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submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The FAA approved another launch before the last crash investigation was completed — and it ended in another disaster. Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔

submitted 3 days ago • 2549 comments

Famed money manager Clifford Asness on the dumb, dumb, dumb scheme to create a “strategic cryptocurrency reserve.”

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I can't believe Big Balls, the Douche and Tommy Tuna could make a mistake like this, given their combined year of work experience.

submitted 4 days ago • 272 comments

The French Embassy in the United States 🇫🇷🇺🇦

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

The "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve" boils down to this: Taxpayer money is being STOLEN, without congressional approval, to artificially boost the value of a highly speculative financial asset. You can like that asset, you can dislike that asset, that's your own business. But this is open embezzlement.

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

Worth tracking these data closely.

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

Much bigger protests this weekend than last, which were bigger than the week before. This and the town halls and all the other protests and acts of defiance singular or collective should not be dismissed or ignored. By either party or the media.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

I wrote back in 2022 that if Trump is reelected, democracy will not fail all at once, but in red-state pockets, one step at at a time. Like, say, this place in Idaho. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 14 days ago • 105 comments

Himes: "It just looks like an episode of The Sopranos. 'Give us your minerals or we're not gonna help you fight a bloody butcher.' I mean, is this really we want the greatest country in history to be known for -- some mafia thing? ... this president is standing with the bad guy"

submitted 15 days ago • 520 comments

#OnThisDay in 1893, the town of Slaughter was renamed Auburn. https://historylink.org/File/1758

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

“Competence is quiet and boring. The Biden years were mostly soooo boring for reporters to cover because government just worked...we’re going to start seeing government functions break in specific ways, both predictable and unpredictable.”

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

"Move fast and break things" works great when you're in an industry that is creating innovative products people didn't even know they wanted. It's not so great when you're running systems that, however flawed, people rely on for basic needs, and if they suddenly lose access to them, they die.

submitted 41 days ago • 7 comments

To be clear: Trump isn’t suggesting that Egypt and Jordan should take in refugees (which sounds nice and helpful). He’s arguing that all Palestinians should be forcibly removed, forever.

submitted 43 days ago • 12 comments

Here it comes:

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments