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WaPo story shows what an unprincipled mess the boat attacks were. Hegseth: Kill them all JSOC: “the “double-tap,” or follow-on strike, was intended to sink the boat and remove a navigation hazard to other vessels — not to kill survivors”

The “kill them all” order by SecDef Hegseth would be a textbook war crime even if the original attack had been legal.

Great investigative work by @wsj.com exposing White House desire to release Russia from sanctions, somehow

“All Bari Weiss is doing in this excerpt is inventing cable news. She’s describing Crossfire. Cable news is built on the premise that it is a stage for people of rival beliefs and parties to shout at one another” And: She thinks Dersh and an NRA kook are “charismatic. She means “enraging clickbait”

The bursts of anger are more extreme and frequent. He’s constantly calling reporters stupid these days. FTD

These people are demons.

“Go worry about what your wife’s doing, cabron”

Great 20min documentary about early days of the amazing Minn hardcore band Husker Du. Grant Norton‘s (bass) Midwest nice mom invited stranger Bob Mould for Thanksgiving. The three jammed in the basement. Am giving thanks today for Mrs Norton changing musical history www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xNc...

‘Too big to jail’

UK regulator is spot on: “there seem to be “successive cycles of regulatory tightening — usually in response to a financial crisis — which were followed by periods of relaxation as *memories fade* and economic priorities change . . . until the next crisis”. US banks want private $, public bailout

A awful look for OpenAI. Presumably they’re worried if they settle one, others will seek settlement. But they would get demolished in a jury trial: imagine a cleaned-up Sam Altman in front of a jury, some of whom are parents. Wonder if the tort concept of an “attractive nuisance” is useful here?

This is so extremely stupid, reacting as if a single Afghan shooter updates the probability for all Afghans. AFAIK in schizophrenia Sz research this is called “jumping to conclusions bias” and is associated with Sz www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Nuzzi was monstrous. She honeypotted Trump w a young female, committing a 3rd degree felony by recording w/o consent “She sent Izzy inside Trump’s FL compound with a recorder in her bag, which rolled as Izzy drew Trump, taking campaign meetings with the likes of Matt Gaetz, Susie Wiles, and others”

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Fantastic! How clever

on top of everything else, nuzzi has the sensibilities of your most embarrassing friend. a guy alternates between saying he wants her to have his children and ghosting her, and she's wringing her hands trying to figure out if they're really in love

for Sinead O'Connor fans: Highlights of her interesting life from her memoir "Rememberings". Recall that her career was set back in 1992 after tearing the Pope's picture on SNL, infuriated about child abuse (and her abusive mother). 10 yrs before Boston Globe bombshell nypost.com/2021/06/01/s...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

NYTimes “Modern Love“ story has a great take on why Chinese families go to great lengths to fight over the bill at restaurants archive.ph/KcjZt

When a person needs help, you help them. That’s exactly what Our Daily Bread – one of Maryland’s largest hot meal programs – has done for over 46 years. All without a single interruption in service. youtube.com/shorts/05zn-...

Notable thing about Mamdani (and AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Chris Murphy…) is that they answer the Q indirectly, but also lay bare what a stupid question it is. Q: Vocal group A thinks you have a bad position on [issue B] (a position which Candidate clearly doesn’t have). A: I will help A’s

“I had to deafen myself to all those pontificators…” Are there lots more from where the masterful Lupita came from? Why yes, yes there are.

Brilliant

Sacks is saying exactly what you’d say to prop up a bubble

Need to get some polling on him to pop the balloon

When MSM journalists say “the economy” they *always* mean business profits or Wall St. Not consumer surplus or worker wages, which are obviously part of the economy.

My MVP for this week: I've discovered some folks who could do a much better job running American trade policy. #Econ101 #GoBlue #TeachEcon

Who was first to brew an espresso in space? #NationalEspressoDay☕ Astronaut, pilot & engineer Samantha Cristoforetti. First Italian woman in space, she holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight of a European astronaut. Pic: 𝘊𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵 #coffee break in history! #WomenInSTEM #Italy

Steve Albini: “If the record takes a long time, and everyone gets bummed and scrutinizes every step, then the recordings bear little resemblance to the live band, and the end result is seldom flattering“ (Same w science) His “conditions“ letter to Nirvana is 👩‍🍳💋 www.livenirvana.com/documents/al...

"Too little was done too late”: New commentary with PIK director Johan Rockström warns of rising planetary risks after a missed decade of action. Climate & biosphere pressures keep increasing, but stabilising the Earth system is still within reach. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Wow

“By 2020, the growth team had determined that a private-by-default setting would result in a loss of 1.5M monthly active teens/yr on Insta. The plaintiffs’ brief quotes an employee: “taking away unwanted interactions… is likely to lead to a potentially untenable problem with engagement and growth”

Twenty experiments show that hypothetical scenarios correctly estimated whether or not behavioral nudges would encourage behaviors in five field settings, but unreliably estimated the size of those effects. @cfcamerer.bsky.social @linneagandhi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Elon Musk ’s X disabled its newly launched profile-location feature just hours after rollout, after it revealed that several prominent accounts, previously believed to be U.S.-based right-wing or pro-Israel voices, were operated from other countries.

It’s because his addled brain implicitly associates Mamdani’s look with MBS who he saw recently

‘“Welcome back to my classroom, Katie” gets a big Duchenne smile. Journos love Justin because he is so simple and clear, which makes their programs better. Aussie accent is a bonus point ofc

Twitter lawsuit about unpaid severance has some doozies. Musk shares Trump’s policy of paying for completed work (or rent) as optional regmedia.co.uk/2023/05/18/a...

“If you gave me a piece of paper and asked me to think about the most creative way, the most effective way, to raise electricity prices in the United States, it would look a lot like what they’ve done,”

Apologist for Olivia Nuzzi’s chaotic arc: “The RFK Jr. situation….isn’t some inexplicable departure from journalistic norms” It’s a new norm because lots of reporters now do it, not just her*? 🤔 Name one. *with Mark Sanford also, five years ago www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...

“He speaks fluent billionaire”

"Trump is a fucking idiot who gets rolled by anyone who's nice to him" theory remains undefeated, putting someone like Mamdani in there is like having Randy Johnson sub in for a 5th grade Little League game

Well put.

“You can save your time, save your energy and potentially save your bail money”

“Usually it’s just bedding and other homeware,” explained Lee. “But after a few steps a sharp cinnamon scent became a whirling miasma of nasal chaos. The air was claggy, my vision went dark, and I just ran.”

13:10. Former US AG Alberto Gonzales (under GW Bush): “I worry about how I dress when I go someplace like Home Depot”

This is it

I love how this nurse lets a cop wait through a surgery, assuming he can question the patient when he's out of surgery. Then she promptly kicks the cop out of the hospital so he can't "just ask a question"

I drove 13 hours to Toronto and covered Phillips evening sale last night: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/20/r...