Every authoritarian action Trump is taking must be understood against the backdrop of his declining popularity.
He feigns strength, but he's operating from a place of weakness.
Remember this.
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Any candidate who isn’t pushing for serious reform of the Supreme Court is not meeting the moment
Two small children labeled “the rich” cry and shrink back in terror from a rabbit labeled “taxes” while behind them, unseen, lurks a tiger labeled “guillotines”
They really need to learn that paying taxes is the happy outcome for them.
I wonder why Dinesh might want to move on from the Epstein files… 🤔
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Earthset, recorded by Reid Wiseman during the Artemis II lunar flyby.
The initial imperfect composition, and the phone hunting for focus makes this so much more human and familiar.
A celestial scene witnessed by only 28 of us in history...more
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Lindsay is doing the best analysis I've seen of the back and forth on talks. This is from the middle of one of her threads.
I don't know what it will take to make Trump get serious. Probably a major market crash.
But he'll announce something tonight and his marks in the market will do his bidding.
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That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech
How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...
That, plus it’s always the wrong week to quit sniffing glue
DOOOOO ITTTTTTTT
Then vote YES on the redistricting measure!
Have been wondering when candidates would start talking about this. One of the biggest corruption scandals is U.S. history playing out in real time.
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Shockingly, @chucktingle.bsky.social is not the author of any of these!
So close!
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Two nights ago, Russia sent nearly 700 drones and dozens of missiles at Ukrainian civilians. In the fifth year of the war, aerial attacks on Ukrainian civilians have become even more intense and more frequent. Please join me in this campaign for air defense equipment. You can help protect lives.
The next congress needs to impose a 200% tax on any settlement payments received by a convicted felon while serving as president
"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging
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Apparently, Putin is furious about this critique from a russian blogger so it would be a shame not to share it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
was googling around to get an idea of the cost of it, and they definitely spent at least a half million dollars on this
A tweet from Representative Thomas Massie that reads: I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs. 1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702. 2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law. The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.
I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about.
Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.
I’m sure that this is nothing at all like the months before the 90’s tech crash when every failing company stuck a .com on its name, right?
Not only did the sons probably call ICE on her, the day after her husband died they took their dad's cars, leaving her housebound. Then they rerouted mail, causing her to miss a visa appointment & the utilities to be turned off. Tony and Gary Ross are going to hell.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
Disbarring some lawyers for this sort of thing wouldn't remotely solve the problem, but it would certainly do a world of good
Not too bad
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Some staffers on the Hill are memorizing the faces of TMZ's new Hill correspondents and planning alternate routes for lawmakers to travel through the Capitol complex to limit interactions with TMZ reporters—but they’re also talking about TMZ’s practice of paying for tips, lmao.
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
