Pinned
CavsKermit
There's a reckoning coming for DSA. Either they'll get serious about their leadership and platform, or their candidates won't be allowed to run in Democratic primaries anymore.
NEW: DSA's National Political Committee passed two resolutions today aimed at Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman, beginning processes that could result in DSA-LA being forced to rescind its endorsement of her this weekend and/or Raman herself being expelled from DSA by January.
CavsKermit reposted
Ok but what if they make you take it 8 times in two years
El-Sayed on Trump's cognitive tests: "I went to medical school...In my neurology unit, I would have to give that MoCA exam...The only people that you give a MoCA test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you're taking one of those tests, something's wrong."
CavsKermit reposted
CavsKermit reposted
CavsKermit reposted
NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...
CavsKermit reposted
CavsKermit reposted
Lenders agreed to do this, and personally, I give zero fucks if they failed to accurately price the risk or hedge. Sorry, not sorry, if Tesla sells at 25 cents on the dollar and you have big write down coming.
“Billionaires who popularized stock-based lending include Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Both borrow to avoid having to sell shares—which could trigger a taxes and dilute their voting rights—in companies they founded.” www.wsj.com/finance/the-...
CavsKermit reposted
RFK is of course correct, it has been *checks notes* an entire year since an Arab has won a Nobel Prize
CavsKermit reposted
BREAKING: Judge Reyes has issued a preliminary injunction over the golf course and begins with this: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
Bobby Kennedy Sr. is clawing at the coffin in an effort to dig out of his grave and strangle his son right now.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
CavsKermit reposted
This is kind of hilarious and I'd be a lot more interested in where this was going if I hadn't already seen legions of companies/industries make a donation before this, and have the proposed reform vanish into the abyss.
CavsKermit reposted
CavsKermit reposted
It seems pretty clear that Athropic is looking for an exit strategy at this point and that they're just pointing out there are three large companies who could all bid to buy it. Nothing wrong with that, it's just weird to be doing it when you're on the cusp of going public.
Anthropic is relying more and more on Google, Amazon and Microsoft to sell its AI technology to customers, despite the three companies being rivals, investors and key suppliers of computing power.
CavsKermit reposted
Leaking classified materials to anyone currently, or formerly employed by the Nation or Intercept is generally a bad idea, but if you do it during the Trump administration, the administration is going to find out and you're going to go to jail. It's not a coincidence that it keeps happening.
The Trump administration firing a civil service employee citing only Article II of the Constitution is an assertion that the civil service laws are unconstitutional. The only question is whether SCOTUS discovers limits to executive power the closer we get to the possibility of a D POTUS.
The bigger question is why did the Plain Dealer, Blade, and Dispatch endorse Vivek in the first place? He's basically a Randian proponent of Social Darwinism who acquired his wealth under suspicious circumstances. The fact that he also lacks a moral compass doesn't explain the initial endorsement.
The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."
The prediction markets are net societal negative IMO, but I do find the timing of these just-asking-questions pieces curious. They're predicting a bluer outcome than the available public polling that is using questionable modeling/weighting for this midterm cycle. It's not irrational.
CavsKermit reposted
CavsKermit reposted
Todd Blanche has succeeded where Jeffrey Clark failed - getting DOJ as an institution on board with a pressure campaign to support seizing power after losing an election.
Post Edited: “Trump’s Election Attacks Enter New Pre-emptive Phase” https://electionlawblog.org/2026/trumps-election-attacks-enter-new-pre-emptive-phase/
CavsKermit reposted
One of the ways that you know that the amount of money spent on political advertising matters is by looking at what is happening in ruby red areas of the country where no money is being spent. Negative partisanship is still an effective Siren call on the right.
CavsKermit reposted