Great column by @profhicks.bsky.social. I'd include a gift link if the indystar offered that feature: www.indystar.com/story/opinio...

The Iran war will cost you $6,000 a year | Opinion

We ended alliances, underestimated drones and lost a war. We're all going to pay for it.

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Good column by @profhicks.bsky.social. Indiana government needs to focus on encouraging educational attainment. Additionally, the elimination of the 30% business personal property tax depreciation floor was a mistake. #Indiana

The Indiana Citizen@indianacitizen.org · last mo.

Indiana’s government, along with nonprofits and businesses, has launched an effort to make us one of the most artificial intelligence-ready states in the nation. However, Indiana has already made two errors that doom us to fall... indianacitizen.org/hicks-commen... #hoosiersky #datacenters

There are a lot of people eager to dismiss ethics as mere decorum.

New post! On convenings as catalytic investments, and how to measure their ROI.

Its now ten years since the UK voted narrowly to Leave the European Union. I have studied how the UK got there through my research for many years now. Evidence is growing that the UK is indeed leveling up, but, by leveling down. Let me introduce the Brexit Cost project:

Kevin Williamson on killing of Venezuela gang chief Guerrero Flores: “This was—and ought to be treated as—a straightforwardly criminal act on the part of the American president and those who have carried out his illegal orders.… there is no law authorizing summary execution of drug-crime suspects.”

We Should Probably Stop Murdering People

If only for our own good.

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Still not safe to stand near windows in Russia.

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 2mo ago

Those pesky windows again. Oleg Sokolenko, a military commissar in Rostov-on-Don, was found dead near the high-rise building where he lived, local media report. He had been detained in April over a bribery case, and a resignation letter was reportedly found in his apartment. #Russia

Props to CNN’s chyron writer:

this is what "keeping a republic" means

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2mo ago

Former president of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol is sentenced to 30 years in prison for sending military drones into North Korea. Court says Yoon planned the action as pretext for his disastrous martial law declaration in 2024 u.afp.com/Sz3v

some more upcoming Talarico scandals— He got asked to the prom by four girls and had to turn three of them down In 2022 a waiter told him to enjoy his meal and he said “thanks you too” He agreed to foster a puppy but decided he couldn’t give her up and ended up adopting

Happy #JobsDay! At 8:30 am ET, @usbls.bsky.social delivers what’s usually one of the most-important signals abt how economy is changing Forecasts’ center: +80K jobs Unemployment rate (UR) steady at 4.3%

I'm posting this video every day so we NEVER forget what insurrectionist Donald Trump did on J6 Instead of accepting defeat and honoring the peaceful transfer of power, Trump unleashed a deadly mob on the U.S. Capitol in a last-ditch attempt to stay in power THIS is what an insurrection looks like

Great December 2025 article from @profhicks.bsky.social It took me a while to find it but I was thinking about as the Bears move closer to a decision on where to move - NW Indiana or NW Chicagoland suburbs. So I'm reposting for easier access.

This is like saying we need to prevent automobiles, planes or power plants from being built.

Alberduh is free to be dumb@alberduhfreedumb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We have to stop data centres from being built.

More great news.

Pancreatic cancer halted by virus injection in three patients

A cancer-killing virus has stopped pancreatic tumours from growing and spreading in three people in an initial safety trial, raising hopes that it may help to beat the deadly condition

newscientist.com

Meth futures rise on anticipation of payouts to January 6th felons.

Funny how the all the people ransacking the Capitol on January 6 were liberals, plants, and ANTIFA—until there was money to be made from it.

The goofiest thing about gas prices going from $2.84 to $4.99 in just two months is that Donald Trump is mentioned over 38,000 times in the Epstein Files.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

The theft of $1.8 billion in tax money by an unchallenged executive to fund his personal political operatives is exactly the kind of action that sparked the American Revolution.

$714,285 per person is before the detainees lawsuits are settled and does not include the costs of this ongoing lawlessness to the communities these folks have been kidnapped from….

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Alligator Alcatraz is closing after one year and wasting $1B to house 1400 immigrants. That's an eye-popping $714,285 per occupant. That's all because Trump felt it would have great broadcast value.

Remember how *hysterical* Republicans got when Obama bowed to the Emperor of Japan in 2009? Well, here is Trump bowing before the President of China—and not a peep from the MAGA outrage machine.

I think the fundamental misconception here is "we do not currently organize the economy around growth." We organize it around "trading with other people for stuff they want" and 1.) this tends to produce growth 2.) GDP is a mostly useful metric for tracking whether trades are happening.

Avel Guénin--Carlut@fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Late to the party, but it sounds that "degrowth" is pretty efficient at getting the core idea: that organizing economy around growth is bad, and we should do less of that. That may be precisely because the idea gets across so clearly that degrowth lost the agenda setting wars

Kevin Warsh was just confirmed as next Fed chair. The only problem is we don't know which Kevin Warsh... The inflation hawk of 2006-2011? The sock puppet who doesn't know won the 2020 election? A public servant ready to grow into the job and lead? Someone else? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

Thomas Edsall asked me how much Trump's fossil fuel handouts, attacks on cheap-clean-power, and reckless wars are costing the American people. So I sat down and did the math. This year alone, it's on pace to be $1508 per household. That's not going to be popular. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o...

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“Energy prices came down” Yes, momentarily, because once again the Administration lied about the status of physical events, and for some reason, traders again believed it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

With gas at $4.55 a gallon, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says "we're in a good place" for fuel prices, and urges Americans to drive this summer, saying "we encourage all Americans to take a road trip"