RIP Robert Duvall, damn www.thewrap.com/culture-life...

#Economics #US #China #Corporatism

Coming to the end of @naomioreskes.bsky.social and Erik M. Conway’s intensely informative book The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market. Unfortunately I just came across a jarring inaccuracy: 1/3

Although #Trump & #Lutnick have no shame, the same is not true for other world figures mentioned in the #EpsteinFIles. Here are some of the resignations (or whatever you would call Prince Andrew’s current status) that I’ve seen so far: Chairman of DP World (logistics company in Dubai) 1/4

This is actually kind of funny. Although #Dershowitz kept #Epstein out of jail with a plea deal in 2007, Epstein apparently didn’t appreciate the terms? Subsequent emails show him being catty (for lack of a better word) toward Dersh www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

If you refuse to look at something then you can pretend it doesn't exist. Vinay Prasad - like so many other members of this administration - is engaging in tantrum behavior more appropriate to 4 year olds. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

I am morbidly fascinated with what the #EpsteinFiles reveal about the way power operates. Excellent perspective by Melinda Cooper www.equator.org/articles/eps...

I just discovered mathematician @chrischirp.bsky.social created a “Trump Action Tracker,” a useful tool for understanding the #Trump admin’s blitzkreig attack on the entirety of the US government www.trumpactiontracker.info

Good luck. I tried getting help for it the summer of 2020 when I was routinely gassed in my own home for 4 months. The silence was so deafening I actually wrote to the United Nations too. No one ever wrote back. Gassing soldiers? War crime. Gassing citizens? Business as usual

Mantra for approaching social media: When drama trends, ask who benefits from sucking the wind of the news cycle

For those of us who have never given up asking questions, living through this slow rolling collapse into #fascism takes studying the human condition from the ivory tower of observation into the mean streets of the real world. We’re confronted with Maslow’s hierarchy in real time, as 1/4

#PeteHegseth gets smacked down by the court for violating the #FirstAmendment rights of #SenatorMarkKelly storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“From #Caracas to #Minneapolis, legal authority and institutional power are being redirected toward an overriding end: governing populations as subjects rather than citizens.” 1/2

In a severe downturn, insolvencies cascade into the broad financial market and the banking system, wiping out capital. buff.ly/gzrkuWS

Updated: ICE and Border Patrol continue to kill people out of the public eye. There's no doubt that the Trump regime is working overtime to hide the full scope of the terror campaign spreading across our country.  Here's our updated list of deaths and injuries.

“Lies are verbal violence, often told by those looking to scam others or by those who are afraid of truths.” Although this article focuses on #CharlieKirk, it offers food for thought on US political economy & culture in general dgilesphd.substack.com/p/the-coward...

The violence and depravity of #DHS #ICE and #BorderPatrol is escalating. The latest outrage from an ICE whistle blower who was fired after describing the awful conditions of detention www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-whistleb...

@fractapp.bsky.social I followed the link to look at what you have on offer re: social media. I hope you’re going to add more information describing your services because right now it doesn’t really say anything

#Lutnick was not only involved in a business venture with #Epstein, he was also his next door neighbor for a while. When reading about the ongoing #EpsteinFiles, consider not only Epstein’s disgusting proclivities with minors but also his relationships with power www.yahoo.com/news/article... 1/2

I'm going to introduce legislation blocking Trump from stealing taxpayer dollars with this absurd lawsuit. Stay tuned.

Despite DHS framing Mobile Fortify as a tool for identifying people through facial recognition "Every manufacturer of this technology, every PD with a policy makes very clear that FR technology is not capable of providing a positive ID, it makes mistakes, & that it's only for generating leads"

Messages between Jeffrey Epstein and Crown Princess Mette-Marit have surfaced while her son is on trial for rape. Almost a third of Norwegians now want a republic

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

On top of considering the content of the latest #EpsteinFiles release, consider the WAY in which the #Trump admin did this. It’s what Bannon referred to as “flooding the zone,” overwhelming both politicians and journalists with the sheer volume of material andrewspringer.medium.com/why-the-medi...

A fine essay in the @lrb.co.uk that focuses on UK politics but could just as easily be describing the #DemocraticParty in the US. The reason that the major party of the left cannot rise to meet the challenge of Trumpism is systemic www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe... 1/2

Two giants of the #whistleblowing world, Thomas Drake and Jessyln Radack, offer a warning about ongoing government attempts to curtail people from exposing wrongdoing. The #Trump admin is not the first but they’re one of the most overt eyewitness-for-history.mymagic.page/the-perilous...

Ever think about the parallels between Orwell’s “#1984” and social media & Google? The “telescreens” 1. Received & transmitted simultaneously 2. Heard everything 3. Were used for propaganda

America work culture is psychotic. Monetize your free time. Work three jobs plus a side hustle. Cashiers must stand for eight straight hours. Never call off, go to work sick so you can infect everyone. Hustle culture is toxic.

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)

🔴Jeffrey Epstein’s 4chan Plan The sex-trafficker’s fingerprints are all over the early rise of the alt-right and the far-right movements that would follow, new documents reveal bylinetimes.com/2026/02/06/j...

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS. Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Under Trump we have Schrödinger’s “America First.” What used to be a mantra of nationalism and isolationism has become meaningless as neoconservative war hawks shape his policy responsiblestatecraft.org/america-firs...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Kavanaugh stops” aka one of the final nails in the coffin of the 4th Amendment have allowed DHS to use facial recognition tech to racially profile (NOT identify) people As a result habeas corpus cases are overloading court dockets and they are correctly being granted left and right

It’s tragic that it took #LarrySummers ties to #JeffreyEpstein to FINALLY get people to stop treating him like an éminence grise tsd.naomiklein.org/articles/200...

Solidarity with #MPLS as the occupation of Minnesota continues. Here is some information about how you can help www.standwithminnesota.com

Glorious transcript from a federal judge fed up with #DOJ #DHS #ICE #CBP failure to comply with court orders HT @rparloff.bsky.social www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.

🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.

Has anyone seen a count of the number of US businesses that have been gutted by private equity? #EddieBauer is the latest example I’ve seen. They’ve declared bankruptcy

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

It is not illegal to watch, record, follow, or track immigration officers. It *is* illegal to threaten, punish, or point a gun at them when they've done nothing illegal. If all these people were doing is observing, this is a crime. As are all the similar videos. We can't let this become normal.

At some point we will all have to come to terms with the fact that the billionaires who own the news really don’t want the news reported

It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.

Amen to this. At its core, the legal profession is built around minimum requirements of ethics and professionalism. We are seeing in real time how this serves to act as a check on power

They're literally running out of lawyers in a state where the district judges are practically at war with the administration.

1/ When I was at the FTC, I heard that social media companies were hiring tons of psychologists. So I asked our law clerk to go on LinkedIn to figure out how many they had. She came back to me and told me there were too many to count. She suggested I focus on PhDs, and I said sure let's try that.

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.