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I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:

submitted 42 days ago • 117 comments

It's so wild that the Angels had Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani and couldn't build ANYTHING around them. What a monumental waste.

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

1-877-KARS-4-KIDS

submitted 55 days ago • 16 comments

Bill Cassidy is out with a statement praising Peter Marks, calling his departure a loss and urging RFK Jr to pick a replacement of similar stature. Again, strikes me that these sorts of admonishments wouldn’t have been needed if RFK Jr wasn’t health secretary.

submitted 55 days ago • 171 comments

If you know anything about this, we (investigative journalists in Wisconsin) want to check it out. Contact info in my bio. Photos, videos, etc please.

submitted 55 days ago • 16 comments

MAGA Congresswoman in Trump's America: "You violated the law, you don't get due process.” Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland: “Sentence first—verdict afterward.”

submitted 55 days ago • 28 comments

Whoever put together this graphic with the logo of every team in the NCAA Tournament could have put the logos in any order. Alphabetical. Conference affiliation. Tournament region. They chose #BUTT

submitted 55 days ago • 19 comments

I’m amazed at how youth sports addresses so many ills of modern life for kids: -exercise -hanging out with friends -avoiding screens -learning teamwork -having low-stakes opportunities for failure and resilience

submitted 55 days ago • 23 comments

If Pete Hegseth's wife is attending the meetings to move the gin bottles out of reach, then we should all be grateful that Pete Hegseth's wife is attending the meetings.

submitted 55 days ago • 58 comments

We need to nuke the US out of existence

submitted 55 days ago • 31 comments

I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.

submitted 73 days ago • 38 comments

If the US had continued to support Ukraine, we may have been months away from the end of the war. The Russians would not have been able to continue to fight for much longer. They were making almost no progress, taking huge casualties.

submitted 80 days ago • 216 comments

With Trump self-immolating his presidency there’s a golden opportunity for Democrats to walk out of the shadow of protectionism and back into the warm light of pro-growth economics + a social safety net. www.slowboring.com/p/democrats-...

submitted 75 days ago • 12 comments

New pod: Karoline Leavitt is seething at journos over Musk questions. More bad economic news just hit. Trump is running out of exec orders to feed to the base. Cracks are appearing in the MAGA coalition. Trump is vulnerable. @jamescdownie.bsky.social and I dig in: newrepublic.com/article/1919...

submitted 87 days ago • 84 comments

Not even kidding: At the Wittman (VA-01) "office hours" today, a constituent was trying to explain the hardship that understaffed Social Security offices had been causing his family. Wittman's rep seemed almost robotic to the constitent's concerns. It is going to get worse.

submitted 86 days ago • 7 comments

New: Reporting over the past few days suggest Dems really do see the government-funding as an opportunity to force a return to the rule of law. (Good!) It also suggests that they might settle for a fig leaf. (Bad!)

submitted 87 days ago • 19 comments

Dan Bongino sued the Daily Beast for $15 million for reporting the NRA fired him for being "unfit for his duties" and not only did he lose but he was found liable for the Beast legal fees and had to pay THEM $40,000

submitted 89 days ago • 92 comments

Elon Musk at a public event

submitted 89 days ago • 32 comments

(Bloomberg) - Microsoft Corp. has begun canceling leases for a substantial amount of datacenter capacity in the US, a move that may reflect concerns about whether it’s building more AI computing than it will need over the long term, TD Cowen said in a report. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 89 days ago • 79 comments

The benefits of speeding EV adoption aren’t worth plowing tons of money into Elon Musk’s pockets. www.slowboring.com/p/democrats-...

submitted 89 days ago • 17 comments

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 91 days ago • 541 comments

Ma’am this is a movie newsletter.

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Every so often I remember that Oprah brought us Dr Phil, Dr Oz and The Secret but the only person she brought back to destroy on her show was the guy who pretended to be a worse drug addict than he actually was in a book

submitted 91 days ago • 161 comments

"even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making" "Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination"

submitted 93 days ago • 220 comments

It’s no longer the House budget. It’s the Trump budget, now that Trump has endorsed it, and since the Administration hasn’t submitted its own budget. So we should call the House budget the Trump budget. And we can talk about Trump’s cuts to important programs and Trump’s broken campaign promises.

submitted 93 days ago • 15 comments

the reason YIMBYs are so incessant about YIMBYism is that there is literally One Simple Trick to fix the housing crisis that actually raises government revenue and is environmentally friendly. we just need to legalize housing

submitted 97 days ago • 10 comments

Andddd that should just about do it for godboy here www.thebaltimorebanner.com/sports/raven...

submitted 96 days ago • 16 comments

70 year old guy gets a 25 year old gf and the ignorant masses say she only wants him for his money. These people have never known the simple pleasure of extremely old balls

submitted 96 days ago • 42 comments

Guys like joe rogan are funny because they still think smoking weed that they buy legally from places that look like an apple store makes them hunter s thompson

submitted 118 days ago • 306 comments

The evidence we have is full employment led most Americans to act riskier than they did in the slower economic recovery of the 2010’s. The system has become more unstable.

submitted 98 days ago • 5 comments

The conspiracy theory that until liberal journalists discovered and wrote about the youth gender medicine controversy, everyone was going to be a-okay with giving 13-year-olds double mastectomies and putting 12-year-olds on hormones... I just can't express how dumb this is, to be honest.

submitted 99 days ago • 7 comments

Four FEMA officials were fired for not following illegal orders to withhold spending. The White House is saying of judicial decisions: "These unlawful injunctions are a continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump." These are not warning signs. This is happening now.

submitted 101 days ago • 54 comments

This is — literally — unheard of in federal prosecutions. We can’t prosecute him because he’s a candidate for office? Wow.

submitted 102 days ago • 1879 comments

Gaza Development Plan = send in U.S. troops to permanently remove 2 million Palestinians and turn it over to Donald Trump to build a beach and casino resort. Literally the plan.

submitted 102 days ago • 33 comments

Not a single Republican senator stood against Gabbard -- ignoring the law requiring the director of national intelligence to have deep national-security experience. She has none. She represents the disastrous rise of misplaced power, and a danger to the United States. www.axios.com/2025/02/10/t...

submitted 102 days ago • 316 comments

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

submitted 102 days ago • 67 comments

I think I speak for all New Yorkers when I say that I think Mayor Eric Adams is good again. He can now refocus on being afraid of, disgusted by, and confused about the city he governs, and most importantly inspiring all New Yorkers with the power of whatever it is that makes him act like this.

submitted 102 days ago • 23 comments

One federal law enforcement official called the order to withdraw the charges against Adams “horrific” and “just transparent corruption.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 102 days ago • 62 comments

I think the histories of whatever is happening right now will identify the preemptive resignation of the FBI director as a key moment

submitted 102 days ago • 4 comments

That old saw about how “good times make weak men” is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they’re too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.

submitted 105 days ago • 16 comments

Heritage’s Project 2025 says “Congress should cap the indirect cost rate paid to universities…” CONGRESS. Even Heritage assumed this couldn’t be done arbitrarily by the executive. (Also, aren’t there contracts here? Can one party simply change the terms?) www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 105 days ago • 36 comments

Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people. Identify those people and block and shun them.

submitted 105 days ago • 344 comments

FA CUP OR GENDER REVEAL PARTY?!

submitted 105 days ago • 4 comments

Trump just issued an executive order titled: ADDRESSING EGREGIOUS ACTIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA It says "the United States shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation"

submitted 105 days ago • 345 comments

Not many white Zimbabweans left but I wonder how they missed this cut.

submitted 105 days ago • 7 comments