Monday, November 17, 2025

As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles

Community groups and ICE protestors have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks to help neighbors sound the alarm.

Links 11/17/2025

Yet More AI Bubble Worries, Now on Debt Side, with Wall Street Journal Featuring AI Datacenter Borrowing “Frenzy”

Peeling back another layer of the AI onion, today on datacenter financing.

“NatSec Democrats” Go to Governors Offices in Preparation for 2028 POTUS Runs 

Spanberger in Virginia and Sherrill in New Jersey are part of the party’s spook network pushing the ratchet wheel ever rightward. 

Social Reuse of Seized Assets

The Taxcast goes to West Yorkshire in the North of England to see social reuse of seized assets in action.

Links 11/16/2025

The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Whisky (2004) Run Time: 1H 38M

Whisky is a movie about life, love, and socks set in Uruguay.

SNAP Is Funded Again. States Still Have to Deal With Trump’s New Eligibility Restrictions.

The biggest anti-hunger program in the U.S. is set to lose over $187 billion between now and 2034.

Links 11/15/2025

This Car-Free Neighborhood Was Designed to Revolutionize American Cities

A discussion with the founder of Culdesac, a real estate developer devoted to building walkable neighborhoods.

Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings

Time to cheer a legal win against the surveillance state, here the use of massive spycams by a vendor called Flock.

Coffee Break: Unstable Climate-Unstable Economy, Gambling and the Decline of Sport, the Last of the Great Men of Molecular Biology, and SNAP

Part the First: Financial Stability and Climate Instability.  Or, could a climate-related shock trigger a recession?  This is a question that could be asked only by an economist, or two, as in Advancing research on financial stability and climate-related financial risk, an editorial last week in Science: Climate change–related natural disasters such as floods, fires, […]

MAGA Is a NATO Racket – Trump’s 5% Military Budget Hike to Fight Russia Stokes Corruption In Estonia

Yapping dog Estonia is out to take the lead among NATO members not only in arms spending to GDP but also in open corruption.

Links 11/14/2025

Even Washington’s European Vassal States Are Now Denouncing Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings on the High Seas

The Trump administration’s war (of pretext) against Latin America’s drug cartels is further isolating the US on the world stage.