Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.
50k a year wouldn't cover my mortgage in Boston.
Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
I’m not a lawyer, but that smear seems legally actionable. I hope she sues Navratilova & the BBC individually & severally for defamation.
They haven’t even held their own party members to account for confirmation votes. Not holding my breath about what they donor say about republicans.
"Oh we are so divided! What ever will we do about how divided the political parties are!"
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries planned Trump's inauguration, they personally hammered in the first nails of his inauguration stage, and every senate Democrat helped confirm his nominees in record time.
20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite's intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.
This bullet point from Alex Karp/Palantir’s latest diatribe strikes me as the best representation of the whole project.
“The elite’s intolerance of religious beliefs…”
Let me stop you right there, Alex. You just made that up. That isn’t a thing in 2026 America.
Expedited residential solar permitting is huge. Took me 8 months from signing with a solar company to flipping the switch. That’s insane for something that should be routine by now.
It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.
We must get rid of Palantir altogether.
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Watch the series Glow. It makes it very clear that WWE is literally just a soap opera for men & gives fans something they clearly can’t get enough of in sports—emotional connection & story—and are culturally punished for seeking. Has to be disguised with a thin veneer of “sport” to be acceptable.
Logistics is a basic test of competency. Obviously Hegseth gets an F.
Wow
this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.
The head of the FBI isn't supposed to be getting blackout drunk. He's supposed to be cross-dressing
Right out in the open, Donald Trump is suing his own IRS to try to steal $10 BILLION taxpayer dollars.
I just introduced a bill that would make this theft ILLEGAL.
Ownership. When I buy something I want it to stay bought. I'm fed up subscribing and watching my hard earned cash just leach away into the sand over art that I truly love. I'm sick of renting happiness.
Gosh, who'da thunk actually owning something rather than renting it would be good, actually?
Susan Collins voted to confirm this psycho. @janetmillsforme.bsky.social, hope you use the roadkill raccoon penis in your campaign to unseat the useless Republican senator.
"accuse" and "alleged" are words to use when the defendant has not yet gone to trial. The NY AG found Cuomo had sexually harassed Boylan. Get your act together, NYT.
“Childhood was fun & I recall those years fondly” really shouldn’t be the basis of a political ideology.
I have this graphic saved from ages ago
And for the most part his way-out-of-center libertarian economics were just accepted as an a-political norm by most American economists.
Orbán rode to power on resentment over the economic stagnation that developed under center-left governments. But he leaves office with Hungarians facing falling wages and higher inflation than similar countries are experiencing. Orbán’s sectarianism and intolerance have sparked neither a religious revival nor a fertility bump; Hungary’s population is shrinking and has become more irreligious, even as Orbán has demonized LGBTQ people, “Muslim invaders,” and Jews. Orbánism, in short, did not make Hungarians more rich, Christian, or free—unless you happened to be one of Orbán’s buddies, in which case you may have gotten rich. As most Hungarians felt their economic circumstances worsen, Orbán provided them with relatively powerless targets to hate.
Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Political Economy is an academic field in Europe. Somehow not here, where economics is supposedly "neutral" because "math." When in fact Alan Greenspan, Chair of the Fed for nearly 19 years, was an acolyte of Ayn Rand.
The idea that universities ”tend to exclude conservative intellectual traditions” is off base on two fronts: 1) how are “conservative intellectual traditions” relevant to the most of the popular majors and faculty research areas, such as computer science, engineering, the natural sciences?/1
In 1997 I flipped to the index of a textbook called Labor Economics & Marx wasn’t there. Not a mention. Of Marx. In a book that claimed to cover labor econ.
It's a sign of a failed society when it continues to platform people who consistently get big things wrong. We should not still be subjected to most of the people writing Op-Eds at the New York Times who spent DECADES getting everything about war AND peace wrong.
