The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Love how they're banning both trans women that won in women's categories AND trans men that previously won prior to transitioning, just in case anyone thought it was about anything other than pure discriminatory hatred

Miss ma’am walked up the escalator, got to swinging then posed on her way down.

Dr. Hiviid

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Niemöller’s legacy is naturally the poem, but his enduring intellectual presence can be found lurking in the sentence, “Their hostility toward the Church made me pin my hopes on Hitler for a while.”

LOL

The editors of Theory & Society, a storied journal that was thrown under the bus of evo-soc/anti-woke neopositivist sociology, are now looking for contributions that will confirm their paranoia about their (lower?) salaries being the product of some woke BlueSky cartel.

Sometimes, I think, contemporary people do miss out on how significant a part of the bad of colonialism it was that they did all the shooting people and setting up military dictatorships. Like, yeah, they did also do a bunch of subtler bad stuff. But let's not forget the murderous dictatorships.

The story of how Trump sells access to the White House - to benefit himself and his family financially and to benefit his political operation - is shocking and sordid.

No President has ever monetized access like Trump has.

1/ It's a story you need to know.

"Some pathetic people say that tulip values can't go up forever. They just cant accept the new way of the world. But history will demonstrate just how embarassingly they clung to their old ways and were left behind by the investment of the future" -Substack writers, Holland 1637

YouTube video by ThePrimeTime THIS IS THE REAL VIBE CODING

An unironically pleasant post

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At least she didn’t fall out of a hotel window across the street from the American Petroleum Institute

Never Forget: Vinay Prasad Loved Donald Trump A Bloomin' Onion of Conspiracy Theories

This is revisionist history. Prasad rose to power by feeding into ridiculous conspiracy theories and then became devoured by the very beast he thought he could tame. Try reading Vinay’s own words: www.panaccindex.info/p/never-forg...

Yes. But the combination of all three is sublime

White people do owe black people reparations for how we were written or directed in 80s and 90s films.

HELLO!

When you’ve lost the economists…(though I suspect some George Mason or UChicago ghoul will offer some counter message)

You have your scripts available? This could be something for my economic development class. They’re always looking for new ways to visualize labor market data

Another point here is: what private corporation will want to step in as the substitute for the BLS (even if it were possible) if doing so means reporting bad news will make them a Trump target?

Literally anything useful at that location (if I’m thinking of the same one) is locked down and the coolers break every summer…it’s maddening. I went in for deodorant and it took like 10 minutes

The local cvs in west philly just locked up the ice cream. The key got stuck initially so it took about 5 minutes to get a pint.

will anyone ever ask why this is suddenly a pressing concern, when european growth is tanking and there are so many gaps in industries that either require specific skills or hard labour?

I do think it says something that whenever we ask ourselves questions like this, we get a jumble of 500 policies. What are the unifying concepts that explain why that agenda is cohesive and desirable? That tells us how and why to prioritize certain goals at certain times? That's what the right has.

Two things on responses like this:

1) This is a list of policies that Democratic politicos — Miller equivalents — don't agree on

2) A policy checklist, desirable as it might be, isn't an actual *vision for American society* akin to "white ethnic dominion." What kind of country do we want?

The question to ask here is: What would a Democratic Miller even want? Stephen Miller has a crystal clear picture of the America he believes should exist in his head. It motivates him. It determines the policies he prioritizes and the strategies he chooses. What would be the Democratic equivalent?

A Not-So-Fond Farewell to Vinay Prasad The Steve Urkel of COVID Twitter turned out to be incompetent at both drug regulation and being an authoritarian apparatchik

Angie Rasmussen takes a blowtorch to Vinay Prasad #scicomm

In the U.S., we go wild with paint, markings, and signs, and cars still park all over the bike and bus lanes. In Europe, even when the visual cues are much less subtle, illegal parking is rarer. What’s the difference? Enforcement.

Figures like this make me question the cottage industry of commentators who insist data centers don’t have appreciable impacts on emissions or utilities…the local impact of these things will be highly disruptive in many places

In the US AI buildout is so gigantic; contrib. more to US growth than consumer spending in 2025!

China's green boom is so gigantic that Clean-energy contributed more than 10% of China's WHOLE ECONOMIC GDP in 2024 for the first time ever
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Shared a few faves but really everything in this thread is bananas, and it feels like only the energy wonks are talking about it.