Community groups and ICE protestors have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks to help neighbors sound the alarm.
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Monday, November 17, 2025
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Legal, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 2 Comments »
Links 11/17/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 66 Comments »
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.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Infrastructure, Ridiculously obvious scams, Risk and risk management, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:30 am | 24 Comments »
“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.
Topics: Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 18 Comments »
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.
Topics: Banking industry, Legal, Market inefficiencies, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, Taxes, UK
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 4:00 am | 4 Comments »
Links 11/16/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 113 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Whisky (2004) Run Time: 1H 38M
Whisky is a movie about life, love, and socks set in Uruguay.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 10 Comments »
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.
Topics: Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 15 Comments »
Links 11/15/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 160 Comments »
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.
Topics: Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Real estate, Regulations and regulators, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:46 am | 41 Comments »
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.
Topics: Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Surveillance state
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:37 am | 33 Comments »
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, […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Environment, Global warming, Social policy, Social values
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 23 Comments »
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.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 10 Comments »
Links 11/14/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 144 Comments »
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.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 20 Comments »



