Reminder, FDR saved capitalism. He was hated by both communists and fascists for doing so. Problem is saving capitalism requires putting capitalists in a headlock and keeping the pressure on forever because capitalists are who destroy capitalism.

An eyewatering chart!

I regret to report being so charmed by the prospect of the return of letters of marque & privateers that I instantly made up an argument about how it would be consistent with my anti-war principles to support this b/c it would erode the state monopoly on violence.

I heard Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK deliver this barn-burner of a *truly* liberatory economic proposal in his March talk at emma o connell's & in this (humongous, but great) thread he lays it out in compelling detail. Rooting for the total unraveling of tech IP as a consequence of Tariffmania!

Please go to economics school with Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK in this masterfully encapsulated thread on tariffs, anti-competitive monopolies, and the class solidarity of investors.

Corporate personhood's 139th birthday is today (Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company ruling May 10, 1886); Greg Coleridge and Jennie Spanos of Move To Amend continue to point out how much better off we would be without it! #achievable movetoamend.org/_the_birth_of_…?

This brief, punchy Dan Davies essay on tedium is so good! A cogent extension of the #MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over) scam-obscuring complexity Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK often alludes to; Davies posits a few other messages we might locate in boring texts. backofmind.substack.com/p/boredom-is-a…

A reminder during National Police Week: Police contact of any kind is not innocuous. Most police killings start with officers responding to a suspected non-violent situation or a case where no crime has been reported.

I always love Dan Davies's blithe, punchy prose & opinions! There's some background noise in this piece but also confident, memorable articulation of several key features of our financial system. backofmind.substack.com/p/a-century-la…