Highly recommend this podcast with @esghound.com & @quantian.bsky.social discussing SpaceX.

Platner very much is a discernible type, but it’s not “flawed but basically decent working class joe.” It’s “prep school creep with a sadistic streak and an ironclad confidence that it will never catch up to him.“

lol owned

The destruction of USAID may be the worst thing Musk has done. (SO FAR of course...) Of course, I'm going to go ahead and also say, why was this solely a US effort? Why can't EU and other developed nations also have an organization like this? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

You gotta admire how every single member of that family manages to be on the f**king wrong side in everything they do

The Trump handlers trying this formula 2/3 times per week (him seated and really anyone else speaking) and expecting a different result than he can’t stay awake is insane.

Jared is either a private citizen, in which case he’s got no business trying to undertake diplomacy on behalf of the United States or he’s on any of about a 1/2 dozen hiring flexibility lines serving as a temporary government employee assigned directly to the President. It can’t be both.

A Musk purchase agreement is as immutable as a Trump trade agreement.

Hey, I'll take this one. I'm going to guess that they got sick from drinking raw milk because THEY WERE DRINKING RAW MILK.

The usual bullshit: starting with the assumption that fraud rates are high, then working backwards to find someone to blame for the data not backing that up. In this case, the states must be giving the feds bad data, it couldn't simply be that Rollins' assumptions are wrong.

It really just goes to show that despite Zohran being pretty active in closing holes and owed value in municipal bonds and debts with the city of NYC created by his predecessor, him talking about doing a few bullshit food stands/grocers using city owned property is enough to invalidate all of that.

Then you should genuinely go and spend a couple of weeks at a Days Inn near Elon's datacenter in Memphis.

Screwworm’s return to the United States is a catastrophic failure by the Trump administration. They cut surveillance and control funding. They fired public health experts. They refuse to work with other countries.

I remain unconvinced that it is worth reporters' (and our) time to show up and ask questions at these events.

My "Rubio is the Trump administration's Eichmann"* theory remains highly predictive. *Eichmann as described by Arendt, not necessarily the real, historical Eichmann.

There is a common market assumption that Warsh will pivot to being an independent centrist, and yet these two guys are radical and their role in part would seem to undermine the input and influence of Fed staff...this highly unusual move suggests he is serious about "regime change"

wat

If the company doesn't protect its trademark, there's nothing stopping a Nazi influencer named Patrick E Gonnia from doing the same thing. They *have* to defend the mark. This stunt is gross and bad faith, sorry

Love this story but also it’s not great that basic free market competition responding to demand is so fun and surprising

They're hiding Biden!

“When asked…if they snitched, two senior Trump-Vance… officials, one current and one former, said of course they talked to Haberman and Swan for the book. Each said they were comfortable anonymously admitting that fact because that admission…could have come from basically anybody at their level...

Every time I think "that's the most painfully obvious metaphor I have ever seen; I mean, who's writing this script?" something gets posted where I'm reminded there's always something more outlandish just around the corner

They shot and killed two Americans in cold blood.

This will 100% happen before 2029. Blanche knows it, that's why he won't commit.

Do not use cloth luggage, hard case if possible Do not put any bags or luggage on hotel beds OR on your own bed and keep all bags in the bathroom After you get home from flying immediately throw all your clothes (even what's on) in your washer and put your suitcase in a garage if possible

maybe it was because it was "before Elon went crazy" but not enough attention got paid to the time Tesla and Musk basically swatted a whistleblower in 2018

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

They're looking for a pretext to attack the ACA. Again.

How dumb is the stock market right now? It's "one sentence from Jensen Huang is worth $50 billion" dumb. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Maine is 95% white and has 1M people in it total and Michigan has 10M and is like 70% white and that's it, that's the whole ballgame

he seems so pleased when he does it, like it's a new experience every day.

Tomorrow, U.S. distillate inventories will likely fall under 100 million barrels for the first time in over 20 years, exacerbated by high exports due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz- this is a powder keg waiting to go off if a deal to reopen the Strait doesn't happen soon

I got to ask Steyer how the state would help speed up transportation projects like the D line extension. “Having people live in walkable, enjoyable, diverse neighborhoods — that’s our future”

nice work, important context is that the similar figures for Uber and Lyft (with no passenger, obv, rather than no human) are also 40 percent plus as piece notes

Pulte is the crank who dug through mortgage records to weaponize the false fraud claims against Letitia James, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Cook. Trump just appointed him to the most sensitive intelligence position in the federal government. He'd have access to everything. On everyone.

One of the wildest things about Kavanaugh's now-notorious quote is that there was ample evidence *on the record before the court* that this was untrue, yet he stated it as an undisputed statement of fact. Did he bother to read the record before writing his opinion?

Couldn't be clearer after the Pulte appointment that Trump only wants access to these authorities to persecute his domestic political opponents.

This thread 🧵 👇

HUCKABEE: We live in a world where the King dictates policy.

"$100 billion. That’s our estimate of the cost of the Iran War to American households. That’s nearly $750 per household. This includes the additional U.S. military costs and the higher energy and other prices resulting from the war. This is a big economic blow."

“.. No female officers were included on the new one-star list, .. despite the fact that women make up about 21 percent of the active-duty Navy. The list appears to include only two nonwhite officers, even though .. minorities make up about 38 percent ..” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!

Let's talk the limits of (US) power: a 🧵. If Iran is able to get the Houthis to become active again, as in much more active than their currently largely overlooked control over the Bab el Mandeb (BAM), there is very little that the US can do to open the BAM & to deal w/the Houthis. 1/

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Ossoff: He settled the suit with himself to create a $1.8 billion slush fund so he can cut checks to cronies and Jan 6th foot soldiers. The same men who sacked the Capitol. Donald Trump's brown shirts . He pardoned them, and now he wants you to pay them.

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.