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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 5m

gardening spouse says yes, after cutting something that might be sick / infected and with alcohol. does it for poison ivy also but instead uses the fork tool and a gloved tool and then cleans the fork tool. PI goes inside glove as you take it off, just like in da movies.

herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 7h

in the US 1940s-70s car firms had longterm relations with key suppliers, eg Ford + Firestone (tires) + Libby Owens (glass) + BorgWarner (transmissions), etc.
another indicator
www.reliableplant.com/Read/24249/F...
will this flow through to labor relations / control absent political pressure?

Ford selects key suppliers for long-term relationships, collaboration

Ford Motor Company is adding 13 new companies to its Aligned Business Framework (ABF), bringing the total to 90 key component and service suppliers chosen for long-term relationships and clo…

www.reliableplant.com

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 7h

neo-schumpeterians: one obscure feature of a putative 6th growth wave built on renewables, etc is corporate organization/labor control. but it looks like a return to fordist style vertical integration (eg BYD) and long term suppliers (vide this WSJ article, free link) 1/2
www.wsj.com/business/aut...

GM’s Rare-Earth Gamble Pays Off as China Tightens Magnet Exports

The automaker has quietly seeded the revival of the domestic magnet industry, locking down supply amid trade tensions.

www.wsj.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

oh. right.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21h

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 21h

you mean they are going to outsource arms production to China and hire permatemps staff the army?
h/t @susglickman.bsky.social

Breaking Defense @breakingdefense.com · 1d

Driscoll vows Silicon Valley model is the future for the Army
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/10/driscoll-vows-silicon-valley-model-is-the-future-for-the-army/

Driscoll vows Silicon Valley model is the future for the Army

At AUSA 2025, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll took aim at traditional primes, saying the future Army will “break down barriers until we measure acquisitions not in years and billions, but months and thousands."

breakingdefense.com

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s stop this arms race maybe before it kills us?

Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 1d

Does a new generation of social scientists have to publish more to achieve less? (from 2019)
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... Intuition says "yes", and so says data for sociology.

Figure from blog post: Shows how much 342 new assistant professors had published at the time they began their first jobs. For Assistant Professors and newly promoted Associate Professors, there is an upward trend from early 1990s to late 2010s. The trend is stronger for Associate Professors.

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 21h

games recognizes game

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

Trump calls on the Israeli President to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu:

"Cigars and champagne - who the hell cares about it?"

Netanyahu is currently on trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, including allegedly accepting 700,000 shekels (approx. $210,000) worth of luxury goods in bribes.

herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 21h

this would be reprehensible self dealing & stealing from shareholders if SpaceX and xAI were public companies but it is only stealing from the VCs and Private Equity who are funding SpaceX and xAI with your pension money... wait, i will start again...

memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 22h

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks (Fred Lambert/Electrek)

Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 21h

#theywantyoudead 85
LGM summary of ABC news (they graf below) report on how the big ugly bill's cuts to ACA (obamacare) subsidies for private health insurance will accelerate the closure of rural hospitals
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...
@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social

screen capture of quote from ABC news noting that 57% of people who would lose subsidies for their health insurance live in GOP districts

herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 1d

shocked pikachu face that an administration of billionaires doing all it can to preserve fossil fuels despite their obvious uncompetitiveness vs solar, etc finds the coal mining labor force expendable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/c... free link

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 2d

for active military or if you know someone in the military:

“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
www.nimj.org/top.html#/

Orders Project

The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may....

www.nimj.org

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 2d

I guess this is the personal version of fraud and misrepresentation in gramscian hegemony

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 2d

when i published this:
uva.theopenscholar.com/files/herman...
the reviewers wanted to know why i emphasized the lack physical investment vs significant R&D spending by the tech sector as the big drag on US growth and now we are seeing the counterfactual play out in real life.

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 2d

maybe it's time to send the texas national guard to south carolina, given that the murder rate in SC is 40% higher than the rate in IL.
that said, too many guns in this country.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine that

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 2d

#empiresuicidewatch 88
quite apart from the totally illegal diversion of appropriated funds: eating the seed corn to solve a problem (troops not getting paid) that your own team created in pursuit of taking away public health insurance & subsidies for private insurance.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 2d

new federal program: send them all to law school for 3 years. win win: gets them off the streets, saves all those bottom tier law school hemorrhaging cash.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

According to the victim's attorney, the body camera captured the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good”
trib.al/KhKsfSb

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 3d

democrats notably favor having a functioning CDC, among other things. the Guardians Of Pedophiles, i guess not so much.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 3d

everyone needs to hear this

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 3d

don't need*

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3d

I found the war on Christianity

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 3d

don't an HR department if you don't plan to follow any rules and anyway once everyone is fired there is no H to R

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