Now that’s a man who pays his taxes

"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess."
A. Philip Randolph, born on this day in 1889

The mood in Asia is not great!

For comparison, the JCPOA ('Iran Deal') payment that everyone in MAGA excoriates was $1.7bn.

The $2m-per-ship toll regime on the Strait would generate at normal traffic something like $40bn *each year* for Iran (120 ships per day at $2m per split 50/50 with Oman).

Most depraved moment for me was getting a bunch of fundraising emails the day Renee Good was killed.

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent.

To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

Yeah, what the hell do they mean? Bouie probably has a bigger audience than ever with the videos he’s been making this past year?

Walz: We will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here's our pledge to you, our Somali Minnesotans, your great grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.

Go fash lose cash bb

After midterm season this semester, I’ve finally realized what is (potentially) at the bottom of AI dependency in writing courses. The stakes are simply too high. The freedom to be wrong, to experiment, to iterate, to draft (again); all of this is gone. Students see a deadline and a list of demands.

The USPS should be offering low-cost broadband, mobile service, insurance, and banking.

If dems don’t break up the maga media conglomerates as soon as they can they have no sense of self preservation bsky.app/profile/atru...

All Hegseth can see is tactical success, so he’s mystified why people are reporting on strategic failure.

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The Senate GOP posted an AI deepfake of Texas Senate candidate James Talarico.

Using this tech isn't just a profound threat to our democracy - it's a disgraceful attempt to intentionally deceive voters.

Congress must swiftly pass federal AI protections.

Get in, losers, we’re triggering the Second Impact

One of the best there is

Listing Magellan before Malacca smdh

He’s gonna keep trying, but it’s getting pretty pathetic

Yeah, it’s particularly dangerous with a big group and drafting 😫

My most satisfying wins come from making myself King of Jupiter. To be clear, this is a bad strategy! But it’s very gratifying when you can pull it off.

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Whadda show!

Getting way out of my wheelhouse, but while 彼 the character obvs has Chinese roots, I’d assume that かれ comes from earlier (like これ、あれ、それ). Has definitely been used for inanimate objects in the past tho (same with 彼 in classical Chinese, and 他 before 20th cent)

Same with Mandarin, with 她 taking off as the female variant of 他 after the May Fourth movement (iirc, it was actually feminists in the movement who were advocating for the change?). But spoken Mandarin still doesn’t differentiate between the two (tā).

Joe Nguyen named new president of Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce today announced the appointment of Joe Nguyen as its new president and CEO.

Huh

Chuck Schumer spectacularly failed the “vote blue no matter who” test and should be hounded from office

They ignored Mamdani until it was too late so now they’re trying to nip this presidential campaign in the bud, probably think gender is the easiest way to do this

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Here in Singapore they’ve thrown solar panels up on the roofs of every building in my neighborhood over the past six months or so