Thomas Neuburger ✍️

as of the last Fed meeting, they have signaled a switch to easing to try to prop up the AI bubble. Ray Dalio is hinting that it will cause a debt crisis.

If a foreign power did to us what our elites have done to us over the past several decades there would be outrage. I don’t mean the corruption involved in our deindustrialization, but also degradation of our environment, our health, diet, pollution, etc.

The State Of Play In Late 2025 Let's run thru the important points: Domestically in the US the only issue that really matters is affordability. Food, housing and medicine. This will dominate the next few years, maybe even the next ...

Why we’re losing to China

“rich people sold America’s ability to do things to China to get three generations of fake wealth”

Great piece

www.ianwelsh.net/the-state-of...

Oh. Guess I can’t watch MNF.

Fuck @espn.com
Fuck youtubetv
Fuck NFL

Republicans admit Dems wrongly snubbed from Trump’s secret Venezuela briefing: senator - NewsBreak WASHINGTON — The Trump administration snubbed Senate Democrats this week with a secret GOP-only Venezuela briefing on Wednesday in what a lawmaker is calli

Republicans admit Dems wrongly snubbed from Trump’s secret Venezuela briefing: senator
Source: Raw Story
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Americans' views on U.S. fossil fuel production Percent who strongly/somewhat support the federal government doing each of the following. Expanding U.S. oil and gas production Overall 42% Dem 26% Repub 64% Expanding U.S. natural gas exports Overall 38% Dem 30% Repub 50% Auctioning off more public land for oil drilling Overall 18% Dem 9% Repub 30% Source: EPIC/AP-NORC Public Opinion Polling

Reactionary centrists (like @mattyglesias.bsky.social with his “Big-Ass Truck Energy”) always say that Democrats need to support expanding fossil fuels because it’s popular.

They 👏 are 👏 wrong.👏

The U of Chicago shows, again, that the majority of Americans OPPOSE expanding fossil fuels.

China's Solution to Corruption Embezzler sent back to his Maker, thanks to the state

China Responds to Corruption

by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social

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The Augean Stables — How Corruption Has Amended the Constitution A 'My Back Pages' reprint of a piece that's current today

The American Augean Stables

by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
h/t Gary Hart (who was set up)

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Despite Illinois Sanctuary Laws, At Least 17 County Sheriffs Have Contracts to Hold People in ICE Custody To ascertain if county jails are complying with the state’s TRUST Act, WTTW News sent Freedom of Information Act requests to each of the 90 county jails in Illinois to obtain copies of intergovernment...

NEW: I found 17 sheriffs in Illinois that have contracts to detain people for ICE through U.S. Marshals Service contracts. IL law explicitly prohibits these types of intergovernmental service agreements. news.wttw.com/2025/10/22/d...

Chomsky and Robinson: 'National Interest' Is a Euphemism US foreign policy is run to serve its elites. The people are never involved. This was true before Trump.

Chomsky and Robinson: 'National Interest' Is a Euphemism

by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
h/t @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social

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Fire: Remaking the World, Remaking Ourselves We have not only domesticated fire; it has domesticated us. Part 2 of our look at James Scott's 'Against the Grain'

Fire: Remaking Man, Remaking the World

by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social

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Naming the Perp: Very Few People Cause All of the World's Worst Problems Less than 800 Americans have wealth that counts. 100 others control where wealth is invested. That's a very small list.

“A machine is not in charge of the world; it’s a small group of humans destroying the rest of us.”

Naming the Perp: Very Few People Cause All of the World's Worst Problems - @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
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Miller Speaks Truth, AI Tells Lies, and Music Links for Friday, October 10

Miller speaks truth, AI tells lies, and Music

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Would it help if the US broke up? Seems headed that way.

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Conscienceless.

She's certainly right that Democrats need a "strong Republican party."

In the same vein, I was shocked at how quickly Americans accepted as normal the Republican Supreme Court choosing the Republican candidate in the close 2000 presidential election.

So this latest normalization ... unsurprising.

China News, Tales of the Masters, and Fun Links for Friday, October 3

China, the Masters and Fun

Friday links by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social

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I see rain. I see ... not much else.

The rule of law means that civilians who commit crimes are prosecuted in courts of law with benefit of due process. Extrajudicial executions in international waters are an affront to our Constitution and the law of nations. It isn’t national defense. It’s murder.

This is what happens when you offshore the only way to rebel to the right-wing party.

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Tin soldiers and Nixon

Name the Damn Perp To blame 'humanity' for the climate crisis hides both cause and solution

“Davos Man, his boards, his bankers, enablers, bought politicians, that’s who reaps the wealth from all those emissions. That’s who decides whether they stop or continue.

Humanity is just a passenger on this train.”

- @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
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Masters and Minions and Muppets, Oh My! Who we are. Why we do what we do.

Masters and Minions and Muppets (or The State As Perp)

by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social

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