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Far from being on their uppers, Britain’s upper classes s... Despite vastly increased competition from other social groups, the aristocracy remains as influential in this century as it ever was

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Interesting nugget in this piece on Curtis Yarvin www.persuasion.community/p/the-blogge...

The CFPB Has Been Gutted The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

Misogyny, racism, science suppression A reign of terror appears to be underway at NIH with scientists fearing they must toe RFK Jr.'s "correct line."

Misogyny, racism, science suppression
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Trump's tariffs are designed for maximum damage—to America President Donald Trump touted his bewildering array of "Liberation Day" import tariffs as carefully calibrated to offset trade partners' tariff, nontariff, and currency barriers to US exports. However...

Trump's tariffs are designed for maximum damage—to America This is not a both sides have a point situation.
Maury Obstfeld @piie.com speaking truth to power.
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Baba Stiltz & Okay Kaya | Bedside

100%. Messaging needs to be clear and forceful. This is bad and it will not help workers.

Trump’s new tariffs are an abomination. It’s not just the economics that is backwards. It’s also the geopolitics/national security angle. Countries have always used trade for geopolitical reasons. But it’s by opening your market to other nations that you get them to align with you, not by closing.

‘I expected to lose’

He’s so predictably pathetic and insecure.

Cry more

Thanks Diditrek

Wednesday boost list. Vet, follow, repost.
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I'd be very grateful if you could complete this survey for my daughter's Psychology degree.
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Chaos Is Bad for Business Ignorance, megalomania and the economic future

Trump inherited a Goldilocks economy. But he may destroy it faster than even pessimists imagined paulkrugman.substack.com/p/surprise-c...

ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?

VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media

Konstantin Kisin ...

'TrUmP WiLl bE GoOd fOr uKrAiNe'

As you watch Trump berate and put his hand on Zelenskyy just ask yourself one simple question: could you ever imagine him speaking to Putin like this?

Shame Glenn didn’t ask Musk if he respects “the office”…

The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.

Okay... we feel like we say this every week but *a lot* of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)

This is what a deal with the devil looks like👇

@housegop.bsky.social JUST VOTED TO CUT Medicaid, SNAP benefits, school meals, & housing assistance all in exchange for giving corporations & billionaires a tax cut all at the  expense of the middle class.

The Trellick Tower, seen from Golborne Road. A 1972 brutalist classic by architect Erno Goldfinger. And yes, that’s where Ian Fleming got the name #london #photography #brutalist #architecture

I present to you the next deputy director of the FBI!

Of course, tis up to you where you post, but brilliance is needed most in dark places.

You should do it. Valuable to keep popular leftist presence on X.

Winter in the city ❄️ #london #photography

Scruton is part of an intellectual culture giving respectability to racism Howls of outrage over philosopher Sir Roger Scruton's loss of a government job ignore the reality of his output.

I wrote 6 years ago about the intellectual history on the right of the view that black, Asian and mixed-race Brits – whether or not they were born here – are "foreigners", and its mainstreaming in contemporary conservativism.

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So Kemi Badenoch appeared on this podcast last week. And here they are arguing the toss over whether Rishi Sunak could possibly be English. We used to - rightly - judge Jeremy Corbyn by the company he keeps. We should do the same with Badenoch.

My two cents on Milei and the crypto scam, this time with the paywall down

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