😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:
😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮
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Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂
"Either way, the concentration of wealth at the very top is much higher now than it ever was during the Gilded Age. And these are numbers from last year, before the SpaceX IPO. The robber barons were pikers compared with today’s oligarchs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...
Meet the New Bosses, Worse Than the Old Bosses
The second Gilded Age is much uglier than the first
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Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.
Herb Scribner@herbscribner.bsky.social · 2mo agoBallroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Remember: we were never given credit for being right about crypto, we were never given credit for being right about NFTs, we were never given credit for being right about the metaverse and we will never be given credit for being right about AI. Fuck 'em up anyway.
“A Pizza Hut franchisee claims the chain’s AI-powered delivery system, meant to optimize orders and speed up deliveries, instead backfired and cost it more than $100 million.”
Pizza Hut Franchisee Sues Over AI Delivery System, Alleges $100 Million in Damages
The system allegedly resulted in
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When Trump needed the conspiracy-theorizing masses of Alex Jones in his coalition, he was fine with Jones' Sandy Hook denial. Now that Alex Jones has shown disloyalty to *him,* suddenly Trump professes to care about it. This gets at MAGA's deepest perversities. newrepublic.com/article/2089...
I talked to numerous people in Newtown. They were surprised to hear Trump condemn Alex Jones for his Sandy Hook denial, because they expressly asked Trump to disavow this in 2017 during his first term and he refused. I've got quotes from them and the backstory here: newrepublic.com/article/2089...
In his tirade against MAGA war critics, Trump blasted Alex Jones for calling Sandy Hook a hoax. This seemed odd. So I went back and checked. At the time Trump hailed Jones as "amazing" and rebuffed demands that he denounce lies about the shooting. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2089...
Trump Tirade at MAGA War Critics Accidentally Makes Surprise Admission
The president just referred to Alex Jones’s Sandy Hook conspiracy-mongering as “horrendous.” Funny thing—he didn’t seem to think so at the time.
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Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story: “The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."
Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story
"The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."
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“The company stopped answering the phone as soon as its proposal faced any serious scrutiny, then scrubbed all the evidence from its website.” great read on one of Musk’s many boondoggles, scams and empty promises: washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...
How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed
Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore in a matter of minutes. The project was a...
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there was a handful of notable reporters of the time that were suitably skeptical, but that skepticism was not the norm, and for many of them it didn't really last there's a mike bloomberg tech columnist in my replies telling me the tech press did a good job, and I'm sorry but that's delusional
if you go back and read the press coverage from the metaverse launch era, so much of it was just access stenographers basically just repeating whatever the company said. just a complete acceptance of facebook framing
At SXSW, Mark Zuckerberg says metaverse is 'Holy Grail' of social experience
Zuckerberg appeared by video conference for a session with 'Shark Tank' start Daymond.
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I don't really feel like the press coverage of the metaverse implosion honestly captures the access tech press' role in propping up Mark Zuckerberg's fake innovation mythology if you go back and read "journalism" from this era, 97% was indistinguishable from advertorial
The higher ed thinkfluencer-industrial complex churned out thousands of pieces just like this one
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)@thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 5mo agoRemember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.
🚨🚨 Spot on by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on allies "abandoning" #Trump: "This isn’t cowardice. It’s a calculation. Most of them have stopped trying to find the hidden logic behind Trump’s actions, and they understand that any contribution they make will count for nothing".
Anne's great piece should be read in full and is available here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
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Podcast Host: Ask Jeeves…that is tremendously countercultural in a certain sense, to ask a butler for knowledge 58 year old wearing Supreme hoodie: no one had ever thought that was possible. The warehouses of knowledge were owned by academia.
Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then Podcast Host: fascinating, I have worms
AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion
AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion
PALO ALTO, CA—Hailing the new product as a “game changer” in the development of large language models, Silicon Valley insiders confirmed Tuesday that an AI chatbot that only responds “huh” had been va...
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Van Hollen: "The Trump admin has essentially said to folks at ICE, 'Anything goes. You have a license to kill. And by the way, we won't investigate you. We'll take care of this for you.' When they're calling these Americans 'domestic terrorists,' what they're saying to ICE is we got your back."
ABC News: "here's a list of those targeted by his administration" with *50+* names abcnews.go.com/US/list-indi...
In year since Trump's return to office, here's a list of those targeted by his administration
The DOJ's probe into Jerome Powell is the latest salvo in what critics call a campaign of retribution since Donald Trump returned to the presidency one year ago.
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The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
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