Adorno's Alter-Ego
@wisengrund.bsky.social
"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying glass." - Theodor Adorno
Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
The Soft-on-Violent-Crime GOP, DOJ requests to dismiss January 6 cases against Oath Keepers, US judge agrees currently.att.yahoo.com/att/us-judge...
US judge grants DOJ request to dismiss January 6 cases against Oath Keepers
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday granted the U.S.
currently.att.yahoo.com
BREAKING: A US judge granted the US Justice Department's motion to dismiss January 6 prosecutions of members of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia, according to a court filing reut.rs/457JSU8
More than 170,000 federal student loan borrowers who said they were defrauded by their schools are set to have $11 billion in debt erased, after an appellate court sided with the borrowers and rejected a request from the Education Department for more time to review their claims.
Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers
The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.
nyti.ms
It's a good question 😉 Werner Bonefeld says because of the importance of negative dialectics as critique of society.
Werner Bonefeld · Why read Adorno: A lecture (2026)
radicalphilosophy.com
It was "masquerading conquest as grievance" all along and @economist.com and @zannymb.economist.com didn't see it 🙄
Heidi Siegmund Cuda — Bette Dangerous@heidicuda.bsky.social · last wk."It’s a brief for a predatory state" I am cross-posting an open letter to The Economist from lawyer Victor Rud, who wrote a scathing response to the magazine's editor for publishing a Russian magnate's "subliminal reality reversal" essay www.bettedangerous.com/p/its-a-brie...
The panic over "wokism" is a smokescreen for money laundering, scams and fraud 🤬
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to the president's family business.
reuters.com
He is single handedly dividing the United States 🙄
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Judge gives federal government two weeks to explain incomplete Renee Good shooting evidence
Judge gives federal government two weeks to explain incomplete Renee Good shooting evidence
The order identifies gaps in personnel files, use-of-force policies, witness statements, medical records and video evidence related to the Jan. 7 killing.
startribune.com
The point of a tariff is to make firms build factories at home. But if it's on Monday, off Tuesday, back on Wednesday, no one pours concrete. Chaotic tariffs give you all of the cost and almost none of the benefit. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/global-tariffs-are-back-did-they
lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism
@podsekalnikov.bsky.social Is it Fascism yet?
AAUP@aaup.org · 2w agoOUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵
Man Relaxing in a Huge Pile of Money
ALT: Man Relaxing in a Huge Pile of Money
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Jason Garcia@jasongarcia.bsky.social · 2w agoNew: Data center interests have spent more than $22 million on campaign contributions in Florida ahead of the 2026 elections. Roughly a quarter of the money ($5.8 million) has been spent boosting Byron Donalds, the leading Republican candidate for governor. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/data-cente...
Every adaptation of an ancient text is as much about its own era as the original work; less a lens than a mirror. Sir Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is no different
A very silly adaptation of “The Odyssey”
Sir Christopher Nolan’s film is emblematic of its time
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Neguse grills Rep. Bryan Steil on why his anti-insider trading legislation doesn't include crypto holdings, stocks bought through private placements, or ban them from making bets on prediction markets
Ron DeSantis is a loser once again. Free Speech is the winner: floridaphoenix.com/2026/07/20/a...
A victory for 'the right to tell people what they do not want to hear' • Florida Phoenix
“‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’” That’s how federal judge Mark Walker began his 2022 injunction blocking enforcement of Ron DeSantis’ “Stop Woke Act” in Fl...
floridaphoenix.com
Lutnick (who took his KIDS to Epstein Island) turns out to have been at several parties where Epstein was a guest. AFTER he did time for sex with a minor, Epstein was still getting invited to fancy events with the rich and famous, because the #EpsteinClass didn't care about that.
Trump official busted on Epstein again after ‘forgotten photo archive’ unearthed: report
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was exposed recently for having attended yet another previously undisclosed event “alongside Jeffrey Epstein,” writer Bekah Day reported Friday.Last year, Lutnick cla...
rawstory.com
After a cost of more than $1 billion, the Everglades concentration camp has been removed from the airstrip where it once stood.
Alligator Alcatraz is no more. Tents, cars, signs disappear from airport site
“Not much left but a couple of trucks and a few contractors standing around,” pilot Ra Schooley, who took aerial photos Sunday morning, remarked.
orlandosentinel.com
DeSantis declared Florida the State where "the woke goes to die". Turns out "The Woke" is alive and it just gave him the middle finger salute. "So if you’re still cheering for “Stop WOKE” censorship, don’t you dare try to wrap yourself in the American flag, because you dishonor it."
Maxwell: Courts confirm Florida’s ‘Stop WOKE’ law is un-American garbage
Yet another federal court, led in part by a conservative, Trump-appointed judge, has ruled that Ron DeSantis’ so-called ‘Stop WOKE’ law was unconstitutional garbage. The reality: It’s anti-American to...
orlandosentinel.com
Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...
Hey @zannymb.economist.com, @economist.com look what I found?
Is The Economist taking a right turn?
The British magazine founded in the distant 1843 has ovr the years, earned respect from businesspeople, capitalists and intellectuals worldwide for its political independence, its adherence to the ide...
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