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#trassicbasin

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

The Gristedes chain is worth about 0.1% of JPMorganChase, which is just one of 54 Fortune 500 companies based in New York.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

It’s a failure of journalism to do shit like this. Donald Trump has said that something will happen “within two weeks” at least 5,000 times in the past decade with easily over 4,900 of those “deadlines” passing with no action.

submitted 1 day ago • 266 comments

Harris Teeter would own Manhattan

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

submitted 1 day ago • 433 comments

New EPM: Green Tanks Are On The Move! Jon watches Babygirl. David starts writing his musical about the history of FiveThirtyEight.com. overcast.fm/+AAr_rt0QSgM

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

🚨Stephen Miller gets his way. Just a few days after Ag. Sec. Rollins convinced Trump to briefly back down, quotas and indiscriminate raids are back. Farms, restaurants, and hotels are now subject to ICE raids again, with intense pressure on ICE to hit 3,000 arrests a day. Miller remains in charge.

submitted 3 days ago • 124 comments

it would be really helpful for a journalist to be in the signal chat right now

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

What’s the point here? How does this own the libs if they’re technically no longer named for confederates? Go crazy I guess

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Jim Jones used to sell monkeys. #FactBucket

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Of note: a settlement on CMPD's use of sprays and bikes with the NAACP of Mecklenburg, the ACLU of NC, Justin LaFrancois of Queen City Metro and others doesn't expire until July 12. #ncpol ncnewsline.com/wp-content/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

What does the Times need for confirmation? An actual on staff reporter on the ground? Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh etc were all covered extensively by local media. Video of Chapel Hill which was the smallest of those three

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

One thing I have not seen much grappling with: the Trump Administration has acted illegally with respect to the National Guard & Marines in LA plus the whole parade nonsense is a federal show of power, but cops ostensibly controlled by local governments in blue cities attacked protestors yesterday.

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

I almost ran over Dean Smith at a golf crossing as a new driver

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

New EPM: Generating Passive Income Via Affiliate Links: An Explainer Jon cuts the sleeves off his ACAB shirt. David details the absolute destruction of Los Angeles. overcast.fm/+AAr_rtOUzj8

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine Ted Cruz being wrestled to the ground and handcuffed in Texas by the Feds during a Mayorkas presser in Dallas. While Mayorkas declares the liberation of Texas from its incompetent state government by the federal government.

submitted 8 days ago • 47 comments

One side also said, on the record, that they were overthrowing the democratically elected government of a United States city. Offsetting penalties apparently.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

ICE gained

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The Mystery that will always be

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Trump, talking at Fort Bragg right now about Los Angeles, is doing something I'm not sure I've ever seen a president do: he's actively maligning people in Los Angeles — an American city — in front of U.S. troops. And the troops are applauding. As an Army brat myself, this strikes me as very new.

submitted 10 days ago • 400 comments

Why owning a high value domain name is so crucial.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Because if they tried to sleep outside, Gavin Newsom would single-handedly destroy them.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

:)

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

🇺🇸🥒

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

😍😍😍😍

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Indianapolis’s mayor doesn’t have to lie about Indy’s size and Indy has been rewarded.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

OKC’s mayor doth protest too much and is being misleading to claim 90% of Americans live in places smaller than OKC. Tune in to next week’s EPM for more!

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

big distinction here between “does the USG need space x?” (Y) and “does space x need elon musk?” (N), and USG has many, many ways to make that second question excruciating for space x if they choose to

submitted 15 days ago • 33 comments