if they weren't so woke they'd plan these things on onlyfans.

@hannahstoryb.bsky.social (here's a dumb question! if i am referring to you, do you prefer "Brown emphasizes..." or "Story Brown emphasizes...")

it feels like tech and government are converging on a new motto: "let's be evil."

i wonder if they're coming to revisit their enthusiasm for "2nd Amendment people" given whose tyranny it is they now might revolt against. ht @niral.bsky.social

“Rather than the regulations themselves, we need to look at the overall system by which the regulatory state is brought to a place where it prevents things happening which have majority support.”

if you really want clean opsec, you do these things on bluesky.

“It remains notable that DOGE hasn’t so much as hinted about doing something about overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans run by private insurers, which we know are costing taxpayers tens of billions a year.” @pkrugman.bsky.social

so much of the Trump/Musk crew’s impunity comes from their being so open about their maleficence people have a hard time processing it as crime. not so this case.

looks like i misinterpreted this! MAR is a genuine duplicate, but the others reflect overlapping screenshots. thanks @gregbrown.bsky.social @mayfaircynic.bsky.social!

phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/ukraine-wa...

kakistocracy is downstream from plutocracy because under plutocracy those who survive in positions of authority become restricted to those who’ve proven susceptible to extortion and gratuity.

if you want a fair hearing on human rights, i guess you're better off suing in El Salvador. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

The war-plans thing is bad, but I think it's far less of a scandal than lawlessly decimating USAID, CFPB, NSF/NIH, etc. It would have been a terrible tragedy if US servicemembers had been harmed due to their leaders' miserable opsec. But what those mfs have done to USAID alone will kill many more.

“Unrooted party orgs cannot reach an alienated and disorganized working class. Policy entrepreneurs who have identified the failings of neoliberalism cannot reach them either. Small-minded politicos cannot build from politics to policy; pointy-headed mandarins cannot build from policy to politics.”

i love VT SEN. i say primary everyone. our system provides too little choice, too little play for the demos to express itself, when there are not contested primaries.

“Paul, Weiss’s reputation as a law firm is now kaput; it must be regarded as an adjunct of the Trump administration.”

Donald Trump has no mandate at all. The majority of people who voted in the 2024 election voted against him. He won a plurality of the popular vote. He achieved not even the barest majority, which itself would not constitute any kind of a mandate.

remember when the Supreme Court said the Federal government couldn’t condition funding on medicaid expansion because that would be coercive and violate their rights? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

what’s happening now is worse and weirder than McCarthyism. at least during the red scares, there was actually a scare. the public was persuaded there was a threat. no one is scared or threatened by people who participated in now-silenced protests on behalf of the Palestinian cause.

impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.