Tim Cook at the Murder's Banquet tonight. Don't tell me Apple hasn't become what it was allegedly warning against in 1984. They're the bad guys now.

Another way of describing this is, if it were possible, it would be spending a trillion dollars on buying US assets and now they'd be owned by foreigners.

Somebody told him 100 Republicans were going to vote for it, but that some Senators would prevent it from going to the floor so the files will never be released, so now he's going to pretend it was his idea all along.

Hey NYT I'll give you a hint The endgame rhymes with Schmistraction from the Schmepstein Schmfiles.

This is a small thread on the market inefficiencies of Amazon. Take at look at these "Dementia Clocks". There's three more screens just like this -- all the same model of clock, each with one of those indecipherable brand names.

I wonder how many votes we are from an impeachment resolution, now that the orange muffinhead has decided to go mental on MTG. With Massey I'd make it as 216-217, not counting feckless Democrats who don't want to go there again. That's a one-vote margin of error.

nah, they're counting on the fact that Bondi had a thousand FBI agents working on scrubbing the files and destroying evidence.

1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs 2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads 3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James 4) IG and ethics officials are all fired. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

If I may suggest a seasonal follow: Angry Santa Elf (self-deported from Twitter in a timely manner, but lagging in follows over here, relatively speaking) @angrysantaelf.bsky.social

The previous use of the word "bespoke" was the past tense of "bespeak", a lovely archaicism. I was nevertheless surprised to see the earliest printed reference with the modern meaning of "custom" cited in 1869. www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wha...

There's a hundred trillion dollars of fossil fuel assets in the ground that will be worthless if we make the transformation to clean energy and save the planet. The money-grubbers who own all this are behind Putin, they're behind Tr*mp, they're behind the crap in the Middle East.

Six seven? Six, two, and even! Twenty three skidoo! To the nines! All cyclic. It goes to 11

New York AG James said she's received complaints of stores in her state refusing EBT cards and has already sent out several cease and desist letters. Stores are not allowed to refuse SNAP benefits. If this happens to you, call the AG's hotline to report at 1-800-771-7755.

Kim Davis please now return to the ashbin of history. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

People calling on Tim Kaine to resign Please wait until January, when Spanberger takes over You can believe whoever Younkin would appoint would be 100x worse than Tim Kaine

One sign of Shrinkflation: I've seen a ton of ads for "advent calendars" with only 12 days' of things!

I'd like to see everybody who voted for Mamdani lining up for Hochul in her battle against the loathsome Elise Stefanik. Hochul is far from perfect but she alone among NY's senior Dems endorsed Mamdani, and she's the best hope to keep Tr*mp's dirty mitts off New York.

Of course he's not serious about this -- any money withdrawn from the ACA will go to his cronies -- but executed at the same dollar for dollar ratio as the current subsidies -- going to those who qualify now under ACA - this would be a massive wealth redistribution that would make any Marxist proud.

I am generally pretty liberal when it comes to the justice system, but I fully support mandatory minimum sentences for people who give me flavored coffee when I ordered a regular.

"We would rather be ruined than changed; We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die." —W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety

Tesla's one trillion dollar payday for Musk is truly odd for many reasons, not the least of which is its p/e ratio hovers around 300 to 1. For comparison, the other car companies' ratios are around 10-12 to 1. The entire market cap of Tesla is something like $1.4T.

Criminally neglected deep cut(s) for your Yuletide playlist delection youtu.be/MmCvKPFFAMY?...

Say what you will about the wisdom of rebranding, but giving the institution an acronym that spells "PhArt" is grounds enough for dismissal. It'll always be the PMA to me but I'm probably not the target audience for rebranding. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

I'm aware of the fact 50% of white people are irredeemably stupid. I have an extended family

You could have had Conor Lamb.

not the Onion

Meanwhile, at the White House www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iMy...

One of the biggest lessons we can re-learn from the civil rights movement is that people put their lives on the line. Just like the founders put their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honors. Don't back down, don't be intimidated, justice is on your side.

I bet if you asked the average anti-Mamdani voter to explain the difference between ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and Hamas, they would do about as well if asked to explain the difference between Communism, Socialism, and Fascism.

Andrew Cuomo is officially the Tr*mp-endorsed candidate. What kind of a political "comeback" is that, now? Will Andrew inject bleach and stare at the sun during an eclipse?

The greater idiot ever scolds the lesser

That was the greatest win-lose-or-draw AB situation I can remember. Inches away.

This 👇

I think that is the first time I have ever seen a fan make a great catch of a home run and not even raise an arm in celebration.

sweet baby jesus what is it going to take to convince the Blue Jays runners to keep running even though the guy who has just struck out is feigning a walk to try to draw a call...no excuse this time, since it wasn't a delayed call like last time. Bush league running

It's Friday night, Halloween! Who's with me for a thread about the economics of pronatalism?! Some people say we need more babies because we don't have enough workers. But more births means less women workers, by ~15-40%. You trade workers today for workers tomorrow. This is from CPS data: /1

This is tied for the third longest period we've gone without a seven-game winner-take-all World Series. The longest droughts were between 2002 to 2011 (9 years) and 1912-24 (12); 2019-2025, 1991-1997, 1934-1940 (6 years). 1903 and 1919-21 were best of nine series, but none ever went past 8 games.

Maybe we should open up the country to third terms...

My opinion of Andrew Cuomo over the last 15 years (I am upstate) has gone from neutral indifference and acceptance that there were worse alternatives (I voted for him in general elections for Governor), to active antipathy and opposition and a deep abiding wish he moves out of state forever.

One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan. I never made it out of the House.

The guy who thinks "Born in the USA" is a patriotic my-country-right-or-wrong song because he never listened to any lyrics other than the chorus is unlikely to have read any version of the Great Gatsby, but boy does he like cosplay

Situations like that in the 9th inning are why baseball is great: it's win, lose, or draw, and in this case, LA was facing elimination, extra innings, or game six. The fact the series isn't being played crisply has added a lot to the tension and drama and appeal.

I was part of the internal Trump administration team trying to convince the president to end the shutdown in 2018 - 2019 — for 35 days — before people went hungry, workers lost pay, and government services collapsed. Here’s what I learned: he doesn’t give a shit.

Any reporting of this that does not mention Republicans are the majority, and they've regularly suspended cloture in the Senate, is journalistic malpractice MAGA OWNS IT

I will keep saying this: we are already in a recession. The numbers haven't shown it yet, but we can't really trust the official government numbers anymore, can we? Don't believe me, believe Moody's chief forecaster fortune.com/2025/10/09/a...

They don't really need the East Wing anymore, since the First Lady solved cyber bullying in the first term, there's nothing else to do

This is confrontational, to say the least, but it's going to come to this. Echoes of local authorities arresting slave catchers (with federal warrants) in free states after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act come to mind.

If you work for, or buy things in significant quantity from any of these companies, you might want to search for "I. G. Farben WWII" Until Google starts to filter the results, of course.

Adams endorsing Cuomo is a great strategy! Where's my "Crooks for Cuomo" t-shirt?!