More good coverage on crypto fraud in the NYT this morning. Note the phrase "at least $28 billion". It is undoubtedly A LOT more than $28 billion because the technology is so perfectly designed to be untraceable AND this doesn't include all kinds of fraud. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...

Absolument parfait! 👀 @nailbomb3.bsky.social

The Air Force released a video of a French Mirage 2000 fighter jet taking off on a combat mission, set to the legendary jazz song Je Veux.

I understand why some white liberals from the Deep South want to insist that there isn't something distinct (and bad) about Southern political culture but the problem with this is that we wouldn't even have this idea of "The South" as distinct from the rest of the US if there wasn't a there there

No one in this business cares about anything but making money on as many brown bodies as they can remove. They treat the potential for catastrophic failure of these flights as just one more cost of doing business. Pilots and attendants should - and are - take note. prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...

I've spent 20+ years writing about corporate America's worst tendencies yet I STILL somehow underestimated how utterly feckless they'd be in the face of idiot authoritarianism won't make that mistake again, I guess

ofc RFK Jr never had a brain worm: he made up the whole story to avoid paying alimony to the ex-wife he later drove to suicide by cutting her off financially AND denying her access to her kids Olivia Nuzzi and Cheryl Hines are like Manson groupies. Details: www.politico.com/news/2024/05...

The tribune of the poor, the downtrodden? Studies clearly indicate that Trump’s most ardent supporters, especially in poorer areas, are, by local standards, quite wealthy / financially stable. Economic anxieties are mostly downstream from anxieties over racial and cultural status.

as i argue here, one of the clear implications of military history is: personnel matter. personnel matter more than policy. if we want to rebuild what's being destroyed, we are going to need to CLEAN HOUSE www.liberalcurrents.com/good-governa...

One of the great ironies of Trump/GOP handling of Epstein, and of blowing all of their credibility (and DOJ's): Literally nothing will work. They won't release it all (they definitely won't release Epstein's financial records) but, even if they did, literally no one would believe it was everything.

The comedian I saw tonight picked an audience member who said he worked for ChatGPT, and the crowd booed him, and then the comedian gave him shit for it repeatedly. Which is kind of an interesting sign of the times.

"(Hitler's) feeling for men is not that they co-exist, but that they are capable of being arranged and standardized by a superior intellect...." - E.B. White, author of Charlotte's Web An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism. www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

Thanks to her RFK Jr ties, Cheryl Hines's acting career seems all but over. Olivia Nuzzi, on the other hand, got a fawning NYT profile and a coveted job at Vanity Fair. Hollywood may have low standards but mainstream journalism has no standards.

Two other co-ops to support are Land O'Lakes and Cabot. (One farmer in the latter collective supported the 4-H club my son was in).

New map produced by RTVE, Spanish national TV, of the 6000 mass graves in Spain. In the last 25 years some 17,000 bodies of men, women and children have been exhumed out of the ~120,000 dumped in mass unmarked graves by the Franco regime. www.rtve.es/noticias/fos...

"Postdoc in the job market"

We've got a MASSIVE DEEP-DIVE rebuttal to the NIH leadership’s recent essay. They're arguing for a head-in-the-sand approach to pandemic preparedness. The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...

It’s like they’re reacting to someone saying Trump is a terrible skateboarder. The response is much more interesting than the baseline smear.

My daughter just recently graduated as a CS/Math major, and this shit is STILL around. Fuck Larry Summers. Sideways with a rusty Buick.

Every time I reread the Jeffrey Epstein Larry summers exchange I feel freshly enraged. About everything. My life. Obama. Men women. Just everything. I despise Larry summers and have forever.

The only thing you have to hand him is a termination letter.

1/ I highly recommend The First Russian Revolution by Susanna Rabow-Edling. She provides an extremely readable narrative history of the Decembrist Revolt. A path not taken? Too speculative. But certainly the book succeeds in demonstrating longstanding important liberal currents in Russian thought.

Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗

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Breaking:

If only the Orange King was the backbone of the right wing movement. He’s just a front man. The real danger is behind him, obscured from view. ONE of the biggest problems we have is the Supreme Corruption who broke the Constitution to allow him on the ballot. They have lifetime appointments.

You can think it’s good that Massie and MTG are stirring up shit within the GOP caucus without thinking their politics in general is good. It’s not hard at all in fact?

The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark

Well? @neeratanden.bsky.social

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

Several deputies from the German far-right party “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) traveled to Sochi, Russia, to attend the conference “BRICS – Europe.” DW reports this. One of the deputies, Jörg Urban, published information about the trip on his Facebook page Not surprising 😒

Trump is so proud of his performance, I bet he could be goaded into taking the test on live TV. That would absolutely silence all his critics.

Hey also if you dont live in NC :

This week is particularly remarkable in terms of #CellDeath and infection biology-related discoveries: biomed.news/bims-cediti/... Highlight 1: SIGLEC12 mediates plasma membrane rupture during necroptotic cell death:

Newsom is the front-runner right now in exactly the same way Jeb! was the front-runner in late 2013. He has ZERO juice, but he is catnip to the juiceless opinionators who are the only people gossiping about “who is the frontrunner right now.”

Its wild to see Olivia Nuzzi get this treatment while if I break the ethics rules of my profession I'll never be a CPA again

Smashing RFK Jr in secret while publicly convincing Giuliani he was gonna get some is an interstellar level of gross. She may as well be the Maria Butina of journalism.

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

People want to believe that the GOP’s electoral success in red states is the result of dirty tricks and gerrymandering instead of the sincerely held beliefs of a majority of the population because a mechanical issue is easier to fix than wrestling with how to make people not believe what they do.

It is indeed of the same vein. New does not believe in the why of literature, only the how, and how to make a career of it. Otherwise, the why would have kept her from asking Jeffrey Epstein to invite Woody Allen on her show. Hell, the why should have kept her from marrying Larry Fucking Summers.

While we're sharing more icky Lisa New emails, here's another one. Let's remember, Woody had been accused 20 years earlier already of child abuse and was with Soon-Yi - and this is also several years after Epstein. And she's gushing about all the big names she's getting for her poetry show...

Harvard Lit professor is saying, well of course a computer could write haiku it’s not that hard To write good haiku? I guess that’s why we are still reading Bashō, who died in 1634 Fuck these people

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

i just had an encounter with bariwise the dancing clown in the sewers underneath cbs studios

I'll believe the Democrats give a fuck and this isn't just about ✨political scandal points✨ when 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 completely denounce and cut all ties with 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 in these chats and start standing ten toes down for the 𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑠 . No matter who it is. No matter what.

I have an insight about Summers, which is that someone who has such opinions is awful, but someone who thinks it's a good idea to put them in writing is stupid in an important way the standardized tests don't measure.

Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

The current Occupant of the White House is a sewer dwelling scum of the earth scared loser who is lashing out. @RepThomasMassie wife died last year. Congratulations to him on his new marriage. It is clear President Dump is afraid of what is coming.

How about you?