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"When does this ride end?"

[chart credit: Roger Coppock]
March 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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What is the new Trumpian political economy called? It’s clearly a form of capitalism, but it’s not very neoliberal. In this thread I argue that the type of capitalism Trump is moving us all towards might be a sort of “Machiavellian Neo-mercantilist capitalism”.
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February 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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7/ Machiavellianism is marked by manipulativeness, a lack of morality, and a focus on self-interest and personal gain. Machiavellians often engage in deceit and exploitation of others to achieve their objectives, prioritizing personal success over ethical considerations. Sounds right!
February 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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8/ The American political economy is still capitalist, because fundamentally it is still a system derived to generate profit for the owners of the means of production through the exploitation of wage labour. But it’s a sort of Machiavellian neo-Mercantilist capitalism. And it sucks. That is all.
February 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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The US is now demanding massive war reparations:
-from Ukraine, which acted in self-defense against Russian aggression
-for the US, which did not get attacked or even fight in the war
-as compensation for resources the US used in ways that served US interests, when most US money went to US companies
February 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Resurfacing this important and sobering opinion piece by @philipcball.bsky.social especially after reading today's astonishing Q & A with @apsphysics.bsky.social President:

www.aps.org/apsnews/2025...
February 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨‍🔬🧬🖥️
Sex redefined - Nature
The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.
www.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Yep, DOGE is as incompetent as everyone thought. An $8 million "saving" has been listed as an $8 BILLION saving.

That is 14.5% of their total claimed $55 billion in "savings" having been completely made up.
February 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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On the left:

President Trump: "I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk ... will lead the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE")"

On the right:

Government declaration (by Joshua Fisher) submitted to Judge Chutkan stating Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE
February 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Why Isn’t This Map in the History Books?
... centuries ago, the United States was a very different place. Over 20 million Native Americans dispersed across over 1,000 distinct tribes, bands, and ethnic groups populated the territory.
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February 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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For #SuperbOwl 🦉 Sunday I give you M97, the Owl Nebula, from the 0.9-meter telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory.

The Owl is a planetary nebula, the remains of a sun-like star that lost its outer layers at the end of its lifetime. 🔭🧪

Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
noirlab.edu/public/image...
February 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I love her work.
Sonia Lera Preston

creativeartworksblog.wordpress.com/category/pai...
February 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Today we launched a website to track how much orange assface plays golf. We’re guessing this thing is gonna get a workout! Bookmark it. Enjoy! More: TrumpGolfTrack.com
Trump Golf Track
Tracking the number of days President Donald Trump spends his second term playing golf.
TrumpGolfTrack.com
January 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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25 Lead Authors. 7 Review Authors. 57 Pages. 31 Figures. But the 14-word TITLE of the World Weather Attribution study is all you need to know:
January 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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No matter what DeepSeek cost, the important part is, they could afford to give it away.
January 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The Psychology of Trumpism - Stephen Hassan, PhD

www.instagram.com/reel/DB39yJp...
January 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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If you see this post, can you please help spread this information?

#ASafeChoice is a referral network of physicians who provide medication abortion services ACROSS THE US.

People everywhere need to know about this option. These doctors have capacity to help more women!

Let’s spread word! ❤️✊
Click to Visit #ASafeChoice Network
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December 4, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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It's warming so quickly that high alpine forests which emerged during the Holocene Thermal Maximum thousands of years ago are being uncovered by glaciers that developed in the years thereafter when temperatures plummeted (and the Deniers are very confused about this)🧵
January 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
What are the primary hurdles to teleportation?
Not just recreating duplicate atoms/particles (may be possible), but the amount of quantum computing power and energy needed to do this. The human body has more atoms than stars in the observable universe.
January 27, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Note that climate warming is too rapid for most species to respond and survive.

Also note that with warming, extreme events like heatwaves become longer and more intense - which is a greater impact to species' survival.

#ClimateChange #Science🧪#Conservation #Extinction
This is what the rest of the Century of Global Warming will look like based on Climate Model ensembles CMIP6 SSP 2-4.5
January 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻
January 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM