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I don't think there is a single topic where the gap between reality and the median American's opinion is larger than the question of Donald Trump's business acumen

Journal writers call millennials the Peter Pan generation. What’s that make them, Captain Hook? And how’d they get their boat anyway?

Propublica is a godsend

the trump White House posting a soothing video so its fans can (literally?) honk off to migrants getting sent to Gitmo etc in chains is the most “you don’t get to regret voting for this, this was on all the bumper stickers” shit

incredible summation of academic legal culture

It really will be important to, if there is cause, prosecute Elon and his child saboteurs

After Bush, Republicans should have been shut out of government for a generation and it's an outrageous repeated bag fumble by the Dems that the GOP is even electorally viable let alone frequently in power

I believe I have worked out the core gameplay mechanic. If I can see this through to publication it’s going to - genuinely - tear dorky friend groups to shreds. It’s Diplomacy meets Poker.

It's also idiotic because it treats these as separate offenses rather than as one coherent narrative of TRUMP STOLE YOUR MONEY AND SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT

deficit ballooning due to the maintenance budget of a suburban assault vehicle that blows up more than the Ford Pinto.

They don't and they don't

Here's a list of DOGE staff, assembled and annotated by my colleagues at BI. Whatever you do, please don't share it. www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-l...

Roy Cohn is dead but Trump's new enforcer is a spitting image of him and his name is nearly an anagram for "Evil Mob"

Advancing American Interests Through Bribery www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The only red and green on my tv tonight was Mario & Luigi Brothership, but I’m pleased to hear the team that beat the team I like got beat.

Weird how all the people upset by the Kendrick performance are almost all incredibly unsettling guys with a myriad of accusations against them anywayyyyys guess they don’t like rap or something

More like Super Bowl devious licks the way Philadelphia’s running away with it

The best time to get errands done or drive somewhere if you don’t really give a shit about football is during the Super Bowl. Roads, supermarket and gym are EMPTY.

And there's no exogenous reason for doing this. It's just pure ideology and nihilism that could've easily been avoided.

The only time I’ve seen this guy interact with his family is telling his grade schooler to shut up about Pokémon.

If ever there was a way to inspire a generation of ambitious young men to acts of lynching dressed up as vigilantism, I’d say this is it

*Ruining a colony on Mars