The White House design changes are getting so hideous we may need to give the Fab 5 a full term in office just to recover.

Vaguely fascinating to watch Marjorie Taylor Greene pivot on a dime from red meat MAGA to… well, whatever this new thing is. Just woke up one day and decided to change character. Though her positions have shifted toward sanity, the sheer speed of it is quite unsettling. Talented Mr Ripley vibes.

“Deutsche Bank is exploring hedging their exposure…” lol okay well clearly this could implode at any moment.

Of course I'm worried about socialism. I mean, just imagine if Mamdani one day becomes President and nationalizes industry, imposes historic tax hikes, goes after the media, builds a secret national police force, militarizes the country, and sends people to camps.

Ross Douthat is basically the answer to the question, “what if Al Bundy from Married With Children thought he was a modern day Thomas Aquinas?”

“So look your recent work… I’m not really connecting with it, like it just doesn’t speak to me at all. What am I missing?” “I reject the charges.” “What?”

Criminals are now actively red teaming the administration’s illegal renditioning efforts. It’d like a crime turducken.

It’s crazy how the entire national platform from discretionary spending to diplomacy has become a series of make-a-wish projects for a senile octogenarian.

In honor of the day, I turned this idea into an infographic. One of the ways I look at this: a Democrat is going to be called 'a radical leftie' no matter what their views are and Republicans will succeed in manipulating issue salience. In the upper right, you at least stop looking defensive.

I miss the old Dem Party That cross of gold Dem Party Union stronghold Dem Party That stone cold Dem Party I hate the new Dem Party The centrist mule Dem party Follow the rules Dem Party Can’t break through Dem Party

This is my hometown that I love. I left for a time. Went out to see the world which I think you have to do, but then returned here to build a life. Sometimes I’ll joke “most things in Durango cap out at like a B-“ which is kinda true, and how we like it. Except the people: A+ people, and fighters.

The one thing this election made very clear, for me, is that Chuck Schumer has got to GO. Feckless, out of touch, no will to fight. Thank you for your service sir, but we need something very different right now. If you love this country, stand down so she can thrive.

God what a beating. Imagine being on the other side of this if you were a thin-skinned narcissist with your entire self-worth wrapped up in being a winner.

Like yeah yeah yeah I know he’s gonna disappoint me whatever but do you know how amazing it is to hear a Democrat telling Trump fuck you, openly? Pritzker has been doing it too, but he has the energy and fearlessness to just go for it

I voted for this because it’s awesome and good. Been a contributor to the local effort that DIY’d this in our community for a while, awesome to see it rolling out statewide. Hell yeah Colorado.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Remember, tonight was only possible because of our poasts.

Gonna be weird to watch Zuck go woke again. His stylist is good, but those formidable skills are about to be tested.

MSNBC calls NYC for Mamdani

The post-Covid boom was a heady blend of direct transfers to consumers with a high propensity to spend, rapidly swelling bank deposits via those transfers, and low rates juicing borrow-side demand for turning those deposits into loans. We are now doing the opposite. 1/2

As a person who hires people, I strongly endorse this take. Give me any flavor of liberal arts degree over a business major, for any role.

My working hypothesis is that the reason Matt Yglesias was booed off of Bluesky isn’t because Bluesky is too leftist or too toxic. It’s because he sucks.

“…authoritarianism is not a belief system but a predisposition, a latent personality trait that activates under conditions of perceived threat or diversity. Her respondents were not inherently cruel; they simply felt endangered by complexity.” Great piece.

Any attempt to view the MAGA platform as something other than a class war is a fool’s errand. And because I have been unsuccessful at prioritizing vibe coding myself an app that will physically stop me from listening to Ezra Klein, I once again find myself watching a fool go about his errands. 1/

“I just think that the last few campaigns that I've covered, especially candidates who have run for president in the Democratic Party, they substitute reaching people on a soul level for a laundry list of policies.” Great take from Abby Phillips.

Yeah uh… “readiness” looks like paying your goddamn air traffic controllers not LARPing CrossFit JFC

One of my favorite AI podcasts, run by a couple guys who are using the models but also healthily skeptical of the hype. This episode opens with a discussion around the ongoing narrative pivot away from AGI, which I agree is a very interesting moment: lotta dollars invested were underwriting that…

Exceptional. This is how it’s done.

80% of air traffic controllers absent at New York facilities. The system is at breaking point.

I keep imagining how weird it would be, you’ve traveled thousands of miles to speak with a head of state about a trade deal that would be good for your people or broker a peace and it’s been a long day so you excuse yourself for a moment, open the door and step into that gauche af bathroom.

interior design where you're just randomly pressing buttons for yellow gold, white marble, and crystal chandelier to remind everyone you're very rich

Politicians are playing games with SNAP benefits while food banks are overwhelmed with need. Screw politics. Let’s just help people. I’ll match the next fifty $5 donations to the Weld Food Bank: weldfoodbank.org/wordofthanks/

Quick reminder that if you see any large, stainless steel, highly angular trucks while you’re out trick or treating, those are the perfect place to put sticky substances or other refuse. Just kinda on or around them, whatever is easy.

Marie Antoinette ass President

We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.

It's like watching a dog try to drive a car

Ah. So we can’t continue sending out food stamps but we can staff shock troops. Cool, cool.

Want to make sure this letter arrives at the right place.

Exactly the sort of thing happening here — tear gas, rubber bullets, etc. being used against demonstrators who are simply protesting. It's not just our small town, and it's not just Portland. National deployment of a heavily kitted out force with little training and no discipline. Total disaster.

All the homies love money laundering now

Meritocracy is when you throw a tantrum and refuse to let anyone do their job while telling reporters you aren’t aware of any detail about the job at any level.

“𝘖𝘭𝘭𝘪 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵.” — 𝘌𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘰𝘪𝘥 (𝘈𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘛𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘬𝘰𝘷𝘴𝘬𝘺)

Wish I could enjoy some schadenfreude at Trump voters getting their SNAP assistance cut off as Thanksgiving approaches, but you know what? Schadenfreude is for watching people get publicly embarrassed by petty ego shit. Everyone deserves to eat. I’m sad we are letting ourselves down.

Credit where it is due, @colorado.gov has issued the following statement. What I would like to see next, as a citizen, is for the Governor to direct state police to actively intervene and prevent ICE attempts to detain Colorado residents without a warrant or judicial process. Action > Sentiment

Curious to see how this ages. What’s notable to me about the Dotcom bubble is that many of the things lampooned at the time (e.g. pets dot com) were underwriting that was done on the wrong time scale. Lotta people buying their dog food online now, decades later.

These are the names of the Colorado State Patrol officers assisting ICE in the illegal renditioning of my neighbors without due process. Tell me @colorado.gov, is this what I’m paying taxes for? So you can kidnap my neighbors? Are you only with us when it’s easy or are you gonna do something?

One of the people I work with saw a post on social, let it bake for a bit, and then over the ensuing weeks unfolded that thought into an architectural pattern that solved a host of tricky problems we’d been facing. Drives me mad when people say software engineers aren’t “real engineers” or whatever

Protesters swarmed an ICE facility in Durango, CO demanding two children detained with their father be released to their mother. Durango Police say they also offered to help reunite the kids with their mother. They were unsuccessful.

The basic split on the left, in my view, boils down to this: on the one side you’ve got the ‘Abundance’ faction, who are in some sense objectively correct inasmuch as theorists (pejorative) can be. On the other side you’ve got a group observing we’ve been running that abundance program… 1/3