@felixsalmon.com @emilypeck.bsky.social Internet privacy?To avoid scammers when I used Tinder I would Google the phone # of the women I'd match with. Some scammers use the same # a lot. When I googled one woman's number her whole life appeared: home and business addresses, social media, ECT.

@preetbharara.bsky.social #askpreet if ghilane Maxwell is a pardoned for all things associated with sex trafficking. Couldn't that help? Prosecutors? Could they not question her about what happened and she could no longer claim the 5th but they could still charge her with perjury?

Abigail Spanberger Thinks That Democrats Need to Listen More www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol... #politics #democrat #commonsense #bluecollar

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u... When people wonder why some of us are concerned let this be a really good example.

@npr.org I'm a little disappointed with some of the editorial decisions made in the recent episode of Throughline regarding the male Dr vs female midwives. While it's reasonable to assume sexism is at play here the episode glossed over the vast improvement in the childbirth mortality rate.

@emilypeck.bsky.social @felixsalmon.com speaking as someone with a degree in a blue collar job I have something to contribute to the chat about needing a degree. I was always told that as long as I had a degree I was fine. Also, everyone knew someone who had a job in something that had nothing...

@emilypeck.bsky.social you've spent too much time in NYC. the people of My Friends and Neighbors absolutely are the 1%. some have even more. I used to work around people like this and yes, some of them don't realize how rich they are because they're surrounded by people who are even richer

www.wsj.com/sports/baseb... #baseball #news #Bannedlist

www.wsj.com/economy/in-m... #trumprecession #stupid

Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/w... You can't make this shit up.

www.wsj.com/finance/curr... #corruption #trump #trumpfamily #trumpbusiness

David Brooks on Why the Democrats Are Losing to Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/o...

@marcsollinger.bsky.social they did it reactormag.com/heres-your-f...

Trump: "I would own this [Gaza]." Brett Baeir: "Would the Palestinians have a right to return [to Gaza]?" Trump: "No, they wouldn't." Trump plans on committing multiple, and unprecedented, war crimes.

@nickdekline.bsky.social welcome to the revolution

@preetbharara.bsky.social listened to you on The Journal today and an LBJ quote really sticks as to why the Democrats are having problems. "The difference between Liberals and cannibals is that cannibals eat only their enemies."

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Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found. More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022. (Published Jan. 2024) By @craigsilverman.bsky.social & Peter Elkind