NEW from me: The right says migrants are culturally incompatible with democracy. But those who choose to move to free states actually tend to be their biggest admirers I wrote about Justin Gest's new book on rising immigration from illiberal to liberal states www.theargumentmag.com/p/democracie...

Democracies attract immigrants who like democracy

What did you think "City upon a hill" meant? Vibes, papers, essays? Losers

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Official monthly data is in today, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 20% compared to this time last year!

Druckenmiller admits his Op-Ed was written with AI this morning, at the absolute bare minimum this should shift the editorial standards at the WSJ www.notus.org/media/stanle...

Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller’s WSJ Op-Ed Criticizing Bessent Was Written With AI

“I write everything using AI now,” Druckenmiller, who questioned the treasury secretary’s bond market interventions, said.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 6d ago

sorry but this is the most obviously entirely-AI-generated op-ed ever. It has an "it's not X, it's Y" construction in both the first 2 paragraphs. Pangram has it as 100% AI. One of the most prominent billionaires in finance submitted this? The WSJ allowed it to run? are there no standards anymore?

Asking men if they’ve ever played video games, watched porn, or gambled has the same energy as this tweet

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 6d ago

guy who's in the 2% because he's too busy smoking crack

sorry but this is the most obviously entirely-AI-generated op-ed ever. It has an "it's not X, it's Y" construction in both the first 2 paragraphs. Pangram has it as 100% AI. One of the most prominent billionaires in finance submitted this? The WSJ allowed it to run? are there no standards anymore?

Nick Timiraos@nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 6d ago

Stanley Druckenmiller renders an unfavorable opinion of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's use of buybacks to defend against higher yields in a market that is functioning normally. "Every basis point of artificial yield suppression is a subsidy to procrastination." www.wsj.com/opinion/let-...

I mean just every day you wake up and he’s embarking on an even more ridiculous act of economic self harm

Anti-Trump Indycar DC church sign I ran into today lmfao

It is February 2025. I am watching the US impose a bunch of stupid tariffs on Canada. It is March 2025. I am watching the US impose a bunch of stupid tariffs on Canada. It is July 2025. I am watching the US impose a bunch of stupid tariffs on Canada. It is August 2026. I am watching the US impose a

Thomas Seal@twseal.bsky.social · last wk.

US-Canada Trade Talks Collapse, Triggering Trump’s 50% Tariffs (Bloomberg) -- An agreement between the US and Canada to avert a fresh round of tariffs fell apart at the last minute Tariffs kick in 12:01 a.m. EST

every 6 months the Trump administration realizes lowering tariffs will lower prices, applies this insight to one specific good, and then proceeds to never introspect beyond that. It’s honestly beautiful in its stupidity.

In possibly the fastest shift in public opinion I've ever seen, local data center approval went from -5 to -65 in less than a year heatmap.news/daily/data-c...

the great benefit of being known as The Friend Who Reads a Lot is that everyone gets you a book for your birthday

Watched Trainspotting for my 28th and its 30th birthday yesterday, it’s amazing how the movie only seems to get more prescient as the world gets more modern. One of the best movies about confronting endemic nihilism, with an incredible soundtrack and just a deluge of striking visuals. boxd.it/fUWbZ5

A ★★★★★ review of Trainspotting (1996)

I watched Trainspotting for my 28th birthday and its 30th birthday, and as the decades have passed it’s amazing how this movie has only gotten more prescient as the world gets more modern. How do you ...

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Heartwarming: this 95 year old diner still makes Tacos the old fashioned way

RIP. It's so dumb that the "solution" Trump has presented for the Strait of Hormuz closure is to just hope that a bunch of sailors are willing to risk life and limb in service of global oil markets. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Vessel struck by unknown projectile in Strait of Hormuz, crew casualty reported, UKMTO says

The United Kingdom ‌Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) received a report on Tuesday that ​a vessel was struck ​by an unknown projectile while ⁠transiting outbound in ​the Strait of Hormuz, causing ​eng...

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IMO this is the slow-moving disaster that most epitomizes the nightmare that is the Modern Information Environment

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2w ago

US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.

INDOPACOM century of humiliation continues apace

is [pop star] a feminist? Is Mastercard a queer ally? Is this tv show my friend?

Probably my favorite new daily trivia game, where you’re given a set of senators and bills and have to guess who voted yea or nay on the bills playyeaornay.com

This “people are mad about the high costs of electricity so we should cancel a bunch of key electricity infrastructure projects” idea from the Trump administration is probably one of the more obvious blow-up-in-your-face strategies from them, which says a lot www.energy.gov/articles/ene...

Energy Secretary Announces Cancellation of Three Proposed National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy will not move forward with designating the three proposed National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors previous...

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College kids also actually live in the place where they go to school Plus the “wishes” they’re “overcoming” here are NIMBY policies so bad that they’re driving students to homelessness. Sorry but it’s reasonable to expect some of the wealthiest cities in California to allow more housing!

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3w ago

Well, that's a new one. "College kids should be able to vote to overcome the wishes of the people who actually live in the place where they go to school"

polling is extremely difficult in the modern era, polling is especially difficult in primaries, I have no solution to this, but it's insane how big the polling error was for both Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed

DC area little free libraries truly are goated

JK Rowling ahh baseball player name I just found, they truly don’t make em like they used to

The core economic pitch for Trump's mass deportations was "fewer immigrants means more jobs for Americans. Unsurprisingly, that's just not happening Instead of rising, prime-age employment rates for native-born Americans fell to the lowest levels in more than four years in data released today

NEW CANADIAN JOBS DATA: Employment Growth: 75k Unemployment Rate: 6.4% (-0.1%) Prime Age (25-54) Employment Rate: 83.9% (0.3%) Employment Level: 21.2M

The US tech sector continues bleeding jobs—official data released this morning shows employment dropped by 4k last month and is down 42k over the last year That's not as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, but extremely bad compared to the 2022 boom or even pre-2020 norms

NEW US JOBS DATA: Non-farm Payrolls: -23k Unemployment Rate: 4.1% (-0.1%) Prime Age (25-54) Employment-Population Ratio: 80.4% (+0.2%) Average Hourly Earnings: +0.1

June US transit data is in today, & all of the 10 largest US rail networks are growing! SF is seeing a real boom, with ridership up 16% on Muni & 14% on BART SEPTA (Philly, 9.1%) and PATH (NY/NJ, +8.7%) are also seeing strong growth, while MTS (San Diego, +1.4%) is the slowest🧵

June US transit data is in today, & all of the 10 largest US rail networks are growing! SF is seeing a real boom, with ridership up 16% on Muni & 14% on BART SEPTA (Philly, 9.1%) and PATH (NY/NJ, +8.7%) are also seeing strong growth, while MTS (San Diego, +1.4%) is the slowest🧵

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...