Interesting article. However much politicians might want to deny the reality of climate change, the insurance industry ends up pricing the risks. on.ft.com/4pAvFbj The warped economics of insuring climate destruction

Get in losers, we’re grieving

Ooof. "[Starship HLS] could be “years late” for the Artemis III mission that is supposed to take place mid-2027. The assessment comes after three ASAP members visited SpaceX in Boca Chica, TX and met top SpaceX officials"

Obama broke their brains. This is insane.

On Earth 2.0, this would be The Story of the week, a firestorm of corruption, cover-ups, and scandal. Tom Homan, the thuggish head of Trump’s immigration brute squad was videotaped accepting a $50,000 cash bribe… and the Trump DOJ shut the investigation down. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

I’m sure someone could provide a worse three paragraphs of “analysis” in this moment, but Peter Baker really sets the bar low here — with what he opined, who he decided to rely on as a source, and why he included those absurd claims without refutation.

In 1983, 90% of U.S. media was owned by 50 companies. By 2012, that number was 6. Today, it's just 5. Decades of media consolidation made it "a lot easier for authoritarian government to exercise control," consumer advocate Gigi Sohn says. Much more in my new piece: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

What do you consider the perfect movie?

Again. Brazilian democracy seems to be beating the pants off of ours.

“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.” - POTUS, August 2024

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

Let Freedom Ring!

Pretty shocking that people think of this guy as ur example of the aryan race.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Only years? Sounds like Elon’s best project.

Just a reminder that the PEOPLE own the airwaves. They are part of our *common wealth* like the national parks. We just license them to corporate broadcasters. And the FCC? It’s supposed to do OUR bidding, not that of some Tin Pot Dictator who is too insecure to take a fucking joke.

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links 2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands 3. The whole app is open source This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site. We 💙 the open web.

Well this is pretty absurd.

Jesus Christ

Homeland security communications show officials are moving operations following a protest in which demonstrators said they were hit with teargas.

maga religious types aren’t Christian, they are essentially insane zealots / and cultists.

Speaker after speaker at this memorial is explicitly likening him to Jesus Christ. (Slain in early 30s, etc.) Don't know how this goes over with people raised in other faiths. Having been raised as a church-going Protestant Christian, I say: What the hell! This is not how Christians talk.

Somebody is really hoping to turn the tide on their political fortunes in Florida.

I can't get over how cheap it was to buy him. You really can't get a good new Ford F150 with that money.

The thing about the first time the FBI catches you on camera receiving a $50,000 bribe is it's definitely not the first time you've received a $50,000 bribe.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

The Trump administration is terminating the federal government’s annual report on food insecurity in America, saying it had become “redundant, costly and politicized” and noting that “extraneous studies do nothing more than fear monger.”

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

Jesus Christ

Hahahahahhahahahahahahaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha I missed the Tom Homan bribery scandal while being offline for 24 hours for racing and drinking. Mare you guys done with it already? This is delicious. Trunk was impressed wasn’t he?

Mezerkis, explain US government policy to me like I’m 4 years old.

I’ve never been in the military. But of all the YT plane videos I’ve ever seen, I’ve seen the absolute most of the A-10. Therefore this is the correct plane.

Anybody having fun yet.

Sleeping on the aft cockpit.

Heading to the bar. Check you freaks later.

"The Russians are testing the doorknobs... and what they're discovering is the US President is not at home." Senior Editor at the Atlantic, David Frum, on President Trump's response to Russian jets violating NATO airspace. #Newsnight

Interesting: "Denmark neared a decision on the purchase of a multibillion-dollar #air-defense system. For weeks, American and French negotiators had aggressively pursued the deal. But as the deadline approached, the #Pentagon suddenly lost interest."

The more the Trump administration prevaricates, the less influence it has over its allies, because the latter become increasingly convinced the US won't do anything in any event, so there is little downside to confronting Russia now while it is relatively weak.

David Rose, the police officer and Afghanistan veteran with a wife and 2 small children, was murdered by a white, right wing extremist man a month ago over antivaccine conspiracies pushed by RFK Jr. and this administration. He did not get recognition from political leaders or even much news coverage

I’d watch Kristin Scott Thomas interview a phone book.

We are being told nothing about these strikes. How they decide to target particular boats, the legal justification for the military, where their intelligence is coming from. What we are being told is that President Trump decided to destroy a boat, and the military obeyed.

New York City subway average 3.83 million riders from September 8 to September 14, it's highest number since March 2020. People just keep coming back over time.

Feels like this is always the case.

Listening tk Katie Couric says it’s scary and she’s worried about Kimmel is nuts.

It would *almost* be good if we got SCOTUS to precedent this before his term is done.

I’d very curious if our crack-smoking press calls all this out for what it is.

History books will have to invent new categories for the level of sheer stupidity this man has.