I don't even know what funds they can pull from to do this, but this deal will be a massive steaming turd. They'll burn through the $500M in a quarter and still have no viable path forward as a business, with the balance sheets of their potential dance partners continuing to deteriorate. Idiocy.

they are calling it the perfect summary of the "keep men out of women's sports" movement

My hometown of Nashville -- a blue city which went about two-thirds for Harris-Walz in 2024 -- was gerrymandered by the TN GOP into three different districts all represented by Republicans now, so please get in line to complain about how unfair this all is, Virginia Republicans

More than that, the FBI paid tons of informants who infiltrated the Klan. For one famous example, Gary Thomas Rowe was a paid FBI informant who was present at the murder of Viola Liuzzo. But there were so many more. By one estimate, in 1965 a full 15% of the Mississippi KKK were paid informants.

They think you're stupid.

There's no legal basis for these boat strikes, and US officials involved in them should be prosecuted for attempted murder and murder. The OLC memo green-lighting the strikes is still secret, but there's nothing it could say that would make these strikes lawful. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

My DARS (Destruction Above Replacement Secretary) model ranks Pete Hegseth as the 6th worst cabinet member of all time. And I tell you the best artisanal gins to drink before noon. All that and more in the next Silver Bulletin.

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

These two editorials by the Washington Post expose how the Republican Party and Democratic Party are held to completely different standards by the media. Texas gerrymander: “Not a threat to democracy.” Virginia gerrymander: “Power grab by Democrats.”

it's cool that this is literally just 100% Trump's fault

prisoner’s dilemma is usually thought of as “single shot”. Axelrod studied multi-round tit for tat. He found we should start with good faith coordination, but if our partner “defects” and does things to hurt us we should quickly retaliate. My vote in VA to redistrict was a retaliation.

You can’t do that to rural voters! What are they, black people? bsky.app/profile/coll...

A lot about the world is very heavy right now but if a college football podcast that got jettisoned by Vox during the pandemic for not having a marketable audience can raise this much money for refugees in Atlanta in two days then just think of all the stuff we can all do together

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

With the result in Virginia, here's what we know about how mid-decade redistricting has shifted the landscape. Across the 7 states with new maps: —11 districts have shifted toward Democrats; —9 districts have shifted toward the GOP.

It appears that Anthropic has removed Claude Code from its $20-a-month pro subscription based on its pricing page. Anyone able to confirm who has a $20 plan? claude.com/pricing

Perfect that they scheduled it during Happy Hour.

Dang, we really should have passed some legislation intended to create a domestic supply chain for these parts & materials! [finger to ear] Dang, we really shouldn't have repealed the legislation we passed intended to create a domestic supply chain for these parts & materials!

⚠️ During the Iran War, the US military has used: • At least 45% of its Precision Strike Missiles • At least half of its THAAD missiles • Almost 50% of its Patriot air defense interceptor missiles This has created “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in future conflict.

the surveillance aspects of this are also stunning

I was a lifelong liberal Democrat. Then I learned that Alan Dershowitz was leaving the party to become a Republican.

Economists discover something every worker knows.

He's an antivaxxer as part of an antivaxx administration that actively rejects public health as a serious notion

this, like their action against media matters, is the true weaponization of govt versus ideological enemies.

Ohhhh yeah, there’s so many of these. Gladwell, the goat, igonvalue Philip morris shill; the entire-ass TED ecosystem. It’s all the same trick. Flatter the self-important dinner party guest star wannabe. Find the people who feel like they need the boost, and flatter them. That’s it, easy peasy

Forbes has long been a joke (who wants to tell Mika?) but this is below even my low expectations for it. Thoughtless greed. In Article About Horrific Shooting That Killed Eight Children, Forbes Lets Readers Place Bets About Gun Control futurism.com/future-socie...

More context: bsky.app/profile/lium...

This is excellent and it brings up something I am noticing, especially amongst Xennial men: AI overuse*. It's like they are half drunk and are mad I won't drink the magic Kool-aid. It's cooking their brains and they are clueless. (*all AI use is bad, I am referring here to them using it nonstop)

Yeah I don’t think people are gravitating towards the pope out of their deep commitment to Villanova alumni, Donald Trump is very unpopular and being seen opposing him on moral terms is a sure path to political and cultural relevance.

I noted the day of the SCOTUS decision that JB Pritzker IMMEDIATELY moved to make this point, by demanding a refund for IL. And State refunds may be the best way to politicize how Trump created the worst of all worlds. But Elizabeth Warren is, predictably, focused on it as well.

Don’t need great hackers when users are allowed to do dumb shit

The press is intent on whitewashing Republican agency out of everything.

I'll never let my durg drive....he can't reach the pedals. #Ashington

You will never guess why... www.wsj.com/opinion/alan...

A sense of shame in our political leaders.

Flyers win! To hell with the dirty ass Pens who can’t even score a goal.

Republicans may lose both Congress and the White House in 2028. But if they can cause a long and deep economic downturn, they are likely to return to power in 2030 and 2032.

Just call the fucking game. The Pens aren’t scoring 3 in 19 seconds on the PK.

Only because I saw it in a newsletter this morning, not targeted at anyone, but: If you rely on a backup tool to back up folders that are already protected by existing sync processes (for example iCloud, Git, Dropbox), and get upset because those folders are ignored…

That’s too much sliding Ivanka

A lot of loser energy filling out these hideous jerseys

Love how the Pens decide to just start being dirty because they can’t win a game.

The devil went down to Georgia He was lookin' for a soul to steal He was in a bind 'cause he was way behind And he was willin' to make a deal But the people of the peach state had already seen his lame, tired act so they wouldn’t even go and listen to his pathetic, insipid, heretical lies

horseshoe theory is real. leftists almost got kat abughazaleh elected into congress and now it comes out that her boyfriend owns infowars…

Friendly neighborhood financial markets knower here to remind everyone that index futures are trading at 8:30a ET, and in fact trade 23/5 from 6:00p ET to 5:00p ET. Large, liquid stocks trade extensively in pre-market/after hours ~2h before/after regular hours. “The market” is not 9:30a and 4:00p.

something, something, I wrote about economic viability of any of this in January.