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Stocking stuffers.

Merry Christmas all. From 1988, Shane and Kirsty in fine fettle. And the rest of The Pogues, of course. Great live band. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrAw...

Merry Christmas all. From 1988, Shane and Kirsty in fine fettle. And the rest of The Pogues, of course. Great live band. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrAw...

Capitalism tomes at the double... Prospect Magazine (UK) reviewed Capitalism and Its Critics alongside Sven Beckert's Capitalism: A Global History. Thanks to Tom Clark for a thoughtful article. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7184...

5/6 And of course, the great unquantifiable: the Trump factor. "With Trump in the Oval Office, however, other things are rarely equal. Disruption is his essence."

A new column about the economy in 2026--an election year. "Given the data fog that the government shutdown created, the old joke applies more than ever: it’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. But some things seem reasonably clear." 1/6 www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

On the bright side, the toy versions of Trump's new golden battleships should provide some manufacturing jobs--in China and Vietnam.

A new column about the economy in 2026--an election year. "Given the data fog that the government shutdown created, the old joke applies more than ever: it’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. But some things seem reasonably clear." 1/6 www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

Republicans up for reëlection in 2026 will be hoping that the Trump-induced economic turbulence is over. That seems unlikely, @johncassidysays.bsky.social writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/fLfmuo

Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

Zing!

very impressive, almost as good as when she told off Jack Nicholson in Witches of Eastwick.

There you have it

It's a Rothko

Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.

Seems like AI can put lawyers out of work but not research scientists...

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These guys are so BAD at this. This is like dictators getting 99.9% of the vote. You don’t do that. You go for, like, 68%. Everyone KNOWS Trump is in the Epstein Files. You gotta leave his name in in SOME places. Choose the least bad, claim critics now overreacting. But we KNOW *THIS* is a lie.

Competitive authoritarianism update.

What's next for Trump Inc? Nuclear fusion. This is not an Onion headline. 1/2

"Mr. President, your boasts about the economy being the greatest ever aren't going over well. People, including some of your own supporters, think you are out of touch." "Really?" "Really" "I know what: Let's do a primetime broadcast. This time they'll get the message."

Pleased to contribute to this, many excellent observations and reading recs!

It's very cool that the Supreme Court invented a political system that gives these lunatics unlimited influence.

See if you can spot Liberation Day. @usapolling.bsky.social

This is a harrowing account of city under siege www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The median rent for a 1BR apt in Manhattan is now $4,700 a month, or $56,400 a year.

Widespread. And systematic, you might say.

In the second in her series on Nvidia, Tech Policy Press fellow Megan Kirkwood considers how the company is both vertically integrating while expanding its relationships across a wide range of industries and pursuing partnerships with governments around the world in a bid to maintain its dominance.

Susie Wiles is no mug. (Big scoop for Vanity Fair)

2025 has obviously been a busy year for the Trump businesses, and there's been a lot of good reporting on it in various outlets, some of which didn't get much pick-up. In this year end piece, I pulled some of it together: www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

If you lose Fox News on basic human decency, you’re not leading. You’re rotting.

In Donald Trump’s second term, developments came thick and fast, many of them involving crypto, foreign money, or both. @johncassidysays.bsky.social takes stock of the President’s self-enrichment in 2025. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/XabOK1

2025 has obviously been a busy year for the Trump businesses, and there's been a lot of good reporting on it in various outlets, some of which didn't get much pick-up. In this year end piece, I pulled some of it together: www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

In the Trump attention economy, there is no floor. (If you don't understand what I am referring to, you are fortunate.)

The East India Co., the Luddites, Marx/Engels, Henry George, Karl Polanyi and more--all in 28 minutes! I was thrilled to be invited on the excellent @econofact.bsky.social podcast to speak about how my book, Capitalism and Its Critics, relates to current debates. econofact.org/podcast/capi...

Nothing to see here. Just a president of the United States trying to dictate who owns a major news organization that he dislikes.

Nothing to see here. Just a president of the United States trying to dictate who owns a major news organization that he dislikes.

A year is a long time in politics.

BREAKING: The AP calls the Miami mayor's race for Democrat Eileen Higgins. Higgins defeated a Trump-endorsed Republican — becoming the first Democrat in nearly three decades to win the office.

Agree

The 81-year-old, second-richest man on earth, calls up president directly and demands that he be allowed to use $100 billion including capital from world’s most repressive regimes and Trump’s son-in-law to conquer a massive entertainment and news complex to preserve “competition“

The East India Co., the Luddites, Marx/Engels, Henry George, Karl Polanyi and more--all in 28 minutes! I was thrilled to be invited on the excellent @econofact.bsky.social podcast to speak about how my book, Capitalism and Its Critics, relates to current debates. econofact.org/podcast/capi...

I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Don Jr receiving a massive loan for his startup from the Pentagon. I guess when there’s so much corruption some things fly under the radar?

Everyone seems to have forgotten but the AP actually went to Venezuela and found some of these men. They aren’t terminator-like cartel warriors, ready to give their life to ship kilos. They’re random dudes from small towns - bus drivers, fishermen - recruited for a payday. apnews.com/article/trum...

Good job George Stephanopoulos. Interviewers should ask this question to all elected Republicans.

This president is for sale. You don’t have to know him or even to have voted for him. You just have make a big ‘donation’ (aka bribe) to his campaign or ballroom or a peace prize - and he’ll get you out of prison or whatever you want