Jay Flatiron

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."

T.F.I.F. Thank Fuck it's Friday.

New SEC filings show that Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to pay California’s billionaire tax without losing control of Meta. So billionaires can afford to pay the tax? And they won't lose control of their companies or flee the state? Don’t fall for billionaires’ propaganda. Vote YES on Prop 40.

Weird. It’s like he didn’t even want to watch the actual game!

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Clear PI. Defender looked back, sure. Also had the receiver wrapped up and never made a play for the ball.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

In case you're wondering just how much $1 Trillion is: www.wired.com/story/spend-...

What a damning report of the economic destruction ICE has left in its wake—recession-like conditions for local economies, small businesses forced to shutter, and a rise in unemployment. ICE must be reined in and held accountable. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/i...

“Amazon’s broadcast team decided to treat Browns QB Deshaun Watson, a proven and unrepentant menace to women, with the kind of soft-focus treatment usually reserved for diabetic Olympians.” defector.com/the-tv-peopl...

Wall Street profits and bonuses are poised to hit a record high. CEO pay is up. Corporate profits are skyrocketing. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. Meanwhile, inflation eats up the paychecks of working people as the social safety net is cut out from underneath them. Trumponomics.

I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.

Dear every football broadcast: Can we get younger, more exciting, more capable broadcasters/commentators instead of the same old, crinkled clowns you've had for 30 years? So many of them can't keep up with the highlights they are talking about, and don't have any analysis of what they narrate.

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb

Stroke victims are often given leg braces to help them walk.

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

The Senate is voting on the Protect College Sports Act TODAY. College athletes need a say in the terms and conditions of their work, but this bill would silence athletes and empower the NCAA. Tell your senators: vote NO on the Protect College Sports Act!

Yes, yes, I'm sure that will stop all interest in the film.

Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote.

@sickoscommittee.org NICE PUNT #IOWA

"I've already done over a billion in fraud. I still have such a tiny penis. If I let other, more wealthy people with tiny penises do major fraud, maybe they and their tiny penises will be be my friend. For money."

Another name for the "Protect College Sports Act" could be "A Lot of These Players are Getting Uppity or Need to Smile More"

wut

@sickoscommittee.org Go Hawks!! (yeah they dropped it) #IOWA

From Iowa State’s Band: “…members of the Cyclone Marching Band will wear a Black & Gold pin with an outline of the state of Iowa and the letters “DIFD,” in honor of Derek Phillips, a member of the Hawkeye Marching Band who passed away earlier this week.”.

That's a big fucking horse.

GODDAMNIT

A viewer named Debbie got the phrase “nut cuttin time down on the ranch” banned from my program. Debbie ruined it for everyone.

A new tool exposes the $1.7 billion union-busting industry. You can search every law firm, consultant, and individual attorney. And you can estimate how much a typical union-busting drive costs, depending on the workplace, number of employees, & length of campaign. prospect.org/2026/09/08/u...

Thirty-four days before she reported to prison, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes gave Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim access to document her every move. That turned into a three-year project, and A24 will release the resulting documentary this October.

This is all so fucking embarrassing.

HOLY LORD THIS IS TRANSCENDENT

@sickoscommittee.org HAWKBALL

As a former professional football player, I can confidently say that this essay is incorrect from every conceivable angle, and contributes heavily to the culture of toxic masculinity that still infests high schools and colleges across the country.

P.S.

Sorry it just occurred to me that there may be people who haven’t seen clip from the Quibi show where Rachel Brosnahan plays a woman dying because of her golden prosthetic arm and I needed to fix that

While Mich Golden sales represent just a sliver of AB InBev's $59 billion annual revenue, the beverage giant keeps churning out the product, almost exclusively to satiate demand in Minnesota.

Me playing baseball.

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

America's national parks are being quietly taken apart: mass layoffs, record budget cuts, monuments shrunk by millions of acres, protected land reopened to drilling. None of this is speculation. Ten sourced examples, one at a time. 🧪

This is clown shit. We have an apprenticeship program based around regular classes and being mentored in the field by journey-level tradespeople.

America is lawless. Are Dems ready to get tough on crime? A THREAD.

You know something has gone terribly wrong when 94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies while the average Wall Street employee got a bonus of $246,900 in 2025. Hello?

Jesus Christ every American media outlet I've seen is reporting on Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America like it's something he can just do. None of them are commenting on how fucking absurd it is, how embarrassing and pathetic it is, how small and weak and never gonna happen it is.