Just generally I wish there was more enforcement around scams and fraud. Maybe it’s a drop in the bucket, but enforcing the laws that protect our most vulnerable Americans from financial ruin seems like it’s always a good idea.

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

FIFA awarding a "peace prize" to Trump would be so absolutely on-brand, a truly genius innovation.

Can lawyers tell me if regular people are allowed to fight unidentified muggers if they do not know whether they are CBP or criminals?

It's been a few days since Trump announced his "deal" with Xi. It's now clear that Trump got fleeced. America gave up lots and got nothing. It's a story you should know bc few things matter more than the U.S.-China relationship. 1/ So here's a🧵

I wonder which position in the Trump Administration Andrew will now pick?

The Netherlands finished burying all of its telecom and low/medium voltage power lines more than 20 years ago. When you look out at a Dutch street your view is not obstructed by overhead crap. Why is America still a primitive mess and why aren’t Americans even trying to fix it

Whoever is the next Democratic presidential candidate should vow to tear down the hideous ballroom and rebuild the Rose Garden, I bet there are a lot of votes in that

Reforming the GOP is indeed the best way out of America's crisis in the long term. The scary thing is that no one has even the outlines of a credible plan for how to do that

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

Why are Starbucks tea bags made of plastic? Am I right about this? It seems so and I don’t want to be drinking microplastics. Who could fix this?

🏅 The Nobel Prize committee’s message for European innovation 💡 It is time for Europe to embrace creative destruction as a necessary consequence of successful growth and #innovation ✏️ Will policymakers take note? By @proffionasm.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/FVohLzz #EconSky

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

Biofuels are a bad climate solution and a huge waste of land, food and millions in subsidies. Burning crops for fuel only pushes us further away from our climate goals. But biofuel production is only growing across the planet. 4/

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

It almost ceases to be ideological, I think anti-moron could be a lane for a political party.

💻 Digital platform regulation: are we all included in the digital economy? 📅 25 September 2025 13:30-14:30 CET Can smart regulation make digital markets fairer, more open and better for users? w/ @proffionasm.bsky.social, Coco Carmona & Emanuele Tarantino. 🔗 Sign up: buff.ly/iRu6jTx

What people can do right now: cancel their Disney+ streaming subscriptions. Disney is making an economic calculation here. Thus far -- they see only the benefits from cancelling Kimmel. We the media-consuming people have the power to make them see the costs.

States are stepping up! Look at the Northeast Public Health Collaborative that is going to fulfill formerly federal functions like recommending vaccines. Yay. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

“It could put loyalties at risk” says Bloomberg. Really? American farmers and Republicans are like Carlie Brown and the proverbial football. They always come back so they can always be exploited.

Bluesky has set up headquarters in Belgium.

I'm tired of all the winning www.404media.co/2-000-shippi...

Lisa Cook must stay on as a Fed Governor. She must vote Wednesday. It’s not about her, it’s about us.

"“We’ve become a party that too often trims its sails. Too cautious, too rudderless. Too attached to poll-washed, pundit-rinsed, and donor-dried messages,” he said. “What comes out of the wash is all bleached and blow-dried.”

What he said

My take on the Google search remedies decision in @techpolicypress.bsky.social ➡️Remedies Not Enough as Google will still be default ➡️None of the other remedies compensate for this ➡️ Just relying on AI is bananas www.techpolicy.press/us-courts-re...

Republicans are in charge of everything. If the government shuts down, it's on them. I'm transparent about how you get my vote. And it's not hard. I just need a budget that doesn't destroy our health care system, and funds democracy, not totalitarianism and corruption.

The ideas in this paper would have helped restore competition in search. I am afraid what we got will not make much (perhaps zero) difference.

See also "Judicial Remedies to Restore Lost Competition in the Market for General Search" for an economic analysis of entry barriers and a demonstration of how the court could have facilitated a partial payment ban. www.michiganstatelawreview.org/forum2024202... @proffionasm.bsky.social

Exquisite timing by Apple! Perhaps designed to make a fool of the judge and show Apple’s approach to competition law? Was the executive who testified that Apple would never enter search the same one a different court described as “not credible” 14 times?

Suggests anything that the FTC has done without Slaughter can be challenged as invalid and without legal authority. Good scope for some creative attorneys…

I find the unwillingness to leave X completely mystifying. Everyone who reads or posts there is contributing to the social media network effects that destroy democracy and enrich Musk. If those are not your values, leave.

Notice that 4 years allows undergrad and money making masters programs to continue. These are big sources of revenue (e.g. many Chinese students) for universities in red states. By contrast, phd programs cost money, and are disprop at rich universities that are Trump targets.

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Stand up to Trump on Big Tech, says EU antitrust chief ↘️ on.ft.com/3Vq9NBu

Rollins: “I do believe we're in a revolution. 1776 was the first one. 1863 or so, with Abraham Lincoln, was the second. This is the third with Donald Trump leading the way.”

Flooding: it stops enemy tanks and is good for nature www.politico.eu/article/russ...

I agree! I say please to the smart speaker because I never want to get out of the habit.

I quit over a year ago. Deleted my account soon after. Haven't looked back. willjennings.substack.com/p/why-im-lea...

Kharkiv right now ❤️‍🩹 I’m almost crying. We’re banned from organizing celebrations. Warned against crowds and gatherings due to constant russian bombings. But we’re alive, and we’ll keep living. That’s our collective "fuck you" to russia.

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

Record-high prices for beef in the grocery store, record-high profits for the world's largest beef packer.

Endlessly credulous about the pretextual actions of an authoritarian. It's not about mortgages. It's not about antisemitism. It's not about crime.

I want to see a competition among elected Democrats, especially those with executive authority in state office over who can use that authority most effectively to stymie, impede, block and discredit Trumps efforts to create an autocracy. That should be the coin of future electoral success

This trip will never stop giving. Starting to think for the benefit of both nations we should keep him