John McLaughlin

A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book

Not sure if expanding the number of judges would be filibuster-proof like SCOTUS appointments.

Expanding the number of justices would require an act of Congress, and all appointments (like they are rn) would need to be then confirmed by the Senate.

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change - The New York Times
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YouTube video by Josh Johnson Trump VS MAGA? The Epstein Crashout Explained

Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago.

I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell.

Give it a watch and share it.

It really blows my mind how much outlook sucks. Gmail really is the best it gets, huh? Like that’s the pinnacle of email. It doesn’t get better, that’s the apex, it’s just Gmail.

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

When you’re an energy company in the business of generating … $$$.
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Severance is one of the best shows I've seen, but I think Andor is even better. I hope it wins the Emmy.

they're calling it history's most vindicated podcast

Mahmood Mamdani · The Asian Question: On Leaving Uganda President Yoweri Museveni was careful not to refer to Asians as citizens; he explained that they were ‘investors’,...

A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"The Ghor are waging insurrection against the Empire"

Trump Looks to Avoid Casting Blame in Texas Flood as Democrats Question Cuts The White House rebuked critics for raising questions about President Trump's efforts to shrink agencies that deal with disaster preparedness and response. 4 MIN READ

*Taking* blame, NYT. Taking.

Holy shit, this is amazing

One big beautiful blackout It’s not just about cost—the bill text imposes new and perhaps insurmountable uncertainties on project developers and investors.

The Senate used the fact that I was out in the woods all weekend to craft a dumpster fire of a bill. Thankfully, I am now back from the woods.

@cthelala.bsky.social and I broke down what's in, what's out, and what's breathtakingly stupid about this IRA repeal:

publicenterprise.org/one-big-beau...

Senate Finance text is out. Solar and wind out by 2028 except one weird carveout. Batteries keep full ITC /PTC and expanded component eligibility in 45X?

(Text keeps transferability but gets rid of 5-year MACRS depreciation on *all* zero-emissions tech. Bad for clean firm!)

Whether it's right ending democracy and turning the United States into a military dictatorship or the left slapping a flier onto Chris Cillizza's Tesla, both sides have descended into nihilistic lawlessness.

The basic fallacy in chasing votes by being "tough on immigration" is that the modal American's position on the issue is "Deport the Bad ones and keep the Good ones," and they alone know who is which, and that simply does not translate into workable policy. So this kind of gestapo stuff (1/2)

[world’s longest, most aggrieved sigh] richie torres, welcome to the resistance

I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

"Trump's Frustration with 5th Avenue Pedestrian Resulted in Unconventional Response"

Imagine Mohammed bin Salman being the good guy in the room

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

Reporter: "What do you think about the corrupt criminal mayor of New York having all charges against him dropped in exchange for said mayor telling everybody they can't say anything bad about the corrupt criminal president?"

Hakeem Jeffries: "I dunno, what's the popular thing to think?"

Anti-Racism Racism Allyship Bias DEI Diversity Diverse Confirmation Bias Equity Equitableness Feminism Gender Gender Identity Inclusion Inclusive All-Inclusive Inclusivity Injustice Intersectionality Prejudice Privilege Racial Identity Sexuality Stereotypes Pronouns Transgender Equality

2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.

This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:

"improve the project" - the project thus far has involved illegally closing agencies, threatening the media, accessing private data, and impounding funds.
Are these people still waiting for the Trump pivot too?

"I am going to break the law"

Am I good too?

How Trump’s Sweeping Expulsions Have Thrown the FBI Into Chaos Firings at the Justice Department and FBI herald revenge—and a broad shift from white-collar and national-security cases to illegal immigration and street crime.

Trump will shift many of the "FBI’s 38,000 agents, analysts and technical experts to illegal immigration, which traditionally held a limited role" and "from securities fraud, antitrust violations and other white-collar cases to drug-trafficking and violent street crime."

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