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Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 21h

Alas, it seems Prof. Samuelson invented this circa 1970 or 1978 as a paraphrase of Keynes. But Samuelson is certainly adequate authority.

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Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 21h

"When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?" -- John Maynard Keynes

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d

Speaker of the House holding a formal presser to announce that Jesus is the king of everyone in the USA should be getting more attention

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

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Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 2d

As a result, DC No Kings was under the power of Congress--shouldn't be but Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17, albeit First Amendment--but Speaker Johnson is so eager to surrender the powers of Congress to the president that he didn't even consider trying.

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Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 2d

Apologies if this should be obvious but would not a catastrophic plan cover a cancer diagnosis? I thought the problem is that there are so many more minor things, including the screening that would detect the cancer, that a catastrophic plan wouldn't cover.

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Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 2d

I saw _Blazing Saddles_ before I saw, and loved, Marlene Dietrich in _Destry Rides Again_ and still wonder which is the better order to see them.

Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 3d

Can we have no barriers to entry _unless_ you've been stripped of your right to claim the title? Also, claiming "journalist" or "reporter" when you've only been an editor should be grounds for exclusion.

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 5d

"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad!

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

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Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 5d

This is a decent introduction. For examples, starting fire is considered work so no catalytic converters so no gas-powered cars, and many don't use electricity either. Some rabbis would approve protesting, www.sefaria.org/sheets/15310..., but getting there might be hard.

Shabbat's Work Prohibition | My Jewish Learning

jewish,learning,judaism, shabbat, work, sabbath, day of rest, rules, electricity, Ronald L. Eisenberg

www.myjewishlearning.com

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Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 6d

You're not alone. bsky.app/profile/audr...

audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 7d

Personal gripe: the whole saying is "A few bad apples SPOIL THE BUNCH." Somehow this has transformed into "a few bad apples" being a phrase indicating "not a big deal", when the whole point is it IS a big deal because EVERYONE HAS GONE BAD THROUGH EXPOSURE

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 7d

Personal gripe: the whole saying is "A few bad apples SPOIL THE BUNCH." Somehow this has transformed into "a few bad apples" being a phrase indicating "not a big deal", when the whole point is it IS a big deal because EVERYONE HAS GONE BAD THROUGH EXPOSURE

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t think you can “abuse” your right to protest

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 8d

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 9d

Basically a cameo but, Yes, apparently. I hadn't known either.

Texie Garcia

Texie Garcia was the sometime-girlfriend of the criminal kingpin Big Boy. She was an attractive, slender woman with dark hair worn short in a "flapper" style. When Big Boy kidnapped Tess Trueheart (fo...

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 14d

I'd like to learn more about this. Is this _Nomos and Narrative_ or is there other work I should be reading?

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Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 14d

This is also why Shaheen is utterly wrong. Vought should be encouraged to keep talking, as should POTUS and Miller, because they tend to incriminate themselves and disclose their true intentions and illegal actions.

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Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 15d

Agreed but I also think @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social is correctly saying that such use of irony may be poor strategy by Sen. Whitehouse.

Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 16d

Hoping it's helpful and not arrant pedantry: Did you mean to put the year of his death rather than his birth? I'm trying to figure out if there's significance in 70 years passing between the first and last panels.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 18d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 20d

"Money can be exchanged for goods and services," is deeply true.

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Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 20d

I'm not sure we're disagreeing then. I hadn't caught the "primary identity" part from your original post and tried to say in mine that Christians usually thought only of their own sect as being true Christians. I thought you were speaking only of the use of the word as opposed to sect-specific.

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Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 20d

I'm not sure that's true. Non-Catholics have used just Christian for a long time, in part because they didn't -- and many still don't -- see Catholics as Christian. An example from 1939:

HEROIC Auntie Em Faces Off with Miss Gulch in Wizard of Oz Showdown 🧙‍♀️ #shorts #god #religion

YouTube video by aheartforgod

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Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 22d

Judging her to have great taste, right?

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Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 22d

And flatly, baldly illegal. Unconstitutional.

Conrad Z. Risher @czrisher.bsky.social · 22d

Perhaps it's encouraging, the silver lining, that the GOP (and Ezra Klein) still recognize a need to sanitize Kirk's views because they recognize how unacceptable those views are to the mainstream. It's a reminder that _they_ don't think they are the majority.

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