"But if intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to sharpen it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies—to use it as cats use stealth, as walking sticks use camouflage, to make it the tool of our survival." -Carl Sagan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

If you're a reader who's into JFK thing, this is a good book. If you want to take a step back and exam the broader context, David Talbot's "The Devil's Chessboard" is a truly great book.

Congress and state legislatures must make this practice illegal. We should not be automatically enrolled in the violation of our privacy by these tech companies. Features like this should only be enabled after clear, informed, fully free consent—not via default settings.

What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart

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‘Shut Up, Mother! Shut Up!’ Pleads George W. Bush To Dick Cheney Skeleton Dressed In Suit https://theonion.com/shut-up-mother-shut-up-pleads-george-w-bush-to-dick-cheney-skeleton-dressed-in-suit/

A massacre without precedent is taking place in Sudan’s North Darfur region, and it is somehow being met with near-total international indifference.

on dick cheney’s legacy The Legacy of Dick Cheney youtu.be/4jHonla5GYY

"Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire." -Carl Sagan, Cosmos

What To Know About Data Centers https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-data-centers/

The reasons don’t seem that unknown.”For reasons that are unknown, Mr. Black wired hundreds of thousands of dollars to at least three women who were associated with Mr. Epstein.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...

We will not take down Trump—who is symptom, not cause—if we don’t also take down Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison as well as the cabal of little fascist billionaires like Bill Ackman, Miriam Adelson, Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, Peter Thiel, Ken Griffin, Jeff Yass, etc.

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, our healthcare, and the information we receive. Many are now currying favor with Trump to both avoid accountability and maintain their power. This is what oligarchy looks like. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

BlackRock is seeking to buy Aligned Data Centers, a data center construction company. It’s also going to buy AES, one of the major power providers for Big Tech data centers. While these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

Press release from Tylenol..

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

Acosta said it out loud: Epstein “belonged to intelligence.” That wasn’t a slip. It was a confession. Every piece of research points the same way: Epstein wasn’t the disease. He was just the symptom.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

"When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes, they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.” -Chief Tecumseh

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” - Lao Tzu

No one voted for this.

Over a quarter of all homes sold in the first three months of 2025 were bought by real estate investors. If we want to make housing affordable again, we must get Wall Street out of our homes. https://youtu.be/q9TOGxDJ0TE?feature=shared

The complete story of how KGB has the Epstein files, why Silicon Valley is so pro-Russian and why Democrats did not do anything about it. It started with Robert Maxwell, then Epstein, now Trump. Sex-trafficking, blackmailing, financial fraud on a big scale european-security.com/the-cesspool...

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. - Carl Sagan

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If this is right and Epstein/ Maxwell DID sell/ give Kompromat on Prince Andrew to Mossad and Gadaffi’s Libya and WAS an agent of influence for Putin’s Russia, why would he/ they stop at Prince Andrew? apple.news/ADWOJK28RTkW...

Friends — I'm pleased to be joining The Late Show w/ Stephen Colbert on Monday (8/4). I'm sure Stephen and I will have a lot to discuss, including my new book "Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America." Please tune in so the ratings don't come up short.

ABC News In-depth is truly good. Has been for years.

Political corruption. Vast economic inequality. Giant monopolies. Ultra-wealthy elites. Conspicuous consumption. These problems defined the Gilded Age of the late 1800s. And they're dominating America again today. But we have the power to fight back. https://youtu.be/Nmq7QqqY4vo?feature=shared

over 30 years ago, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated. I took a lot of heat for this speech. https://youtu.be/Bnd0eSuxu84?feature=shared

Trump is gutting the police that stop corporations from looting — the EPA, IRS, SEC, Labor Department, Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Consumer Product Safety Commission, FDA, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Be warned.

The Democratic Party’s capitulation to the Crypto lobby is one of the most nakedly corrupt things I’ve seen in my life. Crypto is a blatant scam with zero value that is designed to end popular control of our currency. Dems just co-signed the next global financial crisis. It’s unforgivable.

We are on the brink of making America a permanent aristocracy if the wealthiest Americans don't pay their fair share in taxes. The new documentary "Death & Taxes" couldn't be more timely — and I am honored to be one of the voices featured in it. Learn more at www.deathandtaxesfilm.com

A documentary about wealth & inequality, viewed through the lens of the estate tax and the story of a father and son at odds over what kind of inheritance we want to leave our kids and our country. OPENS IN NYC July 17 for a week. @fairshareamerica.bsky.social www.ifccenter.com/films/death-...

Do you want a description of the decline of the American worker and country? Here is a GREAT one. I have heard most of this in one form or another, but it is all woven together here into a concise easy to digest monologue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPAM...

At a time of near-record inequalities of income and wealth, Senate Republicans have passed the largest redistribution of income upward in the history of this nation. It will now be voted on in the House. Call your reps and demand they vote "NO" on this travesty: (202) 224-3121.

The entire point of the Republican budget is to free up money for billionaire tax breaks. Their idea to sell off public lands in our National Parks? They're not doing it to lower debt.. That money is going straight to tax breaks for the rich.

The Republican budget would block 20 million low-income parents from receiving the full $2,500 Child Tax Credit. A single parent with 2 kids making $16k a year would get $0. But a married couple with 2 kids making $400k a year would get an extra $1,000. Make it make sense.

100 men vs. 1 gorilla? How about the working class against the oligarchy? The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. This is the real fight we need to be talking about.

Effective Corporate Tax Rates 1950: 50% 2025: 13% Top Marginal Tax Rates 1950: 91% 2025: 37% If you’re curious as to why the rich have so much and you have so little, these are good places to start.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." —Louis Brandeis

This is the budget resolution that Republicans have voted for. Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.