Somebody tell Pete…🇺🇸
02.05.2025 14:31
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Somebody tell Pete…🇺🇸
spring trend predictions:
— 5" shorts
— camp collars
— recession
While I could also refer to the cognitive bias Wikipedia entry you share periodically, it’s good to be reminded I’m not wildin’ when it comes to a general gut check of what’s being missed, and how much culture continues to shape what isn’t captured by the folks who join paid campaigns.
I was at that tribute concert. My first (and last) live Prince experience 🙏🏾
As a Black man, it’s not lost on me when the quiet parts get said out loud. Like this excerpt from Sarah Vowell from Michal Lewis’ ‘Who is Government’ compilation. Note the reference to homesteaders, and who wasn’t able to benefit from accessing land through that Act …
Did some independent book store shopping today:
Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs.
They’re constructing Gotham.
a new york times post that reads: Food is expensive right now. These expert hacks can help you lower your grocery bill. There is an attached graphic that is clearly altered and reads: Tips to Stretch Your Food Budget • Eat Hearty egg
wait what
New: We analyzed Trump's meme coin -
At least 27 crypto wallets have picked up $100 million worth of $TRUMP coins since his team said the top holders would join him for an "intimate private dinner."
Huge profit for Trump; "the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done"
wapo.st/4iAatO1
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The Dept of Education went from dead in the water to the zombie virus in ‘Last of Us,’ functioning as a bounty hunter to a) garnish wages to collect student debt b) target accrediting agencies it deems out of lock step on this administrations shape shifting definitions of ‘qualification’
Dorsey was never the hero folks made him out to be. And the longer these folks stay in the game, the worse off society is
"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong
(April 8, 2025)
Preventative Heath. The future’s biggest market is more accurately pricing negative externalities. It’s absolutely essential. I have thoughts on how to consider doing this work.
In Europe, maybe.
Take care of your neighbors and friends, you're going to need community more than ever.
Not enough media outlets are covering the actual impacts of lost work, and the family and mental health consequences. The folks who are navigating much of these realities don’t have time to do meme dumps. And the stark reality is a reminder that some folks really don’t know sh**
Make us laugh these next few years despite everything going to sh**. Important work. You up to the challenge?
Well there it is! With all precincts reporting, Dem James Malone beats Republican Josh Parsons 50-49 to flip Pennsylvania's ultra-ancestrally GOP #SD26! That shrinks the GOP margin in the Senate to 27-23 and is a 16-point overperformance compared to 2024. Our Big Board -->
The political science professor Corey Robin to WNYC's On the Media Brooke Gladstone: During the first Trump administration, you came on the show and argued against those who were invoking the word fascism. You know, douse your hair doesn't need to be on fire. Corey Robin: I was afraid you were going to ask me about this. I was skeptical in the first Trump administration that they had the kind of power and the kind of authority that many of their critics feared that they had. Brooke Gladstone: Which they didn't have in the first administration. Corey Robin: Right. I was skeptical coming into this second administration that they would be able to wield the kind of power that people feared they would wield. I have since turned out to be wrong. They have set off multiple conflagrations and I have been shaken out of my skepticism. Brooke Gladstone: You don't think the courts will save us? Corey Robin: I never thought the courts would save us. In fact, the McCarthy era, I think, is a good example of this. When the courts finally started intervening and striking down a lot of the instruments of the second red scare, it was after the red scare had succeeded. I always feel like the courts come late. We have to save ourselves.
A political science professor during Trump's first term argued against use of the word fascism. He was skeptical that the Trump crew had that kind of power. "I have since turned out to be wrong," said Corey Robin to On the Media.
Good on him for recognizing that. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
"the BFS's payments IT systems come closest to embodying the Trumpian vision of the 21st C unitary executive fisc: all spending managed via a single spreadsheet, run from a single machine under the control of one person. A big, beautiful fiscal death star for the galactic emperor"
Of everything in those Signal texts, this struck me as most illuminating. The playbook is assistance for extraction. Be forewarned current “leadership” doesn’t provide assistance or exercise generosity for its own sake. It’s all for exploitation of position and resource. The quiet part, out loud.
Can’t wait.
