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Ok leading up to the nyc mayor election there’s a point I just want to say somewhere, which is that becoming mayor of NYC is a TERRIBLE career move.
Super happy to see Mamdani’s style of politics getting some daylight but that city eats its mayors alive.
Super happy to see Mamdani’s style of politics getting some daylight but that city eats its mayors alive.
November 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Ok leading up to the nyc mayor election there’s a point I just want to say somewhere, which is that becoming mayor of NYC is a TERRIBLE career move.
Super happy to see Mamdani’s style of politics getting some daylight but that city eats its mayors alive.
Super happy to see Mamdani’s style of politics getting some daylight but that city eats its mayors alive.
It's going to be real rough when Jerome Powell's term expires in 2026 and Trump appoints the Million Dollar Man in his place
July 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It's going to be real rough when Jerome Powell's term expires in 2026 and Trump appoints the Million Dollar Man in his place
Elon when he sobers up in five days and Trump threatens to investigate him: “I definitely took it too far again and regret my words. And really the real strategic harm to our country is transgender people”
June 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Elon when he sobers up in five days and Trump threatens to investigate him: “I definitely took it too far again and regret my words. And really the real strategic harm to our country is transgender people”
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
Musk’s main use case for grok right now is for it to answer people’s “is this true bro” questions on twitter.
People treat grok’s answer as authoritative, the tiebreaker in arguments. He wants the stuff it spits out to agree with him.
That’s it. That’s the grift.
People treat grok’s answer as authoritative, the tiebreaker in arguments. He wants the stuff it spits out to agree with him.
That’s it. That’s the grift.
June 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Musk’s main use case for grok right now is for it to answer people’s “is this true bro” questions on twitter.
People treat grok’s answer as authoritative, the tiebreaker in arguments. He wants the stuff it spits out to agree with him.
That’s it. That’s the grift.
People treat grok’s answer as authoritative, the tiebreaker in arguments. He wants the stuff it spits out to agree with him.
That’s it. That’s the grift.
ok but actually sometime soon someone is going to go on a tinder/grindr/etc hookup and find out that their hookup is wearing an earpiece so a chatbot can give advice
May 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
ok but actually sometime soon someone is going to go on a tinder/grindr/etc hookup and find out that their hookup is wearing an earpiece so a chatbot can give advice
I saw the first couple episodes of murderbot and I’m just so offended by the casting.
I can’t believe that in 2025 they cast a white dude to play the title role instead of an actual murderbot.
I can’t believe that in 2025 they cast a white dude to play the title role instead of an actual murderbot.
May 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I saw the first couple episodes of murderbot and I’m just so offended by the casting.
I can’t believe that in 2025 they cast a white dude to play the title role instead of an actual murderbot.
I can’t believe that in 2025 they cast a white dude to play the title role instead of an actual murderbot.
When you ask rightwingers attacking universities “ok, where would you like the medical research to happen?” they have no answer because they don’t care.
The golden goose story was at least about greed.
These people are killing the golden goose because they think it’s a democrat.
The golden goose story was at least about greed.
These people are killing the golden goose because they think it’s a democrat.
April 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
When you ask rightwingers attacking universities “ok, where would you like the medical research to happen?” they have no answer because they don’t care.
The golden goose story was at least about greed.
These people are killing the golden goose because they think it’s a democrat.
The golden goose story was at least about greed.
These people are killing the golden goose because they think it’s a democrat.
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Hopefully it’s clear that President Stephen Miller’s goal is not to get universities to agree to a 15% rate cap, it’s to crush universities and jam them full of MAGA political commissars, as the Harvard letter said explicitly.
If universities cave on the rate cap, Miller will just escalate. 1/
If universities cave on the rate cap, Miller will just escalate. 1/
Department of Energy is indeed sending out notices to universities cancelling all of our grants unless the university agrees to a 15% rate cap.
April 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Hopefully it’s clear that President Stephen Miller’s goal is not to get universities to agree to a 15% rate cap, it’s to crush universities and jam them full of MAGA political commissars, as the Harvard letter said explicitly.
If universities cave on the rate cap, Miller will just escalate. 1/
If universities cave on the rate cap, Miller will just escalate. 1/
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1. The Department of Health and Human Services has launched a national "snitch form" to report gender affirming care providers.
The last few times state Republicans did this, they were overloaded with memes and Bee Movie scripts.
The latest from S. Baum.
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The last few times state Republicans did this, they were overloaded with memes and Bee Movie scripts.
The latest from S. Baum.
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HHS Launches Snitch Form to Report Gender Affirming Care Providers
The new HHS guidance encourages people to snitch on trans-affirming health care providers—including in instances that do not violate the law.
www.erininthemorning.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
1. The Department of Health and Human Services has launched a national "snitch form" to report gender affirming care providers.
The last few times state Republicans did this, they were overloaded with memes and Bee Movie scripts.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
The last few times state Republicans did this, they were overloaded with memes and Bee Movie scripts.
The latest from S. Baum.
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They’re saying openly they want to make everyone so poor and miserable that they have to accept whatever low paying jobs the plutocrats offer. That’s it, that’s the whole thing.
Hearing the same from a direct source. People in Americorps being told they're done. It's over. No notice.
My bff’s son works for Americorps and received a decommissioning letter today. DOGE is gutting the program. I’m so angry and disappointed DOGE would go after a program that does such good work. @marisakabas.bsky.social @kairyssdal.bsky.social @katiephang.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
They’re saying openly they want to make everyone so poor and miserable that they have to accept whatever low paying jobs the plutocrats offer. That’s it, that’s the whole thing.
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So from my uniquely weird perspective after living in the UK through Brexit, being in India during Modi's demonetization, and living in Brazil when the real tanked during the Bolsonaro administration, I can confidentally say that Americans do not and can not understand how bad this is going to be.
Every damned word of this 4-graf brief, except “By WSJ Staff,” should scare the bejeesus out of you this morning.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
April 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
So from my uniquely weird perspective after living in the UK through Brexit, being in India during Modi's demonetization, and living in Brazil when the real tanked during the Bolsonaro administration, I can confidentally say that Americans do not and can not understand how bad this is going to be.
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the *key* lesson of the 2008 Great Recession was that the FIRE industry had fallen for their own magical thinking.
Then we were told these institutions were "too big to [be allowed to] fail". so they, and their new flights of fancy, kept on going.
their failure of imagination is *precedented*
Then we were told these institutions were "too big to [be allowed to] fail". so they, and their new flights of fancy, kept on going.
their failure of imagination is *precedented*
As bond and currency markets show capital flight from the US—opposite of what usually happens in global economic turmoil—Wall St. brought these losses on themselves.
Told each other Trump didn’t mean what he kept saying and partially did last time, that’s just for the rubes.
Who’s the rube now?
Told each other Trump didn’t mean what he kept saying and partially did last time, that’s just for the rubes.
Who’s the rube now?
Tariffs Expose Wall Street's Misplaced Faith in Trump
Bankers and business leaders imagine a more reliable, less protectionist version of the president than the one that actually exists. Now they're finding out the hard way.
www.arcdigital.media
April 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
the *key* lesson of the 2008 Great Recession was that the FIRE industry had fallen for their own magical thinking.
Then we were told these institutions were "too big to [be allowed to] fail". so they, and their new flights of fancy, kept on going.
their failure of imagination is *precedented*
Then we were told these institutions were "too big to [be allowed to] fail". so they, and their new flights of fancy, kept on going.
their failure of imagination is *precedented*
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The Supreme Court saying deportation targets must have due process (as long as they have a lawyer ready to go with a habeas suit who quickly notices an unannounced disappearing by unmarked agents) is Jim Crow stuff.
You technically have rights, says the Court, you just won’t get to exercise them.
You technically have rights, says the Court, you just won’t get to exercise them.
April 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The Supreme Court saying deportation targets must have due process (as long as they have a lawyer ready to go with a habeas suit who quickly notices an unannounced disappearing by unmarked agents) is Jim Crow stuff.
You technically have rights, says the Court, you just won’t get to exercise them.
You technically have rights, says the Court, you just won’t get to exercise them.
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the social security website keeps crashing because of doge, but elon musk just got a new $5.9 billion govt contract that YOU paid for www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Elon Musk's fat new government contract will make your blood boil
Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s space company was recently handed a $5.9 billion contract subsidized by taxpayers, even as his so-called Department of Government Efficiency continues to take a ...
www.dailykos.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
the social security website keeps crashing because of doge, but elon musk just got a new $5.9 billion govt contract that YOU paid for www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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“Let them eat ticker tape.”
Trump Plans $92 Million Military Parade—Honoring Himself
Donald Trump is pulling straight from the dictator’s playbook.
newrepublic.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
“Let them eat ticker tape.”
Could you, you know, DO SOMETHING about it, ever? Just once? As a treat?
I agree the tarriffs are dumb. So what? That and $15 will buy me a cup of coffee in a month.
Be a leader, dude. There's a reason people are furious with you.
I agree the tarriffs are dumb. So what? That and $15 will buy me a cup of coffee in a month.
Be a leader, dude. There's a reason people are furious with you.
Trump's tariffs are one of the dumbest decisions he has ever made as president—and that’s saying something.
April 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Could you, you know, DO SOMETHING about it, ever? Just once? As a treat?
I agree the tarriffs are dumb. So what? That and $15 will buy me a cup of coffee in a month.
Be a leader, dude. There's a reason people are furious with you.
I agree the tarriffs are dumb. So what? That and $15 will buy me a cup of coffee in a month.
Be a leader, dude. There's a reason people are furious with you.
I am not an economics understander, but this tariff regime is insane, right?
April 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I am not an economics understander, but this tariff regime is insane, right?
I've been to countries where they go through your phone in the airport to suss out your 'sympathies' and send you home if they don't like what they see. It's not something you want.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump administration deports Ivy League doctor Rasha Alawieh despite court order
Brown Medicine doctor was detained at Boston’s Logan Airport last week after returning from a trip visiting family in Lebanon
www.independent.co.uk
March 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I've been to countries where they go through your phone in the airport to suss out your 'sympathies' and send you home if they don't like what they see. It's not something you want.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Jesus take the wheel (away from this dude) www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Rahm Emanuel Is Gearing Up to Run for President
The former Chicago mayor is already on the hustings, finding new ways to attack Trumpism from the center.
www.politico.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Jesus take the wheel (away from this dude) www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Pay attention to this one: www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
Short thread on what’s at stake in
60 colleges being targeted for title vi enforcement over antisemitism (hint: it’s not that they give a shit about Jews).
Short thread on what’s at stake in
60 colleges being targeted for title vi enforcement over antisemitism (hint: it’s not that they give a shit about Jews).
U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Sends Letters to 60 Universities Under Investigation for Antisemitic Discrimination and Harassment
The Office for Civil Rights today sent letters to 60 institutions of higher education warning them of potential enforcement actions if they do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil...
www.ed.gov
March 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Pay attention to this one: www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
Short thread on what’s at stake in
60 colleges being targeted for title vi enforcement over antisemitism (hint: it’s not that they give a shit about Jews).
Short thread on what’s at stake in
60 colleges being targeted for title vi enforcement over antisemitism (hint: it’s not that they give a shit about Jews).
Oh dear god, Gavin Newsom heard all that discourse about how there needs to be a liberal Joe Rogan, and he decided it should be *him*.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
Gavin Newsom is launching his own podcast — and inviting MAGA favorites
Newsom declined to name the half-dozen guests he said have privately agreed to come on with him. But he gave a big hint: ”Look at the lineup at CPAC.”
www.politico.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Oh dear god, Gavin Newsom heard all that discourse about how there needs to be a liberal Joe Rogan, and he decided it should be *him*.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
It's a little rich hearing a lecture on personal liberties from the guy who pioneered timing bathroom breaks.
February 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It's a little rich hearing a lecture on personal liberties from the guy who pioneered timing bathroom breaks.
This is what I mean when I say there isn't so much of an advantage for Meta to be the second or third big tech company to bow to Trumpism. They know in their hearts Zuck Isn't One Of Them, which wins no friends and makes new enemies.
www.platformer.news/ftc-censorsh...
www.platformer.news/ftc-censorsh...
How Meta's concessions to the right may have backfired
A new inquiry from the Federal Trade Commission suggests that apologizing for "censorship" may have only emboldened the company's conservative critics
www.platformer.news
February 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is what I mean when I say there isn't so much of an advantage for Meta to be the second or third big tech company to bow to Trumpism. They know in their hearts Zuck Isn't One Of Them, which wins no friends and makes new enemies.
www.platformer.news/ftc-censorsh...
www.platformer.news/ftc-censorsh...
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"what, us? collaborators? how dare you!
but think of the voters, tho"
but think of the voters, tho"
“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I strongly agree with Donald Trump,” said former Representative Steve Israel of New York, who headed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “Canada is largely left of center, and making it the 51st state means more Democrats”. STOP THIS.
Canada as the 51st state? Trump thinks it would be a boon to his legacy. But it would also be a boon to Democrats, who would gain a lot more voters. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...
February 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
"what, us? collaborators? how dare you!
but think of the voters, tho"
but think of the voters, tho"