uncle of the second class

Anthropic's 'anti-sell' S-1 on Businessweek Daily davelee.me/posts/anthro...

Yeah, my kingdom for activists that understand the difference between landlords and developers, and stop conflating them

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

A single billionaire megadonor is propping up the Republican effort to stop Dems from flipping Pennsylvania’s Senate and gaining full control of government—to a much greater degree than Elon Musk is doing it at the federal level

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.

We published this story late Friday afternoon amid an avalanche of news so I’m reposting it now because Kohen Wiley’s life mattered more than a box of diapers.

wondering why texas is so hard to flip? here you go

Wild. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Inaugural substack from the great @katejackson.bsky.social! I think the last few paragraphs are exactly where I come out.

It seems impossible for our political system to hold the politicians tied to the actual invasion of our Capitol to account, but any random Muslim candidate is reflexively labeled a terrorist.

The generality principle of the Rule of Law is its most essential concept. A class of people outside criminal law is incompatible with a law-based society.

A reminder also that this office has no U.S. Attorney, and the guy running the office — as first assistant — was ruled to have improperly served too long as the appointed U.S. Attorney.

The New York Times wrote articles that were like "the impossible-to-characterize elusive politics of Elon Musk / he's lost interest in politics" right before he became *literally the largest GOP donor in history* the next election cycle. Twice. Two times!

The price health insurance companies charge for employer-sponsored plans increased again this year, as did the deductible people must pay before those plans begin covering most healthcare costs, nonpartisan health organization KFF said in a new survey ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/22/r...

‘Emmanuel Macron, though he likes to portray himself as a sensitive liberal, has poured billions into increasing police powers.’ New on the blog from Nabila Ramdani www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/oc...

A really-wild first salvo in what a lot of people fear will be heavy efforts by Trump's team to overturn eletion results. A reminder, @boltsmag.org Here's the AK entry: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the... bsky.app/profile/tani...

This is so incredibly bleak and all it does is hurt people. Shameful stuff here

Trump administration oversaw 980,000 deportations during first 18 months reut.rs/4jx5uBO

Picturing a world where Michelle Obama said “its fine just eat the cheap cuts”

New from me in @lawfaremedia.org. On the 10th anniversary of Moscow's interference in our election I break down Russia’s covert action as a practitioner would. The hand that mattered most was never hidden, and did not belong to Russia but to the supported party—the President.

Stories like these, about the daily reality of immigrants living in justifiable fear that they or a friend/relative will be disappeared from their community at any moment, will feel quite familiar to anyone who has read Anne Frank. Important reporting on something we should not look away from:

The wealth effect is doing a lot of work holding up consumption growth and arguably even inflation as the cosnumers feeling wealthy and spending are not pushing back on higher prices for travel, goods, entertainment--not a wage/price spiral but an S&P500/price spiral

The Same, but Also Different: Brewers vs. Rays 2026 World Series Preview blogs.fangraphs.com/the-same-but...

"If your $100 was in response to a fundraising text or email, the single most expensive way to raise money in American politics, $65 is instantly consumed by the cost of asking you for it. " newrepublic.com/article/2163...

That +10R neutral intercept for 2018 really sticks out.

A Blue Wave Won’t Wash Away Our Oligarchy Problem: The massive election spending by Elon Musk & other billionaires is a huge problem, even if many of the superwealthy’s favorites lose next month. Reflections by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2168...

And finally this one from the summer about two DOGE employees who are trying to do it in the private sector and fully adopting the 'builder' moniker. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

I also want people to understand that, when a "Department of Homeland Security" was first created, critics warned it was a boondoggle with ghastly historical precedents that could be used in precisely this way; they were derided as terror-loving hysterics bsky.app/profile/robe...

The epidemic of Ebola - the 2nd largest reported and likely to become the largest ever - caused by Bundibugyo virus, is continuing to expand. I’m in Nigeria presently and unless an international response kicks into place, the current trajectory will continue with (many) more countries affected.

NEW: I have spent 9 months examining Louisiana's unique Justice of the Peace system, which hands down thousands of evictions a year and pays its judges almost entirely through filing fees they collect One earned over $400,000 last year Experts say the system is "blatantly unconstitutional"

These feel contradictory...

The Trump administration is poised to exert even more control over the SEC after the historically independent and bipartisan Wall Street cop made it easier for the president’s chairman to rule the agency alone.

Horrific.

Freaky. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Late to this Bloomberg piece on Marc Andreessen. This is one of the key things. Andreessen is *angry* about how he has been treated, when any objective observer might note he has benefited enormously from the institutions he now purports to detest. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I now understand the tone of this interview a lot better.

The owner of X is almost single-handedly funding the Republican midterm election campaigns. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

Everything is mask off at the moment, but the degree to which the ugliest Islamophobia is given a pass by elite media… If the press wanted it could turn this into THE story, talk abt how disqualifying it is

Democrats are doing more grassroots fundraising while GOP has a tiny handful of billionaires contributing... by Luke Fountain @cnbc.com -https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/16/midterm-election-fundraising-elon-musk.html

European defense ministers should remember this every time they believe the claim that those F-35s don’t come with an American-controlled “kill switch.”

I remember when right wingers claimed Obama was trying to “nationalize” the police because he suggested some minimum standards and accountability. This administration thinks all cops exist to do its bidding, from hunting and harassing immigrants to spying on its critics.

For years, Michael Sacks has been a behind-the-scenes fixture in Chicago politics. Now he’s putting his money behind frontrunner mayoral candidate Alexi Giannoulias, as well as anti-Chicago Teachers Union school board candidates in the Nov. 3 election.

This is a pogrom, no different than what the Cossacks did to Jewish communities in the Pale of Settlement.

Russia’s latest disinformation tactic is using an army of bots to make fake videos targeting Democrats ahead of the US midterms look widely viewed. Read more: bloom.bg/4zGj6zE Sources: Bloomberg, Antibot4Navalny, Graphika, dTeam