When you’ve lost *checks notes* Josh Barro.

NEW — Iran had already presented a 10-point plan. Then Trump wakes up today and threatens to blow up Iran's "whole civilization" if they don't bend. And then, just an hour before his deadline, he announces a ceasefire, citing Iran's "workable" 10-point plan.

philadelphia judge gritty will preside

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

the fundamental reason some democrats are doing this is because it's easier to say "the federal government is screwing you" than it is to say "corporations are screwing you" when you've gotta go and beg those corporations for campaign $$$$ the next day.

my large son has no thoughts but chaos

The Economist is concerned about saint inflation.

hot new policy idea? this is literally just warmed over third way bullshit straight out of the playbook of democrats that bootlicked for reagan

Lizzie’s already in a box, what are we talkin— Oh, got it

One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

hearing RJ narrate the new Sabres playoff video hit me in every conceivable feel

Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.

What an utterly absurd, gutless defense.

big if true: according to the federal budget proposal, the Laborers union is woke

it'll be a catastrophic failure morally and politically if Democrats don't oppose every shred of new defense spending, and I wish they could be trusted to do it

very interesting how the media is seemingly assisting the Trump administration’s desperate attempts to avoid the phrase “shot down” when talking about the A-10 that went down

extremely yes

Tentative agreement reached! ✊️🎉 CBS News 24/7 members secured a new three-year collective bargaining agreement with CBS/Paramount management Tuesday. Details to come following ratification!

you do not, in fact, gotta hand it to them

I'm not sure that this holds together, because it essentially presents as an alternative that the United States is consistently acting contrary to its national interest for inexplicable reasons (almost always explained by "the Israel lobby.")

two things true at the same time: NATO is not good and is an expression of western geopolitical dominance blowing up NATO will make the world more dangerous

sure why not www.dallasnews.com/business/loc...

Rookie numbers

extremely proud of the phrase "spiritual Trudeaus" to describe wankish, performatively liberal upper middle class nepo babies

ok, i'm still not convinced it's not a bit by @bencollins.bsky.social, but regardless: i've written up a fun little newsletter on what an absurd grift this actually is. it'll drop tomorrow at 9:00 AM, so if you want to get it, subscribe. thehousered.substack.com/subscribe

you cannot convince me this is a real publication and not a bit by @bencollins.bsky.social www.uppermiddle.news

crowdsourcing something: good visualizations on deindustrialization in pennsylvania, especially western pennsylvania

it’s amazing that all of the most seemingly hyperbolic predictions about the Bush administration’s behavior are absolutely happening under the Trump administration I guess we were only off on timeline not substance

Leaving aside the blow this would be to our democracy & civil society, the collapse of USPS would likely destroy the US economy & US businesses. No regular business can afford to double their shipping expenditures by using a private service. It won’t happen. They’ll all just go out of business.

It is amazing to watch the supercharging of the South's extractive economic model, destroying education for its own residents in order to beg for out-of-state wealth that will ultimately leave behind almost no benefits. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/suicidal-b...

it should be repeated over and over that UPS is laying off tens of thousands of Teamsters, but O'Brien's prioritizing simping for Markwayne Mullin and doing his weirdass Joe Rogan knockoff podcast

how many democrats are gonna go

Powell: "The thing a good number of people on the committee are concerned about is very very low level of job creation. If you adjust the trend job creation over the past 6 months for what we think is overstatement due to overcounting, effectively there is 0 net job creation in the private sector"

i don’t particularly want to dwell on this horrible topic, but i recommend reading Mel and considering that i alone can rattle off six people off the top of my head that have done horrific shit and are still in their positions or otherwise welcome in labor spaces *right now*

huh really www.nbcnews.com/video/mullin...

ten minutes of eavesdropping on a business meeting at a coffee shop is enough to tell me that i wouldn't survive in corporate work

I wrote about this. The TLDR is: the Left has a decades-long abuse problem and without pushing for and achieving a true intersectional movement, this type of shit is going to continue. Let's figure this shit out, for Pete's sake

The SAVE America Act would create unnecessary barriers to register to vote and dramatically restrict which citizens vote. The Senate must reject this dangerous legislation.

very funny to see an athlete say jesus christ is the reason they were able to beat america

a democrat just won 42% in a PA state house seat that Trump won by over 70%.

i’m assembling a very confusing team

icymi: i did a dive on Teamsters FEC filings that, among other things, lends credence to the idea that the international union is outpacing local unions in their rightward swing. thehousered.substack.com/p/campaign-f...

Worth note: after SOB squashed an endorsement of Harris at the international, Teamsters JCs and locals representing an overwhelming majority of membership endorsed within days. The source of the rot is pretty obvious. Great deep dive in the first post of this thread. Highly recommend.

The Teamsters PAC has also given a fair amount of money to Mullin, so I guess we know who won that exchange.

it doesn't seem too wild to suggest that stuff like graphics rendering is one of the clearest and nearest term areas for actual profit from generative AI if DLSS 5 is crashing and burning this badly how much does that say about AI's actual market potential

lfgggg

god I love this guy

one final note: there are arguments to be made that a fuller picture would include spending by PACs maintained by local unions. a few reasons I didn't do that.

"we're heading toward a world where players and tech companies have the final say in what videogames look like, not their creators." Hot damn this completely sucks.

one of the things I enjoy most about this kind of writing is that the bullshit smartass snarky asides that i'm thinking can be more faithfully rendered for you, the humble reader,,,