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Tom Moore @thmoore.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the last several months, and Graff nails the thought: “It turns out, in the end, that there’s only one check and balance that actually matters: Good character. Everything else in a constitutional system follows and relies on that simple foundation.”

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...

The only check-and-balance that actually matters

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Jim @jimharvey.bsky.social · 2d

One of the indicators of rampant corruption is barefaced ineptitude of leadership while competent professionals are fired

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 7d

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

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Jim @jimharvey.bsky.social · 13d

#PhrogsPhorever #LaughterKillsFascism

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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Jim @jimharvey.bsky.social · 13d

Gerf! #surfpunk

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Jim @jimharvey.bsky.social · 15d

Mine's working well and gave me this post about a cool kids book about banning books when I searched 'giraffe.'

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Puppy Book Club @puppybookclub.bsky.social · 18d

Hello everyone, and welcome to #PuppyBookClub! This week upcoming is #BannedBooksWeek (Oct 5-11)! Tonight, we are reading "This Book Is Banned" by Raj Haldar with illustrations by Julia Patton! It offers important messages about censorship in a way that children can relate to! 1/10

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Jim @jimharvey.bsky.social · 18d

Strong start to Goliath, The 100-Year War Between Monopoly and Power, by @matthewstoller.bsky.social

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Jim @jimharvey.bsky.social · 21d

Yet Argentina's still going to sell their soybeans to China. Great deal. :/

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22d

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a

desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 24d

🧵Coal in the US was mostly dying because of cheap natural gas beginning in the 2000s. Then cheap renewables began to clobber it in the 2010s. It is a filthy power source and horrible emitter of greenhouse gases. There is zero economic justification for this & it will amount to corporate welfare.

$Generation of electricity by source in US, 1950-2015 Coal held steady at about 50% until 2000, with natural gas, cheaper and abundant because of fracking, rose up, passing coal at 2015. Natural gas is cleaner and releases less carbon dioxide per energy output$ Cost of energy in dollars per megawatt-hour 2015-2023, projected to 2030. As of 2019 wind and solar were cheaper than coal, natural gas, and as of 2023, coal was nearly 2x more expensive.

Cost of energy in dollars per megawatt-hour 2015-2023, projected to 2030. As of 2019 wind and solar were cheaper than coal, natural gas, and as of 2023, coal was nearly 2x more expensive.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26d

One in eight federal workers, or some 300,000, will have left the government by the end of the year, and it’s possible even more could be pushed out if the government shuts down next week. In interviews, some former federal workers shared what they left behind and what they face next.

Former Federal Workers on the Cost of Trump's Cuts

The New York Times photographed and interviewed two dozen former federal workers from across the country to get a sense of what they left behind and what they face next.

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Jim @jimharvey.bsky.social · Sep 20

Just saw Megalopolis at the Henry Ford Museum. That movie was a lot of unexpected things, chief among them the fact that it's a reverse Fountainhead.

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · Sep 17

🧵Quick thread about how dense neighborhoods cultivate community (and FUN!)

My fiancée and I switch off planning date nights. But this week we had to improvise since we are both super busy. I saw on TikTok that a band was playing a free concert on the lake, so we biked over on a whim. It was PACKED.

Chicago’s lakefront under a gorgeous sunset with many people gathered to watch a concert

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Jim @jimharvey.bsky.social · Sep 12

I live to flabbergast and your work sounds smart and necessary, let's both keep it up!

Jim @jimharvey.bsky.social · Sep 11

Pre-ordered.

@marketplace.org also has an excellent podcast so you can hear this outstanding interview any time!

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · Sep 10

AHHHHHHHHHHHH I'M ON MARKETPLACE (@marketplace.org) THIS EVENING TALKING ABOUT #TheDoubleTax with @kairyssdal.bsky.social!!!!!!!

I'LL BE ON THE RADIO AT 6:30 PM ET AND 8:30 PM ET.

Tune in!!!! tunein.com/podcasts/Bus...

Pre-order #TheDoubleTax: annagifty.com #blacksky #booksky

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Alt: a man in a suit and tie is making a face

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · Sep 7

It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

By Rogé Karma

The capability-reliability gap might explain why generative AI has so far failed to deliver tangible results for businesses that use it. When researchers at MIT recently tracked the results of 300 publicly disclosed AI initiatives, they found that 95 percent of projects failed to deliver any boost to profits. A March report from McKinsey & Company found that 71 percent of companies reported using generative AI, and more than 80 percent of them reported that the technology had no “tangible impact” on earnings. In light of these trends, Gartner, a tech-consulting firm, recently declared that AI has entered the “trough of disillusionment” phase of technological development.

By one estimate, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Tesla will by the end of this year have collectively spent $560 billion on AI-related capital expenditures since the beginning of 2024 and have brought in just $35 billion in AI-related revenue. OpenAI and Anthropic are bringing in lots of revenue and are growing fast, but they are still nowhere near profitable. Their valuations—roughly $300 billion and $183 billion, respectively, and rising—are many multiples higher than their current revenues. (OpenAI projects about $13 billion in revenues this year; Anthropic, $2 billion to $4 billion.) Investors are betting heavily on the prospect that all of this spending will soon generate record-breaking profits. If that belief collapses, however, investors might start to sell en masse, causing the market to experience a large and painful correction.

The dot-com crash was bad, but it did not trigger a crisis. An AI-bubble crash could be different. AI-related investments have already surpassed the level that telecom hit at the peak of the dot-com boom as a share of the economy. In the first half of this year, business spending on AI added more to GDP growth than all consumer spending combined. Many experts believe that a major reason the U.S. economy has been able to weather tariffs and mass deportations without a recession is because all of this AI spending is acting, in the words of one economist, as a “massive private sector stimulus program.” An AI crash could lead broadly to less spending, fewer jobs, and slower growth, potentially dragging the economy into a recession. The economist Noah Smith argues that it could even lead to a financial crisis if the unregulated “private credit” loans funding much of the industry’s expansion all go bust at once.

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Jim @jimharvey.bsky.social · Sep 9

Finally! Now do parking lots and every highway below ground level

Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Turlock Irrigation District - along with the California Department of Water Resources, UC Merced, and Solar AquaGrid - just turned on California’s first solar-over-canals pilot project: kmph.com/news/local/t... 🔌💡

Turlock Irrigation District celebrates state's first solar over canals pilot project

A major milestone has been reached for California’s first solar over canals pilot project.The Turlock Irrigation District announced that construction is compl

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indyvetsofamerica.bsky.social @indyvetsofamerica.bsky.social · Sep 5

On September 2, 2025, the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal surrender, a powerful ceremony honored more than 1,000 US troops who died as prisoners of war—service members who endured unimaginable suffering and sacrifice.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · Aug 28

Is it possible that…urbanism is a winning strategy in cities?

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Alt National Endowment for the Humanities @altnehgov.altgov.info · Aug 28

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury

Keep reading, friends. 📚

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Jim @jimharvey.bsky.social · Aug 25

Happy birthday to Tom Skerritt, #Detroit native, USAF vet, #PTSD volunteer, and Commander Mike "Viper" Metcalfe in Top Gun - he delivered his best line wonderfully, and it sticks with me to this day, "A good pilot is compelled to evaluate what's happened, so he can apply what he's learned."

Jim @jimharvey.bsky.social · Aug 25

"By Sunday afternoon roughly four FHP trooper vehicles and three OPD cars were parked at the Dunkin Donuts next to the crosswalk."

Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · Aug 24

"...even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

"...the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."

www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/08/24/d...

DOT repaints Pulse crosswalk for a second time. FHP and OPD watching site

A squad of Florida Highway Patrol and Orlando Police Department officers surveilled the dozen people who were using chalk on the rainbow crosswalk on Sunday. Advocates said it was an intimidation t…

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 23

This feels like a spot of good news

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold

Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

www.sciencedaily.com

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