new nightmare death premonition just dropped

CIA to name veteran Middle East case officer as head of covert operations https://www.ft.com/content/aa3f7915-8288-4c9e-a545-beb8c80af527

“You have a trade deficit with your hair stylist, does that mean you need to learn to cut your own hair?” -Comment on CNBC moments ago

A real estate developer, a bond broker, and a hedge fund speculator walked into a bar...

Reid Hoffman, the billionaire, major Democratic Party donor, and co-founder of LinkedIn, responds to Elon Musk. Musk has relentlessly attacked Hoffman for many months.

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.” WOW. Planes in air must turn around. A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.

An Indian biopic tells the story of Nasir Shaikh, whose no-budget, all-heart productions gave his home city of Malegaon a film industry of its own.

is that bad?

The Economic Policy Uncertainty index has risen to a level surpassed only during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The recent spike “certainly increases the probability of a recession,” one of the economists who developed the measure said.

As far as I can tell, Khalil has still not been charged & his attorney/family still don’t know where he is. Any Jew who thinks this is going to start and stop with a few Palestinian activists is fooling themselves. Our community should not be used as an excuse to upend democracy & the rule of law.

The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.

This was definitely the lede. @politico.com 🇺🇸 www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

regret to inform everyone this is a real guy who could be pope

Dismantling the death penalty is a responsibility that belongs to all of us. Inspiring to see how a group of nuns are trying to save women on death row in Texas: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

American Psycho sequel just dropped

So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

Daily reminder with these chodes: Every accusation is a confession (and a concession).

It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything

Silicon Valley has long since stopped being interesting or value creating for the world The days of revolution by giants among men are gone - the days of grift by incels are upon us Tragedy is that their greed now has extended beyond monetizing clicks to destroying lives

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

"Citizenship by birth is an unequivocal Constitutional right. It is one of the precious principles that makes the United States the great nation that it is. The President cannot change, limit, or qualify this Constitutional right via an executive order." Full ruling here buff.ly/42Qibzr

Their response to "he's violating the Constitution" is really "but bro is so sick at coding." US rule of law in shambles. Tech ideology is really that kind of caricature of itself.

Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

Indians deported by Trump: Stop trading dignity for comfort indianexpress.com/article/opin...

A US military plane carrying illegal Indian immigrants landed in India's northern city of Amritsar, a Reuters witness said, deporting an unspecified number of people as part of President Donald Trump's immigration agenda reut.rs/410JbKV

The Aga Khan, known for his triumphs in horse racing, dazzling wealth and development work around the world, has died in Lisbon at the age of 88, according to the Aga Khan Development Network on X reut.rs/3CFdXzQ

NY Times, Feb. 11, 1933.

This is awesome. From a custom knife forging shop in Edom, Texas.

WALL STREET: The tariffs are just a negotiating strategy. TRUMP: No, I’m imposing tariffs! WHITE HOUSE SOURCES: It’s a protracted negotiation. TRUMP: Imposing them tomorrow! MAGA WHISPERERS: This is just to coerce— TRUMP: Attica!! ATTICA!!!

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.

This goes hard

In light of all the news this week I decided to stay in tonight and watch something upbeat

"The US should use military force to obtain new territory like Greenland and the Panama Canal" Disagree: 71% Agree: 9% Ipsos / Jan 21, 2025 / n=1077

If you want to see the opposite of “obeying in advance,” here it is. Remarkable bravery by Reverend Budde.

The lawyers get to work: Trump sued over DOGE

There’s a difference between being *realistic* about how the federal courts, including #SCOTUS, are going to respond to the abuses of the second Trump administration and being *nihilistic.* I certainly don’t think courts will block all that they should. But they’ll block more than you might expect.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com: Kyle MacLachlan writes of his longtime collaborator, the late David Lynch: “David didn’t fully trust words because they pinned the idea in place. They were a one-way channel that didn’t allow for the receiver. And he was all about the receiver.”

This is a beautiful tribute.

Most folks I talked to tonight from the Mark/Sheryl Facebook era are shocked but not surprised by his blaming her, since he did it before. Several expected her to stay silent again, “quietly take credit for being the good cop … ‘See! I'm getting blamed, but that's proof I did something.’” Sigh.

Way I see it, Trump is saying to China: you move on Taiwan and we will cut off every single trade route you have to the West Whether it's Malacca Straits or the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal or even the Northwest Passage over the melting Arctic, you'll have no way to keep your export economy going

History is obvi not this person’s strong suit. This is a taste of the faux expertise on a range of topics many of us covering tech have had to endure from these clowns. I once got lectured by a Google 22 year old coder dude on what it’s like to be pregnant when I was actually pregnant.