what happened at Dachau in 1933?

“dictator on day one”

do dictators usually start out by dictating popular things? seems sensible.

$TRUMP is the first crypto coin that has a real shot at being currency-like, because it’s the first crypto coin for which there’s a credible threat the coercive power of the state might be used to engender demand.

i can’t believe how much the fate of the republic might turn on the TikTok ban. if Trump issues an Executive Order, firms like Apple decide they face greater risk defying Trump than violating black-letter law, and Congress does nothing, he’s successfully dictated, that’s dictatorship.

there is no such thing as the vibe so it cannot actually shift.

only Congress can fix this. (assuming the Constitution and rule-of-law still apply)

autobiography as much as politics, @phillmv.bsky.social is amazing and i’m delighted to learn so much about them. okayfail.com/2025/i-met-p...

whose idea was it to set the deadline just before rather than just after the inauguration? if Dems had won, it’d have made no difference. but if Trump won… maybe when they passed the act Trump hadn’t yet reversed his position?

nobody is really happy to take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed tonight.

“Americans who voted for Trump because of the putatively high price of eggs [have] now precipitated a political crisis in Scandinavia.” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/internationa... ht @sharonk.bsky.social @prchovanec.bsky.social

This time everybody wants to be his friend.

no need. just a little bit of $TRUMP will buy that place.

unsurprisingly i guess, my sense is Redbook is shaping its algorithm to present China as great, Chinese people as welcoming, the US as a bit of a catastrophe morally + economically, but good Americans as welcome, especially those who express gratitude for hospitality, refugees from more than TikTok.

When the Supreme Corruption narrowed the definition of bribery to the most explicit quid-pro-quos, did you think eventually people wouldn't be driving truckloads of cash through the space they opened? Can media who play these games credibly do "news"? www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/01/cbs-...

"It's a win-win-win. Ron DeSantis gets something to brag about; Republican business owners aren't much affected; and undocumented workers are even more scared and docile. What's not to like?" @kdrum.bsky.social on Florida's immigration dickishness jabberwocking.com/florida-crac...

someone asked on redbook about Americans’ view of Elon Musk (and his mom), and it’s fun to see the infosphere clash, the Americans mostly dissing him while Chinese people note that he is widely admired there. xhslink.com/a/8xIo5fp1I343

certainly. again emphasizing that it’s manipulation and surveillance, not domicile of owner, that should be the target of regulation.

he’d be a 10x engineer if he were alive today.