There's no content. Incoherent lies. A bunch of random shit. I guess that does reflect the state of the nation now. Dems should walk out. #sotu2026

The public doesn't understand how these people operate. This is why every book club in the U.S. shd read @mkonnikova.bsky.social 's The Confidence Game, a history of con artists. Also Babiak's Snakes in Suits. And Hoffer's classic The True Believer And @brianklaas.bsky.social 's book

So much of the current USA shit show would have been mitigated, if not prevented, if just a handful of Republicans simply did the job that our Constitution gave to legislators, instead of surrendering all agency, initiative & responsibility to Trump.

To be clear, John Roberts is suddenly a hero now like Ted Bundy would suddenly be a hero if he put money in the parking meter for you.

Before you get too excited about Neal Katyal beating Trump in the Supreme Court... newrepublic.com/article/1604...

Wondering where the Trump administration might go next after the SCOTUS ruling striking down IEEPA tariffs? We have a chart for you @bipartisanpolicy.org! Web version here: www.datawrapper.de/_/kvams/?v=5 And thanks to @bbkogan.bsky.social for reminding me to post here more often :)

*very* striking to me that trump's two big losses at SCOUTS--first the fed, now tariffs--are both about core macroeconomic institutions, namely free trade and an independent central bank. "go nuts on culture, go nuts on immigration, but DO NOT TOUCH the neoliberal consensus"

Last year Trump pardoned the founder of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, who had been convicted of money laundering. Now Binance holds 87 percent of Trump’s stablecoin. The grift just keeps getting griftier.

NEW: President Trump is set to see enormous, unprecedented income from his overseas real estate developments in his second term, estimated to exceed $400 million and likely over $430 million, according to a CREW analysis.

Of course the first order of business for Trump's Board of Peace is to loot $10B from the US Treasury. Is anyone keeping a full account of how much $ Trump is stealing every day from taxpayers?

Is "run her gulag" a euphemism for banging Lewandowski?

Cutting science isn’t belt-tightening, it’s self-sabotage. You don’t just lose grants, you lose people, cures, industries, and power. By the time the damage is visible, the future has already moved somewhere else.

There are non US citizens influencing our elections, they’re called corporations. The establishment wants us to not focus on this.

Capitalism would be stronger without venture capital and without private equity

As a rare winter storm bore down on SC, bringing conditions that historically paralyze the state for days, local officials in a majority-black rural county quietly pushed through a massive $2.4B data center without most residents knowing it was even on the table. capitalbnews.org/secret-data-...

Adorno on late capitalism blogs.law.columbia.edu/abolition131...

Chinese leaving US regulators in the dust. Manually operated, properly located door latches = common-sense safety measure...Why is US dicking around with hearings first? news.sky.com/story/china-...

"Candidates closer to the political center, from both parties, continue to fare better in most elections than those farther to the right or left. This pattern may be the strongest one in electoral politics today, but it is one that many partisans try to obscure and many voters do not fully grasp."

Swing voters in swing states are focused on affordability. Don’t fuck this up. We have a moral obligation to win power. Costs, chaos, corruption. Those are the issues. Not left wing minority issues. Win. Winning is the only thing. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

If you're posting about US politics on social media, even if not very seriously or just to vent, please take the time to read the US Constitution and Project 2025.

If you think showing the american public "look! I have irrifutable proof that republicans are bad!" means that less people will vote for republicans then you don't understand politics. either they get punished, or nothing happens and the decay continues as normal.

A lot of the things ppl want to happen are in our hands. Congressional members are not elected to be activists. They’re elected to govern and Dems are in the minority. Republicans have only ever been successful because they break the law and Americans accept it.

Let's take what good we can get. If Trump wants to cap credit card interest & discourage corporate landlords, give him some props for initiative that isn't evil.

CNN used to be decent until the “fair and balanced” crew made them completely unbalanced. Many of us remember and we know the difference. Don’t disrespect anyone who remembers what they used to be. We at least know what we lost. If you disallow that then you are without much credibility

In Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises,” the character Mike Campbell explains how he went bankrupt: “Gradually and then suddenly.”

Are Minnesotians legally allowed to hogtie Ice Agents and leave them in the snow? Many people are saying they can.

The touch screen in my rental car, which incorporates all the environmental controls (no pesky knobs or buttons on the instrument panel!), forced me to endure having my ass roasted by a heated seat on "high" for 50 miles until I could safely pull over to figure out how to turn heat off.

Trump admin & Republican Congress with help of the Supreme Court & some Dems are trying to take down almost the entire edifice of financial regulation. These policies, & especially the cryptocurrency push, are creating chaos in US economy & destabilizing global economies truthout.org/articles/tru...

Google is forcing more generative AI on Gmail users. I couldn’t think of a better moment to finally drop Gmail (and other Google services)! I have a guide to do just that here: disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

This should be a legal requirement for being allowed to sell networked devices. Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life

Is there any thought process or set of personal rules behind Trump's bizarre capitalizations? (& do his stand-ins have what amounts to a capitalization guide when messaging as Trump?). For example, if you capitalize "Oil" why wouldn't you also capitalize "people"...or "ships"?

This is fundamentally screwed up. The Supreme Court shadow docket has become a huge problem for the entire judicial system, & thus for US democracy in general. blog.dividedargument.com/p/finding-tr...

Tina Peters is a criminal. Trump wishes her well. Trump has been pardoning criminals. He has been appointing criminals. He has invited criminals to the White House. He admires Criminals. Criminals are/were his best friends. He wishes us, citizens of America, people he represents, to rot in hell.

with the power of AI combined with the lucrative online gambling market soon sports won't need to actually take place. we won't need players or arenas. people will wager enormous sums of money on asking chatgpt which team would win. this will ruin lives and be a cornerstone of the US economy in 2026

With health, there is way too much scope for grifting because it involves pain, disability and death so they have you over barrel. Both insurance and private health care.

One "last minute" bag of groceries before Xmas -- stuff like butter, milk, aluminum foil, etc -- cost me $55 today. Prices aren't going down & every single person who's shopped for anything this month knows it.

Juries, and by extension the concept of jury nullification, are the required openness that the laws of incompleteness require. No formal system, of which the justice system is an example, is both complete and consistent. The jury is the outside perspective required by physics.

My latest Substack piece on AI and if our political class is ready: substack.com/@katiephang/...

New paper out in @science.org! We unveil the online manipulation market with the Cambridge Online Trust & Safety Index (COTSI). We show in real time the cost of purchasing fake accounts across every social platform around the world - so they can be held accountable www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I’ve summed up and contextualized all of these critical AI pieces & more in one place — “From AGI to Workslop: What I Read About AI in 2025.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-i-read-...

Lemme 'splain sonething to you about Donald J. Trump: He learned from Roy Cohn: you are NEVER wrong; you NEVER make mistakes or give up; you NEVER accept defeat; you lie as needed and if you are then confronted with a tsunami of Reality, you. do. not. budge. He's not finished with Tish.

Hypocrisy is the Republican Superpower. That brazen ability, unavailable to those of conscience or integrity, to say or do something entirely contradicted by objective facts or their own previous pronouncements. To say or do anything for immediate, short term, political gain.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalshi Am I correct in that this is just legalized gambling on random shit? And their pitch to the rich people is “if world events don’t work out for you, you can try to gamble on the opposite outcome on our platform” Do I have that right? Wtf is wrong rich people..?

We’re in a hell of a lot of trouble.

I'd like to know how much all these DOJ revenge operations against Trump's perceived enemies are costing US taxpayers. It's like Trump now has a blank check for legal staff to pursue his lifelong hobby of harassing people with lawsuits. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should

What will we learn from the Trump years? I'm looking at you Democrats, journalists, lawyers, academics, & businessmen. The blurry storm of everyday idiocy, greed & cruelty warps our ability to think clearly about anything, even the best of us. And it's not the best of us who need to learn the most.

psychomotor deterioration

Stabilizing the Earth system remains scientifically possible. History demands a turning point. But that would require some paradigm shifts in our thinking about economics, growth, international politics, etc. Won't happen in time. No way.

Toto didn't have 'guts', he had a different perspective. Nobody else even noticed the curtain.