Andrew Elrod
@andrewelrod
Lester Freamon of inflationary pressure
The genocidal intent was clear from day one. I was surprised the US just let them do it, and sometimes that makes me feel naive - but then I remember that Israel also expected the US would draw the line within a few months.
The Omar El Akkad "one day everyone will be against this" tweet was on October 25th, 2023. Me, probably you, everybody with a head on their shoulders knew that Israel had genocidal intent from the beginning. There have been no surprises about Gaza save the degree of inaction.
At a house party in May met a Dutch Jewish woman. Her grandmother had been in the camps, she said, and kept telling me that to explain the particular horror she felt at the fact that Israel is now a nation committing a holocaust.
I love how this story has just been completely wiped from collective memory, even though the reporter in question is 25-year-long 60 Minutes producer who's won a stack of Emmies & Peabodies. telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/1…
Bruh
GHISLAINE MAXWELL GRANTED ‘LIMITED IMMUNITY’ BY TRUMP JUSTICE DEPT — ABC
When I was first getting into Malcolm Rutherford I remember a professor asking me "so why did institutionalist economics go away?" And now I realize it's because an instrumental method could not serve the metaphysical purposes performed by "macroeconomics."
the fact that "final decade of Victorian imperialism" is remembered in America as the "Progressive Era" is really a problem for global history
I was taught in economics school that you were supposed to get paid *more* to do a violent and dangerous job, but what do I know, I'm not a pundit!
What do we make of comparisons between what happened in 2017-2020 and what appears to be happening in 2025-2028?
I'm reading about historical sit-down strikes and this story from Flint is incredible - about the media, the strikers, and the national guard all getting in on a baseball game together
Does anyone know if the FTC has ever sent 6(b) requests for information to corporate officers personally?
UnitedHealth’s business model is to grow through acquisition. But now, they have 2,694 subsidiaries, and earnings were disappointing in April. Have they grown too big to manage? From @dorajfacundo and @PatrickMRucker with @Capitol_Forum: trib.al/rOQ7x7D
lmao Kenneth Mejia on TV in LA: “Zohran reminds me of myself.” (Mejia used but did not build with DSA)
“It was very frustrating. He speaks well.” nypost.com/2025/07/15/us-…
I remember seeing in the abundance debate the claim that zoning rules protect entrenched developer interests, in addition to (or separately from) NIMBYs, and that deregulating zoning would therefore level the developer market. Who was saying this? Was there evidence for it?