#michael lewis

[feet2eat]

Michael Lewis כפות רגליים של מייקל לואיס

#michael lewis

[recka24]

#michael lewis #slt #water #wet #in the water

[doppleganger-rental]

Did you know that there was a soundtrack release for the 70’s tv show In Search Of ? It has multiple tracks that were used on the show as well as some other stuff. I wish there was a definitive release of the all of the actual music. The show was always a little eerie and sometimes scary. The music by Micheal Lewis and Laurin Rinder was a key ingredient. Many, many years ago I emailed Lewis or Rinder (I can’t remember which)about the likelihood of the music being released. He was nice but it was clear he wasn’t interested.

#in search of #laurin rinder #michael lewis #70’s #1970s music

[secretladyobservation]

#michael lewis #gay #lgbt #queer

[deadpresidents]

Any good books on losing presidential candidates?

This is an older book but They Also Ran by Irving Stone is a great read about Presidential candidates who came up short.

Almost President: The Men Who Lost the Race But Changed the Nation by Scott Farris [BOOK | KINDLE] is a newer take (2011) on the subject of losing Presidential candidates.

And Michael Lewis -- author of Moneyball and The Big Short, among others -- wrote a frequently overlooked and criminally underrated book called Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House [BOOK | KINDLE] that is awesome and genuinely funny. Losers follows the candidates in the campaign for the 1996 Republican Presidential nomination: Senator John McCain of Arizona, Alan Keyes, Steve Forbes, Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, Pat Buchanan, and the eventual nominee, Senator Bob Dole of Kansas. It's forgotten classic of campaign literature.

#History #Presidents #Books #Book Recommendations #Book Suggestions #Presidential Campaigns #Presidential Candidates #Losing Presidential Candidates #They Also Ran #Irving Stone #Almost President: The Men Who Lost the Race But Changed the Nation #Scott Farris #Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House #Michael Lewis #1996 Republican Presidential nomination #Bob Dole #Campaign Books #Politics #Political Journalism #Campaign Literature #Also-Rans

[actorsperformersandcelebrities]

Michael Lewis

#michael lewis #michael lewis shirtless

[escapeintothepages]

“The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.”

Moneyball, Michael Lewis

#moneyball #michael lewis #reading #book quotes

[royalpain16]

#kitty Spencer #princess diana #lady kitty spencer #michael lewis #2024 #mothers day

[zinjanthropusboisei]

💀💀💀💀 I'd been seeing jokes about the FTX collapse like "Michael Lewis has already sold the film rights" but I didn't realize he was actually already behind the scenes like a grim reaper djafldjafdlkj

#michael lewis #ftx #crypto nonsense

[shakespearenews]

Sam Bankman-Fried is wrong about Shakespeare

This is an ostensibly logical argument based on quantitative information. It doesn’t rely on subjective judgements: it just claims that it’s unlikely that Shakespeare is the GOAT because the population of literate individuals in his time was tiny compared to later centuries. On numbers alone, we’re more likely to find the greatest ever writer among the educated multitudes of the 20th and 21st centuries, not the thinly spread turnip-munchers of the 16th.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #statistics #sam bankman fried #bayesian priors #literature #michael lewis #crypto

[spilladabalia]

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fresh Air - 12/28/1975 - Winterland - San Francisco -

#quicksilver messenger service #fresh air #dino valenti #gary duncan #john cipollina #greg elmore #michael lewis #skip olsen #psychedelic rock #acid rock #live 1975 #winterland #san francisco #Youtube

[valkyriesexual]

i'm trying not to wear myself out anticipating where the next attack on our civil rights is going to come from, but i'm also worried about getting blindsided by shit i didn't even know was possible to take away. is there anything that you think should be a bigger part of the conversation post-dobbs?

This is such a good and important question.  If you guys aren't listening to the Strict Scrutiny podcast with Constitutional Law Professors Leah Litman, Melissa Murray, and Kate Shaw, you should definitely start.  

They can get a little wonky with some of the deep dives into stuff like the Armed Career Criminals Act and stuff, but if you stick with it, it’s really insightful. I've gotten a much better understanding of where this maximalist super-majority conservative SCOTUS is going next.

Which is to say that I can't take credit for this answer, the Strict Scrutiny hosts are true Cassandras.  They have been 100% right about everything coming down the pipeline, and by listening to their coverage, I definitely feel like they've flagged (1) the thing that's already happened that didn't get enough coverage, and (2) the thing that's gonna happen that will destroy the remaining vestiges of a functioning federal government.

The thing they flagged that doesn't get enough attention: Shelby County +Brnovich v. DNC have fucking GUTTED the voting rights act.  

Per Shelby County, states with a history of discrimination no longer need to get DOJ permission to enact new voting schemes... and guess what they all did in the wake of the case? Enacted schemes that will dilute and suppress the votes of minority communities, and the votes of democrats/progressives in general.

And, per Brnovich, even if you can prove that the Republicans have found a perfect proxy voting restriction which is facially neutral but disparately and disproportionately makes it harder for minorities (particularly black, hispanic, and native american communities) to vote, that doesn't violate the voting rights act.

So take Arizona.  A huge part of Biden's win in 2020 was by winning Arizona, which happened in large part because of huge turnout from native american communities.  In the wake of their turnout, Arizona Republicans have enacted a scheme to make it much harder for native americans to vote.  If native americans' access to the ballot box is restricted in Arizona, the ability for progressives to ever win in the electoral college, the senate, etc., becomes much much harder than it already is.

This becomes even more repugnant when you think about Alito's dumbass facetious gaslighting "reasoning" in Dobbs.  "Women are not without electoral or political power".  This supermajority conservative SCOTUS has already done the most to enshrine minority white republican male rule by gutting the Voting Rights Act.

The second thing, which is COMING, is the destruction of the administrative state, which will begin with the overturning of Chevron / the end of Chevron deference.  Chevron deference is a policy of judicial deference to an agency's understanding of what a statute allows, so long as (1) the agency’s understanding was not unreasonable, and (2) Congress has not spoken directly to the precise issue at question.  More clearly, it means that the court may not substitute its own interpretation of the statute for a reasonable interpretation made by the administrative agency.

Now, Neil Gorsuch's mommy was an administrative agency official in the Reagan era.  Neil has mommy issues.  Rather than working out his mommy issues in therapy, he's using SCOTUS to destroy the administrative state.

This should be a huge, giant, enormous thing on the top of everyone's minds right now. The existence of the filibuster in the Senate means that absolutely nothing legislatively will get passed outside of a budget reconciliation bill. That means anything not related to the budget: immigration, climate, healthcare, gun control, reproductive rights, etc., is NOT going to be addressed legislatively.

The only part of the federal government that is actually functioning right now, due to 2 asshole "democrats" who love the filibuster more than they care about any legislative priority (Kyrsten Sinema & Joe Manchin), is the administrative agencies. That's part of why winning the presidency is so important for progressives. The president gets to appoint administrative agency heads. By appointing competent progressives to the the energy department, the commerce dept., the dept. of agriculture, etc., that's how some things can actually change.

This is also one of the reasons that Trump wasn't actually able to do as much destruction as he wanted. He simply didn't understand the power of administrative agencies, left vacancies, and failed to follow the administrative procedure act, so a lot of his policy goals (as much as you can say that Trump had policy goals) were left unfulfilled.

There's a really good book that I recommend everyone read to get a whole new perspective on the importance of the administrative state: The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis. It highlights the wide-ranging scope of various agencies and the extraordinarily important work that they do.

SOOOOooo to bring it all together. Administrative agencies are really the only functional part of the federal government at this point. They can act to address issues as they arise, in large part, because of the judicial policy of deference as established in Chevron. For example, in the absence of specific legislation, OSHA was able to act to help mitigate COVID risk in the workplace. Dept. of Transportation was able to institute mask mandates on interstate travel. After the fall of Roe, the CDC was able to make medication abortion available via mail with a telehealth visit.

But when Gorsuch authors the opinion overturning Chevron, the holding will say that agencies cannot act without explicit legislation. And we cannot pass legislation because of the Senate/filibuster. And we're unlikely to ever win a large enough majority in the Senate to overcome the filibuster due to the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. Without the administrative state, there's no vestige of a functioning federal government. No ability to address climate, to mitigate the impact of Roe, everything.

#answered #SCOTUS #lawblr #Roe v. Wade #The Fifth Risk #Michael Lewis #Neil Gorsuch

[secretladyobservation]

#michael lewis #gay #lgbt #queer

[aether--or]

Lewis has surveyed a landscape taken by convention as settled and found it destabilized, at least here and there, by uneven and unreliable information.

#michael lewis #sam bankman-fried #gideon lewis-kraus

[actorsperformersandcelebrities]

Michael Lewis

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[jerseydeanne]

Kitty Spencer celebrating her one year wedding anniversary

#kitty spencer #wedding anniversary #michael lewis #Instagram