“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's comms director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped (published Oct. 2025):

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You know the old story that Joe Kennedy knew the great stock market crash of 1929 was coming when his shoeshine boy started offering stock tips? The Harrington corollary: when CEOs start begging to be taxed more, that means *they* know a crash is coming. Happened just prior to the 2008 GFC, too.

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Google Cloud services face outage in London, Revolut services down too reut.rs/3VZ8tsX

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This is “Mittens” in 1955. 🥹 Photo from my collection.

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My letter in this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social: #FoodSecurity is a government responsibility, not one it can abdicate to households

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