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Mary Meeker’s Trends Report is back. Often called THE most essential deck of the year. 🔥 www.bondcap.com/reports/tai

2025 is also the 250th anniversary of the US Navy and the US Marine Corps - but their founding dates don't coincide with El Jefe Maximo's birthday party, so no parade for them.

Thought about the Biden age discussion: It's always fair to analyze why the cops failed to prevent a crime, but it is strange to focus so tightly on the cops that you forget that the central characters in the crime are the criminal and his confederates.

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

A 98 year old World War 2 veteran, returned to his tank to destroy one last Nazi car. He has a message for Elon Musk, Tesla, Putin, Trump and the international regressive movement. We crushed fascism before, and we'll crush it again, so let's go shall we? #3E #teslatakedown

Trump awoke the sleeping giant of Canadian nationalism

The key chart right now: Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers. This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

ICE is detaining US citizens despite proof of citizenship and despite the law being enjoined already www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

"If you can afford to send Katy Perry to space, you can afford to pay more taxes." #3E

Probably you had to be around in Reagan era to know what a conservative icon J. Harvie Wilkinson III has been. Reagan himself appointed JHW to current position, as Fourth Circuit appeals judge, when JHW was in his 30s. With clarity similar to Judge Luttig's or Liz Cheney's, JHW brings the heat:

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

The United States sent possibly innocent men to a foreign prison without a hearing ... and put a convicted felon who led a violent coup against the Constitution in the White House.

Katy Perry flew into space to announce something but the livestream cut out so no one knows what the announcement was. Perfect Katy Perry story www.theverge.com/news/647935/...

gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election

War hero schools a chickenhawk.

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

THIS IS WHAT A TRADE WAR LOOKS LIKE -

RAND PAUL: “.. When McKinley most famously put tariffs on in 1890, [the GOP] lost 50 percent of their seats in the next election. When [Smoot and Hawley] put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years.” @washingtonpost.com t.co/ONtPfv9On2

“Hey, maybe we can use Gen AI to decide the tariff rates.”

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

From 91 professors at Harvard Law School: a letter to our students. tinyurl.com/letter-to-ou...

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

This is exactly what I have been saying for a while now. At this point, it’s not left vs right that matters, but fighters vs non-fighters. The Dems, and the American people, need fighters.

Beware the Ides of March.

Veterans march in Columbus OH! #3E #veterans

WTF, Chuck?!

One of the most artistically powerful ideas in CS Lewis's "Screwtape Letters" is how intensely the demons of the netherworld envy and hate each other. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Another sticker in Lancaster, Pa.

Facebook is blocking readers from sharing The Nerd Reich newsletter. I assumed this was a simple error rather than nefarious censorship. But Meta support says my newsletter might be blocked because it "addresses topics like the 'Network State' concept and critiques of tech industry figures." 👀