Will the "missing" October jobs and inflation numbers be the cause of the next White House-Federal Reserve battle?

It's 2:40AM. Do you know where your food delivery is?

Got in under the wire 😎

I'm in Atlanta and I have to say...Gyatt!

So Venezuela was a PsyOp to lure Nigeria into a false sense of complacency?

Could local or state police arrest ICE for excessive use of force and brandishing? #ICE #Police #LawEnforcement #Crime

Free idea for the residents of Elm Street: get blackout drunk every night! You won’t dream about a thing.

They're not confessing. They're bragging.

This is disgusting racism and White supremacy truly worthy of the "Gilded Age"

Freedom of speech

Good to know she keeps her women's advocacy separate from her ivermectin and MAGA hustles... CC @katjathieme.bsky.social

This infuriates me. While breast cancer is much more rare among men, they DO get it. I have a friend who's a male breast cancer survivor. Making people starve/die bc political ideology is what fascists do. #BreastCancerAwareness

Jake Tapper going soft on Katie Miller and hard on any Democrat tells you everything you need to know about the "liberal" media.

Dutch voters appear to have rejected far-right leader Geert Wilders in favour of a centrist party, exit poll suggests. With far-right parties topping the polls in Britain, France, and Germany, the Dutch election was seen as a bellwether of the strength of the far right in Europe u.afp.com/Secv

All eyes on El-Fasher? Anyone?

Wonderful

The problem with how the left uses "Zionism" is that there is no form, no matter how weak, which it will tolerate. By comparison, it embraces the worst forms of Palestinian nationalism. Palestine is also the only nation with a "right" to a state, apparently.

This is, unironically, a crime against humanity

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Update: the Pod Save America guys are trying to find a senate seat for him

Been saying this for months, no one is ready for Blackhawk Down 2: FPV edition or a Beslan-style hostage crisis at a resort full of Americans.

Analysis of references between 1990 to 2024 shows that there is a decline in book referencing (52% to 28%) in polsci journals 😮 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

90% of being a good candidate is being able to chit chat without people thinking you're a malignant creep. 90% of being a good campaign manager is making the candidate keep doing that even when they're sick of it.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

As usual for Jack Watling, this is a fabulously data & evidence-rich paper on what the Ukrainian battlefield looks like today. A pivotal role for drones & ground robots—but also for tanks, armour & artillery, each coming into its own at different moments in an assault www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

Trump's ballroom funded by America's biggest companies and wealthy individuals reut.rs/4oU7hR1

Jason Bateman is a good actor, and a much better actor than he is a director...

I'm curious if international institutions like the IMF, to say nothing of US banks, feel compelled by Trump to overestimate real GDP growth estimates for the US. Does the IMF really think that the US will outperform other advanced economies despite all of its anti-growth policies?

I'm not sure that will be effective electorally or practically. What Democrats need is for the military vote to continue to be negatively polarized against the Republican Party, whether due to murder on the high seas, National Guard misuse, or majoritarianism. CC @dburbach.bsky.social

"pearl clutching"! - JD Vance, author of Nazi Elegy

Men, we are surrounded by the enemy. We have the greatest opportunity ever presented an army. We can attack in any direction! www.facebook.com/share/r/15XW...

So Ellen Greenberg's family is unhappy. Concern about a rush to depict a murder as a suicide clouded Josh Shapiro's chance for VP nomination in 2024. So was it suicide the whole time?

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I don't know how anyone can listen to Benny Johnson. I suspect his listeners are bots. At least Alex Jones made me laugh when he argued with Piers Morgan.

The insistence on caution and process by Joe Biden and Merrick Garland make them seem like Ned Stark to Trump's Joffrey and Bondi's Cersei.

Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to swiftly remove Peru's first female president shortly after midnight, marking yet another leadership shake-up in a nation rocked by violence and political turmoil. n.pr/4ogl4kl

This matches exactly what I heard from every company at DSEI. Companies won't build anything unless you pay them, funnily enough.

It's the end of the Conservative party, but the moment has been prepared for

I’ll be on Markus Lanz’s show tonight, talking about drones over Germany and in Ukraine. I’m usually asleep by the time his show airs, but maybe you don’t have small kids and are still awake at 11:15 pm!

💬 Open communication is key to reaching people in highly polarised situations, reveals a new study from researchers @unistuttgart.bsky.social, published in @bjpols.bsky.social. Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/4mYfFxn

So, thoughts on the Ed Gein miniseries?

Cash is king

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

Unfortunately, it will take something worse than Kent State for White and White Protestant America to stand-up to Trump. After all, who remembers Jackson State? "America" only cares when the victims are clean-cut middle-class+ White people.

I know people think of it as low-brow, but I thought Akiva Schaffer's The Naked Gun had more to say about our present problems than Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, especially with respect to technology.

My European aerospace and defense ETF is up +32% 😈 I'm doing my part for NATO and Ukraine 💪🏻

For anyone who would like to hear it, I can only say the best about the 90+ students I am currently teaching in my first-year writing courses. They are sincere about learning. They bring as much of their full selves into the class as they feel capable and safe to do so. 1/

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Former Reagan speechwriter pretends she has no role in any of this whatsoever. 🥴

This federal judge appointed by President Trump found his claims of “chaos“ in Portland, Oregon “untethered to the facts.“