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I'm sure what accounts for her success in snagging a spot on Jeopardy has to do with her early days spent in a bassinet in Nelson Polsby's office! Wishing Rachel all my best!
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Indonesia, 1998. FOR EXAMPLE
The New Order subsequently stepped up its defense of economic management. Tutut led the charge with her public support of the Love the Rupiah campaign, targeting mobile capital in doing so. Tutut not only asked the konglomerat to show patriotism by holding rupiah assets but also pledged that the Soeharto family itself would exchange its foreign currency holdings for rupiahs.51 Amid some popular speculation that konglomerat’s business practices and involvement in currency deals showed their lack of patriotism, the regime began to target the konglomerat directly for participation in the Love the Rupiah campaign. These sentiments were particularly acute in the wake of the poor international reaction to the 1998 budget announced on January 5, which led to further rupiah depreciation and saw urban Indonesians beginning to hoard food and other necessary goods. With hoarding came accusations of price gouging from goods traders. Wealthy Indonesians – increasingly viewed by the public as Chinese Indonesians – bore the brunt of popular dissatisfaction in urban areas.52 The regime designed the Love the Rupiah campaign to present a united front of pribumi businessmen, konglomerat, and government figures with a firm plan to end economic troubles.53 For months after the initiation of the Love the Rupiah campaign, Indonesian newspapers printed stories of Indonesians – both rich and poor – spontaneously converting their assets into rupiah.
October 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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This happens *ALL THE TIME* in tinpot personalist dictatorships with weak rule of law. And every billionaire finds himself competing to demonstrate “loyalty,” and resentful of their peers who do not. Factions emerge.
October 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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👀 someone calling out big law firm complicity and cowardice
Sign reading BIG LAW LITTLE BALLS, and then listing a bunch of lil ball'd firms: A&O Shearman Cadwalder, Wickersham Kirkland & Ellis Latham & Watkins Milbank Paul, Weiss Simpson Thatcher Skadden, Arpa Willkie Farr Then the sign ends with a Trump quote that should make these firms put their heads in the proverbial bag: "They gave me a lot of money considering they did nothing wrong"
October 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This is awful.
March 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM