She then asks him to disclose HOW he will divest (e.g., will he just get a $100M check from his wealthy buddy who released a statement supporting his confirmation) and Warsh wouldn’t explain how he will divest these undisclosed assets
BREAKING NEWS: INEFFECTIVE INCOMPETENT MAN STAYING PUT, OTHER INEFFECTIVE INCOMPETENT MEN WILL SOLDIER ON IN TALKS FOR WHICH THERE WAS NO AGREEMENT
Human brains have not yet evolved to live up to the full potential of representative democracy. Our monkey brains regularly get hijacked by the thrill of seeing a contest for social dominance.
It's crazy that things that even a decade ago would've been considered massive privacy violations are now labelled as progress.
Imagine being this clear that you hate your employees and expecting it to go well.
This reminds me of a “multistakeholder convening” I was invited to years ago, intended the solve the problem of “lack of trust in tech.” When I suggested the real problem was that the tech industry wasn’t trustworthy, the bros looked at me like I had three heads.
Welp I guess I'm never flying again.
noticing a pattern lately of big-name Valley VCs trying to start/fund companies within Musk's broken ecosystems: first space startup customers for Starship, and now media outlets for X, The Everything App
they know how utterly busted the SpaceX IPO is, and are desperately trying to fix it
Rep. Nanette Barragán to RFK Jr. after he refuses to talk about budget cuts due to pending litigation:
"I'm really disappointed that you're here to testify about the budget yet you will not talk about this issue. This is an elimination of Title X funding which is directly to birth control pills."
We need a labeler here that lets everyone know.
ACTUALLY WENT TO THE 2026 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER
The mainstream coverage is missing what actually happened this weekend inside MAGA.
They're asking whether Greene believes Butler was staged.
The real question is why the enforcement mechanism failed to silence her. New piece 👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
GALLEGO: Earlier today, you told Sec. Kennedy that Trump never demanded you to cut interest rates. Is that your sworn testimony?
WARSH: That is, senator.
GALLEGO: Okay. Well someone here is lying then. Because Trump confirmed he pressed you on interest rate cuts.
He just gave away the whole game
Lmao
MAGA Catholics butthurt over the Pope saying to do what Jesus says
Dave Troy has written the clearest most grounded description of what is going on. What do you think?
america2.news/the-unraveli...
“From ancient times to today the horrific violent mess — “is not because all human beings are inherently brutal and cruel, but because a small number of people—that is, those with personality disorders—are brutal and cruel, intensely self-centered, and lacking in empathy. This small minority has always held power and managed to order or influence the majority to commit atrocities on their behalf.” •Steven Taylor. PhD
This is what I think is going on under the avalanche of political, economic, and societal details:
"changes to SNAP are happening alongside cuts to Medicaid. It leads to what Allen calls a “terrible synergistic effect” of people’s food being taken away and people getting sick because of it while health care is stripped away."
Eligibility unchanged: its all policy change via administrative burdens
Like so much else Trump has done, he’s turned what was once a great department into a fucking mess. And it frankly breaks my heart.
robertreich.substack.com/p/goodbye-and-good-ridda...
It is obvious that outsourcing intelligence comes at a cognitive cost, and yet it is alarming that the cognitive cost is so catastrophically high.
Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...
Listening to this now and it is really reinforcing my decision to never get onto any Tesla vehicle
"The fact that Patel either doesn’t have or doesn’t listen to advisors who could tell him that flying a government Gulfstream jet to a place literally called “Boondoggle Ranch” is all you need to know about his tenure at the FBI and level of talent he’s surrounding himself with."
This is likely the foreseeable future of politics.
I’m a man and a Democrat substantially, if not primarily, because I don’t want a cultural or economic subsidy for my gender.
Can Sebastian Junger give me a call?
I’m clearly an enigma.
The takeaway no one wants to hear is that if you're waiting for some influencer to give you permission to be a man, then you never were and never will be one.
You can't sell that though, so no one talks about it.
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As a learned scholar of the history of war fighting, Pete Hegseth understands that flu has never negatively impacted a military’s ability to fight. www.kumc.edu/school-of-me...
Warsh may be a reasonable guy and capable economist just playing a role here. But if integrity and independence are qualities we value in a Fed Chief, he does not have them.
Every nominee who dodges this question tells us that they have no meaningful commitment to American democracy.
I have also read this wretched book, my copy of which is dented cos of all the times I literally threw it down in disgust. Karp is a fucking idiot, an insult to the very idea of political philosophy.
This is the perfect summary:
