Last week, California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter got the bad jacketing treatment after a snippy interview with CBS.
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Monday, October 13, 2025
Coffee Break: Bad Jacketing Katie Porter
Topics: Coffee Break
Posted by Nat Wilson Turner at 2:00 pm | 13 Comments »
Looking to Türkiye For Clues About What’s Coming in Western Asia
US-Turkish-Israeli Axis remains intact and with Syria as takfiri staging ground aims to spread chaos to Lebanon, Iraq, and ultimately Iran.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Middle East, Turkey
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 9:55 am | 10 Comments »
Links 10/13/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 108 Comments »
Crypto Crash Leads to Customer Bail-Ins to Prevent Some Exchanges from Failing
Yet more reason to be leery of crypto: even when you have won on a leveraged bet, you can be haircut to help rescue the exchange.
Topics: Currencies, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:15 am | 26 Comments »
How Technology Shapes How We Move, Speak, and Think
Is technology expanding or contracting our horizons?
Topics: Social values, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 5 Comments »
AI: Is it Really Different this Time?
AI is huge. But so is the hype, hocus-pocus deals, and piles of real money fortified by leverage that caused stock prices to explode.
Topics: Credit markets, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Guest Post, Investment outlook, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:43 am | 15 Comments »
Links 10/12/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 122 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Moscow, My Love (1974) Run Time: 1H 29M
Moscow My Love is a bittersweet tale of love and loss set in Soviet Russia.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 9 Comments »
Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup
The so-called opposition, with a much-needed rebranding assist from the Nobel Committee, proposes total economic surrender to US oligarchic interests.
Topics: Privatization, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 27 Comments »
Links 10/11/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 141 Comments »
What Version of Democracy Will Prevail?
Speculation about the future of the endangered species known as democracy.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:40 am | 50 Comments »
Are We Waking Up Fast Enough to the Dangers of AI Militarism?
The Trump Administration is eager to integrate AI into military operations, even as experts warn: “The AI is always playing Curtis LeMay.”
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Politics, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:04 am | 27 Comments »
Countdown!
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Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:00 pm | 5 Comments »
Coffee Break: Genes and Disease, Workslop Passing for Science, Nobel News, a Labor Party in the US, and Our Sick Politics
This is Naked Capitalism fundraising week. 1425 donors have already invested in our efforts to combat corruption and predatory conduct, particularly in the financial realm. Please join us and participate via our donation page, which shows how to give via check, credit card, debit card, PayPal, Clover, or Wise. Read about why we’re doing this fundraiser, what […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Health care, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values, Technology and innovation
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 8 Comments »
Down to the Wire for 2025 Fundraiser, Help Hit Our New Donor and $ Targets!
Help us with this last push to meet the final fundraiser goals! Invest in this community!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:22 pm | 4 Comments »