Not everything profitable is something you should do. Not everything you do needs to be profitable. Your actions cannot be just that of homo economicus lest you lose your soul.

The economy is growing if you're an asset holder. If you're a wage earner, it's terrible.

the hell going on in USA

the housing market is propped up by boomers who bought houses for $200k in 1990 and think they are worth $2M in 2026. Nuke em

Art if the deal: we fix the sewers and get Baja in exchange.

CHINESE CONTROLLING CALIFORNIA POT INDUSTRY. They’re growing it on American soil. They’re spraying it with banned Chinese poison. Some of those chemicals are fatal if inhaled. Siskiyou County — under Mount Shasta — is ground zero. Chinese criminal networks turned a California paradise into an industrial black-market factory. Sheriffs keep pulling the same bags off the dirt: Chinese-labeled fumigants that never should have entered the country. The county declared an emergency. First responders have been burned and hospitalized. The crop doesn’t stay in the hills. It moves. This is not a culture war. This is sovereignty. American land. American water. American lungs. If “America First” means anything, it means we don’t let foreign criminal orgs occupy U.S. dirt, poison the product, and walk while rural sheriffs fight it with a fraction of the resources they need. Enforce it. Test it. Smash the networks. Protect the people who live next to it.

Here's what @AGRobBonta said this afternoon on MS NOW about the reports that Paramount is on the verge of saying it'll leave California: "I can't comment on what a corporation will do. And this is a corporation who has professed a commitment to L.A., to Hollywood, to staying there. So, we've heard this threat before, and it's inconsistent with other things that they have said. If they decide to leave, it's their independent choice. I'm not asking for it. I don't want it, obviously. And that responsibility will lay at their feet. There's nothing about this case that requires that – or would cause it. It would be their choice and their choice alone. They'll have to own it. You know, we will enforce the law always without fear or favor. That's our job. And we will also be willing, always, to come to the table and have good faith, sincere negotiations to solve the problem before us. But we're not focused on their threats. We're focused on this case, which is protecting everyday people in California, making sure their costs are affordable, their costs for cable or satellite, for going to the movies. That's what antitrust is about. It's about affordability. So we want to keep prices fair, make sure we protect jobs. And this merger is a threat to jobs. There will be 5000 to 10,000 jobs that could be lost, billions of dollars in economic activity lost because of the merger. We want to make sure there's choice, quality, competition. That's what antitrust enforcement is all about. So we're going to focus on the job ahead, be firm, be fair, and not be distracted by threats."

TINY FUGITIVES trailer! I cannot wait for you all to see this summer camp movie I wrote with @mlewen. I dedicate this film to all my old bunkmates, camp girlfriends, and anyone who made me feel cool at a time when I was objectively not. See you at the theater, September 18.