Gavin Johnson

Capital gains should be taxed when the assets are monetize, whether that's via sale or via loan

checking in on the president of the united states

My favorite but here is that they don't understand the whole pressing charges thing. Too much television not enough real law.

Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation

He only understands the concept of slices of the pie that is always the same size, he doesn’t understand that the pie itself can get bigger. Or smaller.

Trump again blames Ukraine for being invaded and bombed, and says he will be "asking" Europe to pay for munitions that Biden administration has sent to Ukraine. ​You are so friendly with the aggressor who made use of those munitions necessary. Why don't "ask" russia to pay you?

IT: The League raised the letter from the Whistleblower. Seems it's outside the record appropriately before me. Not a declaration, it's double hearsay. Unlike SCOTUS, I'm pretty tightly bound by the record in front of me. There is other record submitted in a little bit of a different form

I feel like “Press R2 to hold hands” is going to become a meme

Among other reforms, it cannot stand that the President can sue everyone all the time but never face any lawsuits or criminal charges himself because he’s president. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...

BAM! Kicking off #FridayNightZillow tonight with a quirk-bomb, $18.898M, 27K sf, Danville, California mega-estate allegedly inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. You might need an ice pack for your eyes. Enjoy! www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

Do you ever feel giddy just thinking about it?

Itamar Ben Gvir: Israel should kill 30-40 Gazans every day... "they are not even human beings." www.welt.de/politik/ausl...

"A never-ending stream of spam asking for cash": yes. As I said above: A pull toward evaluating life as a web of economic choices led Dems to see supporters as customers — worth marketing to for donations between elections, and for ballots during voting. Civic engagement never enters the framework.

Melania Trump Discovered To Be Russian Listening Device

This has happened before too. GE used to be a model for "invest in your employees". They had good benefits, a company gym, cafeteria, etc. Then Jack Welsh came in and made it the worst place to work in the name of profit and the company went bankrupt. Wonder why all of these CEO types idolize him? 🤔

This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.

a motion to undismiss?

i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten

whenever someone tells you that it's simply impossible for police to be charged with misconduct or criminal charges, you can tell they're wrong because some cops do get charged regularly — when they are whistleblowers or reformers prosecutors are actually extremely eager to help drum them out!

Oh my GOD hahahahahahahha

Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?

I can tell the bond folks the exact date Kevin Warsh will start advocating for major rate hikes to tame inflation: January 20, 2029

Why the Backlash Against Data Centers Is So Potent talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-t...

A single interest group whose primary mission is to represent the interests of another country has spent $30 million on a *primary race* www.ap.org/news-highlig....

Guy who went on holiday to Toontown and made it his whole personality:

“The world's richest man is also one of the world's most vociferous and vocal bigots," says Chris Hayes.

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House. (Published May)

This should be a lightbulb moment for Democrats: You are free to run on this platform because Republicans are going to accuse you of it whether you do or not!

We just won a court order stopping the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. while our lawsuit continues.     We’re going to keep fighting to keep costs down for consumers, protect jobs, and stop this illegal merger.

I saw it on the news: Taylor farms is owned by Taylor Swift.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir: “There will be Jewish settlements in all of Gaza. “Gaza is ours.”

I reckon everybody has something that brings out the puritan in them. For me it's not drink or drugs or smoking or teenage social media use, etc. It's the astonishing spread of sports betting and prediction markets. Just seems really bad for individuals and society to turn the world into a casino.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.