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as Phillips O'Brien also points out, this plan has been in negotiation for a long time, probably since Trump took office.
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The Long Con Comes To An End
The Trump Administration Takes Off The Mask (Again)
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
as Phillips O'Brien also points out, this plan has been in negotiation for a long time, probably since Trump took office.
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
www.reuters.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
www.reuters.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown
The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.
www.motherjones.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
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We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.
America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand
Factions of capital in the second Trump administration
www.phenomenalworld.org
May 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.
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"Encouraging technology dependence and building a global panopticon fits with the goals and authoritarian dreams of billionaire technocrats who are abandoning democracy while funding their dystopic visions with tax dollars."
May 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"Encouraging technology dependence and building a global panopticon fits with the goals and authoritarian dreams of billionaire technocrats who are abandoning democracy while funding their dystopic visions with tax dollars."
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Angry judge roasts Biglaw lawyers for their "collective debacle" filing a brief where "~9 of the 27 legal citations in the 10-page brief were incorrect in some way" due to Generative AI
digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Lawyers will pay $31k for their sloppiness 🤖😵
digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Lawyers will pay $31k for their sloppiness 🤖😵
digitalcommons.law.scu.edu
May 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Angry judge roasts Biglaw lawyers for their "collective debacle" filing a brief where "~9 of the 27 legal citations in the 10-page brief were incorrect in some way" due to Generative AI
digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Lawyers will pay $31k for their sloppiness 🤖😵
digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Lawyers will pay $31k for their sloppiness 🤖😵
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If you want to see how upset the “New Right” is about the term “Woke Right,” see this lengthy post by the founder of the Edmund Burke Foundation, which organizes NatCon. It’s wild. These screenshots are just the first part of the post. The post is looooong. 2/ x.com/yhazony/stat...
May 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
If you want to see how upset the “New Right” is about the term “Woke Right,” see this lengthy post by the founder of the Edmund Burke Foundation, which organizes NatCon. It’s wild. These screenshots are just the first part of the post. The post is looooong. 2/ x.com/yhazony/stat...
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“Historical inevitability” in the techbro sense:
May 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“Historical inevitability” in the techbro sense:
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The attacks on 338 continue today, this time in Eastern Canada :-(
Use the French version of the site, which is up and running: qc125.com/canada/distr...
Use the French version of the site, which is up and running: qc125.com/canada/distr...
Qc125 Canada | Les 343 circonscriptions
qc125.com
April 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The attacks on 338 continue today, this time in Eastern Canada :-(
Use the French version of the site, which is up and running: qc125.com/canada/distr...
Use the French version of the site, which is up and running: qc125.com/canada/distr...
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Gore: Adorno was right
April 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Gore: Adorno was right
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2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
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NEOLIBERALISM IS DEAD. SAY HELLO TO TECHLORDISM www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/04/15/n...
NEOLIBERALISM IS DEAD. SAY HELLO TO TECHLORDISM - Yanis Varoufakis
After 1971, neoliberalism was an ideology essential in legitimising the emancipation of financial capital from the regulatory shackles of the New Deal and the post-war Bretton Woods system. Today, a n...
www.yanisvaroufakis.eu
April 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
NEOLIBERALISM IS DEAD. SAY HELLO TO TECHLORDISM www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/04/15/n...
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I wrote a piece for the Guardian's "big ideas" series on how techbros' failure to understand sci-fi novels is causing immense harm.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
The big idea: will sci-fi end up destroying the world?
Skewed interpretations of classic works are feeding the dark visions of tech moguls, from Musk to Thiel
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I wrote a piece for the Guardian's "big ideas" series on how techbros' failure to understand sci-fi novels is causing immense harm.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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1517 co-founder Michael Gibson is a former Thiel Foundation VP & Thiel Capital principal who now advises Pronomos Capital (backed by Thiel & Marc Andreessen). During Thiel’s October “Hereticon” event, Gibson co-led a talk titled “Manifest Destiny:Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony.” 1/
April 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
1517 co-founder Michael Gibson is a former Thiel Foundation VP & Thiel Capital principal who now advises Pronomos Capital (backed by Thiel & Marc Andreessen). During Thiel’s October “Hereticon” event, Gibson co-led a talk titled “Manifest Destiny:Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony.” 1/
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A fascinating issue around Yarvin and Musk is how figures feted as visionaries by the techbro Right don't seem to have considered the possibility that gunmen and covert ops types needed to enforce their vision might turn around and seize power from intellectuals and oligarchs like Yarvin and Musk
March 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A fascinating issue around Yarvin and Musk is how figures feted as visionaries by the techbro Right don't seem to have considered the possibility that gunmen and covert ops types needed to enforce their vision might turn around and seize power from intellectuals and oligarchs like Yarvin and Musk
"The U.S. government is asking Canadian grant recipients questions that threaten their academic independence... including whether their work is connected to DEI, is an “environmental justice” project or whether it protects women from “gender ideology.” Globe and Mail March 20, 2025
March 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"The U.S. government is asking Canadian grant recipients questions that threaten their academic independence... including whether their work is connected to DEI, is an “environmental justice” project or whether it protects women from “gender ideology.” Globe and Mail March 20, 2025
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1/ Peter Thiel-who backs the "network state" movement & the construction of charter cities—wrote a preface for "The Sovereign Individual," a book that states in part as follows:
March 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
1/ Peter Thiel-who backs the "network state" movement & the construction of charter cities—wrote a preface for "The Sovereign Individual," a book that states in part as follows:
