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just found out that Google shut down its internal professional development arm and replaced every single class with prompt engineering slideshows

🧵 NYC: Zohran Mamdani is an extraordinary political talent and he CAN win this. What a signal that would send to the country and to the world. If you have been on the fence, this is the moment to go all in.

Army picked crowd of only Trump supporters and made sure no one behind the President was fat. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Strangely, this makes me feel a little better. This wasn't just a raw mass of soldiers bellowing their love for Trump - they were vetted first to ensure they were Trumpists. Oh, and the screening for appearance is another gem. He's trying to manufacture the illusion of full military support.

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

Climate Risk + Post-Event Recovery + Insurance + Housing / Real Estate / Lending = Potential of Short / Long-Term Rise in Asset Distress

This is a really excellent statement by James Mattis that recognizes the stakes of the moment. It is a model for other public figures. We must reject any thinking of our cities as a "battlespace" that our uniformed military is called upon to "dominate." substack.com/home/post/p-...

Musk suddenly realized he was facing an unscheduled flight out of a very tall window. Wonder how that was communicated to him? Horse's head-in-the-bead Godfather style?

Trump said this past week that Musk was “a big-time drug addict” which raises the somewhat awkward question of WHY HE GAVE HIM THE KEYS TO THE ENTIRE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"In pockets of climate-risky real estate all over the country, the risk of foreclosures is likely being greatly amplified by higher levels of debt being borne by consumers, backed up by currently overpriced houses - for the moment..."

Advocates of "abundance" have a lot of good ideas—which is why it's so important that they break with some of their billionaire, anti-labor backers.

“His goal is to eliminate incentives to develop vaccines.” www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

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My latest @bloomberg.com: Trump's FEMA keeps denying state requests for resiliency funds. As of June 10, the total number of rejections is up to at least 7. States can only apply for this $ after disasters & it helps them better prepare for future ones. Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Brand-new polling from YouGov out this AM finds Trump's actions re: LA underwater. Double-digit disapproval on sending in Marines. This should be a reality check for those people arguing the protests inherently help Trump bc his immigration approval # is positive. today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

First bit of polling after Trump's escalation in Los Angeles, and it is very bad for him. Here are the last three YouGov polls of Trump's job approval: 45%-49% (-4) - June 2 45%-55% (-10) - June 6 40%-53% (-13) - June 10

BREAKING: ICE is preparing to deploy tactical units to five cities run by Democratic leaders, according to two sources familiar with the planning of future ICE operations.

Twitter is still our largest public political forum, it is dominated by open neo-Nazis and people who freely call for genocide, if you use it as a normal person in the political mainstream you will be called slurs and your life will be threatened, and no one seems to think it affects anything.

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

Per my post on Saturday below identifying the provision in 12406 providing for Governor's role.... Governor Newsom's (very well-lawyered) letter on Sunday now goes for it:

Shocked that all it took was a fascist stunt for Trump to get Elon kissing his ring again.

Alex Jones spent the last 30 years being like "MARTIAL LAW IS COMIN BECAUSE THE DEEP STATE JADE HELM ILLUMINATIIII" and now it's here and his place could not be more in favor of it.

Interesting!

do you ever think about how this is all happening for no reason at all?

Celebrating my first month as ED for @chrclla.bsky.social by wearing one of my new favorite shirts to the office. CHINGA TU MIGRA roughly translates to SCREW YOUR IMMIGRATION POLICE (the PG-13 definition is so that my abuela doesn’t yell at me).

On Facebook, my page has been shadowbanned since Aug 2018 On Threads, my account was frozen and then started to decline after the algorithm changes made in Nov 2024 On X, trolling increased by a factor of 15 and my follower count first froze, then started to drop after algorithm changes. (Cont’d)

There are a lot of people out there trying to make cities better. They cite Jane Jacobs. They reference Christopher Alexander. But too often, they try to get those outcomes using the methods of Robert Moses. Read more in @clmarohn.bsky.social's latest: buff.ly/Feqf3Nc

The atmosphere is a needy sponge, demanding more and more water as it warms. This "atmospheric thirst" is largely responsible for the increase in drought severity and areal extent seen in the last 40 years, a new study finds. "A hotter world is a thirstier world." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/c...

Honestly I’m genuinely surprised it took this long for Musk and Trump to turn on each other - but it was always baked in with these two narcissistic freaks