It's amazing how quickly the vibe has shifted.

Commie.

Deutsche Bank Is worried that it is too exposed to the AI bubble via lending for data center infrastructure. So it’s exploring shorting AI stocks as a hedge so that if the AI bubble pops they capture some upside versus being stuck with bad loans for half built data centers.

OpenAI is asking the U.S. government for loan guarantees to fund its staggering $1 .4 trillion+ AI infrastructure build-out. Basically if OpenAI can’t come up with the money after taking out loans then taxpayers will bail them out. They finally played the “Too Big To Fail” card.

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

Trump is pretty open about his goal of ending free and fair elections.

who could have predicted www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“Seizing the means of production,” you say? 🤡 (via @samsteindc.bsky.social)

Oh look, pundits and popularists wrong again: "Protecting democracy and constitutional rights is a top issue to voters, alongside costs...a majority of voters believe he’s done more to undermine the Constitution than defend it." www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

If you can’t articulate the other side’s point of view during an argument or debate, then you haven’t eliminated the possibility that what you have is actually a miscommunication not a conflict.

How good are LLMs at reasoning? Turns out they stumble when problems get chained together. A new paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.00151

“.. People are increasingly swapping smart devices for old-fashioned buttons, switches and knobs in their homes, .. according to Zillow's 2026 Home Trends Report.” @axios.com zillow.mediaroom.com/2025-10-15-Z...

We are in a serious govt shutdown, but instead of negotiating, Trump posted several pics of his WH bathroom remodel today and now this. He is currently headed to Palm Beach for another golf weekend.

(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald .. @miamiherald.com www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

I know everybody is doing their best but these pieces always get the same thing wrong: OpenAI is not sending money to Oracle to send to NVIDIA. Oracle is self funding or having other parties buy the gpus to provide the compute. OpenAI isn’t sending anyone billions! They don’t have it!

"go to TikTok. See for yourself."

Trump's ballroom fiasco looks even worse against backdrop of bad economic news: *layoffs mounting *food stamps expiring *health care premiums soaring *consumer sentiment sliding On the pod, Elizabeth Pancotti is great in explaining the opening here for Dems: newrepublic.com/article/2024...

Make a list of the most regressive, most impulsively reactionary, most aggressively backward-looking bullshit you can think of and be certain that the people who are controlling the US government are going for it. They will not rest until everything that smells vaguely "progressive" is erased.

“.. the most distinct instance yet of Trump using the powers of his office to benefit someone at the center of deals that have enriched his family.” @wsj.com #binance www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Corruption at scale

Under Dem presidents, Dems endlessly debate whether prez dares tout good econ news out of fear of seeming "out of touch." Trump makes up horseshit about creating "record" jobs and media never calls him "out of touch." Let's learn from this. Exchange on this point: newrepublic.com/article/2024...

What Palantir Sees Palantir’s chief technology officer shares thoughts on the “kill chain,” working with ICE and the IDF, and the moral hazards of a company named for a fictional technology that becomes a tool of evil. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/o...

The Justice Department locked two federal prosecutors out of their devices and placed them on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol.” https://bit.ly/3X6Q6iU

I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

China has passed a new law mandating that anyone creating social media content on sensitive topics like medicine, law, education or finance must hold formal qualifications such as a college degree in those fields. Imagine an internet where people actually had to know what they were talking about.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

This is the third U.S. Attorney found to be unlawfully appointed. The other two are Sigal Chattah and Alina Habba. Their indictments stand because they were signed by other prosecutors. Not true for Lindsey Halligan.

GOLDMAN DESK: “.. The market cap of NVDA (~$4.86 trn) is closing in on the market cap of the entire Industrials S&P500 GICS (~$4.89 trillion), composed of 79 companies.”

Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million. In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million. A massive percentage came from foreigners. It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics. But few even care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Americans are on the verge of losing their ability to choose their government. But they don't seem to have realized it yet.

San Francisco-based Zignal Labs is aiding ICE’s crackdown on free speech. Its AI surveillance program monitors 8 billion social media posts a day. Clients include the Israeli military and the Pentagon. Surveillance as a service, authoritarianism as a business model. truthout.org/articles/ice...

American Christians starve the poor to own the libs

Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.

-Rand Paul tells the truth abt US murdering ppl in boats -Markwayne Mullin tells the truth abt tariffs hurting Americans -Thomas Massie tells the truth abt Trump covering for pedophiles -Marge Greene tells the truth abt Obamacare cuts hurting GOP voters. Horsemen, party of 4.

Trump Jr-linked drone company wins Pentagon contract on.ft.com/4oCpy51

I can only assume that the CEOs of huge companies and leaders of foreign governments who continue to bribe Trump while getting tremendous benefits and breaks from the govt think that Republicans will stay in power forever or Democrats will forgive and forget.

The Financial Times reports on a rise in fraud in expense reports as workers are using generative AI tools to create fake receipts. This would’ve never occurred to me. It’s such a brilliant crime since the enforcement burden is high and cost cheap. AI will enable all sorts of new interesting crimes

Here’s a free link to a house editorial that illustrates the collapse of the new Washpost Opinion page. It’s important to read it, because it is so poorly written and reasoned, and it shows how quickly an editorial institution can fall completely apart under spineless leadership. wapo.st/3J2IdIh

The overarching goal of the Trumpist Right: Restore white male domination in all spheres of life and recenter the social and political order around strict hierarchies of race, gender, religion and wealth as opposed to equality and egalitarian principles.

We can honestly say trump treats the white house like his family.

The White House’s remains. Buried under a golf course.

So an a16z-backed startup called Doublespeed promises clients can “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.” It's basically a spam operation then www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

Trump destroys everything that speaks to our better selves. If it is of art, poetry, nature, faith, kindness, community, love - these are the things he cannot abide. For light has nothing to do with darkness. 2 Corinthians 6:14.

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

"He's not perfect. He's not churchy, not particularly religious, but he's an instrument of divine will." Bannon is exploiting Christians

Privatizing the state, while socializing the private sector. L'économie, c'est moi

“.. on Tuesday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation demanded that the White House pause the demolition and submit the ballroom plans to ‘the legally required public review process.’ But it takes almost no time to reduce history to rubble ..” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

I do not want private donors funding the military. This is what killed the Roman Republic.