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· Nov 21
Picture is worth a thousand words and you couldn't pay for copy as good as this
Frame it and put it in the fucking Louvre.
otto von bismarck, still undefeated
December 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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The popular view of Adam Smith is that he celebrated self-interest. But if you read his work more closely, the caricature melts away
Adam Smith is misinterpreted and his influence overstated
The most famous book in economics is less revolutionary than you think
econ.st
December 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The popular view of Adam Smith is that he celebrated self-interest. But if you read his work more closely, the caricature melts away
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I hope everyone finds some kind of comfort today. It’s a hard time. I pray today isn’t.
December 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I hope everyone finds some kind of comfort today. It’s a hard time. I pray today isn’t.
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An enraging trend right now, from CBS to the CDC, of people actively undermining institutions, then taking the reins of those institutions and claiming they need to rebuild the trust they helped destroy. (Also, people already trusted 60 Minutes.) bsky.app/profile/just...
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
An enraging trend right now, from CBS to the CDC, of people actively undermining institutions, then taking the reins of those institutions and claiming they need to rebuild the trust they helped destroy. (Also, people already trusted 60 Minutes.) bsky.app/profile/just...
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There's a lot of people I respect who cannot come to terms with the fact that this is what the American people voted for, they're getting it good and hard, and there is little to nothing a minority party can do to stop it.
Republicans ran on a platform of mass deportation and they're delivering.
Republicans ran on a platform of mass deportation and they're delivering.
This is outright Nazi stuff, and Democrats in Congress aren’t doing enough to try and stop it.
WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people.
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
December 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
There's a lot of people I respect who cannot come to terms with the fact that this is what the American people voted for, they're getting it good and hard, and there is little to nothing a minority party can do to stop it.
Republicans ran on a platform of mass deportation and they're delivering.
Republicans ran on a platform of mass deportation and they're delivering.
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You don't understand the essence of the Netanyahu-Hamas symbiosis unless you understand this. And few Americans get it.
December 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
You don't understand the essence of the Netanyahu-Hamas symbiosis unless you understand this. And few Americans get it.
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The end of soot-laden windows. The arrival of broadband internet. Cheaper and more reliable electricity. Rhode Island’s first electricity co-op. The return of birdsong.
Here are the myriad benefits the first US offshore wind farm has brought to Block Island, from @catrineinhorn.bsky.social.
Here are the myriad benefits the first US offshore wind farm has brought to Block Island, from @catrineinhorn.bsky.social.
A Rhode Island Wind Farm Changed Their View. And Their Lives, for the Better.
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The end of soot-laden windows. The arrival of broadband internet. Cheaper and more reliable electricity. Rhode Island’s first electricity co-op. The return of birdsong.
Here are the myriad benefits the first US offshore wind farm has brought to Block Island, from @catrineinhorn.bsky.social.
Here are the myriad benefits the first US offshore wind farm has brought to Block Island, from @catrineinhorn.bsky.social.
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This quote by @joshtpm.bsky.social of @talkingpointsmemo.com is 🔥
“has a feeling of drift, spectacle and fragmentation. Trump's ballroom epitomizes it
—crass, stupid, vulgar, unacceptable and yet ultimately meaningless.”
Via @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Read here:
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
“has a feeling of drift, spectacle and fragmentation. Trump's ballroom epitomizes it
—crass, stupid, vulgar, unacceptable and yet ultimately meaningless.”
Via @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Read here:
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This quote by @joshtpm.bsky.social of @talkingpointsmemo.com is 🔥
“has a feeling of drift, spectacle and fragmentation. Trump's ballroom epitomizes it
—crass, stupid, vulgar, unacceptable and yet ultimately meaningless.”
Via @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Read here:
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
“has a feeling of drift, spectacle and fragmentation. Trump's ballroom epitomizes it
—crass, stupid, vulgar, unacceptable and yet ultimately meaningless.”
Via @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Read here:
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
The student is on record admitting that she intentionally wrote a shit essay and she's being rewarded for it. Because the far right saw an opportunity to bully a trans person.
As an alumnus of OU, this is infuriating and embarrassing.
As an alumnus of OU, this is infuriating and embarrassing.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The student is on record admitting that she intentionally wrote a shit essay and she's being rewarded for it. Because the far right saw an opportunity to bully a trans person.
As an alumnus of OU, this is infuriating and embarrassing.
As an alumnus of OU, this is infuriating and embarrassing.
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(Reuters) - China imported no soybeans from the United States for a third straight month in November, as buyers turned to South American supplies amid fears of a shortfall if the trade war with Washington dragged on.
@reuters.com
www.producer.com/daily/china-...
@reuters.com
www.producer.com/daily/china-...
China imports no US soybeans for third month; Argentine arrivals up 634 per cent | The Western Producer
China imported no soybeans from the United States for a third straight month in November, as buyers turned to South American supplies amid fears of a shortfall if the trade war with Washington dragged...
www.producer.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
(Reuters) - China imported no soybeans from the United States for a third straight month in November, as buyers turned to South American supplies amid fears of a shortfall if the trade war with Washington dragged on.
@reuters.com
www.producer.com/daily/china-...
@reuters.com
www.producer.com/daily/china-...
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Charlie Sykes: It feels like a fitting bookend to the year of groveling: CBS’s Bari Weiss spikes a 60 Minutes story about Trump’s Salvadoran gulag. The Epstein cover-up continues, as redactions and retractions continue. And, in Phoenix, we’ve seen the future of MAGA, and it is nasty, brutish, weird,
The Baby Alligators Grew Up. Who Knew?
Plus: Bari spikes 60 Minutes, Shapiro's Choice
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Charlie Sykes: It feels like a fitting bookend to the year of groveling: CBS’s Bari Weiss spikes a 60 Minutes story about Trump’s Salvadoran gulag. The Epstein cover-up continues, as redactions and retractions continue. And, in Phoenix, we’ve seen the future of MAGA, and it is nasty, brutish, weird,
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This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.
The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision.
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.
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Hi.
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Hi.
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support independent media. idk what else to say right now.
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
support independent media. idk what else to say right now.
Ironically enough, I’m not mad at Bari Weiss. She’s a vapid lapdog doing EXACTLY what the Ellisons paid her to do. None of us should be surprised.
It’s the fact her idiotic town hall series supposed to be cover for this. THAT is what’s pissing me off.
It’s the fact her idiotic town hall series supposed to be cover for this. THAT is what’s pissing me off.
1. BREAKING
Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.
Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.
December 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Ironically enough, I’m not mad at Bari Weiss. She’s a vapid lapdog doing EXACTLY what the Ellisons paid her to do. None of us should be surprised.
It’s the fact her idiotic town hall series supposed to be cover for this. THAT is what’s pissing me off.
It’s the fact her idiotic town hall series supposed to be cover for this. THAT is what’s pissing me off.
Also Americans were younger. People age, get sicker, preexisting conditions become more complicated, shit happens. Prices are going up because you cannot stop the forward motion of time.
And if MAGA had any uniting principle, it’s that they can magically reverse time.
And if MAGA had any uniting principle, it’s that they can magically reverse time.
LANKFORD: In 2010, before Obamacare kicked in, the normal healthcare premium was $215.
HUNT: Right. But insurance companies could refuse to cover you for a preexisting condition
LANKFORD: That's true.
HUNT: Right. But insurance companies could refuse to cover you for a preexisting condition
LANKFORD: That's true.
December 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Also Americans were younger. People age, get sicker, preexisting conditions become more complicated, shit happens. Prices are going up because you cannot stop the forward motion of time.
And if MAGA had any uniting principle, it’s that they can magically reverse time.
And if MAGA had any uniting principle, it’s that they can magically reverse time.
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Video essay: That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad
I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.
Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.
(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.
Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.
(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad | An Editor’s Note
YouTube video by Ana Marie Cox
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Video essay: That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad
I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.
Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.
(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.
Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.
(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
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Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
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Bloomberg's editorial board is wrapping up 2025 with a growing list of things to be worried about (via Bloomberg Opinion)
2025 Was Full of Red Flags
Chaos in governance, finance, education and trade set off alarm bells for Bloomberg’s editorial board this year. But every problem has a solution.
bloom.bg
December 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Bloomberg's editorial board is wrapping up 2025 with a growing list of things to be worried about (via Bloomberg Opinion)
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WATCH: DuBois & Dickerson sign off from Bari Weiss’ CBS News(max) for the last time
December 19, 2025 at 5:27 AM
WATCH: DuBois & Dickerson sign off from Bari Weiss’ CBS News(max) for the last time
This is just patently NOT for the demographic CBS traditionally pulls in. It would be funny to watch it bomb if it also guaranteed Weiss would be held responsible for her incompetence.
A "debate" where the two sides are a conservative operative and an Epstein files guy. Remember what I said about how "stacked panel" propaganda works.
December 20, 2025 at 4:51 AM
This is just patently NOT for the demographic CBS traditionally pulls in. It would be funny to watch it bomb if it also guaranteed Weiss would be held responsible for her incompetence.
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Very cool!
December 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Very cool!
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
December 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.