Scott Cederberg

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

Waking up with small kids like waking up after a massive bender. Groggy… eyes bloodshot… bottles everywhere

Kamala Harris warned us that Trump was going to do all the things that he's now doing. But she wasn't likable enough when she did it.

Elon Musk runs DOGE but also doesn't run DOGE. Schrödinger's bureaucrat

25% tariffs??? Jesus christ. Canadian fentanyl is expensive enough as it is!

Lemme share something with you. A lot of semi-Trumpy types are saying Zelensky blew it. All he had to do was show up, shake hands, say Trump is great and sign the docs. He couldn't do that. But there are also people in DC who are not Trumpy who are saying the same thing. Now, big picture this ...

At the same time that the entire Republican Party is complaining that Zelenskyy lacked sufficient respect, Trump is calling the leader of our neighbor and longest ally "Governor" and his Cabinet are doing shit like this.

Whether it’s the Ukrainian armed forces successfully holding off a Russian invasion, or Donald Trump aiding and abetting that invasion, both sides are engaging Russia in a surprising fashion.

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

Thanks to Republicans, free speech is finally back in America. Here's why everyone who works for 60 Minutes should receive jail time. by Elon Musk

Introducing these bills while refusing to use the power she already has to do the right thing just adds insult to injury.

I think the totally understandable negative polarization among people on the left towards AI has obscured for people just how shockingly advanced the tech is getting. The consumer facing image slop is laughable but DeepSeek’s research abilities are insane.

Whether it’s Joe Biden accepting a presidential salary or Elon Musk restructuring the federal government to benefit his private companies, presidents of both parties have used the office to financially enrich themselves.

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

Thanks @peterbakernyt.bsky.social making it clear that I don’t need to take you seriously. Appreciate your eliminating a potential waste of my time!

Eric Adams was a disgrace from day one and now he's sold all of us to the Trump administration—including our most vulnerable neighbors. It's time for @govkathyhochul.bsky.social to fire him. Every minute she waits, she's sacrificing more New Yorkers. ENOUGH.

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

The interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, a FedSoc member and former Scalia clerk, has done more to publicly expose the corruption of the Trump administration this week at greater personal cost than any elected official I can think of.

Instead of prosecuting the mayor of America’s largest city with the ample evidence that he took bribes from a foreign government, the Trump administration decided to leave him in office, and use the threat of charges to blackmail him into carrying out their agenda. And they did it all in the open.

There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.

I can quit my vim habit any time I remember the combination of keystrokes that does that

As someone trained as a trade economist, it is my duty to share the 1929-1933 Kindleberger Spiral, showing the month-month decline in global trade due to the combined factors of the (global) Great Depression and retaliatory tariffs. Smooth Hawley is implemented mid-June 1930.

PLEASE NOTE: Bribes are now called "settlements."

This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

The entire staff of 60 Minutes should resign. This would be a dangerous, historic act of cowardice. It requires an extraordinary, historic response. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

Opinion | Yesterday's tragic crash proves that air traffic control does not work and should be eliminated. by Grover Norquist

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.

2025 has been my least favorite decade so far.

Crying at the people who think they’re “protesting” congestion pricing by not driving into the city

These “please identify all images containing X” captchas should be fucking illegal

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Happy New Year

Serious question: is there like a browser setting or extension I can use to prevent Google Workspace apps from hijacking browser-level keyboard shortcuts? Sheets is the worst offender.

The Hunt | She wanted an opulent Moscow palace that could remind her of home back in Damascus. He wanted a pied-à-terre on a low floor with no windows and a built-in Geiger counter. Which did they choose?

Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead

% of Republican voters who say the recent election was run very or somewhat well November 2020: 21% November 2024: 93% www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

I’m once again asking Google Docs to make it possible to zoom in on a diagram

To help create jobs for blue collar men, I would simply legalize infill housing construction in places where demand is high.