Douglas Moser
@douglasmoser.bsky.social
“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.” - Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Writer, remarker, ex reporter. Politics, music, econ, in no particular order. Boston.
Writer, remarker, ex reporter. Politics, music, econ, in no particular order. Boston.
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This position is fundamentally segregationist—civilization is "erased" by the presence of people who do not share the ethnic background of the present majority—something ironically at odds with the history of Europe, which has been profoundly shaped by migration bsky.app/profile/matt...
All this hate for migrants when nothing transforms a culture more than capital. No amount of immigrants will ever change America, the capitol of capital, more than America transforms immigrants into American businesspeople, citizens of money.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
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Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
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December 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This position is fundamentally segregationist—civilization is "erased" by the presence of people who do not share the ethnic background of the present majority—something ironically at odds with the history of Europe, which has been profoundly shaped by migration bsky.app/profile/matt...
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I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America. Little SEDANS that should fit four at most but when you open the door 27 clowns spill out. HOW??? They will DUST THEMSELVES OFF as they leave the car. The HORN will make the little eeooh-eeooh sound. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America. Little SEDANS that should fit four at most but when you open the door 27 clowns spill out. HOW??? They will DUST THEMSELVES OFF as they leave the car. The HORN will make the little eeooh-eeooh sound. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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Trump’s remarks about Somalis being “garbage” reflects the bigoted logic of an administration whose policies are designed to maintain an aristocracy of race and class www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Doesn’t Trump Pay a Political Price for His Racism?
Immigration isn’t breaking our society. We are.
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Trump’s remarks about Somalis being “garbage” reflects the bigoted logic of an administration whose policies are designed to maintain an aristocracy of race and class www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Today, class, we will once again discuss “revealed preferences”
All corporate CEOs should understand: If you agree to attend an event at the White House, you are very likely to be filmed nodding appreciatively at a delusional racist rant. If you're ok with that, go. If not, you probably should stay away.
December 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Today, class, we will once again discuss “revealed preferences”
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Yes, this is worth listening to.
In my very long memory of public affairs, have never heard a public statement by a "president" (a) more alarming in mental health terms, and also (b) more overtly racist and hate-filled.
Watch carefully the sycophants around Trump as he rants. They *all* know...
In my very long memory of public affairs, have never heard a public statement by a "president" (a) more alarming in mental health terms, and also (b) more overtly racist and hate-filled.
Watch carefully the sycophants around Trump as he rants. They *all* know...
I hope people take two minutes to listen to this shocking display of bigotry. It brings clarity to what we are fighting against. We should all be sick to hear such un-American drivel from the President of the United States.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Yes, this is worth listening to.
In my very long memory of public affairs, have never heard a public statement by a "president" (a) more alarming in mental health terms, and also (b) more overtly racist and hate-filled.
Watch carefully the sycophants around Trump as he rants. They *all* know...
In my very long memory of public affairs, have never heard a public statement by a "president" (a) more alarming in mental health terms, and also (b) more overtly racist and hate-filled.
Watch carefully the sycophants around Trump as he rants. They *all* know...
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Contra Ross Douthat here, a foundational idea of Bidenomics was that Trumpist authoritarianism was partly fueled by legit grievances over neoliberalism. This heavily shaped their industrial policies. As always, Ross erases the last half century of lib egalitarian theory from his diagnosis. So odd.
December 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Contra Ross Douthat here, a foundational idea of Bidenomics was that Trumpist authoritarianism was partly fueled by legit grievances over neoliberalism. This heavily shaped their industrial policies. As always, Ross erases the last half century of lib egalitarian theory from his diagnosis. So odd.
Disability fraud for accommodations isn’t a very big problem.
You can never completely stop it. Some fraud in any system is inevitable. Due diligence is enough.
A trivial change in fraud doesn’t justify making life miserable for disabled folks.
You can never completely stop it. Some fraud in any system is inevitable. Due diligence is enough.
A trivial change in fraud doesn’t justify making life miserable for disabled folks.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Disability fraud for accommodations isn’t a very big problem.
You can never completely stop it. Some fraud in any system is inevitable. Due diligence is enough.
A trivial change in fraud doesn’t justify making life miserable for disabled folks.
You can never completely stop it. Some fraud in any system is inevitable. Due diligence is enough.
A trivial change in fraud doesn’t justify making life miserable for disabled folks.
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Two things can be true:
-Regulation and procedure are strangling government's ability to achieve its goals
-The solution can't be constantly violating the law and the Constitution
-Regulation and procedure are strangling government's ability to achieve its goals
-The solution can't be constantly violating the law and the Constitution
There is such a thirst in some progressive centrist circles that they will look at the Trump administration as a model to get things done. I think its worth addressing the argument. This is from Mark Dunkelman, author of the widely praised "Why Nothing Works."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
Opinion | What the Left Could Learn From Trump’s Brutal Efficiency
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December 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Two things can be true:
-Regulation and procedure are strangling government's ability to achieve its goals
-The solution can't be constantly violating the law and the Constitution
-Regulation and procedure are strangling government's ability to achieve its goals
-The solution can't be constantly violating the law and the Constitution
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In light of the boat bombings, allow me to re-up this point I made months ago about the inevitable tensions that will be felt in the constitutional reconstruction coalition:
Any efforts to do accountability & reform must compete with delivering 'kitchen table' issues, if only in terms of attention
Any efforts to do accountability & reform must compete with delivering 'kitchen table' issues, if only in terms of attention
Whatever substantive issues need the time & attention of leaders—healthcare, climate, housing, abortion rights, you name it—will have to battle it out for space on the agenda with Qs like: should we prosecute ICE agents? How should we reform SCOTUS? Can a non-politicized civil service be re-created?
December 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In light of the boat bombings, allow me to re-up this point I made months ago about the inevitable tensions that will be felt in the constitutional reconstruction coalition:
Any efforts to do accountability & reform must compete with delivering 'kitchen table' issues, if only in terms of attention
Any efforts to do accountability & reform must compete with delivering 'kitchen table' issues, if only in terms of attention
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According to the US Coast Guard, the year prior to Trump changing our policy to summary execution, only 21% of the vessels interdicted by them off the coast of Venezuela suspected of trafficking drugs had drugs on board. The other 79% had nothing. But now we just kill them all.
December 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
According to the US Coast Guard, the year prior to Trump changing our policy to summary execution, only 21% of the vessels interdicted by them off the coast of Venezuela suspected of trafficking drugs had drugs on board. The other 79% had nothing. But now we just kill them all.
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If you think your job is not to tell the truth but to "challenge your audience's assumptions" if the latter is in tension with the former then you're going to end up lying. bsky.app/profile/larr...
For my part, I would say that questioning the framing of some Times stories—for example, the highlighting of Trump’s putative emotions or the foregrounding of what he says (even when, as is often the case, what he says is false)—is not an indication that I want my “views validated.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
If you think your job is not to tell the truth but to "challenge your audience's assumptions" if the latter is in tension with the former then you're going to end up lying. bsky.app/profile/larr...
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Not sure I'd cosign every claim made in this essay, but I think the overall message is correct, urgent, and very well put. Functional illiteracy is one of the most dangerous social contagions we face today. jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
jmarriott.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Not sure I'd cosign every claim made in this essay, but I think the overall message is correct, urgent, and very well put. Functional illiteracy is one of the most dangerous social contagions we face today. jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
Democrats must make accountability a core part of their campaign next year and in 2028. It’s critical to show that the Constitution and the rule of law do in fact matter.
AND they need to ignore BS from the media and consultants that accountability distracts from economic issues. They can do both.
AND they need to ignore BS from the media and consultants that accountability distracts from economic issues. They can do both.
💯 this. Trump believes he’s untouchable, that he’s above the law, and that he will never be held accountable for what he does. And most everyone in my former political party has learned from Trump and mimics Trump. Bcuz they now believe the same. 💯 this.👇
Trump, Hegseth, and the rest of them are so sure they're never going to be held accountable for their crimes, and I believe it's fundamentally important to this country that we prove some things still fucking matter.
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Democrats must make accountability a core part of their campaign next year and in 2028. It’s critical to show that the Constitution and the rule of law do in fact matter.
AND they need to ignore BS from the media and consultants that accountability distracts from economic issues. They can do both.
AND they need to ignore BS from the media and consultants that accountability distracts from economic issues. They can do both.
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i know that sounds wild, but ask yourself - wouldn't a rational actor have got that this isn't working?
this has been the big revelation of this era for me - yes fascism is deranged, we knew that
but centrists have also become *deeply* fanatical
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/appeasement
this has been the big revelation of this era for me - yes fascism is deranged, we knew that
but centrists have also become *deeply* fanatical
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/appeasement
Apeasement Isn't Working
Reactionary centrism has both failed & cannot learn from it's mistakes.
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
i know that sounds wild, but ask yourself - wouldn't a rational actor have got that this isn't working?
this has been the big revelation of this era for me - yes fascism is deranged, we knew that
but centrists have also become *deeply* fanatical
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/appeasement
this has been the big revelation of this era for me - yes fascism is deranged, we knew that
but centrists have also become *deeply* fanatical
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/appeasement
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Hey cable news -- the White House press secretary is lying. You don't have to take this live.
December 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Hey cable news -- the White House press secretary is lying. You don't have to take this live.
Autocratic governments are always filled with clowns, including (or especially) the autocrat. It’s one of the best things we have going for us in this fight.
Incompetence will save us from full blown autocracy… probably
November 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Autocratic governments are always filled with clowns, including (or especially) the autocrat. It’s one of the best things we have going for us in this fight.
The steward said shoes back *on*.
November 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The steward said shoes back *on*.
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That’s what’s terrible about the Nuzzi thing, most journalists are trying to do it the right way.
Probably gonna regret this but…before you curse all “DC media,” please consider that most of us are just working on our little stories, never mixing with VIPs and horrified by these freaks too
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
That’s what’s terrible about the Nuzzi thing, most journalists are trying to do it the right way.
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tfw when you have a lead on the greatest assassination conspiracy theory of all-time but you're "just gonna have to leave there" but it interferes with your revenge against your ex-fiancée
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
tfw when you have a lead on the greatest assassination conspiracy theory of all-time but you're "just gonna have to leave there" but it interferes with your revenge against your ex-fiancée
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EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
You’ll be visited by three spirits.
The three spirits
The three spirits
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
You’ll be visited by three spirits.
The three spirits
The three spirits
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This could be us but you playin
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro must begin serving his 27-year prison sentence for plotting an attempted coup, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ruled. https://cnn.it/4p1dgDV
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This could be us but you playin
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“I have no idea what they’d court-martial him for.”
“It’s preposterous.”
-- Eliot A. Cohen, a military historian who worked for President George W. Bush
reporting by @gregjaffe.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
“I have no idea what they’d court-martial him for.”
“It’s preposterous.”
-- Eliot A. Cohen, a military historian who worked for President George W. Bush
reporting by @gregjaffe.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Pentagon Opens Inquiry Into Senator Mark Kelly Over What Hegseth Calls ‘Seditious’ Video
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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“I have no idea what they’d court-martial him for.”
“It’s preposterous.”
-- Eliot A. Cohen, a military historian who worked for President George W. Bush
reporting by @gregjaffe.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
“I have no idea what they’d court-martial him for.”
“It’s preposterous.”
-- Eliot A. Cohen, a military historian who worked for President George W. Bush
reporting by @gregjaffe.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
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This is a recurring theme among climate deniers & delayers. From The #MadhouseEffect (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This is a recurring theme among climate deniers & delayers. From The #MadhouseEffect (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)
If the main AI chipmaker collapses in the middle of the big debt-fueled AI building boom, kitten buckle up.
my private memo is raising a lot of questions already answered by my private memo
In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”
@barrons.com $NVDA
@firstadopter.bsky.social
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@barrons.com $NVDA
@firstadopter.bsky.social
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
If the main AI chipmaker collapses in the middle of the big debt-fueled AI building boom, kitten buckle up.