i'm not an economist but if 900 people can afford to fund $3,000 checks to damn near everyone else in america and still be insanely fuckin rich afterwards maybe they have too much fuckin money

Congress could, and should, ban this. Impose the same rule nationwide as some states already have: if an incumbent doesn't file for reelection by the deadline, the window to file gets extended a week or two.

corey lewandowski and markwayne mullin have to bang now, that's the rule

replace all sentencing guidelines for all crimes with a term of being required to post on Threads

surprised landsman was able to make it to the floor to lick the boot after getting mercilessly chotined just yesterday

ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag

Story here:

finally, a booze investment opportunity befitting america's depravity economy

NEW: I'm hearing that Diageo has laid off its on-premise field team, the Diageo Hospitality Program. Two different sources, both former employees with current contacts at the liquor giant, estimate ~200 workers cut nationwide. Will update if/when Diageo responds to my inquiry.

"Elected as a union militant [...] O’Brien has spent the last two years shepherding the lambs of the American working class straight to the slaughter via his endorsements and promotions of some of the most reactionary, anti-labor politicians in the land."

I really don't think I should have to verify that I am human to look at the Cheesecake Factory menu online. Dogs and robots should be able to look at 57 types of cheesecakes too.

i looked up aimee rinehart on linkedin to get a better sense of what sort of person might invoke the borg to workers she is actively trying to deskill. her first, last, and only job as a f/t reporter was a 5mo stint at gannet in 1995. last journalism role at a news org (wsj) ended in 2003.

And your Hop-ocalypse Now from the latest @vinepair.com Hop Take 🤯: vinepair.com/articles/hop...

Last week, Anheuser-Busch InBev closed its $490-million deal for 85% of BeatBox, an 11.1%-ABV wine-based riot punch that counts Mark Cuban and Shaquille O’Neal among its investors. Street wine is so fucking back, bay-bee: www.fingers.email/p/the-gentri...

"It is easy to stand up at a campaign rally and yell 'FUCK Donald Trump!' It is much harder, and more meaningful, and requires more bravery, to defy the power of organized money. Don’t get distracted out here." — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

The mayor of Richmond doubles down on his unabashed AI boosterism with a litany of misleading claims, cliches, and insistence on its inevitability, literally stating that those who don’t “get on board” will “be left behind.” Unsurprisingly, his answer has gotten hammered with downvotes on r/rva.

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I rebuke Founder Mindset weed. That’s not weed that’s homework

*record scratch* *freeze frame* Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here. The answer is I'm so impressed with my own mediocre intellect that I didn't even bother looking up Isaac Chotiner before getting on the phone with him.

I wrote about the gentrification of "bum wine": www.fingers.email/p/the-gentri...

genuinely very confusing to see this charlatan go after soda and iced coffee while effectively giving alcohol a pass

"Another staffer said it is 'hard not to escape the feeling that the people hyping/guiding the decisions around these powerful tools exist in a totally different reality than the people who wake up every day and do the work of reporting.'"

Hey @atherton.bsky.social and @nslayton.bsky.social, you guys up for a joint reporting trip to Tampa in September?

"As of February 28, Edwards’ bio on Ars was changed to past tense, according to an archived version of the webpage. It now reads that Edwards 'was a reporter at Ars, where he covered artificial intelligence and technology history.'"

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

so, the news about Paramount and Warner Bros. is devastating—there's no sugarcoating that. but there are a lot more obstacles in the way than you might expect, and a long, grueling process ahead for Larry and David Ellison. my primer on what happens next, and why Daddy's money is no sure thing:

ripping lines in the bar bathroom and coming out looking like sam neill in event horizon

had a lot of fun talking about cocktail guys with the guys from guys (a podcast about guys)

“Oh yeah? Well could a mediocre thinker and communicator do… THIS?!” [publishes one of these articles, written by an llm of course]

[furiously smoking four cigarettes at once] I wrote about the SpaceX IPO www.theverge.com/tech/887899/...

Somebody was saying that watching establishment Democrats learn that saying obviously true things about foreign policy is popular is like watching a toddler take its first steps

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

not the most important thing going on rn by a wide margin and not something that is new information to me but nonetheless my mind keeps drifting back to the absolutely confounding idea of going on vacation to dubai

God left this place long ago

Fawn Weaver, co-founder of Uncle Nearest—which is currently in court-ordered receivership for +$100M in unpaid loans—responding to a question of whether it's better to "scale fast or scale sustainably: "I feel like it's irresponsible to say it, but fast... it's true, we break stuff as we go."

"The class of people telling us that government will step in to prevent the worst economic outcomes of our era is the same class of people who are working to prevent the government from doing so!" — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

say it with me, folks: good for them, but that would NEVER work here

funny how that works, huh?

Trump went from an obviously fake “No More Forever Wars” to “No! More Forever Wars” pretty fast

reading sloprehension [compound noun, coinage]: the skill of being able to suss out ai-generated copy using context and syntax clues

at least when twitter was the entire media's assignment editor, fake "trend" coverage would occasionally be unhinged enough to be interesting. now that it's larry ellison's tiktok we get synopses of hamburger helper videos

Embedded this afternoon's live broadcast with @kbernot.bsky.social @jessicainfante.bsky.social here, along with some notes on the Tilray x BrewDog deal:

Live discussing the Tilray x BrewDog deal with @jessicainfante.bsky.social and @kbernot.bsky.social: www.instagram.com/its.fingers/...

Mark Warner is into AIPAC for more than half a million bucks this election cycle alone: readsludge.com/2026/03/01/h...

What's $20 million between whiskey frenemies? www.fingers.email/p/what-s-20-...

et cetera

Fingers from 2/22/26: "For now, BrewDog remains a going concern. But given AlixPartners’ specialty [GM & Enron cleanup, Madoff recovery], the company’s ~200,000 'Equity Punks' and 1,400 workers should probably be concerned about where this is going."

As far as I know, there's no way for RPD to unilaterally renew these contracts without presenting them to City Council first. That has not happened. This headline appears to be framing Edwards' intention to renew as a de facto renewal, which the reporting within does not support.

RELEASE: Tilray Brands is acquiring BrewDog for just £33 million—almost two full orders of magnitude cheaper than its implied valuation when private-equity firm TSG Partners bought ~22% of the business in 2017. ir.tilray.com/news-release...