again, staying completely silent on the actual merits of ai, the initial ai boosters basically campaigned on "this will eliminate your job, forever, and make me personally rich." it should not surprise *anyone* that this provoked a backlash.

it also seems like he straight up didn’t disclose 4Q 2025?

Perennial

lmfao was this "intelligence" generated from the NSC or did axios just completely make it up themselves, you be the judge

Can we stop for a moment and think about what the stated purpose of DOGE was and then look at this price tag for Trump’s vanity ballroom All of these people need to be bankrupt and incarcerated ASAP, there is no lesser just outcome

Gerontocracy is how I still occasionally see people talk about AOC being too "young" and "inexperienced" for a presidential run despite the fact that in 2028 she will be 39 and have spent a quarter of that life as a US congressional member sitting on 5 different oversight and finance committees.

Trying to have patience with the extremely aggressive and incoherent leftist coded people in my replies, because I remember what I was like when I was 19

Never change Bluesky. Describing things is endorsing them! Always yell at people who dare to talk about things you feel strongly about

Melania Trump infesting the White House with bees is the funniest thing no one's talking about right now #Bees #WhiteHouse

They’re not sending their best

I maintain that this man's entire existence is elaborate performance art to call attention to the elite impunity problem in this country in the most garish way and it's still not working

Honestly, I think you could make a really good Homeric adaptation was that just super stripped-back and bare-bones, and really tried to lean into what we know about Mycenaean Greek culture and history instead of being about The Classical Canon™ or Western Civilization™ or The Nature of Humanity™.

my eternal Last Jedi problem “no, I don’t like that movie. wait, shit! not like that, those dipshits are wrong, I have other reasons”

please remember all of us who will dislike Nolan's Odyssey for non-chud reasons.

This seems very obviously true when you realize that one of the defining features of most millennials is that their 20s overlapped with the Great Financial Crisis

yeah I think AOC will face much less opposition than Bernie did from the party establishment if she runs precisely because she's a lot better at making friends with them I know a lot of folks count that as a downside but it's going to be tremendously helpful if she wins (see: Zohran and Hochul)

Just as our forefathers intended

I do not understand people’s willingness to go along with bold claims backed by literally nothing. The burden of proof is on the person making the affirmative claim! If I said “Ted Cruz eats children” it would be on me to prove it, not you to prove a negative. Even if it feels true!

this wapo push alert is why what Polis is doing is so incredibly damaging above and beyond, you know, granting clemency to a criminal who tried to overturn an election Polis - an unpopular term limited tech bro with his brain cooked by group chats - taints the entire party with his bullshit

Art of the Deal (Parroting back whatever talking points the last foreign authoritarian leader said to you after winning no concessions)

Jared Polis should take her place if he feels so strongly about it. What a fucking tool

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

this should end his career

The only non psychotic answer here is “everybody should be able to have the family size they desire” and that very much means: -Affordable housing -Childcare -Generous parental leave -Healthy work-life balance That’s the solution. It’s obvious! Guess who isn’t interested in any of that?

I think parents getting 400 free diapers for a newborn is a good thing.

It’s truly bizarre that our president has gotten away with brazenly lying about his height for so long

Cannot emphasize enough that this shit is mostly fake www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... Organized retail theft is real, but is wildly different than how the media portrays it and basically has zero impact on consumers. It’s a rounding error to companies. Guess even that matters more than privacy.

Glonzo’d too close to the sun I’m afraid. Why do people feel the need to position themselves as experts when they aren’t? Blue wave grifters drive me fucking insane

you've got to respect this. jim crow's on its way back and black democrats have decided to trust their colleagues enough that they're going to fucking take one for the team once again. we gotta make it worth it.

This is awful. Jesus. These funds have saved people from getting evicted, fired, and losing custody of their kids. (Also, just to be clear, it doesn’t criminalize the funds’ existence, but it makes them subject to federal insurance regulations, which will effectively kill many of them.)

As someone pointed out to me offline, this is a really funny typo in Alito’s mifepristone dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Since Jim Costa, Adam Gray, and George Whitesides are on this list, I'm just going to leave this here

This is the graf where my blood pressure peaked

This has been such a persistent issue with the @nytimes.com in particular, and criticized so often, that you really can't see it as an oversight anymore, but as a deliberate policy of contempt towards other media outlets.

Huh the deal where it seemed like Apple had completely rolled OpenAI turns out to have been Apple completely rolling OpenAI, every day a new surprise

almost flawless victory for us in the Prices gang

This is gonna be THE main cause of US retail politics, into the foreseeable future. You will have to resist the urge to slot this into your usual uhhh basket of topics, it doesn't map that easily. Also, just blithely repeating economists won't help either. Groceries in the US are complex!

WIC used to have bipartisan support because even Republicans said "Well of course we want to make sure pregnant women and babies have enough to eat, we're not monsters," but now they say "Screw those freeloading babies, we've got a gold-plated ballroom to build"

Is market rate housing the only need? Of course not, we still need affordable multi-family housing and subsidies. But building enough market rate housing helps relieve many of the pressures of “gentrification” that is so repellant to the NIMBY left

Louder for the “left” NIMBYs in the back “This shift is driven by a surge in supply. More inventory is still on the way, with peak units expected to deliver by the end of (the second quarter).”

Drizz as DDIR/FBI and make some blue state AG DIR/FBI

I frequently criticize “politics as fandom” but there’s no better example than people willing to risk the house majority needed to stop fascism because they think that people on death’s door “deserve” a seat

in woke 2, as part of the re-reconstructioning, the DOJ is going to have to hire an entire battalion of white collar prosecutors who are more afraid of seeking too lenient punishment for insider trading than they are of seeking maximum 20 year federal sentences

The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion

I cannot fathom a person on this planet whose opinion matters less on this subject

Yeah if any Democrat cost the party seats this year it's Andrew Cuomo, who put conservatives on NY's top court that struck down an attempted D gerrymander in 2022

This may be unethical but I think you could do great psychic damage to these people by creating a meme that the upper crust white southern accent is effeminate

A rare photograph of Ronald Reagan getting paddled by his Tau Kappa Epsilon frat bros at Eureka college in the early 30s.