The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

Because you always want to make sure your troops might be incapacitated with a preventable illness in the middle of a war…

Is this sort of filing sanctionable?

I love the titty-twister detail.

OK, a tiny bit more digging indicates it’s a response to this initiative: ballotpedia.org/California_O...
Frankly, despite its august opponents (Newsom, Becerra, Peter Thiel), I might be in favor of this one.

Californians: I’ve been getting election-related mail about the “Retirement & Savings Protection Act.” My initial research into who’s backing this reveals (it wasn’t hard) that it’s mostly gazillionaires, hoping to stave off a tax on their gazillions. Is there no organized oppo? This is fucked up.

Holy shiitake. The DOJ just announced an indictment of the @splcenter.org

Well, I can only dimly envision the amount of top-notch legal talent ready to tackle this one, pro fucking bono. And I will be sending in a little donation.

Um.

Well, I am appalled at the treatment of allies, motivated solely by racism, but as for the armed forces who are also Trump voters: they are getting what they voted for. Alas, alas, so are the rest of us.

Not enough bad things can happen to Trump, and they can’t happen soon enough

Not entirely fair. A whole bunch of them just protested and were arrested for their efforts.

Oh boy howdy, I am thinking so nostalgically of Pete Buttigieg.

Car, Table, Counter, or TakHomaSak® In my third or fourth year of life I ate my first restaurant meal, at the Steak 'n Shake on Green Street near the University of Illinois campus. I dined on a Steakburger, french fries, and a Coke. I f...

Here’s Ebert’s essay, if you want something to mourn: “Car, Table, Counter, or TakHomaSak®”
www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/...

On California farms, workers say threats to deport them are on the rise Farmworkers described instances in which bosses threatened to call ICE on them, sometimes because they complained about workplace violations.

“Amid President Trump’s mass deportation campaign, immigration-related threats from supervisors in the fields are on the rise, farmworkers and advocates say.”

www.latimes.com/california/s... #WeFeedYou

Donald Trump 'blocked from accessing nuclear codes' by US military general US President Donald Trump is alleged to have received push-back from a senior military person in a meeting at the White House during an attempt to access his country's nuclear codes

Not how the chain of command works, but ok.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

Anyhow, until it is corroborated by a couple other people, I will not believe this story.

Define Jewish State The phrase is even more complicated than it appears.

After seeing the aftermath of Abdul El-Sayed asking Olivia Reingold what she meant by a Jewish state, I became convinced it's a question that should be asked more often. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

I would certainly divorce that guy AND do my best to get sole custody, with supervised visitation only. Jeezus.

In the Civil War, "Roughly 500,000 soldiers perished from diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery, and typhoid, which killed twice as many men as battle wounds. Roughly 250,000 died from battle wounds or accidents."

Disease prevention is absolutely vital to war-fighting capability.

What, that you’re both funny? Because that is true. Although he may have you beat, by a hair, because “What We Do In The Shadows” is a masterwork. Anyhow, if he gets in touch, please, puh-leeze include me. I will bring great snacks.

It’s okay if their side does it!

Palantir's CEO is like a James Bond villain. (Except Bond villains are better dressed.) New writing at Tech Policy Press on the latest Palantir manifesto

Palantir's CEO is like a James Bond villain. (Except Bond villains are better dressed.)
davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/palantir-s...

If you are going to bemoan the last name thing (I didn’t know your “f” was silent!), then it seems unfair and inconsistent to besmirch, even indirectly, the fair façade of Taiko Waititi, who is WAY (and I mean WAY) cuter than Alex Karp. As well as a very funny man.

Palantir's Manifesto Is as Subtle as a MAGA Hat Palantir's 22-point manifesto is nonsense, writes Dave Karpf. But it at least it is short enough to be clarifying, he says.

My latest, for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

When I read Alex Karp’s book last year, I thought it should’ve been a tweet. Now Palantir has turned it into a tweet-length manifesto, which could’ve just been a picture of a MAGA hat.

Karp is… not a subtle thinker.
www.techpolicy.press/palantirs-ma...

The Tuapse oil refinery is burning in russia as a result of a Ukrainian drone attack. While Trump has lifted sanctions on russian oil, Ukraine has decided to impose its own “sanctions.”