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New figures from CBO about how Americans at different income levels are affected by the GOP's Big Beautiful Bill. Topline finding: Richest decile gets about 2% richer. Poorest decile gets about 4% poorer. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

submitted 17 hours ago • 38 comments

Maybe ICE cops wear masks not because they’re scared of being ID’d but because they’re ashamed of being fat. But seriously: these guys did 32 sit-ups and 22 pushups in 2 minutes, and ran 220 yards in 48 seconds and 1.5 miles in 14:25 to get hired? The trick: they never have to pass the test again.

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Yes, Brad Lander:—the competent, experienced, intelligent, progressive, honest, non-creepy candidate for mayor of New York. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Lindsey Graham morphs into Mitch McConnell.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Could this be any cheesier? The Greatest Self-Parodist of All Time never stops delivering new next-level cringe.

submitted 21 hours ago • 10 comments

Wave a foreign flag to protest a regime that frames immigration as a foreign invasion requiring military response? 🤦‍♂️Unforced political error. Reminiscent of “defund the police.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Great, smart, correct piece by @hirschorn.sky.social on how and why more people on the left need to take the leads of Buttigieg and Bernie—un-clutch their pearls and plunge into the contemporary American media hurly-burly. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

In 2010 SCOTUS allowed states to loosen gun laws. In those that did, many more kids have been killed. But in the 9 states that didn’t and have the strictest laws, those numbers have stayed the same or dropped. The leading cause of death for American children is getting shot. It’s a choice.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Who told the Washington bureaucrat Tom Homans that he should go full cosplay with the fatigues and patrol cap?

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Almost shockingly good duscussion in @cnn.com following the play. @abbyphillip.bsky.social:exceptional.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Good Night and Good Luck is a good play. Astoundingly, fortuitously resonant. Brilliant to air it on @cnn.com. Directed on live TV by David Cromer better than I’ve ever seen that done. Bravo to one and all.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

It’s so dumb—the result if an inefficient market due to the crazily herd mentality of fashion—that only 6 of Manhattan’ 67 best restaurants are uptown. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Being deeply “uninformed about legislation and the Congressional process” and the nature of government is one of the main things they have in common. Along with megalomania and impulsiveness. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Elon opens a new anti-Trump GOP policy front—he’s super-pro-solar!

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

My bet last December on the breakup timing was the 2nd quarter 2025. What do I win?

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

Along with being a dangerously deranged un-American moron and liar. he remains The Greatest Self-Parodist of All Time.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

Fabulous long story by Masha Gessen about the amazing investigative journalist and actual hero Cristo Grosev. (Who also happens to be a charming, good-humored guy.) Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

This is so great. Big corporate clients—Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Citadel Oracle, many more—now mistrust the scaredy-cat big law firms for panicking and instantly capitulating to Trump’s unconstitutional threats, and have started taking their legal business elsewhere. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Succession was brilliant, among the best shows ever. Jesse Armstrong’s 2-hour followup Mountainhead, alas, is not. Succession’s hyperrealism and dry-martini satirical sensibility lashed to a farcical slapstick cartoon premise does not work.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Do halfwitted algorithms generate the fun ironic adjacencies between news stories and ads that often occur? Or are they random coincidences? Such as this Tory Burch ad embedded within today’s Times story about Mormon women eager to buy the new tank-top sacred undershirts the church now permits.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Wow. Carefully choosing to be an asshole by making a joke out of pretending to apologize for having extemporaneously been an asshole. With a sincere (?} callout to Jesus as a kicker at the end. She’s up for re-election next year.

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

Someone needs to bring a big arena rock sized amplifier up in front of the White House and just put sad trombone on infinite loop.

submitted 15 days ago • 128 comments

"Was it all bullshit?" That Trump apparently believed Musk's ignorant little chainsawing task force really could come in and unilaterally cut $1 trillion (or $2 trillion) from the federal budget shows you just how unbelievably stupid he is. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

Trump and his Republican Party are reckless un-American anti-constitutional radicals, the very opposite of conservative. His breakup with the Federalist Society makes it official, confirmation that Trump and his GOP are a cult of cruelty, chaos and corruption. Conservative in name only.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Great Paul Krugman explainer on dangers of the almost-passed GENIUS Act. It lets banks issue crypto known as stablecoin, setting up a new path to a financial crash. Which of the 16 D Senators who supported it will finally vote to own potential catastrophe? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/digital-co...

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

The Anthropic AI CEO/co-founder predicts AI may "spike unemployment to 20% in the next 1 to 5 years." It prompted me to re-read my chapter about our economic future in my 2020 book Evil Geniuses. It's aged okay –– consensus then was AI eliminates 15% to 30% U.S. jobs "in the next 10 to 20 years."

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Our angry stupid president turns on the Federalist Society and insults its mastermind powerbroker because another Trump-appointed Federalist Society-approved judge ruled he must obey the Constitution. LOVE IT.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Love it

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Trump Always Chickens Out. He’s fuming! Keep him fuming. TACO! TACO! TACO! TACO! TACO! TACO! www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

• Good: “Legal experts told The Post the lawsuits are likely to succeed if they make it to the Supreme Court.” • Good: 2 of 3 judges on this U.S. Court of International Trade panel were appointed by Trump and Reagan. • Question: why’d I never know of the Court of International Trade until now?

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

All U.S. financial assets—public & private equity, corporate bonds, private equity & debt, government bonds—are worth around $100 trillion. Americans own $1T in crypto. When that bubble bursts it won’t hurt the system, just the speculators—mainly younger men & now one old one.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments