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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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He spilled Peter Thiel’s Antichrist secrets. Now he’s banned from the lectures
sfstandard.com/2025/09/23/s...
sfstandard.com/2025/09/23/s...
Peter Thiel’s Antichrist talk details revealed in leaked notes
The off-the-record lecture series has been shrouded in mystery. But notes leaked by tech worker Kshitij Kulkarni reveal details.
sfstandard.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
He spilled Peter Thiel’s Antichrist secrets. Now he’s banned from the lectures
sfstandard.com/2025/09/23/s...
sfstandard.com/2025/09/23/s...
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Trump can’t even pretend to care for 5 seconds.
Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
September 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Trump can’t even pretend to care for 5 seconds.
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
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“Nearly 70% of people said they believe the American dream—that if you work hard, you will get ahead—no longer holds true or never did, the highest level in nearly 15 years of surveys.”
Exclusive: America is becoming a nation of economic pessimists.
Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds
Trump is contending with a disconnect between the nation’s sour outlook and traditional measures showing a robust economy.
on.wsj.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM
“Nearly 70% of people said they believe the American dream—that if you work hard, you will get ahead—no longer holds true or never did, the highest level in nearly 15 years of surveys.”
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On February 3, 2010, argentine president Cristina Kirchner fired the head of the central bank, setting off a 15 year spiral of inflation that would eventually peak last year at 220%.
Let's say, on that day, you bought lunch for $20 argentine pesos. Today, that same lunch would cost you $4,156 pesos
Let's say, on that day, you bought lunch for $20 argentine pesos. Today, that same lunch would cost you $4,156 pesos
It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He Is Removing Lisa Cook From Federal Reserve Board
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
On February 3, 2010, argentine president Cristina Kirchner fired the head of the central bank, setting off a 15 year spiral of inflation that would eventually peak last year at 220%.
Let's say, on that day, you bought lunch for $20 argentine pesos. Today, that same lunch would cost you $4,156 pesos
Let's say, on that day, you bought lunch for $20 argentine pesos. Today, that same lunch would cost you $4,156 pesos
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Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
August 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
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This Empire Strikes Back fascist energy isn't going to play well in the United States. This isn't 1930's Europe. Yes, some non-insignificant percentage of Americans wants this, but the vast majority of us do not. We are repelled by it. And repelled by Stephen Miller.
Stephen Miller: "All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been ... we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old."
August 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This Empire Strikes Back fascist energy isn't going to play well in the United States. This isn't 1930's Europe. Yes, some non-insignificant percentage of Americans wants this, but the vast majority of us do not. We are repelled by it. And repelled by Stephen Miller.
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As Trump unleashes his authoritarianism across the country, it’s important to know your rights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=metN4EiDtmQ
What is Due Process?
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
As Trump unleashes his authoritarianism across the country, it’s important to know your rights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=metN4EiDtmQ
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DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
August 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
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New: A Sheriff's Office in Texas has access to data from AI license plate reading cameras at hundreds of Home Depots (in Texas) and Lowe's (around the country)
www.404media.co/home-depot-a...
www.404media.co/home-depot-a...
Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops
Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.
www.404media.co
August 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
New: A Sheriff's Office in Texas has access to data from AI license plate reading cameras at hundreds of Home Depots (in Texas) and Lowe's (around the country)
www.404media.co/home-depot-a...
www.404media.co/home-depot-a...
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Here's a Financial Times column on "The Sovereign Individual," the "book that explains the billionaire doomers."
(gift link, limited clicks)
on.ft.com/4fG9n3z
(gift link, limited clicks)
on.ft.com/4fG9n3z
The book that explains the billionaire doomers
A niche investment text from the 1990s reveals why powerful tech leaders fixate on the apocalypse
on.ft.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Here's a Financial Times column on "The Sovereign Individual," the "book that explains the billionaire doomers."
(gift link, limited clicks)
on.ft.com/4fG9n3z
(gift link, limited clicks)
on.ft.com/4fG9n3z
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July 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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It is not possible to find the words for this.
July 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It is not possible to find the words for this.
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Every blue-haired they/them liberal arts grad living in NYC is tougher than this sad little bitch.
July 29, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Every blue-haired they/them liberal arts grad living in NYC is tougher than this sad little bitch.
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when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.
RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
July 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
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Thread:The White House and the us government are posting what can only be seen as overt white power propaganda from official channels and this image by John Gast could not make it any more clear that Trump and the Republicans brand of fascism is deeply tied to the frontier myth and its white terror.
July 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Thread:The White House and the us government are posting what can only be seen as overt white power propaganda from official channels and this image by John Gast could not make it any more clear that Trump and the Republicans brand of fascism is deeply tied to the frontier myth and its white terror.
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absolutely buck wild that as a child he had this kind of grasp on blocking and composition
Martin Scorsese drew these storyboards when he was 11 years old. They are for a Roman epic entitled THE ETERNAL CITY.
July 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
absolutely buck wild that as a child he had this kind of grasp on blocking and composition
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Please read. Excellent summary and analysis of what Trump and the oligarchs in Silicon Valley are planning.
"It’s above all a blueprint for consolidated control, a vision where worker power withers, citizens become subservient to AI..."
"It’s above all a blueprint for consolidated control, a vision where worker power withers, citizens become subservient to AI..."
Trump's AI Action Plan is even worse than I thought it'd be. It's a tech industry wishlist with every box ticked. It signals the further coherence of Silicon Valley and the Trump-led federal government into a cooperative, automation-bent surveillance state. It's a blueprint for dystopia.
Trump's AI Action Plan is a blueprint for dystopia
The president is trying to give Silicon Valley nearly everything it wants — at a price.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Please read. Excellent summary and analysis of what Trump and the oligarchs in Silicon Valley are planning.
"It’s above all a blueprint for consolidated control, a vision where worker power withers, citizens become subservient to AI..."
"It’s above all a blueprint for consolidated control, a vision where worker power withers, citizens become subservient to AI..."
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
July 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952