F. Jasmine

I’ve long thought that MBAs were BS degrees (and I don’t mean Bachelor of Science) and that business schools are madrassas for capitalism. Scroll down at this link for the case why the MBA should be abolished. talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

Doesn’t seem to be a good idea to sell to a shrinking market that will be spending more money on gasoline and thus have less to spend on ugly t-shirts, but at least she says she didn’t open the store for the money.

"Iran has slowly realized that, unbelievably, it can actually get away with throwing a tollgate across the strait." prospect.org/2026/04/02/o...

Excellent article by David Dayen.

My fave attorney spitting facts. Rachel Cohen from Chicago. I affirm this

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Stickers are experiencing a new wave of popularity after they were popular 30-odd years ago, but I can assure you, I was into stickers during the Showa dynasty (pre-Heisei, as mentioned in the article). IYKYK.

People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.

Watch this video before you do your Black Friday shopping on Amazon.

" Don't lose hope" - Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

Traditionally, libraries have been built to keep the books away from heat and humidity, lest they become infested with mold. Therefore, I very much approve of situating the Trump presidential library near the Miami coastline. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Women, suffer pain for Trump to show him that you really, truly believe in him! m.youtube.com/watch?v=KoDA... (/s, of course)

Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest: Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No

Refuse to be lectured-to about political violence by those who disappear people and kidnap children off the streets.

J.D. Vance going Nazi was only 100% predictable. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Goe...

Kash’s Keystone Cops continue the search for the killer m.youtube.com/watch?v=ICdv...

Let’s talk about Healthy Resistance. I spend a good amount of my time talking people down. So here’s my recommendation for staying sane. (1/5) You’re familiar with macronutrients? Great. Use this as a rough model:

"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:

I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.

Here it is, martial law, which was part of Hitler’s timeline, too, though we’ve gotten the concentration camps first: www.huffpost.com/entry/nation...

Alligator Auschwitz explains more clearly what it is. Because Alcatraz was for actual criminals. This new Auschwitz is for people who are nurses and teachers and construction workers and other people who have paid over $90B a year into Soc. Security, which will now flounder.

Trump Launches America’s First Concentration Camp, Complete With Tacky Merch Not content with just shipping people to a foreign concentration camp, Donald Trump now has his own, homegrown concentration camp in Florida. Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gleefully…

The real AI arms race is between one another 🥰 nymag.com/intelligence...

the single best thing democrats could do to win back trust with voters — and a good number of those voters who have a low opinion of the democratic party are democrats themselves! — is adopt an aggressively partisan orientation toward republicans and loudly perform their opposition

I love the internet

Both Rubio's tweet, and the response, are remarkable artifacts. You have a Secretary of State tweeting right wing talking points to defend Neo Nazis, and the country where Nazis originated telling him to sod off.

If you’re trying to understand what makes JD Vance (or any of the Trump crew) tick, this article from over 83 years ago describes it as well as anything I’ve found online. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Crucial thing you must do right now is strengthen and expand your community. Serve together. Try a new activity. See each other in person. Over on the other site I am continually struck by how the rabid intensity does not actually reflect community or connection. Only way we get through this.

Surprise, surprise.

Historically, members of Congress have jealously guarded their own power and prerogatives, standing the line even against presidents of their own party. But this Republican Congress just bent the knee immediately, without even a word of protest. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

This is to say that I have some degree of faith that the slowness of individual learning curves, inept management, fiefdoms within the DoD, and protracted contract transition periods will go a long ways towards thwarting any abrupt changes there before the 2026 midterm elections happen.

I support the US DoD as a contractor. If it’s consolation to anyone, I want to let you know that I recently had to wait almost four months before I received any guidance from my government stakeholder as to what they would like me to deliver next. And the next step is a small ask.