We just published a deep look into David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto czar. The story examines how he has been able keep hundreds of stakes in AI-related and crypto companies as he influences gov policy in those very industries. Here's what we found: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

My new history podcast, Past Lives, launches this Wednesday! If you're already subscribed to the Patreon, you'll receive the full script for the first episode, "On Historical Storytelling," tomorrow as a thank you for your support. Check it out: www.patreon.com/cw/PastLives...

This guy watched a dude get acquitted of brutally murdering a Black man in public and decided to double down and reward him w a fancy job at his company. And it never ever gets brought up. Anyone who thinks there’s a cancel culture from the left should just shut the fuck up forever.

Strong floor, no ceiling

And then also “strong floor” I’m assuming is a strong social safety net (if they don’t mean that I’m just gonna scream into my pillow) And so how do you get that without increasing taxes on top brackets, thus lowering their ceiling? Just unserious ppl not made for the moment

ceilings on profits forces companies to put that money elsewhere so you get that back through higher wages rather than stock buybacks to infinity. The middle class of the mid 20th c was built off high marginal tax rates. This isn’t complicated it’s just that he and Jeffries are aligned w the elite

Last year Elon made 100 billion in days, this year Ellison made 100 Billion in hours If you see this and think “no ceilings” is a good slogan for a “working class” party you should be shot off to the moon without an oxygen tank

www.pbs.org/kenburns/the... Love how all the white guys credited as “writer” are stans for Washington and praise him like he’s a demigod and the one Black guy credited as “Historian” is like so Washington stopped allowing Blacks to fight because of slavery as he was from Virginia and a slave owner

“debate me bro” schtick was very clearly an outsider tactic to get to the inside by means other than actual intelligence or merit, like Kirk and college. It was never going to be a tactic allowed by them against them when they wielded power there are many lib coded pundits that fell for it anyway

ranting about this shit to my wife earlier today I said “you know if those poor fishermen had millions of dollar to toss to that piece of shit the bombings would stop immediately, that’s how much this is about *drugs*” NYT over here like hmm I don’t understand how Ace can be 1 and 11

Not even a hint to readers here that Trump’s whole anti drug thing is a con job. Just stenography. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/us/politics/trump-honduras-venezuela.html

got to the part in the Netflix doc on the Cold War showing how Dulles had so much power he could call the editor of a paper and say “your man in Guatemala is interfering w our coup” and the editor would pull the reporter and the photo they had up on screen was the father of the current NYT owner

And now another historian after pointing out he was a slaver and how horrible that was and we shouldn’t make statues out of marble men or whatever basically pulled a “who among us” and I’m over here like bitch, me, it’s me, I never bought and sold another human being what the fuck is wrong w ppl

Someone in the burns American revolution doc said of Washington “he’s built to lead men in the dark of night(metaphor)” and the only purpose that meaningless dreck serves is to take weight off of the meaningful that was the wealthiest American because of slave labor and speculation on native land

The whole conversation stems from Hegseth ordering seal team 6 to execute some poor bastards hanging on to the broken shards of the boat that some other military members blew up and then ST6 members just said “sure” and killed them. lots of way to describe those ppl but honorable ain’t one

There’s this whole thing in this country where if a non white and or left coded person does something horrible it reflects on the whole group and the whole group is open to punishment and this never ever works the other way

People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.

Good god this is brutal

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Fuck yeah. just gave. Crucial work on ICE, we need to support these homies

music.apple.com/us/album/cob... This is a great song on a really good record. I don’t understand the hate but if you feel that way go back to Taylor swift or whatever and let us enjoy it. Shit, there’s enough bad shit going on without ppl all like “that band everyone likes sucks!” Ok cool kid

I do cabbage salad for Thanksgiving because I’m east euro trashy like that but the soup idea at the end got me thinking

Hanania is a racist, Lehman is the dude who convinced Klein “no bro I get that the crime data has gone down but how do you FEEL about crime tho” (proceeds to show Klein knockout game clips from breitbart, Klein goes into a rage) and also works w that other racist Rufo, fluffed by NYT multiple times

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

NYT and Carville yell at cloud called “woke” Is both funny and pathetic woke has a meaning within the Black struggle that I’m sure he and NYT are aware of and they’re saying - remember when we had the new deal and excluded minorities? Let’s do it again! Fuck off www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

Wild

thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation

As always:

Does he have mind control over every reporter or what

music.apple.com/us/album/str... Forgot how good this is

Jimmy Cliff, the charismatic reggae pioneer and actor who preached joy, defiance and resilience in such classics as “Many Rivers to Cross,” “You Can Get it If You Really Want” and “Vietnam” and starred in the landmark movie “The Harder They Come,” has died at 81. https://to.pbs.org/4ptgRug

Anyone who lives in a dem run city where the cops do to non whites what ICE has been doing to non whites understands this perfectly. And also gives if them more and more of the budget to do so. It’s far removed from what the rank and file want but it is what it is

Let them fight dot jpg

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:

The thing is, when you look like this the rest of us WANT YOU to wear your underwear as your outer wear. I mean, look at the dude, I don’t even know which team I play for anymore

This was a wonderful lecture and my introduction to Samuel Bowles, im looking forward to digging into his work further

I never thought it could happen This rappin stuff I was to used to Packin gats and stuff

Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place

The Washington Post editorial board decided the Epstein files have “no public interest” before even seeing them. That’s a stunning position for any newsroom to take. Praising Clay Higgins as the lone ‘no’ vote, too? No wonder no one trusts legacy media. Absolutely disgusting.

Imagine the commentary on this website if Schumer and Jeffries had exchanged friendship bracelets with Donald Trump.

Hard agree. I was explaining to my wife, who is not on socials, that usually it’s all so wretched and but today we were all collectively laughing our asses off

once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny

donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao

The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders. The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here: newrepublic.com/article/2035...

We can abolish ice sure it’s like the lowest hanging of fruit but if you stop there this shit keeps going

I see. So if I were going 70 in a 35 would you state that I was failing to meet the speed requirement set by law or wound you frame it a different way

Really hope this is good because train dreams is one of my fave books ever and I’m not a huge Johnson stan. He had some misses but this and Tree of Smoke were home runs