j.w.
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“The alliance between capital and mob
is to be found at the genesis
of every consistently imperialist policy.”
— Arendt
is to be found at the genesis
of every consistently imperialist policy.”
— Arendt
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SCOOP: Trump to launch branded crypto wallet and trading application, encouraging his supporters to purchase his memecoin and other crypto assets.
www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...
www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...
Trump to launch branded crypto trading application
New crypto trading and wallet application, created in partnership with Magic Eden, invites fans of President Trump to buy his memecoin
www.citationneeded.news
June 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
SCOOP: Trump to launch branded crypto wallet and trading application, encouraging his supporters to purchase his memecoin and other crypto assets.
www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...
www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...
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Very good job by Shaw with Hawley's usual sarcastic approach. (Familiar if you watch Judiciary hearings - reframe witness's position as crazy, goad them into disagreeing, then say hey check out this smart guy who can't defend the position.)
HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him?
KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents
KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents
June 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Very good job by Shaw with Hawley's usual sarcastic approach. (Familiar if you watch Judiciary hearings - reframe witness's position as crazy, goad them into disagreeing, then say hey check out this smart guy who can't defend the position.)
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Public schools are not for religious indoctrination.
Texas, we'll see you in court.
Texas, we'll see you in court.
ACLU to sue Texas over Ten Commandments bill
Senate Bill 10 requires schools to purchase posters or framed copies of the Ten Commandments, and display them in a manner that is visible.
www.kvue.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Public schools are not for religious indoctrination.
Texas, we'll see you in court.
Texas, we'll see you in court.
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This is absolutely essential reading in case you’re wondering what the wholesale dismantling of civil service work has to do with you. data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dis...
How to Dismantle a Democracy, One Job Posting at a Time
OPM’s new hiring memo imports the authoritarian playbook—quietly, bureaucratically, and by design.
data4democracy.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is absolutely essential reading in case you’re wondering what the wholesale dismantling of civil service work has to do with you. data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dis...
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Don't agree with all of the analysis, but it's a hard nosed one and probably too optimistic. Yet worthwhile to think aloud. Well done to Martin Sandbu and the FT for printing this.
Gift link for the first 30 access: on.ft.com/3HkHReIone
Gift link for the first 30 access: on.ft.com/3HkHReIone
It’s in Europe’s interest to put sanctions on Israel
Limiting trade, travel and freezing foreign reserves would show the EU is willing to act independently of the US
on.ft.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Don't agree with all of the analysis, but it's a hard nosed one and probably too optimistic. Yet worthwhile to think aloud. Well done to Martin Sandbu and the FT for printing this.
Gift link for the first 30 access: on.ft.com/3HkHReIone
Gift link for the first 30 access: on.ft.com/3HkHReIone
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The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before: cnn.it/43GWlge
2025 MIT class president banned from graduation ceremony after pro-Palestinian speech | CNN
The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony on Friday after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before.
cnn.it
June 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before: cnn.it/43GWlge
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Chinese battery glut plugs into solar boom to power Pakistan
https://www.ft.com/content/2b4c598e-a4b3-4c6e-9c38-97e46357f819
https://www.ft.com/content/2b4c598e-a4b3-4c6e-9c38-97e46357f819
Chinese battery glut plugs into solar boom to power Pakistan
Steep fall in energy storage prices proves a game-changer for businesses
www.ft.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Chinese battery glut plugs into solar boom to power Pakistan
https://www.ft.com/content/2b4c598e-a4b3-4c6e-9c38-97e46357f819
https://www.ft.com/content/2b4c598e-a4b3-4c6e-9c38-97e46357f819
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SCOOP: Elon Musk will not be fully exiting DOGE.
In fact, federal workers from at least six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments, and President Trump himself said in a press conference today that “Elon's really not leaving.”
In fact, federal workers from at least six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments, and President Trump himself said in a press conference today that “Elon's really not leaving.”
DOGE Is Busier Than Ever—and Trump Says Elon Musk Is 'Really Not Leaving'
Federal workers from six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments as both new and familiar DOGE faces have appeared in meetings and at new office.
www.wired.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
SCOOP: Elon Musk will not be fully exiting DOGE.
In fact, federal workers from at least six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments, and President Trump himself said in a press conference today that “Elon's really not leaving.”
In fact, federal workers from at least six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments, and President Trump himself said in a press conference today that “Elon's really not leaving.”
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first person dominates in the anglo novel in the 21st century, a radical change from the previous 300 years of the novel form. for an explanation of this historical mutation and the ideology around it, check out chapter 3! (happy to send a copy to anyone)
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
May 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
first person dominates in the anglo novel in the 21st century, a radical change from the previous 300 years of the novel form. for an explanation of this historical mutation and the ideology around it, check out chapter 3! (happy to send a copy to anyone)
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
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One of the worst parts of this whole ongoing ~thing~ has been watching the very few members of our media-political-intellectual-economic-etc elite who do actually care about the collapse of the constitutional order discover how few of their colleagues agree with them.
Couldn't agree more with this. It's jaw-dropping to see the patty cake people are playing with him after what was a full constitutional assault that, oh by the way, is almost certainly going to lead to tens of thousands of people in the global south dying needlessly.
The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...
May 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
One of the worst parts of this whole ongoing ~thing~ has been watching the very few members of our media-political-intellectual-economic-etc elite who do actually care about the collapse of the constitutional order discover how few of their colleagues agree with them.
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Politico scoops the Rubio memo outlining the criteria that could nix a student’s visa application.
It’s ridiculously vague — a lack of social media could be held against students! — which, of course, is the point.
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
Via
@nahaltoosi.bsky.social @ebazail.bsky.social
It’s ridiculously vague — a lack of social media could be held against students! — which, of course, is the point.
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
Via
@nahaltoosi.bsky.social @ebazail.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Politico scoops the Rubio memo outlining the criteria that could nix a student’s visa application.
It’s ridiculously vague — a lack of social media could be held against students! — which, of course, is the point.
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
Via
@nahaltoosi.bsky.social @ebazail.bsky.social
It’s ridiculously vague — a lack of social media could be held against students! — which, of course, is the point.
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
Via
@nahaltoosi.bsky.social @ebazail.bsky.social
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Dario Amodei: "AI will take all white collar jobs."
Also Amodei (in January): "AI will double human lifespans in five to ten years."
Eventually we will all be 500 years old and jobless.
www.inc.com/sam-blum/dou...
Also Amodei (in January): "AI will double human lifespans in five to ten years."
Eventually we will all be 500 years old and jobless.
www.inc.com/sam-blum/dou...
Doubling Lifespans and Superintelligence: AI CEOs Are Saying Some Wild Stuff. Is Any of It True?
You can think of statements about AGI as a means of courting more money.
www.inc.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Dario Amodei: "AI will take all white collar jobs."
Also Amodei (in January): "AI will double human lifespans in five to ten years."
Eventually we will all be 500 years old and jobless.
www.inc.com/sam-blum/dou...
Also Amodei (in January): "AI will double human lifespans in five to ten years."
Eventually we will all be 500 years old and jobless.
www.inc.com/sam-blum/dou...
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From @nytopinion.nytimes.com:
Elon Musk “apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad PR for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
Elon Musk “apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad PR for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
From @nytopinion.nytimes.com:
Elon Musk “apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad PR for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
Elon Musk “apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad PR for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
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On Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s birthday, indulge in the cinematic world of the German iconoclast — seen here in Wim Wenders’s ROOM 666.
Have a Fassbinder marathon on the channel — we’ve have more than 20 of his films now playing. 🖤 bit.ly/3N5ZAqB
Have a Fassbinder marathon on the channel — we’ve have more than 20 of his films now playing. 🖤 bit.ly/3N5ZAqB
May 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
On Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s birthday, indulge in the cinematic world of the German iconoclast — seen here in Wim Wenders’s ROOM 666.
Have a Fassbinder marathon on the channel — we’ve have more than 20 of his films now playing. 🖤 bit.ly/3N5ZAqB
Have a Fassbinder marathon on the channel — we’ve have more than 20 of his films now playing. 🖤 bit.ly/3N5ZAqB
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Excellent piece on the challenge of audience capture — how knowing an audience will financially punish you for presenting uncomfortable new ideas creates an incentive to never present such ideas.
We consciously resist this at The Lever — but it’s a risk. substack.com/home/post/p-...
We consciously resist this at The Lever — but it’s a risk. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Substack Economics
The media world is splintering into a mililion different fragments. Is that good for humanity?
substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Excellent piece on the challenge of audience capture — how knowing an audience will financially punish you for presenting uncomfortable new ideas creates an incentive to never present such ideas.
We consciously resist this at The Lever — but it’s a risk. substack.com/home/post/p-...
We consciously resist this at The Lever — but it’s a risk. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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this @adambonica.bsky.social piece deserves to be read beside the yeoman work that @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social have been doing. The dismantling of administrative expertise is one of those stories that is so big that pro journalists with beats find it hard to focus on or explain .
How to Dismantle a Democracy, One Job Posting at a Time
OPM’s new hiring memo imports the authoritarian playbook—quietly, bureaucratically, and by design.
data4democracy.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
this @adambonica.bsky.social piece deserves to be read beside the yeoman work that @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social have been doing. The dismantling of administrative expertise is one of those stories that is so big that pro journalists with beats find it hard to focus on or explain .
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Who did this? 😂
May 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who did this? 😂
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In Missouri, overturning the will of voters has almost become the legislature’s main business.
Lawmakers wasted no time moving to undo a constitutional amendment that legalized abortion up to fetal viability.
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
Lawmakers wasted no time moving to undo a constitutional amendment that legalized abortion up to fetal viability.
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.
In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power…
www.propublica.org
June 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In Missouri, overturning the will of voters has almost become the legislature’s main business.
Lawmakers wasted no time moving to undo a constitutional amendment that legalized abortion up to fetal viability.
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
Lawmakers wasted no time moving to undo a constitutional amendment that legalized abortion up to fetal viability.
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
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The USS Enterprise, now set to be dismantled, was the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier when it was commissioned in 1961. It was the only vessel of its class to be built and the longest ship to ever serve in the U.S. Navy.
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
World’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to be dismantled in Alabama
www.stripes.com
May 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The USS Enterprise, now set to be dismantled, was the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier when it was commissioned in 1961. It was the only vessel of its class to be built and the longest ship to ever serve in the U.S. Navy.
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
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“.. He had not yet heard the term, according to a senior White House official who acknowledged to CNN that the president was caught off guard ..”
@cnn.com @megancnbc.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/p...
@cnn.com @megancnbc.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/p...
May 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“.. He had not yet heard the term, according to a senior White House official who acknowledged to CNN that the president was caught off guard ..”
@cnn.com @megancnbc.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/p...
@cnn.com @megancnbc.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/p...
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Federal officers entered Rep. Jerry Nadler’s office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and handcuffed and briefly detained one of his aides. The confrontation happened shortly after the aide observed federal agents detaining migrants in a public hallway outside an immigration courtroom.
Aide to Rep. Nadler Is Handcuffed Amid Confrontation With Federal Agents
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Federal officers entered Rep. Jerry Nadler’s office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and handcuffed and briefly detained one of his aides. The confrontation happened shortly after the aide observed federal agents detaining migrants in a public hallway outside an immigration courtroom.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered staff cuts at the congressionally mandated Pentagon office, one that oversees tests of major weapons systems to ensure they’re effective and maintainable before billions of dollars are spent on them.
Hegseth cuts staff at Pentagon’s independent weapons test office
www.stripes.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered staff cuts at the congressionally mandated Pentagon office, one that oversees tests of major weapons systems to ensure they’re effective and maintainable before billions of dollars are spent on them.
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I have a long passage in The Sirens' Call about spam, and understanding spam as the central form of pollution in attention capitalism. AI is already making spam creation way cheaper and easier.
www.semafor.com/article/05/2...
www.semafor.com/article/05/2...
AI-powered fanfiction blurs political reality
Fake stories about real politicians sometimes get more views than real-world reporting that’s not built for the algorithms.
www.semafor.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I have a long passage in The Sirens' Call about spam, and understanding spam as the central form of pollution in attention capitalism. AI is already making spam creation way cheaper and easier.
www.semafor.com/article/05/2...
www.semafor.com/article/05/2...