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by liberal japonicus I finally listened to Carole Cadwalladr's 2nd TED talk. I started it I think when GftNC recommended it, but had to turn it off and, having returned to it and finished it, I thought about why that was the case. It is instructive to compare the talk to Cadwalladr's first TED talk, … Read more

by liberal japonicus This one is outsourced to Shakezula at Lawyers, Guns and Money ===== If Nemo Klus gets cyberbullied for nearly two hours does anyone care? Elon Musk rage quit a livestream of the video game Path of Exile 2 on Saturday night after repeatedly dying while also being ruthlessly cyberbullied in the chat. … Read more

by liberal japonicus This interview with Thomas Sipp is worth your time. It has special resonance for me because he has a Japanese mother and American father, which informed his decision to resign to Skadden because of Trump's demands. If someone has a gift link to the transcript, which is here, I'd appreciate it if … Read more

by liberal japonicus I assume that people here read like me, so the stuff that I'm reading, y'all are also probably going to see it, if not in the same story, possibly in a different write-up. However, I wonder if any of you read this Guardian piece titled ‘I was a British tourist trying to … Read more

by liberal japonicus Trump: China's mining too many oresMusk: What are you going to do?Trump: Order more tariffs to make them mine less.Musk: Mine fewer.Trump: Thanks, but I'm talking about ores. After that, I've got nothing. Have at it.

by liberal japonicus Well, some good news. Susan Crawford won the race for a seat on the Wisconsin supreme court on Tuesday, a major win for Democrats who had framed the race as a referendum on Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s popularity. […] In remarks on Tuesday night, Schimel said he and his team “didn’t … Read more

by liberal japonicus I thought that this deserved a separate thread. I'm sure everyone knows, but just to put it out there, a circus sideshow where National Security Advisor, Michael Waltz convened a Signal chat consisting of the three main Cabinet secretaries (in the UK, they refer to the Great Offices of State but for … Read more

by liberal japonicus I had been trying to write an email concerning this Ezra Klein podcast, with Matt Yglesias and Dara Lind, dealing with their discussion of birthright citizenship. I've not been able to pull it together, so I'm just posting my draft here. Klein and Lind (Yglesias didn't have much to say about it) … Read more

by liberal japonicus in facebook comments (which is the only place, for the most part, I see any political discussions in the wild), I've seen something interesting crop up. Obviously my facebook feed is pretty heavily weighted towards liberal opinions, though I do have some friends from high school who are MAGA types, but more … Read more

by liberal japonicus I don't really have much time for the genre of 'let's explain why Trump is doing X',  however, I might make an exception for this Ezra Klein discussion with Gillian Tett, which hits a lot of very interesting notes because Tett was trained as an anthropologist, so her take on the mess … Read more