David Lefcourt

An escaped convict taught herself clinical pharmacy behind bars. She stole a pharmacist’s identity, passed my client’s technical phone interview, and almost walked into a hospital staff position. On interview day, she vanished. 48 hours later, the FBI showed up looking for her. Full story 👇

What Graham and Dodd say about Apple’s massive stock buybacks at 11x sales.

Are tech leaders really calling for an AI slowdown out of caution or because there's a stockpile of NVIDIA GPUs already sold but sitting undeployed and idle?

There will be a time, probably in just a few years, when the GOP starts moaning about the debt and spending again and I think it will be useful to have printouts of this story to pass around.

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What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend“ #SPCX

NEWS: Aaron Rai has won his first PGA Championship 🏆 He becomes the first Englishman to win the tournament since 1919, ending a 100+ year drought. www.nytimes.com/athletic/728...

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

At this point, I think he is just trolling us.

You gotta give to the GOP. They trained their voters to hate “libs” so much they would gratefully accept every manner of corruption, lawlessness, cruelty, ineptitude, and criminality, and cheer it on, so long as it is their team doing it.

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

The Trump administration pledged to root out “rampant” fraud in federal benefit programs like SNAP and welfare. But the DOJ has shut down more than 900 cases of federal program or procurement fraud in the first six months of this administration.

Do Americans know that their Vice President was in Hungary campaigning for a Putin ally to be reelected, instead of in DC during a war in which Putin is helping Iran target Americans?

NEW: Trump pardoned nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz just 3 months into his sentence for a $39 million fraud scheme. Meanwhile, families who won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against Schwartz haven’t collected a cent.

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

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“I’m waiting for the Orthodox community to step up, to say Dayenu, enough. For up until now they have sided with, or at least given cover to, those who want to make the world dark, uncomfortable, and unwelcoming.” open.substack.com/pub/grassroo...

Important story from @alibreland.bsky.social about how the us government now speaks in the voice of an incel groyper www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

“The federal government is no longer bound by law. If agents of the state may kill people in public without being investigated; if they have—again, per VP Vance—“absolute immunity” from prosecution then we are living in an authoritarian regime.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

For how long will the stock market like fascism in America? @cnbc.com

If Trump's innocent: Why did MAGA Mike hold up Congress to block the Epstein files? Why did MAGA Mike block Rep. Grijalva from being seated? Why are they still withholding the Epstein files? Why is Trump named as a rapist in the files? Why hasn't Trump sued anyone for calling him a pedophile?

Trump has reunited the world—with China. A parade of foreign leaders is suddenly visiting China after years away. On Friday, Canadian PM wrapped up a Beijing trip, 1st trip since 2017. Korean president was there earlier this month (last visit: 2019); British PM will be there soon (last visit: 2018)

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Brace yourself: the US delegation meeting with Denmark and Greenland today is almost uniformly hostile and serves not the US people but our techbros. JD Vance's longtime aide Andy Baker is so pro-Putin he says Ukraine provoked Russia into invading, and that the US should cut aid. 1/

Every obsessive critic of "wokeness" embodies the actual qualities that they attribute to "wokeness." In this case, the mentality that any obstacle you encounter is discrimination bsky.app/profile/park...

Price controls, interest rate caps and the dilution of central bank independence. Funny how these are now suddenly policies of the "right"

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This is the message.

The military removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on US drug charges comes after Trump has freed other figures connected to narcotics trafficking. n.pr/4skk4yB

Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

In less than a year, Trump has nominated at least 216 political appointees who own crypto investments worth between $175 million and $340 million, a ProPublica review found. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social and @shaw.al

One of the most successful propaganda campaigns of our time is the right-wing claim that liberals dominate the media. The right has pushed this myth for decades on Fox and other outlets. You know about it because RIGHT-WING MEDIA HAVE A HUGE MEGAPHONE. My thread. 1/10 🧵

“Everybody asks me about Will Ferrell .. he’s extraordinarily funny, and he’s quiet between takes. I thought that was interesting. I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective .. but they are really able to turn it up when the camera’s on.” - Peter Dinklage, on “Elf” (2003)

Todd Blanche’s appearance on Meet the Press was disgraceful but clarifying. The “Department of Justice” is Donald Trump’s defense team. There can be no presumption they’re acting in good faith. One has to approach them as one approached a Soviet “Department of Justice”—as propaganda, not justice.

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People are treating Chris Whipple's Susie Wiles articles in Vanity Fair today as big news - the NYT even recapped them. But Wiles is no dummy; she knows how to work the press. These articles read like a Trump press release, excuse after excuse with no pushback. It's the anti-Chotiner interview. 1/

Is the LT trend about to change?

RIP Meathead.

This is getting lost: For weeks Trump officials had the option to remove Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, but refused to do so. Instead they kept trying to send him somewhere more dangerous. Costa Rica wasn't cruel and dehumanizing enough. This is deeply sick conduct. newrepublic.com/article/2043...