
youtu.be/oRfHA2d3DhM?...