Marty Leary

“‘They will want more subservience on trade.’”

“In Canada, that threat has more complex dimensions; sovereignty itself could be in play. ‘If the US becomes even more authoritarian, we will be pushed further,’ said Ward Elcock, a former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and a former deputy minister of national defense.”

“The US has likely entered a state that political scientists call ‘competitive authoritarianism,’ in which a democratic opposition struggles to dislodge an authoritarian party that has leveraged the state to amass and exploit power.”

“For Americans, the rule of law and other democratic pillars are eroding fast. Trump has not consolidated authoritarian power despite masked paramilitary on the streets and lackeys in the executive branch, Congress and courts. But he is making impressive progress.”

Can Canada Survive Donald Trump? Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.

There’s a lot of social media-fueled hyper-alarmism out there, but when an opinion piece as apocalyptic as this appears in @bloomberg.com you gotta take note:

(Paywalled) Can Canada Survive Donald Trump? www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Goldman executive says retail rush into private assets is raising risks Fund managers are under pressure to deploy capital quickly and could buy bad assets

Who could have possibly guessed?

Goldman executive says retail rush into private assets is raising risks
on.ft.com/4mVs6dh

Teenagers walk out of a school and down steps while holding signs with messages like "Keep ICE out" and "Abolish ICE." One student holds a megaphone.

Teenagers stand outside and listen to someone speaking. They are holding signs with messages like "Do I look like a criminal?" and "ICE is not nice" and "Protect migrants, protect due process."

More inspiring photos of Des Moines students staging a walkout to protest their superintendent's detention by ICE!

(photos by Lily Smith of the Register)

Donald Trump’s decision to invade Portland on the basis of video from five years ago raises new questions about Joe Biden’s mental state.

Coming up on #KTLA: It's fair to wonder how a $55 billion buyout of California video game maker Electronic Arts by the Saudi government and the president's son-in-law is different from China controlling TikTok, which was deemed a threat to national security

What could possibly go wrong?

Per Pitchbook: Roughly 30% of outstanding private credit loans with a PIK (payment-in-kind) component are coming due in the next two years.

Although courts have repeatedly ruled that these volume discounts and rebates are not by themselves illegal practices as long as the contractors aren’t billing clients based on their pre-rebate costs.

"We've got a captured population. There are only two of those, BTW, students and prisoners. And frankly, the student data is richer, more diverse, [..] in ways that make it more valuable." -- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Exactly right! That’s why big food service companies like Aramark can underbid smaller competitors to run food service operations at schools, inventories and event centers. The smaller caterers have significantly higher food costs. #volumediscounts #rebates

How Jared Kushner brokered the $55bn takeover of Electronic Arts Trump’s son-in-law used deep ties in Saudi Arabia to help pull off the largest buyout

I wouldn’t take that bet

“The deal is a bold wager by Silver Lake, Kushner’s Affinity Partners” and Saudi Arabia’s PIF, that AI “will fuel an entertainment boom and yield major corporate cost savings by reducing production expenses for games.”

on.ft.com/4gKmCR4

Shawn Fain: “Solidarity Doesn’t Stop at the Border” United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain lays out the union’s vision for rewriting trade rules, raising wages across North America, and challenging the race to the bottom.

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ICE officer relieved of duties after videos show him shoving woman to ground — CBS News An ICE officer who was captured on video pushing a woman to the ground outside an immigration court in New York City has been relieved of his duties.

apple.news/AZCb8Xh9gS42...

He should be relieved of his liberty as well.

Brookfield’s Flatt Says There Should Be Thousands Fewer PE Firms Brookfield Corp. Chief Executive Officer Bruce Flatt estimates that roughly 7,000 private equity firms operate in the US and that the industry has room for fewer than half that amount.

On this we agree

Brookfield’s Flatt Says There Should Be Thousands Fewer PE Firms www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Was this man arrested? And if not why not? Assault is still a crime in NYC, no?

There goes Tucker’s chance of getting hired by MSNBC

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

Shout out to the American Federation of Musicians

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

great piece by @leeharris.ft.com about FABN, an acronym you have never heard of

this intertwining of insurance & unregulated finance is so much larger than ppl (who aren't obsessed w/ such things) realize

also it makes me happy to see a former Maroon editor in chief & Prospect writer @ FT!

Pritzker about to be fired from MSNBC

No solidarity. Reporters let Trump talk this way to a woman reporter and then clamor to get their own question answered. He used to do it to April Ryan, Yamiche Alcindor and Abby Phillip.

And that’s why he controls media. No solidarity.

Right, and imagine how many global companies he can take over and destroy with a trillion-dollar balance checkbook.

In recent months, the GOP has eroded vital protections that voters with disabilities rely on.
James Ziegra, an attorney at Disability Rights Center, said these efforts likely violate these voters’ rights and undermine confidence in our elections.

Nothing to worry about here, folks. Surely running a nuclear power plant isn’t as complicated as running a casino. Wait…

Damn! Where are the strict constructionists when you need ‘em?
(Spoiler alert: they’re busy speaking power to truth, criminalizing reproductive health, dismantling the remnants of the social safety net, and generally enabling corporate monopolists and their dimwitted, despotic handmaidens.)