Michael Ruminer

Incredible

Spotify you suck. What are those with kids at college going to do? Just pay for a student subscription for each and then a family plan for 2 of us at home. And a 7 day turnaround. What if I am travelling for vacation for a couple of weeks. Greedy bastards; pay artists shit and screw loyal consumers.

What precisely did these people expect

Thank goodness we stopped China using the platform for political manipulation

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

NYT is explicitly using 2FA as a punishment to try to upsell existing subscribers.

BREAKING: MS NOW EXCLUSIVE. Republican Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway. GOP Judiciary staff told Schmitt the texts — obtained from the Trump DOJ — were "unvetted." Schmitt still used them.

I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

Just realized I had not seen a post from @kenwhite.bsky.social in a while. I thought "what did I say to get blocked🤥😮‍💨?" So I went to his feed and sure enough, it had been 3 months. He had been suspended by Blue Sky for 4 days and decided he'd not come back. 🥲

An exchange of gunfire near a synagogue in Ontario left a police officer injured on Sunday as congregants gathered inside to mark Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, Canadian authorities said.

GEFILTE PHISHING

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

OMG.... I didn't believe it; then I read the article.

The families of the 18 U.S. service members killed in Trump's illegal war might not be pleased to hear Trump co-conspirator Howard Lutnick deny their deaths.

A picture of the conservative Supreme Court justices.

Supreme Court rules it needs to be expanded to 13 justices, just not in so many words.

I’m telling you - the default position of this administration is fear. Fear of questions, fear of transparency, fear of being found out, and fear of the American people.

Meanwhile the Congress twiddles their thumbs while the country burns.

This.

🧵Alert: The backstory on this story may interest you. Or it may bore you. Either way, here it goes. I first asked the FCC for Chairman Brendan Carr's 2025 financial report on June 24.

wapo.st/4fo0lts Gift article.

It's been hard to do my job this year. Being back reporting — and in print again — means more than I can say. Please spend some time with my story about a Trump administration crackdown on faculty speech at West Point, and one professor's lonely rebellion. wapo.st/4fo0lts

Read the full thread. It only gets worse.

Admirable clarity @science.org

It's one thing to honor the sacrifice of fallen service members. And it's common rhetoric to declare that they died for a worthy cause. It's the Platonic ideal of malignant narcissism to just stand there shamelessly and put words into their dead mouths.

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-poli... "George Floyd". I see dead people.

$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"

For The Odyssey, just booked my ticket on IMAX 70mm it took me to Aug. 10th on a weekday evening to find a decent seat (not row 1,2,3 and not on/near the end).

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

Gender affirming care?

Propaganda for the President wrapped up in an official gov't email account.

I may have a new love interest - this story.

Interesting, but not at all surprising.

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

Yea makes sense. Vibe coding is just pair programming for introverts.

Our ongoing national embarrassment . . .

I think we can agree that it is a net positive for Free Press people to stay home.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

This answer alone should destroy this administration. This conversation is essentially: “people are hurting.” “ceos are fine.”

DO YOU SING?

Read this, please. As bad as the post makes it sound, it is worse.

* US DHS SECRETARY MULLIN SAYS AGENCY COULD SOON STOP PROCESSING INTERNATIONAL TRAVELERS AT NEWARK AIRPORT OVER IMMIGRATION DISPUTE -- FOX NEWS INTERVIEW @reuters.com

You may remember Republicans absolutely losing their mind when Obama released $1.7 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

Have to leave the country to apply for a green card. What a mean and horrible thing.

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.