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arbitrator/mediator/lawyer; curious, humanist, globalist; husband, father, zayde x4; Lexington Group. On Mdewakanton lands by MSP. Brown Line kid. Carney/Pope Leo/Raskin stan. RIP, Minnie, will never forget.
Just stuff you need for solar power. No big deal. bsky.app/profile/reut...
Reuters@reuters.com · 2h agoThe Trump administration plans to impose a 15% tariff on polysilicon derivative products, sources told Reuters, and also plans to unveil results of its Section 232 investigation into foreign imports of polysilicon as soon as Thursday reut.rs/4pYh9uB
Tommy Tuberville promises as governor of Alabama to build a 30' wall around the state to keep out Yankees... and people with darker skin color. Alabama currently lands in the range of 47-50 among US states in literacy, healthcare, maternal health... bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoTuberville: "If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not gonna make it. It's gonna be over. I'm gonna go back to Alabama and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state."
AIPAC is explicitly fighting for a Republican Senate majority.
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 7h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
How much do you think it would be important for law students to learn a little bit of formal logic early in their legal education?
The problem is that as we're seeing with the Strait of Hormuz, "the USA forfeits its global ambitions" does not lead to a new age of peace and sunshine, but to global recession and instability. The Strait of Hormuz is not the only load-bearing instance of US power backstopping modern economies.
@tupolev22m.bsky.social · 5h agoI think the traditional answer is actually "forfeit your global ambitions because you can't afford them and voters won't make the sacrifices necessary to restore them," unfortunately
And she hasn't even gotten out to Jackson Hole yet
Conor Sen@conorsen.bsky.social · 2h agoFed Governor Cook: "As I have described, inflation is too high, and I consider the risks to the inflation side of the dual mandate higher than the risks to the employment side at this point. As such, I am prepared to act by raising rates, if necessary." www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Voters in Kansas and Missouri reject cynical MAGA bullshit: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/else...
Elsewhere in the midwest - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The biggest news yesterday was obviously the Michigan primary — I may have more to say about that, but right now the most important thing is that Stevens and McMorrow quickly endorsed and El-Sayed gra...
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I really enjoyed this conversation with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social and @juliaazari.bsky.social about the MI Dem primary and what we're seeing more broadly in terms of the Dems' progressive moment, but I also want to point out how absolutely badass we look here www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK7F...
What the Michigan Senate Race Tells Us About the Democratic Party
YouTube video by The New Republic
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i mean, the thing is that basically every major producer-state (Japan, now China) finds it hard to rebalance because it is a lot easier to boom on industrial production then it is with a more rebalanced economy
World Politics Review@wpr.bsky.social · 4h agoChina’s first official response to industrial overcapacity allegations assails its critics and defends its position as the “world’s factory,” Mary Gallagher writes.
it absolutely is - basically while my friends like Karthik are more Pettis skeptical, i do think that both Germany and China's relationship to the global trading system is unhealthy phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
Trade Wars Are Class Wars - Phenomenal World
Michael Pettis and Matthew Klein's new book "Trade Wars Are Class Wars" begins with an epigraph from John A. Hobson: "The struggle for markets, the greater eagerness of producers to sell than of consu...
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Thomas@djamesalicious.bsky.social · 4h agothis seems sort of similar to Germany within the EU to me
I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.
King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 20h agoOnly a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...
And renewing my offer -- any college class in Texas that wants to discuss the book, I'll happily Zoom in for the chat.
The labor market is frozen. Hiring and quit rates are both running below pre-pandemic levels. While unemployment is at historic lows, this dynamic presents obstacles for job seekers, particularly young college grads.
Calling for accountability against corrupt officials is a powerful message for building a movement. But it can make it harder to encourage defections from your opponent’s camp. Here’s how to handle the dilemma.
Why Anticorruption Campaigns Aren’t a Silver Bullet | Journal of Democracy
Calling for accountability against corrupt officials is a powerful message for building a movement. But it can make it harder to encourage defections from your opponent’s camp. Here’s how to handle…
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$ECPG buys defaulted consumer debt to try and squeeze them for recoveries. Gross business model. But good lord has the stock been on a heater; leaving aside the nasty business, says a lot about how that distressed consumer segment has been performing.
🚨🚨🚨“Virginia Department of Health investigating dengue virus in Northern Virginia, first-ever documented case of virus being acquired locally.”🚨🚨🚨
VDH investigating dengue virus in Northern Virginia, first-ever documented case of virus being acquired locally
The Virginia Department of Health announced they are investigating a confirmed case of dengue virus that occurred in a resident in Northern Virginia.
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From March 26: The CDC has "identified a higher-than-expected number of dengue cases among US travelers returning from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Colombia, Cook Islands, Cuba, Guyana, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, New Caledonia, Pakistan, Samoa, Sudan, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam.
CDC Issues Travel Alert About Potentially Fatal 'Breakbone Fever'
A travel alert has been issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warning about the risk of dengue fever around the globe as travelers returning to the United States are testing p...
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Google is losing two of its biggest AI researchers from day to day operations. 27-year Google veteran and Google Brain cofounder, Jeff Dean, is leaving Google with 3 others to focus on AI accelerating scientific research. Demis Hassabis is no longer CEO of DeepMind and is now their chief scientist
As AI research in big tech becomes more focused on LLMs and coding agents, I expect we’ll see more departures across the industry from people who got into AI research for the love of the game.
Mike Rogers wants us divided. But there is so much more that unites us than sets us apart. The power is ours. This land was made for you and me.
Bari Weiss on her way to give you the mammogram from hell
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This project delivers renewable energy while producing biochar for soil and construction applications, Isometric certified first 6,065 CORCs from it. biochartoday.com/news/isometr...
Isometric Issues First Swiss Biochar Certificates to Bioenergie Frauenfeld AG
Isometric has issued 6,065 carbon removal certificates to Bioenergie Frauenfeld AG, marking its first certified project in Switzerland. Utilizing regional forestry residuals at a wood cogeneration …
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NEW: Cardinal Arthur Roche, the Vatican’s liturgy chief, said in an interview published last week that Pope Leo XIV will keep Pope Francis’s restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass. This comes a month after Leo confirmed the excommunication of the right-wing dissident group SSPX on July 2.
Report: With Leo XIV’s Approval, Roche Shuts the Door on the Ultratraditionalists
A Spanish daily now reports the cardinal’s January liturgy document was commissioned and approved by the pope himself, with “not a single comma” changed. Rome’s direction is unmistakable.
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We have a white supremacist government now, it’s not even debatable. All of the worst racists in the US have come out of the shadows and are tearing the nation to pieces.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
“The Reflecting Pool mess is different from other Trump obsessions because it reveals just how immune to evidence and logic his beliefs have become, even when a trusted lieutenant wheels an entire box of supporting evidence into the Oval Office.”
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 8h agoTrump’s outburst over the Reflecting Pool is a sign of dangerous dysfunction in the Oval Office, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/OMivBxpl
There’s are war crimes. Intentional terror killing of civilians. The Russian way of war. U.S. failure to support Ukraine is complicit in these deaths.
Ranked News@rankednews.bsky.social · 4h agoRussia exploits Ukraine’s air defence shortage: A fresh wave of Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, has resulted in a tragic toll of at least 17 dead and more than 40 wounded. The attack underscores the acute vulnerability of Ukraine's air defenses, a sho… https://ranked.news/1214691?u=b
Polling primaries is hard...but don't blame polls for not catching change that happens between the survey and electoin day.
Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)@nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 18h agoHere’s an old slide on late volatility in presidential primary/caucus preferences. Common to have lots of movement in the last week, including diffs between final polls and results. Partly by real change, & partly b/c pollsters have to guesstimate who might turn out & weight their results by that.
