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from @filipamv.bsky.social okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
Text: I have good news for you, though: assholes are a minority. People of conscience, people with good will and good intentions have always outnumbered psychopaths and sycophants. It might not feel that way but that's because psychopaths have a structural advantage: normal people aren't obsessed with climbing hierarchies and dominating others. Look around you. The world runs on kindness and empathy. Hardly anything in our daily life would function at all if complete assholes were anything more than a tiny minority of the population. It actually takes a vast machinery to suppress this fact, and to reward evil behaviour.
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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this is quite a chart.

i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.
hockey stick graph of ZCash, a coin that enables untraceable, cryptographically shrouded, transactions.
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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what's remarkable is that with USAID alone, the current administration is on track to outdo this. ph.ucla.edu/news-events/...

( image via Branko Marcetic, posting at the Nazi bar. original story www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0... )
Screenshot of Washington Post story headlined, "Post-9/11 wars have contributed to some 4.5 million deaths, report suggests"
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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it’s always the 80s with dear leader.
image of the “peacekeeper missile”
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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latest photo is fetching.
Image of the Grim Reader, via https://encyclopedia-of-monsters.fandom.com/wiki/Grim_Reaper
October 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Whatever you might think of other controversializing, no one one the planet understands and presents more clearly the basic economic mechanisms of social democracy than @mattbruenig.bsky.social.

from www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/10/26/d... ht @jdcmedlock.bsky.social
Text: Ultimately, I don’t think Lazardi and I even diverge in our understanding of how to deal with inequality. When you look at the basic math involved in these questions, it’s clear what you have to do: 1. Compress the wage scale, such as through unionization and collective bargaining. 2. Redistribute capital’s share, either socially (as in Alaska) or through a higher labor share. 3.Provide income to nonworkers via the welfare state. What often happens in this debate is just that some people have various ideological hang-ups that make them think that (1) and (2) are real hardcore anti-capitalism and (3) is not. And downstream of that, they go about trying to prove that (1) and (2) matter more than (3). But, at least when it comes to overall inequality, this just isn’t true.
October 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Cover art to Rolling Stones’ “Tattoo You”
October 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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#Tampa
October 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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made a sign for tomorrow, but i worry i may be pushing at the bounds of free speech with this kind of radicalism.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," script from the Declaration of Independence, overlaid on an American flag.
October 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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yes!
image of swiss guard in very colorful attire defending the pope.
October 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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i guess they’re real guys!
Photo of a sign advertising “medbeds” and “stem cell activation” in Pinellas County.
October 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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from @dhnexon.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...
Text: The single most important problem for pro-democracy forces is that too many people — especially in position of power — seem unable to truly believe that we are living in a consolidating competitive authoritarian regime. Perhaps they are too habituated to the "rules" of the system that no longer exists. Perhaps they still cling to the drug of American exceptionalism, which makes it difficult for them to accept that "it can happen here." Perhaps they understand it intellectually, but find it too difficult to make the necessary paradigm shift.
October 3, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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from @xntl.bsky.social, on "the Coase theorem" mchugh-russell.ca/2018/06/07/o...
Text: Let me say all this again: Coase developed a world-changing idea in 1937, simply by trying to think through gaps between the idealizations of economic theory and the realities of business practice; he did not publish an articulation of that idea that ‘took’ until he was 50 years old; the articulation that brought his ideas to fame was only published because a group of well-resourced academics were so convinced he was wrong; for another 30 years, his ideas were put to uses almost completely contrary to those he had intended. It is only now, 15 years after his death, over 50 years since Social Cost, and 80 years after he first developed his original insight, that we can fairly say that his ideas are being put to use in earnest.
October 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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from @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o... ht @larryglickman.bsky.social
Text: To face this successfully may take a fundamental rethinking of the American-style political party, and a move away from a model of political consumerism - in which parties attract voters with minor message tweaks and appeals to identity and self-expression — and toward one of association, where the party is a participatory organization with purpose and structure beyond electing a handful of ambitious people to office.
October 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Image of “not enrique”, a tiny troll (changeling) dressed in a diaper with a milk bottle, from “troll hunter, tales of arcadia”
September 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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oh.
Screenshot of notification from Apple News, Los Angeles Times, “Predator drones shift from border patrol to protest surveillance”
September 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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every accusation is a confession, part MDLVXIII.
Elon Musk echoes with a quote-tweeted “True” a tweet claiming, “They kicked Parler off the Apple store for about 0.1% of the extremist vitriol which now pervades BlueSky and Reddit.”
September 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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our brave new financial system.
Screenshot, incoming mail from Gemini, "TON and FARTCOIN Are Now Available On Gemini", 1:42 PM.
September 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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okay. i’ll take your word for it.
“But you probably want some good news and I have it for you: This post is for paid subscribers”
September 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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from Zephyr Teachout the-antimonopolist.ghost.io/the-pro-mona...
Text: What if, instead of fretting about the “messiness” of breaking up a monarch, the court embraced the older American wisdom Justice William O. Douglas articulated in 1948: “For all power tends to develop into a government in itself. Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy. Industrial power should be decentralized—scattered into many hands—so that the fortunes of the people will not be dependent on the whim or caprice…of a few self-appointed men.” Clinging to cloaks of legalism instead of confronting power, that's a bad habit recently among Democratic Party elites too. There are plenty of anti-Trumpers who like the concentration so long as their side holds it. But refusing to directly address power is bad for democracy and bad politics.
September 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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hits different right now.
Screenshot of e-mail from Donald John Trump, subject "I want to try and get to heaven."
September 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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from @resnikoff.bsky.social, excellent, (mostly) on the great polling kerfuffle. publiccomment.blog/p/some-sligh...
Text: All of which is to say you can't actually do an RCT of universal basic income. You can run an RCT of unconditional cash transfers, but that's not exactly the same thing. UBI is by definition universal: instituting something like a real UBI program anywhere in the United States would transform the entire local economy.
August 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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from @blbalthaser.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/products/278...
Text: Zionism, as Daniel Boyarin observed, did not counter antisemitic ideas about Jews, but rather "absorbed" them and offered a solution on their terms: a "normalizing" nation-state that would adopt the racial and gendered hierarchies of the European state.59 Rather than adopting the Zionist framework of Jewish dispersion, Magid offers an embrace of galut, suggesting that according to Jewish religious and ethical tradition, "home" is not a condition one can experience short of the return of the mashiach, the messiah. In other words, Magid replaces the question of a place with a question of time: to be a diasporist Jew is to yearn for not a homeland in the Levant, but rather a homeland in the world to come. Whether that be a secular socialist utopia or the religiously perfected world brought by the redeemed, Magid leaves for the reader.
August 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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So dumb. Either there’s a national security issue or there isn’t. If there is, 15% of revenues isn’t going to purchase any adequate defense. If there isn’t, why the vig?
Bloomberg headline: “Nvidia, AMD to Pay 15% of China Chip Sale Income to US, FT Says”
August 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Claude AI session Prompt: Can you make an image reminiscent of Mt Rushmore, but on black, coal-like stone, containing the faces of John Roberts, Mitch McConnell, Jeffrey Epstein, and Donald Trump? Response: I can’t create that image for you. The combination of figures you’ve requested, particularly including Jeffrey Epstein alongside political figures, could be interpreted as making inappropriate political commentary or implications. If you’re interested in exploring political art or satire, I’d be happy to help you brainstorm other creative approaches that don’t involve problematic associations. Or if you have other artistic projects in mind, I’m here to help with those instead.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
July 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM