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Dylan, the Bronx student detained by ICE, got a medical diagnosis over the weekend that his lawyers say requires his immediate release, per court docs. (He was being tested for cancer or Crohn's disease.) But Dylan doesn't know about his diagnosis — his lawyers can’t reach him:

Apparently there was a recent piece about the Planet Yarvin, and I think that stopped being a rebel base long ago. #Satire

Apparently there was a recent piece about the Planet Yarvin, and I think that stopped being a rebel base long ago. #Satire

In the first installment of “Trump’s Beautiful Disaster,” David Dayen hones in on the current debates surrounding the bill in the Senate. trib.al/Ij5mqY1

Who could have predicted this? "DOGE-driven efforts appear to be backfiring The Department of Government Efficiency’s intense scrutiny of federal spending is forcing employees to spend hours justifying even the most basic purchases." washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

What strikes me about all of the leading lights of Abundance is how shallow and performative their “wonkiness" is. All these guys have ever been paid to do is write little thinkpieces (notably, they're almost all opinion writers, not investigative journalists), so they don't

Texas AAUP-AFT Press Release on the passage of SB 37: With the passage of Senate Bill 37, faculty warn of the impending “brain drain” of students, researchers, and faculty from Texas higher education institutions.aaup-texas.org/blog/f/texas-a… via Texas Conference of the AAUP

The political scientists want me to remind everyone in the stem disciplines - “remember when you said politics didn’t matter?”😂

Lmao this is such a beating

This move by the FTC amounts to a duty to deal on advertisers with a dominant social media platform. For an administration that claims to be deregulatory, this perversion of antitrust—whose true aim is to *counter* dominance—is the height of hypocrisy. nytimes.com/2025/06/02/tec…

Anti-monopolists: Actually, industry consolidation in housing is materially raising prices and constraining supply in TX and around the country (evidence presented) Yglesias: Anti-monopolists think Dunkin’ Donuts should be illegal

You’ve criticized us for obsessing over antitrust and trying to turn it into the fix for all problems. So we point out it’s just one tool in a broader toolkit for addressing the varied harms of corporate power. Now you are complaining we are not focused enough on antitrust?

Matthew Yglesias And here's Matt (confusingly) pointing out that he's wrong above when he argued that "free" products can't be monopolized. But the post already used that (incorrect) argument to conclude the FTC's case against Meta doesn't reflect competition policy, so this can't rescue it.

I think you are suffering some confusion between "market prices" that arise in a competitive market and "market prices" that arise when there is monopoly power (for example, fortress hubs that arose out of deregulation). 1/2 #Antitrust

How to you recreate going from tower 1 to tower 2? How do you recreate rushing to floor 12 only to have two people enter the elevator at the last minute and pushing floors 2 and 3? How do you recreate the sadness of the bar after interviews? #Satire

At a certain point the word has to collapse under the weight of reality

UT interim president stuns faculty with sole provost finalist announcement statesman.com/story/news/edu… via Austin Statesman

Recommended reading for those who want to address who is right in light of modern economics: TLDR: Consumer welfare folks claiming New Brandeisians untethered from economics are not seeing the whole picture. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…