@balajis: This year's Network State Conference is on Friday, October 3 in Singapore. Our speakers include Vitalik Buterin, Bryan Johnson, Ben Horowitz, Brian Armstrong, Amjad Masad, Ranveer Allahbadia, Arthur Hayes, Nas Daily, Noah Smith, Andrew Huberman, and the governments of Singapore, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and El Salvador.

This week: The Network State conference in Singapore.

Watch as radicalized tech billionaires and authoritarian governments openly plot a post-democracy, post-USA crypto future.

The Network State is an extremist tech cult based on the work of Curtis Yarvin. It calls for a program of "tech zionism."

No, we are not.

He never plans to leave.

Im 5 minutes old in learning yhat @mollyjongfast.bsky.social is related to Howard Fast, the once blacklisted writer on such films as Spartacus and Cheyenne Autumn. Good, important read this morning.

Celebrate the moment🎉

Workers harvesting watermelons

Lettuce tastes great on your #July4 burger or salad. Harvesting it is an extremely difficult job because of the constant bending down and use of sharp tools. As we enjoy our holiday BBQs, let's remember the farm workers who make this meal possible. #WeFeedYou

With ICE's *enormous* new budget and its ability to hire *many* more agents, the United States is about to enter an era of brutal domestic terrorism that we've never seen before.

Hunger and Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala In his new hour-long special available February 1, 2020, Rick Steves travels through Ethiopia and Guatemala to learn about extreme poverty — the more than 700 million people who struggle to live on le...

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Despicable

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

So won't the birthright ruling today only encourage presidents to copy Trump and do everything by executive order rather than go through boring rule-makings that can be blocked under the APA?

Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, a Trump ally who has pushed to build the detention center in the Everglades, has said the state will not need to invest much in security because the area is surrounded by dangerous wildlife, including alligators and pythons. A spokesperson for the attorney general said work on the new facility started on Monday morning.

imagine writing this completely uncritically as if it’s a normal thing for a government official to say

Trump throwing a military parade for himself despite never serving in the military is a metaphor for his entire existence.

REAL IMAGES from today's peaceful protest in Los Angeles…there was even a musical performance! Legacy media needs to start covering the reality and not just the provocative bits.
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Bazinga!

Congratulations Gus and Walz family.

How do we defend our non-action to our children and grandchildren?

ALEC Sets Sights On New Anti-Voting Bills in States Read more here.

NEW: A right-wing think tank known for drafting model legislation for state GOP lawmakers, is expanding its state-level anti-voting efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ?
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Families will be ripped apart and suffer lifelong trauma. People will die.
tRump is responsible for at least 150,000 deaths from Covid. He will accept a luxury jet from Qater. Congress is powerless to stop him. tRump WILL NOT STOP, and nobody seems able to stop him.

$5000 “baby bonus” to encourage women to have more babies? Come on. That won’t even cover the cost of childbirth.

Instead, here are 10 things we should actually do to make it easier to raise a family:

Trump Taps Refugee Fund To Welcome White South Africans Within Days Amid a near-total asylum ban, government sources say Trump officials are planning to use funds for at-risk refugees to facilitate imminent Afrikaner resettlement.

🚨NEWS: Trump is blocking nearly all asylum seekers — but is now funneling government cash into supporting an influx of white South Africans who want to emigrate now that apartheid is over.

Details from a confidential government memo viewed by The Lever. www.levernews.com/trump-taps-r...

Griffin concedes NC Supreme Court race, ending unprecedented effort to overturn election Griffin’s concession puts to bed a contentious and chaotic saga in NC politics, one that has raised substantial questions about democracy and may impact the state’s elections for years to come.

🚨Jefferson Griffin has FINALLY conceded to Justice Allison Riggs following his defeat in federal court on Monday. Griffin spent six months attempting to overturn his 734-vote loss in November: www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Their everything all at once strategy has effectively distracted us. While some fight, others are as docile as lambs to the slaughter. Finally, we know we'll who will be hurt most from the tariffs. We know it and we do it anyway😪

He’s been released!!

pro tip: if your government claims to have no money for children's heathcare but will eagerly waste millions on a gaudy military parade to stroke the fragile ego of a broken-inside president, you just might live in a shithole country

Workers Forced to Leave Foreign Policy Center as Trump Presses Shutdown (Gift Article) About 130 employees of the Wilson Center were told they were being put on leave, just four days after workers for Elon Musk’s team entered the center.

My heart goes out to everyone at the Wilson Center now put on leave and all the exceptional programs that are shutting down. I mean, who needs excellent and meaningful foreign policy research these days? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

Sure was a lucky break for those billionaires to be at the White House today when the tariffs were reversed. Good day in the market for them.

I don't think people realize that in important respects tariffs are now higher & more inflationary than what was announced on last Wednesday.

Since then we've gone from 54% to 125% on China, our 3rd largest trading partner. That outweighs delaying the increases on 70+ others.

DOGE is in the process of shutting down Peace Corps.

My service as a Peace Corps volunteer enriched my life beyond measure. With the exception of being a mom, Peace Corps was the most meaningful experience of my life. It continues to influence the person I am today. I am sick.