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So the guy that started a crypto, known for multiple sketchy dealings ending in bankruptcy, wants to prevent banks from considering reputational risk in declining loans to crypto firms.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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Exclusive | White House Preps Order to Punish Banks That Discriminate Against Conservatives
The president is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that targets so-called debanking of businesses including crypto companies.
www.wsj.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
So the guy that started a crypto, known for multiple sketchy dealings ending in bankruptcy, wants to prevent banks from considering reputational risk in declining loans to crypto firms.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Black-eyed, Lima, Pinto...
How is it that properly seasoned beans are so amazing?
How is it that properly seasoned beans are so amazing?
July 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Black-eyed, Lima, Pinto...
How is it that properly seasoned beans are so amazing?
How is it that properly seasoned beans are so amazing?
Here's what I don't get. Why is the right so doggedly sawing at the branches on which they're sitting when what's below is nothing but pointy rocks and raging flames?
www.npr.org/2025/07/09/n...
www.npr.org/2025/07/09/n...
Texas is relying on FEMA. State leaders said it should be cut
The governor and top emergency official in Texas are both members of a council advising the Trump administration on options for eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
www.npr.org
July 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Here's what I don't get. Why is the right so doggedly sawing at the branches on which they're sitting when what's below is nothing but pointy rocks and raging flames?
www.npr.org/2025/07/09/n...
www.npr.org/2025/07/09/n...
Well. Now Olsteen can afford some new mansions and private jets.
www.npr.org/2025/07/08/n...
www.npr.org/2025/07/08/n...
IRS says churches can now endorse political candidates
Since 1954, an IRS rule had barred houses of worship from explicitly endorsing political candidates.
www.npr.org
July 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Well. Now Olsteen can afford some new mansions and private jets.
www.npr.org/2025/07/08/n...
www.npr.org/2025/07/08/n...
Reposted
July 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Is this guy incapable of grasping that almost all of those who could be stripped from their affiliations (regardless of side) detest him?
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
It’s Hard to Create a Third Party, Even for Elon Musk
www.nytimes.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Is this guy incapable of grasping that almost all of those who could be stripped from their affiliations (regardless of side) detest him?
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
I dont know how bad it will have get between now and then, or what exactly "then" will look like, but I trust Dr. King's vision about the universe's arc. When we get to "then," I suspect there'll be a museum about this moment in the US. Kind of like Auschwitz.
July 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I dont know how bad it will have get between now and then, or what exactly "then" will look like, but I trust Dr. King's vision about the universe's arc. When we get to "then," I suspect there'll be a museum about this moment in the US. Kind of like Auschwitz.
Know where B5 and Star Wars (the prequels) both fell short? It turns out you dont need The Force or The Shadows powering a complex plan to enslave a democracy. Just a pack of frustrated people who'd rather resent others than elevate themselves.
June 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Know where B5 and Star Wars (the prequels) both fell short? It turns out you dont need The Force or The Shadows powering a complex plan to enslave a democracy. Just a pack of frustrated people who'd rather resent others than elevate themselves.
What Trump wants in Iran is to seize credit for the fruits of Israel's long struggle so he can pretend he's strong, and to sieze the oil under their ground.
June 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
What Trump wants in Iran is to seize credit for the fruits of Israel's long struggle so he can pretend he's strong, and to sieze the oil under their ground.
More TACO anyone?
Trump Gives U.S. Negotiators Room to Lift Export Controls on China
Ahead of U.S.-China talks in London, President Trump authorized Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's team to negotiate away recent restrictions on the sale of a wide variety of technology and other prod...
www.wsj.com
June 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
More TACO anyone?
This week's Sub-orbital Glamsters clearly don't deserve the term "astronaut." Neither do most of the Dragon and Virgin stunt passengers (including Shatner). So what do we call these folk?
April 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This week's Sub-orbital Glamsters clearly don't deserve the term "astronaut." Neither do most of the Dragon and Virgin stunt passengers (including Shatner). So what do we call these folk?
When one pays Danegeld, it rarely rids one of the Dane.
Law Firms Made Deals With Trump. Now He Wants More From Them.
To avoid retribution, big firms agreed to provide free legal services for uncontroversial causes. To the White House, that could mean negotiating trade deals — or even defending the president and his ...
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
When one pays Danegeld, it rarely rids one of the Dane.
Like a lot of people, I'm occasionally surprised at how fast oligarchical totalitarianism has shaped up here. I have to remind myself that there's been a trail thru Reagan's hacking taxes and regulation, thru Nixon's pissed off fans, thru McCarthyists back to Anti-New Dealers.
April 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Like a lot of people, I'm occasionally surprised at how fast oligarchical totalitarianism has shaped up here. I have to remind myself that there's been a trail thru Reagan's hacking taxes and regulation, thru Nixon's pissed off fans, thru McCarthyists back to Anti-New Dealers.
We live in desperate times. I take comfort in the idea that desperate times are when we make the most of ourselves.
ti.es
April 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
We live in desperate times. I take comfort in the idea that desperate times are when we make the most of ourselves.
Strike anybody else that we can't seem to get traction against Trump because we can't settle on whether he's bottomlessly Machiavellian or simply an idiot?
April 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Strike anybody else that we can't seem to get traction against Trump because we can't settle on whether he's bottomlessly Machiavellian or simply an idiot?
My (public) university just found it prudent to post a warning about and instructions on coping with "First Amendment Auditors."
#wtf #brownshirts #magats
#wtf #brownshirts #magats
April 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My (public) university just found it prudent to post a warning about and instructions on coping with "First Amendment Auditors."
#wtf #brownshirts #magats
#wtf #brownshirts #magats
I dont get what Elon is wailing about. He was so okay with changing everybody else's life; what's wrong with everybody else changing his?
March 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I dont get what Elon is wailing about. He was so okay with changing everybody else's life; what's wrong with everybody else changing his?
It was inevitable, but automated warfare makes me nervous
All-Robot Assault Opens New Chapter in Front-Line Warfare
Ukraine’s drone-only attack was the first of its kind and is set to carve a path for more fully automated warfare.
www.wsj.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It was inevitable, but automated warfare makes me nervous
I'm Irish (not just today, genetically). I find it kind of funny how Trump and Musk aren't going ape-shit over all the celebrations of one specific ethnic group in this case
March 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I'm Irish (not just today, genetically). I find it kind of funny how Trump and Musk aren't going ape-shit over all the celebrations of one specific ethnic group in this case
Non-fascists are delighting in Trump Acolyes getting roasted in town halls in Trump-turf. Is that the correct take? How many of these angry folk will punish Sitting Trump Bootlickers by voting for Next Trump Bootlicker in '27? How do we put the heat where it belongs soon enough to matter?
March 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Non-fascists are delighting in Trump Acolyes getting roasted in town halls in Trump-turf. Is that the correct take? How many of these angry folk will punish Sitting Trump Bootlickers by voting for Next Trump Bootlicker in '27? How do we put the heat where it belongs soon enough to matter?
I can't help wondering if Trump-Musk are deliberately attempting to provoke actions that give 47 an excuse to enact martial law.
It also more than slightly bothers me that The Proud Boys have been so quiet since the pardons.
It also more than slightly bothers me that The Proud Boys have been so quiet since the pardons.
March 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I can't help wondering if Trump-Musk are deliberately attempting to provoke actions that give 47 an excuse to enact martial law.
It also more than slightly bothers me that The Proud Boys have been so quiet since the pardons.
It also more than slightly bothers me that The Proud Boys have been so quiet since the pardons.
There's something we've got to face: Any US citizen older than 40 (naturalized 1st gens get a pass) was born in the greatest country on earth, and we failed to keep it that way. What are we going to do about it now beyond (legitimately) blaming rich jerks?
March 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
There's something we've got to face: Any US citizen older than 40 (naturalized 1st gens get a pass) was born in the greatest country on earth, and we failed to keep it that way. What are we going to do about it now beyond (legitimately) blaming rich jerks?
@jswolter.bsky.social don't want to lose touch
March 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
@jswolter.bsky.social don't want to lose touch
The number of things at work here is large:
- Wanting all discovery privatized to hoard IP.
- Rejecting the value of education because it doesn't directly benefit oligarchical goals.
- Education's corrosive effect on subservience and caste thinking.
- There's $ to steal.
- Wanting all discovery privatized to hoard IP.
- Rejecting the value of education because it doesn't directly benefit oligarchical goals.
- Education's corrosive effect on subservience and caste thinking.
- There's $ to steal.
As Trump Goes After Universities, Students Are Now on the Chopping Block
Uncertainty about how much money colleges and universities stand to lose has led some schools to reduce the number of doctoral students, in some cases reneging on offers.
www.nytimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The number of things at work here is large:
- Wanting all discovery privatized to hoard IP.
- Rejecting the value of education because it doesn't directly benefit oligarchical goals.
- Education's corrosive effect on subservience and caste thinking.
- There's $ to steal.
- Wanting all discovery privatized to hoard IP.
- Rejecting the value of education because it doesn't directly benefit oligarchical goals.
- Education's corrosive effect on subservience and caste thinking.
- There's $ to steal.
Trump wants the penny gone. That means rounding all prices to the nickel. I have a hard time picturing business rounding down. So, how much does that raise price on everything?
February 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Trump wants the penny gone. That means rounding all prices to the nickel. I have a hard time picturing business rounding down. So, how much does that raise price on everything?