"Since Trump’s inauguration, he has ordered the top US financial watchdogs to take a more business-friendly approach." Yeah, this is only "business friendly" if you have a particular business model. www.ft.com/content/4682...

Shoot, I thought I put a gift link at the top, but apparently not. Here’s the gift link to the obituary:

4am thought. Time travel never has any spatial lock. So if you could go back, there’s no way you’d appear in the intended place, i.e. you might appear buried, or under the sea or in the air, or more likely in space because the earth is not in the same place as right now.

LIVE: New Zealand welcomes the 2026 New Year with fireworks www.youtube.com/live/YYZ1hrp...

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

Best Dow stock in 2026? $CAT +63% @stockcharts $GS and $CAT contributed massively to the price-weighted index

Regime change

How should the UK celebrate 250 years of American independence? ft.trib.al/pPTg5bO

Hiked margin requirements slamming silver this week, but she still leads among commodities YTD @finviz_com

This is Murc's Law: that Dems are responsible for what the GOP does & GOP responsible for nothing And the whole GOP & their politicians & media are treated as w/o agency. As GOP media repeats Gr Replacement Theory til it wears a groove into ppl's brains www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2022/03/andr...

"Trump breaks all the laws and operates outside the constitution, so we can't critique him" is so fat with fallacies we need to start coming up with "your mama" jokes but about "your logic"

Republicans as a whole are treated as if they have no agency. The climate, looming SSA deficit, health care funding and access gaps, affordability of college and child care, ballooning federal deficit are all at their feet but they are never asked about it.

Not for nothing, “no depth to plumb“ was basically Arendt’s take on Eichmann and she wrote a book about it. Skill issue.

A perfect illustration of @larryglickman.bsky.social’s point about how reporters treat aggressive campaigns of white resentment as natural phenomena that have no agency or agenda behind them. Backlash politics is a fact of life! Let’s focus on how liberals must accept it and adjust, like we have!

A huge story of 2025... the surge in long-term sovereign yields (not the US long bond though, it is UNCH YTD)... up and to the right if you zoom in on this one from @augurinfinity

I think there's also a soft-target element here. If you criticize high profile Democrats you still get access, invited to the cool parties, and patted on the back for your balance. If you criticize Trump they pull your credentials and dox your kid's school to a bunch of MAGA lunatics.

Also: she’s more concerned with what is “interesting” to “write about” than the actual, real-world effects of Trump’s political regime. He is tanking the economy? Rounding up random immigrants to be tortured? Engaging in the largest schemes of graft this country has ever seen?

Rosenfield writes for Reason and Unherd. It’s not that she finds Trump uninteresting, she’s lying about that. She just doesn’t want people to publicize his fascism and criming so she’s saying other people are more worth covering.

It becomes a sideshow because - cold take - these people suck at their jobs and would much rather pretend their laziness is some sort of high-minded calling rather than just the absolute lowest of bars to clear compared to those who engage in the actual hard questions of policy impacts on people.

i read this and i just see a lazy person with a skill issue

Also, more generally, why do none of these reports examine Nikolai Patrushev's claim that Trump had obligations to the forces that helped him win? It is a fact that Russia helped Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024. Why is that EVER forgotten? tass.com/politics/187...

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

Thank you. There is no public Epstein story without Julie Brown.

Brown is the reporter who *broke* the story.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

I don't know if he will enjoy what eventually happens to Nazis who aren't sent to prison, either.

The most fun I ever had on the interweb was a long-lost thread at LG&M where a bunch of us, as characters, argued the merits of Lidless Eye Telecom vs Eagles of Manwë Cellular, and I hate that this is now real in the worst possible ways.

It wasn't even just Frodo and Sam. Beren, Luthien, & a giant dog did it in the first age, the numenoreans did it multiple times in the second age, and the last alliance trashed the place on their way out to kick off the third age; this is a recurring issue for him.

I’m not sure who said it but the comparison of libertarians to house cats is spot on. They are fiercely convinced of their independence, while totally dependent on an economy they fundamentally don’t understand.

"Libertarians - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves" - Kim Stanley Robinson

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Introducing: Denethor, your new mental stability tracking app.

They are marketing to the people who love the vice signalling of Palantir.

Sauron was not only evil, he got distracted and his defenses failed

Incredible reporting here from the @nytimes.com......(gift link). Colombian fishermen scared to fish for fear of being killed by the US military in waters their families have fished for generations.... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...

Dems should discuss how “De-Trumpification” will be enacted along with investigations into criminality and corruption…not retribution but following the law. This will happen on day 1.

Be like the pharaohs and chisel his name from every place it appears.

Start out by freezing their assets and their families assets. Then turn the screws with charging documents.

Anyone running as a Democrat must swear to tearing it all down and prosecuting the criminals.

I admit I'd love to see a crew standing by on Jan 20 2029. As the new POTUS shakes hands after swearing in, viewers can hear the faint crash of demo starting at the other end of Pennsylvania Ave.

And the Democrats would be wise to start saying it now. “Trump Ballroom, gone on Day One.” Agitate the old man and start a rumble.

Trump is increasingly worried about his own mortality, and he's trying to use government to create a physical legacy that will outlive him. Which is why every bit of it must be torn down and smashed to bits. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...

incredible effort, thank you

"more often right than randoms on the internet, less often right than respected professionals" I feel this so hard.

Legend. The ultimate move.

So you’re saying…….. they deserted you

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)