sincere question: why read Marx at all?

Lox is not smoked salmon. Lox is brine-cured salmon. www.dictionary.com/browse/lox

a technicality that worked because of inexcusable incompetence by the city's attorneys. infuriating.

Roger Taney is offended, he's the WOAT and always will be.

hooray for you, Anna!

good, promising players, but hard to see any of the five making an All Star team.

There is ample coverage of Trump's depredations every day. A few news cycles about the tragic farce that was Biden's reelection campaign story don't detract from that.

you know that LFI has allied with the most virulently anti-semitic and Islamist elements of French society, right?

This happened in my town. The Albemarle County Sheriff's department is responsible for security, and when I've been in court (for jury duty and as a civil witness) armed sheriff's deputies controlled the entrance, including screening for weapons. Conclusion: the sheriffs let these guys in.

my condolences.

agreed on all counts, Western Conference playoffs look pretty great. In the East though, we're just waiting for the inevitable and sure to be epic Boston-Cleveland conference finals.

"Abolish ICE" remains an idiotic slogan.

...and what business in the world would make such an investment based on the mood swings of our mad King? And even if we did "reshore" substantial production, it would be at a higher price than we're currently paying - otherwise it would have already happened without a tariff. 3/n

If businesses see tariffs as high and permanent, then moving production to the US might become a better way to serve the (huge) US market. But if this will only happen if the tariffs are seen as permanent... 2/n

nice thread, John. I'll add just a few points: Although Trump's tariffs are crazy, the idea that higher tariffs would cause more goods to be produced in the US is not crazy 1/n