“I don’t even care if [Sara’s claim] is “fake” (it is not.) You and I are a couple fucking [men]. We are rightfully suspect at baseline. So if our potential allies in this fight want to see us jump through a couple hoops just to be sure of us - for the cause - we should jump through them quietly.”
Inclusionary zoning is a targeted tax on the construction of new housing — the absolute worst way you could think of to raise money for investments in social housing projects.
www.slowboring.com/p/inclusiona...
All anyone in the replies seems to be interested in is jumping down MJS’ throat for using the word “renowned.”
Whatever you think of Ezra's ideological commitments, he deserves praise for using plain language in the heart of a media machine that actively discourages it. He even evinces some *emotion* about all this, which is the ultimate sin in savvy commentary. I hope it sends a strong social signal.
I’m not sure I could have even imagined something this dumb
Read this for context when you hear that The Overlord is cutting half of the staff at the IRS 🎁 wapo.st/41ivtSA
So don't want to be the bearer of bad tidings: but DOGE canceled the lease on the facility that processes and stores all the nuclear waste created by the US military. Sorry. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...
From @theathletic.bsky.social: The baseball player Derek Bender was accused of selling out his own team to deliberately lose a game. When the story went viral on ESPN in September, he declined to comment. But now he's ready to talk about it.
there really ought to be more discussion about the fact that virtually every promise (or denial) trump made during the campaign was a total lie
When individuals and publications labor to construct the intellectual and moral justifications for genocide, I think they should be treated like people doing that.
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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.
Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law
Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...
This is WSJ edit board’s second piece in a week raising escalating alarm about RFK Jr’s groundless & lethal anti-vax predilections and now policies (firing CDC vax experts) — and it pull punches in portraying him as no more & no less than a treacherous corrupt killer
www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...
Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.
Extract from WSJ story. A lawyer at advertising conglomerate Interpublic Group fielded a phone call in December from a lawyer at X. The message was clear, according to several people with knowledge of the conversation: Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk's social-media platform, or else. X CEO Linda Yaccarino has made comments that seemed like similar warnings in conversations with Interpublic executives, according to people with knowledge of those talks. Interpublic leaders interpreted the communications from X as reminders that the recently announced $13 billion deal to merge Interpublic with rival Omnicom Group OMC -0.53% could be torpedoed, or at least slowed down, by the Trump administration, given Musk's powerful role in the federal government, some of the people said. They also had a front-row seat to Musk's continued criticism of advertisers that ditched X since he bought it in 2022, when it was known as Twitter.
Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal.
X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers.
That’s extortion.
Texans have been poking holes in West Texas for generations, extracting oil and gas while injecting toxic wastewater. After a million wells, the Permian Basin is increasingly unstable with serious repercussions: www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi... #txlege @houstonchronicle.com
New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.
Heads up: Paramount+ now has a decent selection of old MTV Unplugged performances available. Nirvana, AiC, Cranberries, Tori Amos, REM, Pearl Jam, and a bunch more. It's not a complete library but way better than the 3 or 4 they used to have.
Can someone audit their audit?
Just adding “the US joins the axis of evil” to my growing list of unprecedented moments in history Millennials have had to live through but Boomers never had to spend one moment of their life’s thinking about, for the next time I get into an argument with my dad about house prices.
President Trump on Tuesday appeared to blame Ukraine for Russia’s invasion. "You should have never started it," he said, referring to Ukraine’s leaders.
Here’s what to know about how the war began, the state of the peace talks and Ukraine’s election record.
NEW: Law Dork obtained the email Lee Dudek sent to Social Security Administration employees after being named acting commissioner, which happened after Michelle King left the agency over a dispute with Musk’s DOGE.
Notably, King sent no email about her departure and Dudek didn’t even mention her.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is speaking, with Ukrainian flags behind him. A headline reads: "Ukraine Rejects U.S. Demand for Half of Its Mineral Resources." Photo by Tetiana Dzhafarova/AFP — Getty Images
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, rejected an offer by the Trump administration to relinquish half of the country’s mineral resources in exchange for U.S. support, according to people with knowledge of the talks. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
the mild, non-confrontational obama formula for inclusiveness was so intolerable to a substantial chunk of the country that they put a outer borough george wallace into the white house. like, what are we talking about here?
