Trump aides are fanning the airwaves today to argue that bad employment numbers that will be released tomorrow aren't actually bad. Navarro, today on Fox Biz: "We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number *should* look like." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

He's drawing the constellation from the stars. This is exactly what needs to be said. Yes, we are seeing what you are seeing.

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

This is a tour de force. Conservative economist who sounds like Elizabeth Warren. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

There are drawdowns. And then there’s Melania Coin.

granular, practical, well organized info here: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."

"Make clear that every member of Congress who votes to fund DHS, and to continue funding it, and against limitations on their actions—that they are all complicit in the injustice and the brutality." quote of the day from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

It's 2016 all over again! We're back to the days of "live camera pointed at empty podium."

Why is Trump obsessed with conquering Greenland? Maybe because the billionaire tech bros – Thiel, Altman, Andressen et al – are whispering in his ear to take it. Because they want to build a libertarian crypto utopia free of democracy, oversight, and regulation. newrepublic.com/article/2051...

I think it’s important to point out: ICE does NOT have the same authority as a police officer. They do NOT have the power to enforce laws, only to engage in their specific tasks. IE: they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against

"There were indications that the authors had received financial compensation from Monsanto for their work, he said. There was no disclosure of a conflict of interest on the part of the authors beyond a mention...that Monsanto had provided scientific support." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/c...

Wondering if the "Kavanaugh Stop" epithet got under his, uh, skin.

It’s all a shell game, including this from same article: “$2 billion [was] diverted away from the Defense Department and Homeland Security Department for border enforcement—including redirecting funds for barracks, maintenance hangers, and elementary schools.”

CBS should make me editor-in-chief and it will be 24 hours nonstop coverage about arcane menswear rules no one knows or cares about

Ethan Hawke is a fucking human being. Best way I know how to express what he's expressing. Thank you, Ethan.

Love this quote from Noah Baumbach: "Defining yourself by your own success [is] just another way of not knowing who you are, of not looking at who you really are." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet. That outcome looks too good to be true, and it probably is.” www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

China isn't buying US soybeans. "there isn’t much incentive for China to buy from America right now because they have plenty of soybeans on hand that they have bought from Brazil" apnews.com/article/chin...

“Understating depreciation by extending useful life of assets artificially boosts earnings - one of the more common frauds of the modern era,” Burry wrote. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/b...

🙁☹️😤😡 How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

"The Army removed the list after German media reported that U.S. troops were using the local food banks" taskandpurpose.com/news/army-ge...

CRAZY. The WSJ, which is doing great work these days: "As OpenAI ramps up its spending on data center capacity to unheard of levels, the company is hoping the federal government will support its efforts by helping to guarantee the financing for chips behind its deals." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

House of Dynamite is an unbelievably stupid film that relies on a brainless, witless audience to accept several idiotic premises: that not a single entity on Earth could detect the launch of a nuclear missile; that the US would only be willing to launch 2 ABMs to counter an incoming ICBM... (1/2)

Destroying the White House while government workers go unpaid? Metaphor in there somewhere, I’m sure.

Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.

I love Taylor Swift, and so does Hüsker Dü! Here's the Hüsker's cover of Taylor's "Could You Be The One (Taylor's Version)" youtu.be/xMe15tWC6gc

Is Palpatine slaughtering the younglings in a smart way?

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

"Nice broadcast license you have there. Shame if anything were to happen to it." www.wired.com/story/brenda...

What the heck is going on at the Supreme Court? Ezra Klein and Kate Shaw share this particular insight: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...

not sure how many decades it will take America living down having elected Trump twice

Ozzy on pizza:

Sure, you can build greenhouses to farm tomatoes year round the way they do in Mexico, but the associated energy costs would make them extraordinarily expensive, and thus unsellable (if you can find anyone to pick them, that is).

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

To fine-tune your Discover feed, tap the three dots on any post and select “show more like this” or “show less like this.” It is learning your preferences 🤓

Jannik Sinner using nothing other than his MIND to levitate his racket. www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...

Should have posted this hours ago but www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLIn...

big beautiful bill passing would make the budget for ice larger than most of the world’s militaries

Made in Jina? Or just plain old vaporware?

Also the "Hospital!" theme. RIP. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

I'm not a denizen of NYC, so it hardly matters that I wished that Brad Lander had won the Dem primary for mayor. But what *does* matter is that Mamdani defeated Cuomo, which is a huge win at a national level for everyone who wants to see the sclerotic wing of the D party to fade into the sunset.

Five things to remember about war:

Trump launched a war of choice with Iran. We’re now at war with Iran. It’s George W Bush all over again.

Roz Chast New Yorker cartoon from 2021, just because.

I like the cut of Brad Lander's jib.