Palantir should not be allowed to have any government contracts at any level because it is fundamentally opposed to the basic concepts of liberal democracy.
gizmodo.com/palantir-pos...
I see people questioning what use this could have, but consider that we’re closer than ever to building a robot that can run away when you catch it stealing a pie from your windowsill
Hell Gate snagged eight minutes with Mayor Mamdani to close our First 100 Days newsletter. We spoke about why he's skipping the Met Gala, his pied-à-terre pivot, the crumbling BQE, and what rituals he keeps from his previous life. hellgatenyc.com/mayor-mamdan...
I don't think I'll ever get over Clarence Thomas ruling on cases related to Jan 6 knowing that his wife was an active participant in the attempted coup.
Or ruling on cases related to government regulations and a wealth tax knowing he took gifts from billionaires.
It's a disgrace.
Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:
Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
HBO
Warner Bros
TNT
TBS
MTV
DC Studios
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
And more...
This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.
State AGs must step in and block it.
Schrodinger’s Strait
Leonardo da Vinci (c.1499)
Future of Dem party more up for grabs right now than it has been since 2008 (or even decades prior). Not sure how useful it is to carpet-bomb the brand rather than advocate against old guard (Schumer, Booker, et. al.) & for specific candidates to usher in Dem party of tmr (El-Sayed, Platner, Mejia)
This kind of browbeating is good for social media clicks, but not much else. Upset that meaningful swathes of left-leaning voters didn't give support? Listen to their concerns & show you are listening.... Novel concept, I know.
‘become’? Always was. Harvard served her poorly.
The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!
from Superman 400, by Elliot Maggin, Marshall Rogers, Terry Austin
On Yom HaShoah, we pledge to uphold the memories of the six million and more whose lives were taken in the Holocaust. (1/3)
Wherein Amazon covers up a workplace death
Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...
I’m a reform Jew who grew up Unitarian and even I get what a mistake this is
“But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.” —Samuel Beckett, born 120 years ago today
Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich.
Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else.
The state of Trump's union. [@itep.org]
Trump accepted $37 million worth of donated foreign steel for his White House ballroom from a corporation based in Luxembourg.
Just days later, the Trump administration made major cuts to tariffs on steel imports that could significantly benefit that corporation.
"America First."
It’s not a ceasefire if the killing continues on one side. Mass atrocities are being carried out by Netanyahu in Lebanon with U.S. backing. (1/3)
Huge shift in American views of Israel
2022: 55% view Israel favorably, 42% unfavorably
2026: 37% view Israel favorably, 60% unfavorable
Generational divide hits both parties: 57% of *Republicans under 50* are negative on Israel
via Pew Research Center poll: www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/u...
All this shit is a heat check by mainstream press to see if they can still pull off a “there’s equally bad guys on both sides, and here’s the guy we decided is just as bad as Nick Fuentes.”
It’s:
1 - A way of avoiding the real problems: Trump, Vance and Netanyahu
2 - Probably not gonna work anymore
*checks notes* oh shit I haven’t been taking notes, where are my notes
And yes Tucker is a racist piece of shit which makes all of this so worse.
“But ultimately, we will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other.” —Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch
“I have no idea how much money I would need to accumulate before I could believe writing was safe for me. I wish it could be, because I’m not sure I can stop doing it.”
The EV tax credit that was terminated by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was $7,500.
The gas price increase--if sustained--is about $500 (per car per year).
In poll after poll, Americans across the political spectrum support a federal jobs guarantee. And yet it’s never mentioned in mainstream political discourse.
New survey data makes the case even harder to ignore.0
The Associated Press said Monday it is offering buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspaper journalism that sustained the company since the mid-1800s. https://to.pbs.org/4ttnpea
