"The business allegedly told cattle purchasers, ranchers and feedlots that it would use their funds to purchase specific cattle, raise them and sell the meat for an investment return of 15% to 32%." Welcome to my next Howey Test sec reg exam question

if you're a republican, this is, like, *the* type of guy you absolutely cannot lose like this

something i'd like to see before i die, although i don't expect it — but it would be cool! — is April 9 becoming a national holiday

i hate it here

how we got here

Has any Olympian ever beaten the prior world record (or, better than the prior Olympic record) and then NOT medaled (ie at least 3 other competitors beat the prior record by even more)?

This guy raped little girls.

i need to admit something. the more i think about how many of our problems are downstream of a very small number of ppl and organizations hoarding all the wealth and power, the less interested i am in discussions of american democracy that prefer to focus on anything else.

lol omg the kid in the brown hoodie, you’re gonna wanna see this.

i often think about this review

I woke up with bed head this morning and I realized that at this length, specifically, my hair is what Rick Sanchez’s is meant to represent

The older I get the madder I get when they show kids crying in the crowd when their sports team loses.

Pupdate: The boyfriend gets Tucker. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Giannis Antetokounmpo is #42 on the list of all-time highest scoring NBA players. He has less than half as many career points as LeBron James.

end qualified immunity and make cops carry personal liability insurance

This is a concentration camp. Straight up, every person working there, short drop sudden stop. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“They were hellbent on not allowing anybody to help him until he was dead,” she said. “I was right there, and they — all of them — made the decision to deny me access to give him the best possible chance of survival.”

hell yeah

@annmlipton.bsky.social is this securities fraud? 😂

Anne Frank died of disease in a mass detention center.

pretty much every "AOC isn't far left enough to earn my vote" guy was also a vocal Bernie supporter who would've turned on him immediately had he actually won the nomination or especially became President.

What is your favorite song longer than 10 minutes? The Iliad in heavy metal — Manowar’s “Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts”

what

i'm slaying this week

Who’s the most famous alum of your high school? *sigh* I wish I could say Reggie Jackson, but these days it’s Benjamin Netanyahu

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

I remember being surprised at how much MeToo took over the minds of certain folks, and I guess I just severely underestimated the number of older men who regarded nonstop predation of younger women as their birthright

What the government has taught us time and again is that they will lie about the details of immigration actions.

Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.

This was one of the bosses' explicit goals in getting Trump elected - crush the strong Biden era labor market in order to discipline workers and make them submit to abuse and exploitation. That, not burrito taxi prices, was the actual economic stakes of the 2024 election

This the kind of hubristic, visibly insane finance that rising empires upon which the sun does not set can soorrrrrt of get away with, for a while - but, like, not a flailing tech octopus that doesn’t even have the guns or ships of a minor East India Company, but just broken “self-driving” cars

hold up I have 3,000 followers? wtf

"in September 2008, when Merrill Lynch and then AIG were collapsing, the advice of Warsh to chair Ben Bernanke was for a pure bailout with no costs to Wall Street. That advice was taken" prospect.org/2026/02/10/t...

you’re not actually helping anyone if you see a post criticizing republicans for their behavior and use it as a springboard to criticize democrats

i'm a fan of the rhetorical one-two of "we're coming after you in this life and in the next"

this is excellent, and broadly relevant well outside of environmentalism open.substack.com/pub/drlennec...

people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. the death of US soft power is going to have long term consequences we are only beginning to see

"It's love trying to catch it's breath"... youtu.be/xqTPMkcmCCw?...

this is doomer nonsense

it does strike me how completely unsubtle the abuser talk is here; you’re totally ungrateful to me for how good i am to you, you’ll regret leaving me for anyone else, anyone else would be much worse to you, you owe me for everything i have done for you

I think the answer to this is: when the media reports on what Republicans say they want, many Republican voters say “well I don’t want that” and they trust their self perception over the actual words and deeds of Republican officials and assume the media is lying bsky.app/profile/jame...

brb pitching this at Jeopardy

scandal on scandal on scandal on scandal, etc.

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this is every voter in fairfax county

Rare to see someone explain as explicitly as Bongino did that his media role is feeding slop to the piggies, but then Fox is in the piggie-feeding business. www.mediamatters.org/dan-bongino/...

AAAH AAAAhhhh AAAAHHHHHHHHH www.reuters.com/investigatio...

here's the plaintiff's trial brief if you want the executive summary: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...