Stephen Taylor

This is several days old. But amidst so much else id missed it. That’s a stunning number. No wonder they about-faced. Reminder of the power of consumers in oligarch era, not subject to the same kind of targeting.

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

there are good & worthwhile historical & legal arguments for why the unitary executive is nonsense but to my mind the most straightforward argument is that it makes no logical sense that the president has absolute removal power over the people whose job it is to keep the executive branch accountable

CNN reports that a highly trained and responsible ICE agent accidentally shot an immigrant and a US marshal

this is kind of peak incel. by day, race war and fascism; when nom gets in trouble, mom calls the principal

George Santos is a convicted criminal and genuinely bad person, caught stealing from a fund to get medical care for a veteran’s service dog, and other victims along similar lines.
A jury convicted him. But America now has a pro-fraud president—who also hates dogs and disdains vets—so Santos is free.

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

Congrats Daniel!

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Thanks - great article!

I am sticking with Netflix.

Next, @netflix.com should launch a subsidiary or affiliate streaming network run by Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. It should be comedy, politics and news/current events, no MAGA control allowed of any kind. It would be a GLOBAL hit!

Here’s an idea. The west has held about $300 billion in Russian assets. They should release 2 billion a day to Ukraine until Russia stops the war, or they disperse it all.

Then Russia will have to accept the war has an additional real cost per day

I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.

it’s fascinating. majorities of americans oppose the military occupation of cities. a substantial number of those are fucking furious about it, but rather than lean into this anger and attack trump’s perception of strength, these “strategists” want democrats to avoid the confrontation entirely.

This is fantastic advice which all Democrats and patriots need to follow. Thanks Stuart Stevens.

Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

Xi-Putin-Modi backslapping, along with easing global condemnation for Russia's aggressive war of territorial conquest, gives a sense of what the post-American world looks like.

Not some sort of peaceful utopia, but a playground for authoritarians, with aggression abroad and repression at home.

I applaud Newsom for his redistricting project but Pritzker is meeting the moment as well.

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A good argument if corn fields could vote.

The fact that an indicted war criminal has been invited to the US to meet with the President to look at maps of the country he invaded tells you Putin has already won.

Operation “Get him to stroke out” is in full swing.

No, JD, belonging in America does not depend on how many generations of your family have lived here. The values of this country matter - deeply - to who we are and what it means to be American.

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