2025-07-05
It is not only that the President has far-reaching immunity; he now claims the right to bestow immunity, i.e. tell those breaking laws that nothing will happen to them. — The implications are breathtaking. the line between a normal legal state and exceptions/prerogative state can be shifted at will.
New York Times
FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban
The implications are breathtaking. the line between a normal legal state and exceptions/prerogative state can be shifted at will. Dean Baker / @deanbaker13 : Trump says he can clai...
2025-01-18
“The E.U. is, as you know, regulating itself to death. And they're damaging themselves mostly, but what they're also doing is damaging our companies. And so we would like to work with the administration to help global markets open up and for American companies to win.” — Not clear enough?
New York Times
Q&A with Marc Andreessen on his political evolution from a “normie Democrat” to a Donald Trump supporter, and what he and others expect from the administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o... Jan-Werner Mueller / @jwmueller-pu : “The E.U. is, as you know, regulating itself to death. And they're damaging themselves mostly, but what they'r...
2025-01-12
Oligarchs have the freedom to voice opinions on other countries. — The EU does not have the freedom not to enforce its rules.
Politico
Zuckerberg urged Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies, which he says were forced by EU to pay $30B+ for legal violations over the past two decades
Right. Should be fun few years for the EU. www.politico.eu/article/zuck... Mike Galsworthy / @mikegalsworthy : I'm on the EU's side on this. — And so should be every global citi...
Oligarchs have the freedom to voice opinions on other countries. — The EU does not have the freedom not to enforce its rules.
Bloomberg
Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine energy”
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