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DeSantis inks bill to expel student supporters of designated terrorist groups (Claire Carter/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/4518116/ron-desantis-bill-florida-students-designated-terrorist-groups/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p104#a260406p104

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February
— five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop
— has been ruled a #homicide, authorities said Wednesday.
The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for
Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death,
which the agency said…

Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide
The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death.

Not the best-phrased headline ever, but this news warms my heart. They're disinterring them because they have enough family DNA samples to finally identify them.
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2026-03-04/pearl-harbor-identification-dpaa-2094…

Plans set to disinter USS Arizona unknowns from Hawaii cemetery 85 years after Pearl Harbor
DPAA has committed to exhuming the remains of dozens of sailors who were aboard the USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Onderzoek: ook met kleiner Schiphol kan Nederland economisch functioneren | de Volkskrant
#Schiphol #Lelystad

Iranians Feel the Pain as Their Economy Descends Into a Death Spiral (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iranians-feel-the-pain-as-their-economy-descends-into-a-death-spiral-47dba669?st=3nEQei
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p104#a260429p104

Mais qu'est-ce que @… faisait Š Nice? Et pourquoi n'est-il pas descendu du train Š Marseille? Connexion Š Lyon? En tout cas, 8h de retard, c'est une forte indication qu'il était Š bord du train.

Un TGV Nice-Paris bloqué dans un tunnel à la sortie de Marseille pendant 8 heures
Moins d'une semaine après les voyageurs d'un Paris-Marseille bloqués plus de 9 heures après une panne, ceux d'un Nice-Paris n'ont jamais pu parvenir à destination en raison d'un "accident de personne". Les enquêteurs ont mis cinq heures à faire leurs relevés.

An analytical model of Disequilibrium and decentralized productive Exploration
Nazaria Solferino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00718 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.00718 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.00718
arXiv:2604.00718v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper studies the economic role of persistent dispersion in allocations across agents. We develop a tractable model in which firms allocate resources under imperfect information and behavioral updating, generating sustained heterogeneity in beliefs and actions. While dispersion induces static misallocation, it also fosters decentralized experimentation, allowing the economy to explore a broader set of productive opportunities. We show that the economy converges to a stationary equilibrium with strictly positive dispersion and that, under plausible conditions, such disequilibrium can dominate the perfectly coordinated benchmark. The model provides a novel interpretation of observed dispersion in productivity and returns as reflecting both inefficiency and productive exploration. It also yields testable predictions linking dispersion to growth and innovation dynamics.
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Russia’s economy has entered the death zone - Alexandra Prokopenko - Economist
#Ukraine

This becomes especially interesting when you understand the history of the church as a quasi-revolutionary organization. One could describe early church history as a mostly-successful attempt to overthrow the Roman empire. I say mostly successful because, in the end, the Roman state mutated the church for it's own ends and basically pulled a Lenin.
The early church was a religion of women and slaves that set up alternative institutions. See, the Roman economic system basically ran through the temples. Temples were basically the banks of their day (thus money changers in the temples and all that). So when the church set up their own institutions, they were actually attacking the economic system of the Roman empire. *That* is why the empire tried to destroy them. The Romans didn't really care about the gods. They would just mutate their beliefs to pull other pagans in. No, it wasn't about the gods. The Christian were fucking with the money.
The whole church as an institution was about dual power, and Paul (one of the early founders of the church) was central to organizing this into a political machine that could actually threaten the dominant order. One could argue that he saw the potential of the church, and used it to solidify his own power.
It all basically worked, right up until Constantine figured out how to flip the whole thing against the most radical elements. He had his people collect up different books of the Bible and modify them in such a way that it favored Rome. The trick here was to highlight the existing antisemitic threads of early church, and destroy the anti-Roman ones. Anti-authoritarian sects were killed as heretics, and centralized sects became aligned under the church.
This strategy of controlling internal dissent probably feels quite familiar. It's basically how the US works.
But this whole time, during the whole lead up to this, Christianity was illegal and it was continuing to grow as a system of dual power. When Romanism merged with Christianity, it created the most authoritarian institution in human history that brutally destroyed all opposition. Even still, several hundred years later it's power broke.
Today Liberalism has separated banking and the church, and has created the illusion of separation of church and state. But the same dual power strategy that allowed the first church to gain enough power to merge with the Roman power structure have now allowed Christian Nationalism to fully merge with Americanism into the Christian Fascism we see today...

Trump jokes Hegseth doesn't want Iran war to end (Mike Brest/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/4502114/trump-jokes-hegseth-doesnt-want-iran-war-negotiate/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260324/p149#a260324p149