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In the era that I studied when I was still part of the academic world one recurrent topic was that of "over-mighty subjects". This referred to subjects of the Crown who were themselves so powerful that they threatened the sovereign power of the Crown itself. In the US we have no sovereign, or ...

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The technical geniuses at DOGE strike again

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This is just as @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social predicted. on.ft.com/3X9G3KI Top shale boss says US oil companies will not flock back to Russia

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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Link: asiasociety.org/video/book-t...

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New Yorker 100! Have they ever done this “online only” thing in the magazines TOC??

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Grrrrrrr! How is this efficiency? Stupid culture war waste.

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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

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Ah, Friday night, when the real chaos begins.

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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Somebody please invite me to a protest? We are having a constitutional crisis: -mass firings of public servants -disregard of Congressional power -corrupt interference with prosecutions -embrace of authoritarians &c. People should be in the streets. Anyone organizing a protest? I'm in SF Bay area.

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Looks like Trump has fired Gen CQ Brown, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.

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A power struggle within the court of a soi-disant absolute monarch involving a faction of hardline Calvinists. More news from 16th century Scotland as we get it.

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This is excellent. Very much worth a read. China making policy moves for pragmatic economic and other reasons that move us forward on climate.

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Things hurting the US economy: -mass layoffs of federal workers -funding cuts to every federal dept -corporate layoffs -measles and tuberculosis outbreaks -high flu rates -$8/dozen eggs -new tariffs raising the cost of everything -Canada boycotts US travel and goods -concerns about airplane safety

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Saudi finally getting into the solar plus storage game.

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BYD to supply 12.5 GWh of battery storage in Saudi Arabia #energysky -- via pv magazine global: www.pv-magazine.com/...

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Trump slump

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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the washington post editorial board today called for the interior department to reject calls for trump to rescind offshore wind permits. how did they know about that happening? my reporting. cc @heatmap.news #journalismmatters www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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I, for one, believe that @jossfong.bsky.social is real. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO0W...

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My review of the new book “Stuck” by the great @yappelbaum.bsky.social. It’s a wonderful history of mobility in America and all the barriers that have been put up. My only real quibble is that I think mobility is more alive today than he does and in new places. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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"A fool and his money are easily parted"

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An idle, defunct high-voltage power-line may have started the Eaton fire in LA last month. Still unknown: How many more neglected lines may pose fire risk. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Europeans seem to recall what Nazi salutes actually mean. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

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no, mark, i didn't decide to add another email to my meta account at 2am and then delete the old email account 1 minute later from a new location. (did you know that you have a meta account? i didn't!) and then change my facebook password 7 minutes later. this doesn't seem suspicious at all!

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if you follow me on fb, i might be hacked. ugh. apologies.

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Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... It's all terrible, but this move gets me. We visited several National Parks last summer and it was the trip of a lifetime. These are things worth having, and worth taking care of. Not to mention the fire and safety risks involved.

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10th circuit judge states in published opinion that Trump may be eligible for election to a third term www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/02/10th...

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It’s an insult to all of our ancestors who risked their lives to win this war (both my grandfathers and one grandmother). I know insults are their whole thing, but it’s still worth saying.

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We’re definitely seeing a spike in Washington DC jobless claims:

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the way i like to explain marx is as being about the labor process and decisionmaking over the social surplus. one of the bad parts of capitalism is in giving the social surplus to individual aged children to do this with

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Appeasing Russia will cost US Firms. Great piece @felixsalmon.com "As U.S. companies become increasingly viewed as a mask for U.S. power... the rhetoric surrounding them will move from complaints about fair competition to worries that they represent a security threat." www.axios.com/2025/02/20/t...

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Great conversation w/ @eisendrath.net. DOGE is targeting the central nervous system of the US government. The stakes could not be higher.

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Today for @bloomberg.com, I have a review of the Palantir CEO's new book "The Technological Republic," which is both tedious and creepy. Karp wrote his dissertation on Adorno's critique of jargon, seemingly to reverse engineer it? www.unpopularfront.news/p/palantirs-...

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one hand dirties the other

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