get ready for ai fascism

“[S]ince reflection is the instrumentality of securing freer and more enduring goods, reflection is a unique intrinsic good. Its instrumental efficacy determines it to be a candidate for... (1/3)

Some incredible stats in this article: Investment in AI accounts for 40% share of US GDP growth this year AI companies account for 80% of the gains in US stocks in 2025 The wealthiest 10% of the population own 85% of US stocks The top 10% of earners account for half of consumer spending

An intriguing call for “soft secession.” Consider the Transportation Research Board, to a large degree funded by state DOTs. The TRB bent the knee to Trump, cancelling dozens of research projects on equity & the environment. Should Blue states pull out of TRB & create their own research org?

you can’t blame the left for charlie kirk because we’re not the gun nuts

The whole federal government is in violation of the Hatch Act right now, but it doesn't matter because no one will enforce it; just another example of why we are no longer under the "rule of law"

it’s too hard to restrict the free speech of billionaires so you just have to take their money

The date range at the UK Data Service is something else

ok now block his website

it would be a lot easier to dump jeffries etc than to start a new party but

“Mamdani winning is an ableist erasure of candidates incapable of believing in anything at all”

‘Enchanted’ organisations, in Davies (2017: 23) terms, such as trade unions or guilds offer forms of authority that have no connection to ‘markets, calculations or individual choice’ tl;dr - Trade unions can call out your shit.

A short 🧵 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America. Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7

and there’s still rupert murdoch

An important takeway from the left victory in Norwegian elections, is that it meant the failure of a massive and very well funded campaign against their wealth tax, financed by norwegian billionaires. apnews.com/article/norw...

one thing that was lost in the great return to the city was the unfashionable streetcar suburb era four bedroom house that had four to ten people living in it, some of them quasi-homeless (these were also necessary for the production of quality indie rock)

I either forgot or didn't know the sports gambling disaster is thanks to the right wingers on the supreme court en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_...

I think accounting is great too but there has to be a limit

Interesting how slogans get recycled.

Very proud to be able to share, via @dissentmag.bsky.social, Marshall Berman's essay "Sympathy for the Devil," about the Pentagon exorcism, The Rolling Stones, Faust, and the culture of the 1960s. It's been out of print for forty years, and it's a masterpiece www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

congrats to klein and thompson for finding a new product to sell to fascist billionaires

if billionaires are going to do this then we can’t have billionaires anymore

Timeline cleanse

Was moving from an article on Zohran Mamdani to one on Zack Polanski with a detour on Zarah Sultana and now I am convinced all left pop leaders should have first names that start with a Z

Erosion of norms in America a cautionary tale.

If I were in charge of a police force in Illinois, I might consider targeted enforcement of 720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(9), which makes it a class 4 felony to carry or possess a firearm while "hooded, robed or masked in such manner as to conceal his or her identity".

mauss (1925)

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

You definitely should NOT spam this form by reporting all parking signs in national parks for "failing to emphasize the beauty, grandeur, and abundance of landscapes and other national features".

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵

america could simply seize norway’s investments in american companies. that’s why norway needs nuclear weapons.

reading this you get the impression that mothership is the actual political party

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job

perfectly legal thanks to trump v. united states

Florida weaponizes MUTCD to remove memorial rainbow crosswalk at site of Orlando massacre. Random street markings across city are collateral damage. 1/2 www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/21/r... www.wesh.com/article/prot...

if they can do it with renewables we can do it with carbon

cool use of garbage data

what if the onion added a sports section and some news reporters and a book review …

omg calvinball is in the legal lexicon now

TIL that one of the earliest known creation myths (from mesopotamia) is centered on a labor dispute between an underclass of gods (igigi) and their overlord gods (anunnaki), which leads to the creation of man to take over the hard labor as a solution to the conflict.

Dear political economists of BlueSky, I’m looking for something I can assign to students that goes through the different types of industrial policy (ISI, export-growth, infant industry, etc) and discusses the conditions under which they succeed (or not). Any articles? Chapters? Blog posts? ❤️

Trump isn’t just reversing Biden’s policies. He’s dismantling the infrastructure of policy-making itself. Our new US Principal Economist Alex Williams says that progressives must build something new out of the rubble: an economic system worth fighting for. www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...

Let's be very clear about something. The scenes we're seeing playing out in DC right now are happening for one reason and one reason only: Democrats were mean to Robert Bork in 1987.

ok but maybe you gotta listen to the notes blue whales don’t sing

Wild (and creative) statistic in the book “Rust Belt Union Blues” by Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol, showing the types of bumper stickers at parking lots outside three steel plants in western Pennsylvania.

13% of Republican senators voted against Bork's confirmation. So did the very conservative Democrats Howell Heflin & Richard Shelby of Alabama (Shelby would soon switch parties). Even 86-yr-old racist Sen. John Stennis of Mississippi voted against Bork. This wasn't even a close call.