Death by Ballot Prop: How California Outsourced Legislation to the MobJan 29
a brief history of organized shoplifting rings, housing deadlocks, and other fun consequences of the state's 'direct democracy' experiment
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I Used AI to Email 3,800 Ivy League Bureaucrats, Now My School Is Investigating Me
it costs $93,064 to attend brown university. the annual budget deficit is $46 million. i wanted to know where the hell all the money was going.
Alex Shieh
Apr 1, 2025
Earlier this month, Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh lit the internet on fire after asking the school’s small army of non-instructional staff to justify their jobs, receiving coverage from Newsweek and Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. Today in Pirate Wires, he writes about the inspiration behind his project — and its aftermath.
Death by Ballot Prop: How California Outsourced Legislation to the Mob
The Secret NIMBY Millionaire Behind California's Asset SeizureJan 27
robert reich, 4'11" champion of california's 'wealth tax,' has built a lucrative career collecting taxpayer dollars to peddle anticapitalist rhetoric (he's also secretly a nimby)
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Dispatch from Davos: The SXSW for GlobalismJan 26
a recap of this year’s annual gathering of the world economic forum: highlights, trump v. the bugmen, and is ‘sparkle beach ken’ the best political insult of all time?
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