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Things David Likes<p>Yosemite Valley Morning Monochrome by Jeff Sullivan (www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com)</p><p><a href="https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxhJWrjsOe00" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tmblr.co/Z7VXvxhJWrjsOe00</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/yosemite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yosemite</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/national" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>national</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/park" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>park</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fall</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/colors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colors</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landscape</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/workshop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workshop</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/california" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>california</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photo</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copyright</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/november" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>november</span></a> #2023 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jeff</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/sullivan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sullivan</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/sierra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sierra</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/sierranevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sierranevada</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/states" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>states</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/united" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>united</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nikon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nikon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/d850" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>d850</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nikkor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nikkor</span></a> #70 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/200mm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>200mm</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/f28" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>f28</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/lens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lens</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nik</span></a></p>
EAS Watcher<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EAS</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/WEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WEA</span></a> for Brewster, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> Davis, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Presidio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Presidio</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>: National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 2:30 PM CDT. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Brewster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brewster</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> Davis, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a>; <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Presidio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Presidio</span></a>, <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a></p>
Jeff Forcier<p>Ordered lunch. My delivery driver's name is Jeff. My name is also Jeff. If I catch him at dropoff, we might have a Jeff Moment! <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a></p><p>(you may, if you wish, toot the Jeffpardy! youtube clip at me, because it's always topical, but yes, I have seen it. many times 🤣)</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Jeff Bezos makes the implicit explicit in memo to Washington Post staff</p><p>Mega billionaire Jeff Bezos made news yesterday <br>by formally announcing the parameters of the Washington Post opinion section in clear ideological terms, <br>making explicit what has long been implicit in corporate media </p><p>and, like then-New York Times opinion editor James Bennet did seven years ago when he said that the New York Times was <br>“pro-capitalism,” <br>effectively doing my job for me. </p><p>⭐️“I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. <br>We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: <br>personal liberties and free markets,” <br>the Amazon founder and executive chairman wrote in an open letter to Post employees. </p><p>“We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”</p><p>As I wrote in 2018 when Times opinion editor James Bennet said in a closed-door meeting with staffers that the Times was a “pro-capitalism” newspaper, <br>“Media criticism is, more often than not, a practice of inference: <br>seeing patterns and inferring from those patterns the political make-up of media. </p><p>Occasionally, however, decision-makers from major media outlets come right out and openly declare their ideology.” </p><p>Bezos has done us a favor by removing the mystery and inference and cheeky “open debate” pretense from the process of inferring the ideological perimeters of corporate media and laid it all out bare.</p><p>Obviously this dictate is, in theory, limited to the opinion section, not the news section, <br>but those working on the other side of the firewall will no doubt take a hearty hint<br>––if they didn’t the last time Bezos explicitly interfered in the opinion output of the paper. </p><p>The fact is that, compared to peer outlets, the Washington Post’s current national labor coverage, while by no means aggressively anti-capitalist, is robust and generally favorable to workers. </p><p>Reporters such as <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lauren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lauren</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kaori" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kaori</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gurley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gurley</span></a> <br>and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stein</span></a> <br>and columnist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Perry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Perry</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bacon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bacon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jr</span></a>. have done excellent work <br>highlighting the plight of Amazon employees and those on the business end of US sanctions, <br>often in direct contradiction to Bezos’ bottom line and ideological preferences. </p><p>While the Post’s local metro coverage, as I’ve documented, has often doubled as an Amazon lobbying front, <br>its national coverage has often remained independent of the billionaire’s direct control. </p><p>Indeed, the Post’s newly anointed chief economics reporter <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stein</span></a> publicly criticized his boss yesterday morning, <br>writing on social media: <br>“Bezos declaration Massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section today <br>– makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side of coverage, <br>but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know.”<br><a href="https://therealnews.com/jeff-bezos-makes-the-implicit-explicit-in-memo-to-washington-post-staff" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">therealnews.com/jeff-bezos-mak</span><span class="invisible">es-the-implicit-explicit-in-memo-to-washington-post-staff</span></a></p>
Jeff Horton (Elbows Up CanElxn 2025)<p>In 1985 characters named Jeff were cool. Just check out his outfit :) Featuring young Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt, Shannen Doherty.</p><p>Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985) <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089208/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">imdb.com/title/tt0089208/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/1980s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1980s</span></a> #1985 <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jeff</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/dance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dance</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Fourteen years ago, Congress set out to remedy a basic unfairness in the tax code. </p><p>The tax that funds Medicare, because it’s aimed mainly at wages, hits even the poorest American workers. </p><p>But the wealthy could easily avoid paying their share. </p><p>So lawmakers created a new type of Medicare tax to capture the kinds of income the rich often enjoy: <br>interest, dividends and capital gains from investments.</p><p>❌ A host of billionaires <br>— sports team owners, oil barons, Wall Street traders and others <br>— have managed to avoid paying it, ProPublica found.</p><p>To study who was actually paying the new tax, ProPublica analyzed its trove of IRS data containing information on thousands of the wealthiest Americans. </p><p>We identified 17 people who, in the first six years of the law, 2013 through 2018, <br>💥each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the tax. </p><p>Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes.</p><p>Most members of the group were able to sidestep the tax because of a huge gap written into the law, <br>which allows owners to exempt gains from the sale of their businesses. </p><p>They include <a href="https://c.im/tags/Donald" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Donald</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sterling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sterling</span></a>, the disgraced former NBA team owner who avoided the tax when he sold the Los Angeles Clippers to Steve Ballmer for $2 billion in 2014</p><p>But others eluded the tax in ways that raise questions about how the law is being enforced.</p><p>One clear target of the new tax was investment professionals who rack up capital gains. </p><p>Yet ProPublica found examples in the IRS data of financiers who claimed outsize profits but did not pay the tax. </p><p>Tax experts contacted by ProPublica said they couldn’t think of a legitimate reason why those individuals were exempt.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Lynn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lynn</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tilton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tilton</span></a>, a hard-charging private equity manager, <br>who has been dubbed the “diva” of distressed asset investing, <br>is one example. </p><p>The biggest avoider of the new tax in the data was <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yass</span></a>, the Republican megadonor who sits atop one of the most profitable trading firms in the world<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/billionaires-net-investment-income-tax" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/billion</span><span class="invisible">aires-net-investment-income-tax</span></a></p>
manuti<p>► Otro vídeo que me gusta en YT «The Keyboard IS the Computer! (Pi 500)» <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YfJWYELA3k" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=5YfJWYELA3</span><span class="invisible">k</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>youtube</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> Geerling</p>
Chuck Darwin<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Larry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Larry</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ellison</span></a>, <br>who briefly became the world's second-wealthiest person last week when his net worth surpassed <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bezos</span></a>' for a short time, <br>⚠️outlined a scenario where AI models would analyze footage from security cameras, police body cams, doorbell cameras, and vehicle dash cams.</p><p>♦️"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said, </p><p>describing what he sees as the benefits from automated oversight from AI and automated alerts for when crime takes place. </p><p>"We're going to have supervision," he continued.</p><p>"...if there's a problem, AI will report the problem and report it to the appropriate person."</p><p>Ellison's vision bears more than a passing resemblance to the cautionary world portrayed in <a href="https://c.im/tags/George" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>George</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orwell</span></a>'s prescient novel 1984. </p><p>In Orwell's fiction, the totalitarian government of Oceania uses ubiquitous "telescreens" to monitor citizens constantly, <br>creating a society where privacy no longer exists and independent thought becomes nearly impossible.</p><p>But Orwell's famous phrase <br>"Big Brother is watching you" <br>would take on new meaning in Ellison's tech-driven scenario, where AI systems, rather than human watchers, would serve as the ever-vigilant eyes of authority. </p><p>Once considered a sci-fi trope, automated systems are already becoming a reality: <br>Similar automated CCTV surveillance systems have already been trialed in <a href="https://c.im/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a> Underground and at the 2024 <a href="https://c.im/tags/Olympics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Olympics</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> has been using automated systems (including AI) to surveil its citizens for years. </p><p>In 2022, Reuters reported that Chinese firms had developed AI software to sort data collected on residents using a network of surveillance cameras deployed across cities <br>-- and rural areas as part of China's "<a href="https://c.im/tags/sharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sharp</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/eyes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eyes</span></a>" campaign from 2015 to 2020. </p><p>This "one person, one file" technology reportedly organizes collected data on individual Chinese citizens, <br>leading to what The Economic Times called a "road to digital totalitarianism."</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/information-te</span><span class="invisible">chnology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Many authors, artists, and "content creators" have signed up with Amazon as “affiliates”. <br>Find one you’d like to support, and bookmark one of their Amazon links (doesn’t matter which one). <br>Any time you use that link to visit Amazon’s web site, they’ll get a small commission (usually 2 – 10%) <br>on anything you buy. <br>Notice I said “<a href="https://c.im/tags/anything" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anything</span></a>” <br>– people often assume this works only if you buy the item that’s linked to, but it’s not so. <br>Once you’ve clicked the link, you can search for anything you want and, as long as you haven’t left Amazon’s site, the affiliate who took you there gets their cut.<br>So, it’s really easy: <br>pick someone you’d like to support, <br>bookmark one of their links, <br>and use it as your doorway to Amazon. <br>That’s it! It won’t make any difference to the price you pay <br>and you won’t be identified to the person you’ve chosen to support, <br>but a buck or two will move from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bezos</span></a>’ pocket to theirs. </p><p><a href="https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2024/05/07/how-to-give-jeff-bezos-less-money-and-support-an-author-artist-or-craftsperson/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scientistseessquirrel.wordpres</span><span class="invisible">s.com/2024/05/07/how-to-give-jeff-bezos-less-money-and-support-an-author-artist-or-craftsperson/</span></a></p>
Robin Frost<p>It's always a pleasure to share a call with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://techhub.social/@AiraVI" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AiraVI</span></a></span> agent <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a>. He is one of the best and a definite asset to their team and I want the world to know it. He is one of my favorites. 👏👍 I always give positive feedback but I wish we could somehow reward agents that go above and beyond and make calls a pleasure through their great attitudes and willingness to help with a smile on their face that can be heard.</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>A bombshell story last night from the Wall Street Journal reported that billionaire <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>, one of the richest men in the world, who is backing the election of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump with a daily million-dollar sweepstakes giveaway and gifts of tens of millions to the campaign, <br>💥has been in regular contact with Russian president <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vladimir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vladimir</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> since late 2022. </p><p>Reporters Thomas Grove, Warren P. Strobel, Aruna Viswanatha, Gordon Lubold, and Sam Schechner said that the conversations “touch on personal topics, business and geopolitical tensions.”&nbsp;</p><p>Musk’s SpaceX, which operates the Starlink satellite system, won a $1.8 billion contract with U.S. military and intelligence agencies in 2021. <br>It is the major rocket launcher for NASA and the Pentagon, <br>and Musk has a security clearance; <br>he says it is a top-secret clearance.</p><p>Today, NASA administrator Bill Nelson called for an investigation into the story. </p><p>“If the story is true that there have been multiple conversations between Elon Musk and the president of Russia,” Nelson told Burgess Everett of Semafor, <br>“then I think that would be concerning, particularly for NASA, <br>for the Department of Defense, <br>for some of the intelligence agencies.”</p><p>Musk appears to be making a bid for control of the Republican Party for a number of possible reasons, <br>including so he can continue to score federal contracts <br>and because the high tariffs Trump has promised to place on Chinese imports would guarantee that Musk would have leverage in the electrical vehicle market.&nbsp;</p><p>But Musk has competition for control of the party. </p><p>Today, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), <br>who lead the establishment Republican faction and the MAGAs, respectively, <br>and thus are usually at loggerheads, issued a joint statement condemning Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris for “labeling [Trump] as a ‘fascist.’” </p><p>They suggest she is “inviting yet another would-be assassin to try robbing voters of their choice before Election Day.”&nbsp;</p><p>Observers immediately pointed out that, in fact, it is Trump who has repeatedly called Harris a fascist<br>—as well as a Marxist and a communist<br>—and that those calling Trump a fascist are former members of his own administration <br>like former White House chief of staff General John Kelly, <br>or leaders like former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, <br>whom Trump himself appointed to his position and who called Trump “the most dangerous person to this country.”</p><p>Harris’s contribution to this discussion was that when CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Harris directly if she thinks Trump is a fascist at a town hall this week, she answered: <br>“Yes, I do. And I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted.”&nbsp;</p><p>Aside from the gaslighting of attacking Harris for something that Trump is the one doing, <br>the statement seemed a calculated attempt to demonstrate Republican solidarity. </p><p>But it was glaringly obvious that <a href="https://c.im/tags/McConnell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>McConnell</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Johnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Johnson</span></a> found that solidarity only in attacking Harris. </p><p>Their statement contained no praise of Trump.&nbsp;</p><p>The struggle over the Republican Party also seemed evident in yesterday’s decision by the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, biotech tycoon <a href="https://c.im/tags/Patrick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Patrick</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Soon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Soon</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/Shiong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shiong</span></a>, to kill that paper’s planned endorsement of Harris. </p><p>Choosing not to make an endorsement in the race, Soon-Shiong said that he thought an endorsement would “add to the division” in the country. </p><p>Elon Musk praised his decision.</p><p>Today the Washington Post also decided not to make an endorsement in the presidential race, despite the fact a piece endorsing Harris was already drafted. </p><p>Publisher <a href="https://c.im/tags/William" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>William</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lewis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lewis</span></a> said the paper was returning to its roots of not endorsing presidential candidates, although it has endorsed candidates for decades and did so in its early years as well. </p><p>His statement seemed a weak cover for the evident wish of the Washington Post’s owner, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bezos</span></a>, to avoid antagonizing Trump.</p><p>Bezos gives Musk a run for his money at being the richest man in the world. </p><p>But while Musk wants high tariffs against China to protect his access to electric vehicle markets, Bezos’s fortune comes from Amazon, and high tariffs would shatter his business. </p><p><a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-25-2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">heathercoxrichardson.substack.</span><span class="invisible">com/p/october-25-2024</span></a></p>
azteclady<p>Associated Press weighs in on the Washington Post/Bezos, "democracy die at the hands of billionaires" thing:</p><p>"Trump meets with execs from Bezos-owned Blue Origin"</p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/2024Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2024Election</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> <br>Bezos </p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/live/2024-election-trump-harris-news-updates#00000192-c592-d7d8-a7be-efbf2ca80000" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/live/2024-election-</span><span class="invisible">trump-harris-news-updates#00000192-c592-d7d8-a7be-efbf2ca80000</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Nationwide, just over a million children, mostly girls, participate in <a href="https://c.im/tags/cheer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cheer</span></a> each year <br>(some estimates are even higher), <br>more than the number who play softball or lacrosse. </p><p>And almost every part of that world is dominated by a single company: <a href="https://c.im/tags/Varsity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Varsity</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Spirit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spirit</span></a>. <br>It’s hard to cheer at the youth, high school or collegiate level without putting money in the company’s pocket. <br>Varsity operates summer camps where children learn to do stunts and perform; <br>it hosts events where they compete; <br>it sells pom-poms they shake and uniforms they wear on the sidelines of high school and college football games. </p><p>Each year, Varsity ships 4.6 million pieces of apparel, <br>from $80 leopard-print “Cheer Mom” fleeces to custom uniforms covered in Swarovski crystals.</p><p>Critics like Matt Stoller, an antitrust expert and the research director of the American Economic Liberties Project, <br>claim that the cheer giant is a <a href="https://c.im/tags/monopolist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monopolist</span></a> whose dominance in its area rivals that of Google in tech <br>and has had negative impacts for participants and their families. </p><p>Varsity, based in Memphis, generates hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue, <br>with gross profit margins at times topping 40 percent, <br>making the company a cash cow for a series of private-equity owners. </p><p>Parents have reported spending upward of $10,000 a year per child in competitive cheer, <br>with Varsity controlling, by some estimates, more than 80 percent of that market.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Webb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Webb</span></a>, the man who founded Varsity, has been called “John D. Rockefeller with glitter” <br>and the “Dark Sith Lord” of cheer <br>by some of his detractors. </p><p>Webb, now in his 70s, pioneered the gravity-defying acrobatics of modern cheer. </p><p>He paired his innovations with a desire for control over every facet of the sport, which he pursued over the course of more than four decades</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/magazine/cheerleading-jeff-webb.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/10/22/magazin</span><span class="invisible">e/cheerleading-jeff-webb.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Trump has long made a practice of telling potential supporters what they want to hear. </p><p>This year, he has also changed previous policy positions in ways that would benefit some of his party’s largest donors. </p><p>In March, for example, he publicly reversed course on forcing the sale of the Chinese-owned social-media app TikTok, <br>despite having signed an executive order, <br>in August, 2020, <br>stating his intention to ban the app if it was not sold to a U.S.-based buyer within forty-five days. </p><p>Back then, Trump warned that a Chinese company owning so much of Americans’ personal data was a national-security threat. </p><p>But this winter, when the Biden Administration endorsed a bipartisan bill to force TikTok’s sale, <br>Trump came out against the measure. </p><p>On Truth Social, he wrote, <br>“If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck”<br>—his derogatory name for Facebook’s C.E.O., Mark Zuckerberg<br>—“will double their business.” </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bannon</span></a>, Trump’s former adviser, posted another explanation for the about-face: <br>“Simple: Yass Coin.”</p><p>Days earlier, at an event in Florida for the conservative group Club for Growth, <br>Trump had met with <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yass</span></a>, a major investor in TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. </p><p>Yass, a libertarian-leaning Wall Street billionaire who started out as a professional poker player, <br>has not officially endorsed Trump or donated directly to him. </p><p>Instead, he has given more than $25 million to the "Club for Growth" pac, which is supporting the ex-President’s reëlection. </p><p>(According to OpenSecrets, Yass and his wife have contributed more than $70 million to conservative candidates and causes this election cycle.) </p><p>Yass also appears to have had a hand in Trump’s personal enrichment. </p><p>This spring, the company behind Truth Social merged with Digital World Acquisition Corp., <br>a company in which Yass’s trading firm, Susquehanna, <br>was the single largest institutional investor. </p><p>Truth Social went public in March, and Trump’s majority stake in the company is now worth an estimated $3 billion.</p><p>Perhaps the most striking example of the former President’s donor-friendly flexibility in 2024 has been his shift on the <a href="https://c.im/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptocurrency</span></a> industry. </p><p>In recent years, he was unambiguously critical of bitcoin, <br>the most widely traded digital currency, <br>saying it <br>“seems like a scam” and “potentially a disaster waiting to happen.” </p><p>But, in 2024, he became an unapologetic promoter of it, attracting contributions from major players in the field, <br>such as the twin brothers <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cameron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cameron</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tyler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tyler</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Winklevoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Winklevoss</span></a>, <br>each of whom donated $1 million in bitcoin to help Trump. </p><p>The former rowing stars who famously sued Zuckerberg, their classmate at Harvard, for allegedly stealing the idea for Facebook, <br>went on to found the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini. </p><p>(In a speech this summer, Trump called them “male models with a big, beautiful brain.”) </p><p>This year’s Republican Party platform offers few details on many policy issues affecting Americans, <br>but it is unusually specific on crypto, <br>promising to <br>“defend the right to mine Bitcoin” <br>and opposing the creation of a <br>“Central Bank digital currency,” <br>which could threaten the crypto industry’s biggest investors.</p><p>In July, Trump flew to Nashville for the Bitcoin 2024 conference, <br>where he spoke shortly after one of his top fund-raisers, <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Howard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Howard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lutnick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lutnick</span></a>. </p><p>Lutnick, the C.E.O. of the Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald, has become a leading public proponent of the crypto industry; </p><p>at the conference, he announced a plan to lend $2 billion to crypto investors, </p><p>allowing them to use bitcoin as collateral. </p><p>Onstage, Trump said that his Administration would permit the creation of so-called <a href="https://c.im/tags/stablecoins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stablecoins</span></a>, <br>which, he promised, would <br>“extend the dominance of the U.S. dollar to new frontiers around the world.” </p><p>Trump also promised to fire 🔸Gary Gensler, Biden’s chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, <br>whose pro-regulatory positions on crypto have outraged bitcoiners. </p><p>The United States, Trump vowed, “will be the crypto capital of the planet.”</p><p>Lutnick, who has known Trump for thirty years and who once made a guest appearance on “The Celebrity Apprentice,” <br>supported Trump’s previous campaigns. </p><p>But he has significantly increased his giving in 2024. </p><p>According to Bloomberg, Lutnick and his wife donated $30,200 to Republicans in 2016 <br>(though he also gave $1 million to Trump’s 2017 Inauguration committee), <br>$1.3 million in 2020, <br>and $12.1 million so far this year. </p><p>In May, during the former President’s trial in Manhattan, Lutnick hosted a fund-raiser for him at Lutnick’s apartment in the Pierre hotel. </p><p>In early August, he held another event at his forty-acre estate in Bridgehampton, which brought in $15 million; seats for a roundtable with Trump in Lutnick’s dining room went for $250,000. </p><p>The following Monday, maga Inc., a pro-Trump super pac, recorded a $5-million donation from Lutnick, <br>the largest individual political gift he’d ever made.</p>
manuti<p>► Otro vídeo que me gusta en YT «They stole my voice with AI» <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMofZIT9FcQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=UMofZIT9Fc</span><span class="invisible">Q</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>youtube</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> Geerling</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Federal judge rolls back key <a href="https://c.im/tags/civil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civil</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rights</span></a> protections in Louisiana’s ‘<a href="https://c.im/tags/sacrifice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sacrifice</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/zones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zones</span></a>’</p><p>The decision could open the door for other industry-friendly states to follow suit</p><p>James Cain, a federal judge in Louisiana who was appointed by president Trump, <br>decided to <br>block the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice from pursuing enforcement actions based on <br>“<a href="https://c.im/tags/disparate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disparate</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/impacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>impacts</span></a>” <br>— or the idea that a 🔸regulation might disproportionately harm one group of people over another. 🔸</p><p>A provision of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as <a href="https://c.im/tags/TitleVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TitleVI</span></a> allows federal agencies to take action against state policies and programs that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin. </p><p>Since the EPA’s founding in 1970, however, the agency allowed most of the Title VI complaints that it received to languish without resolution. </p><p>In 2015, a coalition of community groups in Louisiana, <br>with the assistance of the public-interest environmental law organization <a href="https://c.im/tags/Earthjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Earthjustice</span></a>, <br>sued the agency for this practice and won. </p><p>Five years later, after president Biden took office, <br>✅federal regulators finally began addressing the civil rights complaints they received and <br>✅the EPA announced a civil-rights <a href="https://c.im/tags/probe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>probe</span></a> into <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cancer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alley</span></a> <br>— a stretch of land on the lower Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans where <br>💥over 150 chemical plants pump cancer-causing chemicals into the air of predominantly Black communities💥<br> — marking 💪🏽a new phase of the agency’s use of Title VI.</p><p>The federal government was making significant progress with Louisiana officials in their Title VI negotiations:</p><p>Cancer Alley residents’ principle demand <br>— that state regulators assess whether a community is already exposed to disproportionately high levels of pollution before permitting a new project there <br>— had made it into a draft resolution document. </p><p>❗️But at a certain point in the process, sources told Grist, the talks broke down.</p><p>⚠️Then in May 2023, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Landry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Landry</span></a>, then the attorney general (and now the <a href="https://c.im/tags/governor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>governor</span></a>) of Louisiana, <br>filed a lawsuit against the EPA. </p><p>On the basis that the agency was overstepping its authority, 💥Landry’s suit challenged not only the EPA’s use of Title VI to regulate pollution in Louisiana, <br>but 💥also the very legal justification of "<a href="https://c.im/tags/disparate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disparate</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/impacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>impacts</span></a>" regulation, 👉which reaches thousands of programs across the country <br>👉and can be used to adjudicate decisions as varied as where a new highway can go or whether a housing practice is discriminatory. </p><p>🆘Advocates worried that the lawsuit had the potential to unravel decades of civil rights law. </p><p>Judge Cain’s final judgment concurs with Landry’s argument. </p><p>🔥In effect, the ruling will make it impossible for the EPA to pursue enforcement actions based on disparate impacts <br>— but only in Louisiana. </p><p>Cain’s judgment comes in the same week as ❗️the EPA’s new Title VI guidance, <br>which urges state and local regulators to establish safeguards that protect their constituents against discrimination. <br><a href="https://grist.org/equity/title-vi-epa-james-cain-louisiana/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grist.org/equity/title-vi-epa-</span><span class="invisible">james-cain-louisiana/</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>“In <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kamala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kamala</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harris</span></a> we have a chance to elect a president who is for the middle class because she is from the middle class,” progressive Rep <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ocasio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ocasio</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/Cortez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cortez</span></a> said in her speech on Monday. </p><p>“She understands the urgency of rent checks and groceries and prescriptions. She is as committed to our reproductive and civil rights as she is to taking on corporate greed.”</p><p>Ocasio-Cortez issued a wholehearted endorsement of the new nominee, and she promised that, if elected, Harris would serve as a champion of the middle class. </p><p>In his own convention speech, Senator <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bernie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bernie</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sanders</span></a> pledged that Democrats would use their governing power to “tax the rich”, “take on price gouging” and “expand Medicare”.</p><p>The possibility of that change has animated progressives.<br>“The energy is electrifying and it’s a lot of young folks,” the congresswoman <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pramila" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pramila</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jayapal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jayapal</span></a>, chair of the Congressional <a href="https://c.im/tags/Progressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Progressive</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/caucus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caucus</span></a>, told the Guardian. <br>“If you have young people, if you have progressives, Black, brown, Indigenous folks, working-class folks, that is actually the base that helps us to win because they are the ones that go door to door. They’re the ones that mobilize voters.”</p><p>To deliver on the promises that progressives are seeking, Harris may have to distance herself from Biden in certain areas, especially climate and the war on Gaza.<br>During his 2020 campaign, Biden embraced a sweeping climate agenda as he looked to reassure the millions of progressive voters who had not backed him in the primary. <br>While Biden signed the most significant federal climate bill in history, the Inflation Reduction Act, however, failed to follow through on his campaign pledge of “no more drilling on federal lands”.</p><p>Progressives hope Harris will stick to some of the promises that Biden made as a candidate but then walked back.</p><p>“We cannot have that happen again,” <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Merkley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Merkley</span></a>, a senator, told the Guardian. <br>“We, as climate truth-tellers, have to be very present, very loud, very determined to say,❇️ ‘We will back you 1,000%, but you can’t keep expanding the fossil infrastructure.’”❇️<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/22/progressive-harris-support-policy-expectations?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/2024/aug/22/progressive-harris-support-policy-expectations?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Jeff Horton (Elbows Up CanElxn 2025)<p>Also Geoff's, please stop wearing such tight pants :)</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/startrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>startrek</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jeff</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/geoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geoff</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/names" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>names</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Yarvin had given people a way to articulate a notion that somehow felt subversive to say out loud in America<br>—that history was headed in the wrong direction. </p><p>“Somebody said something earlier that captured it for me,” Laurenson said, <br>just before they had to leave to go to a slightly hush-hush private dinner with Vance and a few others. </p><p>“They said, ‘You can be here and know you’re not alone.’ ”</p><p>People at the conference seemed excited about being in a place where they weren’t alone. </p><p>I skipped most of the talks<br>—which ranged from sessions about confronting the threat of China <br>to the liberal influence on pop culture<br> to “Worker Power.” </p><p>Hawley gave a keynote on the “assault on the masculine virtues,” </p><p>and Cruz offered up a traditional stump speech, evoking Reagan and saying he thought conservatives would soon prevail at the ballot box. </p><p>“I’m pretty sure a lot of the 20-somethings rolled their eyes at that,” Yarvin said to me afterward with a smirk. </p><p>The 20-somethings had a bigger vision.</p><p>Up by the bar every night, hordes of young men, mostly, would descend to drink and bear-hug and spot favorite podcasters and writers. </p><p>You could see <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dave</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rubin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rubin</span></a>, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jack</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Murphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Murphy</span></a>, who hosts a popular New Right–ish YouTube channel <br>and is trying to build a fraternal group of men who believe in <br>“positive masculinity” <br>that he calls the "Liminal Order. "</p><p>Pretty much everyone had the same trimmed beard and haircut<br>—sides buzzed short, the top longer and combed with a bit of gel to one side.</p><p>I didn’t see a single Black person under the age of 50, </p><p>though there were attendees of South Asian and Middle Eastern descent. </p><p>In March, the journalist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sharlet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sharlet</span></a> <br>(a Vanity Fair contributing editor who covers the American right) <br>tweeted that the <br>🔸“intellectual New Right is a white supremacist project designed to cultivate non-white support,” 🔸</p><p>and he linked it to resurgent nationalist and authoritarian politics around the world: </p><p>🔸“It’s part of a global fascist movement not limited to the anti-blackness of the U.S. &amp; Europe.” 🔸</p><p>Yet♦️ many on the New Right seem increasingly unfazed by accusations that they’re white nationalists or racists. ♦️</p><p>Masters in particular seems willing to goad commentators, <br>believing that the ensuing arguments will redound to his political advantage: </p><p>“Good luck [hitting] me with that,” <br>Masters told the podcaster Alex Kaschuta recently, <br>🔹arguing that accusations of racism had become a political bludgeon used to keep conservative ideas outside the political mainstream. 🔹</p><p>“Good luck criticizing me for saying critical race theory is anti-white.” </p><p>But for all the chatter of looming dystopia, no one I spoke to raised one of the most dystopian aspects of American life: <br>our vast apparatus of prisons and policing. </p><p>Most people seemed more caught up in fighting what they perceived as the cant and groupthink among other members of the political media class, </p><p>or the hypocrisy of rich white liberals who put up Black Lives Matter signs in front of multimillion-dollar homes, </p><p>than they were with the raw experience that has given shape to America’s current racial politics.</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thiel</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Balaji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Balaji</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Srinivasan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Srinivasan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Coinbase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coinbase</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Koch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Koch</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Milo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Milo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yiannopoulis" 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