Nobody thinks through the reality of 400 troops with a few vehicles but no logistical, intel, or law enforcement support on the ground. Now ask them to do something....exactly WHAT in a city of several million? Put on a show? Hide from mobs? They did fuck all in DC with help.This would be ROFLMAO

Levine is funny. 😏 @matt-levine.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com $AMD www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

UBS looks at “the cracks forming in US credit markets”: “.. Fundamentals are deteriorating, especially in IG corporates. Balance sheet health for IG firms has dropped to the 27th percentile—its weakest in five years .. the rise in lower-quality leveraged loan issuance signals overheating risks.” 👀

> @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

TUDOR JONES: “If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably not a chicken.” @cnbc.com

“.. told federal prosecutors investigating James Comey that he was unable to uncover evidence that would support false statements or obstruction charges against the former FBI director ..” abcnews.go.com/US/special-c...

It's time to say: What. An. Idiot. I am being polite.

FAFO Trump is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul of the federal safety net for poor, older and disabled people that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits.

Buh-Buh-bye.......(open link) wapo.st/42pvO7C

Late night comedy dying on its own.... "The annual production cost of “The Late Show” — salaries, studio, travel, band, etc. — is estimated around $100 million, while losses have been reported at $40 million or more. Meanwhile, the broader economics of late night have /1

This will be a great age to be a curmudgeon and just shit all over these new "products" since we already crap on most of what Hollywood and broadcast networks produce anyway. For me, it's just a new level of garbage to ignore. Just like "smart glasses" are as irrelevant as earbuds. Not my problem.

It really feels like the way forward for journalists is forming cooperatives. There are many good examples!

> @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Lowest ISM Services headline since May. New orders: lowest since July. @cnbc.com

“.. first time since May 2020.” 🇺🇸 > @weisenthal.bsky.social #ISM

“Stagflationary ..” Prices move up. New orders move down. 🇺🇸

They get away with it for years or decades because they are holy, righteous, spiritual, sacred, etc. Any other ideology that engendered this much violence and abuse over two millennia would be utterly shunned in society. But not these. Full of shit up to their eyebrows in so many, many ways.

WTF. NOT HARD TO FIGURE OUT. A dangerous racial hierarchy existed in practice and law for centuries. MASSIVE amounts of evidence. So laws changed and policies tried to make up some of a HUGE, GAPING deficit, socially and economically. End those policies and you get back to where you started.

The ultimate aim of all AI deployments once they get the current human employees to work out the kinks and integrate AI fully into the organization's workflow. "If AI can do it, why do we need to....?" I'm glad I'm counting a few years until I choose to retire (or scale back work more likely).

Reason #567 not to use cash or coins nowadays. I can't remember the last time I paid cash for anything. If someone gives me a Trump coin, it's going to the first homeless person I see. At least they won't care about the politics. This is Mickey Mouse, Third Word crap.

"Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, the value of America’s stock market has risen by $21 trillion. Michael Cembalest of JPMorgan wrote that since that time, AI-related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth and 90% of capital spending growth." wapo.st/4nupFzr

Anyone trying to start a religion today based on actual love and forgiveness would never get any attention. The "believers" who tout the Bible AND a pile of hatreds for others are just full of shit up to their eyebrows.

Me, to my students on Wednesday: “if history is any guide, the party out-of-power will be blamed for the shutdown. Trump’s comms team would have to be phenomenally untalented to negate this advantage.” Trump’s comms team:

Also at that point, NYC actually *was* a dangerous place where you’d get mugged on the subway. Nostalgia!

FYI

The group behind the statue says a second permit, to reinstall the piece after Wednesday's removal, was revoked without explanation. It has since posted free 3D printable copies of the statue online.

Integrity and corporate media don't mix. Bye. “Several journalists resigned this week from three newspapers in Alaska after the publications’ corporate owner made significant edits to an article about Charlie Kirk’s death, appearing to yield to pressure from a Republican state lawmaker."

Republican crash and burn in VA. No one is that stupid twice in a row. "Spanberger leads Republican Earle-Sears by double digits, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll, picking up strong support from independent voters as well as those who are worried about the state’s job market."

“The concept of a shutdown is essentially unheard-of in much of the rest of the world. In most forms of democratic government, a failure to keep the government functioning would lead to the establishment of a new government.”

“The health insurance subsidies at the center of the U.S. government shutdown fight disproportionately benefit areas of the country represented by Republican lawmakers, posing a potential vulnerability for Donald Trump’s party in next year’s midterm congressional elections,” Bloomberg reports. /1

No one will come out and say it, but we can hope and have some confidence that this is true.

Even without the official jobs data, “private-sector indicators out in recent days pointed to sluggish hiring ..” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Big Tech "says they don't care whether the investment has any return, because they're in a race. Surely that in itself is a red flag...two major issues: increased leverage to fund costly AI infrastructure and few opportunities to make money once that infrastructure is built and paid for with debt."

Last gasp of a nothing burger headed out the door. Good riddance. Every now and then, VA elects a Republican governor to remind us how the majority doesn't buy Trumpy crap like this. Then we elect someone decent again for a few terms. I'd say 8-12 years minimum before Reps are back in Richmond.

Welcome to our new and improved doctor’s office! If you’ll just scan this QR code, access our poorly designed website and repeatedly enter the information we already have on file as the site crashes, we’ll be with you in twice the time it used to take.

“.. another setback for the Cybertruck, which has sold poorly and been recalled eight times since last year.” @nytimes.com $TSLA www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/b...

In the fall of 1980, I jumped on a plane to go to college and never lived in Texas apart from vacation breaks ever again. Dallas was full of self-righteous jokers like this, busy fucking girls and boys in their plus offices once they were done preaching FAMILY VALUES to everyone. Fuck them all.

Christianity as a power-seeking identity badge as opposed to living out Jesus Christ's teachings is about as old as the church itself. Fitting it into MAGA is the latest twist in a 1600-year-old story. Plenty of evidence throughout that timeline.

At this point, it hardly bears mentioning that Republicans exclusively talk about authoritarian dictators in idyllic terms, as people worth emulating.

The thing about it that is very "American Protestant" is actually the understanding of Catholicism on display in the "reasons" for becoming Catholic: unchanging power and authority, correct dogmatic judgments, magical thinking toward the sacraments, dominating cultures and people.

It doesn't explain why, but regarding the phenomonon

TENNESSEAN: UT economic survey found 75% of business leaders reporting negative impacts from Trump’s tariff taxes. Half of respondents said they are passing the costs onto customers. www.tennessean.com/story/money/...

One of the projects that Russ Vought's cuts are reportedly targeting is the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub. Turns out this project spans Oregon, Washington State, and MONTANA. The GOP governor of Montana has hailed it for creating "good paying Montana jobs." newrepublic.com/article/2012...

Trump and his lieutenants are taking sadistic glee in slashing projects in blue states. Gosh, how exciting! Once again, the invincible President Trump is totally owning his enemies! Guess they’ve forgotten that their supporters live in them too. trib.al/O2bVWKs

Another major player in American life that should be trusted even less than before. I won't shift from the Android universe for a lot of reasons, but when Google says, "Try this, trust us!" my answer will be... NFW

Chilling to read. Soon, there will be no experts left inside the government to push back. "Ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...