~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; DOGE as a revolutionary NRx (neo-reactionary) project; DOGE seeks to avoid FOIA; DOGE given sysadmin privileges at Office of Personnel Management with days of the Inaugural; An atmospheric Turner ~
Monday, March 10, 2025
ICE Faking News: Games Search Engines to Make Mass Deportations Appear Way More Massive Than They Are
Mass deportation raids have barely started, yet ICE is faking their prevalence! What gives?
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Four – Tony West’s Calamitous Legacy at Uber and with the Kamala Harris Campaign
On Tony West as intellectual leader and major implementer of the similar Uber narrative-driven strategy and the failed Harris campaign.
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Stability
On the high odds of winding up with the Peter Principle of AI implementation in financial institutions, and what to do to prevent that.
Hottest January in the History of Januaries
A fresh sighting on the relentless march of climate change, with the January just past the warmest on record.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/5/2025
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; DOGE: New lawsuit from Public Citizen on DOGE data “access”; DOGE goons have write access to Treasury’s payments system (Tankus, Wired, Marshall, but not Taibbi) ~
The Mass Deportation Handoff, Biden to Trump
Despite Trump’s enthusiasm for rough treatment of illegal immigrants, growth of the deportation industrial complex has been a two-party affair
Does Trump’s Attempted “Dismantling” of Spook-Infested, Regime Change Agency USAID Herald a New Foreign Policy Era?
It looks more like an attempt to bring under control rogue agencies that were hostile to Trump during his first term in office as well as a shift in the type of “values” the US will support abroad.
Life After Lambert Update: KLG to Provide Weekly Health/Pandemic “Coffee Break”; Still Seeking Help in Finding New Site Contributor(s), Including for Other “Coffee Breaks”
Announcing KLG’s upcoming Coffee Break feature, and seeking reader help for more Coffee Break and other site content candidates.
Michael Hudson: Trump’s Tariffs Could Cause Huge Global Crisis
Michael Hudson and Ben Norton take a deep dive into Trump’s contradictory and potentially disastrous economic plans, starting with tariffs.
Trump Commits to Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza
Trump and Netanyahu have gone all in on ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/4/2025
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics; DOGE: Fresh lawsuits and probes; DNC follies; How one programmer’s thoughts on bitcoin changed; Oldest known portrait. ~
Rob Urie: To End Oligarchy, End Finance Capitalism
One prescription for rolling back oligarchy.
