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Mike Brock
Personal blog · notesfromthecircus.compoliticsai
Mike Brock writes Notes from the Circus, a personal blog at notesfromthecircus.com about politics and ai. Since 2025, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “The Plot Against America”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Mike Brock's Substack-style posts cover US politics, government power, tech billionaires, Project 2025, ICE surveillance and China manufacturing. HN commenters cite them as sources in threads on those topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Standing somewhere. A circus, perhaps. From here, this is what I see.
Most-linked posts?
- The Plot Against America2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-20
- The Sufferable Evil2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-04
- The Coming Clash of Civilizations2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-24
What Hacker News says?
It's snow crash, they're calling it network states. Tech billionaires want to be CEO kings of their own mini states, their goal is to destroy the federal government. Project 2025 is based on ideas (in particula, RAGE, retire all government employees) from Curtis Yarvin, good friend of Peter Theil and JD Vance. https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-americ... https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no
Comment linking /p/the-plot-against-america?r=4lc94&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
on “DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards”Submitted The Coming Clash of Civilizations as a story · 60 points
HN discussionHow about denying the Fourth Amendment rights of US citizens to be secure in their homes in the recent Chicago apartment raid? https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-sufferable-evil How about detaining US citizens without warrants for days at a time and then releasing with no charges? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/george-...
Comment linking /p/the-sufferable-evil
on “ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones”Submitted Why I'm Betting Against the AGI Hype as a story · 40 points
HN discussion> I think freedom of speech topics are pretty closely embedded with tech and entrepreneurship whether we like it or not. That's a useful fiction, useful until it's not. This post[1] was on the front page briefly today. These people aren't obscure or powerless, they're billionaires, embedded in the current administration, etc. > Then I started noticing something I couldn’t ignore. Smart people I respected—especially…
Comment linking /p/the-coming-clash-of-civilizations
on “FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester: "Your name was brought up."”Submitted The Plot Against America as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThe article links to https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis-no-5 , which goes deep into China and manufacturing.
Comment linking /p/the-crisis-no-5
on “Tim Cook sold Apple's soul”Submitted Emergency We Cannot Feel: On the Psychological Unreadiness for American Collapse as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Plot Against America as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Time of Monsters as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twenty Four Hours as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Magical Thinking That's Killing Our Humanity as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Secret Police Are Here as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitcoin Coup:How Crypto Accelerationists Engineered America's Financial Collapse as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The House of Ellison Is on the Brink as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sufferable Evil as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intellectual Property in the Age of AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What the Hell Happened to Me (and to Silicon Valley) as a story · 1 points
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