1. The $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina, announced last week by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, delivers an enormous windfall to hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone. Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.

I may have found my defining quote. Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

EA has announced it is being acquired and taken private in a $55 billion deal involving Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and Affinity Partners, which is founded and led by Jared Kushner www.theverge.com/news/787112/...

Welcome to the new EA, owned by the Saudis and Jared Kushner. The beginning of the end, IMO. With this much debt to finance, the focus will be on wringing revenue out of the big franchises and cutting or selling everything else. Innovation, such as there was, is now dead.

Starmer clearly did not say this. He said it is wrong to strip the status of those told the UK is their permanent home - and added this policy was 'racist' when asked

Superb visit of #NotreDame towers at sunset. Don’t miss it if you come to #Paris!

lot to unpack here

'out of the three mass shootings today'

Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV

the daily caller published a call to violence of the left yesterday, a news organization that has connections to the heritage foundation

To the Daily Beast staffer who put “79” into this headline, know this: We salute you.

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

If your elderly relatives started telling you about AI videos they had watched saying that "medbeds" would fix everyone's health problems, you'd start to look into assisted living and power of attorney. Trump has the nuclear codes.

Trump called Kamala Harris a “fascist.” Lock him up?

Good to see the current US administration has got rid of that woke, namby-pamby, Risk Assessment / Heath & Safety Gone Mad nonsense that might restrict where real men can throw axes 💪🏻

I know a lot of people won’t click through to read about “med beds” so here’s the crucial quote to explain how fucking crazy this is. Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.

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Former military personnel were seen trading in automatic weapons for mandolins and zithers.

This. Where are their voices?

Serious question: what does it matter that Trump is polling in the 30s unless and until an organized and mobilized opposition prevails in free and fair elections?

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War-ravaged Portland

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

I encourage all the media outlets who are about to send people to ”war ravaged” Portland to think twice. Some of the strongest extremism reporters in the country live in this region; journalists who understand the culture of the Northwest and the history of activism here. Do it right this time okay?

Federal Troops Arrive in Portland and Immediately Form Bands

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence

Real saying the quiet part loud here

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

Nigel Farage & Alex Phillips have been awfully quiet about Nathan Gill pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in European parliament and articles. Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.

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600 retweets for something that is… not true. It’s being built in-house by GDS/DSIT, and probably isn’t that expensive given most of the infrastructure already exists. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-the-uk...

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Scrivenings mode allows you to work with multiple documents as though they were a single text.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

This only happens to you once

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

If I was Donald Trump I would not be drawing the public’s attention right now to my ability to release files

It took just three days to get Sinclair to back down, and what it got in exchange for agreeing to put Kimmel back on the air was...nothing. This is not what happens every time you stand up to a bully, but if you don't fight back, you'll never know if you would have won.

On #AI: When in doubt, doubt.

Now pushing no Tylenol for kids. My two small kids recently spiked three fevers in two weeks (Covid, virus, virus). You want me to make them stay up all night sweating and keening rather than give them one safe chewable, drop their temp, and let them go to sleep? You are an actual monster.

Concerning …

59 Minutes, the thrilling new novel by Holly Seddon @holly.bsky.social is out. What would you do if you got a warning on your phone that a nuclear warhead was en route to your country? amzn.to/4mDlgsL

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Scrivener is not cloud based. Your work is stored separately from the application, using the filename and location that you specify when you create each project.

Real post on another network:

Indeed. I’m still, for historical reasons, on a couple of Facebook groups for EU settled status. Not a week goes by without some screwup regarding digital-only proof of status. Labour’s obsession with digital-only doesn’t seem like a great idea for a national ID card, let’s say.

Jonny's soundtrack for the new Paul Thomas Anderson film One Battle After Another is now available on streaming platforms waste.lnk.to/onebattleaft...

No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser

The new face of Republican youth outreach: A kid named Brilyn Hollyhand (lol), who flies private while arguing against raising the minimum wage.