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Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
This is a must read 👇. I've long thought Anand has a keen insight to our current world!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
The surveillance economy... 👇
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
February 15, 2026 at 11:12 PM
The surveillance economy... 👇
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The way you know they mean “race” and not culture is that Americans have many common and overlapping cultures, but he doesn’t see this because he thinks of race as an exclusive category. They don’t want a “common culture” open to all participants, they want race hierarchy.
February 15, 2026 at 4:26 PM
The way you know they mean “race” and not culture is that Americans have many common and overlapping cultures, but he doesn’t see this because he thinks of race as an exclusive category. They don’t want a “common culture” open to all participants, they want race hierarchy.
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Democrats should offer a vision of orderly immigration, opposed to cruel closure and mass deportation. Basically, channel Reagan: “if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.”
Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data.
Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
February 15, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Democrats should offer a vision of orderly immigration, opposed to cruel closure and mass deportation. Basically, channel Reagan: “if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.”
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A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.
Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article
A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.
www.404media.co
February 15, 2026 at 8:30 PM
A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.
This is a must read 👇. I've long thought Anand has a keen insight to our current world!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:46 PM
This is a must read 👇. I've long thought Anand has a keen insight to our current world!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs.
Peter Thiel.
Peter Thiel.
February 15, 2026 at 12:05 AM
For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs.
Peter Thiel.
Peter Thiel.
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When you have a rules-based order where you carve out exceptions to our values, eventually the exceptions become the rules.
February 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
When you have a rules-based order where you carve out exceptions to our values, eventually the exceptions become the rules.
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Great sitting down with Brian Tyler Cohen to talk about everything from the courage we saw in Minnesota, to how Democrats can be true to our values and get stuff done, to how we’re building a community of changemakers at the Obama Foundation. youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw
February 14, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Great sitting down with Brian Tyler Cohen to talk about everything from the courage we saw in Minnesota, to how Democrats can be true to our values and get stuff done, to how we’re building a community of changemakers at the Obama Foundation. youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw
Must read 👇
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Must read 👇
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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Plus one.
The central unspoken assumption of most left-of-center political analysis is “the commoners can only be influenced by their grubby little pocketbooks and stomachs, not by the high-falutin ideas that smart people like us spend all of our time thinking about”
February 14, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Plus one.
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"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...
The Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:16 PM
"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...
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Why won’t Ohio Democrats play hardball with Jeffrey Epstein’s benefactor, friend, and rumored paramour, Leslie Wexner?
It can largely be explained through the cowardly silence of Rep. Joyce Beatty.
www.rooster.info/p/joyce-beat...
It can largely be explained through the cowardly silence of Rep. Joyce Beatty.
www.rooster.info/p/joyce-beat...
February 13, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Why won’t Ohio Democrats play hardball with Jeffrey Epstein’s benefactor, friend, and rumored paramour, Leslie Wexner?
It can largely be explained through the cowardly silence of Rep. Joyce Beatty.
www.rooster.info/p/joyce-beat...
It can largely be explained through the cowardly silence of Rep. Joyce Beatty.
www.rooster.info/p/joyce-beat...
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The Rooster hits the Big Apple!
February 13, 2026 at 2:12 PM
The Rooster hits the Big Apple!
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"Previous estimates showed the US economy generated 584,000 jobs in 2025, the first year of Trump’s second term, which was deeply discouraging.
Now, the picture is far worse: The newly revised, final data shows that the U.S. economy actually added only 181,000 jobs..."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Now, the picture is far worse: The newly revised, final data shows that the U.S. economy actually added only 181,000 jobs..."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
February 13, 2026 at 1:47 AM
"Previous estimates showed the US economy generated 584,000 jobs in 2025, the first year of Trump’s second term, which was deeply discouraging.
Now, the picture is far worse: The newly revised, final data shows that the U.S. economy actually added only 181,000 jobs..."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Now, the picture is far worse: The newly revised, final data shows that the U.S. economy actually added only 181,000 jobs..."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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NY FED: Consumers pay 90% of tariffs.
CBO: Consumers pay *95%* of tariffs.
www.crfb.org/papers/cbos-...
CBO: Consumers pay *95%* of tariffs.
www.crfb.org/papers/cbos-...
February 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
NY FED: Consumers pay 90% of tariffs.
CBO: Consumers pay *95%* of tariffs.
www.crfb.org/papers/cbos-...
CBO: Consumers pay *95%* of tariffs.
www.crfb.org/papers/cbos-...
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I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
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So the confrontations, violent apprehensions, and general fear bearing down on communities like Minnesota is only the beginning of the nightmare. Behind the scenes, Orwellian anti-judicial antics thwart lawful recourse. And hidden from sight, non-citizens are tortured for being noncitizens.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:57 PM
So the confrontations, violent apprehensions, and general fear bearing down on communities like Minnesota is only the beginning of the nightmare. Behind the scenes, Orwellian anti-judicial antics thwart lawful recourse. And hidden from sight, non-citizens are tortured for being noncitizens.
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“He’s my first born,” Susan Pretti said. “He’s the one that made me a mother. There was no reason he should have died that day.”
“No,” her husband said.
I urge you to read this today.
“No,” her husband said.
I urge you to read this today.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:45 PM
“He’s my first born,” Susan Pretti said. “He’s the one that made me a mother. There was no reason he should have died that day.”
“No,” her husband said.
I urge you to read this today.
“No,” her husband said.
I urge you to read this today.
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easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”
“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:
Opinion | Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”
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Raskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me."
February 11, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Raskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me."
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Every year the BLS does a benchmark revision which incorporates new and more detailed information. This year's revision suggests that 2025 was a far worse year than earlier estimates suggested, and total job growth was less than half that suggested by the initial estimates.
February 11, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Every year the BLS does a benchmark revision which incorporates new and more detailed information. This year's revision suggests that 2025 was a far worse year than earlier estimates suggested, and total job growth was less than half that suggested by the initial estimates.
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Underemployment has drifted higher & all measures of nominal wage growth are decelerating despite sticky inflation--the labor market is still looser despite the massive step down in labor supply supporting econ research conclusion--immigrants are complements to, not substitutes for domestic workers
February 11, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Underemployment has drifted higher & all measures of nominal wage growth are decelerating despite sticky inflation--the labor market is still looser despite the massive step down in labor supply supporting econ research conclusion--immigrants are complements to, not substitutes for domestic workers