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Hayes: Trump pushed us into the ‘worst possible sustainable equilibrium’ YouTube video by MS NOW

"This is what Trump does. He lights our national house on fire. He lets it burn for 15 minutes before he shows up with a fire hose. And then he demands a prize for putting out the blaze while the rest of us stand here in the smoldering ruins," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.

Medical researchers say that cancer is typically caused by a complex combination of factors. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats says it's mostly caused by the radiation from offshore windmill farms. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Andre Miller?

The IRS built this already and the current occupant of the White House dismantled it. 🙃

Designing a jersey for every Blazers win.

Record: 43-40

#RipCity

Here's another angle of Deni's game-winner to clinch the West #7 seed!

⬛⬜🟥 RIP CITY!!! 🟥⬜⬛

President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak on Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ

A+ headline.

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My wife was lining up her Amazon shows earlier and I accused her of being involved in organised Prime so tonight I’m sleeping in the shed

DOGE turbocharged the deficit.

budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

My latest for MSNOW details how the Trumps turned Fox News’ “Biden Crime Family” schtick into a business plan, and the network immediately stopped caring about political corruption: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

As far as I'm aware, no Portland area media have written about this death besides @thewesternedge.bsky.social, even as national outlets are picking it up. Bizarre!

Company backed by Trump sons looks to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by Iran The sales drive by Florida-based Powerus – which announced a deal last month to bring aboard Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. – positions the company to potentially benefit from a war that their father...

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To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.

Babies too young for MMR vaccine become ‘sitting ducks’ in measles outbreaks Babies too young to be vaccinated are among the most vulnerable in a measles outbreak and depend entirely on herd immunity.

Babies too young to be vaccinated are among the most vulnerable in a measles outbreak and depend entirely on herd immunity, where at least 95% of a community must be vaccinated to prevent measles outbreaks.
https://to.pbs.org/4dI3Om3

Oh, of course! Totally normal explanation!!

AI Overview There are 5 e's in "nonsense economy" Here is the breakdown: • nensense (3) • economy (2) Total: 3 + 2 = 5.

AH HA HA HA HA HA HA

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

I just think it's also important to, like, remember how, how bad it was like, as someone said to me recently, like, I don't know whether we'll call this trauma with a capital T or trauma with a lowercase t, but it definitely like it was to have everyone crying in the office all the time. People had so much anxiety that we would kind of like have to take turns working for. The last few months I was there to be like, All right, you can't handle Today. Today. I'm okay. I can handle today, but you might have to handle tomorrow for me, because I might not be able to handle tomorrow. Like, I've never seen such a thing. You know, one of our younger designers had asked, because it was their first job out of grad school. Like, is this what it's like in the private sector too? Because this is so terrible. And someone's response who worked in the private sector was that, no, like, I've been terrible places, like I've worked at Amazon, I've worked other places where they didn't care about us, but we never felt like our leadership hated us just for existing. And that's what those months felt like, like, not our direct leadership, but anyone above that, and especially the highest levels, just hated us for existing, and that was really hard when, like our we had committed our careers to serving the citizens public.

Coding interviews of technologists who were purged from government under DOGE, and the sense of trauma is really palpable. Compared to the private sector orgs like Amazon, the jobs meant more and the way they were treated was way worse.

It "felt like our leadership hated us just for existing."

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BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.

Here’s the latest Wall Street play.

Step 1: Promote a new shadowy financial product.

Step 2: Lobby the Trump Admin to roll back safeguards and shove private credit into Americans’ 401(k)s.

Step 3: When it goes south, get out fast while leaving families holding the bag.

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

In loving memory of Zawadi, 2007 – 2026

At 18, he was the elder statesman of the African lion pride and one of the oldest male lions in North America.

Prediction Markets Are the Latest Sign of Our Spiritual Disintegration As I write this, hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of bets have been placed on Polymarket, the massive prediction marketplace, regarding how many people will die in the Iran War over the next sev...

Prediction markets aren't just corrupt.
They are a sign of our nation's spiritual atrophy - as every moral question became commodified and wagering becomes a growing source of meaning and purpose.

My latest substack:

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.