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DOGE is a sabotage risk to any administration and likely already did irreversible damage.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Amusing to see the Efficient Market™ reveal TSLA stock had a corruption premium of >$100 billion, additional value untethered to the company's performance or even policy/legislation, but rather solely to a belief Musk had the President's favor, which he no longer does. P.S. Now down 10.5%

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Buffoonery aside, I think a lot of Americans can't process that multiple generations of Germans renounce and revile past actions rather than treat them as an aspect of of their culture that must be maintained.

submitted 1 day ago • 100 comments

"Being yelled at on Bluesky is good," from the highly qualified strategists who thought the best final pitch to potential Dem voters was "we love Liz Cheney," producing a catastrophic loss which gave Trump & Musk carte blanche to instantly inflict generational damage.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Just my opinion but I'm skeptical about the value of liberal overtures to the scam artist billionaire who doesn't even try to look "philanthropic," is a huge racist, had a meltdown because his kid is trans, and has personally caused generational damage to our gov't, our research, and Africa 🤷‍♂️

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

For someone who touts the importance of public opinion data, this is a remarkably data free claim. The topics of ads run by democrats are known, thanks to the efforts of @wesmediaproject.bsky.social and others. And, uh, this ain’t it

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Great she’s doing this. But the headline sucks - she isn’t defying him because he’s not her boss. If I keep showing up for work at Drexel after the President of Yale says I’m fired, I’m defying nothing!

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Trump, ever the abuser, gets mad that his friend Musk is attacking his deficit-busting murder budget bill, so takes it out on the foreigners at Harvard he resents because he knows they're smarter than him and have done real work with useful impacts.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I know, it's just a given, but it's nonetheless remarkable that the majority of Congress has zero interest in this or any of the other instances in which recently-teenage freaks have been put in charge of federal government operations. Not even interested enough to post mild criticism. Zilch.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Political malpractice by Democratic leadership to drop every issue as soon as some crypto-funded centrist group says boo. Don't be surprised low-info voters think a handful of trans athletes matter more than unconstitutional kidnappings when you discuss the former more often than the latter.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

IMHO, we should grant Bloomberg leeway on the headline because this is tricky to sum up. The Trump admin can't pull an accreditation... but they're already leaning on the accrediting agencies, which they can stop recognizing, which pulls federal support. Accuracy is sometimes better than precision.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

You use a searchlight to find things you can't see. This is looking for your keys only under the lamp because that's where the light is. Most voters don't spend much time thinking about politics. Don't try to mirror the mythical median voter, try to be a leader for your actual potential voters.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Part of what's so weird about the GOP's fanatical attack on Medicaid. Here in my blue dense suburb next to a blue metropolis, I'll be fine. Hospitals everywhere. In a lot of red rural areas, steep cuts to Medicaid mean the local healthcare system is no longer economically viable without deep cuts.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Really good explainer this morning from @kkjetelina.bsky.social about why pregnant people and children are still eligible for COVID-19 vaccines - and getting one is often the right choice. open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The state of our government is so dire that Steve Freaking Bannon is raising valid objections to the federal budget. (He's right that there isn't $723 billion in fraud in Medicaid. This is just a massive cut that will have severe consequences for millions of people.)

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Imagine if memorizing all of Wikipedia was nowhere near enough data for you to understand anything and have thoughtful conversations. That's how "smart" current LLMs are. Sure, they can make AI more dangerous than humans, but still nowhere close to as "smart."

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

TACO describes a single circumstance: if you're a stock trader, there's a pattern to Trump announcing something (knocking the market down) but then walking it back somewhat (and the market goes right back up). Point is, don't panic sell. Outside of that one situation, it's inaccurate and unhelpful.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

[email protected] correctly treating Hawley like Jon Bernthal treats unnamed henchmen

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

What I like most about this Musk/GOP fight is the absence of any angle for Musk. It's not like he's a sincere fiscal hawk, or that this somehow positions him better with liberal customers. He's just mad his friends don't like him anymore so he's pouring his drink on their board game.

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

"Republicans are weird" remains a devastating, indisputably-true statement, and everyone who isn't part of MAGA should say it all the time. It works in every situation, even outside "culture war" stuff. Sure, there are strong merits to USAID, FEMA, CFPB—but also, destroying them is weird.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

"why would you support a socialist thot for office and not a normal Dem candidate" Okay well I voted for my seemingly-liberal Dem Lt Governor to become Senator and then he turned into Republicans' and Netanyahu's best friend. I don't have a purity test, I have a no-more-turncoats rule.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Trump 2.0 is Christmas for Criminals. Career fed law enforcement is getting purged, and the remaining ones are tasked—alongside increasing numbers of state and local police—with dressing up in military cosplay to do easy-peasy pickups of law-abiding immigrants at hearings or their workplaces.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

the senate report is here: www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Again, all of this is wildly illegal, unconstitutional, & a violation of core legal principles of the sanctity of contracts & property rights, & all of these fake government employees should be arrested & thrown in jail immediately.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Note that Mayor Baraka is repped by @nancyerikasmith.bsky.social, the lawyer who sued Habba on behalf of the Bedminster waitress. She also repped Gretchen Carlson in her harassment suit against Fox.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Part of why we're in this situation is because places like @axios.com only quote Republicans on fiscal issues, like in this article, which quotes only Republican officials & politicians and Jaime Dimon, who said "get over it" about Trump's tariffs, which caused this problem (which isn't mentioned).

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

just need a study showing the same for ice cream and i'll be set

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

I really don't like living in a historical period where the standard behavior of leaders in multiple nuclear-armed countries is to do horrible things then accuse their victims of what they're doing, hence this confession-as-accusation from a delusional neo-Nazi. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The Ukrainian attack used RU telecom networks rather than Starlink. Hard to guess whether this will drive Putin or Elon nuts first. edition.cnn.com/2025/06/02/e...

submitted 4 days ago • 65 comments

“The government gets to render people it doesn’t like stateless” is not a position that has historically worked out well for the Jews.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

But that leaves two possibilities: 1) they're bad people who know they voted to deport moms though they disagree with it 2) they're potato brains incapable of aligning their vote with their policy preferences There's no way to welcome either; we can only hope they suffer economically and switch.

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

My "US will never default on its debt" T-shirts has a lot of people asking questions that are answered by my T-shirt.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

"Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal," wrote Bhattacharya right before the largest COVID death wave. Hard to think of anyone worse to head the largest scientific research agency than a man who is both absolutely certain and absolutely wrong.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Classic Musk. "Bitcoin style encryption" isn't a meaningful term. Does he mean SHA-256 hashing? Elliptic curve cryptography? No one knows. And "whole new architecture" is a garden variety IT security snake oil. It just means it hasn't been exposed to attacks like longstanding programs have been.

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

If we wanted to reduce the number of international students (bad idea, but ok) we could do so with better government funding so universities wouldn't need their tuition. Cutting international students and government funding is a policy designed to force universities to have a rich kid quota.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Fascinated by MoM-z14, and the abundance of Nitrogen. Kind of like finding a new oldest human settlement and huh they've got copper pots and tools. And there's hundreds of these "little red dot" distant galaxies that might be more developed than our standard Big Bang timeline would suggest.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Yup, and Dems need to start saying this. It's a great time to be a criminal, there's no more fed law enforcement, they're all sipping coffee cosplaying in military gear while waiting for law-abiding migrants on their way out of immigration hearings.

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

Oh yes, this is more stuff I've learned in personal injury law. Consider those lawyer billboards, and what volume of cases it takes for "slip and fall" to be an entire field. People fall quite a bit and get hurt quite badly. It's okay to be a big wuss about stairs. Gravity is your enemy.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Sure, there was a domestic terror attack, but don’t fret: the FBI is laser focused on exposing the cover-up of Covid’s origins.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

You know what? We should hold adults responsible, ADULTS that drive SUVs that hit kids. ADULTS. that designed an area without sidewalks. Adults that pushed people out of walkable neighborhoods into inadequate suburbs. Just infuriating.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Shoutout to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for being one of the few with an accurate headline about Musk's departure, although @nytimes.com should have these headlines under "news," not just "opinion." It's not an opinion; it's a fact. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments