Reporting from @axios.com

Money secured by levying tariffs can be used by the executive branch free and clear of Congress. I think this makes *some* sense of these tarrifs.

He nails it.

Political Philosopher Explains How Being a Corporate Boss Is the Perfect Training Ground for Authoritarian Rule | Elizabeth Anderson on how Elon Musk's workplace authoritarianism supports rising authoritarianism in the U.S. government: workdaymagazine.org/political-ph...

'Scientists with retracted publications had younger publication age, higher self-citation rates, and larger publication volume than those without any retracted publications'

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

While many faculty are concerned about the use of AI and its effects on education, one university system's leaders have decided to leap right in...

New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...

Trump is now officially sending immigrants to Guantanamo Bay — a military prison known for incredible cruelty and inhumane conditions.

People seeking asylum and refuge do not deserve this and we will fight it. America can and must be better than this. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Philosophy folks, here is a piece of mine that takes up how hip hop music is a hermeneutical resource:

track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

While the racist element is so obvious that it scarce needs much more said on it, there is just something so *galling* about people looking at the distribution of land in South Africa and being shocked, horrified, about violating the sacred rights of property... now. Just... just fuck off. Blimey.

I took part in a nice discussion of my book with three critics: @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social, Ian Kidd and Florencia Rimoldi. Thanks to Paul Silva for organising.

youtu.be/IVCRQ4vczQ8?...

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day. @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social

The ultimate aim of the right’s attacks on “wokeism,” “anti-racism,” and “identity politics” is to suppress any talk of race and racism at all.

David Theo Goldberg on the highly orchestrated program, from the Manhattan Institute to the Heritage Foundation:

Every article that fails to mention that the US in significant measure created the conditions that migrants flee is an article that contributes to degrading the debate around what the US owes migrants.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The Biden administration on Friday issued sweeping extensions of deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people from Sudan, Ukraine, El Salvador and Venezuela in a move that makes it almost impossible for...Trump to swiftly strip the benefit"

good

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/u...

Merry Christmas