"using tariff money" Apparently they think they've found foreign issuers of the US currency...

This passage nearly broke me.

I wrote this during Occupy, a few years after separation from my Army service. While the conditions are different now, this feels relevant still. Share this with friends and family in the military, because we need them to choose which side they are on. Time is precious folks.

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

"...so many continue to bow before private money’s veto even as it is unmasked as blackmail and collusion. The task is to cultivate and extend the democratic reflex wherever it appears, multiplying its legibility, and provisioning the health of our democracy..."

Wooop! With the last ratifications in last night 🇲🇦🇸🇱, a landmark treaty to protect nature in 2/3rds of the world’s oceans can now enter into force. If you need a refresh on what it means and took to get here, @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and I have you covered. www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-does...

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

An international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally 🧵 www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Think how much you pay in taxes. Now think about this: The ultra-wealthy pay between 0% and 0.6% of their wealth in individual income tax – around 0.6% in a country like the United States and 0.1% in a country like France. We wrote about it in @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

"JPMorgan’s anti-money-laundering specialists subsequently acknowledged that such {large cash} withdrawals should have alerted the bank to the possibility that Epstein was committing crimes." FUCKERS

Stellar work by Nathan Tankus again

"The debt, the debt, the debt!" Truly a chicken little moment in French politics, but a lot of damage has been done by how strongly they have pushed this narrative.

In the Fourth Republic, we're going to resurrect the Postal Service with postal banking, public email accounts, and neighborhood post offices that provide constituency services and free legal advice. It's going to be so good.

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

It's the cultivated misinformation systems, not the vaccines, that create the questioning.

New statement: IDSA, APHA and partners call for RFK Jr. to resign: "Our country needs leadership that will promote open, honest dialogue — not disregard decades of lifesaving science, spread misinformation, reverse medical progress and decimate programs that keep us safe." bit.ly/3JOgDya

The language/framing of debt/borrowing is too powerful & required neutralizing to provide a new platform for political discourse. End the practice of treasury-issued securities & let CBs issue short-term securities as needed. No more so-called "debt" to cry wolf about.

Here's a better response to RFK's destruction of our public health system than what Senator Schatz is offering here, from JB Pritzker (with some additional ideas thrown in from me and public health experts): newrepublic.com/article/1998...

Wow this is really good.

The letter is ready, thanks to all those who helped out! Starting to gather signature now, please consider signing (link at top of letter) & spread the word. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

NEW PIECE: Powell and the Federal Reserve System has already failed to meet the moment and not defending Lisa Cook will seal both Powell's and the Fed's fate. www.crisesnotes.com/powell-will-...

Oh for a political party willing to fight for the value of public goods and services.

y’all know what one of the first nazi book burnings was right? y’all know why they did it y’all know trans people were one of their first targets and even the ALLIES left us in the camps when liberating everyone else y’all see what’s right in front of you, right?

Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

Truth

This on repeat by the Dems every time they get a mic, please

Thinking about provisioning society in an era of autocracy.

Again

Via Euronews: Israel faces widespread condemnation after Al Jazeera correspondent killed in Gaza www.euronews.com/2025/08/11/i...

NEW: Congressional Budget Office analysis of who wins and loses in the GOP megabill. Top 10% gets $13,600 a year (2.7% increase in income) Bottom 10% *loses* $1,200 a year (3.1% drop in income) This isn't shared sacrifice--it's class warfare.

Better yet, legislate a federally-funded, locally administered #jobguarantee at $25/hr + health/vision/dental/childcare/education benefits. Now that's the floor. Biz has to do better to attract workers & when they inevitably don't hire everyone who wants to work no one is left unemployed.

True, since the interest is just created by the Fed when they credit the bank accounts of bond holders. But we would have a better shot at democracy.

Greatly confused in believing that raising revenues, not managing inflation, is the objective. But on point for a wannabe godfather.

There just isn't a set of laws that will hold if the president, the majority in both houses of Congress, and six votes on the supreme court want the president to be a dictator

Good discussion

How about trying this: "I would stop at nothing to ensure the wellbeing of everyone living in this country"?

Where is MAGA'S brain? Whether Trump is, or is not, in the Epstein Files makes no difference. Trump is in the Court Files--- held liable by two Federal Juries for sexual assault and defamation, and being made to pay $83.300,000.

A win for science 🦕

Did AI write this headline? US gov "debt holes" are about as accurate as an invented LLM source.

The question the public should be asking is *not*, how high do rent increases have to be to justify past lending decisions? The question we should be asking is, how do we ensure that the costs of building overvaluation are borne by owners and lenders rather than tenants?

The problem, in other words, is entirely about debt, not the actual costs of providing rental housing. The problem is that building owners expected rents to rise faster than they turned out to, and took out bigger loans than the actual rent increases could justify.

Is there any precedent to this degree of systematic destruction?

Listen to them

This guy

How does Tariff Man think? A. Tariffs are a fun game to play that give bullies like me attention. B. USD come from other countries and we need more USD. C. Other?

You love to see it

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“.. At no point in the unfolding Epstein scandal has Trump focused on the young victims of these heinous criminals. .. The president has shown no concern for anything other than protecting himself.” @rexhuppke.bsky.social @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...