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[volunteerismandanarchy]

The American right is abandoning Mises

The Austrian economist's principled thought once served as a check on the intellectual right.

Ludwig von Mises, a foundational figure of modern libertarianism, was also for decades a hero of the American right. In George H. Nash's magisterial 1976 history The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945, the very first chapter stars the Austrian economist and his students and associates, saying that "it would be difficult to exaggerate the contributions of…Ludwig von Mises to the intellectual rehabilitation of individualism in America."

[irradiate-space]

San Francisco mayor slaps down clever plot to make housing crisis worse

Mayor London Breed vetoed a controversial ordinance that would have legalized more types of housing on paper while making it harder to build

A non-compliant housing element also triggers a provision of state law known as the "builder's remedy," which prevents cities from using their zoning codes to deny housing projects that include a certain number of affordable units. [...] In short, San Francisco politicians' queasiness about fourplexes could force them to permit skyscrapers instead.

[arcticdementor]

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[midnightfunk]

A Michigan Man Underpaid His Property Taxes By $8.41. The County Seized His Property, Sold It—and Kept the Profits.

An 83-year-old retired engineer in Michigan underpaid his property taxes by $8.41. In response, Oakland County seized his property, auctioned

Over the past decade, more than 150,000 properties in Detroit have gone through the tax forfeiture process, according to data collected by Jerry Paffendorf, the founder of Loveland Technologies, a Detroit-based mapping firm. The process, says Paffendorf, is "punitive for property owners and profitable for the county."

[gleekto]

(T)his show is ultimately the loot in a strong-arm robbery by Darren Criss as the murderous Cunanan. Criss, who played an amiably handsome prep school boy in Murphy’s high-school-musical series Glee, brings a terrifying intensity to his role as the preening, dissembling Cunanan. Whether he’s befuddling random club acquaintances with blather about his spectacular (and entirely notional) cutting-edge fashion use of crinoline or hacking them to pieces with sharp objects, Criss forges a compulsively watchable chain that locks the camera to himself. His face beams sincerity; his eyes, something more complicated and more compelling, something that makes an acquaintance who has caught Cunanan lying shrug helplessly at his rejoinder: “So?”

American Crime Story Takes on Versace’s Murder

[shinelikethunder]

How Payday Lenders and Check Cashers Help the Poor

An Ivy League professor went to work in the industry to figure out why so many Americans choose to remain "unbanked."

No, don’t run screaming based on the source and the headline--this is actually a fantastic example of a place where libertarians and the left have a ton of common ground to forge coalitions. Because the point of the article isn’t that payday lenders with outrageous fees and interest rates are a good thing--the point is that people who live paycheck-to-paycheck have very specific, concrete needs for services that banks do not offer. The ultimate conclusion is that this is an area ripe for financial-tech companies to undercut check-cashers and payday lenders, by coming up with ways to offer short-term micro-loans and immediate use of funds without the ruinous penalties.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Trump will create 520,000 more illegal immigrants by undoing Haitians' protected status

The move effectively retcons J.D. Vance's claim that legal Haitian immigrants were actually here illegally.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The Trump administration says it's illegal to record videos of ICE. Here's what the law says.

"Violence is anything that threatens them and their safety, so it is doxing them, it's videotaping them where they're at when they're out on