Electric aircraft developer Beta Technologies prepares for IPO theaircurrent.com/aircraft-dev... (via @elanhead.com & @jonostrower.com) #staycurrent

NEW: with just days left before EV tax credits expire, car dealers say they’re facing new hurdles from the IRS — implemented without warning or explanation. My latest for @marketplace.org www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

This is the whole ball game, gang.

There’s something so freeing about hitting that cancel subscription button

(Bloomberg) - US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once agreed to occupy two different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges that .. Trump has been using to try to oust .. Lisa Cook. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...

As both an occasional saxophone player and a person with close friends, I endorse this.

I do not know how to fix it, but I cannot say enough how much we in the news need to figure out how to handle the “flood the zone with shit” strategy.

I try not to do media criticism because we all make mistakes and there but for the grace of god go I. But it was really irresponsible for mainstream outlets to run with the "trans slogans engraved on the bullet" narrative, which seemed implausible from the jump.

NEW: Bitcoin ATMs are facilitating scams across the country. In Idaho, where there are no laws regulating the machines, I spoke to store clerks who have been stopping scams as a last line of defense. www.inc.com/sam-blum/cry...

I know a lot is happening, but— Trump Media announced ETFs explicitly tied to his politics yesterday. Trump owns 115M DJT shares and, as president, wields huge influence over the sectors these ETFs will target.

It’s the 2002 Minnesota Twins

So I just opened @nytimes.com and it showed me the homepage from Feb. 26, 2020. Very weird glitch. Also, these headlines feel so ancient.

It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

“From the vantage of 2025, a lot of it sounds surprisingly like the mocktail-lounge rock of Khruangbin.” 💀 defector.com/the-tragedy-...

You know your team’s gone to shit when mlb.com starts spinning up headlines like this

On February 21st, 2017, President Trump took a tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. This is from CBS News’ coverage of the visit:

Not breaking in the NYT — broken earlier by @thecity.nyc and although the Times acknowledges that fact, this article passes itself off otherwise as a reported piece, when it is from start to finish a largely verbatim (quote by quote) but uncredited cut and paste summary of The City’s report.

There's a federal program that's subsidized flights to small airports ever since airline deregulation in the late 70s. But if the Trump administration gets its way, funding could be throttle back significantly. My latest for @marketplace.org: www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

Fed minutes (before employment report): "A majority of participants judged the upside risk to inflation as the greater of these two risks, while several participants viewed the two risks as roughly balanced, and a couple of participants considered downside risk to employment the more salient risk."

Trump's approval is the lowest of his second term, according to our tracker with YouGov. He is roughly as unpopular as the same point in his first term. www.economist.com/interactive/...

you could easily imagine this sentence beginning with "Not now Lemon,"

Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

NEW: Republican Gov. Phil Scott has “politely declined” a federal request to deploy Vermont National Guard soldiers to Washington, D.C. as part of President Donald Trump’s controversial directive to tamp down on crime.

Kristi Noem, who wore a $50,000 Rolex for photos at El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison, is living in a waterfront home on the government dime wapo.st/4mike5W

The Roaring Twenties, then and now

Is it really head-scratching tho? finance.yahoo.com/news/ppi-inf...

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The goalposts, they're moving. www.inc.com/sam-blum/sam...

Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.

#ICYMI: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

yesterday @davidjroth.bsky.social used the phrase “their brains were defeated by their phones” and i genuinely think we’ve lost like meaningful swaths of some generations to this

Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.

I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)

They’re calling the last 24 hours “the great dismantling of various institutions relevant to Henry Epp’s life” (BLS, CPB, the Minnesota Twins)

Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.

* Trump Says He’ll Fire Labor Statistics Head After Weak Jobs Data 🤡 @bloomberg.com

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations" cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

Are there any players left on the Minnesota Twins

NEW: A federal appeals court appeared sharply skeptical of President Trump's authority to impose sweeping tariffs based on his emergency economics power. w/ @tradereporter www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Oral arguments are well under way, and while I am not a lawyer, the judges have very harshly questioned the Justice Department -- and its claims to broad presidential tariff powers under the law

President Trump remarked last weekend that “we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States,” and cuts to wind energy tax credits make the statement more tangible. As energy demand grows, though, we may see a boost in investment anyway.

As Zeldin speaks, the heat index at the bottom of the screen is showing parts of the country hitting feels-like temperatures of 121 degrees. Extreme heat is a leading cause of death from climate change, a toll that will increase as CO2 levels rise.

The Trump administration has effectively eliminated two rules designed to promote cleaner cars. Now, as the EPA suggests not considering carbon dioxide to be pollution, the last is poised to fall.

i know i am shouting into the wind here, but google search has gone so precipitously downhill. it is unreal. every search is just an endless sea of ads and ai slop. it has devolved into the very thing that google was supposed to solve for.

For some small business and restaurant owners, turning a profit is already an uphill battle. But when construction and road closures limit access, a tough situation can become much more daunting.

Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.