Cullen Hendrix

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Man can't remember his own racist slurs.

A bike race is literally one of the only things that brings tourists to Iowa. Look up RAGBRAI.

Civilians applying for jobs in the Pentagon are also being vetted this way, but worse: asked if Trump won the 2020 election.

I suspect this will spark no discussion whatsoever.

NEW: Trump’s mega Venezuelan oil deal, signed by Hegseth and Rubio, benefits an unknown group of investors and was intentionally crafted to keep the next U.S. president or future leaders of Venezuela from undoing it. @propublica.org saw the secret contract: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Neither Lula nor Bolsonaro is well positioned to solve Brazil’s economic problems. A decisive turn toward illiberalism under Bolsonaro, however, would all but assure economic disaster, @mdebolle.com writes in @foreignaffairs.com.

The world’s richest man, a vast recipient of our tax dollars, is personally intervening in a war on behalf of Russia’s murderous dictatorship. Every public contract with firms he controls should be severed on national security grounds. This is legal & easy to do—> www.congress.gov/crs_external...

This shit is embarrassing.

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

I spoke with @pbsnews.org about the likely economic ripple effects of the US Administration's policy of international student exclusion.

You’ve thrown the worst fear That can ever be hurled Fear to bring children Into the world For threatening my baby Unborn and unnamed You ain’t worth the blood That runs in your veins.

Deaths now outnumber births in reliably Republican counties for the first time since at least 1982. We explain how this may already be affecting voting patterns in America bit.ly/471apDL

Viewing the world economy as a system of chokepoints leads policymakers to focus on capabilities rather than strategy—fixate on what leverage they have, & what others have over them, rather than considering what happens when many build up chokepoint power all at once, Yeling Tan & coauthors write.

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

Chrystia Freeland says Donald Trump's policies towards Canada are "deranged": "He repeatedly makes territorial claims on Canada. Do you guys really want to annex Canada? Do you want an Anschluss?"

Seriously. Watch to the end.

He does not know how trade works. He never has. This isn't rhetoric. This isn't a slip up. This is how he thinks the world works.

(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

ANOTHER EQUITY STAKE AND NOW AT THE FAA WHAT ARE WE EVEN DOING www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

There is something absolutely perverse about people who clearly have no respect for human rights or concerns about human deprivation scolding us about the suffering of LLMs.

WAPO: “.. all the major donors to .. Trump’s White House ballroom project, including previously undisclosed contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Underlining the message that all immigrant citizens are second class citizens under Trump. Our rights can be revoked if we dare to criticize a corrupt regime.

You are who your record says you are. I think Bill Parcells said that?

Look, public speaking isn't in everyone's bag. But it should probably be in the White House Press Secretary's bag.

We cannot tolerate law enforcement just bald-faced lying like this.

Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.

I spoke with @nature.com on the US Administration's new $100,000 tax on international students who stay to work. I estimate that the tax will sharply reduce the use of Optional Practical Training & thus talent inflows to the US economy. My estimates in this new paper —> www.iza.org/publications...

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.

This isn't about who they are. This is about who we are. - John McCain, notoriously bleeding heart liberal

But state ownership of the means of production doesn't qualify apparently.

I really wonder what ism will be next on the all-purpose scare tactics list once the boomers are gone. And for the record this administration is the one ramping up socialism.

Sure, let's collectively delegate the future of humanity to people like this. I see no issues.

You really have to admire a national media that treats things like this like a normal Wednesday afternoon.

Moderating a @piie.com online panel this morning on AI and Economic Transformation with 3 must-listens on all things AI: @chorzempa.bsky.social @filizunsal.bsky.social & @akorinek.bsky.social Register below. www.piie.com/events/2026/...

We live in a police state now

NEW: The US government taking equity ownership in private corporations, aka state capitalism, has occurred on & off over the years, usually in emergencies. Under Trump, state capitalism has reached a high-water mark in the face of fiscal pressures, budget priorities, & Republican past objections.

Something tells me this isn't the guy to get to the bottom of the Cornell 7 rape allegations:

I spoke with Eduardo Porter of @theguardian.com about the increasing role of the state in the economy under Trump. Socialism comes in many flavors, and for all the talk of economic freedom socialism is increasing under Trump 2.0.

US tariffs are taxes on Americans. They’re not taxes “on China” or “on Canada”. They’re taxes on Americans who buy anything with any ingredient made abroad, or sell anything to people who do—that is, taxes on all Americans.

This + all the concern about Chinese connected vehicles seems like it calls out for stronger regulation of vehicle spyware. Instead we accept commercial surveillance and stand on national security to keep lower-cost Chinese vehicles at bay.

White supremacists hate the arts.

trump take music.

At least when dinosaurs went extinct it wasn't a handful of greedy dinosaurs that made it happen.