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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Let Them Eat Crack
tuesday report #14 // dueling urban chaos stories (crime: pretty bad, or a good thing actually?); tech winter meets AI spring; a white pill microdose to keep us going
Mike Solana
May 3, 2023
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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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