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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · 11d

Kind of already did this in the AEA case in WDTex, the procedural posture on that was super weird because the district judge didn’t even really rule on it

SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · 15d

Reminds me of the email chain Kavanaugh was on during Bush I where they talked about using race to screen Muslims at the airport (citing Korematsu as authority)

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · 21d

Well, Marx himself certainly was

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Sep 16

WEB DuBois wrote this inscription, posted at Harper‘s Ferry

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Aug 30

A lot of it is US campaign finance laws I think
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Old money: Campaign finance and gerontocracy in the United States

Politicians in the United States rank among the oldest globally. This study examines how money in politics contributes to age inequality in political …

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Jul 21

Bring back Football Team

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Jul 9

In red states leads to pretty funny conflicts between social conservatism and crony capitalism. In NC the House Rules Chair refused to advance a bill regulating hemp because he owns a hemp business (that numerous other GA members have invested in): www.theassemblync.com/newsletter/h...

John Bell's High Hopes

The House Rules Committee chairman runs a hemp company. He’s also trying to kill a bipartisan Senate bill to regulate the hemp industry.

www.theassemblync.com

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Jul 8

I visited Stone Mountain out of morbid curiosity in ~2023 or so. They've astroturfed a lot of the stuff they could, e.g. the model plantation is now generic "Old Town" and the exhibits are all about the ecology of the mountain. No real context provided for the monuments with Lost Cause apologia

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Jul 7

Max Read had an interesting take on this back when Elon tried to make Grok pro-apartheid: maxread.substack.com/p/regarding-...

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · Jul 1

wishing that activists hadn't fought on Skrmetti is either wrong on the facts - Tennessee pushed the case up the chain - or wrong on the premise: the law was challenged by someone in Tennessee who needed to win or flee the state. if activists are your punching bag, you wanted the kid to lose.

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Jun 26

I think this is why the socialist grocery stores thing is smart. If Trump taught us anything it’s that your actual policy merits don’t matter, just say stuff to give the impression that you’re bold

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Jun 22

Weirdly enough, the judge in question was a federal defender for 10 years?

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Jun 22

I think the best case scenario for the judge is that he knew the kid was the most conservative in the class and gave him the top grade just out of a sense of FedSoc cronyism, perhaps assuming the paper would never see the light of day and the kid wasn’t so stupid he’d send it to the NYT

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Jun 21

People need to read Fritz Bartel, the Triumph of Broken Promises!

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · Jun 21

one of those things that i don't think people really realize is that authoritarian regimes are often *more* sensitive to popular opinion than democratic ones, because they do not have many means of sustaining or reinforcing their legitimacy

SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Jun 16

This was a particularly weak part of the opinion IMO. Didn’t even discuss reliance interests on maternal healthcare centers, which I’d imagine many amici pointed out. And now there are no OBGYNs in Idaho

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 11

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:

“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · May 9

The polling split between white and non-white Catholics in the US is pretty interesting

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · May 1

James C Scott does this

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Apr 28

USPS clerk needs to get in front of an Art. III judge and jury before he declares your package too heavy

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Apr 28

SEC v. Jarkesy shilling, damn

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Apr 26

The American Dream is not cheap goods, they said

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Apr 21

Firing IJs certainly doesn’t help spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Trump administration fires immigration judges amid court case backlog

There is a backlog of more than 3.7 million cases in the immigration courts.

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Apr 17

Didn't this come up in the Adams order by Judge Ho? www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Apr 16

This is absolutely a structural issue in federal administrative law, it’s a big reason rulemaking takes 2+ years and Biden sought APA exemptions for a lot of his industrial policy

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SDE @defuncteconomist.bsky.social · Apr 15

All they had left was their elite status, and now both the Biden and Trump admins have frozen them out