have you thought about using cattle cars now that americans are eating less beef?

In his book, Beardsley talks about the importance of crisis management skills and often goes out of his way to be apolitical. The current BOV was chosen by Youngkin for a political mission and they believe Beardsley will enact that mission. We can all see right through this.

where did i put my annotated copy of spengler...

This victim told a driver that she couldn't report Trump raping her because "They will kill me." In 2021, another victim said that Epstein told her girls who don't behave are fed to alligators and took her where they die. He threatened to kill her and her son.

"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

#empiresuicidewatch 97 Noted ship designer 🌮 will make certain that all manner of gold decor adorns this ship. Certainly mission critical.

the kids aren't going to be alright. or the renters. or the folks counting on cashing out their home equity in 10 years. build moar housing! price-income, rent-income at all time highs. the only winners are entrants/refinancers 2010-2022 source: goldman sachs

if you know Pakistan or Waterbury's excellent book, *exposed to innumerable delusions*, this NACLA article by Irene Wang on the militarization of Mexico's economy will strike some very familiar themes. nacla.org/the-militari...

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

#empiresuicidewatch 96

People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.

the vice president is a klansman

today in sun rises in the east news... cutting immigration will reduce the # of nurses and MDs in the USA also. especially in rural areas.

can't even remember their own lies & talking points from a few months ago. again, this guy is also a prime candidate for Fed Chair.

as in the UK the productivity flat line coincides with a big shift towards contingent contracts. correlation for sure, causation? possibly: no commitment from owners to workers so less training & an i'll be gone mentality that blocks info flows from worker to management in X for higher wages.

Congratulations to the ADL for deciding to go all-in on working with this administration because of some college student protestors who used intemperate rhetoric.

Amidst all the free floating hostility these days, important to remember most people are like this... Spotted on today's walk

Makes me think of all the apartments that could be built on the K-Mart & recently-closed Kroger sites.

america, famously homogeneous at its founding if you ignore the enslaved africans, indentured & free irish, germans, dutch, swedes, welsh, jews, quebeckers & acadians, scots, scots-irish, quaker & catholic & huguenot refugees, transported criminals (georgia), & did i mention enslaved africans (20%)?

I got this comment in response to a post on X and it just made me think that a lot of these reactionaries just have no idea about even the basics of American history, and have been fed a false and rosy nostalgic view of things in the honestly recent past. /also the comment about China is dumb.

there's a real first husband i divorced for drinking face

#caturday bonus, visiting Comet the Cat who has much dignity but refuses to learn not to jump on the dining room table or any other table for that matter

read the 🧵! housing, family formation, fertility rates all deeply connected. and tied closely to our imaginaries about gender roles, the good life, adulting

#caturday He was adopted!

#theywantyoudead 103.

gonna set a record for shortest UVa president. Board of Visitors did not have a quorum to approve the hiring. Not that doing illegal shit seems to be an issue anymore, but hard to see how this stands after Jan 2026 change of governor.

it must be really, really bad for 🌮, the Guardians Of Pedophiles, and assorted othjer elites.

For the record, the law states that "No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary." www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Anyone who accepts the job under the present circumstances is demonstrating that they're morally & intellectually unfit to hold it.

They're not waiting on the Supreme Court to tell them they can ignore the clear, plain text of the 14th Amendment that everyone born in the US is a birthright citizenship. They are trying to erase the citizenship of anyone with skin darker than Stephen Miller's through administrative action alone.

the report understates its message. With stagnant population and thus sales growth in the global north, auto industry sales growth will only come in the global south (assuming incomes rise). investment and product mix follows growth... unless you are an incumbent wedded to older tech...

This man is a contender for federal reserve chair. Much angst in the econ community about the sustainability of pensions (both funded and paygo) as of 2050 but the real potential catastrophy is right now

#theywantyoudead 102 Gonna be a rise in suicides bc of this. Imagine making this a core health policy issue while shutting down NIH and deprecating vaccines

Don't worry! All those newly minted trad wives, fired, no civil rights, will take care of the children and the elderly and the coders displaced by AI can do roofing!

@schumer.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social Why are you still voting to confirm any trump nominee?

@schumer.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Taps the sign, I mean, points to the very last item and the very top item and asks why you keep confirming Trump appointees and passing bills like NDAA

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If you’re hoping to retire, or maybe save up a down payment, well, it’s going to be a rocky few years until (if?) the regulatory state is restored ( @schumer.senate.gov try anyway!) For those who don’t know, McBride is not some bomb throwing catastrophist. If anything, the reverse.

Gonna have to go to my latin-english dictionary to get a translation for “veritas.” Oh yeah, there it is, definitions 5 & 6: “cover up” “repression”

Justice Sotomayor called it in her dissent: "Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune.... In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law."

Makes sense, employment is flat or falling off the edge, renewables deployment is flattening, car sales Including ICE vehicles are flat, home construction is flattening, it all makes sense, harmony in the universe. Biggest flat ever!

Making America Great Again for capitalists worried about the consequences of full employment

Notwithstanding, this is one actual use case for AI, unlike the chat crap.

One more time pointing to the sign that says immigrants are the construction work force. Moreover it's Biden era apartment construction that is letting tents in some markets

#empiresuicidewatch 96 Ending roughly a century of state organized scientific progress.

Self-dealing rather different from the behavior of the trustees in the late 1970s/early1980s who put their own money up to rebuild the Graduate School (what most folks think of as the New School) to something close to its former level of European emigre-staffed glory. real moral decay.

This remains one of the most important articles to understand what is happening to higher ed. Open access! academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

This is a real European Commission document, obtained via the right of access to documents. It instructs staff with management responsibilities to use AI to draft documents and formulate speaking points. Whatever you think of technocracy, soon there'll be little 𝘵𝘦𝘬𝘩𝘯𝘦 (skill) left in Brussels.