Was listening to the radio and was surprised to hear a local plumbing company advertisement include the line: "Don't settle for an ordinary plumber, or even worse a private equity owned plumbing company" Crazy that awareness of PE roll ups has become mainstream enough that it’s a selling point

Former Congressman Tim Ryan is waging a PR campaign on behalf of the cryptocurrency industry’s SuperPAC this morning. He somehow forgot the crucial role Fairshake played in helping defeat Sherrod Brown in Ryan’s home state of Ohio. Completely embarassing to sell out like this

It’s really revealing that Jean-Pierre seems to think Harris should have been promoted not because of merit (she herself thought Harris would lose) but because Harris was a victim of mistreatment. It’s the same thinking that led to Merrick Garland at AG. A party based on pity rather than power

Volunteer of the year at the Center for New Liberalism (lol) is looking for a job at a center right OR a center left think tank, it doesn't really matter

Musk was enabled at every turn, now he’s released a “do crime” mode on his cars knowing the Trump admin won’t dare take any serious action against him

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account

Tim Ryan's analysis of what ails the Democratic Party is that it has become corrupted by big business. Fair enough. But what he forgets to mention is that he's been an advisor to crypto giant Coinbase since 2023, the same company that's threatening anyone that questions its corporate agenda. Whoops!

Really influential abundance guy wrote this

Really glad to correct this post and see Newsom threaten to withhold state funding from schools that comply with Trump’s dictates

Guy looking at feudal lords living in castles, wearing fancy plate armor and concluding that it’s the peasants living in small huts in the fields, wearing hairshirts who must be the real oppressors in this situation

Finally decided to give the book you all have been talking about a read. I feel like all the reviews have been really misleading, I’m not getting the same vibe at all

Tough break for Alex Trembath and all the other abundists who insisted this is a "bottom-up" movement. Looks the speech delivered at the Abundance Conference just three weeks ago is hilariously out of touch with reality.

They've erected a 12 foot tall statue of the President of the United States of America requesting, and receiving a payoff. They aren't just okay with the corruption, they're celebrating it.

Launching a new think tank where we celebrate corporate sellouts advising our candidates. The proof is in the pudding. (I am unaware of who actually won the 2024 election, can someone inform me?)

The Trump administration has negotiated a sweetheart deal for the purchase of TikTok by American firms. It just so happens that these firms are tied to Trump supporters. Some already have experience manipulating traditional news sources in a pro-Trump direction. Is TikTok next?

For all his tough talk, I haven’t once seen Gavin Newsom defend UCLA or Berkeley from the Trump administration’s attacks. It’s embarrassing. You would think the Governor would stand up to protect the country’s two best public universities, which he happens to oversee, but so far it’s crickets

Bean is running in a D+19 district, and says she "can no longer sit on the sidelines as Trump and Republicans decimate health care, give billionaires tax breaks" Her post-Congressional career (after losing in 2011) included running the "executives club of Chicago" and the largest bank in the US...

Demsas happily spoke at the abundance conference last week, knowing that Charles Lehman of "Deportation abundance" fame, Samuel Hammond of "The EA case for Trump" and Thomas Hochman of "the YIMBY case for alligator Alcatraz" would be there. Now that she got pushback she's trying to backpedal

Alec Stapp, Institute for Progress: “Excited to see Burgum land a cabinet role in the new administration. He’s a YIMBY abundance guy” Matt Yglesias: Burgum is “a totally solid pick who’ll do good things” Alex Trembath, Breakthrough, on Burgum’s appointment: “We are entering an era of abundance”

April of this year: Matt Yglesias Tweets his support for a national ID system that allows the government to demand you prove your citizenship at any given time. Yesterday: Matt Yglesias finally realizes the downside of this fascist policy when he realizes this could apply to him too

Chris Wright, Trump's Secretary of Energy has declared solar and wind energy to be "essentially useless." Guess who backed his confirmation? Prominent abundists like Alex Trembath from the Breakthrough Institute and Derek Kaufman, CEO of the Inclusive Abundance Institute

Nazi trash Richard Hanania is mocking my follower count as a means of downplaying the importance of my report on abundance funders and orgs. It makes sense that a guy who’s career as a “respectable thinker” is dependent on us forgetting he’s a Nazi would be one to defend orgs with a shady past

Trying to win over anti-immigrant voters with stuff like this is so dumb. Immigrants already pay more into social security than they collect, but voters don’t believe it. Immigrants are already limited on federal benefits, voters don’t believe it. This isn’t going to change anything but help Trump!

Ignoring the rules is *the* business strategy of Silicon Valley. There’s no other innovation, just a willingness to break the law and a certainty that the worst that can happen is a slap on the wrist

I very much agree with this! But the distinction I would make is that YIMBYism vs abundance. YIMBYism preceded abundance, and it's a far more narrow, detailed and effective movement. Why would it suddenly get subsumed by the weird national movement?

I spent way too long reading up on the organizations funding the abundance conference, and the connections between the biggest abundists, abundance groups and wealthy funders. Turns out, there's some real evil people involved with this. Give it a read!

Wow. Who could have seen this one coming. Anyways, who is this guys' brother again?

The reason why national reporters are pretending Pirro’s press conference raised “legitimate” issues is because so-called respectable liberals like Yglesias have promoted these same lies for years. They made this a bipartisan complaint in the eyes of the media class

If Democrats are serious about fighting Trump and reversing his war on governance, democracy and history, they need to adapt. The political structures of the past are destined to fail in this moment, they need to create new ones, writes our @maxmoranhi.bsky.social

Chris Cuomo posted (and then deleted) a deepfake video of AOC and is now claiming "it really does sounds like" her. This is what the "AOC" in the video said: "I mean fuck, watching that sultry little temptress squeeze into a Canadian tuxedo three sizes too small with her bouncy little fun bags...

Don't worry guys, they're going to pay for their $3.8 trillion in tax cuts by eliminating one $20/hour lifeguard position at a time! Who really cares about the loss of life anyways?

Decent chance one of the young DOGE staffers fell down some stairs while drunk, made up this insane story to explain their black eye to Musk and we’re going to lose what paltry democracy we have as a result

Mark Cuban posts like the dumbest person you know from high school. What are “Democrats” supposed to do here? Is this a plea for vaguely liberal people to donate to a GoFundMe in the hopes the Democratic Party benefits? Or is Gavin Newsom supposed to invade Texas to provide aid?

Larry Summers is fully in support of Trump's war on higher education. Academic liberty be damned, he wants an end to criticism of Israel and DEI (the very thing that toppled his Harvard presidency). Despite this, Trump is still doing everything he can to highlight Summers' connections to Epstein

Been offline for the past three weeks to get married to the love of my life and enjoy our honeymoon. I am now extremely behind on the news, what are the most important things I missed?

leading off with "a senior vice president of the center-left think tank third way" is a bald-faced lie, right from the get-go in the first line of the piece. third way are slowly trying to dishonestly rebrand themselves, but i refuse to be treated like i have the object permanence of a child

Trump’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi, was a lobbyist for GEO Group

Don’t worry if this Nazi says he’s sorry and the pivots to soft race science, he’ll be accepted into polite society again. Just look at how the abundance crew treats Richard Hanania

Seems like a great time to bring this back to the fore. All the abundance guys love Richard Hanania, a thread:

Vox wrote this whole article about how the Thomas’ opinion means that the Supreme Court will have to watch porn together as if this would be a punishment for him. Buddy this is Clarence Thomas. He famously loves subjecting his colleagues to pornographic content. He thinks this is a positive outcome.

A Silicon Valley startup with a Lord of the Rings name is a good sign that it's going to do the most evil thing imaginable

Democrats should stop talking about the unimportant arguments like 17 million people losing their health insurance and stop focusing on the important ones: the Big Beautiful Bill is going to tax professional gamblers like Nate Silver marginally more

Fetterman showed up to the Senate floor looking like this, was extremely upset when he learned he needed to do his job.

Matt Yglesias made a lot of sense when he called on Democratic Members of Congress to focus on the hellish Medicaid cuts Republicans are attempting to pass. Unfortunately, both Dem leaders and Yglesias are mostly melting down about Zohran instead

You’re all mocking this, saying “who is stupid enough to fall for a fake tweet from the year 2001?”. Well guess what, half the Senate Democratic Caucus did. It isn’t so funny now, is it?

Germans advancing new frontiers in being annoying NIMBYs

It’s really bold for Larry Summers to be talking about economic destruction. After all, he is the man who steadfastly refused to allow for regulation of derivatives trading before 2008. And he wanted to *intentionally* crash the global economy a couple years ago, to put tens of millions out of work

Bill Kristol to the left of the Abundance crew

The idea that Abundance can be separated from WelcomePAC hardliners would be much more compelling if the author of Abundance, Derek Thompson, the CEO of Inclusive Abundance, and the "OG Grandfather" of Abundance ideas weren't all speaking there! Not one of them spoke out against factional fighting!