Steve Randy Waldman
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November 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
“It’s Difficult To Overstate How Concentrated Wealth Is In The US” by @ianwelsh.bsky.social www.ianwelsh.net/its-difficul...
It’s Difficult To Overstate How Concentrated Wealth Is In The US
These two charts tell a story. First, the top .1%. Next, the top 1%. This chart is only to 2023. Now what you'll notice is that the top .1% holds about half the wealth of the top 1%. It's like this al...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
“It’s Difficult To Overstate How Concentrated Wealth Is In The US” by @ianwelsh.bsky.social www.ianwelsh.net/its-difficul...
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If I were an American I would save money by simply buying lottery tickets with winning numbers and not those with losing numbers.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If I were an American I would save money by simply buying lottery tickets with winning numbers and not those with losing numbers.
i feel like dementia is aspirational now, given how many famous powerful people now have it.
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 AM
i feel like dementia is aspirational now, given how many famous powerful people now have it.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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🚨 💰 WOW — @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn snuck a provision into the spending bill that would let them sue the government for $500,000 because Jack Smith looked into their phone records around Trump’s insurrection.
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
🚨 💰 WOW — @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn snuck a provision into the spending bill that would let them sue the government for $500,000 because Jack Smith looked into their phone records around Trump’s insurrection.
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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Blueskyism is actually a fantasy of Bluesky, formed by ignorance and reactionary hope (that this place is full of stereotypes that justify them hanging out with the less objectionable Nazis).
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Blueskyism is actually a fantasy of Bluesky, formed by ignorance and reactionary hope (that this place is full of stereotypes that justify them hanging out with the less objectionable Nazis).
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This is like the classic Chinese Finger Trap of political economy. Fear of individual loss drives the desire for control and obstructs collective action, the manifestation of an intelligent response.
**See also the spiritual CFT. Fear of the loss of ego obstructs higher consciousness.
**See also the spiritual CFT. Fear of the loss of ego obstructs higher consciousness.
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is like the classic Chinese Finger Trap of political economy. Fear of individual loss drives the desire for control and obstructs collective action, the manifestation of an intelligent response.
**See also the spiritual CFT. Fear of the loss of ego obstructs higher consciousness.
**See also the spiritual CFT. Fear of the loss of ego obstructs higher consciousness.
@jwmason.bsky.social as Green New Kalecki.
(i think he’s right. @schwarz.bsky.social’s “iron law of institutions” applies to particular capitalists and the economy at large. they’d accept economic collapse and catastrophe if that’s what preserves their own capacity to control.)
(i think he’s right. @schwarz.bsky.social’s “iron law of institutions” applies to particular capitalists and the economy at large. they’d accept economic collapse and catastrophe if that’s what preserves their own capacity to control.)
The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
@jwmason.bsky.social as Green New Kalecki.
(i think he’s right. @schwarz.bsky.social’s “iron law of institutions” applies to particular capitalists and the economy at large. they’d accept economic collapse and catastrophe if that’s what preserves their own capacity to control.)
(i think he’s right. @schwarz.bsky.social’s “iron law of institutions” applies to particular capitalists and the economy at large. they’d accept economic collapse and catastrophe if that’s what preserves their own capacity to control.)
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The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
this is why the polity should organize itself through professional representatives, capable of memory and coherence, communicating actively with the represented and bound to pursue their interests.
in the United States we’ve created an institutional environment in which this is impossible, however.
in the United States we’ve created an institutional environment in which this is impossible, however.
(the polity does not remember what happened 2 weeks ago. this is why you had VA GOP winning 2021 the same year the GOP attempted a insurrection)
If the polity cannot remember what happened two weeks ago, every two weeks, then they deserve to have the Republic fall
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
this is why the polity should organize itself through professional representatives, capable of memory and coherence, communicating actively with the represented and bound to pursue their interests.
in the United States we’ve created an institutional environment in which this is impossible, however.
in the United States we’ve created an institutional environment in which this is impossible, however.
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It amuses me how low the Conehead has fallen. open.substack.com/pub/infinite...
Marc Andreessen as Avatar for Societal Decay
How one venture capitalist represents everything wrong with social media
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It amuses me how low the Conehead has fallen. open.substack.com/pub/infinite...
somewhere there is a Cave, mysterious and magical, a Cave of Paradoxes.
how, for example, can one outrage a squish?
and yet. look around.
how, for example, can one outrage a squish?
and yet. look around.
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
somewhere there is a Cave, mysterious and magical, a Cave of Paradoxes.
how, for example, can one outrage a squish?
and yet. look around.
how, for example, can one outrage a squish?
and yet. look around.
people say Trump has really coarsened our politics, but pretty much everyone who interacts with him says “pardon me”.
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
people say Trump has really coarsened our politics, but pretty much everyone who interacts with him says “pardon me”.
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This is a pretty good description of where we find ourselves politically. The biggest question remaining is what sort of seeds we plant in the corpse.
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is a pretty good description of where we find ourselves politically. The biggest question remaining is what sort of seeds we plant in the corpse.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
a silver lining! the left and the “centrists” seem madly in agreement.
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 AM
a silver lining! the left and the “centrists” seem madly in agreement.
dark.
Democrats weren't going to win. They were going to force Republicans to kill the filibuster. WIthout the filibuster they would be forced in power to pass a lot of things they don't want to pass.
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
dark.
you can’t be the prodemocracy party and then fib to prevent the public from knowing what position your members of Congress actually took in order to shield them from accountability to voters.
Doesn’t matter that Schumer voted “no”. He got the Dem caucus on board with caving. THEN the caucus figured out who should vote yes to provide cover for D Sens up for reelection in 2026, who might have been in serious danger of being primaried. 2/
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
you can’t be the prodemocracy party and then fib to prevent the public from knowing what position your members of Congress actually took in order to shield them from accountability to voters.
has it come to this?
Compared to these knobheads, Trump really does look like a very stable genius.
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
has it come to this?
who hates the democrats more, the people who vote against them or the people who vote for them?
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
who hates the democrats more, the people who vote against them or the people who vote for them?
“the Constitution is not a (career) suicide pact”, they console themselves.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“the Constitution is not a (career) suicide pact”, they console themselves.
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this cartoon sums it up.
This next decade is about China's solar hockey stick of hope against the petrostates led by the US.
China's bet made Solar+batteries+EVs turn into business models of Coke cans-everywhere, cheap, accessible, satisfy the thirst for freedom.
bsky.app/profile/mark...
This next decade is about China's solar hockey stick of hope against the petrostates led by the US.
China's bet made Solar+batteries+EVs turn into business models of Coke cans-everywhere, cheap, accessible, satisfy the thirst for freedom.
bsky.app/profile/mark...
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
this cartoon sums it up.
This next decade is about China's solar hockey stick of hope against the petrostates led by the US.
China's bet made Solar+batteries+EVs turn into business models of Coke cans-everywhere, cheap, accessible, satisfy the thirst for freedom.
bsky.app/profile/mark...
This next decade is about China's solar hockey stick of hope against the petrostates led by the US.
China's bet made Solar+batteries+EVs turn into business models of Coke cans-everywhere, cheap, accessible, satisfy the thirst for freedom.
bsky.app/profile/mark...
if Tehran really runs out of water, would we help?
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
if Tehran really runs out of water, would we help?