Seeing Larry Fitz in the background here has low key ruined my day

This dude belongs in jail.

Dude wants to be Stephen A (gross!) but only has a podcast to do it on.

1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.

Need a corporate death penalty badly.

Great to see my @themmqb.bsky.social colleagues more active over here today 👋

And welcome to @mattverderame.bsky.social, who finally signed up today. I added him to my running SI staff starter pack.

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Cafe Du Monde! I still make beignets at home occasionally because of them

I started trying to make savory beignets

Not sure I wouldn’t rather see Johnson over Sadiq for KC at 29 given this draft board

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Explosive & really outrageous revelations in here about a billionaire's private surveillance network completely run amok.

If we can't stop Dolan from spying on us at MSG, let's at least cancel his sweetheart tax break. (1/2)

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.

The graves of multiple children have been defaced.

One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

Not familiar with the history there. The debate topic seemed valid at least

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I don’t believe we would have vast policy differences if we got in the weeds about specific policies.

Semantics aside - it’s not like Kamala would’ve been my first second or third choice in a full open primary. Whether you call that my own “purity test” isn’t all that relevant here.

Some people are more pragmatic and some people are more ideological, which appears to be the disconnect.

I guess I don’t see it as a threat as much as an observation. It’s objectively true.

Certainly not arguing that you should be happy with that reality though.

Ultimately the policy preferences of the candidate aren’t 100% the policy messaging of the campaign. That’s the political science aspect of elections.

It’s a fair debate. I think there were many failures of the campaign and perhaps that was one of them.

But I’ll say it until I’m out of breath - staying home from the polls because the candidate fails the purity test is an ultimately self defeating position.

I’ll chime in in good faith here. Not to be adversarial.

The traditional model would say the center is where swing votes reside. Convince them to vote with your base and you win elections.

The question Dems grapple with is whether acquiescing to policy demands of the left ultimately loses swingVs

More importantly - Companies will now assume the consumers are accustomed to the current price points. Do you think they will fully roll back costs even if the underlying economic factors are resolved?

They charge whatever they can get away with and Trump moved those goalposts significantly

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

LIV from Mexico City, a golf league thrust into tumult LIV's returns will no longer be measured in decades but in quarters.

Went to Mexico City to separate fact from fiction with what's happening at LIV Golf. The answer: It's complicated. www.nytimes.com/athletic/721...

If not illegal bribery, why so bribery shaped?

So Justice Thomas goes down to Univ. of Texas and gives a speech at a center funded by Harlan Crow, the guy who has shoveled money to Thomas and his family--much of which Thomas failed to disclose. Thomas also gave a shout-out to Crow.

Thomas is corrupt. And he's unashamed about that.

Felt ugly. But I’ll take it.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Every dictator in history thinks this is incredibly cute.

It’s cute that they’re going to keep a folded napkin in their pocket that says “I’m brave”

Note the sudden explosion of false statements by Trump just before markets were closing for the week. You can count on it that someone was investing in reliance on these tweets, and made a killing. The question is: who?

Of course they do.

The Sacramento curse only affects Severino