Greg Brown

@gregbrown.bsky.social

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We are world-eaters.

Jake Tapper tweet whining: “So the USSS thought the threat against the president was strong enough to surreptitiously remove him from AF1. And then proceeded to let the plane full of White House staffers and reporters take off and fly back to the US.”
Video scrolling The Free Press’ timeline showing 1.2 thousand followers but sooo many posts with no replies, likes, or retweets.
Randy Quaid in Independence Day about to save the day by crashing his fighter jet into the alien weak spot.
First pane: Moe (of The Simpsons) as Bureau of Labor Statistics throwing out Barney as bad job numbers Second pane: Moe/BLS satisfied... Third pane: ... while Barney as downward revisions wanders back into the bar.
Palmer Luckey and his n-word 64
United States stabbing itself while Europe and China look on with confusion and concern.
Kansas state line sign
Instagram video from the inside of someone’s car captioned “POV: me telling my older neighbors I have been communicating with their trees be my spirit guides told me I had to”
Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Large, rotund tuxedo cat caught limbs-sprawled mid cleaning.
Cover of The Chickenshit Club by Jesse Eisinger
The far-left podcaster argued that homeschooling was part of America's "fundamental crazy Christian problem," suggesting it was essentially child abuse.
Trent Reznor monologuing to the audience before starting his music: “How are you tonight? Having a good time? Ready to party? Have fun? Well that was the last guys. Wrong fucking band. We’re here to have a bad time.”
Five baby birds (Carolina Wren) packed inside a makeshift nest, surrounded by twigs and moss and other material.
Cover of Blind Oracles by Bruce Kuklick.
Excerpt from Jim Carrey: In April 2022, Carrey announced that he was considering retirement, saying: "I have enough. I've done enough. I am enough." He said he would return to acting if "angels bring some sort of script that's written in gold ink that says to me that it's going to be really important for people to see". In February 2024, it was announced that Carrey would reprise his role as Dr. Ivo Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. A copy of the script for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was delivered to Carrey written in 24-carat ink in reference to his previous comments. Carrey also plays Ivo Robotnik's grandfather, Gerald Robotnik. Carrey reportedly told an Associated Press reporter that he agreed to return to the Sonic universe because "I need the money, frankly."
Mr Smith Matrix from the movie The Matrix doing his monologue to Morpheus Matrix
Top articles list including: Cardiologist: 5 things I never do before 9 a.m.—after 20 years of treating heart attacks l've studied over 200 kids-the ones with high emotional intelligence do 7 things Cardiologist: 7 things I never do after 7 p.m.—after 20 years of treating heart attacks
Scene from The Office MICHAEL: I am a victim of a hate crime. STANLEY: That’s not what a hate crime is. MICHAEL: Well, I hated it a lot, okay?
Movie poster for Lockout, a 2012 French action films starring Guy Pearce that infamously had to pay money to John Carpenter because they ripped off Escape from New York.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice implemented the policy in April after 385 books that entered prisons tested positive for synthetic drugs last year. Those drugs included meth, fentanyl, marijuana, and PCP, which can be turned into liquid and sprayed on books and sniffed.
Star Trek: The Next Generation title card reading “Data’s Weird Again”
Excerpt page 158 of AGAINST MONEY: The center of gravity of liquidity management is now the "shadow banking" system. In the last two decades, especially in the US and Europe, liquidity for longer-term investment has been provided by the private money market, by a large complex of private-sector balance sheets that have engaged in bank-like liquidity transformation, but that are not traditional banks. Where the mortgage example above relies on the ability of a single bank to expand its balance sheet in order for the couple to procure their house, in modern systems, it is a complex of balance sheets and instruments that end up allowing for this. As the financial economist Zoltan Pozsar and his coauthors put it: "Like the traditional banking system, the shadow banking system conducts credit intermediation. However, unlike the traditional banking system, where credit intermediation is performed 'under one roof' —that of a bank-in the shadow banking system, it is performed through a daisy-chain of nonbank financial intermediaries in a multi step process. "19 When the "public desires to become more liquid," in Keynes's words, there may now be a thick layer of balance sheets between them and the institution that ultimately becomes more illiquid.
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Excerpt from page 99 of AGAINST MONEY: While there's not much on this problem in Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty has an interesting discussion of it in a later article with Gabriel Zucman: "The higher Tobin's Q in Anglo-Saxon countries might be related to the fact that shareholders have more control on corporations than in Germany, France, and Japan.... The 'con-trol right' or 'stakeholder' view of the firm can in principle explain why the market value of corporations is particularly low in Germany (where worker representatives have voting rights in corporate boards without any equity stake in the company)."24 In other words, wealth as reflected in assets like corporate shares is not simply a matter of how many useful tools and resources a society has, and the flow of valuable stuff they pro-duce. It critically depends on how much of that flow is subject to tradable property claims. A technological improvement that raises profits will show up as an increase in aggregate wealth, because the increased profits will be capitalized into the price of shares (or other ownership rights over the company. But if workers have enough social power to capture some or all of that improvement, it will not show up as greater wealth, because workers' claims against the company do not take the form of tradable property rights with a market price.
“Blue” themed sticker book with dinosaurs, race cars, pirates, “gross stuff” etc
But West High didn't ban it. Neither did the Salt Lake City School District, where the school sits. Three other Utah school districts did. Each found "The Bluest Eye" amounted to pornographic or indecent content, or as Utah code calls it, "objective sensitive material." Under Utah law, once three school districts (or two districts and five charters) remove the same book for containing "objective sensitive material," all public schools in the state must also pull - and destroy - the title.
Excerpt from page 159 of John Cassidy’s HOW MARKETS FAIL: As Arrow suggested, medical insurance encourages people with migraines to have brain scans and people with mild arthritis to get knee replacements. Insurers try to mitigate this costly behavior by introducing deductibles and co-payments. They also insist on precertification for visits to specialists, limit the choice of doctors whom patients can see, and investigate suspect claims. But such measures add to the insurers' already substantial administrative costs, and they haven't proved sufficient to keep down costs. One way to banish moral hazard would be to do away with health insurance, but that would also eliminate the benefits of risk sharing, which are substantial. Alternatively, insurers could refuse to pay for superfluous tests and treatments that don't offer much prospect of curing the patient. In a competitive environment, however, holding the line is difficult. For any individual insurer, there is always a temptation to offer more services in order to attract more customers.
Seal-point Himalayan cat and corgi-chihuahua mix curled up on a couch next to each other
Lansing - A Democratic candidate for a seat on the University of Michigan Board of Regents whose social media posts about Israel drew a backlash from some top state Democrats won his April 19 convention race in overwhelming fashion, according to internal voting records obtained by The Detroit News. The unofficial numbers collected by the Michigan Democratic Party showed, on average, nearly two out of every three of the 6,500 party members who voted in the race for two seats on the UM board supported lawyer Amir Makled. High-ranking state and congressional officials supported the two incumbents over Makled.
Deadline screenshot of article on Michael grosses: FRIDAY MIDDAY: The first numbers for Lionsgate's Michael are in and it's shaping up to be a $35M-$40M Friday, which includes those $12.6M previews. The Friday through Sunday range is $85M-$95M, and there's a path to higher, it just boils down whether this is fan-frontloaded. "Something special is happening, people are dancing in the theaters," says one source close to the film.
Alex Jones tweet with Tim Heidecker’s fictional On Cinema mugshot, reading: The Onion newspaper has been rocked by the discovery that their new creative director, produced pro pedo/child kidnapping, torture and murder programs. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is the main financier of the Onions hostel takeover of Infowars and is funding productions designed, in their words "to wear Alex Jones skin."' Below is an actual mug shot of the creep.
Glowing, mouth-agape Mr Burns from The Simpsons.
Dan Pfeiffer tweet (one of the Pod Save America guys) reading: 1. Personal Announcement: After years of hearing from local candidates, grassroots organizers, and others who rely on @PodSaveAmerica and my newsletter for messaging advice because they can't afford a consultant, I decided to do something about it. Introducing Message Box Pro.
Discussing film tweet screenshot, saying: Joe Russo says the 'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' rerelease includes new footage that ties into the narrative of 'AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY'. "It's an opportunity to create a bridge from Endgame to Doomsday in a very unique way."
Large tuxedo cat sitting on the couch and staring up at the camera
These news outlets and the hideous news influencers mimicking them exist not so much to misinform people as to keep people who refuse to learn basic shit in their preferred state of furious unknowing-not just uninformed, but vigorously counter-informed and convinced that something both terrible and vague is being done to them.
Excerpt from a Timothy Snyder tweet thread: So thinking one step ahead. The purpose of the new war crimes is likely to induce Iran to carry out a terrorist attack inside the United States.
Excerpt from Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus’ Landslide book on the back half of the Reagan presidency, written in 1988! There was no pattern of analysis, no coming together. Individual cabinet members were just doing whatever they wanted to do - the ones who were smart had realized that the White House really didn't matter. They could go around the White House, and no one would retaliate. "I took a look at some of the staff's paperwork and was stunned at their incompetence. They were rank amateurs." But more chilling than anything else was the portrait these aides drew of the president they served. They spoke with Cannon in confidence; one by one, he recalled, "they told stories about how inattentive and inept the president was. He was lazy; he wasn't interested in the job. They said he wouldn't read the papers they gave him — even short position papers and documents. They said he wouldn't come over to work — all he wanted to do was to watch movies and television at the residence. "They felt free to sign his initials on documents without noting that they were acting for him. When 1 asked a group of them, who among them thought they had authority to sign in the president's name, there was a long, uncomfortable silence. Then one answered, Well — everybody, and nobody.' "
Tim Heidecker in I Think You Should Leave
Tuxedo cat laying down
Excerpt from Marc Bloch’s Feudal Society, page 87: This neglect of education among the laity explains the rôle of the clergy both as interpreters of the ideas of the great and as depositaries of political traditions. The princes were obliged to rely on the clerical element among their servants for services that the rest of their entourage would have been incapable of rendering. About the middle of the eighth century the last lay referendaries of the Merovingian kings had disappeared; in April 1298, Philip the Fair handed over the seals to the knight Pierre Flotte. Between these two dates more than five centuries elapsed, during which the chancelleries of the sovereigns who reigned over France had at their head churchmen exclusively. It was the same elsewhere, on the whole. It is important to realize that the decisions of the powerful of this world were sometimes suggested and always expressed by men who, whatever their national or class allegiances, none the less belonged by their whole training to a society by nature universalist and founded on spiritual things. Beyond question they helped to maintain, above the confusion of petty local strife, a concern for certain wider issues. When required, however, to give written form to acts of policy, they felt impelled to justify them officially by reasons drawn from their own moral code. Thus there came to be diffused over the documents of almost the entire feudal era that veneer of disingenuousness the evidence of which is to be seen in particular in the preambles of so many enfranchisements masquerading as pure gifts, though they were in fact purchased for money, or in so many royal grants of privileges, invariably made to appear as inspired by simple piety. Continued on next image.
Tuxedo cat licking one of his front paws before finishing and looking at the camera
Screenshot from The Michael Phenomenon with Gregg Turkington.
Voice of Grok Amato
Senator Lindsey Graham tweet from almost two hours ago: Iran's attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz is done at its own peril. President Trump's decision to take the war to Kharg Island - the crown jewel of Iran's oil and gas economy - was necessary, bold and in my view, highly effective. This will help shorten the war. Seldom in warfare does an enemy provide you a single target like Kharg Island that could dramatically alter the outcome of the conflict. If Iran loses control or the ability to operate its oil infrastructure from Kharg Island, its economy is annihilated. He who controls Kharg Island, controls the destiny of this war. Semper Fi.
C-Span tweeting an excerpt of some congressional hearing: @SenatorSlotkin on Iran & Russia: "There's press reports that the Russians are helping target U.S. ships and aircraft... If Russia is helping to kill U.S. forces, we have crossed a Rubicon...We have to take decisive action on that, and instead, we're giving them breaks on oil.”
our tuxedo cat Teddy half-napping on the couch, eyes barely open
dumbass trader wearing a Dow 25k hat a decade ago
Quote from the Miami Herald piece upthread: Leading Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds, who is Black, denounced what he called the "woke right" during a speech in Miami last fall, a phenomenon he said has risen in the wake of the killing of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Donalds seemed to be using the term as a stand-in for the far right, describing it as those that oppose all immigration and espouse "soft bigotry" on social media.
Title card for Twin Peaks that specifies it’s the breastaurant and not the TV show.
Kamala Harris saying “we did it Joe [Biden]” into her phone
Cover to Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler