Paul Slimin'
@legendsofthepaul.bsky.social
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Nature is healing.
December 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Nature is healing.
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For those asking--I do not advocate CB because it paints a better picture--consumers are still feeling pretty glum, it is because the sample size is 3x (3000 vs <1000 in UMich) and the methodology is more consistent over time whereas UMich went to online collection resulting in a known downward bias
December 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
For those asking--I do not advocate CB because it paints a better picture--consumers are still feeling pretty glum, it is because the sample size is 3x (3000 vs <1000 in UMich) and the methodology is more consistent over time whereas UMich went to online collection resulting in a known downward bias
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🚨USE THE CONFERENCE BOARD MEASURE OF CONSUMER CONFIDENCE! IGNORE MICHIGAN--DO NOT RUN AWAY WITH GRANDIOSE INTERPRETATIONS OF THE WORLD BASED ON UMICH!🚨
December 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🚨USE THE CONFERENCE BOARD MEASURE OF CONSUMER CONFIDENCE! IGNORE MICHIGAN--DO NOT RUN AWAY WITH GRANDIOSE INTERPRETATIONS OF THE WORLD BASED ON UMICH!🚨
Bring back implied remedies!
Kennedy Center absurdity is another example of how many laws are on the books but don't have any actionable remedy because Congress just assumed, especially on something so mundane and obvious as "what is the name of this thing we're creating?," that the law would of course be followed on its face.
December 19, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Bring back implied remedies!
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this is also why I think bsky is more influential than twitter at this point (which I know is a bit of a controversial position) - there's a lot of influential people spending time here!
This is why the angst over the decline of text-based media is a little overstated imo. Influential people read.
To be honest, I think this actually makes the opposite of the point it seems to be trying to make. Who has had a greater influence over the trajectory of politics and policy, Bari Weiss or hbomberguy?
It matters who your audience is.
It matters who your audience is.
December 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
this is also why I think bsky is more influential than twitter at this point (which I know is a bit of a controversial position) - there's a lot of influential people spending time here!
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This is extremely important
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is extremely important
Thank you Paul Krugman, very reassuring.
December 16, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Thank you Paul Krugman, very reassuring.
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I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill
"Counterintuitive as it sounds, I think a better life is one with more disappointment in it."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Life let you down again? Congratulations – you’re growing
Rather than running away from disappointment, we need to face it and learn from it. Otherwise we will never try anything new
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
"Counterintuitive as it sounds, I think a better life is one with more disappointment in it."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Originalism taken to the limit just sucks every universal aspiration and value out of the constitution and turns it into, essentially, Johnson vs McIntosh's courts of the conqueror.
December 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Originalism taken to the limit just sucks every universal aspiration and value out of the constitution and turns it into, essentially, Johnson vs McIntosh's courts of the conqueror.
Best essay I've read in a while.
www.liberalcurrents.com/they-were-al...
www.liberalcurrents.com/they-were-al...
They Were All Our Ancestors
Nationalism chooses sides in the most awful family drama of all time. It sides with the evildoers, and never with their victims, and teaches you to do the same.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Best essay I've read in a while.
www.liberalcurrents.com/they-were-al...
www.liberalcurrents.com/they-were-al...
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The test in Bivens cases remains, "Are you Bivens?"
NEWS:
The Supreme Court today delivered another blow to the ability of people to sue federal officials for constitutional violations by ruling against a prison inmate who claims he was viciously assaulted:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
The Supreme Court today delivered another blow to the ability of people to sue federal officials for constitutional violations by ruling against a prison inmate who claims he was viciously assaulted:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Supreme Court rules prison inmate cannot sue federal officers for alleged assault
The decision further undermines the ability of people to sue federal officials for constitutional violations, first recognized by the Supreme Court in 1971.
www.nbcnews.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The test in Bivens cases remains, "Are you Bivens?"
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Tales are emerging of strange happenings in The Fog. Tricks of the eye revealing brief faces in the fog peering through windows. Fog trailing and tugging at you. Muffled thumps chokes off moans heard beyond vision. Cars found empty and abandoned on the side of the road. An In-N-Out with no line.
It's pretty wild how the entire Central Valley of California has been shrouded in a thick, ground-level fog for almost a month now.
December 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Tales are emerging of strange happenings in The Fog. Tricks of the eye revealing brief faces in the fog peering through windows. Fog trailing and tugging at you. Muffled thumps chokes off moans heard beyond vision. Cars found empty and abandoned on the side of the road. An In-N-Out with no line.
The argument here seems to miss a few things. Tik Tok was already spreading right-wing sentiments even before the ban. And with over 200m users on the app, letting an adversary nation run an influence campaign at that scale becomes a real security concern.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The US supreme court’s TikTok ruling is a scandal | Evelyn Douek and Jameel Jaffer
The decision means TikTok now operates under the threat that it could be forced offline with a stroke of Trump’s pen
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The argument here seems to miss a few things. Tik Tok was already spreading right-wing sentiments even before the ban. And with over 200m users on the app, letting an adversary nation run an influence campaign at that scale becomes a real security concern.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The conceit of this musical--a show that aims to finally teach the dreadful wokescolds the lesson they so obviously deserve--is at best braindead, and at worst highly disgusting.
www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
The Composer Making a Hip-Hop Musical About Anne Frank
Andrew Fox, the creator of “Slam Frank,” was disillusioned with American theatre. Then a viral debate about white privilege gave him a new sense of purpose.
www.newyorker.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The conceit of this musical--a show that aims to finally teach the dreadful wokescolds the lesson they so obviously deserve--is at best braindead, and at worst highly disgusting.
www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
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Here's Sandra Day O'Connor endorsing News Max levels of voter fraud conspiracies in the 2000 election.
August 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Here's Sandra Day O'Connor endorsing News Max levels of voter fraud conspiracies in the 2000 election.
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Maybe this new blog can respond, in one of its first posts, to the argument that the term “interim docket” is a deliberately misleading attempt to minimize the (very permanent) doctrinal and real-world consequences of #SCOTUS’s rulings on emergency applications?
www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...
December 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Maybe this new blog can respond, in one of its first posts, to the argument that the term “interim docket” is a deliberately misleading attempt to minimize the (very permanent) doctrinal and real-world consequences of #SCOTUS’s rulings on emergency applications?
www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...
Does NYT ever apply this level of scrutiny to Republicans?
December 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Does NYT ever apply this level of scrutiny to Republicans?
Confederate Broadcasting System
So...Bari Weiss deposes yet another journalist of color - Maurice DuBois - to install CBS Mornings anchor Tony Dokoupil as lead anchor of the CBS Evening News. I guess DEI is okay if it works in certain directions? https://loom.ly/fNDlGDE
Paramount Press Express | TONY DOKOUPIL NAMED ANCHOR OF THE CBS EVENING NEWS
Dokoupil Will Assume the Role on Jan. 5 Tony Dokoupil – an Emmy Award-winning journalist known for his fairness, curiosity and doggedness – has been n
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December 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Confederate Broadcasting System
The idea that any person born with the rare genetics enabling them to be a top professional athlete would complain about fairness in sports is just beyond rich.
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The idea that any person born with the rare genetics enabling them to be a top professional athlete would complain about fairness in sports is just beyond rich.
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i think an overriding theme of american politics today is that so many elites think politics is gamesmanship; that its intra in-group signaling and posturing without any severe material effects. that there is a hard floor we can't actually sink beneath, that the bottom can't fall out. and buddy
It's neither here nor there, but the kind of shit a pissant like Wurman is peddling is the exact of shit that would get you jumped by a couple of congressmen while you walked back to your bunkhouse on 1850s Washington
the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
December 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
i think an overriding theme of american politics today is that so many elites think politics is gamesmanship; that its intra in-group signaling and posturing without any severe material effects. that there is a hard floor we can't actually sink beneath, that the bottom can't fall out. and buddy
Not a great answer. This undermines the “don’t follow illegal orders” message by shifting to “well it’s just a shame he was given illegal orders.” No use in prevailing on Hegseth and Trump, they’re not gonna listen. Shame the generals.
BRENNAN: Do you have confidence in Admiral Bradley?
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
December 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Not a great answer. This undermines the “don’t follow illegal orders” message by shifting to “well it’s just a shame he was given illegal orders.” No use in prevailing on Hegseth and Trump, they’re not gonna listen. Shame the generals.
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It really is amazing that the president has a noticeable an unexplained physical ailment that is disfiguring his right hand and there's no reporting about it. The White House's line is that it's from Trump shaking too many hands! Something is clearly being covered up.
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It really is amazing that the president has a noticeable an unexplained physical ailment that is disfiguring his right hand and there's no reporting about it. The White House's line is that it's from Trump shaking too many hands! Something is clearly being covered up.
This Farage moment is an object lesson in the media's power to determine what a scandal is. American media has a tendency to only see a scandal when the politicians themself seems embarrassed (leading to impunity for the shameless), but British media right now shows that's not true.
I'm not gonna complain but I'm genuinely surprised they're running this hard with it (and I think he is too)
December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This Farage moment is an object lesson in the media's power to determine what a scandal is. American media has a tendency to only see a scandal when the politicians themself seems embarrassed (leading to impunity for the shameless), but British media right now shows that's not true.