Andrew Elrod

Mother Jones 2015: How a Hard-Charging General Became an Environmental Crusader Lt. General Russel L. Honoré has declared war on Louisiana’s biggest polluters. Is a gubernatorial run next? photo of gen honore in a beret and sunglasses smoking a cigar and writing in a notebook. he looks cool as shit.

it's his turn

‪its so cool though that while the primary threat to billionaires these days is private helicopter crashes and botched transhumanist alchemy we must ask this as though they’re at lethal risk while meanwhile so many other classes of persons are given as disposable by genocide, replaceable by AI, etc‬

does the emperor have a right to exist? does the pharaoh? do the divine sons of Odin in the House of Knýtlinga, bane of Wessex, deserve to exist? perhaps the answer is “sure, human beings have rights and a right to exist, but hierarchies of power and dominance, not necessarily”

Great interview with my colleague,Ted!

Great coalition partners here!

The Fiscal Crisis of the Energy State | Jack Gross, Andrew Elrod “The budget,” Austrian sociologist Rudolf Goldscheid wrote in 1917, “is the skeleton of the state stripped of all misleading ideologies.” Currently, Trump's coalition is fracturing over contradictory ...

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The Fiscal Crisis of the Energy State | Jack Gross, Andrew Elrod “The budget,” Austrian sociologist Rudolf Goldscheid wrote in 1917, “is the skeleton of the state stripped of all misleading ideologies.” Currently, Trump's coalition is fracturing over contradictory ...

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Between the NYC mayor's race and the expanding, US-backed, potentially nuclear bombing of Iran, it can be hard to notice how the budget bill is shifting the politics inside the GOP—and, therefore, in America. Here Ted Fertik lays it out for the non-budget-junkies among us.

The Fiscal Crisis of the Energy State | Jack Gross, Andrew Elrod “The budget,” Austrian sociologist Rudolf Goldscheid wrote in 1917, “is the skeleton of the state stripped of all misleading ideologies.” Currently, Trump's coalition is fracturing over contradictory ...

To understand where US fiscal policy is going and the politics driving it there, @phenomenalworld.bsky.social spoke with Ted Fertik, VP for Manufacturing @bluegreenalliance.bsky.social. The best, most comprehensive map of internal GOP politics I've yet seen. www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...

Before: How L.A. Ignited a New War Over Immigration After: How L.A. Ignited a New Fight Over Immigration

Change in Headline

Employment law, Medicaid and Medicare. But again an amnesty to bring workers formally into this system means different things geographically—all the states that didn’t expand Medicaid, eg. I don’t think we are really arguing; the issue is just so pressingly in need of organization imo.

Maybe an amnesty campaign could be made in the South on those grounds, but it seems like it would produce contradictory national messaging.

The case for “full citizenship” in Texas and Louisiana, eg, is not a union contract. It is to become a non-union construction contractor who enjoys the right to violate federal labor and employment laws.

I think it would be good to start talking about an amnesty to bring millions of workers under the protections of employment and labor law—the only issue is that so many citizen workers don’t enjoy those protections anyway.

But the case for “liberalizing immigration” provokes the fear that “the same legal rights for others” will not be the high wage labor markets of the Northeast and West Coast, but the lower, lawless labor relations of the open-shop Gulf Coast. This seems the current rhetorical pattern in my mind.

So long as employers can use immigrant labor to weaken collective bargaining rights and wage standards in general, the idea of “promoting immigration” will I am afraid reproduce the current rhetorical and politics patterns…

Yes, the courts and successive DOLs have conditioned enforcement of the NLRA and FLSA on the immigration status of workers, creating an under-the-table labor market that has been consistently growing since the last great amnesty in 1986, itself a reaction to the size of this market.

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Behind the cultural and racist arguments about the effect of immigration on labor markets is the plain fact that employers use immigration law to undermine labor and employment law. I think reacting to this requires centering labor above questions of citizenship.

The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!

Trump threatens to take away Elon’s government contracts

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Elon was “wearing thin,” I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY! 48 ReTruths 149 Likes Jun 05, 2025, 2:37 PM

oh hell yeah this is getting real good

America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

8. Un otoño braudeliano.

Uno de los que teoriza sobre un futuro tecnofeudal, Cédric Durand, escribe con Benjamin Braun sobre las disputas entre las élites estadounidenses.
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Traducción al español slopezarnal.com/miscelanea-3...

America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

While finance split into two political factions, the Silicon Valley elite marched rightward in astonishing unity
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America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

Es interesante este ensayo para ver las fracturas reales y potenciales de la coalición trumpista (y en las fracturas se interviene, no se contemplan), para detectar qué ha acelerado la movilización de sus fracciones (esa misma intervención) y para señalar su objetivo prioritario: el Estado.

America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

On the contradictions of Trump 2.0, “cryptomercantilism”, and Silicon Valley’s desire to destroy Wall Street as well as government.

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America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

Lehrreicher Artikel, der die unterschiedlichen Kapitalfraktionen innerhalb der Trump-Admin & Umfeld auseinanderfriemelt. (Ich habe grundsätzliche Zweifel an den Rationalitätsannahmen, die das Konzept der „Kapitalfraktion“ deren Akteuren zulegt, trotzdem gut.)

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America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

Illuminating look at the factions of capital backing Trump - and the contradictions between them that may or may not be mediated by the Trumpist state.

Always learn a lot reading @phenomenalworld.bsky.social

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America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

Thought this was an interesting comment on ‘techbros’, tariffs and crypto are shaping the fractions of capital behind Trump along with his popular base.

America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

It's hard not to rub one's eyes in disbelief reading about Thiel/Yarvin (& by extension, Vance, Hawley, Jan. 6, etc.). But for someone in Thiel's position it may look like the previous power structure is collapsing anyway, so now's the time to make a move.
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America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

Superb essay from @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...