Live updates: Hundreds killed as Israel launches airstrikes across Gaza Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the strikes because of a lack of progress in talks to extend the ceasefire. Officials said the operation was open-ended and was expected to expand.

THEY BROKE THE CEASEFIRE. WHY IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD TO WRITE.

JD Vance is the definition of Highly Punchable Face

i am mystified by the influence of noah smith, among the most ignorant and incurious people i have ever seen on the internet. just a total dummy.

Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.

Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...

The problem with the engineers’ fantasy of iterating new political forms is that we already iterated, for millennia, and we already know where the bugs are.

Americans Are Actually in a Position to Make Elon Musk Feel Our Rage His car company is in a precarious spot.

As far as I can tell the #teslatakedown is an autonomous movement. By posting where you will be protesting, you are giving your neighbors a place to hit back at Elon's unelected coup.

Please encourage peaceful protest and sharing boycott information like this post:

slate.com/business/202...

DOGE is, in the truest sense, a completely rogue agency. The White House has admitted it doesn't really know what DOGE is doing, it's commandeering critical systems, it's resourced by an independent oligarch, it's tearing chunks out of the government. It's a rogue actor in US government

Golden slams Musk: America didn't elect 'weirdo billionaire' Maine 2nd District U.S. Rep. Jared Golden has generally refrained from criticizing President Trump. But he suggested the president is being sidelined by the world's richest man.

Best headline since the election: succinct and accurate and the only place I've read it so far

www.mainepublic.org/politics/202...

"AI nurses" as "good as any doctor": RFK hearing confirms he wants to take away people's health care Kennedy's prescription for American health: replace real medical care with a lecture about eating better

"His view that sick people did it to themselves and deserve what's coming to them offers a nifty justification for Republicans' long-standing desire to deny health care to millions of Americans."

www.salon.com/2025/01/30/a...

As a free market conservative, I want the federal government run like a business. A shitty, money-losing social media business plagued by hate speech and spam bots.

This is very different from, say, Steve Jobs stealing the idea of a mouse from Xerox, redesigning, and then pushing it to the masses.

Elon Musk is a straight up liar and not at all a visionary

in order to restore our company’s masculine dominance we have decided to pander to every male authority figure and do whatever pleases them

The NYC Subway is our Pyramids. A great civilizational achievement.

“That’s crazy, man”

New York Times description of Trump at Jimmy Carter’s funeral: “Instead he wore a darker suit and a Democratic blue tie, one that seemed to reach across the aisle to honor the man who lay in state”

The New York Times is written by children

Trump says he’s sending Don Jr to Greenland in order to promote his expansionist bullshit, but I think he knows Jr will try to snort a glacier

Facebook suppressed promotion of political content during a Democratic administration and is restoring it for a Republican one

They want us to get so frustrated w the battery life and buy a new phone instead

My battery rating is 94% and it drains more than 10% overnight while my phone is napping. The second I open an app, it drains 20%

Can an investigative journalist please dig into the fact that Apple’s iPhone battery quality rating is completely wrong? Way overestimating the rating in order to replace fewer batteries (they will only replace when the rating is <80% because they say it’s bad for the environment).

Holy hell this is career ending

The reason Silicon Valley is so powerful and annoying is because Oakland lost their sports teams. Without raider fans acting as an apex predator the nerds became too abundant

91 years old

counterpoint: it is absolutely living up to my exact expectations

Soldier Who Blew Up Cybertruck in Las Vegas Wrote U.S. Is Headed for ‘Collapse,’ Police Say The police shared notes recovered from one of the phones of Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger, who fatally shot himself inside the vehicle in Las Vegas.

Bleak.

“Why did I personally do it now? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took,” Sergeant Livelsberger said in one of the notes, according to the police.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/u...

My goodness. This was so much worse than I expected!

Totally vacuous. Punditry as theater criticism.

I don't understand the Animal Farm-like transformation of Nate Silver and Tyler Cowen into primarily evidence-free pundits who write about the vibes and their emotional reactions.

Tesla Cybertruck sales are disastrous Tesla confirmed that Cybertruck sales are disastrous in the release of its quarterly results. Sales of the controversial electric pickup...

"Based on how Model S and Model X sales have been tracking, we estimate that Tesla delivered between 9,000 and 12,000 Cybertrucks in Q4, which is likely less than in Q3" electrek.co/2025/01/02/t...

‘The Onion’ Stands With Israel Because It Seems Like You Get In Less Trouble For That The past week has shown humanity at its worst: A horrific terrorist attack left at least 1,300 Israelis dead, among them peace activists and even innocent children. The fates of many more kidnapped ...

Let us be clear: This is a fraught moment, and one that has polarized not only Americans but people all over the world. It demands incredible sensitivity and strict adherence to journalistic standards of objectivity, and simply put, that is something we aren’t willing to do.