Ernest Belding

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We scoured social media, court records and local stories for instances of immigration agents holding citizens against their will. The administration doesn’t track these cases. So we have. We’re sharing our database with you.

Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

if you would like to watch "MUSK" in the theater, which I strongly encourage considering the Ellisons have bought HBO where it is supposed to stream eventually, you can find a list of theaters nationwide here: bleeckerstreetmedia.com/editorial/fi...

The share of production spending by major U.S. studios on movies filmed in the United States has declined from 74% to 42% over the past quarter century. This is why Congress needs to pass my bipartisan film tax incentive proposal with Sen. Tim Scott. We need to act now before it's too late.

BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.

Paramount is using a fake public interest group named "Neighbors For Strong Communities" to create bogus, AI-generated support for the company's $111 billion merger

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Kurt Schlicter once told a disabled veteran to off himself. I know because I was that veteran.

Post your getaway vehicle

Maybe some of those "why are you campaigning with an antisemite?" questions could go to Republicans backed by a Sieg Heiling white nationalist. The silence is especially deafening because Musk's involvement helped Republicans lose in WI in 2025, so the press even has its preferred horserace frame.

Trump's stupid chart of "greatest" presidents is actually a ranking of presidents from Life Magazine in 1948, with his name added at the top and the Democrats he doesn't like at the bottom. Exactly the kind of thing a healthy, high-functioning person shares.

If I can quit Twitter, you can too

Epstein’s best friend says what?

if I say more I will give away my entire book, which you should pre-order if you want to learn more about the shocking history of this deeply problematic series of automation systems benbellabooks.com/shop/elon-ta...

so, I went semi-offline for half a day and came back to find four stories any one of which could have been a weeks-long banner headline story in the before times.

This has a terrible headline. But it ultimately says that Dems post-MeToo do take action against those accused of sexual misconduct but Republicans mostly do not. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

the best time to leave X was at pretty much any point before today. The next best time is right now.

challenging to phrase this exactly right because it'd be in bad taste to use this as a gotcha against all his supporters, but the journalists who very explicitly framed Platner as a rejection of stuff like "HR Lady Politics" or (ugh) "smoothgroins" should take a long, hard, look in the mirror today

Daily Wire editor in chief Brent Scher alleging that the Trump administration, for some reason working in concert with the Southern Poverty Law Center despite pursuing criminal charges against the org, planted a white nationalist group in DC this morning.

A federal judge who has reviewed a slew of subpoenas issued to Minnesota Gov Walz and a series of other prominent Democrats has concluded that this was all part of an act of peevish retaliation over their criticism of Trump's ICE crackdown in Minnesota and has quashed the subpoenas.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.

The world’s first trillionaire is a killer. “A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully.” [theverge.com]

Read this whole piece.

Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

it's kind of hard to escape the conclusion that the entire spacex IPO is just a way for Elon Musk to financial engineer a huge, distributed theft from index fund holders?

Danish Pension Fund Blacklists SpaceX. Previously, dumped US Treasuries over Trump's threat to Greenland. It says Spacex is “grossly overvalued”, and has “catastrophic governance structure” as Elon Musk strives to be a trillionaire. Any chance of City of London growing a backbone? archive.ph/dsVfR

'No Kings' movement planning nationwide protests on Trump 80th birthday

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.