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Look what came in the mail! Perfect reading for these crazy times.

❤️‍🔥 McKenzie Wark y un nuevo libro absolutamente deseable.

Adding a separate charge for tariff costs to consumers' bills strikes me as one of the smartest things firms can do right now

Down the Memory Hole! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

A key step on the road to fascism: replacing public institutions with cronies: Musk aides gain access to sensitive Treasury Department payment system

And in today's Anticipatory Obedience File: Google Maps will now show the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. I can't wait to see what they do with Greenland.

Conservative activists press big companies to buy bitcoin i.e. crypto kleptocracy….

Outrage as Elon Musk claims ‘only AfD can save Germany’ Think Krupp or I G Farben in 1935… this is what CEO support for fascism looks like today.

Privatizing USPS is such a terrible idea. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I had 60,000 followers on Twitter after 14 years on the site. I have 30,000 after maybe a year here. If journalists are looking for a place to build back up a coherent reading audience that’s actually engaging with our work, this place obviously seems like it has that particular juice

Last month, the so-called American Academy of Sciences and Letters gave a medal to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who advocated for mass COVID infection. NY Post framed it as a “top award.” We looked into it. AASL is 2 years old—part of a right-wing dark money network trying to transform elite universities.

Helpful info here for trans people and their support networks, supportive family. Also a look at the terrible and senseless disruption of people’s lives coming our way