#theywantyoudead 111 733 confirmed measles cases as of last week (CDC) 546 new for 2026 in So Carolina (920 including 2025). Annualized that would be c. 7300 cases+/- for the whole USA if trend continues **at the same rate** , so about 5x 2025 case load.

As @michaelpettis.bsky.social says at least 1x per week, China cannot maintain a direct or indirect export surplus and also avoid acquiring some non-RMB asset. If not USTs, then something else, and if not USD denominated then -> ⬆️ deficits in other countries -> ⬆️ protectionist policy there.

Rearmament of DEU and JPN in the 1950s/60s was acceptable to the US bc they were firmly locked down via actual command structure and control logistics (esp’ly oil). That remains the key Q, not the level of rearmament (unless it includes logistics and command/control assets). Unless… nukes.

you: Both Germany and Japan are re-arming. Like for real. me: is that....bad? @katemac.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Or, a different metric, the 2026 ICE+CBP roughly equals the 2024 appropriation for the Housing & Urban development dept. choices meme.

Another real banger from @cornelban.bsky.social on the weaknesses of EU industrial policy geoeconomic.substack.com/p/electric-w...

The ‘You Don’t Have to Apologize for Being White Anymore’ guys have now made it against the law to use the word Black at college.

IA wins the internet global currency Super Bowl today.

Didn’t know someone had commissioned a theme song for the Epstein show!

Excellent summary of the large body of work @steffenmurau.bsky.social and colleagues have done on the Offshore (US) Dollar Syatem www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru... @phenomenalworld.bsky.social Look here for the bigger body of work: steffenmurau.com/portfolio/in...

Can’t wait until typhus shows up at American Dachau, that was the big killer in the early German concentration camps

#caturday callie, a foster who is probably now about 10 years old. she was very calm for a kitten.

why private equity sucks part infinity. here's the opposite way of running a business. WSJ 7 feb 26

Thank goodness we have a populist party in government that will respond to these concerns by cutting taxes on billionaires and expelling the people who harvest food, build houses, and do the dirty work in hospitals!

What would Jesus do? But anyway clear from where the 🌮 gets his religious ideas.

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

layoffs at the Washington Post are a murder for hire. WSJ on tax cut benefits for Amazon 6 Feb 26

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So you‘re saying it’s consistent with the rest of the tax system?

Here’s the ever useful online letter of recommendation gender bias calculator www.tomforth.co.uk/genderbias/

<cough, taps mic> women have worked tirelessly for decades to get such ‘aesthetic’ aspects out of rec letters, with significant success 🤬

stock (wealth) vs flow (GDP or GNI, can't tell) but in anycase a very very healthy oligarchy here. this is maybe around 3000 people

Confessions! This is why they should all resign their positions so actually competent people can take those jobs.

🚨New piece in Politics & Society! w/ @maxkiefel.bsky.social @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 doi.org/10.1177/0032...

Imo, the starting point of any sort of Marx-inspired political economy is that while individual capitalists qua capitalists seek greater money profits, capital owners as political actors seek to increase the authority that possession of money gives them over other human beings.

More, please

Starting to believe the armchair at a distance diagnoses of narcissistic personality disorder…

My US and Norwegian students will recall that i stressed that US income deciles 20-50 basically had the worst deal in the US welfare state, which was both cause and consequence of a non-universal welfare state H/t @benbraun.bsky.social @bentsofus.bsky.social

My working theory of Trumpism is that he is (among other things) the cutting edge of the bosses' campaign to reassert control over their white-collar workforce. The loss of control provided by the physical office during/after the pandemic would then. be part of what they're pushing back against.

At war with its own citizens.

Again, death in detention is a feature not a bug of the american Dachaus. Bad food, minimal water, no medical care, no heating (and eventually cooling), overcrowding = make thins so bad that “remigration” seems a better choice, if you have one.

#theywantyoudead 109 But mostly it will be children from missing vaccines Elderly from unnecessary cancer (deletion of mRNA cancer treatments) Everyone in between from more pollution

this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

For more than 60 years, newborns in the US have routinely received vitamin K injections to prevent potentially life-threatening bleeding. These aren't vaccines, but they are getting swept up in anti-vaccine sentiment, doctors told me, and more parents are rejecting them.

Still a weasel answer allowing him to claim, as RFKjr does, that it’s too many vaccines too close together at too young an age. verges on negligent homicide. 588 confirmed measles cases as of 30Jan26, likely even more given outbreak @ dilley (American dachau) detention ctr

UVA undergrad is ≈ 20% Asian/Asian-Am. 82k applicants this year for 4k slots of which 70% must be VA residents. High A/A % is a function of immigration & full tuition foreign students. A/A ≈ 8% VA pop but concentrated in the excellent NOVA school districts (esp’ly Fairfax) so hard work + environment

Only the best people, good people on both sides.

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

Sometimes you have to say it out loud to appreciate how dire t all is: The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections — in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.

Dachau Texas Important to recall that the concentration camps started out as detention centers with deliberate malnutrition, abuse etc. both in 1902 (Anglo-Boer war) and 1933

Feature, not a bug. Allows selective prosecution of folks exposing the real criminals here. A legal version of the car bombing of the journalist who released the Panama Papers.

BREAKING: The Department of Justice left multiple unredacted photos of fully nude women or girls exposed as part of Friday’s dump of more than 3.5 million pages of files related to the investigations and prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell.

Newspaper owned by billionaire says billionaires should not be taxed, news at 11…

So we are like, what, 1 year away from them pushing China’s policy (per WAPO yesterday) of having local officials call young women every month to ask if they are pregnant and putting high taxes on condoms?

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Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

not a representative sample! but look at the inequality revealed by the gap between average and median even in a sample of people that presumably has the time, energy, interest (and money) to use the referenced website. & of course, generational differences reflecting compound interest, timing, etc

#theywantyoudead 108 588 measles cases so far in 2026… 1 month! Annualized = c. 7100 for 2026 2025 the whole year saw 2267 cases CDC data.

Never gets old.