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We can help to insulate the American people from the cost of the collapse of the AI bubble by changing bankruptcy laws so as not to protect private equity from their failures deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-simple...
The Simple Way to Stop the Hidden AI Bailout: Rewrite Bankruptcy Law
It's still capitalism with less PE friendly bankruptcy laws
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Yes, this counters the centrist argument that Black voters—the base of the Democratic party—are immovably moderate and will reject progressive candidates.
Your Friend Temporary Michigander@trt311.bsky.social · 20h agoThis is pretty much exactly what happened. The polls dramatically overestimated how he’d do with whites and underestimated how well he’d do with Black voters.
The milky way and Mobius Arch - Alabama Hills, eastern Sierra/Owen's Valley, CA, a few weeks ago.
The news story about Donald Trump being desperate for immunity for tax fraud & the news story about Donald Trump being kicked to the curb by Capital One for widespread money laundering are RELATED.
I urge you to pay attention to Kansas's election on Tuesday, when voters will decide whether to abolish the state's nonpartisan nominating commission for Kansas Supreme Court justices, and allow lawmakers to institute partisan supreme court elections instead. This proposal is...not what it seems.
The Push to Elect Kansas Supreme Court Justices Is a Cynical Anti-Abortion Power Grab
In 2022, Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected the GOP’s anti-abortion agenda. Four years later, state lawmakers are trying “another path.”
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Elon Musk dumped $25 million into a state Supreme Court race here in Wisconsin last year and it turned the race into a referendum on Elon Musk and his attempt to buy the election. The result was a 10 point loss for his candidate in a very purple state (that had just voted for Trump)
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 3d agoElon Musk will be spending $100 million to $120 million in at least eight states to help elect Republicans in November, according to The New York Times. But Musk’s money shouldn’t be viewed as a problem. It’s an opportunity. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-stink-of-musk
If you had to design an inflatable, blabbering fool, this would be the result. Another sublime product of the Ivy League
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoHassett: "One of the metrics of shelter costs that I find most interesting is that they're going down pretty rapidly in places like California because everybody is leaving. Even though there are high prices in California, it puts downward pressure on inflation because everybody is leaving the state"
Recommended reading about the meaning of art: open.substack.com/pub/jamesluc...
The Paintings That Say What You Can't
8 masterpieces that put into color what we can't put into words...
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And the smell of that blood carries very far
Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 3d agoThe smell of death surrounds you, Donald Trump Deportees slain in Guatemala. A Haitian woman abandoned at a PGH bus stop. The bomb striking a family in Iran. Detainees in the ICE gulag. Lorenzo Salgado. Renee Good. USAID Dehumanization, then death. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
They lie about the big stuff. They lie about the small stuff. They lie about having lied. And they act outraged if anyone points it out. We need a fundamental change in how their words are reported, interpreted, and acted on.
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5d agoReflecting Pool lessons: 1. Trump administration lying is routine and pervasive. Nothing they say or do should have a "presumption of regularity." 2. They spend our money to prosecute innocent people. Congress should cut and restrict funds and hold liars accountable. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Excellent description of the current state of political journalism and how we got here
Craig Unger@craigunger.bsky.social · 6d ago@noupside.bsky.social @jayrosen.bsky.social @froomkin.bsky.social The ground journalism was built to stand on stopped being solid under everyone at the same time. Find out why investigative reporting can't touch Trump the way Watergate touched Nixon! craigunger.substack.com/p/nothing-mo...
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It Steven Miller must stay up at night with other vampires, searching for anything good & helpful to families and children so he can crush it and cause maximum pain.
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
nytimes.com
Matisse reworked Bathers by a River over three campaigns from 1909 to 1917, and you can read the war-ravaged decade in its layers. Conceived for Shchukin but never commissioned, this severe masterpiece abstracts four figures into bands of gray, black, and green.
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
With Blanche Nomination at Stake, Payouts to Trump Allies Continue (Gift Article)
A seven-figure settlement was announced hours before senators skeptical about the so-called weaponization fund delayed a crucial vote on Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general.
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"The very existence of Rep. Rulli and Rep. Emmer – as Italian-American and German-American members of Congress – proves that the arguments of nativists are bankrupt to the core."
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.In recent weeks, congressmen like Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH) have leveled racist attacks against immigrant communities in their districts. As I note in CAMPAIGN TRAILS, a century ago those same racist attacks were being made against people named Emmer and Rulli.
Decorative Figure on an Ornamental Background, 1925 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16755
The Taste of Sorrow / La saveur des larmes - 1948 #artbots #magritte
Here’s a nice summer view of Peyto Lake along the Icefields Parkway at Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦 Prints —> adamjewell.com/featured/ref... #canadianrockies #peytolake #glacierlakes #photography #art #nationalparks #roadtrip #landscapes #banffpark #banfflakes #reflections #wilderness
This NYT article is just awful. We should judge Fauci based on his work, not his innermost musings to a diary he never intended to become public. Who cares that he enjoyed the admiration of celebrities? There's zero evidence here that it interfered with his job! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
The Doctor and His Diary: What Fauci’s Innermost Musings Reveal
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci seemed to be the life of the party, even in the midst of a deadly pandemic.
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Glick & Lozada's careful takedown of zombie welfare economics is playing a big role in my current thinking on price discrimination (in which talk of "surplus" is all over the place, even in cutting-edge I/O, without any acknowledgement of the problems with the concept)
The Sling@theslingutah.bsky.social · last wk."The Economics on Which the Law and Economics Movement Relies Is Ideology, Not Science" by Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada, and Darren Bush (And the science more readily supports the LPE movement) cc: @lpeblog.bsky.social www.thesling.org/the-economic...
Van Gogh’s Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries (1888) shows boats stacked like blocks of color—sails, sand, and sea reduced to rhythmic bands, a harmony of form echoing Japanese prints.
