The really weird thing here is that they want to keep the debt off their balance sheet in order to preserve the credit rating, but capitalising a finance lease is extremely easy for raising agency analysts to do, who did they really think was going to be fooled? www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...

This is all true. My larger concern is whether or not Trump himself survives, the richest people in the history of the planet remain committed to Trumpism as a project

philip morris ads are quite common now. they usually promote vape products as an alternative to weaning off cigarettes or talk about how the company pays for smoker addiction assistance. but the premise of all the ads is “see, we’re doing good now” like how oil companies say it

Anyone interested in a resolution condemning fascism? Anyone? Maybe? No? Okay.

😒

Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff. There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.

This will be useful evidence when we put him on trial.

Half of MAGA has called Trump a fascist (e.g. his own VP, but often enough because they think it's a good thing) and I can't recall that he's ever pretended to be offended by the allegation. Just carrying on the family tradition after all.

3 thoughts: 1. Trump could bring himself to publicly congratulate Mamdani when Obama couldn’t 2. Trump, a typical bully, doesn’t go after strong ppl who are good on TV. (Doesn’t go after AOC much, either, for ex.) 3. Never pegged Mamdani for a top! But he clearly is. He topped this one.

Revealing piece from Bruce Bartlett explaining how even back in the 1980s, the Heritage Foundation understood how to play the news media in ways other think tanks didn't: brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...

NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.

If Democrats were deliberately trying to set up a situation where 2 Republicans advanced to the general election for governor, they couldn't do it any better than the current situation.

OK so Blue Owl (private credit data center lender) has called off the merger that would have given a 20% haircut to its private investors. Blue Owl had threatened to block redemptions and force haircuts for those investors taking losses. (somehow this author doesn't mention that last bit at all?)

The number of unexplained deaths in ICE custody is, under Kristi Noem, roughly 8 times what it was under her predecessor at DHS. Most of these deals demand an investigation.

Interesting to note: she's stumping for a woman who called Israel's assault on Gaza a genocide in April 2024.

"His new book, America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region, is a powerful indictment of the cruelty, stupidity, and injustice of U.S. policies in West Asia and North Africa." daniellarison.substack.com/p/americas-m...

pretty much beyond question that Larry Summers led the charge against Claudine Gay because he is personally a vitriolic misogynist and racist www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

But I thought social scientists could just study LLMs now.

The opioid crisis the Sackler family intentionally began costs the United States roughly $4 trillion a year.

Even the murderer, the guy who ordered the journalist to be executed and dismembered with a bone saw, looks a bit embarassed for our American president.

Pete Hegseth’s church is part of Wilson’s sect, and Hegseth has praised Wilson.

Zohran Mamdani has a higher favorability rating than Donald Trump, JD Vance or Chuck Schumer. The most popular political figures in America are Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Under Biden, US investment in manufacturing rose sharply. Under Trump, it's crashing just as quickly, as investments race out of the country, down roughly 8.6%

"She does not own a car." In a way, this is actually quite funny, but mostly, the people who write this stuff would go apoplectic if anyone judged their life the way they judged other people's.

The energy transition can be a financial winner. Training local workers to build clean transportation infrastructure lowers costs, improves health outcomes, and creates family-sustaining jobs—all part of building the #GoodLife from the ground up. New from @betonyjones.bsky.social: bit.ly/47X63gM

Want to once again point out that Fox News has an entire Bill Maher section of their website that updates several times a week

For some reason, the Big Tent includes MTG, but not like Stop Cop City or Anti-Genocide protestors.

If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper? by Larry Summers

for christian nationalists any other festival of lights is a war on christmas https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/16/us/indian-americans-racism-maga-cec

Holy shit

This is a MAGA person responding to a post about Epstein. The line of argument they are developing in order to defend Trump is: Epstein was not so bad.

imagine being hit on by gross old Larry Summers when you just wanted professional advice and then finding out he was getting advice on how to hit on you from Jeffrey fucking Epstein one of the grossest things I’ve ever read

Amazing how there's only two genders but infinite gradations of underaged sex.

Jesus Christ.

in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism

NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week. prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...

one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.

America supported hard-right, fundamentalist Islamist groups for decades before 9/11 — for the obvious reason that we had common enemies: secular, nationalist groups in the mideast. We had a brief post-2001 disagreement but now we're back to our normal friendship with al Qaeda & co.

History may record that America was a fervent supporter of the proto-Al Qaeda in the 1980s, then there was a brief falling out following 9/11, and then we went right back to being fervent supporters of Al Qaeda

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

The three-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly now exceeds 1.50°C over the pre-industrial baseline, as of November 8, 2025.

To believe that Chuck Schumer disliked the deal but let enough of his caucus members vote for it to pass, you'd have to disclaim any knowledge of how politics works. This is a planted story that puts the best light on a bad situation.

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Palestinian diplomat Saeb Erekat died five years ago today. Here's a funny story about Bill Clinton's vicious lies about his "parameters" for a peace deal in early 2001. Both sides said yes, both had reservations. Ever since then Clinton's lied & said Arafat rejected the deal.