it feels like its kinda being ignored but outside a couple outliers the only thing republicans are running on in the midterms is that theyre white and democrats arent
😮 Katie Zacharia crashes and burns on [checks notes] Hannity 😮
If you had the "over" on Zacharia lasting more than one Scaramucci, her epic flame out on Hannity just now won't help your cause
Here's the whole interview:
Parents are poisoning their children because they know what's best for them. People are selling poison to children because it comes from an animal, how can it be dangerous, it's natural? The state is abdicating its prerogative to regulate food because the cranks cannot stop poisoning children.
I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status.
He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted.
“Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Kash Patel: "Applicants who have engaged in beastiliaty means they were victims of beastility because they were forced to do so. At this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving."
"Milo got arrested!"
"That's good!"
"By an unaccountable secret police force"
"That's bad"
"He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play."
"That's good!"
"But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests"
"That's bad"
Donkey Kong grapple (L+A I think?) and literally run off the map while carrying them.
Note: You will die too. But the smash gods demand blood. The sacrifice has never not been worth it.
My kids have very belatedly come into possession of Super Smash Brothers, which I have never played. Please give me tips to always beat them (newest version).
UPDATE: The guillotine that a California man allegedly brought to Capitol Hill on Tuesday was "the real deal", w/ metal blade sharpened at an angle and was 10-feet tall, according to affidavit
Man told police he "didn't have issues w/ Members of Congress", but gave no reason for device
People are making fun of Pete for this, but in a way, haven't we all lost our main resupply base in the Gulf of Oman due to Iranian ballistic missile strikes?
Future Army aviators will learn to fly using contractor-owned equipment under civilian instructors as part of a contract worth up to $10 billion to overhaul the service’s helicopter flight school.
"Temperature swings between negative 300 degrees and above boiling can hit a single piece of equipment simultaneously."
Negative 300 degrees is colder than absolute zero. Unless they mean Fahrenheit; but we shouldn't assume that, because the whole article is devoid of units.
Once again "there's aluminum" is not a strong argument for going to the Moon. If there were bars of gold on the Moon's surface, it would not be worth it to get them. Why don't these articles ever talk to an economist? Or just a boring person?
fortune.com/2026/08/06/p...
It would be interesting to know how many of the ships "transiting" the Strait of Hormuz are outbound vs inbound. I can readily believe ships that have been bottled up for months are eager to escape if they can find a window. Not sure how many are willingly heading back in.
cannot wait for the gop midterm convention on national tv where every republican in a competitive race is forced to pledge an oath of loyalty to a demented sex criminal polling at 30% approval
Trump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll:
66% say he puts himself over country
61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc
57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!)
73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!)
His personalist project is over.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2137...
the august 6th lockup expiration is going to be absolute cinema
take the day off, make yourself some popcorn, pull up the stock ticker and watch the carnage
My grandfather got run over by a trolley in 50s era San Francisco. Old cablecars were quite the deathtrap.
They could only slow down on hills by a lever gripping the (already moving) cable, and the cable or lever would snap and send a runaway train down Filbert Street.
A pilot jumped out of the door of a moving plane to his death, leaving the student he was teaching to fly to land the aircraft by herself.
The student said he told her, "You know what you have to do, carry on."
This is the retail use case! I will happily pay $20 nonrecurring for premium model access if it means I get an Android alarm clock app that works EXACTLY how I want!
I don't have to wait on the market realizing that what I want is a hyperspecific alarm clock feature that isn't profitable!
I know lots of people remain skeptical of agentic coding, but I swear, for personalized software that doesn't leave you reliant on someone else not enshittifying... it's pretty nice.
As an aside, I hate the normalization of the slogan "America First". The fact that Trump has popularized it is a daily reminder of how ignorant of history most Americans are.
If the uptick is from @flightradar24.com, then we're not seeing an uptick in ISR flights. What we're seeing is an uptick in ISR flights under orders to intentionally leave on devices like transponders and ADS-B. The total amount of flights including those we can't see is probably unchanged.
My kid is a college senior and wrote this email to his prof today (Gen Z can’t catch a break from once in a lifetime things happening annually to them…)
My kid is a college senior and wrote this email to his prof today (Gen Z can’t catch a break from once in a lifetime things happening annually to them…)
DeSantis also says datacenters are unpopular on both the left and the right. If you have followed this guy's career, this is something worth taking note of. He would not be coming out early like this if he didn't see a big political problem coming down the road.
Most convincing argument I’ve heard so far: if this assassination attempt was “staged”, guaranteed some White House insider wouldn’t have been able to resist picking up an easy payday by betting on it online. No evidence this happened, ergo it was real.
Hegseth: "We barely use the Strait of Hormuz as a country. Our energy doesn't flow through there, and we have plenty of energy. Just look at the new global congo line headed to Texas, a beautiful picture."