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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10h

"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 9h

I had thought that in the 40 minute since I posted this it would have gone viral. I'm honestly a bit disappointed.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 10h

Som say the world will end in evites, Some promotions. From what I've seen of desperate hosts, I think evites are favored most. But if I can have two world-end notions, I think I know enough of ads To say I also hate promotions And think we've got it coming From that or many other of our bads.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 10h

So many emails from kid one’s new high school. I don’t want to just delete them. I want to be an engaged parent! But there are so. many. emails.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 10h

Similarly the college I went to is the U of C, and always will be.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 12h

This is correct and important. Shame is democratic - it's a horizontal sanction rather than a top-down one. The more we reduce the role of coercive authority in the world, the more we will depend on shame and mockery to enforce social norms.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 20h

Pulled all these off the grapevine this morning. (And of course there were lots more that got away.) I am starting to get a bit concerned.

A jar containing 20 or so spotted lanternflies.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 21h

It’s awesome that the economy is being driven by people who simultaneously have no idea how human cognition works but are 103% convinced they have duplicated it in artificial form.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 21h

I personally consider this not only remarkably stupid but also sacrilegious, offensive, and grotesque

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This level of stupidity doesn’t just happen. You have to work to achieve it.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t believe I’ve ever previously encountered this word. Is it a common British usage?

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Appreciate that Chris Hayes is clear on a point a lot of other people seem to have lost sigh of: The problem with the US-Israeli war on Iran is not that it failed.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Question for any historians (or historian-like people) on here: Any recommended articles about the 19th century US Populists' thinking on money and banking? I've read Lawrence Goodwyn and Michael Kazin. But there must be lots of more recent stuff. Thanks!

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is exactly one large, well funded organization in NYC that makes me feel unsafe specifically as a Jewish person, and it’s the ADL

•@NYCMayor Mamdani's antisemitism strategy finally landed and only confirms what we already knew: this mayor does not treat the hate facing Jewish New Yorkers as an emergency and refuses to acknowledge the different shapes it takes. Since he took office 271 days ago, ADL has recorded hundreds of antisemitic incidents in NYC, nearly 40% of which were related to Israel.
After throwing out the IHRA definition on his first day in office, nine months later, his signature strategy still refuses to replace it with any working definition of antisemitism. He has looked the other way as flags glorifying terror groups have been flown outside synagogues, a deliberate act meant to intimidate families walking in to pray, and as crowds gathered outside houses of worship voicing support for the same groups. At the same time, he continues prioritizing his anti-Israel agenda over the basic promises he made to Jewish New Yorkers.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

None of the cheerleaders of the Permitting Reform bill are talking about the fact that it establishes a 150-day statute of limitations for lawsuits under *any* federal law challenging authorizations for coal, oil, and gas extraction. Forever. 150 days is no time at all.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really enjoying Molly Crabapple's Here Where We Live Is Our Country. It's a book that works very well as an audiobook. (Tho the reader does make some odd choices, like putting on a heavy accent for quotes from Russian and pronouncing the p in coup- which gets more noticeable once we get to the 20s.)

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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ha! I’ve said this before, we already built the paperclip maximizer, its name is Capitalism

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I had not seen this quote before.

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My yesterday's Substack on Keynes' "Economic possibilities..." Against purposeful activity and Abrahamic religions in a world of abundance branko2f7.substack.com/p/against-pu...

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Against purposeful activity and Abrahamic religion in a world of abundance

A note on Keynes’ “Economic Possibilities…”

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Mike Madowitz @mikemadowitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Notch another win for those who think terrible consumer sentiment is about living in The Bad Place with good GDP. This is an S-tier GDP revision w/ lower inflation (almost entirely attributable to the PCE methodology change) www.bea.gov/news/2026/gd...

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lanae Erickson at Third Way said “practice saying ‘I trust parents in my district to make decisions for their kids more than politicians.’ Practice saying, ‘sure, we need rules but politicians aren’t the right ones to make it.’” This is basically how Democrats talk about abortion rights post Dobbs

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wonder if J. R. R. Tolkien ever tried to get people to call dentists "toothers." (Thoughts you have while getting a root canal.)

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Irontuna @irontuna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I found this essay by @jwmason.bsky.social helpful in thinking about prices and price gouging: jwmason.org/slackwire/in...

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In Praise of Profiteering – J. W. Mason

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Thomas Masterson @thomasmasterson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Feminist Economist Nancy Folbre has a different issue with the way Trump's administration wants to do it: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/25/o...

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Trump’s child-care plan could punish single parents - The Boston Globe

The plan could take money from working single parents to subsidize married couples.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And decentralized decisionmaking.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And shame on everyone, including Bernie Sanders specifically, who talks about the importance of “securing the border” without acknowledging that it means precisely this.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

We’re hearing a lot of this sort of thing lately and I don’t agree with it. Defending fundamental human rights is not a “distraction.” The big error is thinking that there a fixed quantity of political engagement, such that solidarity with one group means doing less on something else.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The "cancel culture" panic was about the right of people on podiums to say whatever they wanted and the duty of people on the floor to shut up and nod.

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arjunjayadev.bsky.social @arjunjayadev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nice to get this shout out , but more than anything, it's always wonderful to find book lists that are perfectly up one's alley!

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Delighted to be on this very impressive list.

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Peter Dorman @pdorman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes, and I glided over this point in an otherwise pretty good box from my micro textbook:

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rereading this, I have to say: This is a good post. It's funny how some things you write get a lot of readers and other things, that you put a lot more work into and seem to be doing something useful and timely, get almost no readers at all. Well, maybe now a few more people on here will see this.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Interesting to think about the cases where most people agree that price regulation is fine. If this is appropriate now, why not at other times? gothamist.com/news/nyc-bra...

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🤔 At the moment, Mamdani is not taking big shots on climate/jobs. Nor is he taking the (small/med) shots he said he would. NYC is a global leader on climate/jobs action b/c of Local Laws 97, 154 & divestment. Policies he inherited. So far Zohran isn’t furthering the city’s leadership. He should!🧵

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Pruit Igoe @pruitigoe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This kind of hovers around what I wrote about the data center protest. It is not so much against AI/Data centers, the average person couldn't tell you fuck all of what happens at a data center. They just happen to be the tipping point of a quarter century of anxiety where the rich have gotten richer

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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah, I don't think we're going to find a more succinct formula than this about what is & what isn't free speech: "Whatever comes from the top down is freedom. Whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship"

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What’s funny about it this is that a carbon tax has not been central to Dem climate policy since the Obama administration. This conversation a from a decade ago is exactly what led to the idea of the Green New Deal.

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Christopher Chiu-Tabet @cctabet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship."

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of those evenings when there are multiple people standing out in the street, taking pictures of the sky.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Also on my list of Best TV, for whatever it's worth.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

While you can't predict every consequence, less U.S. influence over foreign affairs and less ability to coerce others into submission is certainly a positive thing. Will others have to step up and might they fail to? Yes. But we need to let go of our mania and pretense of control

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Counterpoint: The US can, in fact, just leave.

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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

son contento di aver letto @jwmason.bsky.social e @arjunjayadev.bsky.social Against Money e di essere fuori dal tunnel della produttività :)

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you're worried about AI's threat to human civilization, this is where you should be looking.

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