The auto dealership owner tax will go up to to 500%

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free

2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

I don’t actually think any of them want this role though, maybe Turkey but especially not India. There’s no real alternative to the US in this region after Russia smashed its face in in Ukraine

Incredible how they’re trying to do the whole bit like does anyone believe this?

Just one in four Americans say they back US strikes on Iran, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds One in four Republicans say Trump is too willing to use military force.

5 days ago

www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...

How did this go from a 75/25 issue to 55/45 in the span of a week??

Iranian Kurd uprising is the new Ghost of Kyiv

Is this legit? Idk how much of this is just psyop, plus don’t really trust Israeli reporting

I think the likelihood there is any American commitment to *gestures at all of this* if the Iranian regime is standing in a couple weeks is close to zero

The first confirmed fatalities in Trump's illegal War on Iran:

Captain Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, FA

Sergeant First Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, NE

Sergeant First Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, MN

Sergeant Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, IA

First as tragedy then as farce……

I mean but also they have Bibi going on Fox to try to sell the war????

Almost as if the plan is to turn it into Libya!

I thought Saudis were the ones advocating against this a few weeks ago?

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

If I had to anthropomorphize price action since Sep, Mr. Market has gone from saying "AI superintelligence means we need to pay infinite multiples for anything even tangentially compute-related" to "AI regular-intelligence means we need to pay 0 multiples for anything even tangentially disruptable"

I mean newspapers have faced headwinds for 15+ years now, and WaPo in particularly had post-2020 headwinds. But you’re losing the plot if you ignore the whole losing ~250k subscribers in a matter of months….

Is it odd that they’re taking this long to issue a tariff ruling or is this normal?

I’m sorry man if you think there is any serious check on US foreign policy beyond internal politics I think you’ve missed the past 35 years!

This tweet is almost 10 years old and people still don’t get it lol

One of the worst massacres of protestors in probably a century and Europe can't be bothered to do anything except tell the US to intervene and the US can't even effectively intervene because half of the God damn navy is off the coast of Venezuela. Just unbelievable

If I had to predict what the future of the AI labs are, I would say XAI and OAI wind up roadkill, Anthropic becomes a premium-priced B2B SAAS company, Google wins consumers via the ad cross-subsidy, and Meta/Chinese open source models monopolize “specialized use cases” ie goonbots

At Middlebury, She Hoped to Start Fresh. In Trump’s America, It Seemed Impossible.

A devastating story about the life and death of Lia Smith, a transgender woman and college student targeted by conservatives online because she briefly participated on the school's diving team. Lia was found dead by suicide last fall at the age of 21.

(Unlocked article below)

Is there any data on increased social media consumption among middle age and older adults since 2020?

Didn’t they say that about 2025 too?

Even beyond foreign policy Biden’s entire pitch was vote for him to put the grown ups back in the White House! in retrospect can safely say no one thinks that’s what happened