Interiorlines
@interiorlines.bsky.social
Luddite in big tech. Antiwar combat vet. Cincinnati Reds fan. Ex-historian, ex-foreign service. Just your basic incoherent American.
Trump’s deployment of 4,000 Guard troops and 700 Marines to LA amid immigration protests is facing legal blows. Judge Breyer called it ‘monarchic’ overreach. Now California braces for a 9th Circuit showdown on June 17.
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Trump keeps control of California National Guard for now after appeals court blocks order
California Gov. Newsom said the ruling by Judge Charles Breyer was a "check" on President Trump, "whose authoritarian tendencies are increasing by the day."
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June 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Trump’s deployment of 4,000 Guard troops and 700 Marines to LA amid immigration protests is facing legal blows. Judge Breyer called it ‘monarchic’ overreach. Now California braces for a 9th Circuit showdown on June 17.
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/t...
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/t...
Trump just admitted his mass deportation plan is wrecking farmers. The GOP’s imperial nativism depends on the labor it demonizes.
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Transcript: Trump Blurts Out a Dark MAGA Truth, Handing Dems a Weapon
As Trump accidentally gets too candid about the real impact of deportations, undermining MAGA ideology, a progressive strategist discusses new data showing Democrats have an opening to go on offense o...
newrepublic.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Trump just admitted his mass deportation plan is wrecking farmers. The GOP’s imperial nativism depends on the labor it demonizes.
newrepublic.com/article/1967...
newrepublic.com/article/1967...
Hundreds of thousands are protesting Trump, but U.S. media yawns. This silence isn’t passive. It’s complicity.
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Why are the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump? | Margaret Sullivan
Protest actions like ‘Hands Off’ and ‘No Kings’ are sweeping across the US. But the media are barely paying attention
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Hundreds of thousands are protesting Trump, but U.S. media yawns. This silence isn’t passive. It’s complicity.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Meta’s $15B bet on Scale AI isn’t about smarter models, it’s a data grab. Buying pipelines, poaching leadership, and deepening labor exploitation. This isn’t progress. It’s control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/t...
Meta Invests $14.3 Billion in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintelligence Lab
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Meta’s $15B bet on Scale AI isn’t about smarter models, it’s a data grab. Buying pipelines, poaching leadership, and deepening labor exploitation. This isn’t progress. It’s control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/t...
Someone once said that liberal writers suck because rather than debating the left, they’ve spent the last thirty years talking to (and apparently congratulating) themselves.
lol at Matt Yglesias forgetting to switch to his sock puppet account
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Someone once said that liberal writers suck because rather than debating the left, they’ve spent the last thirty years talking to (and apparently congratulating) themselves.
Trumpers are making fun of libs because they’re just realizing this was never about tariffs. Meanwhile, Leftist always understood it was always about about World War III.
April 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Trumpers are making fun of libs because they’re just realizing this was never about tariffs. Meanwhile, Leftist always understood it was always about about World War III.
Dumb Republicans are now saying Trump is doing to China what Reagan did to the Soviet Union, but because they’re the dumbest fucking baby brains ever they don’t realize the USSR never the US’s third largest trading partner so that probably won’t work this time.
April 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Dumb Republicans are now saying Trump is doing to China what Reagan did to the Soviet Union, but because they’re the dumbest fucking baby brains ever they don’t realize the USSR never the US’s third largest trading partner so that probably won’t work this time.
Since I’m a vet, the great algo in the sky unfortunately keeps serving me ads for that new Alex Garland movie “Warfare.” Disappointed that it’s yet another movie about Navy Seals that doesn’t portray them as the community of corrupt homocidal psychopaths they actually are.
April 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Since I’m a vet, the great algo in the sky unfortunately keeps serving me ads for that new Alex Garland movie “Warfare.” Disappointed that it’s yet another movie about Navy Seals that doesn’t portray them as the community of corrupt homocidal psychopaths they actually are.
As someone who works on AI applications, believe me when I say this is 98% of AI startups…except the guy in the box is a former McKinsey consultant.
April 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
As someone who works on AI applications, believe me when I say this is 98% of AI startups…except the guy in the box is a former McKinsey consultant.
All the rank-and-file dorks here in Silicon Valley who loved complaining about how the Biden admin “made it impossible to do business” have been real quiet lately.
April 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
All the rank-and-file dorks here in Silicon Valley who loved complaining about how the Biden admin “made it impossible to do business” have been real quiet lately.
The New Orleans suspect is another example that the best predictor of mass violence is a history of domestic violence.
January 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The New Orleans suspect is another example that the best predictor of mass violence is a history of domestic violence.
Barron’s finally being honest about the Trump tax cuts: “Broadly speaking, the richer you are, the more tax benefits you will probably enjoy under a second Trump presidency…The outlook for middle- and lower-income taxpayers is less certain or rosy with Trump’s win.”
November 30, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Barron’s finally being honest about the Trump tax cuts: “Broadly speaking, the richer you are, the more tax benefits you will probably enjoy under a second Trump presidency…The outlook for middle- and lower-income taxpayers is less certain or rosy with Trump’s win.”
Biden claims these are “smart mines” that are designed to self-destruct so they don’t pose a long-term risk to civilians. But in the countermine world we simply call these “unpredictable mines.”
Biden approves antipersonnel mines for Ukraine, undoing his own policy
The controversial White House move to send Kyiv land mines comes as Russia’s advances in eastern Ukraine threaten to overwhelm front-line defenses.
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November 21, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Biden claims these are “smart mines” that are designed to self-destruct so they don’t pose a long-term risk to civilians. But in the countermine world we simply call these “unpredictable mines.”
Israel says it’s “operating precisely against the Hezbollah terrorist organisation and is not operating against the Lebanon Armed Forces”; Israel has killed 42 members of the Lebanon Armed Forces since October 7th.
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Israel Says Not Fighting Lebanese Army, After Soldiers Killed
Israel's military said Wednesday it was fighting the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon, not the Lebanese army, after the latter said four of its soldiers were killed in Israeli strikes.
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November 21, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Israel says it’s “operating precisely against the Hezbollah terrorist organisation and is not operating against the Lebanon Armed Forces”; Israel has killed 42 members of the Lebanon Armed Forces since October 7th.
www.barrons.com/news/israel-...
www.barrons.com/news/israel-...
How do you even begin to negotiate with a country that demands the right to bomb you at will?
Israeli officials demand the right to strike Hezbollah under any cease-fire deal for Lebanon
Israeli officials have demanded freedom to strike Hezbollah in Lebanon as part of any emerging cease-fire deal between the sides, raising a potential complication as a top U.S. envoy was in the region...
apnews.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:39 PM
How do you even begin to negotiate with a country that demands the right to bomb you at will?
The lame duck’s mask is fully off now. The Biden Administration has vetoed a Gaza ceasefire UN resolution for the fourth time, and is now accusing Democrats who want to cut off arms to Israel of supporting terrorism. www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
White House Says Democrats Who Oppose Weapons To Israel Are Aiding Hamas
HuffPost obtained a White House message to senators ahead of a crucial vote on sending the Israelis more arms amid the Gaza and Lebanon wars. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is helping t...
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November 21, 2024 at 4:35 PM
The lame duck’s mask is fully off now. The Biden Administration has vetoed a Gaza ceasefire UN resolution for the fourth time, and is now accusing Democrats who want to cut off arms to Israel of supporting terrorism. www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
The Biden foreign policy was largely a continuation of the Trump foreign policy, which will inevitably lead to even worse outcomes now that Trump is back in power.
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What Rough Beast?
President Joe Biden has now joined the ranks of Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush as a president whose Middle East policy crashed and burned spectacularly. Unlike Carter, who was stymied by the Iranian ...
tomdispatch.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:40 PM
The Biden foreign policy was largely a continuation of the Trump foreign policy, which will inevitably lead to even worse outcomes now that Trump is back in power.
tomdispatch.com/what-rough-b...
tomdispatch.com/what-rough-b...
MusKKK wanted this guy as Treasury Secretary. www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/p...
Trump picks Lutnick to be Commerce secretary | CNN Politics
President-elect Donald Trump announced Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick as his pick for secretary of the Department of Commerce on Tuesday.
www.cnn.com
November 19, 2024 at 8:19 PM
MusKKK wanted this guy as Treasury Secretary. www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/p...
Fun fact: Veterans are considered by federal law to be a protected class. So every veteran you know who works in the public sector is a DEI hire.
November 19, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Fun fact: Veterans are considered by federal law to be a protected class. So every veteran you know who works in the public sector is a DEI hire.
@danhausen.bsky.social telling it how it is
November 18, 2024 at 3:28 AM
@danhausen.bsky.social telling it how it is
Weird how chill elected Democratic officials have been about Trump taking office…
November 18, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Weird how chill elected Democratic officials have been about Trump taking office…
The UN’s COP29 has devolved into another shit show and the Paris Agreement is essentially dead, but our leaders keep demanding credit for lip service.
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November 18, 2024 at 1:53 AM
The UN’s COP29 has devolved into another shit show and the Paris Agreement is essentially dead, but our leaders keep demanding credit for lip service.
I bet Obama called the Pod Jons and told them to stop complaining so much.
November 17, 2024 at 9:51 PM
I bet Obama called the Pod Jons and told them to stop complaining so much.