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BREAKING: California governor candidates Steve Hilton and Xavier Becerra unveil new billboards outlining their policy ideas.
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The past few days, I got my hands on thousands of new transcripts and hundreds of recordings, thanks to leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan .
You've heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits.
What you not have heard is - there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become "foot soldiers" in constant clashes with the administration to cross a "red line" or invoke a "doomsday scenario" - meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027.
Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors. 2028 then becomes a vote on whether to keep America governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a "young and brown" demographic.
The mysterious group who's been coordinating 50501, Indivisible, and coordinating the NoKings protests is called "United Democracy Alliance" and their intellectual leader is Erica Chenoweth who came up with the 3.5% rule of nonviolent regime change.
Patience. I know I've hyped this more than anything else. It's genuinely the biggest discovery I've had. This is an enormous archive. This is only the beginning.
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Let me break down what I'm seeing and hearing here from DR.
I don't know DR's source for these materials , but they appear completely legit and are profoundly disturbing.
These are leading members of the Democrat Party hatching up the following strategy:
1. After the midterms, use the DSA to incite and carry out violent civil unrest.
2. Make the violent civil unrest so bad that Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act.
3. Use the invocation of the Insurrection Act to create a national sense of illegitimacy whereby Democrat governors appear justified in taking the extreme action of refusing to acknowledge federal authority and push to form a new form of federal government via various means, including an Article V transformation of the Constitution.
Maybe there is more to this and it's not as bad as it seems, but right now this appears to be a conspiracy to create the next Fort Sumter.
This is a CIA-style color revolution in real time, on our own soil.
(Of course the legacy media is nowhere near this--it takes us Internet randos to get the word out.)
The past few days, I got my hands on thousands of new transcripts and hundreds of recordings, thanks to leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan .
You've heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits.
What you not have heard is - there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become "foot soldiers" in constant clashes with the administration to cross a "red line" or invoke a "doomsday scenario" - meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027.
Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors. 2028 then becomes a vote on whether to keep America governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a "young and brown" demographic.
The mysterious group who's been coordinating 50501, Indivisible, and coordinating the NoKings protests is called "United Democracy Alliance" and their intellectual leader is Erica Chenoweth who came up with the 3.5% rule of nonviolent regime change.
Patience. I know I've hyped this more than anything else. It's genuinely the biggest discovery I've had. This is an enormous archive. This is only the beginning.
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Oct 2026 Update: Russia is winning the Ukraine war 🇷🇺🇺🇦
I'm adjusting my probability estimate of Russian victory to above 50%. I expect it to happen in 2028-30.
(1) The key question is attrition. The KIA ratio is 2:1 set against a population disparity of 5:1 (about 6k / month for Ukraine and 10-15k / month for Russia earlier this year; see Budanov, Tusk for Ukraine). Ukraine is having much more trouble generating manpower than Russia. As the more "motivated" side (as it is invaded), this should not be the case if the ratio was more like 5-7:1, as the most enthusiastic Ukraine supporters (counterproductively) claim. Ukraine has a better WIA/KIA ratio, because it is defending and doesn't "utilize" its wounded, but from a cynically narrow military perspective that's actually worse because those people are still out of action regardless. The intensity of losses on both sides is likely to scale out further in 2027 due to ever increasing drone lethality and the likelihood of intensified Russian recruiment/mobilization.
(2) Russia is surging ahead in raw military spending. Ukrainian spending is capped at 40% of GDP, it can't really go higher. GDP is $220B. And it is requests $78B from the EU. Even if satisfied in its entirety, that's $165B. Russia's GDP is $2.9T and military spending is now approaching "serious" levels of 10% of GDP. To the extent that oil prices remain as high as they are this poses no threat to Russia's fiscal sustainbility. So total military spending is now approaching 2x Ukraine's. Foreign aid is no longer making good the gap, and historically most wars are won by the side that spends more.
(3) Russia strike superiority is increasing to the point that normal life in Ukraine's urban centers will become increasingly unviable from this winter forward. This will degrade Ukraine's economy and its own military production capacity, making it even more reliant on Western transfers to maintain itself. What Ukraine is doing hurts Russia - oil refineries, warehouses, now data centers, soon perhaps civilian airports - but this is cumulatively just a 1-2% pinprick on its GDP.
Note that this year should have been unusually favorable to Ukraine because the US cut off Russia from Starlink, and then the Kremlin hamstrung their own forces by restricting Telegram, the primary comms system for the Russian military. But such setbacks are always temporary because systems learn to route around them. Russia has been compensating Starlink's loss with more sophisticated meshnets, and next year will see Rassvet, a simple Starlink clone, maturate.
Note also that I was becoming more bearish on Ukraine even before recent developments, which have seen the US cut off military Starlink access to Ukraine and ease some of the Russian sanctions. They do not even figure in this analysis. But if this, and a curtailment of intelligence sharing, becomes the new normal, then Ukraine is actually, unironically giga-fucked, and the defeat may then come as early as H2 2027.
I have long been consistent on how the Ukraine War will likely end if it ends in a decisive victory by one side or the other: "Slowly, then all at once". Cascading collapses is historically how most wars of attrition that ended in clear victory or defeat ended.
One final note. I don't think the Trump administration throwing in the towel on Ukraine ("betraying Ukraine") is exclusively just about them throwing a fit over the midterms. The Europeans are also sending out feelers to Russia, and even the UK ambassador is now sounding unusually amicable towards Russians. I do not think any of this is because they all suddenly became Russophiles. At the same time, the Europeans are talking up the prospect of a major war around 2030, and adopting rearmament schedules targeted at that date. Putting two and two together, I think it's more likely that Washington D.C. and European capitals have done some version of the above analysis and come to similarly bearish conclusions about Ukraine's prospects.
Can Ukraine still win?
There's two main ways this can still happen.
(1) Populism has peaked in the West and now starts losing bigtime to neolib types who are committed to emergency surging military aid to Ukraine and sanctioning Russia with renewed force. There are zero indications that this is happening. In fact, it's the precise reverse. Le Pen will probably win in France. Reform is looking strong in the UK. Whatever happens in the midterms, Trump still has 2 years left as President.
(2) Ukraine holds out until the US gets to aligned ASI, say in 2028. If this say 10x's US GDP and military power within 2-3 years after 2028, and aid to Ukraine as a share of US GDP/capacity remains constant, then it is Russia that gets giga-fucked. Highly esoteric/speculative scenario, but that's not really a counter-argument, because really strange and counterintuitive things will happen in a hard takeoff Singularity. Though the final outcome of this Slavic village squabble will be even less interesting than it already is to most people outside Eastern Europe.
One final note. IF that is indeed how things pan out, then it will turn out that Ukraine not surrendering quickly in 2022 will be one of the worst things that ever happened to Ukraine. Those who strongly supported a quick Russian victory back in 2022 would be retroactively vindicated. Meanwhile, those who enabled Ukraine's "heroic" but suicidal and demographically cataclysmic resistance, while withholding from it the means of actually defeating Russia, will be viewed ambivalently at best - and perhaps even cursed by more introspective Ukrainian observers.
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I grew up with:
* 14.4k modem
* Doom was new
* Win3.1 was sexy
Today
* I talk to computer and code comes back
* "Hey check my 19 emails and tell me if there is anything I need to respond to and what are my events today?"
* Full self driving cars
* Actual flying cars
WTF
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Everything is pretend now
From a comment under my post on string theory:
I work in finance. Some time ago an invoice crossed my desk. A client in property rental had paid a consulting firm to help one of his buildings get an EU eco-certificate. They planted some trees. They put bees on the roof. Certificate granted – and with it, better access to EU-linked financing.
Follow the chain. Someone invented the certificate, and got paid for it. Someone founded a consultancy to help you obtain it, and gets paid for it. Someone audits whether you deserve it, and gets paid for it. And finally the owner pays to modify the building so it fits the boxes. Everyone has a job. Everyone has an invoice. GDP goes up.
And nothing was produced. Not one more flat, not a better roof, not a cheaper rent. The bees are not there for honey. They are there for the certificate.
This is how the EU’s soft power works. No need to force a law through, with a vote, a debate, a court. Just attach a condition to the money. Follow our recommendations, collect our certificates – or no financing, no subsidies, and you can’t compete with those who did. You are free. Just not funded.
A law you can fight – in court, at the next election. A condition on money you can only accept, or lose. Power without a signature, without accountability, without anyone to vote out.
The same with universities: research follows the grant, and the grant follows the agenda. The same with cities. We saw it in Polish towns where councillors had to revoke resolutions – "legally meaningless", they were told – because EU funds were on the line. If it was meaningless, why the threat? Because it was never about the law. It was about who decides.
Everything is pretend now. Pretend ecology – bees for paperwork. Pretend science – theories that can never be wrong. Pretend self-government – councils that vote until the money disagrees. Pretend work – reports nobody reads, written to satisfy rules nobody needed, checked by people whose job is checking.
Pointless? Not for everyone. It keeps posts. It keeps positions. It keeps the structure of power standing and the people inside it paid. That is its real product. The only thing the system produces efficiently is more of itself.
And someone pays for all of it. Not Brussels – the tenant, in the rent. The buyer, in the price. The worker, in the tax. Every pretend job is carried on the back of a real one.
Meanwhile a young couple does the maths and stops at two children. Often at one. The building can afford bees on its roof. The family can’t afford a third child under its own.
That is what rot looks like. Not collapse – collapse is at least honest. Rot is a structure that still stands, still issues certificates, still hires consultants, while the inside goes hollow. Green on the outside, like a tree.
Everything is pretend now – except the decline. That one is real, and it compounds.
And a compounding decline ends up going pretty quickly.
Pracuję w finansach, wiele prac aktualnie nic nie wnosi. Jakiś czas temu miałem fakturę otrzymaną przez klienta, który zajmuje się wynajmem nieruchomości, za usługę dotyczącą doradztwa w zakresie otrzymania przez budynek jakiegoś EKO certyfikatu unijnego. Sadzili drzewka, na dachu mieli pszczoły. Po uzyskaniu tych certyfikatów otrzymuje się dane korzyści finansowe (np. lepszy dostęp do finansowania przez UE).
Czyli ktoś wymyślił takie certyfikaty, za to mu zapłaciliśmy, potem ktoś założył firmę doradczą pomagającą uzyskiwać certyfikat, na tym zarabia i finalnie ktoś zapłacił za modyfikację budynku tak żeby uzyskać certyfikat. Cały ten proces jest jałowy, nie ma wartości dodanej, nic nie wyprodukowaliśmy.
To jest takie soft power UE, nie muszą wprowadzać przepisów na siłę - wystarczy, że bez prowadzenia biznesu zgodnie z ich rekomendacjami, certyfikatami, nie otrzymasz finansowania/dopłat i nie będziesz w stanie konkurować na rynku. Podobnie z dotacjami na uczelnie, miasta. Widzieliśmy to chociażby tam gdzie radni odwoływali "nic nie znaczący prawnie" dokument o tym, że miasto nie przyjmuje najeźdźców pod groźbą nieprzyznania funduszów Unijnych.
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Charlie's final birthday message: "I want one thing for my birthday. I want you to go vote right now. That's my birthday gift."
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You know, people are not taking into account that Democrats are going to be VERY nervous about cheating this time.
There is no Covid to hide behind. There will be watchers at every tabulation center.
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The older I get, the more I think Colonel Jessup was actually the hero of “A Few Good Men.”
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Rust compiler: "I cannot allow you to compile this because reference x might outlive borrowed scope y on line 42."
C compiler: "You want to cast an integer to a function pointer and jump straight into uninitialized heap memory? Hell yeah brother, here's your binary."
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Zach Lahn has one of the coolest ideas I've ever heard a candidate for office come up with.
He wants to create a blockchain system that makes every government transaction publicly available in real time.
Everyone can be DOGE.
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Encore une fois, Elon Musk avait raison. Et les scientifiques vont se prendre une vraie blessure narcissique.
Il y a deux mois, j'ai dîné avec un professeur de physique quantique à Normale Sup, l'une des meilleures écoles de France.
Il se présente avec cette phrase :
"Je suis le seul prof pas gauchiste dans un marécage de profs gauchistes décroissantistes."
Ses collègues sont tous anti-IA. La raison ? Ça consomme de l'eau.
Le mec est passionnant. On part très loin : l'espace, le temps, la conscience. Des discussions complètement perchées.
Et à un moment, il me lâche :
"Tu sais, depuis les années 70, aucun sujet vraiment sérieux en physique n'est financé."
Je lui demande ce qui est financé, alors.
"Des cathédrales théoriques. Magnifiques. Qui ne servent quasiment à rien."
Je lui demande pourquoi.
"Après tout ce qui s'est passé avec le nucléaire, le monde académique s'est imposé un principe de précaution. Il a peur de trouver des choses réellement profondes."
Relisez cette phrase.
La science a peur de trouver.
C'est exactement ce que décrit François Chollet aujourd'hui : la théorie des cordes, c'est ce qui arrive quand une intelligence est coupée du réel. Elle hallucine. Elle construit des cathédrales. Elon a répondu avec un seul emoji : 🎯
Ce n'est pas un accident. C'est une capture.
Je parle souvent de Gramsci. Son idée centrale : on ne prend pas le pouvoir par la force, on prend les institutions. Universités, médias, culture. Et une fois qu'on les tient, on décide de ce qui est pensable.
La recherche n'y a pas échappé. On finance ce qui est publiable, consensuel, sans risque. On ne finance plus ce qui pourrait tout changer.
C'est pour ça que beaucoup de gens en France pleurent en ce moment. Ils sentent que leur monde factice est en train de mourir. Ce monde où un titre suffisait. Où un statut remplaçait un résultat. Où l'on pouvait passer trente ans à écrire des papiers lus par douze personnes sans jamais se confronter au réel.
Elon l'a dit sans filtre : une grande partie des PhD ne servent à rien. Et chez xAI, il a supprimé le titre de "chercheur". Il n'y a que des ingénieurs.
Le message est limpide. On ne te paie pas pour chercher. On te paie pour trouver.
La science va devoir retrouver son vrai but. Pas produire des papiers. Pas décrocher des grants. Pas briller en colloque. Comprendre le réel, et le plier.
Et l'IA va accélérer tout ça brutalement. Quand l'intelligence devient abondante, elle n'est plus le goulot d'étranglement. Ce qui compte, c'est le courage de la confronter au monde physique, encore et encore.
Alors physiciens, mathématiciens : il est temps de vous sortir les doigts du cul et de créer de la vraie valeur pour le monde.
On veut l'antimatière.
On veut l'antigravité.
On veut le warp drive.
On veut comprendre la conscience au niveau de l'infiniment petit.
Les vrais sujets. Ceux qu'on a eu peur de toucher pendant cinquante ans.
La science a été capturée. Elle va être libérée.
Et ça va faire très mal à certains egos.
Andrew Strong retweeted
Core CPI: Fed Incompetence, Wall Street Applause
September’s core CPI rose 0.369%, with shelter alone contributing 0.23 percentage points. Yet the Fed and its Wall Street cheerleaders keep prescribing tighter money as though higher rates somehow build more housing.
This is not monetary sophistication. It is incompetence dressed up as inflation-fighting resolve.
Higher rates raise financing costs, choke construction and deepen the housing shortage. The Fed responds to a negative growth shock by squeezing supply further, then points to stubborn shelter inflation as evidence that its squeeze has not gone far enough.
Its Wall Street defenders call that credibility. The rest of us can recognize a circular argument when we see one.
“Higher rates cure inflation” is a slogan, not an analysis. When tightening aggravates the supply constraint behind rising prices, doubling down is not discipline. It is refusing to understand the problem.
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These NYC apartments are standing empty, not because the owners don't want to rent them, but because rent stabilization laws prohibit them from charging enough to earn back the costs of necessary repairs.
My latest for @WSJFreeEx
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If Democrats lose in 2026, they lose for a DECADE.
Here's why.
The real fight isn't this election. It's the 2030 Census — the count that redraws every House seat and every Electoral College vote for the entire decade after it.
And here's the part nobody tells you: the Census does not count citizens. It counts TOTAL population. Every person in the state. Voter or not. Legal or not.
That's why the border was never just about compassion. 10M+ people entered under Biden, and they landed heavy in blue states — California, New York, Massachusetts, Colorado.
Every single one of them inflates those states' seats and electoral votes.
People who cannot vote, deciding who governs people who can.
Now run it the other way.
Republicans win 2026. Deportations continue. Americans keep fleeing blue states for Texas and Florida. By 2030, the blue-state numbers FALL — and the red-state numbers climb.
The latest 2030 projections, off the Census Bureau's own 2025 estimates:
Texas +4 seats
Florida +2
California -4
Illinois, New York, Oregon, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island — -1 each
That's roughly a 20-electoral-vote swing toward red America.
Win 2026 and the map itself moves. A redder House. A redder Electoral College. New paths to 270 all over the Sun Belt. Democrats wouldn't just lose an election — they'd lose the decade.
22 days out. This is the most important midterm of our lives, because the winners hold power while the 2030 Census gets decided.
Vote Republican. Win the decade.
