"These are not the actions of mature adults. They are examples of crude people displaying their incompetence as they flail about in jobs—including the presidency—for which they are not qualified” @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
It’s *definitely not a closed-loop bubble. Nope.
What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:
I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.
So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.
Idea for an amicus brief: We list the powers in a chart let's say Louis XIV claimed for himself, and maybe the courts can just indicate with a checkmark which ones of those Trump doesn't have. Seems more efficient.
The internet and mass distribution at essentially zero marginal cost has had this same effect on truth, bullying, gambling, etc, etc. the zero marginal cost distribution really incentivizes the worst possible outcomes for many things.
Offense has really been broken for a bit now…
The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
With news that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down due to Trump’s meddling, it’s worth watching Mr. Rogers testifying to the Senate about the real value of what we’ve all lost.
Trump fired the Commissioner of Labor Statistics by tweet just now, in case you're wondering about how reliable job numbers might be getting over the next 3.5 years
The 🤡 show has come for the data.
Spectacular fuck up by Trump. Just top notch self-owning. Even if this isn’t preventing them from obtaining a nuke, it makes it much more challenging to ultimately prevent that eventuality. We should never have stepped out of the JCPOA. Trump is getting played so hard www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/w...
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
Tesla stock down 15% today
Oh, I’m sorry. Did your rational and logical economic system not account for what if two terminally online men had a falling out?
This feels like Alien vs Sexual Predator
DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas?
LUTNICK: Generally 10%
DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%
LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff
DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future
The best version of the Trump administration is that he engaged in stuff like this and allowed Biden's economy to chug along. But the culture war bullshit isn't going to be a very effective distraction when people can see the economy imploding.
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This sucks. Google has deprecated multiple smart hardware devices of ours recently. We’re gonna go in a different direction for future investments.
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Car rental counters. Beatlejuice afterlife check-in counter. Same same.
Let's call this what it is: The obvious outcome of very very very stupid people making very very very stupid decisions.
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i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.
The NASDAQ just saw the largest single day point drop in American history and the response from the President is to cut his work week short to get on his plane and go golfing.
I can’t believe this is real! It’s like the worst caricature of how the right says Soros does politics.
Max loves everyone, but especially his ball. In a world of Trumps, be like Max.
We’re in the phase of the trade war where we need to worry about toilet paper.
@bloomberg.com 🇺🇸
#GoldenAgeOfAmerica 🥇
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99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research.
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
