"The Republican party is an outright enemy of democratic interests around the world" is an objectively true statement and something that I don't know if the current crop of Dem pols are gonna be able to fully embrace

This same ghoulish tech-right policy magazine (hosted by the Foundation for American Innovation) all but writes the script for why decapitating Maduro would be serving legitimate U.S. interests and revitalize the Monroe Doctrine. defenseanalyses.org/work/trump-c...

Man this guy is probably getting paid a lot of money to write with puerile insistence that the drug charges are important then go on with some stupid bullshit about lebensraum in british columbia

They are openly planning for Cuba next

yes, but i don't think that most people know that the 2nd most popular china substack is a senior fellow of these guys.

this is the fascist / groyper geopolitical program!

and here's j schneider/chinatalk applauding them www.chinatalk.media/p/10k-defens...

building the case to the rest of the world isn’t to explain Trump’s actions are wrong—that’s clear. It’s to demonstrate elite dissent & rejection of Trump’s actions, to reassert Congress’s role in authorizing force, & to create the kind of public noisiness about policy that characterizes democracies

justifications for vance's arguments in real time from these ghouls

As of last month, this ostensibly anonymous site is paying writers to write a framework for the “Trump corollary” to the Monroe doctrine and is even trying to host a convening about it newsletter.defenseanalyses.org/p/call-for-p...

I think the key to this version of US imperialism is the interaction of 1 and 2 here

unironically vance is copying the script that the tech-nationalists wrote for him

every single post I see here is like incredibly dismissive of the idea that international law, even Westphalian sovereignty itself, is legal or legitimate if its violation would further American primacy

This same ghoulish tech-right policy magazine (hosted by the Foundation for American Innovation) all but writes the script for why decapitating Maduro would be serving legitimate U.S. interests and revitalize the Monroe Doctrine. defenseanalyses.org/work/trump-c...

A backstopped load sink needs more popularization. @buddyyakov.bsky.social jokingly calls it the world’s biggest escalator. Whether it’s a battery or a peaking generator, someone needs to ensure the “marginal resource” remains bankable. Preferably without relying solely on escalating prices.

Mamdani setting up a permitting reform and land inventory task force is some real sickos yes stuff.

Now that the year is up, here’s my 2025 fiction tier list! Nonfiction listed here: advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-2025-c...

Happy to be on this list!!

Now that the year is up, here’s my 2025 fiction tier list! Nonfiction listed here: advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-2025-c...

Long live @advaitarun.bsky.social charts bsky.app/profile/adva...

Cool box from @advaitarun.bsky.social’s “Bubble or Nothing” report that unpicks the key q: “How do we know if the Al boom is really a bubble?” publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...

Indeed. And as @advaitarun.bsky.social put it in his blockbuster “Bubble or Nothing” report: “…policymakers should prepare an investment strategy centered on acquiring distressed energy infrastructure assets and repurposing them to serve future demand.” publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...

the burgeoning Hallmark Abundance genre

WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people. Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I think one of the lessons that the huge success of congestion pricing in NYC is that charging a nominal upfront fee- even one far less the the levellized cost you are paying for elsewhere- is very good at cutting off the bottom 5% of bad behavior that makes things worse for everyone.

YouTube just took it down.

Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

Republicans blowing up the SPEED Act with unforced targeting of wind energy and then threatening to undo the filibuster in response is just hilarious. Uniting Dems and threatening to hand them their parliamentary white whale all at once.

Quixotic move

It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

Whether that looks like CA’s cap and trade system or Norway’s SWF, or something different…TBD. But after raiding the candy store in this admin and supporting the unwind of key IRA tax credits, the O&G sector should pay a price if it wants to proceed business as usual.

personally getting very irritated by the unbelievable arrogance of the data boys

Generally I agree, with one big caveat - Ds should do absolutely nothing to facilitate permitting reforms while Trump remains POTUS unless with legally binding permitting that *sidesteps/overrides POTUS authority for all renewables.* Anything short of that is setting up to kick Lucy’s football.

Republicans passed a bill on Wednesday night making providing any transition care for children a federal felony. For @ryanlcooper.com, this is an end to Republicans mincing words when it comes to trans rights. trib.al/pradtXe

American society is riddled with practices that promise advancement through savvy entrepreneurial mindset, but in practice saddle the consumer with pointless busywork and impede collective bargaining (in a broad sense). Healthcare markets, investment accounts, tipping culture, it's everywhere.

So you’re saying that the Letters of Marque idea is an instance of Public Privateer Partnerships descending to new Depps?

There’s an anonymous tech-right policy magazine (hosted by the Foundation for American Innovation) that's been publishing stuff like this for months—this is likely where Lee's idiotic "based" proposals get laundered defenseanalyses.org/work/managin...

there’s an anonymous tech-right policy magazine (hosted by the Foundation for American Innovation) that’s been publishing stuff like this for months—this is likely where Lee’s idiotic “based” proposals get laundered defenseanalyses.org/work/managin...

Caravanserai Volume 1 was a great success and so much fun to produce. As we wrap up, we have published a table of contents as well as three letters to the editor responding to previous issues. Read once more on Palantir, affordability, and LLMs. caravanseraiforum.substack.com/p/letters-vol1

centrists doing the good tsar, bad boyars bet after he RE-APPOINTED Miller

It's very funny how within the Democratic party people think that their disliked factions, no matter how niche, are totally in control, making the party hopeless, while for Republicans people think their preferred factions are secretly in control, even if it's something as niche as TPOT/Abundance.

like AOC makes a joke about how she's gonna send fracking execs to reeducation camps and it proves Dems will never be able to deliver abundance while Trump can be like "geothermal... not bad?" and then everyone says that he's the one true messiah or whatever lmfao.

Ruiz is so funny, man. Guy absolutely addicted to the based pro-growth Trump when NatCon ideology doesn't give a fuck

For an energy company to tie itself to Trump Media, is like Westinghouse making Martin Fleischman their CEO. It entirely undermines any credibility the company may have had.

Samuel Hamilton recalls John Steinbeck's East of Eden to weigh in on our final prompt on LLMs and how they change our decision-making.

Whalefall looks back to our affordability issue and argues we shouldn't be so down about the efficacy of tax credits programs.

Gadfly takes on an earlier writer of ours for their opinions on Palantir, calling the company a "commercial harvest of a taxpayer-sown field, sold back to the state at a premium."

Caravanserai Volume 1 was a great success and so much fun to produce. As we wrap up, we have published a table of contents as well as three letters to the editor responding to previous issues. Read once more on Palantir, affordability, and LLMs. caravanseraiforum.substack.com/p/letters-vol1

I wrote this article on fraud in the oil industry in 2020 and included this bit on SPACs. “SPACs are the most egregious example in the industry of executive misalignment with investors,” Dell told the WSJ. Checks out.