Kash Patel’s Acts of Service
The F.B.I. director isn’t just enforcing the President’s agenda at the Bureau—he’s seeking retribution for its past investigations of Donald Trump.
"[Patel] wrote three [...] allegorical tales in which Kash the Wizard heroically leads a battle on behalf of King Donald to identify the bad guys who were scheming to elect Hillary Queenton on Choosing Day" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... via @newyorker.com
19.11.2025 18:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
19.11.2025 17:03 — 👍 812 🔁 253 💬 35 📌 34
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
18.11.2025 17:46 — 👍 7764 🔁 2914 💬 2262 📌 2632
Laura Loomer’s Endless Payback
The President’s self-appointed loyalty enforcer inspires fear and vexation across Washington. What’s behind her vetting crusades?
"It’s like this pay-to-play Tasmanian devil. You just feed her any sort of D.E.I. comment that some executive made over the last twelve years—then you just expect total anarchy and a wide blast zone" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... via @newyorker.com
18.11.2025 19:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn
And suddenly, there may be a reverse Midas at the centre of AI’s circular economy
Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn - on.ft.com/4nZW5B6
My "a bubble that all the normies call a bubble can't pop" thesis is coming under serious pressure
18.11.2025 09:37 — 👍 21 🔁 16 💬 9 📌 5
this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
18.11.2025 00:38 — 👍 13956 🔁 2217 💬 273 📌 56
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
"Trump’s intertwining of climate policy and authoritarianism may beget its own countermovement: climate democracy" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... via @theatlantic.com
17.11.2025 19:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Journalist Eric Smit heeft vanmiddag op zijn Linkedin een reactie geplaatst op de uitleg van NRC
16.11.2025 12:55 — 👍 579 🔁 227 💬 16 📌 20
The great Syrian beach trip
A visit to the seaside once risked arrest and torture. Now people are soaking up the sun
"There are estimated to be as many as 10,000 insurgents loyal to the old regime hiding out in the coastal areas" www.economist.com/interactive/... via @economist.com
16.11.2025 17:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Mystery of the Political Assassin
Even in cases like Luigi Mangione’s, the intentions of assassins are dwarfed by the meanings we project onto them.
"[T]he age of Princip is over. We have returned to an era of disgruntled plotters and fanatics [...] whose hazy motives seem patched together by personal grievances, mental illness, and solipsistic internet quests" www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee... via @newyorker.com
15.11.2025 22:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Widow of Chornobyl's first victim killed by Russian attack on Kyiv 39 years later
Natalia Khodymchuk, the widow of Valerii Khodymchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, died in Kyiv overnight on Nov. 14–15 after suffering severe injuries in a mass Russian attack on t...
⚡️Widow of Chornobyl's first victim killed by Russian attack on Kyiv 39 years later.
Natalia Khodymchuk, widow of Valerii Khodymchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, died in Kyiv after suffering severe injuries in a mass overnight Russian attack on Nov. 14–15.
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The Third Red Scare
The Trump administration is cracking down on Americans’ freedom of speech, but the First Amendment won’t go down without a fight.
"Many civic institutions have buckled under pressure, but the ruckus made by the others is far louder than any of the muted pushback against McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... via @theatlantic.com
15.11.2025 17:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
"Fantasy and science fiction, with their imaginary cultures and creatures, their wars between evil monsters and honorable heroes, have always had a complex relationship with the concept of race" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... via @theatlantic.com
15.11.2025 00:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How the Supreme Court Defines Liberty
Recent memoirs by the Justices reveal how a new vision of restraint has led to radical outcomes.
"What [Barrett] doesn’t concede is that [originalism] inherently tilts toward a conservative outcome, leaving individual liberties, in particular, frozen in a bygone era" www.newyorker.com/books/under-... via @newyorker.com
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The Left’s New Moralism Will Backfire
Under Trump, progressives have embraced the rhetoric of “moral clarity.” It won’t help their cause.
"[R]igid sanctimoniousness that cannot allow the possibility of forgiveness or negotiation—is not clarity. It’s dogmatism" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... via @theatlantic.com
15.11.2025 00:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Brussel betrekt Nederlandse supermarkt bij onderzoek naar Red Bull
Red Bull zou consumenten benadelen door de prijs van zijn energiedrank kunstmatig hoog te houden. De Europese Commissie heeft hierover bij minstens één Nederlandse supermarktketen informatie opgevraag...
De concurrentie benadelen via verkoopbeperkingen, financiële voordelen, druk op retailers en zelfs een lastercampagne: Red Bull ligt onder vuur in Brussel. De Europese Commissie is inmiddels informatie aan het inwinnen bij minstens één Nederlandse supermarktketen.
www.ftm.nl/artikelen/re...
14.11.2025 13:45 — 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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