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Obviously a lot going on here but Australia appears to have 2x as many tower cranes active as the 14 biggest cities in North America

The herbal medicine company that promises to solve autism and ADHD going up 64,000% with no revenue is actually how everything feels right now

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

This is all wild national forest in the San Juan and Rio Grande National Forests. No affordable housing will be built here cause no working class people would move here cause there's no jobs here. As soon as this is sold, fences go up and nobody has access. It will all be closed.

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To be honest, I am surprised how much power Congress has seemingly been willing to give up by not pushing back on anything at all ever

Powell goes outright and says to Kelly O'Grady that without tariffs, the Fed might be easing right now

Powell says he is concerned about the impact of cuts at the statistical agencies. High-quality statistics are "a huge public good," he says. "I hate to see us cutting back on that... I would want to continue investing in that for the good of the general public."

Republicans are attempting to ram through a provision to sell millions in acres in California, including land around Yosemite, Mt. Shasta, Lake Tahoe & Big Sur, as part of their big ugly bill. Our federal public treasures shouldn't be sold off to the highest bidder. I will

Upzone all the pink first, then we can talk.

The funniest thing is that Montana is completely exempt because Steve Daines said he'd vote against the bill if it was included lol.

71% of Americans oppose selling our public lands. This is just such a wildly unpopular idea, idk why they’re going so hard for it.

Some personal news. Today, I’m leaving The Atlantic after almost 17 years and moving my writing to Substack. It would be convenient, for the purposes of crafting an exciting departure announcement, to have a dramatic exit story: a fight, a grievance, a shouting match with an

The headline juxtaposition here is very Digital Reality vs Physical Reality. Trillions on AI (?) for rewarding codifiable intelligence while essential manual labor being hunted by the state. I guess the idea is that robots would do the farm work? But even in China, who is far