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“Either this machine will be powerful enough to take your job or it’ll blow up and you’ll lose your job in a recession” is a tough outlook for white collar workers over the next few years.

"Even if Fed embarks on one or more interest rate cuts, it may not translate into lower mortgage rates b/ the capital that would've been building homes or apartment buildings is being diverted to build data centers which are generating stronger investment returns" #econsky archive.ph/vxzTD#select...

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When a leader starts sounding like Captain Queeg, it’s not about command anymore.
It’s about control — and fear of losing it.

YouTube video by AFlockOfSeagullsVEVO A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away) (Video)

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AFP (American Fascist Party) has a nice ring to it. Not an endorsement — just an observation. It might make it easier to stick.
So, should we start referring to Liz Cheney and company as the “Real Republicans”?

They Got to Live a Life of Luxury. Then Came the Fine Print.

'Mortgaging one’s whole lifestyle through an app, or what some people glibly refer to as “Klarnamaxxing,” is increasingly common among social media users seeking to cosplay in the glamour they see online. And they’ve turned their very indebtedness into braggadocio.' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/m...

YouTube video by Johnny's War Stories John Candy in Stripes

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Jackson Pollock : Birth, 1941

oil on canvas | 116.4 x 55.1 cm
Abstract Expressionism

Tate Britain, London, UK

Final: Boston University 1, Duke 0

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Brains — without the decency of a glass of Chianti, given I wasn’t old enough to indulge.

Didn’t Caesar say something similar right before “restoring” the Republic?

No taxation without representation.

I don't think most Americans know that the US government pays to keep airplanes flying to smaller, remote cities that would not be profitable because the cities otherwise would not have transportation. They complain about Amtrak's not profitable routes, but there are plenty in aviation too.

If race and gender can’t define a “disadvantaged” business, what about religion?
Faith-based groups get billions in contracts every year. Once you start calling one kind of identity unconstitutional, the unintended consequences come fast.

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Yep

‘I have to say that if I was able to create tens of billions of dollars of stock market value just by announcing deals, and then capture a lot of that value for myself, I would do that, and to the exclusion of most other activities. OpenAI can do that, and does.’ www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

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West Garfield Park
Texas National Guard in action...

Hector McDonnell (Ireland, b.1947) :
Café on Canal Street, New York, 1989

Oil on Canvas, 101 × 76 cm

We’ll find out soon enough. In the end, everyone will get as much care as they can afford — a truth that will break the metaphysically anxious and the evangelically devout alike, each haunted by the same terror of endings.

It's going to be a mess. Republicans are praying the Dems win this one.

What’ll folks do without eggnog come Christmas?

Trumpism: all commodity, no hat. Baudrillard weeps. Jameson smirks. Hunter S. Thompson lights a cigarette and laughs.

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Naegleria fowleri. Of course.

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Battlestar Galactica showed where that road ends — humans and machines trading genocide in a loop of their own making.

Paul Kauzmann, German (1874-1951), Morgensonne (Morning Sun), 1915, oil on canvas, 97 x 67 cm, private collection

Jeopardy for $500.
Answer: I'm sure you'll get this published.
Question: What did Watson and Crick say to Rosalind Franklin?

Let the fleecing begin!

If you’re young, broke, and hustling fast money, they’ll let you bleed out slow.
EMTALA kept the doors open. Repeal it, and the streets collect the bill.

The Trump Action Tracker is a British academic’s answer to Trump “flooding the zone” with anti-democratic and anti- rule of law behaviours. It’s a one-stop-shop for logging the lot. And the meta-anal... TikTok video by Mike Galsworthy

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMhDqaW7/

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These days the President’s more like a 78-year-old toddler—constantly shouting, "Watch me, Mama! Watch me!"