the fact that leveraged buyouts exist at all is a truly stunning example of "capitalist market efficiency". no change to the core business nor new means of making revenue, except now it has 20 billion in debt because Reasons. what a system

Just out of curiosity, has the White House sent out an announcement about any *other* Catholic feast days?

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What’s supposed to be fraudulent about this? Couldn’t it just be an individual with the means doing something heroic? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

I asked Trump's former OMB director Mick Mulvaney to acknowledge it's a lie that undocumented immigrants get ACA subsidies (they don't), and he ended the interview. "Would you agree that not a single dime of ACA subsidies goes toward undocumented immigrants?" "I'm not gonna do this anymore."

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Sure would be nice if universities weren't shutting down their religious studies departments right now

There is exactly one way to rapidly cut pollution at scale, save money both at the govt and household level, and do it without federal help. The best fastest thing to do on climate is to just make cities safer for walking and biking. That's it. Every climate person should be working on this.

This is an encapsulation of Everything about Silicon Valley. The whole rotten enterprise, summed up in one go.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) made an apparent blunder on camera Tuesday when he said Republicans and Democrats should come together and "stop attacking pedophiles.

There's a lot of speculation about what Trump can & can't do against the left with his new executive orders. To cut thru it, I spoke with FBI counterterrorism veteran turned whistleblower Terry Albury about how he & his old colleagues use the powers they have – and what the average citizen should do

The defense I'm hearing a lot about the also violent and repressive US doesn't work. For one you live here. It's reasonable to perform in the country you live in no matter what it's like. Two you aren't performing here for and being paid by Trump and if you did everyone would also be pissed.

There we are.

on one hand the government is occupied by people who want to rob and kill you. on the other hand they have no popular mandate and they believe competence itself is woke and gay.

Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind:

A thing about human society is that it's hard to tell if someone has principles unless doing the right thing is in some way costly to them. But ALSO, having a good society by definition means we've created external incentives to do good things and not do bad things.

I am living for the future we are entering where trans girls sing to each other the virtues of the ktp method instead of the powers method

Ronald Reagan–appointed U.S. District Judge William Young: “ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence… To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.”

"no more superficial individual expression"

Ope this is going off Ok folks! My Congressman is a MAGA clown who's on multiple ag committees. As a farmer, I need ag policymakers who tell Trump no. So for every donation to Kim Hardy, who's running against my Congressman, I will post one (1) ag fact. secure.actblue.com/donate/nc07s...

This is called the tails to teeth ratio, and I think in the US armed forces it's like 9:1. Most military theorists believe that a higher ratio is actually better, because the more support troops you have per soldier, the more effective that soldier is! Pete Hegseth is not a military theorist.

yeah but you gotta understand. hegseth is insecure that the rest of the world doesn't think america is manly enough after spending all his time on twitter and seeing russian underwear models dress up for commercials bsky.app/profile/greg...

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

ok, we should let him

today in “a huge swath of America has completely lost its mind”

if the Trump Hegseth address had been an email www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

of course this is an indictment of these guys in particular, but also this is the kind of person you have to be to succeed in America in the 21st century

excited to get an email from my union letting me know that they have no idea whether or not we're going to get furloughed, because the White House has offered zero guidance about funding priorities in the event of a shut down.

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted. My story:

Here’s how Republicans don’t shut down the government: 1. Address the Republican-created health care crisis by permanently extending ACA tax credits (which they should want anyway); 2. Protect Congress’ constitutional power of the purse; 3. Pass the CR.

Word from the meeting last night is that Speaker kept bringing up “health care for illegal aliens,” seemingly unaware that Medicaid and Medicare and Affordable Care coverage are by law NOT available to anyone here illegally.

He's trying to do it! He's trying to make a Kaiser Wilhelm Hunk Brigade!

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pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

This is such an essential phrase: “The only Constitutional rights upon which we can depend are those we extend to the weakest and most reviled among us.”

Interestingly, I've seen a few of these emails sent agency-wide without a signature, just from the general "all staff" sort of email address, but at least one with the head of the agency signing his name — Social Security commissioner Frank Bisignano

I am not really an expert on this but I don't know, man, I really don't know that I'd trust putting an application for DACA in.

someone back talked about making doing a podcast on Belle Époque Paris and how modernity came all at once in one huge ball like we go from Napoleonic wars to having department stores and credit and feminism and communists and I need them to do it so I can talk about the invention of restaurants

Hints of an eldritch war as significant as the one between Morrison and Moore in terms of defining the skin of reality today.

Dude if the Democratic Party has a place for anti-trans and anti-abortion candidates then I’m not a democrat and I won’t vote for one I don’t know what to tell you man, there’s already a political party who believes these things It’s not a “big tent” to have zero fixed values in pursuit of power

The generals are obviously not going to do anything about Trump, their strategy for dealing with Hegseth is just going to be to wait him out; four years tops but there's a good chance he doesn't make it that long.

okay but what if we simply reached out to our colleagues across the aisle

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I hope thst one day we are embarrassed by the subservient cult of personality that has been allowed to grow in this country.

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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

fewer than 1% of the human population will ever get to type a comeback as contextually devastating as this

This passage nearly broke me.

Solar and wind power have finally become important sources of energy in recent years. But the reason they have grown rapidly while coal has declined isn’t that the chardonnay set considers coal unfashionable. It’s the simple fact that coal is no longer cost-competitive, while wind and solar are.