the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Just to level set on this:

What they have experienced are some of the worst things that a government could possibly do to people. There is absolutely nothing that happened here that should have happened. The people responsible for this should have it follow them the rest of their lives.

Internalizing the time value of money kinda unlocked a lot of stuff for me.

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@chrisblattman.bsky.social, Arthur Yu, and I reexamine the autocratic growth penalty—the finding that autocracies systematically underperform democracies in economic growth.

TL;DR, the penalty is concentrated in personalist, not institutionalized autocracies.

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BREAKING: Metadata shows the FBI’s ‘raw’ Jeffrey Epstein prison video was likely modified.

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This is the kind of insinuation it is your patriotic duty to spread. The Republican Party has poisoned our water forever, and we can’t undo it but we can return the favor. Keep going until we create woke Pizzagate, except this time, it’ll be true.

Given the evidence my investigators have seen, this reeks of a coverup.