Monday, March 10, 2025
Paradise Is a Police State: Examining the Techno-Optimism of Billionaire Silicon Valley Investor (And Unofficial Trump Administration Adviser) Marc Andreessen
The unlimited AI and energy now being unleashed is supposed to usher in a new utopia centered around low wages and prices. So why are Andreessen and friends so intent on a police state as part of the grand experiment we’re all being enlisted in?
‘So Much for Lowering Costs’: Fury Over Musk’s Death Wish for CFPB That Returned Over $20 Billion to Consumers
Revealingly, Musk makes closing an agency that keeps billionaires like him from cheating ordinary citizens a top priority.
Southern District of NY Pauses DOGE Data Hoovering in State AG’s Case: The Issues, and an Excursion into Federalist 51
DOGE is a dog’s breakfast, considered as a separation of powers issue.
On the Front Lines Against Bird Flu, Egg Farmers Say They’re Losing the Battle
infectious disease experts agree that the risks to human health of continuing current protocols are unsustainable, because of the strain of bird flu driving this outbreak.
Medicaid Work Requirements Could Boot 36 Million People Off Their Health Coverage: Report
“Work requirements are simply another way to cut Medicaid.”
It’s Going to be Torture as the Path to Starmer’s Inevitable Demise Is Rolled Out
A Starmer death watch sighting.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/7/2025
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Possible Democrat strategies against DOGE; The notion of “racial capitalism” decried; Gallery: Hole punches ~
Is Trump Serious About Trying to Close the Private Equity Carried Interest Loophole?
Trump wants to revive his 2017 plan to curb a private equity tax abuse, the so-called carried interest loophole. Is he likely to succeed now?
Oil for Migrants: Did the Trump Administration Just Reset US Diplomatic Relations With Venezuela?
Big things are happening in US-Venezuela relations. But can they last?
Even US Messaging Outlet RFE/RL Having Trouble Prettying Up Trump Planning to Buy Ukraine Rare Earths Empty Bag
There is both less and more in the Trump offer to arm Ukraine in return for rare earths than meets the eye.
James K. Galbraith Discusses His New Book, Entropy Economics, Plus DOGE, Bitcoin and Tariffs
A wide-ranging talk with Jamie Galbraith on his book, Entropy Economics, which focuses on the neglect of real resources, and recent events.
