Jerry Brito
@jerrybrito
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Washington, DC
Joined February 2007
UPCOMING BOOK: COUNTER-DIGITAL MEDIA LITERACY. It’s a survival guide for the digital age. We all know how to use digital media; what we know far less is how not to use them. Support the book on Kickstarter (see the description there). Please share.
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A book of practical strategies to resist digital nudges and reclaim offline–online balance.
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Thank you for the memories ❤️ We will miss you boss..
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Today, I start a new role as Director of Policy for @coincenter after what I am considering a ten-year job interview process. I first collaborated with @valkenburgh and team in 2015, and since then, they have built the most trusted and thoughtful organization in crypto.
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This Bessent clip offers a good insight into what’s really going on with the Trumpian economic agenda. Also supports why I think all “the dollar is trash” commentary misses the point. The argument squares with the work I did about three years ago highlighting that by becoming
Scott Bessent explains how the decision by the EU to confiscate Russia's reserves has precluded the Euro from becoming the world reserve currency after Biden confiscated Russia's reserves. If you confiscate foreign reserves your currency tanks.
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Here is current head of the White House Council of Economic Advisors explaining four months ago how the incoming Trump Administration should go about imposing tariffs on China.
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Just posted a new episode of Worker & Parasite, my book review podcast with @StanTsirulnikov. This time we discuss Huey Long by T. Harry Williams. Let us know what you think.
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If you think Trump was the angry one, you’ve clearly never met a Cuban American and experienced this stare.
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Project 2025 Completion Tracker I’m not certain, but I think this site was created by Trump opponents. To their credit, though, it is simply presenting without comment “nearly 300 measurable objectives from the Project 2025 document” and whether they’ve been implemented. Neat
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A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals
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You may have a seen a bunch of weird tweets from me lately. This is because I’ve been trying to implement a POSSE (Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) system on my blog, as I’ve mentioned before. The basic idea is that you post once to your blog, which you own, and which
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Joan DIdion, John Gregory Dunne, and Quintana Roo Dunne, Hollywood, 1968.
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Here's a new executive order signed yesterday that launches a sweeping deregulatory push This is what I mean by radical change. The order creates a systematic process to review every federal regulation—not just for benefit-cost analysis, but for consti…
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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A great directory of personal websites. Hundreds of them. Great source of inspiration. You can add your own via a simple pull request. Everyone should have their own site.
personalsit.es
Personal sites are sick as hell, so this site was built so we can all discover each other's. This directory of links are by folks that want to share their site with the world.
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On a recent episode of his podcast, Jonah Goldberg asks Bret Stephens why J.D. Vance is lecturing Europeans about democracy when he has previously criticized neocons for doing that kind of thing. Goldberg says, “He hectors them about how Romania canceled some regional
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In a new episode of my podcast w/ @stantsirulnikov we discuss A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America by Bruce Cannon Gibney. It is bad.
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