The Trump administration is singular in that they dumped a paranoid idiot SECNAV whose only qualification was being a Trump donor, replaced him with a career Navy diver, and it’s not clear that they didn’t just make things worse with him.
This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit.
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The GOP has an ideological recruitment advantage in that the only price of entry is proof of hatred, and once you’ve punched that ticket they’ll helpfully present you with a laundry list of everyone else you might also want to hate with them.
As far as I can tell, if you’re making money in this market it’s because you’re catching the rallies, so there’s a real incentive to stay in the game and not try to market-time with cash positions or shorts. IOW the market right now isn’t a price signal, it’s a poker game against other traders.
The man’s a Black Jewish postmodern philosopher, it’s not like he doesn’t understand the implications of what he’s doing.
Folks do eat nutria, which might be excellent from a purely culinary point of view, but I have real trouble steeling myself to dining on the giant placid water gerbil.
I think there’s some cherry-picking going on there; Quinnipiac had Adams at 46% approval, 27% disapproval at this point, but 64% “optimistic.” Mamdani’s approval is similar, but optimism is lower (56% or so).
What’s interesting about this is the power consumption optimization and battery efficiency needed to keep this thing going for an hour at 7 m/sec. Still very, very skeptical on most humaniform robotics, though.
Adjacent to that are the “buys a Polaris trike and shows up for every parade” guys, god bless ‘em.
Absolutely insane for a publicly-traded government prime to (a) call for an end to the AVF and (b) attack the government that feeds them endless billions. (I’ll also note that the USG does not compensate its top leaders within multiple orders of magnitude of what Karp personally receives.)
Record Brent crude spot Tonight Queen??
If you think current Democrats are bad for aping GOP positions, friends, let me introduce you to John W. Davis.
Unless the party he’s pointing to is the Progressives, I’m going to have to agree that, yeah, you can’t really accuse the ‘20s Democratic Party of having a clear policy position on /anything/.
The big problem is that the ROE for those 590-750K global workforces is pretty uncertain right now, so the big tech consultancies are staring down a barrel. But there’s a real future in being the firm that can take responsibility for someone else’s black box enterprise code!
We have to get politicians and the press to understand that analytics and analysis are some of the most critical core competencies of the government, and we should not be outsourcing them to a copy of Neo4J run by revanchist Rhodesians.
There’s a “human backup” system in the event the onboard AI can’t make a decision, which allows a human to teleoperate the vehicle if necessary, but it’s almost always the onboard system doing the driving under normal conditions.
Love to get my economics history from someone with a BA in English who runs the Calvin Coolidge Center.
The problem for them is that they’re actively worshipping a man who literally ticks every box on their Antichrist checklist.
Didn’t we go through this after 9/11 with a supposed spate of deaths of anthrax-connected researchers that, upon statistical review, was perfectly anodyne?
What I’m wondering is if a future administration can seek equitable disgorgement on self-dealing grounds?
This is basically the IT support contract, right? I feel like I’ve seen AEM on a bunch of other NCES support and maintenance contracts over the past few years. (Disaster of a data platform, that, not that I’m sure who built it out originally.)
A self-dealing lawsuit at unprecedented levels.
Yeah, I’m being a bit facetiously snarky there, but there is a real issue, I think, in that Trump/Hegseth have been pursuing a Seldenian policy of maritime occupation in the Caribbean that demonstrates that for them, at least, FON goes to the biggest guns.
Is this a “fuck you” from Iran to UNCLOS? Yes. Did America ever ratify UNCLOS, giving us a right to complain about it? lmao no.
I expect — because there really isn’t much we can do to escalate against Iran, and time is working against us more than them — that Iran will demand a stable extortion-based revenue source that lets them close the Strait if the US or Israel ever attacks them again. And they’ll probably get it. TACO!
Dallas Fed map of current precipitation to historical rates, showing West Texas in a deep and prolonged drought situation.
This map just shows precipitation levels, but the state aquifer level reports are grim, grim reading.
George was the first monarch to truly believe in the post-Glorious Revolution settlement, and when the American colonists initially demanded he seize political control of the colonies from Parliament, he refused to do so, keeping to his constitutional role as crown-in-Parliament.
A tenured Columbia prof makes $200K or so, the two of them are probably in the $500K range, which is what is called the “Manhattan middle class” by, uh, the New York Times.
Never thought I’d see Donald Trump, who has single-handedly bought all of Hobby Lobby’s 2026 stock of gilt-leaf wall appliqués to encrust the entirety of the West Wing, call something “tacky.”
T-AKE (Lewis and Clark class) dry cargo ships. This is at least indicative of a failure to plan for UnRep for the number of ships and duration of conflict, but possibly also suggests part of the UnRep fleet is locked behind the Strait and others are having trouble taking on stores in the region.