Mark J. Perry

Economics prof. (emeritus), AEI scholar (emeritus), & ex-blogger. CH❤️ Recovering musician. He/He/He

Title IX/VI violation tips: Mark.Perry (at) AEI (dot) org

[Savanah Hernandez @Savsays]

🚨BIG WIN: Chris and DeYanna Ostroushko’s restraining orders against me have been DENIED.

After attacking me in Minneapolis, the family has been attempting to silence my reporting by filing restraining orders against me.

Chris and DeYanna’s requests have been DENIED.

After I posted my last video giving an update on them filing the restraining orders, DeYanna went to the POLICE DEPARTMENT to try to get the police to potentially arrest me for “violating the restraining order”.

The police told DeYanna that my video wasn’t a violation and interestingly enough, none of the “evidence” the Ostroushko’s submitted for the hearing proved ANY of the threats or harassment they state they’ve been getting.

During the hearing, DeYanna and Chris both stated they’re “traumatized” and that I am at fault for all of the backlash they’ve been receiving.

They are also still alleging that I brutally attacked both DeYanna and Paige and that Chris was merely “protecting his family”.

Two down, one more to go.

[Jenna Gloeb @JennaReports]

The contrast was hard to miss.

Minneapolis celebrated LGBTQ+ pride while also celebrating Somali Independence Day festivities tied to a nation where homosexual acts remain illegal.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

The moral calculus here is insane. According to Kristof, the USA is responsible for every poor nation in the entire world. If an ambulance runs out of fuel in rural Liberia, that is our fault. The liberal has a pathological tension between the feelings of omnipotence and guilt.

[@amuse @amuse]

SPORTSBALL: WNBA insiders admit the league greenlit violent play branded as 'physical play' advocated by veterans as way to counter Caitlin Clark's technical playing style. The veterans argued that 'physical play' would make the game more exciting.
https://t.co/go9e8i26Tg

[Tomi Lahren @TomiLahren]

If she wasn’t white and better than the other girls they wouldn’t harass her like this and we all know it

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is why no one in any Western country can cut any welfare spending ever and why we keep going further and further into debt.

Because any time anyone reduces spending on anything, an example can be wheeled out of a person who suffered or even died as a result.

On this basis, there can never be too much spending, too much aid or too much tax.

Indeed, the author of the tweet I am quoting will almost certainly oppose paying taxes of 100% or having 100% of his country's GDP be used in aid to the developing world. Despite the fact that his failure to give all his/his country's money away is demonstrably killing people right now. How many lives could be saved by having all of his money go to Africa? How many millions could be saved by having all of the federal budget be sent to the poorest parts of the world?

[Maine Girl Dads @MaineGirlDads]

Moderator: What about the girls who feel uncomfortable & cheated?

Women's Lobby of Maine: Oh they're the problem & they're misinformed; the science is clear there's no advantage.

Moderator: Show us the evidence!

Women's Lobby: GASLIGHT & MISDIRECT

Shameful + embarrassing.

Here are the facts:
‼️There are males in female sports and spaces in Maine. Listen to just the testimony from 4/14.
‼️ Our referendum designates private spaces in schools by Sex (all schools, all ages) like bathrooms and locker rooms. This is common sense, and appropriate for all ages.
‼️ The act also designates competitive sports in schools by Sex (for most towns, competitive school sports start in junior high, or some in high school... anything before that is a town sport and not included in the bill).

This is inclusive, fair, and progressive.
✅ Everyone plays and has access to private spaces.
✅ Everyone has a sex, and sex is not gender.
✅ There is no right or wrong way to be male or female (look, feel, present, even identify how you want).

A female that wants a female-only space or sports opportunity in school is owed that by Federal Civil Rights Laws that have existed for 54 years. Same with males. Anything else is sexist, regressive, discriminatory, and illegal.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

The league wouldn't be better off without Caitlin Clark, but she would be better off without the league.

Caitlin Clark is the best thing to ever happen to the WNBA.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Economist Thomas Sowell was once a Marxist, but now he advocates for free markets.

"What was your wake-up to what was wrong with [Marxism]?" @RubinReport asked him.

"Facts," Sowell replies.

Here’s why I admire Sowell:

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

@libsoftiktok 🎯

[Dan Morenoff @MorenoffDan]

@libsoftiktok Why is poker an activity that involves separate sex leagues?

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey repeals ban on adult bathhouses and s*x venues in honor of pride month

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Meanwhile the UK government

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

The most effective burn in sports history.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

WNBA player Sophie Cunningham calls out WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert by name, rips the league for not protecting her teammate, Caitlin Clark.

"This type of sh*t happens every single game to her, and the league and the refs do absolutely nothing about it."

Cunningham and co-host West Wilson also discussed the possibility that Engelbert is jealous of Clark, which may be why Clark was snubbed from the WNBA 30th Anniversary Poster.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Lmao the full clip is even better

I can’t stop watching it 🤣🤣🤣

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

America doesn’t have a crime problem, a welfare problem, or an immigration problem. It has a consequences problem.

Once a society removes real costs from predation, fraud, disorder, and dependency, it stops getting isolated failures and starts getting a culture trained to treat indulgence as the baseline expectation.

That shift didn’t happen by accident. It was built, policy by policy, over decades.

We released violent offenders because long sentences felt cruel. We designed welfare so fathers became optional and generations could live off the taxpayer without shame or exit ramps. We treated retail rampages and school disruption as social issues instead of enforcement problems. We opened the border while telling citizens they had to absorb the resulting pressure on wages, housing, and services.

Every step sent the same signal: your actions will not cost you much, and someone else will handle the aftermath.

The training worked. Now the same institutions that removed the price tags act surprised when the culture produces more of exactly what they subsidized.

This is the predictable output of systems that decided accountability was too harsh and that demanding it was the real cruelty.

You can keep managing the symptoms with more programs, more process, and more excuses. Or you can reattach actual costs to the behaviors you claim to oppose.

One path sustains the vacuum. The other requires admitting it was never a bug.
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[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Imagine your family worked for a generation to save enough money to buy a brownstone occupied with rent stabilized tenants on the Upper West Side. The family financed the purchase with a mortgage from a bank based on the premise that rents and cash flow would at least keep pace with inflation so you could pay interest and principal on the mortgage and hopefully have some cash flow left as a return on your investment.

While you had rent stabilized tenants, you were led to believe that the NYC Rent Guidelines Board would be required to adjudicate rental increases each year by taking a measure of the inflation of costs to own and operate a building and setting rental increases appropriately.

You believed the RGB would do its job as the board is comprised of two representatives each for landlords and tenants and five independent representatives that represent the general public.

Now, a new mayor @NYCMayor Mamdani is elected on the promise of freezing rents. There are about two million rent stabilized renters that benefit if rents are frozen so by promising frozen rents the new candidate for mayor buys votes and wins the election.

The new mayor achieves his objective by stacking the RGB with directors who do not follow their obligations and simply vote for a rent freeze as a preordained conclusion as evidenced by the statements of an RGB director who resigned in protest for this very reason.

Meanwhile, inflation in NYC is rampant in utilities, real estate taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance, etc. and now your rents are frozen. Real estate is a high operating leverage business which means that frozen rents and inflating expenses will cause property cash flows to plummet and your after debt service cash flow to go negative.

I expect therefore there will be hundreds if not thousands of small NYC property owners who are now or will shortly be underwater on their mortgages, and without any cash flow to maintain their assets.

If you remember the images of the South Bronx burning in the mid 1970s, you can viscerally understand what is happening to small NYC real estate owners.

While the rent freeze appears to be short-term good news (long term it will lead to poorly maintained apartments) for 2 million NYC renters, it is bad news for the 2 million or more renters in the 1 million market rate apartments in the City because a landlord-hostile market is not likely to add meaningfully more supply and market rents will likely continue to escalate at a high rate.

All of this seems quite unfair and wrong unless I missing something?

Why am I wrong?

For disclosure: I do not own any NYC rental apartments.

[Sebastian Gorka DrG @SebGorka]

America beautiful.

[Doog @doogadoo11]

In my opinion, Caitlin Clark being white or straight is not what's mostly driving the treatment she's receiving.

There have been plenty of white and/or straight players who didn't deal with this.

They're simply jealous of her. All of them.

Caitlin received more fame and adoration than any female basketball player ever, even before playing a single minute in the WNBA.

And they hate her for it.