“In the case of The U.S. Supreme Court v. Everyone Else, this court wins by a serious landslide.”

President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” agenda has a surprising stakeholder: Bill Gates. The multibillionaire tech mogul and philanthropist owns a large portion of a key service provider for immigration flights. w/ @gnobes.huffpost.com www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-g...

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

So the plan as I understand it is to avoid doing the thing that definitely works and to pour a bunch of money into trying things that definitely don't

A belated happy five-year anniversary to this tweet, the most vivid souvenir of life during quarantine.

Wow. Naval Academy prof to their 3-star Admiral in his letter of resignation: "your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Mein Kampf"

you're not going to believe this, but this is absolutely not a thing.

Trump Can Fire Hegseth But Refuses To; Cannot Fire Powell But Wants To Anyway

Those in the know also claim the Secretary of Homeland Security's frequent photo-ops have sparked frustration in Washington, D.C.

🚨TARIFF UPDATE: Tariffs are non-negotiable, negotiable, but not a negotiating tactic. They are permanent until they are paused but they will never be paused, until they are paused which means they increase. Permanent exemptions already announced are temporary, but nothing has been announced. 🤡🎪

every one of these deregulated markets guys is a regulated market guy who hasn’t been punched in the face yet

The European Union and China are now starting negotiations to abolish EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. This is a major strategic failure for the United States.

"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth"

Time to retire this talking point, Mr President. You inherited an economy in a good place, with a lotta momentum. If there's a slowdown (still looks likely), it's on you. bsky.app/profile/bigm...

Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes

Incredibly, this appears to be true. We tariffed our own (jointly operated with the UK) military base.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

Now leading HuffPost: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

BIG BOAT STUCK BIG BOAT STUCK (Everybody) BIG BOAT STUCK www.bbc.com/news/article...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

big day today

Apropos of nothing ...

Is it hard to drop fire retardant from an airplane? Yep.

It happens. www.politico.eu/article/pola...

Residents In Neighborhood Nearest The Origin Of Palisades Fire Plead For Help

Experts warn Trump dangerously close to figuring out where Canada is

I’m amused by the theory that Republicans got tech on their side by being nice to them and not threatening them with state force for years

I guess we can finally answer this one.

Don’t be alarmed if you see Jill Stein rifling through your trash bins! She is in hyperphagia and needs to consume 20,000 calories a day before hibernating for the next 3 years

Luigi Mangione Assails Corporate Power, Health Care Costs In Manifesto

Roses are red, Dolphins have flippers,

Hunter just walking around for the last two weeks, regularly and strategically bumping into Joe and going “oh whoops pardon me dad…”

The creator of a widely debunked movie that became a central pillar in the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen has admitted that some of the film’s claims are flawed. www.cnn.com/2024/12/02/p...

"I don’t think there’s a trend towards actual conservatism in the Valley — there’s a trend towards monopoly and corruption, and that’s led a bunch of VCs directly to Trump." www.status.news/p/nilay-pate...

We're gonna need a bigger gravy boat.

Retro is in, even in the ocean. The orcas are once again wearing salmon hats www.newscientist.com/article/2457...

NEW: Email Leaked To HuffPost Shows State Department Anxiety About Leaks To HuffPost In the previously undisclosed message from a month into the Gaza war, a top Blinken aide also says the Biden administration should have shown more concern for Palestinians sooner: www.huffpost.com/entry/state-...

My latest article explores how Russia’s decades-long information warfare has destabilized American democracy, paving the way for Trump’s return to power.

This is a very dark turn, calling out low-level government employees by name to add harassment to job loss, all because some anonymous account on twitter complained about them. Also gravy train? She makes $170,000/yr from the government. Musk bring in billions in US government contracts.

"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

Just to be clear: the incoming Trump administration is going to war against their own Republican senate majority and the constitution's advice and consent provision so they can make a man investigated for ***sex trafficking a minor*** into the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country.

Staffing your cabinet with billionaires: very populist www.huffpost.com/entry/doug-b...

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