A lot of people -- powerful and otherwise -- need to get the hell off Twitter. I'm convinced it's a key driver of this effect.

If you work for ABC/Disney and have any insight on how the Kimmel fallout is playing out inside the company, please contact me on Signal at juddlegum.47 I will maintain your anonymity.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Oh. $TSLA www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

If you're a journalist and you're still on X, you need to get the fuck off X. It's warping your mind, by design.

no he's pumping his stock to catch up to Larry my god this is not hard to understand

I spent the last week in Canada. I won't ask what I missed, but it was an interesting break. (They still like us, but they are seriously pissed at DJT.)

17 years ago (in case you weren't already feeling old this morning).

There's speculation at the Pentagon and elsewhere that President Trump this afternoon will announce that the Department of Defense is going to revert back to being the Department of War (created in 1789 and dissolved in 1947).

I'm thinking he's going to change the name of the Department of Defense to the DEPARTMENT OF MANLY-MEN WARFIGHTERS MAKING MANLY WAR or something.

Coffee. Coffee is still good. They haven't fucked up coffee yet. We start our day somewhere.

I am not a physician and this is shameless irresponsible speculation, but it sure looks like POTUS has had a whole lot of corticosteroids recently. Look at his chin.

Reloading the tracking page over and over while I wait for Fedex to deliver my new glasses is the middle-aged version of something.

Today's Miller Lite stat o' the day 8,837 the total number of Teslas sold across Europe in July - down 40% year on year. The stock is up 9% since its close last Thursday, adding the market cap equivalent of Ford + GM.

EU auto sales for July. Battery-electric sales are up almost 50% YoY outside of Tesla, where they're down over 40% as TSLA market share collapses. PHEV and hybrid sales are also rising rapidly while internal combustion engine sales continue to fall.

This is what I find so weak, so pathetic: the 2024 election was close, indicating a divided country. And some Trump voters did not expect what they’re getting. Yet a lot of influential elites in business, media, and politics went “the people love this, better get on board, we’re just being smart.”

Every time I read about this company I remember that it started as a bunch of hippie coffee nerds in Vermont. (Green Mountain Coffee Roasters).

It's official. #Formula1

The submissions for the new Massachusetts seal, flag and motto are up, and my friends, they are a *trip* www.mass.gov/doc/massachu...

The thing to remember about Waymo is that they are miles and miles and miles ahead of everyone else left in the robotaxi game. In other words, if stuff like this is still happening to them, it's happening to everybody.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

All the windows are open and it's like 65F in my home office. This should be wonderfully refreshing after weeks of heat waves but mostly I'm sitting here in a sweatshirt wondering why my writing brain won't switch on. May need more (hot) coffee.

QOTD: post a "white wagon" in your camera roll. #Eluminator

Smart thread here.

That feeling when you suddenly get a "recent topics" email from a forum site you signed up for 20 years ago and haven't read in 19 years. It's like past me sending an update on the path not taken.

Joe Kernan is playing a role -- crusty old trader bro. If he goes, they'll just bring in someone else to play the role.

This place is being overrun by Blue Wave OutrageTM. Tired of it.

The plan (as announced when I was still at CNBC) is to sell off CNBC and (the former) MSNBC. The play seems to be to ride the channels' aging audiences into the sunset -- or put another way, to double down on "stuff old white people like".

Close, intelligent, in some cases near lifelong friends are starting to talk casually about the use of ChatGPT in their lives or in some cases are clearly getting paid/perks to promote its use and it’s like watching your social circle slowly, and with a big smile on their face, all join Scientology.

Ford raising investment in their new EV line *FORD TO INVEST $5 BILLION IN EV PUSH, UP FROM $3 BILLION PRIOR *FORD TO MANUFACTURE $30,000 MIDSIZE EV PICKUP STARTING IN 2027 *FORD PLANS $5B EV INVESTMENT WITH FOCUS ON LOW-COST MODELS

Ford $F CEO Jim Farley confirms new EV midsize pickup -- to be built in KY -- launching in 2027.

Lucid's troubles make me sad -- the cars are SO good -- but they don't surprise me. $LCID As I used to say on the old bird site all the time, making cars is hard and manufacturing at scale has always been the moat.

This should be devastating. It would be devastating for just about any other automaker. But it's Tesla, so... *shrug*

Top story at NYT right now. I keep thinking the source for these stories has to be someone in Ghislaine Maxwell's camp. They feel like a series of warning shots to... someone. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

Imagine if they sold 10% of those shares to the public and used the proceeds to develop a new model.

The data here is from S&P, so likely quite solid. $TSLA

the new payroll profile makes more sense tbh. An economy frozen by uncertainty. But not yet recessionary

This is excellent. More in this vein, please.

Weird how Tesla still isn't on that list.

Age verification? I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan live three times.

Drop a bad guy you actually love... The platonic ideal of a summer-movie villain.

30 years ago Bernie Ecclestone would have ordered the race to start on time, standing start. Times have changed.

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

Tesla has plenty of cash to develop new products, and yet all it has to turn around the sales slump is more nothing... something doesn't add up

Cardle 2/5 Streak 5🔥 Total Score 54 🔴 🔴 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.playcardle.com

It's always next year. Always. $TSLA

Are the "tokens" rectangular pieces of paper that say "One U.S. Dollar" on them?

cc every politics reporter I know

I really really REALLY wanted the EQS sedan to be amazing. It was not. (Yes, past tense is premature, but not that premature.)

Got Cardle in two today. If I had trusted myself I'd have had it in one, but two is good.