Two babies were born in New York within a year of each other soon after WWII. One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing. The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.

the incumbent president is mentally ill

This is a damning piece about a torture prison that is being used by the Trump administration. That’s why the piece was pulled. All Americans deserve to see this story. Shame on Bari Weiss.

The final week of the NFL season might be a series of Pro Bowl games. The more you expand the regular season, the more meaningless the games become. American sports are under a controlled demolition orchestrated by greed.

The Real Purpose of ICE open.substack.com/pub/anneappleb…

Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.

Chairman Powell has been a fantastic Fed Chairman. I wish he would get the respect of the White House. In a few months it won't even matter. Savaging dignity is just wrong

Abolish ICE. What we’ve seen recently isn’t immigration enforcement; it’s state-sponsored terrorism. They refuse to comply with the Constitution. They assault Americans with impunity. They hide behind masks, knowing their actions are shameful. They should not exist.

This is absolutely pathetic. A man-child is throwing a temper tantrum and risking America's alliances and American national security for his own ego and vanity. We can already base troops in Greenland. We can already use that land to protect our nation and our allies.

When I saw this letter, I literally thought, “This is too stupid even for him.” I should have known better.

Americans, not foreigners, are bearing almost the entire cost of U.S. tariffs, according to new research wsj.com/economy/trade/… via The Wall Street Journal

The TACO cycle: The markets want to price in TACO, but TACO needs Trump to see stocks tank. So we get these cycles where Trump does stuff and nothing happens (because the market has priced in TACO) ... which encourages him to do more stuff until the markets actually thinks he

Netflix round 3: Can the ultimate disruptor transform itself—again? - Christensen Institute buff.ly/xGdnLKp@Christ… #disruption $NFLX

The AI disruption in software is here axios.com/2026/02/03/ai-…

excellent piece by Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on the problem - but to me the solution is clear - break the 2 party duopoly, and support independent and third-party candidates - and parties substack.com/@cselland/note…

This is terrific. And yes we have one.

A Life of the Climb: Remembering My Dad open.substack.com/pub/cselland/p…

"$250 billion. Gone. In a week. Because a company in San Francisco released eleven plugins."

“The most radical action in a capitalist society is non-participation” Buh-bye Apple Music , Apple TV and Prime Video. Hello Spotify, and there’s plenty of other content to watch. Send a message. Well done Scott Galloway youtu.be/5o_oNlclPHQ?si…

Apple is a sleeping giant in AI. There hasn’t been a true hardware disruption yet, which means Apple isn’t as far behind as most people think. In past platform shifts, the winner wasn’t the first app; it was the company that controlled the hardware and the ecosystem. Apple still