The easy response is that abundance groups (I guess that’s a term now) are not claiming to represent any specific communities but rather a set of ideas. That’s its very modernist appeal.

Stoller in shambles

At least some part of this is the fact that large parts of American life -- pretty much any dealing with the financial sector, every commercial during sports events about gambling, the modal interaction with blue collar professionals -- is either an actual scam or feels like one.

The USA when somebody sees a balloon:

Frankly if anything the story here updates priors against this theory. It seems there was an organized network of the friends of the world's most famous pedophile who were pushing the "metoo has gone too far" thing; it was astroturfed

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

And then the winged hussars arrived

From Swap Lines to Commonwealth: Central Bankers and the Making of the North Atlantic Super State 2020-2028.

Puerto Ricans have been fighting for energy democracy - the right to control their grid locally and build the clean energy future on the island - for decades. If you want to support an incredible effort, get plugged into the work led by Queremos Sol! queremossolpr.org

Indeed, though some nuanced differences that can be consequential www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We’ve reinvented the MMMF pre 08

Updated my Substack to reflect this important point: Very low subsidies to the social funds late in the year were a big reason why Russian federal budget spending seemed so strangely low late in 2025. See last paragraph: janiskluge.substack.com/p/russias-co...

Ukrainian soldiers share how the war changed them

Through daily harassment, killing, house demolition and eviction, the Israeli government is trying to provoke a Palestinian uprising in the West Bank. Their aim is to repeat in the West Bank what was done in Gaza, and, if possible, orchestrate mass expulsion to Jordan. 1/

Worked so hard to get this money... yet another thing to get canceled and erased

at least when the Seahawks were stunting on Peyton Manning's broken ass body it was like, entertaining, this is just a nice-looking young man having an awful game

lol

Perfect for MAHA. Food doesn't come any more fresh & raw than that. Straight off Holyfield's still-living head!

Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade. The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances. Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S. Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.

was shocked to see Bad Bunny turned to the camera and said this is my book recommendation on California’s power grid

Ok the power lines bit omg.

Just a reminder that the last time the Patriots were in the Super Bowl the @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social backup QB beat them. Stay tuned to Thai account tonight for more petty facts from a petty Eagles fan.

Plays the most bitching of riffs

Damn it I don’t want to hand it to Musk.

That was done before ICE existed and the people in ICE who do all that infamously don’t want to be part of the agency.

A theory like gravity is a theory.

“My Chemical Munitions”

Conjuncture for guys with bow ties.

Most of all this shows he was a dipshit like a huge portion of rich guys who hang out with FSB econ thought leader types whose job is mostly to get rich people prostitutes. dossier.center/jeffreyepste...

in real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits

I told y’all it'd be a busy day for critical minerals content! I joined @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on Shift Key podcast to discuss all things minerals, including some of the splashy new Trump initiatives and progress reports. Stockpiling, tax credits, and more! 🔌💡 shows.acast.com/65bac3af0334...

Shortage of power and even higher electric bills the own goal of the Trump’s ‘Blockade’ of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/c...

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Put ICE in charge of building a fleet of AP 1000s and funding every data center.

"It's like Lenin said, you look for the person who will benefit… and, uh, uh, you know… You know, you'll uh, uh—well, you know what I'm trying to say…" www.unpopularfront.news/p/magas-peop...

Consolidation!!!

2nd amendment baby!

When you read the Epstein emails with the Eastern European women he trafficked, without looking at the addresses it’s impossible not to assume he’s the one that’s not a native English speaker.

Investors are a herd

Good chart from Paul Krugman's latest piece. Feel like I would like some clarity over the scores from 2008 though, given FOMC transcripts have Warsh saying these things at the March, August and September meetings of that year.

it's all an elite reproduction crisis, imo

"tired of some of their admiration for [insert lefty or left-leaning political and cultural figure]" explains a solid three-quarters of the last decade of american politics

It’s cold outside so the two year old is getting an intro to DBZ.

The reason Ilan Wurmans exist is because we let Richard Epsteins continue to exist in legal academia rather than kick them down the figurative professional staircase.

I'm proud to say I'm one of those who loathed Larry Summers before it was fashionable.

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

A reader (who wished to remain anonymous for reasons of naturalization status) passed along to me their version of a Battle Hymn of Minneapolis, which I now share with you. 'Tis, as they say, a banger. justpaste.it/battle-hymn-...

You’d basically get auto-flagged dealing with gmail addresses for potential further review. So imagine you’re DB compliance and are like “oh no it’s fine it’s just Jeffrey Epstein” in 2016.