beesmaybe
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@DanielleLangWa we have enough things to worry about, this is not tops.
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THIS ISN'T GREAT NEWS:
26 passengers got off the Hantavirus cruise ship 12 days ago. 7 of them have come to the United States since then. Arizona, California, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia.
medpagetoday.com/special-report…
"More than two dozen passengers potentially exposed to hantavirus aboard a cruise ship disembarked almost 2 weeks ago, several sources confirmed to MedPage Today, and Americans who were among them are now back on U.S. soil.
A total of 26 passengers disembarked the MV Hondius at St. Helena on April 24, several sources confirmed to MedPage Today.
There are about seven Americans who disembarked at that time and have since returned to the U.S., and states have been working to track them down for testing and monitoring, according to sources with close knowledge of the situation.
They say the passengers live in several states, including Arizona, California, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia.
A spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health told MedPage Today that it was "notified by the CDC of California residents that were onboard the cruise ship that had passengers infected with hantavirus."
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@matthewstoller Comments to Blanche's post tell me people don't understand...
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Looks like the the Trump Antitrust Division just endorsed price fixing. Get ready for higher food prices!
Acting AG Todd Blanche@DAGToddBlanche
1 – The Department of Justice continues to bring affordability to the American people. Today, we announced a historic settlement with Agri Stats, whose business model directly raised the price of chicken, turkey, and pork in local grocery stores across our nation. 🐔🐖⚖️
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@grahamcclark1 Yes, it just explains the current weirdness. It can't hold.
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@beesmaybe It's a foolproof plan except for one problem x.com/grahamcclark1/…
Graham Clark@grahamcclark1
America the workshop of the world intervened in World War I because German submarine warfare was bad for business, first economically and diplomatically, finally militarily. It didn't end well for Germany
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The Ukraine war as old fashioned colonial scheme to make Europe buy American fuel, and the Iran war following logically from that, is looking more and more like one of those things that's an Unserious conspiracy theory until suddenly it's "Why are you still talking about that"
American Petroleum Institute@APIenergy
U.S. industry is investing to help meet growing global demand for reliable energy. U.S. LNG export capacity is on track for a 39% increase between 2026 and 2027.
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@DKThomp Disingenuous:
- The animus is to economists who demand to be followed
- There *are* villains - market power is real. Profiteering has to be curtailed
- Economic populists are not ignorant of economics. Political economists understand that politics is *baked into* "economics".
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I'm glad that the author of "Rent Control Is Fine, Actually" calls themself Unlearning Economics, bc it's good to just state things clearly, such as the open animosity that many left economic populists have for the field of economics and economists themselves.
Economists aren't gods, and economics isn't a divine truth, but economists are good--better than most--at something critical for making public policy: They're good at identifying tradeoffs. "Rents are too high, so freeze them" is compelling politics. But in the absence of other pro-supply policies, if you make it illegal to increase rents, landlords will stop upgrading units and convert them to condos, which reduces the supply of units for rent, reduces mobility, and drives up rents for everybody else.
The left econ populists have some clear, and clearly stated, policy ideas:
- Rents are too high, so freeze them.
- Electricity is expensive, so stop rate increases.
- Homes are too expensive, so ban institutional investors.
- Power prices are rising, so ban data center construction.
... All these policies feel like solutions because they're brisk, they name enemies, and they take on the most visible source of frustration. But they are much better as villain-naming exercises than they are as a complete public policy. On their own, each creates other problems: less housing built, less clean electricity built, abdicating energy policy by encouraging AI firms to build data centers abroad in unsavory countries with more emissions, etc.
I can't think of a single economic populist idea that wouldn't be helped with a little dose of economics, which is why it's troubling when I see the left participating in, and even celebrating, the great unlearning of economics.
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson
an economist explains how rent control is actually fine and good currentaffairs.org/news/rent-cont…
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I'm a King John stan so this applause line is NOT cool
Acyn@Acyn
Standing ovation for this line from King Charles: The U.S. Supreme court historical society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 supreme court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances.
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@SearchlightInst @MarcDunkelman Who actually advocates "abandon abundance in the name of attacking corporations"? That's a false characterization of the Brandeisians.
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.@MarcDunkelman: The misunderstanding here is that those who say we need to attack corporate power are just taking the Brandeisian notion of it.
And the abundance ethos harkens back to the old ideas that existed from the turn of the twentieth century through the 1960s — that we should be building up government power so that government is capable of taking on these corporations.
That we have people in government who can make discretionary decisions about where we're going to build transmission lines, how we're going to improve transit, where we're going to build housing, how we're going to regulate this and that.
We want bureaucracies to be able to move speedily and make decisions in the public interest.
It's the reforms we've seen since the 60s and 70s that have slowed government down so they cannot be responsive to the corporate challenge.
The idea that we should abandon abundance in the name of attacking corporations misses the point that government should be a competent institution that can accurately — and thoroughly — review and challenge corporations when they're doing wrong.
Searchlight Institute@SearchlightInst
One year of ABUNDANCE and WHY NOTHING WORKS. Searchlight's @MarcDunkelman sits down with @EzraKlein and @DKThomp to discuss their books, the housing crisis, and the limits of abundance as a political lens in the face of consolidated corporate power.
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Hello Twitter friends! It's @tornadonate in exile
Today we're going to talk about how @elonmusk bought this app, stripped it down to a husk, and fails all of us with neglect, while he plays with rockets
Peep this thread & share, help me send an F5 Tornado tweet storm to Texas
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@matthewstoller @oren_cass I didn't finish Oren's book, but what I read was disappointing.
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The problem with @oren_cass routinely deceiving people about Trump’s about face on tariffs is that he is discrediting the policies he ostensibly supports.
We need a more honest populist right. But then, we don’t actually. We just need liberals to stop clamoring for a daddy Republican to govern.
Oren Cass@oren_cass
The problem with economists asking for a takesy-backsy on their predictions of tariff doom is that it implies they would have had favorable predictions about the tariffs had they known the full trajectory. Who thinks that, if you had told economists a year ago what was going to happen with tariffs, they would have said "sounds reasonable, growth will probably tick up and inflation down, manufacturing demand and productivity will rise and sentiment will improve"? Did I miss all of the economists who have been saying since June that now the tariff level looks OK? The reality is they missed even on the basic mechanisms: the dollar didn't appreciate; the retaliation didn't occur; the administration successfully leveraged tariffs into favorable deals and commitments. Of course the models spit out the wrong answer. Yes, it's embarrassing for a field when confident predictions fail. But it's way more embarrassing when the reaction of practitioners to the failure is to deny a problem exists.
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@matthewstoller I can't help but thinking this was a good outcome. The US should develop better ways to gain access to important resources.
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A lot of people seem to think Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. ends its attacks. Maybe. But the point is it’s *their* choice. That’s the new dynamic.
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And just like that, Trump acknowledges the obvious - the U.S. lost and Iran now has hegemony over the Middle East.
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@Chris_arnade @rorynotsorry Sorry, it won't be as good as when you're 15 in the 70's.
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@rorynotsorry despite 60 yrs of geekdom, I've somehow managed not to read DUne
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Possibly ignorant question: I’ve read extensively about the spice trade and its importance to ancient and medieval Europe, and its centrality to the Age of Exploitation and other things.
Given Europeans had these spices, that some were claimed to be as valuable as gold, and that both periods were sophisticated in farming and botany, why didn’t anyone figure out how to grow their own — even in small amounts in greenhouses, which they had in various forms?
Alchemy was supposedly a big deal. Was there an equivalent systematic attempt at spice cultivation? Why didn’t it motivate greater greenhouse innovation?
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@Chris_arnade "sophisticated"? Alchemists tinkered, made discoveries, but nothing systematic, they were driven by ideology not scientific method. The idea of continual improvement ("technology") was a slow development. read Jacques Ellul.
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@matthewstoller I'm extremely angry. I don't even want to share all the reasons why; but I need to process it. It's necessary to moderate it to participate in society.
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This is an extremely angry country, and voters rightfully distrust our leaders and institutions. That distrust extends to our churches and synagogues, companies and unions, nonprofits and military. All of them are led poorly.
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When will @aipac & @ADL be merging? Greenblatt you've sucked up enough to Trump you can probably get the merger approved in this Administration.
AIPAC 🇺🇸🇮🇱@AIPAC
Facts like you using a clip of an antisemite in a video you posted OR you applauding a group that is trying to drive pro-Israel Democrats out of politics OR you sitting with a podcaster who says Zionists are neo-Nazis OR you speaking at a conference where they laughed at 10/7?
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@EmblemHealth friends, don't let the algo bury this one. I'm furious
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Learned the hard way that @EmblemHealth will *terminate* your child's health insurance coverage the day your premium is due if you do not make the payment on time. Not only that, they won't reactivate coverage after a late payment, and it takes 3 weeks to receive a refund! BS
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@hewittdylan I have a soft spot for St. Lawrence County. Beautiful country. Hope you do well.
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I’m running for Congress to break up the monopolies that have rigged the economy and robbed us of freedom for too long.
And I welcome their hatred.
Basel Musharbash@musharbash_b
Good news for a change: Democrats are finally making the right enemies.
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Hello 600mg ibuprofen!
(Also: hello tongue!)
Laurel@BalanceCrafting
Reflecting on my dental and life choices.
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Thank God for people like this who turned down the multimillion-dollar contracts to build data centers on their land. 👍
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
A mother and daughter in Kentucky have rejected multimillion-dollar offers for their land, offers made by an anonymous tech company trying to build a data center. Ida Huddleston has turned down $4,260,000. Her daughter turned down $22,224,000. Video: @LEX18News
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A mother and daughter in Kentucky have rejected multimillion-dollar offers for their land, offers made by an anonymous tech company trying to build a data center.
Ida Huddleston has turned down $4,260,000.
Her daughter turned down $22,224,000.
Video: @LEX18News
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