#EconSky A $1 Gold coin so perfectly captures the essential quality of this con man - FAKE. I bet, once he vacates our White House, we will discover most of the "gold" on the walls is equally base.

#EconSky How long can Singapore's oil industry survive without new oil imports through the Strait of Hormuz?

#econSky "Remember that time in 2025 we voted to deprive health care to millions of families and food to millions of needy children?"

#econSky I'm old enough to remember....

It's sad, but not uncommon, to see a man conflate his own identity search with that of the culture he grew up in - and be on the wrong side, in both senses, of that search to boot. It's tragic when it's in a NYTimes Op-ed. But I relish the political fall out. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/o...

#Econsky Crypto De Jure value = 0

Andrew Mellon, November 9, 1932. "Last night we saw that FDR was the leader of the Democrats!" Maybe. cc @rauchway.bsky.social

Mullock wins NJ-2 DEM Primary. Excerpt of victory speech in alt text

Mullock wins NJ-2 DEM Primary. Excerpt of victory speech in alt text

#NJ-2 #DEM What an exciting primary. Now it's time to unseat Jrff Van Drew.

Is #AI a new euphemism for nepotism? Asking for a opinion writer's son.

Slightly increase a band: Grateful Comatose

THIS is part of the coming singularity - not when computers gain sentience - but rather when every person has easy access to the information guiding policy.

#EconSky Collateral Damage of Regime Change gone wrong. What if the IRGC is just as willing to risk great damage as #Netanyahu and #Trump apparently are.

Great thread. As with all things #AI the choice to conflate or not conflate meaning across domains is the issue. What is a "search". Can an LLM search? Is that just a fig leaf covering up 4A violations? Lots to unpack. Thanks. cc @braddelong.bsky.social

#WW3 #Trump has ordered ALL traffic going through the Straits of Hormuz blocked and the interdiction of toll payers. I presume he means the Chinese and Indian vessels that have been given free passage recently. Silly me. Out of practice on the hiding under my desk nuclear war drills.

Wolff is one of many people who could have spoken up sooner and louder but did not. Not only because he too prefers to use phrases like "models" or "women of indeterminate age" instead of "children" when referring to Epstein's victims but also because he is always out for a $.

My new masterpiece: vibe-coded chart showing the collapse of the New Deal financial order and rise of Wall Street, by flow of deposits from small to big banks. From 1990 to 2024 NYC banks more than double their deposit share. Small banks and thrifts go from more than half of deposits to <20%.

Now that we've managed to NOT destroy a civilization overnight I went in search of a good book to read and BAM This looks very on point. How to live under the whims of a madman. #history #Nero #Seneca www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

So much evil has emerged from the Calvinist doctrine of "the elect" - not that Franklin has likely given the doctrine much thought.

#Media #Oligarchy And how was this accomplished? The media was skeptical of Harris and credulous of the known liar, #Trump. All so the very rich could pay less in taxes. It was all so very obvious. youtu.be/8Ev7UkQLicM?...

As with climate change have we gone too far past a tipping point in this matter? We are led by a man who doesn't read, doesn't reflect, never self examines .. and it shows.

You know JD. After reading Hillbilly Elegy all I have to say is: "children all over the world had it so much harder than you did, so shut up your moaning already."

Via @katemanne.bsky.social #Epstein emailing with Joi Ito. Just as Trump diagnoses detractors with Trump Derangement Syndrome, so does Epstein. katemanne.substack.com/p/theres-ano...

The U.S. government is in the hands of a disturbed authoritarian who is surrounded by people who either share his delusions, are too sycophantic to confront him, or believe the president’s delusions serve just fine as a vehicle for their own greed and ideological extremism.

#EconSky Bing 👇

#EconSky I wonder if the Egyptian Priesthood ever got greedy and kept the Nilometer's secrets to only a few, to boost their income? www.atlasobscura.com/places/nilom...

#ElonMusk #JeffBezos and the various super rich geniuses with their #AI and their super computers seem to find space travel so much trickier than a bunch of engineers making the equivalent of low 6 figures today. Maybe doing your own math is a good thing? www.npr.org/sections/ed/...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is so hoping you're right Mr. Blanche. www.bbc.com/news/live/c7...

#Epstein Just to correct @klasfeldreports.com at around the 20 min, you said, before Trump people didn't claim charges were a hoax. Au contraire (admittedly before your time): Read about Ron Ziegler. Nixon's pardon gave us #Trump time.com/archive/6841... substack.com/inbox/post/1...

#EconSky That the Tech Lord Oligarchs believe if they make the common man poor he (and in their view of the world "he" is the only pronoun) will work for them cheap is one sure sign none of these guys took a liberal arts selection of courses. But hey, if Marxism was their goal, well done.

Can you imagine the force of President Obama in front of a protest line when ICE shows up. I hope someday to not need to imagine it.

#Epstein Curious timing for this article. A bit tone deaf perhaps? www.economist.com/culture/2026...?

So many people ask why this or that person didn't resign due to their involvement with #Epstein. But that they were involved is WHY they can't escape. Join my Cabinet or else.

Plus ça change... The president’s response: “This might have one hell of a salutary effect. They can talk all they want about the radicals. You know what stops them? Kill a few." “Remember Kent State?” millercenter.org/the-presiden...

#Skystorians Pondering counterfactuals. Would Yeltsin and the Oligarchs have been given such latitude in Russia with the elder Bush in office. Gingrich never does his contract with America. And what Dem would we have gotten in 1996? Cuz Qualye had no shot. Oh well.

#Epstein Publicly subsidized aristocracy creation. What could go wrong? Same thing that always goes wrong.

#EconSky There is one and only one sure fire way to service US$ debt, however incurred - and that is via US$s. #Crytpo ain't currency.

#BillGates #Epstein docs.google.com/document/d/1... TP: I think “nerd” is gradually becoming a comparatively friendly label. BG: No, “nerd” is boring. A “nerd” is a guy who never went out with good-looking girls. I think they were, like, staying at home or something.

Who knew selective stenography paid so much better than actual journalism? Sadly, a not small number of "journalists."

Fascinating #Epstein discussion from the UK. youtu.be/YkYA7eAgJXQ?...

I keep flashing to the scene from 48 Hours wherein Reggie Hammond asks, "let's see what I can F... with next" But POTUS has no goal but to show he can destroy youtu.be/kvzIRuIg288?...

and then there are people who love money too much and those 3 fit the bill sadly

Demonizing, pathologizing and/or criminalizing dissent is as old as human cultures have had the words; criminal, pathology and demon, respectively Living inside a Narcissist's dream - a narcissist with the DoJ and the most well equipped military in history at his beck and call is going as expected😬

I very much hope the incoming winter storm will not be the killer it is forecast to be. If that hope proves false and the storm is terrible, I hope the wrath of the MAGA faithful is properly directed at the GOP who misdirected FEMA money into brown people concentration camp detention VOTE wisely

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

the ny times cleans up for trump the way the guy with a pooper scooper follows an elephant in a parade