Ag prices getting a ton of attention this week — amid bottlenecks in Ukraine, Hormuz, and now, El Niño. JPMorgan this month said “global food inflation is set to rise from 2.8% in 1H26 to 5.0% in 1H27 ..” substack.com/@tavicosta?r...
If our insane president gets his way on Lake Ontario, we'll lose the lovely mnemonic HOMES and instead have SHAME.
The pandemic seems to have permanently increased (or coincided with) asocial behavior. On an average day, one in 10 young adults now has no in-person contact with another human www.ft.com/content/e1eb...
The amount of people I see watching obvious AI slop on the subway is disturbing.
The extent of Trump's destruction of Washington, D.C., is truly stunning. It's the ultimate metaphor. The algae-infested Reflecting Pool. The destroyed grass from the UFC event. The bulldozed East Wing grounds. "86 47" etched into the lawn near the Reflecting Pool. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz
New York City just had its safest first 5 months of a year in recorded history. Murders plunged 21%, and major crime overall is down 11%.
I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.
The LIRR strike is a good differentiator between who is serious about good government and policy and is capable of understanding complexity, and who’s an ideologue or just kind of incurious
something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is
Someone in NYC should do interviews with middle-school kids who take the subway to and from school every day, to see if they have any advice for Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy who can't seem to go a single day without pissing himself in fear over them.
it's fascinating to watch Costco lap every one of these clowns because they have the only CEO in America who still thinks his job is to run a company that does business and not be the main character of life forging his personal legacy with one eye on the group chat to see if they're impressed yet
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2y agohonestly starting to wonder if the big split between Costco and the other guys is the product of Costco’s obsession with localization
Please stop the digital deaging AI slop commercials.
Deeply evil to be doing this.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 7mo agoHAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
I can put up with a lot of corporate nonsense, but I draw the line at cringe, forced backronyms.
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 7mo agoHorrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
This slogan adopted by Kristi Noem, "One of Ours, All of Yours," is taken from the Nazis, who retaliated for the killing of an SS officer by murdering all the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, apparently none of whom had anything to do with it, and razing the village to the ground.
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 9mo agoSecretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength. Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans. The American people need more from their leaders.
There is a full-on push in NYC right now to use "Mamdani doesn't make Jews 'feel safe'" as a cudgel to get Cuomo into office, and it is utterly disgusting. You know what makes me feel unsafe? People who casually characterize us as a trembling single-issue monolith scared of the big bad Muslim.
Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11mo agoGuys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?
Just called Jefferies office and someone immediately picked up. Call your congresspeople and call your senators