Max Kennerly

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

The whole push for this came from a dark money group formed in March. Big victory for tech companies selling overpriced bags, abusive & lecherous security staff, and school shooters. What I get as a parent is an unfunded mandate for my local school board and daily fears about Uvalde. Gee, thanks.

As a white man, I just love to hear claims of racial superiority from a white guy whose life is summed up as a creepy scam artist who doesn't scam people for the money—he's a nepobaby, never had to work a day in his life—he does it because he loves killing children. Not sending our best, are we?

FWIW, Anthropic admits its current margins may not be representative. There's a bit of lucky timing here: big revenue growth while on the tail end of cheap compute contracted more than a year ago. Their future compute is... not so cheap. (1st pic their S-1, second are my graphics based on S-1.)

Not a big story, it's just the Attorney General working with an imprisoned pedophile to help cover up the pedophile President's crimes conducted with his best friend for 15 years, a pedophile who the President sent, as a birthday card, a drawing of a naked adolescent girl.

One cool thing about being a regular Dem donor is how the party tries to demoralize me before every election. I am again drowning in spam texts clearly aimed at ripping off the elderly. Several Senate candidates have worked hard, overcoming my many "stop" replies and blocks, to make me hate them.

Lol congrats to all the chuds who spent the past 24 hours clutching their pearls pretending that Obama insulted Cheesecake Factory just so Trump could actually insult it.

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Note the key phrase "so many people." Yglesias thinks it's fine—good in fact—that American billionaires are very interested in foreign elections and routinely influence them to promote corruption and fascism. His concern is that filthy plebs like you and me might want better things for everyone.

The NYT — having been shamed for years for not posting court opinions — now does so, but only with its enraging workaround of posting a link to a page that has individual images of each page of any opinion. So, here, you load a page of 55 images that are completely unworkable for any future use.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

real fast casual dining heads know this is old spaghetti factory erasure, revealing this supposed tribune of the plebs to be an imposter

The indictment looks bad as a matter of appearances but these aren't crimes, SCOTUS said so. Official acts on an "as-needed" basis? Nope, McDonnell, 579 US 550. Undisclosed self-dealing? Nope, Skilling, 561 US 358. Problem here isn't just the timing, the legal substance itself is dubious.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

This seems like a great way to encourage your employees to spend hours on IT security forums looking for the most insidious malware available so they can intentionally load it onto your corporate network as a matter of moral justice.

“Departures from these practices should never be countenanced because they risk allowing prosecutors to impact national elections.” -Todd Blanche on DOJ’s 60-day rule, September 2024

BOOM! Finally somebody takes down those arrogant little preschoolers and their so-called art: "Adults outperformed children on externally rated creativity, particularly in structured tasks."

no amnesty

Billionaires throw a fit at the idea of an annual wealth tax... but literally everyone else already pays one via property taxes (either directly as a homeowner or secondarily as a renter). The only reason securities aren't taxed the same is because that's where the rich keep most of their wealth.

UPDATE: I found Wedgewood’s Kalshi account. He goes by Andrew and has been insider trading using the fake polls that he was posting. I reported this to Kalshi, hope they do something about it @gelliottmorris.com

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

Good. Fuckin' eugenicists.

Folks, you get what you pay for. Don't skimp on a $995 consultation to hear someone blame your kids for cutting you off. Pay me $1995 to tell you that it's entirely your fault.

"hey tommy-son, are ya winnin'?" "sure am timmy-dad, i got that clip of El-Sayed piledriving me into the ground with an affirmation of American values, just like you asked" "wat" "wat"

I'm only half-joking when I say I'd like a breakout category of "obligated to use" vs "choose to use." E.g., I "use" Facebook and LinkedIn but I'd rather not, I'm forced to use Facebook for local/school news and LinkedIn for professional news. I wonder how common that is.

Character actor is such an amazing skill, they seamlessly fit into so many worlds. He could've been in Project Hail Mary as the grumpy human accountant on Rocky's ship and we all would've immediately accepted it.

Everybody in that crowd should "feel stupid" because his claim doesn't even make sense: there's nothing special about Minnesota and Mercedes-Benz, the state's dealers & sales per capita are well below the national average. Nothing to this but more racism seeping out of Trump's cognitive septic tank.

Appalling headline from @nytimes.com, as usual doing whatever they can to make the Trump admin's lying and lawlessness look like personality clashes and psychodrama. @ms.now, in contrast, accurately conveys to the public the dishonest and dysfunctional state of the Executive branch.

The easiest way to get a big scoop in journalism is to straight-up steal it from @marisakabas.bsky.social, as we've seen over and over from "respectable" outlets.

J: i rec'd aa number of texts on the break from my mother and my brother because CNN is reporting i'm getting a lot of death threats. this is where we are. a federal judge getting death threats over a golf course. i really dont think this is what the founders envisioned. adjourned. /210

Yeah but one thing we know for sure is that people with defaulted student loans failed to choose rich parents and thus they deserve to have the government chase them for money instead of billionaires. Maybe next time you should be born to the owner of apartheid mines or discriminatory housing units!

it is wild to see the rhetoric of 2010s free speech absolutism overlap with the present institutional reality www.kut.org/education/20...

It's a key part of conservative ideology: "I have no obligations to you and I can treat you however I like, but you are required to love me."

Looking forward to the Chief Justice of the United States once again saying and doing absolutely nothing about the President once again going after an individual federal judge for applying the law when the President deliberately breaks it.

Lol this article is one big hallucination. The anti-war GOP consists of a VP who publicly supports wars of aggression and a Senator who wants Russia to invade Sweden and Finland. Small-gov't GOP is the feds stepping in to block states from regulating foods/medicines and deciding who plays HS sports.

I disavow Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. I avow Sister Act, I remember liking it though I can't tell you much about it. The bad guy was Harvey Keitel? It ends with the Pope visiting? Huh, I could've sworn I watched it, I remember Whoopi and Maggie Smith. What were we talking about?

Reminder: no "principles" are upheld by the firms that perform this work, and all should be deemed MAGA collaborators. Don't fall for "everybody's entitled to a defense" crap—this type of defense isn't something a peasant like you can even access, it's lobbying and logrolling and it's lucrative.

Sua sponte orders are rare, but one way they happen is to have a federal judge scrolling through social media on a Sunday, skimming celebrity dresses and sport memes, and then there's a post where the President declares that everything the government has filed in court is bullshit.

Part of the answer to "how did we get here?" is that many major journalists—since 1998, Crawford has covered SCOTUS for PBS, ABC, and CBS—are lying bigots. Here Crawford is praising a guy who asked a dumb racist question, glitched out when asked why, then admitted he wanted a Christian theocracy.

Seems relevant to that flood of journalists who in the last few weeks announced publicly that it was okay to return to X, that the platform had gotten better, and the worst aspects of it had been minimized. This is what you have endorsed.