Casey Ayers
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honestly it's very appropriate that the first breaks are not the erstwhile Moderate Republicans but the only people in the coalition who actually believe in anything
This is existential for Trump. MTG is creating a permission structure for MAGA (not just moderate GOP who never really loved Trump) to break with him decisively. If he can’t put this rebellion down it’s gonna get real bad for him real quick
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
honestly it's very appropriate that the first breaks are not the erstwhile Moderate Republicans but the only people in the coalition who actually believe in anything
Seems like after today she’s gonna tweet about The Files including conclusive photographic proof of you know who having you know who’s you know what in his mmhmm yes sir and it’s gonna be like a nuke went off in the middle of the party.
November 15, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Seems like after today she’s gonna tweet about The Files including conclusive photographic proof of you know who having you know who’s you know what in his mmhmm yes sir and it’s gonna be like a nuke went off in the middle of the party.
Tariffs messed with the bag
the wsj as the source of the knife in the back for the last few of these is still baffling
November 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Tariffs messed with the bag
Article I solutions for Article I problems.
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Article I solutions for Article I problems.
The secret to the last half-century of Republican success is as simple as Democrats consistently accepting the premise.
The phrase "sucked in" is true, but not in the way he uses it. He means the campaign was all about identity. It was not. "Sucked in" means Democrats are terrible at rising to bait and letting their opponents frame the debate, therefore creating an impression of a campaign they didn't actually run.
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
November 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The secret to the last half-century of Republican success is as simple as Democrats consistently accepting the premise.
Stepped back into YCL for yen exposure yesterday and grabbed some more VOO when the S&P touched 6650 a few minutes ago. Very heavy on gold and getting killed this morning but I still think it breaks to new highs before end of year.
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Stepped back into YCL for yen exposure yesterday and grabbed some more VOO when the S&P touched 6650 a few minutes ago. Very heavy on gold and getting killed this morning but I still think it breaks to new highs before end of year.
The latter has been the play at least since Uber came around, even if in a few cases, such as cloud services, an oligopoly was the outcome rather than a monopoly or duopoly.
Re. AI-related investment: do all the people spending hundreds of billions think there will be demand for what this investment is buying, or are they each building in anticipation of winning a winner-take-all game, leaving all the losers with sunk costs and overcapacity?
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The latter has been the play at least since Uber came around, even if in a few cases, such as cloud services, an oligopoly was the outcome rather than a monopoly or duopoly.
Not loving it
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Not loving it
No joke, it would
if we bring back the Newscaster Mid-Atlantic do you think that would unfuck our media environment? like a big collective magic trick. maybe that's what made it all work.
Flashback to live news coverage from the evening of August 8, 1974...
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
No joke, it would
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
Oops
Stocks/crypto down pushes Trump approval down which lowers GOP/independent confidence which pushes stocks down…to the extent it’s been a Trump momentum trade that might be broken.
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Oops
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This man, the President’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (don’t call it BLM), is 34 years old:
November 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This man, the President’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (don’t call it BLM), is 34 years old:
Every day I get to see how evil has mutilated not only the soul but the earthly form of some regime toady and I gotta say I really appreciate it as a way of making me feel great about how I look for my age.
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Every day I get to see how evil has mutilated not only the soul but the earthly form of some regime toady and I gotta say I really appreciate it as a way of making me feel great about how I look for my age.
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If there's anything that recent events have shown us, it's that wealthy elites confess to or implicate themselves in crimes casually and constantly because they cannot fathom experiencing consequences.
Which means if we really tried to investigate and prosecute them, convictions would be easy.
Which means if we really tried to investigate and prosecute them, convictions would be easy.
something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
If there's anything that recent events have shown us, it's that wealthy elites confess to or implicate themselves in crimes casually and constantly because they cannot fathom experiencing consequences.
Which means if we really tried to investigate and prosecute them, convictions would be easy.
Which means if we really tried to investigate and prosecute them, convictions would be easy.
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Backend website guy told me once that they had a client build in alerts to their CDN to tell them if any executives pages started getting a ton of hits suddenly, so that they’d know some bad shit was breaking about them. Often a false alarm, glitchy WebCrawler or whatever, but not always.
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Backend website guy told me once that they had a client build in alerts to their CDN to tell them if any executives pages started getting a ton of hits suddenly, so that they’d know some bad shit was breaking about them. Often a false alarm, glitchy WebCrawler or whatever, but not always.
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Blake Bortles
Making a list of famous white guys who didn't know J. Epstein
1) Henry Rollins probably?
2)
1) Henry Rollins probably?
2)
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Blake Bortles
“Forcing the House back into session” is not the prize I think they were after, as opposed to the similar sounding but very different “Get this off the Senate’s plate,” but they lucked into the healthcare standoff working when it shouldn’t have and perhaps they’re lucking into the right timing now.
The release of this Epstein information about Trump does now put the Democratic Party retreat into a rather different context from a few days ago.
Everyone in the Dem leadership would have been aware about what was about to drop.
Everyone in the Dem leadership would have been aware about what was about to drop.
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“Forcing the House back into session” is not the prize I think they were after, as opposed to the similar sounding but very different “Get this off the Senate’s plate,” but they lucked into the healthcare standoff working when it shouldn’t have and perhaps they’re lucking into the right timing now.
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so i guess we're gonna find out if anything still matters
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
so i guess we're gonna find out if anything still matters
The implicit belief behind the interest is a vision of the self as superior. Nobody gets into eugenics believing themselves to not be the apex. And when you can other everyone else away, using them for your own ends, no matter how depraved, becomes second nature.
the fact that being really into eugenics appears to sort people for being shitty human is kind of amazing. like there is, in theory, room to be super interested in the area in principle and not be a shitty human being, but the correlation is robust
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The implicit belief behind the interest is a vision of the self as superior. Nobody gets into eugenics believing themselves to not be the apex. And when you can other everyone else away, using them for your own ends, no matter how depraved, becomes second nature.
Amazing
Nancy Mace is expected to pull her support for the petition to release the Epstein Files, the day before Adelita Grijalva is sworn in.
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Amazing
I’d hoped that “every accusation is a confession” had an upper bound somewhere below QAnon but it’s not looking good.
I’d started to wonder whether the Epstein files were a bit of a macguffin, but no no they implicate the President of the United States in a pedophilia ring—and show the entire Republican Party as well as much of the federal government has been baldly covering it up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I’d hoped that “every accusation is a confession” had an upper bound somewhere below QAnon but it’s not looking good.
I follow this blog regularly. The author here, Ben, could absolutely be the Menswear Guy of aviation if he weren’t so exceedingly polite, and I hope he one day picks up the gauntlet.
Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes.
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Economist Doesn't Follow Signs At Heathrow: Proof The UK Is Failing?
A economist had a bad experience connecting at Heathrow, suggesting it's reflective of bigger issues in the UK. There's only one issue...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I follow this blog regularly. The author here, Ben, could absolutely be the Menswear Guy of aviation if he weren’t so exceedingly polite, and I hope he one day picks up the gauntlet.
This is for sure the most interesting path they could take, but I don’t trust Amazon to not use the opportunity to make the lead character Deep Fake Tim Dalton
I have been begging the 007 gods to put him back in the Cold War where he belongs
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is for sure the most interesting path they could take, but I don’t trust Amazon to not use the opportunity to make the lead character Deep Fake Tim Dalton
Or, he is conflating it with the series of shops located in the Las Vegas Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, which would be even funnier.
it’s got to be the magnificent mile
which is not a shopping center but a stretch of michigan avenue
and is very safe
so there’s that
which is not a shopping center but a stretch of michigan avenue
and is very safe
so there’s that
Not to mention that there's no place called the "Miracle Mile Shopping Center" in Chicago? He is maybe talking about Water Tower Place or Michigan Avenue more broadly. But right now he's advocating troops for a nonexistent location.
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Or, he is conflating it with the series of shops located in the Las Vegas Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, which would be even funnier.