Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
(most of those are visible in the official stats, if arguably understated. a more current version of the chart below would show a sharp increase in housing since 2018, and that would from most people’s perspective be understated, given how housing quality along social dimensions has stratified.)
December 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
(most of those are visible in the official stats, if arguably understated. a more current version of the chart below would show a sharp increase in housing since 2018, and that would from most people’s perspective be understated, given how housing quality along social dimensions has stratified.)
December 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
December 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
from a really excellent piece by @kevinerdmann.bsky.social kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/are-we-und...
![Both of these pictures show how carless families would buy groceries.
Figure 1 [Image of a 1920s-ish vibrant pedestrians streetscape (left) next to an empty, contemporary bus stop on a suburban artery (right)]
By any reasonable statistical measure, the people on the left were poorer than a person who might be sitting at that bus stop surfing the internet on their smartphone. Are the statistics that say the right picture is better wrong or are the vibes that say it may not be better wrong?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:whewc7lro4sggfu6iifjdrkq/bafkreif2lwbx2xmudtlkjb6rgedhexe6fdoxb3fdyeayl22pfr4j5la7fy@jpeg)
December 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
from a really excellent piece by @kevinerdmann.bsky.social kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/are-we-und...
driving home from thanksgiving, this past Sunday, i saw this.
i was a bit taken aback.
i was a bit taken aback.
December 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
driving home from thanksgiving, this past Sunday, i saw this.
i was a bit taken aback.
i was a bit taken aback.
You’d think an editor would have saved this poor author embarrassment by pointing out that *the Roberts Court have been absolutely gutting the authority of the administrative state.* 1/
December 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
You’d think an editor would have saved this poor author embarrassment by pointing out that *the Roberts Court have been absolutely gutting the authority of the administrative state.* 1/
why do people think our prestige institutions don't get them, are out of touch with their concerns?
November 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
why do people think our prestige institutions don't get them, are out of touch with their concerns?
giving up on domestic banana production seems unmanly.
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
giving up on domestic banana production seems unmanly.
the author of “Liberal Fascism”.
don’t get me wrong — the times have changed, good on ‘im for changing with them, in a virtuous way.
still. i had to smile.
don’t get me wrong — the times have changed, good on ‘im for changing with them, in a virtuous way.
still. i had to smile.
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
the author of “Liberal Fascism”.
don’t get me wrong — the times have changed, good on ‘im for changing with them, in a virtuous way.
still. i had to smile.
don’t get me wrong — the times have changed, good on ‘im for changing with them, in a virtuous way.
still. i had to smile.
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
this is quite a chart.
i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.
i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
this is quite a chart.
i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.
i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.
what's remarkable is that with USAID alone, the current administration is on track to outdo this. ph.ucla.edu/news-events/...
( image via Branko Marcetic, posting at the Nazi bar. original story www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0... )
( image via Branko Marcetic, posting at the Nazi bar. original story www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0... )
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
what's remarkable is that with USAID alone, the current administration is on track to outdo this. ph.ucla.edu/news-events/...
( image via Branko Marcetic, posting at the Nazi bar. original story www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0... )
( image via Branko Marcetic, posting at the Nazi bar. original story www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0... )
it’s always the 80s with dear leader.
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
it’s always the 80s with dear leader.
latest photo is fetching.
October 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
latest photo is fetching.
Whatever you might think of other controversializing, no one one the planet understands and presents more clearly the basic economic mechanisms of social democracy than @mattbruenig.bsky.social.
from www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/10/26/d... ht @jdcmedlock.bsky.social
from www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/10/26/d... ht @jdcmedlock.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Whatever you might think of other controversializing, no one one the planet understands and presents more clearly the basic economic mechanisms of social democracy than @mattbruenig.bsky.social.
from www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/10/26/d... ht @jdcmedlock.bsky.social
from www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/10/26/d... ht @jdcmedlock.bsky.social
made a sign for tomorrow, but i worry i may be pushing at the bounds of free speech with this kind of radicalism.
October 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
made a sign for tomorrow, but i worry i may be pushing at the bounds of free speech with this kind of radicalism.
