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As @timothysnyder.bsky.social suggests - the fight against the coming fascism will be personal. If you are not in the targeted groups, talk to those you know who are. Let them know you are on their side. Give them your cell # Help them prepare.

What a sobering thought: "...a top official of another national fraternity privately boasted that he could get his “friends” inside the campus police force to brush aside alleged misconduct from his chapter’s members" #Cornell #Cornell7 tinyurl.com/34d4trby

"We all know his actual reasons for this are a grubby attempt to win a few more votes in the midterms by trying to get oil prices down.” I don't "know" this. I suspect many things but I doubt Trump's motivation is that straightforward.

In 2029 we may all come to appreciate just how lucky we were Trump was such a corrupt person. A man more dedicated to an authoritarian takeover of the US above all other things might have easily succeeded. But for Trump greed, applause and servility from blondes "trumps" his quest for power.

#Trump channels the Project for a New American Century's dream of a new Pearl Harbor...but bigger. "Iranian Revolutionary Guard, if you're listening..."

#Cornell President trying to put out some fires and calm things down. Very lawyerly. Very corporate. Totally wrong approach for this issue at this moment. How about fuck the lawyers and apologize for failing to protect and support Jane Doe. statements.cornell.edu/2026/2026100...

It is astonishingly blind to have been able to imagine 30 live ins along with 30 other brothers could throw parties with free flowing booze and drugs to 100s of 18-22 year olds and think there weren't rapes. What a scary place to end up drunk at 2am. I really was blind.

I guess #TravelWithNatalie wants #Trump to expand his horizons. He's facing Eurasia.

No happy endings for Mr. Kraft on this one.

Happy to Subscribe to the @washingtonsun.bsky.social today. I've been hoping for something like this. Good to see @danamilbank.bsky.social again.

Happy to Subscribe to the @washingtonsun.bsky.social today. I've been hoping for something like this. Good to see @danamilbank.bsky.social again.

#EconSky 1848 - NEW YORK HERALD: MEXICAN GOLD PRODUCTION AT SUTTER'S MILL UP 200%

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More Phlogiston for the Phrenologists!

A story that captures much of what ails America. Demonize one of the more successful scientific advances in health - EVER. Convince people to avoid these life saving techniques. BET on the number of those lethally affected among "the great unwashed."

Natalie Harp has betrayed the legacy of Stormy Daniels. By David Brooks

#EconSky It's tragic to be daily reminded that the "net present value" of Kant's Theory of Human Dignity has been set at zero rather than infinity as he argued. When everything is for sale, human life is cheap indeed.

#EconSky A $1 Gold coin so perfectly captures the essential quality of this con man - FAKE. I bet, once he vacates our White House, we will discover most of the "gold" on the walls is equally base.

#EconSky How long can Singapore's oil industry survive without new oil imports through the Strait of Hormuz?

#econSky "Remember that time in 2025 we voted to deprive health care to millions of families and food to millions of needy children?"

#econSky I'm old enough to remember....

It's sad, but not uncommon, to see a man conflate his own identity search with that of the culture he grew up in - and be on the wrong side, in both senses, of that search to boot. It's tragic when it's in a NYTimes Op-ed. But I relish the political fall out. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/o...

#Econsky Crypto De Jure value = 0

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Andrew Mellon, November 9, 1932. "Last night we saw that FDR was the leader of the Democrats!" Maybe. cc @rauchway.bsky.social

Mullock wins NJ-2 DEM Primary. Excerpt of victory speech in alt text

Mullock wins NJ-2 DEM Primary. Excerpt of victory speech in alt text

Is #AI a new euphemism for nepotism? Asking for a opinion writer's son.

Slightly increase a band: Grateful Comatose

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THIS is part of the coming singularity - not when computers gain sentience - but rather when every person has easy access to the information guiding policy.

#EconSky Collateral Damage of Regime Change gone wrong. What if the IRGC is just as willing to risk great damage as #Netanyahu and #Trump apparently are.

Great thread. As with all things #AI the choice to conflate or not conflate meaning across domains is the issue. What is a "search". Can an LLM search? Is that just a fig leaf covering up 4A violations? Lots to unpack. Thanks. cc @braddelong.bsky.social

#WW3 #Trump has ordered ALL traffic going through the Straits of Hormuz blocked and the interdiction of toll payers. I presume he means the Chinese and Indian vessels that have been given free passage recently. Silly me. Out of practice on the hiding under my desk nuclear war drills.

Wolff is one of many people who could have spoken up sooner and louder but did not. Not only because he too prefers to use phrases like "models" or "women of indeterminate age" instead of "children" when referring to Epstein's victims but also because he is always out for a $.

My new masterpiece: vibe-coded chart showing the collapse of the New Deal financial order and rise of Wall Street, by flow of deposits from small to big banks. From 1990 to 2024 NYC banks more than double their deposit share. Small banks and thrifts go from more than half of deposits to <20%.

Now that we've managed to NOT destroy a civilization overnight I went in search of a good book to read and BAM This looks very on point. How to live under the whims of a madman. #history #Nero #Seneca www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

So much evil has emerged from the Calvinist doctrine of "the elect" - not that Franklin has likely given the doctrine much thought.

#Media #Oligarchy And how was this accomplished? The media was skeptical of Harris and credulous of the known liar, #Trump. All so the very rich could pay less in taxes. It was all so very obvious. youtu.be/8Ev7UkQLicM?...

As with climate change have we gone too far past a tipping point in this matter? We are led by a man who doesn't read, doesn't reflect, never self examines .. and it shows.

You know JD. After reading Hillbilly Elegy all I have to say is: "children all over the world had it so much harder than you did, so shut up your moaning already."