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“The president jammed his dick into the pencil sharpener that is Iran and started cranking, now instead of stopping he’s decided he’s just gonna crank his way through it, while telling us all his dick definitely isn’t being mangled beyond repair”

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

I don’t think we should get used to a man this wealthy, this full of hate and this willing to demonize a small minority having so much power in our economy and in our politics. To defend democracy, we must defeat the oligarchs.

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

RFK talks about autistic and Arabic people the exact same way. He assumes they are not capable of ordinary or extraordinary achievements because of who they are. He considers them sub-human because they are not like him. This makes it plain that his is a white supremacist eugenicist project.

Well played

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

Republicans, they're not like us.

Just keep playing the hits to try and froth up the base. You’re gonna get the $10k DOGE dividend and proof of Obama’s Kenyan citizenship before the end of the week.

Remains possibly the worst spokesperson for anything, at any time

Pretty incredible back-to-back posts from X’s next head of product

Update: After my story showed Muse could be used to endless hoard items through an "on hold" system, The RealReal says it's making it much harder for AI agents (not just Muse) to log in to the site, add items to carts, and check out. www.theverge.com/news/1018713...

In comments at a private police conference, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said backlash to the company wasn't "real" and the work of "bots." Also he said his wife advised him to never apologize. Read now: www.404media.co/in-leaked-au...

Steve Voguit, the co-owner of a local i9 Sports franchise that removed a 3-year-old Black child from the youth soccer league after parents called police and complained he was too good, follows several MAGA accounts on Instagram.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

It’s always the ones you most expect

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

60,000 workers. god damn www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s like $50mm per MW per year on a 90-day cancellable contract vs Neoclouds at $15mm per MW on 5yr firm deal. Elon bought up a ton of GPUs, realized he had no use for them, and then resold them to the market when there was functionally zero available capacity with no lead time

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

Surely THIS rape revelation will be the one that finally brings down his political career

FT Alphaville is live-blogging the Anthropic S-1. 🍿 www.ft.com/content/4b2b...

yup.

There is far too much focus on expected compute supply coming to market and not nearly enough attention given to the huge gap in revenue relative to what is needed to justify all that capex. h/t @ulf_huse

Ben Norton offers up an eye-popping chart on US vs China Capex Spending. Note his analysis:

So how did Lula come from behind to defeat Bolsonaro? In short, turnout. Bolsonaro's vote share barely moved. But Lula banked millions of votes from those who didn't vote in the first round & won eliminated candidates' votes. A remarkable mobilisation. Second round turnout is usually below first.

Keeps happening

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Undisclosed here: Katie Miller was paid up to $250,000 last year as a consultant for Elon Musk's xAI (Twitter), and owns over $1 million worth of stock in xAI (now part of SpaceX)

upselling people fighting for their lives to expensive plans under the pretense of being anti-war, how very noble of you sir

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

Masterful messaging sir 🫡

bring back shame

“Arm-tackle THIS”

There is no moat

Obama points out that while we may be struck with Trump for two more years, we are not stuck with a spineless Congress

See it while you can.

Republicans are going all in on AI-generated ads. Democrats, meanwhile, are shunning them and suggesting the ad campaigns are emblematic of a party that doesn’t care about the truth and can’t be trusted.

Kushner also failed to disclose himself as an agent of a foreign government, having been paid nearly $2 billion in total by foreign leaders. trib.al/JC1elLM

striking how WaPo can write a headline with such moral clarity when they want

*when a dem is in power* The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants *when a republican is in power* criticizing the government is treason actually

Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.