The waiver Trump signed isn’t going to do Ru much good if Ukraine keeps degrading Ru export capacity.

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

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Why Yale’s term paper on what’s wrong with college gets a ‘D-’ | Will Bunch An Ivy League university's report on the loss of faith in higher ed ignores what really killed the American Dream of college.

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech

How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

Councilor Ed Flynn: Parking is not reason cited for anemic housing #’s in Boston. Developers say added affordable housing/energy requirements on top of high interest rates, construction costs. Let’s focus on economic development, not parking purity tests. Neighbors know cars will park on the street.

Parking minimums push up costs. The more we devote to housing cars, the less we have to house people.

Ed just wants a giant parking lot instead of a city.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

"How" Vance thinks presupposes *that* he thinks.

This is not just being cheeky. There's a real question here about whether Vance is "thoughtless" in the way Arendt theorized or 'unthinking' in another sense, due both to the moral collapse on the MAGA right & his ravening desperation for advancement

DOJ demands Detroit-area 2024 ballots, escalating election scrutiny DOJ official Harmeet K. Dhillon wrote that she is seeking ballots to investigate election law compliance. Democratic state officials call the request baseless.

Trump's Dept of Justice has seized ballots in AZ and GA. Bondi's out as AG, but Harmeet Dillion, who wants to replace her, wants to grab MI ballots.

They say it's for review, but we know better.

It's to push conspiracies to deceive voters and deny results they don't like.

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1) Academic specialists make jargon when studying [thing]

2) A few activists/posters use [jargon] when criticizing [thing]

3) Right-wing media says all Dems’ want to [caricature using jargon]

5) “To win, Dems must stop saying [jargon] all the time, normal people don’t talk that way.”

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Likely what would happen is the technically complex talks never happen, or those that do take place are just perfunctory.

The Supreme Court Lives in Fox News' America A Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is untethered from democratic reality.

“Neil Gorsuch’s reference to “P'Nut the Squirrel,” a symbol of a fleeting right-wing outrage cycle that barely registered beyond conservative media, was baffling to outside observers(. . .)Samuel Alito’s hypotheticals often seem surreal until one recognizes them as echoes of Fox News segments”

Jared Kushner is incredibly corrupt. He corruptly distorted US foreign policy in Trump’s first term to get more money into his and his father-in-law’s private accounts, and he’s accelerated those efforts in term 2.

Anyone who praised his Gaza real estate scheme as “peace” helped perpetuate it.

One reason that we cannot have professional diplomats representing the interests of the United States is that it would disrupt a pattern of personal enrichment for the Presidents allies and families.

“They wanted to close up the strait again…as they've been doing for years,” Trump said Saturday. Of course Iran hasn't been closing the Strait of Hormuz "for years." Quite the contrary. The Strait is closed because of Trump's war. It's an indictment of his policy, and so he lies about the history.

Trump’s Memphis Crime Task Force Arrested Over 800 Immigrants, Records Show. Only 2% of the Arrests Were for Violent Crimes. Businesses closed. Churches emptied. Parents afraid to take kids to school. Advocates say what was supposed to be a crime-fighting effort is keeping a community in fear.

Businesses closed. Churches emptied. Parents afraid to take kids to school.

Advocates say what was supposed to be a crime-fighting effort is keeping a community in fear.

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Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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My takeaway from the pandemic is that people were way more traumatized by the interruption to their lives than by all the death and I don’t think people want to think about that because, man, it’s really uncomfortable!

MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president.

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The first thing the next Democratic Congress must do is reform the Supreme Court.

My favored reform is expand to 18 or 27 and have each case assigned to nine by lottery.

(The multiple of nine retains a balance of justices responsible for each circuit.)

"In public, Chief Justice John Roberts has cultivated a reputation for care & caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country & the court, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis."

I can think of a lot of more accurate and less flattering terms for dudes who travel to other countries to trap foreign women in subservient relationships than “passport bros”

This is a good point, and good news on the antitrust front. I had been having my hopes on the EU denying the merger. A coalition of states challenging it here has promise too.

I feel like we’re working our way there, but it’s a slow boil.

I’m expecting flaccid show-resistance from the next Democratic Congress, though I’m hoping that frustrates and angers enough liberals to make them really kick Dems into being a real opposition/dissident party by 2028.

Abolish ICE.

Nothing will kill a work of art faster than trying to be "responsive" to fans -- or just listening to them at all. It killed Star Wars, it killed Ted Lasso, it killed Game of Thrones, I personally think it killed Hacks. Don't listen to fans.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

There’s Trump-style corruption, which is all bullshit, bluster, bags of cash, and him daring you to stop him. And then there’s corruption of the John Roberts kind. It’s just as deliberate and destructive, but quieter, more genteel, like a cancer that grows in your bones rather than on your face.

The concerns I expressed about unanswered questions proved to be unfortunately prophetic.

This week gave us yet another example of the pattern of good news while markets are open, followed by the real news coming as soon as they're closed.

It’s so funny that they pubbed this the day before “john roberts invented the trump era shadow docket to make sure fossil fuel companies could keep killing you and make money doing it” bsky.app/profile/cris...

The “Censorship Industrial Complex” was all projection. Someone tell Michael Shellenberger lol. Someone tell Jacob Siegel! 😂

Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump Zelensky has written off the United States.

“Writing the United States off as a friend might once have been a sign of doom for Ukraine,” Phillips Payson O’Brien argues. “It isn’t anymore”: