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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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This week's work is now finished. Creating something new is really hard work. This week in particular, I had many different experiences. Right now, I feel like a traveler. I am stepping into an unknown world before my eyes. I can only pray that someday I will find the light I am aiming for ahead.
August 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This week's work is now finished. Creating something new is really hard work. This week in particular, I had many different experiences. Right now, I feel like a traveler. I am stepping into an unknown world before my eyes. I can only pray that someday I will find the light I am aiming for ahead.
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Can you even imagine.
- Free movement, free trade, free people
- Crushing middlemen, scammers, rentiers
- Countercyclical macro
- Universal care state
- Social compact for public investment
- Public franchises for universal service provisioning
- Democratic alliances + integrated markets abroad
- Free movement, free trade, free people
- Crushing middlemen, scammers, rentiers
- Countercyclical macro
- Universal care state
- Social compact for public investment
- Public franchises for universal service provisioning
- Democratic alliances + integrated markets abroad
going to create a bit that america never had its bourgeois revolution like nairn used to argue about the UK
I love the notion that a shareholder who owns 14.9% of a public company is going on a "legal fishing expedition" by asking for the books.
That's the real issue here: Delaware's corporate laws are capitalist. Alternatives like Nevada & Texas offer management the crony/corruption model they want.
That's the real issue here: Delaware's corporate laws are capitalist. Alternatives like Nevada & Texas offer management the crony/corruption model they want.
July 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Can you even imagine.
- Free movement, free trade, free people
- Crushing middlemen, scammers, rentiers
- Countercyclical macro
- Universal care state
- Social compact for public investment
- Public franchises for universal service provisioning
- Democratic alliances + integrated markets abroad
- Free movement, free trade, free people
- Crushing middlemen, scammers, rentiers
- Countercyclical macro
- Universal care state
- Social compact for public investment
- Public franchises for universal service provisioning
- Democratic alliances + integrated markets abroad
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July 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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"Burn it all down" is a natural political instinct in situations where the social ladder is completely ossified and that's why the biggest redshifts of 2024 were in blue states with NIMBY-controlled housing policy.
And that is one thing Trump actually has delivered: upending American stability.
And that is one thing Trump actually has delivered: upending American stability.
the internet: left-nimbys don't exist and they can't destroy your state
left-nimbys:
left-nimbys:
"In her first hearing as housing committee chair last month, she proclaimed that it’s time for California to 'move away from just development, development, development' and also stated 'transit-oriented development doesn’t necessarily work.'" 🥴
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emil...
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emil...
April 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"Burn it all down" is a natural political instinct in situations where the social ladder is completely ossified and that's why the biggest redshifts of 2024 were in blue states with NIMBY-controlled housing policy.
And that is one thing Trump actually has delivered: upending American stability.
And that is one thing Trump actually has delivered: upending American stability.
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“The idea that humans could create God has been so synonymous with hubris that it barely deserves mentioning—and yet, in true torment nexus fashion, it is something that many lords of the Valley have come to believe, implicitly or explicitly.” www.liberalcurrents.com/elon-musks-a...
Elon Musk's Artificial God
In the vision of Musk and other lords of Silicon Valley, the purpose of AI technology is to insulate them, and only them, from any hint that they might live in a society.
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
“The idea that humans could create God has been so synonymous with hubris that it barely deserves mentioning—and yet, in true torment nexus fashion, it is something that many lords of the Valley have come to believe, implicitly or explicitly.” www.liberalcurrents.com/elon-musks-a...
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It cannot be overstated how insane and dangerous this argument is. They're saying that the government can illegally abduct and imprison people—and even admit that it screwed up!—and then remove the ability of any court to intervene by shipping the victim to a foreign gulag.
If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
April 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It cannot be overstated how insane and dangerous this argument is. They're saying that the government can illegally abduct and imprison people—and even admit that it screwed up!—and then remove the ability of any court to intervene by shipping the victim to a foreign gulag.
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Dear Representative Pressley:
Thank you for noticing this. However, please don’t portray it as a unique wrong done to this person. The American penal system (and immigration system) are deathtraps with appalling lack of medical care, indifference, and cruelty.
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Thank you for noticing this. However, please don’t portray it as a unique wrong done to this person. The American penal system (and immigration system) are deathtraps with appalling lack of medical care, indifference, and cruelty.
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🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
April 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Dear Representative Pressley:
Thank you for noticing this. However, please don’t portray it as a unique wrong done to this person. The American penal system (and immigration system) are deathtraps with appalling lack of medical care, indifference, and cruelty.
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Thank you for noticing this. However, please don’t portray it as a unique wrong done to this person. The American penal system (and immigration system) are deathtraps with appalling lack of medical care, indifference, and cruelty.
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Lincoln at Cooper Union, 1860
“Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”
“Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”
April 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Lincoln at Cooper Union, 1860
“Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”
“Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”
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donald trump has nothing to worry about. a corrupt oligarch with a campaign run by paul manafort has never been brought down over his decision to turn away from closer trade ties with europe in favor of submission to russian domination
April 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
donald trump has nothing to worry about. a corrupt oligarch with a campaign run by paul manafort has never been brought down over his decision to turn away from closer trade ties with europe in favor of submission to russian domination
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he won by a hair on the backs of low-info sporadic voters in the face of a global anti-incumbent wave fueled by COVID and inflation, I hate this insistence that he's suddenly the will of the American people personified for eternity. no the fuck he's not!
April 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
he won by a hair on the backs of low-info sporadic voters in the face of a global anti-incumbent wave fueled by COVID and inflation, I hate this insistence that he's suddenly the will of the American people personified for eternity. no the fuck he's not!
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"What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war." -Henry George, "Protection or Free Trade?"
October 26, 2024 at 7:02 PM
"What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war." -Henry George, "Protection or Free Trade?"
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Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.
April 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.
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New political outlook on American politics just dropped
April 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
New political outlook on American politics just dropped
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I keep watching this clip with something approaching yearning and I’m realizing it’s because we don’t hear this level of strategic realism—that the old world is gone and the old rules don’t apply—from anyone in leadership in the Democratic Party.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I keep watching this clip with something approaching yearning and I’m realizing it’s because we don’t hear this level of strategic realism—that the old world is gone and the old rules don’t apply—from anyone in leadership in the Democratic Party.
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JB Pritzker is good at politics in a way that should not be exceptional but now is, and that's 99% of the goddamn problem.
This has nothing to do with his positions on specific issues, but his attitude and approach to what the basic job of an elected official is.
This has nothing to do with his positions on specific issues, but his attitude and approach to what the basic job of an elected official is.
March 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
JB Pritzker is good at politics in a way that should not be exceptional but now is, and that's 99% of the goddamn problem.
This has nothing to do with his positions on specific issues, but his attitude and approach to what the basic job of an elected official is.
This has nothing to do with his positions on specific issues, but his attitude and approach to what the basic job of an elected official is.
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In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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the morning routine
March 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
the morning routine
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Important note about this breakthrough:
Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing.
Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.
Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing.
Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.
Thanks to Steve Jobs and Gorilla Glass, factories in America are now ramping up to make affordable windows, made from panes thinner than a credit card, that can:
* save Americans $25 billion / year
* withstand a 2x4 shot out of a cannon
(gift link)
www.wsj.com/business/cor...
* save Americans $25 billion / year
* withstand a 2x4 shot out of a cannon
(gift link)
www.wsj.com/business/cor...
A Piece of Glass Thinner Than a Credit Card Could Solve America’s $25 Billion Energy Problem
New windows can insulate better than most walls, and some can even survive being hit with a two-by-four shot from a cannon.
www.wsj.com
March 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Important note about this breakthrough:
Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing.
Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.
Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing.
Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.
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Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump’s Latest Executive Order “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”
March 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump’s Latest Executive Order “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”
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Powerful remarks by Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan in Northampton MA at a Patrick's Day Breakfast on March 17. 1/2
March 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Powerful remarks by Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan in Northampton MA at a Patrick's Day Breakfast on March 17. 1/2
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Important. Either Trump is so far gone mentally he doesn’t know what he’s doing, or people are acting in his name without his knowledge. This was an order with enormous implications, and the President of the United States says he didn’t do it.
President Donald Trump downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn't signed the proclamation, even as he stood by his administration's move.
Trump says he didn’t sign proclamation invoking Alien Enemies Act | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, e...
cnn.it
March 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Important. Either Trump is so far gone mentally he doesn’t know what he’s doing, or people are acting in his name without his knowledge. This was an order with enormous implications, and the President of the United States says he didn’t do it.
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I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:
March 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:
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They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts.
The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.
The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.
Homan: "We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think. I don't care what the left thinks. We're coming."
March 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts.
The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.
The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.