and to employ more people - takes more truck drivers to move cargo than train engineers. convoy wasn't just a movie, it was political rhetoric
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and to employ more people - takes more truck drivers to move cargo than train engineers. convoy wasn't just a movie, it was political rhetoric
I am incurably fond of old newspapers and mass-market periodicals, ALWAYS get distracted in them. So I give you from the Dayton Daily News (May 6, 1924) news of Chicago former mayor and U Chicago zoologists sailing for South America in search of a "tree climbing fish"
given that, taking seven officers off the "cause mayhem to people of color" duty assignment is arguably in the interest of public safety
Based on the general trend of news coverage, it would appear that FHP's main mandate is arresting people for driving while not white, along with occasional extremely destructive high speed chases associated with doing so
this specifically means that the local cops refused to do it
As a Cuban American whose family phone ringed off the hook every time Fidel Castro so much as sneezed, I can say it’s a real mindset lol
which i frankly see as code for "i can't be bothered to come up with a strategy"
This is because in years prior older people were a reliably Republican demographic... not so much now
A birth certificate doesn't prove you're a biological female. If you aren't prepared to pop a baby out on the spot, on command, you aren't eligible to use the bathroom Republican only see women as walking incubators for their children
To be fair, a majority of Americans have a vitamin D deficiency, so it probably wouldn't hurt for more people to take vitamin D supplements On the other hand, a stuck clock is right twice a day
RFK Jr joined the fight on deadly diseases on the side of deadly diseases.
Dem leadership is still stuck on the notion that we're still operating under the "business as usual" principles of comity and mutual respect and that the Republicans will someday soon come to their senses
someone needs to write an browser extension to hide the AI overview section from search results
Making up new meanings for words is the One Weird Trick that works at scale. Immigrant means enemy soldier, so war powers apply. Non-emergencies are emergencies. NASA is an intel agency. Etc. It helps that “just make up new meanings that say you can” is how this Supreme Court defines textualism.
Theres really no point to scrolling your phone waiting to hear about the day it happens, if you are a Real American and live in a decent sized city you'll know from horns honking, fireworks, people spontaneously hollering, passing out drinks, etc
Another observation from my 101-year-old grandfather, since he's tickled pink that people enjoy his points of view. He says he listened to Father Coughlin's radio show back in his youth and that nothing reminds him of that infamous antisemite and bigot as Tucker Carlson's commentary today.
Somebody’s watching me.
ground mounted solar would do less harm to the environment than golf courses do
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Weekend at Bernie's: The DC Chapter
3 vehicles (2 unmarked, 1 Secret Service) with 7 officers (vests for Metro PD, ATF, and Secret Service) outside my house in sleepy NE DC tonight. Glad to see 4 neighbors all filming for ten minutes until they uncuffed 2 neighbors and let them off with a warning.
I did this once with a habanero. I'd rather have someone ship me a bobcat.
Making dinner. Clean and dice a fresh jalapeño to throw into part of the dish. Scoop up the diced pepper from the cutting board and throw into the pan. The fumes from the pan become quite spicy, causing my eyes to water a bit. I wipe them with the hand that just scooped up the pepper.
i really wish journalists would express revenue figures in terms of percentage of federal revenue or of GDP instead of unprocessed numbers, since most people are incapable of consistently reasoning about numbers larger than a million
this is using fear of large numbers. $30 billion a month sounds like a huge amount of money to most people but total federal monthly revenue is around $400 billion, so a haircut of $30 billion, while possibly significant, will not inevitably cause a "GREAT DEPRESSION"
Probably written by AI
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This is the fundamental problem here: no agreement made with Trump can be relied on to be kept
I'll let you know as soon as the polling data gets back
truly baffling that a culture obsessed with machismo and swimming in semi-automatics would struggle with gun violence
However evil you think this is, it’s worse: “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
My friend’s 6 year old asked her if we had socks in the 1900s. Brutal. It’s getting so brutal.
Yup, Lite Republicans, now with 80% less overt racism
I wrote about the idea that Democrats need to excise "activist" language from their vocabulary, and what it says about the corporate interests looking to divide and conquer the party.
I like Newsom's shtick right now because it is very likely to get inside Trump's head. Trump hates being mocked and so I'm all for anyone and everyone mocking him. Won't change my primary or general election vote, though. I can like something someone does, and yet still not vote for them.
I’m not hanging my hat on any of this but skipping Chicago after an inch of push back would be funny
I remain convinced that the “we need to run the country like a BUSINESS” folks have never run a business.
Oliver's too old to play JB; Oliver is actually five years _older_ than JB and has not aged nearly as well as the governor. He might be able to pass for one of the other members of the Pritzker clan, though
I used to work for a company with a DC office and spent lots of time in DC day and night and never felt the least bit unsafe
Neither of them is from Illinois, so there's no reason for either of them to be in Chicago. New York can keep its politicians, Illinois doesn't need or want them either.
"You are neither wanted here, nor needed here. Your remarks about this effort over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties and are not fit for the auspicious office that you occupy."
Edgar and Ryan were terrible and Ryan and Blago were corrupt AF, so I can understand why you felt that way. (Edgar may have been corrupt, too but I've seen less evidence of that) Also Madigan is gone now, too
Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
If the best argument you can make for your candidate is "they're not as evil as Donald Trump", then your candidate probably sucks
I don't understand why you all are getting frustrated with Leader Jeffries. He is not the governor of any of those states. You all are losing the plot b/c many of your demo voted white instead of right.
People who approach issues like this with the notion that they can change the minds of their enemy are being naive. Bigots don't want to give up their bigotry and will fight to the end to preserve it. You can't win that fight. Fortunately, you also don't need to win that fight.
i fully expect Intel's board and execs to grab as much of the proceeds of this transaction and run for the Caymans with it. Intel is dying, and this is just hospice care to make that death less unpleasant. I doubt that the US (or Trump) will ever receive any meaningful return on this investment
This questions assumes that there will, in fact, ever be any such funds
I'm a fan of his trolling but I do not want him to be President At the moment, I'm leaning toward Pritzker (may be biased because I've already voted for him twice), but there are lots of other people I'd also support. Newsom is a stinker
Intel made its last effort to remake themselves with their foundry project, and failed. They're cooked. All that's left is to strip the carcass for the parts
As to why Intel wanted this: Intel is dying: their CPU business is faltering, they are nowhere in GPU/HPC, and their foundry is nowhere. Intel has no hope of surviving the coming recession. PC sales are going to plummet and x86 CPUs are 60% of Intel's revenue and Intel has basically no reserves
/4 Except this is not, in fact, a particularly good idea. The “fighting words” exception is defunct. It hasn’t been used by the Supreme Court to justify a speech restriction in living memory and it was specifically rejected as a basis to uphold flag burning laws.
I'm not arguing that the deal is mad insane legally, but honestly nobody should be surprised when Trump ignores the law
There are arguably good public policy reasons for the US to have a stake in a foundry, but _Intel doesn't have a viable foundry_ and doesn't look likely to produce one soon, even with grants or other investment, so they're just a bad candidate that and there's just no statutory basis for the deal
The best way to get Trump to do something is to put an idea in his head and make him think that you'd hate it if he did that. There's no doubt that Tan is smart enough to figure this out and maneuvered Trump into giving Intel exactly what it wanted
Shrug. Trump ignoring the law is fairly normal. It's clear that Intel believes that converting it to an equity transaction exempts them from future oversight or the risk of a clawback. I totally agree that there's no statutory basis for any of this
I think this has a lot to do with Lip Bu-Tan being way smarter than Trump here. The timeline makes it clear: five days ago Trump wants Tan fired, then he meets with Tan, and then after meeting with him mumbles about how the US should get 10%, and then it happens. Clearly, Tan played Trump and won
Oh, yes, I agree with that 100%. But I don't agree with characterizations of this as "extortion of Intel" because I'm fairly certain that Intel effectively proposed the deal and Intel, or at least its executives and board, are the main beneficiaries of it
No, they weren't. They were likely to fail to meet the requirements for continued funding under the CHIPS Act and were actually at potential risk for clawback. CHIPS Act grants are not unconditional; they're contigent and have clawback provisions. Intel wanted to escape that risk.
Intel was not going to meet the requirements in the CHIPS Act to receive the disbursements it was hoping for (they all but said so in their most recent SEC filings)
I don't think the deal was in the interest of the US, nor do I think it was authorized by statute, but let's be clear here: it's the US that is getting reamed here, not Intel.
Regardless, the US will never see any of that money. Intel's SEC filings have been increasingly dire and both tech and financial press have been full of articles about how Intel needs to "radically restructure" to survive for months
I don't think there was any "extortion" involved; I think Lip Bu-Tan was the originator of the proposal and that he talked Trump into it. Intel is dying; the deal is hospice care, at public expense, so Intel can die more gracefully and its executives can walk away from the corpse in greater comfort
From what I could gather, the US would in fact be entitled to its share of Intel's dividend payout (which has historically been 12.5 cents per share per quarter, so around $215 million a year), but of course dividends are not guaranteed, especially when a corporation is in the course of falling over
I rather suspect the Intel CEO _talked him into the deal_ and that this is the US getting owned by Intel, not the other way around. Pretty much everyone in the industry thinks Intel is a dead man walking; to me this looks like Trump got owned so Lip-Bu Tan could gild his parachute.
Once again, Trump ignores the Republican states with the highest homicide rates, and instead targets blue states, blue cities, and Black leaders. Trump hasn’t threatened to bring his authoritarian spectacle to any red states. If this was truly about crime, he’d start there.
Trump is definitely well on his way to winning a Peace Prize with his direct, outright support of Israel, isn't he?
Trump's older siblings were parented by his mother, which is why they aren't the monsters he is, but she was incapacitated after Robert's birth, resulting in nobody being there to act as a parent for him. Robert was parented by Maryanne, but she was too young to do this for Donald
Trump's fundamental problem is that he was unparented: there was nobody who acted as a parental figure for him during his toddler and early childhood years. His basic needs were provided for, but nobody mediated his behavior, instructing him on what was and was not allowed.
Trump's concentration camp builders and operators heavily funded his campaign and now are receiving massive non-compete contracts from DHS. This is definitional corruption.
Everyone's screaming about how the left doesn't compromise and I keep saying I will vote for this guy. I am a communist who will vote for a billionaire. Centrists, tell me about even one instance when you have compromised like anything close to this. Or at all.
putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and we’re wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.
It isn't until the 26th paragraph that there is mention that what Trump is doing is being challenged as illegal. And it accepts Trump's stated rationale to act. Here is what I think: Trump is illegally deploying the military in blue cities to set the stage to interfere with the 2026 elections.
That law is *not* intended to protect children. It is intended to identify every internet user and enable censorship and suppression of speech. “Won’t somebody think of the children” is just the usual pretext, when “terrorism” doesn’t stick.
Every time I teach programming languages, which I'm doing again this fall, I'm tempted to teach the languages in the very old course catalog entry.
I clicked "view media" after searching for bears, expecting bears, and it tried to give me over 66 million photos of mostly herbarium specimens and I think a sponge on the bottom of the ocean. I guess if it defines every living thing as a kind of bear, then there would be a lot of bears
I asked iChatBio how many kinds of bees are in Florida and it says there are none. Couldn't have made this up if I tried
indeed, no ICE officer would go within ten miles of an actual gang member. they're all far too cowardly for that
ICE's fundamental operating premise is that all non-white people are inherently criminals until proven otherwise beyond all possible doubt
any attempt by state or local authorities to prosecute a federal officer for acts that took place in the performance of their duties can be removed to federal court where a federal judge will then be asked to consider whether the officer's actions were privileged by federal law
they're in on it. if anything, they've been telling lies to their superiors for years to keep their superiors from knowing what they really do. and now they don't have to because their superiors are on board with it, unlike in past administrations
also being too smart or too educated is disqualifying to be a cop. they don't want smart, competent, or observant people; they want people who will be violent on command
The only change is that ICE is no longer being required to hide their racism. They've always been like this, they've just been more careful to hide it in the past
Look I will oppose Gavin Newsom vociferously for the presidency because he's willing to sell vulnerable folks out but a popular front against dictatorship means putting up with people you don't like so long as they're willing to fight dictatorship and he's fighting so I guess he's part of the front
The CHIPS grants had oversight and clawback provisions which Intel is now excused from, and they didn't have to meet qualifying requirements that, from what can be intuited from Intel's SEC filings, Intel was not likely to be able to make. So this seems like a win for Intel to me
Intel gets at least $8.9 billion cash, the US gov't gets a 10% stake. Seems to me like Intel now has a lot more money with which to fund golden parachutes.
In fact, executing a search warrant on the home and office of a target of the investigation is not the "very early stages" of a complex white collar investigation. Unless you're a total dipshit.
my personal take is that this is Intel's board and C suite grabbing a bucket of cash to weave their golden parachutes out of. i personally expect that that 10% share will be essentially worthless relatively soon
I've seen it suggested that Intel hasn't met the legal requirements to receive all of the money it was hoping to receive under the CHIPS Act, and might even be subject to a risk of clawback for some of the money it has already received
Also Intel is virtually certain to get looted by corporate raiders in the next year or so which means the 10% share the government got for that $8.9 billion (or $11.1 billion, hard to be clear which) will likely end up being an empty bag. Intel C suite are all writing their exit strategies now
the press release is a PR document; they're going to put the best possible spin on everything there. read between the lines, you can smell the desperation in the coffee
Intel has been financially shaky for years and is floundering. It's increasingly apparent that the future of microprocessors is not going to be the x86 platform, which is >60% of Intel's revenue. With the news that their foundry is going nowhere fast, they're on life support at this point anyway
Trump was threatening to cut them off from the money they were supposed to get under the CHIPS Act, so they negotiated a scheme in which they sold the Government a 10% non-voting passive stake in exchange for the promised money plus a bit more, along with essentially zero oversight
A lawless and illegitimate regime and its minions are not entitled to the protection of the rule of law.
or maybe nobody is responding because nobody actually cares what these people say?
none of this makes any sense at all, which makes me think that it's probably some sort of absurdist performance art and not actually legitimate political activism
They will if Peter Thiel pays them enough to. Always Remember that Vance is a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of the worst Silly Valley has to offer.
This is basically what I mean by "noseblind to Hitler particles." If center left people and fascists get used to each other, that's a big victory for the fascists and nothing gained by the center left.