@docmurphydog.bsky.social Doc--thank you for having me to the starter party.

Reminder that Trump and the GOP snuck a huge tax break into their Big Ugly Bill allowing private jet owners to write off the cost of their planes faster than before.

Meanwhile, the Big Ugly Bill will kick millions of people off food assistance and healthcare programs.

"Party of the working class."

Tuesday Afternoon News Updates: The "Blockade" That Never Was — 4/14/26 Chinese tankers, Iranian memes, soaring inflation, and more. Here's your afternoon recap.

Chinese tankers, Iranian memes, soaring inflation, and more. Here's your afternoon recap.

Mandatory read. Mandatory.

Liked. Saved. Reposted. Pinned.

6/ Trading volume and disclosures elevate the price. Controlling persons then liquidate holdings through accounts in foreign corporations with nominee shareholders. The entity frequently reverts to inactive status. #Veggie

5/ Schedule 13D is required for 5%+ positions, yet ultimate ownership is difficult to identify in real time. The securities typically trade over-the-counter on the Pink Sheets, which impose no minimum listing standards, or may pursue Nasdaq quotation. #Fred

4/ Promotional efforts follow through compensated newsletter writers, microcap brokers, and coordinated press releases presenting the entity as a prospective resource opportunity. Beneficial control is held via foreign corporations, trusts, or nominee shareholders. #Simon

3/ The abusive variation begins when promoters or counsel acquire control of an inactive shell from shell packagers. A nominal or speculative asset—often land or a mineral claim—is injected. A retained expert issues an opinion on possible reserves. Prior filings often suffice. #Lee

2/ In the legitimate application, a private operating company merges with an inactive reporting shell. This eliminates the underwritten roadshow, reduces immediate dilution, and grants instant public-market access. The SEC has long recognized this as a valid capital-formation tool.

Have at it my friends!

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Our side is 100% guilty of policizing this shit.

Feng Feng ring a bell? But just because it was Republicans, we blew it off.

Guy has a sex problem--spies and abuse.

Feels good to say and post stuff like this--I do it too. Just don't believe it will ever happen because it won't.

The president cannot and will not be prosecuted for anything he does while in office. We can hope and wish, but it isn't happening.

He can, however, be forcefully removed to the Hague.

Fun and scary and like I said, fun.

The conversation around AI safety keeps circling the same drain: fear of replacement instead of responsibility. The real tension: whether institutions can evolve fast enough to handle tools they barely understand. The public is already ahead of the policymakers. #TechEthics

The country’s small bookstores are doing something remarkable: curating shelves that feel like invitations rather than inventories. Staff picks written with care, tables arranged like conversations, windows that glow at dusk. Spaces built for thought, not speed. #Books #BookSky

Thank you to them.

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Urban design that prioritizes cars over pedestrians creates a psychological landscape of fragmentation. Movement becomes a treacherous negotiation rather than a flow.

And: horrible for Earth.

🚦 #citylogic #designcritique

🧵In 2026, offshore tax havens are as thriving as they ever were.

Here is how:
--IBC's
--Trusts
--Nominee Shareholders
--Bearer Shares
--Nominee Beneficiaries
—Foreign jurisdictions

Those remain in place, but the big ones….

#finance #banking

✝️Prison education programs is a bright spot in criminal justice.

When people are given tools to rebuild their lives, they do. Redemption should be expected. A system without hope isn’t justice.
#blackstandardcollective
#PrisonReform

Calhoun’s theories have made a dramatic comeback with Trump, whose policies are guided by an unmistakable racial determinism. Trump warns that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” and that many immigrants have “bad genes,” telling a white Fox News host that “they are not exactly your genetic.” Trump has focused his ire on immigrants from “third world” countries. He has virtually reimposed the eugenics-inspired immigration restrictions of the early 20th century, while instituting a Jim Crow–style system for refugees that prioritizes white South Africans. Trump’s reasoning for what he called a “permanent pause” in “third-world migration” was that instead of people from countries such as Norway or Sweden, we “always take people from Somalia,” which he called “disgusting.” The Democrats of Calhoun’s day, similarly, were not anti-immigrant, so long as only white people could naturalize. After all, the protection of slavery required white men, even those born in Dublin or Berlin. In January, the Trump adviser Stephen Miller posted something even more revealing on X: “Plenty of countries in history have experimented with importing a foreign labor class. The West is the first and only civilization to import a foreign labor class that is granted full political rights.” Miller’s disgust here is not with the “importing” of a “foreign labor class.” It is with such a class having the same rights as he does.

The birthright citizenship case shows how Trump-era Republicans have embraced the convictions of the proslavery Senator John C Calhoun, who believed America was a “white man’s government” and the integration of nonwhites onto the polity would destroy the country www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

For weeks, Hegseth has insisted that the U.S. has complete control of Iranian air space

Home Sweet Home Fulfilling FDR's Promise of a Decent Home for More of US

FDR called it "the right of every family to a decent home."
80 years later: private equity buying up neighborhoods, NIMBY progressives blocking streetcar extensions, foundations funding housing nobody could afford to buy. We've been getting this wrong for decades. open.substack.com/pub/bpositiv...

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Bluesky is the only place where I can complain and people say same instead of have you tried gratitude.
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No atheists in a foxhole.

NO ATHEISTS WHEN YOU REGRET A SOCIAL PLAN YOU MADE IN A GOOD MOOD AND NOW YOU DREAD IT.

thank you for doing this work. i try to emulate this behavior. try, not succeed.

This week, SCOTUS intends to limit birthright citizenship. They will argue that Elk v. Wilkins (1884) supports a restrictive interpretation and that the Ark decision (1898) was wrong. No citizen, no vote. If the 14th Amendment is gutted, millions face the threat of deportation.

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