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As @brendannyhan.bsky.social says on repeat, what would you say if you saw it happening in another country? Source: x.com/HBRabinowitz...

a president placing himself at the head of a parallel quasi-gov't body outside of the formal systems or control of the US: impeachable charter making him *permanent* head: impeachable charter conferring private power to open bank accounts: impeachable opening such an account: yup, impeachable

love to be looted by our criminal president

Tom Paine, the author of Common Sense ((1776), proposed a system of progressive taxation in 1792, before Karl Marx was even born. bsky.app/profile/seth...

I think we should be doing as much talking about the economic destabilization that Epstein & Co. were doing as we are about the child sex trafficking. Because, those men plotted a new world order of racial and economic exploitation and then raped children as a treat

Kris Kristofferson tells Sinéad O'Connor 'Don't let the bastards get you down' at Madison Square Garden, 1992

The larger problem here is that no one watches "The News" anymore; rather, people engage in a network of personally curated propaganda silos varying in size

Trump's secret police are now the tech bros' Secret Service??? "Mark Zuckerberg walked somewhat stiffly into a courtroom of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County...having first been escorted into the building by a security detail that included two Department of Homeland Security officers."

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter

We went after the rich to win two world wars and build a half century of prosperity and peace, so the principle seems pretty solid

This is soviet union shit.

This just means the attack on Iran is a go doesn’t it

Overnight in South Korea the former President who led an insurrection was sentenced to life in prison and in the UK the former prince who was deeply involved with Epstein’s crimes was arrested. Here in America the only person in the world who shares both of those crimes, Trump, remains untouched.

Guitar of the Day

For those small minded primitives who are in support of barriers between nations, who believe that cultural influence is only an exchange of dilution;— I present this irrefutable counterargument. Checkmate.

Predawn guitar jam...from last night in Charlotte, NC...

Here we are, just keep slip sliding on that slippery slope

Your unemployed friends on a Wednesday

Fantastic thread, the main, replies, side discussions… But this post stood out for me & feels correct in a way that extends way beyond a discussion just about Star Wars. “Star Wars *is* an aesthetic” is a different insight than “Star Wars *has* an aesthetic” in a very nuanced & enlightening way

Me, from 2026 time traveling back to tell me in 1986: "Hey, you know who do democracy really well? Brazil and South Korea." 1986 Me: Are we still living in Reagan's glorious American future? 2026 Me: [laughing/crying]: Oh, we're living it. We are fucking living it.

I personally wouldn’t consider “you rolled the weakest ass coup imaginable” as a mitigating but it’s funny to throw it in his face like this at least.

...wait for it...

I wonder if John Roberts is staying up with us all, watching, pondering his future

I don't know why, but the judge is now citing the historical precedent of Charles I of England. This is an incredibly ominous sign for Yoon.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has entered the courtroom for the verdict in his insurrection trial, the most consequential of the criminal charges he faces tied to martial law.

I think so much is happening at once Trump looting America like a vulture capitalist isn’t really going to sink in until he’s gone and we’re cataloguing the damage to see what can be saved.

In dentist waiting room, another person waiting just took out their phone and started watching a video at full volume. Fucking savages in this town, I tell you

This is why they get angrier about things like modernizing the Aunt Jemima picture or changing the Cracker Barrel logo than they do about schools gutting arts, music, theater, and humanities programs. TV commercials and mall restaurants are more cherished in their culture than the Western canon is.

and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!

That kind of coordination you see there is what the Epstein story is actually about at a macro scale

I see they settled on a framing in the donor group chat

NEW: A former Trump campaign lawyer who sought to throw out thousands of 2020 Wisconsin ballots joined the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking access to the state’s unredacted voter rolls — a revelation that places one of Wisconsin’s most active election deniers in a federal case targeting sensitive voter data.

one of my biggest aggravations about anticapitalists is how few of them have an actual coherent framework of what capitalism actually is

Coffee-growing countries becoming too hot to cultivate beans, analysis finds

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Wednesday pre-dawn jam...

Pandora’s box indeed…

I think large parts of the global financial system rely on people not thinking too deeply, too often about these things.

FEBRUARY — 2026 JAPANESE BOND YIELDS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

The Rise, CHAOS, and Traumatic End of ALF (no hog)

I find this so fucking sad actually it's from a great article by @bildoperationen.bsky.social journals.openedition.org/transbordeur...

This is such a good article. A brief and concise explanation of how corruption and political rot oozes out of both parties as they actively and strategically resist being held accountable for any wrongdoing no matter how damaging and heinous it is.

Tuesday's blues...

phenomenal nile rodgers interview here, so much going on in this paragraph www.vulture.com/article/nile...