Gonna be wild when this becomes a big enough issue that those outside manufacturing supply chains take note… www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

Elon Musk is doing Enron the right way. by Ezra Klein electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

“Ok. What kind of frog are you?”

Thoughts on Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl and why it matters

EISMAN: Tesla’s earnings “are down 60% from 2022 through 2025. And the stock is slightly higher. .. “.. it’s a cult.” @electrek.co $TSLA electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... bsky.app/profile/jame...

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Make Farmers Takers Again

Ok these are crazy stats

Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info. SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...

So OR can’t say anything because out-of-state, CA can’t say anything because no harm, and TX is still coming just in case

Everything is bad faith

Underground Empire model discussed in @himself.bsky.social’s book www.wsj.com/world/middle...

“The current AI boom would simply be impossible if tech companies had to pay the same tariffs that car manufacturers or homebuilders currently face. “ .. a tacit admission that a full-scale trade war would kill America’s golden geese.” @josephpolitano.bsky.social www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...

Buy them at tylerfromtheinternet.com

bad bad, more TK on this from heatmap soon

NEW: A cyberattack has forced Japan's beer maker Asahi to suspend operations at its plants in the country since Monday. For now, the company said it's experiencing a "system failure" but did not confirm "leakage of personal information or customer data to external parties."

Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity" Gift link from @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The same Energy Sec. Chris Wright, now handing $625M to shore up struggling, 19th century coal power, wrote this op-ed 3 months ago demanding wind and solar stand on their own nypost.com/2025/06/27/o...

Money over cancellation

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

"But assuming you decide to move forward with the Comey case—you face an immediate problem: What should you charge him with?" @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and @annabower.bsky.social delve into the Trump administration's push to prosecute James Comey and the weaknesses of a case against him.

Read the Dekleptocracy substack: "When a phantom foundation with no address, no registration and a founder who might not exist, wires $100 million to the president's crypto company, America has a problem" dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/trumps-she...

An Inside Climate News analysis shows the #Florida insurance crisis is hitting hardest in the disadvantaged counties of FL's agricultural heartland. www.wusf.org/environment/... via @amybgreen.bsky.social

Knock on effect of reducing EV credits from IRA. Shameful as the world’s EV use takes off.

"Trump bossing around U.S. Steel could cost jobs down the line" www.startribune.com/trump-golden...

My favorite version of 007? Obviously Janelle Monáe on the rap section of Q.U.E.E.N. Peep the beat switch too 🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

And note that the lede reporter on the Homan scoop ended her 25-year career at the Washpost just last month, decamping to NBC News. Will Lewis, the Post’s CEO, had urged people to leave if they didn’t “feel aligned” w/ the company’s “significant reinvention journey” www.thewrap.com/carol-leonni...

To all the comedians who stood for free speech in the face of wokeness

New attack on ChatGPT research agent pilfers secrets from Gmail inboxes arstechnica.com/information-...

Shai-Hulud #Dune

Stock price zooms on the news!

Ruh-roh 🤡 www.cnbc.com/2025/09/09/j...

When Bloomberg is putting it this directly…

NBC: "DOJ says names of two associates Epstein wired $100k and $250k to should stay secret." The payments were made shortly after the Miami Herald began publishing @jkbjournalist.bsky.social's investigative series: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Washington D.C. now, predecessors in Beijing, Moscow and Berlin

Massachusetts state flag suggestions reactions thread! You can see the full list of submissions at this link. I'm not going to react to all of them, because there are 1147 pages of suggested flags, mottos, or both. www.mass.gov/doc/massachu...

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.

There is one car on this list under $50k and the vast majority are well over $100k. Insane

I feel like an ortho group built this park and put their clinic at the bottom.

SCOOP The White House said EJ Antoni—Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics—went to the Capitol on Jan 6th after seeing it on the news But a now-deleted Twitter account bearing his name shows someone deeply enmeshed in far-right election conspiracies www.wired.com/story/twitte...

Trump votes by mail. www.npr.org/2020/08/19/9...

ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media. I am not making this up.