New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Superb & eviscerating take on the situation at CBS by John Oliver and @lastweektonight.com. As I’ve noted, the new billionaire owners create a mirrortocracy, pretend it’s a meritocracy & hire a mediocrity to get there. But it is not about innovating & supporting journalism.
youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Most NCAA men’s basketball titles since 2006:

UConn: 4
Florida: 3
Kansas, Duke, Villanova, North Carolina: 2

One more "OH NO! DISASTER!" for the college basketball season
@sickoscbb.bsky.social @sickoscommittee.org

Jon Stewart on Trump’s 3rd Term Plans & Signalgate Lack of Accountability

youtu.be/U7fMSE0JgkM

Goldberg: "Hegseth is promising that US warplanes are taking off in 30 minutes to bomb enemy targets that we know are protected by anti-aircraft batteries. If that's not the most sensitive information, the most secret info in the world, I simply don't know what the meaning of 'classified' is."

🧑‍🌾 “post after post in the ag community social media channels of massive issues impacting U.S. farmers and the U.S. ag economy from Trump's DOGE efforts, tariff wars and the USAID shutdown…”
farmergeorgiewrites.substack.com/p/the-devast...

As a software engineer I can tell you: Musk's coders are _not_ improving systems at various govt agencies. Any such claims are lies to hide the real intent.

The best engineers take weeks even to understand complex systems; months to plan how to upgrade them; and years to do so without disruption.

Wow. The NYT reports that Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove coached Mayor Eric Adams' attorneys on what to argue in order to get the charges dismissed (namely, that the charges were interfering with the mayor's ability to cooperate with Trump's immigration crackdown): www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

This is grift in full sight

This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information.

This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Did not realize this address from Trudeau was going to be aimed at us

the tailoring of trade retaliation to hit red states hardest is honestly not a wrinkle i saw coming. certainly won't make nativism decline, but i get it.

"I have directed BC liquor sales to immediately stop buying American liquor from red states. Liquor store employees will be removing the most popular of these brands from government store shelves." -BC Premier David Eby

Feel free to search this one for “fist fight”

Hegseth's tattoos DO have ties to far-right groups, no matter how he tries to spin it. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

Sen. Jack Reed: "I do not believe you are qualified to meet the overwhelming demands of this job. We must acknowledge the concerning public reports... the totality of your own writings & alleged conduct would disqualify any service member form holding any leadership position ..."