From the mighty economist and Nobel laureate, Paul Krugman:
"Obviously politics is dominating the news. I have no deep insights, except to echo Josh Marshall: Power is unitary. Trump seems to be collapsing on multiple fronts, with the collapse on each front reinforcing the collapse on others. The Epstein affair is coming to a head even as the public loses all faith in his economic policy, and the whole structure of fear on which his regime rests appears to be evaporating."
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reminder-crypto-is-a-trump-trade
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Reminder: Crypto Is a Trump Trade

The industry bought a president. Bad investment?

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The Subtle Genius of ‘No Kings’

The turnout and character of the weekend’s No Kings demonstrations speak for...

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Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research

The following is very important news about the Trump White House’s unfolding...

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#JoshMarshall at @talkingpointsmemo.com presents the undergirding of what can be a unified #Dem push. Will the #Dems take his strategic advice?

The White House’s Next Orchestrated Budget Crisis - TPM – Talking Points Memo https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-white-houses-next-orchestrated-budget-crisis

The White House’s Next Orchestrated Budget Crisis

This is something I’m still trying to get my head around –...

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Kate Riga with clarity on next steps, via the Talking Points Memo Podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWlY9CaTO9Q&t=2033s

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Ep. 363: The State Of The Union Is Tariff-y

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  Talking Point Memo's Josh Marshall is asking for help from US citizens in documenting town hall meetings in these united States:

"I’m trying to compile a list of all the town halls where GOP members of Congress got rocked by constituents this past week while they were on break. There are so many now that I can’t really write a whole post about each one. But I wanted to ask if you could send me links if there are examples where your member of Congress or Senator had a similar experience so I can add it to the list."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ye-olde-gop-townhall-list

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Ye Olde GOP Townhall List

I’m trying to compile a list of all the townhalls where GOP...

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"This is the baseline of everything to do with social media. You can’t really keep up with the all the bad things people do within the business model. Period. End of story. " #JoshMarshall https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-economics-that-define-social-media ht @timbray

// it's an inherently destructive business model that only pencils because Section 230 is too categorical

The Economics That Define Social Media

As a follow up to my post below I want to return to a more technical point but one which is critical to understand as the baseline for any discussion about social media and ‘platforms’.

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A Bit More on the Cybertruck Story

It’s some testament to our times that there was an immediate and big hunger among many people to find some way that Matthew Livelsberger’s suicide-cum-Cybertruck fireworks incident in Las Vegas was…

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Good stuff from Josh Marshall @ TPM - Keep it context and keep your eyes open.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-doge-asterisk

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The DOGE Asterisk

As I’ve argued in a few different posts, “DOGE” – the grandiosely and absurdly titled ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ – is merely an advisory panel which is probably best understood as a kind of…

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