"We are in the middle of an attempted autogolpe. It hasn’t succeeded so far. …I'd say tentatively…the autogolpistas are having a harder time than they expected. America’s oligarchs may mostly have preemptively surrendered… but many of the rest of us have not." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/autogolpe

look, if we defund NASA, this percentage will stop growing.

i think a pretty good, pretty accurate, way of explaining to less news-obsessed people what’s going on is Trump and Musk are turning the US into a “shithole country”, as the man himself once put it.

everyone should be in favor of a democratic people’s republic. seems obvious. from xcancel.com/lexfridman/s...

we should have understood there’s no real moat around LLMs when Musk was able to stand up a near-frontier model so quickly. only the myth of Musk’s specialness allowed us to ignore homegrown evidence.

i mean, “Department of Energy”. it’s gotta be, like, radical left-wing windmills and stuff. surely there can’t be anything secret, anything dangerous, there, right?

i guess what the election decided is before we rise from the ashes, we will be ashes.

it doesn’t matter what the law says if the executive charged with enforcing it means instead to sabotage even the possibility of any enforcement. ht @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

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“The idea that ‘fascism = strength’ is just a piece of propaganda unwittingly reproduced by critics of the fascism thesis.”

inoreader (my preferred RSS reader) now integrates BlueSky feeds. www.inoreader.com/blog/2025/02...

they are preboarding any guests with disabilities. isn’t that DEIA? doesn’t federal law prohibit that now? people should get the boarding priorities they paid for!

austerity is not the same thing as efficiency. in fact, often the correlation is inverse.

shh. the switch is in the basement of Comet Pizza.

mistake or malevolence? we are left to ask, rinse, repeat.

without comment.

once a coup has proceeded to a certain degree, it becomes difficult to distinguish putting down the coup from a coup on behalf of different interests. once control of the state is up for grabs, what faction can claim to be above factions? all, of course, will try.

look. without NOAA, we won't have hurricanes. they'll just be rainy days if nobody is measuring wind speed.

“A power-mad president possessed of radical theories of executive authority and convinced of his own royal prerogative has given de facto control of most of the federal govt to one of the richest men on the planet…whose…interests are tangled up in those of rival govts and foreign autocracies”

by Saturday. relocate out of the country you've lived in and expected to live in for some time, by Saturday. or else "the military would step in"?