Dems are winning special elections because those are new candidates. Republicans hate Dems but Dem voters ALSO hate Dem leadership (Chuck, Hakeem) for folding on literally everything. Dems will win big in the midterms, but incumbents are gonna get rinsed in the primaries.
I know our expectations for this administration are in the basement but it is INSANE they started a war without a plan for the Strait of Hormuz.
A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.
If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job
Here's a thread featuring clips of key moments from the DC Metropolitan Police body camera footage of the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that I obtained as a result of my FOIA lawsuit:
Kids grow fast, and so do we.
This fall, we're adding more than 1,000 seats for universal 3-K in 56 zip codes. Childcare will be more accessible and affordable across all five boroughs.
guys like castro are doing the work
Screenshot of four different jobs from the NY Mag feature about what people make in NYC: "Home Health Aide $23,000 I've been a home health aide for ten years. My main patient last year was in Brooklyn. I spent most of my time taking care of her. I worked two days a week, and I was being paid for 13 hours of work each day - my agency, Loyal Home Care, budgets eight hours of sleep and three hours for mealtimes into our wages. But I was basically working 24 hours a day. She was active, and I was worried she would fall, so I would watch her all day and night. This is a pretty common experience for health aides. The agency can deny our overtime, but you can't deny a patient. When they say, "Oh, I need a drink of water; I need to use the bathroom," how could you possibly say "no" to them? Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."
It's all so clear
so the new objective is basically to safely open the strait of hormuz, the strait that was open before they started this war for no reason
He has also deported dozens of dissidents back to Iran, where they were likely executed.
I had a relative who started giving people ball point pens when her dementia got really bad, don't know what made me think of that just now
NEWS
Trump DOJ offers a deferred prosecution agreement to Halkbank, the Turkish state-run bank charged with laundering billions in Iranian oil money.
Trump repeatedly tried to end this case in his first term—per John Bolton, as a favor to one of the "dictators he liked" (i.e. Erdogan).
You’re very forgiving, sorry about the drive by sarcasm. fwiw, meant as a complaint about (waves hands) all this rather than as a critique of your podcast which, as you surmised, I have not listened to. Will put it in my queue!
What's going to get him kicked out of office--one way or another--is that his response to a Dem blowout in the midterms is going to be his inevitable attempt to violently prevent, corrupt, or nullify the elections.
Amerimaidan is where this shit is headed.
maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living
Important to note there are LLMs trained in Chinese so the whole thought experiment is literally realizable, as conceived, if someone is willing to sacrifice months of their life to do it. (Or a few days, perhaps, with some basic computational support?)
Asian markets can’t hurt you if you don’t look at them. Just pretend they’re not real.
‘Tis done (by @emollick, not me) - Searle’s Chinese Room via ChatGPT
bsky.app/profile/part...
Here is a full implementation of the Chinese Room using a printed copy of GPT-1 in case you have a few spare years and want to actually run the thought experiment for real, for some reason. You can also download 80 volumes of GPT-1 weights for free to do it: weights-press.netlify.app/pdfs/The-Chi...
Whether it was deliberate targeting or a mistake, the Trump regime must be held accountable for the massacre of Iranian schoolgirls, which may well be a war crime.
And Trump and Hegseth must be held accountable for lying about that, and so much more in this illegal war.
Every student taking Econ 101 this term:
“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.”
-Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
“Hate the dying industry that is academia? Make a new career for yourself in publishing and/or journalism!”
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
someone i worked with years ago set some kind of macro so when there was a red/white blinking bloomberg headline, his PC would play the mcdonalds LEDELLEDEL kitchen beep. days like today, you'd feel like you were really there
NTSB is the last exemplar of independent professionalism in federal government, because we used to think stopping plane crashes was a goal beyond partisanship
The Trump admin launched a war alongside, and at the urging of, Netanyahu. Not one U.S. official is allowed to claim surprise or dismay that Netanyahu escalated the conflict; that is what he does. Escalation wasn't just foreseeable, it was guaranteed.
When Saddam Hussein did this to Kuwait there was incandescent outrage from Republicans everywhere
