One of the most fascinating/saddest/stupidest experiences of my life was seeing how an FTC consent order was drafted (by someone who didn’t know what they were doing), and then how even that person didn’t understand what it said. Not surprisingly, it was not effective!

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2d ago

If there's one thing I've learned from publishing this story is that there is a very, very, very wide chasm between what the law says about all this... and what people *think* the law says and/or *should* say.

the thing about this absolutely blatant market manipulation is that it’s going to work until it stops working, and when it stops, a whole lot of shit is going to go very sideways very fast

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

just in time for the markets to open! it's a Sunday miracle!

this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos

Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.

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My second least part of this inferior website is all the idiot scolds who decide that the best use of their time is to identify as many common words as possible that they find offensive and then accuse random people of supporting genocide or some other terrible thing for using said words.

I think the world would be a better place if more people would keep their insights secret from everyone else

I couldn't agree more, @mikedrucker.bsky.social

ZOOM IN: Critics of corruption consider it harmful to society. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE: Some of them could have more power after the midterms. BE SMART: Better get while the graft is good.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 3w ago

This framing, from one of the better-read political newsletters, reads like a parody of cronyism. But it isn’t.

I’m amazed at how bad music criticism is relative to TV & movie criticism. I’m not sure quite why, but something like 70% of the music criticism I read just misunderstands the music. (Thinking most recently about the Pitchfork review of The Great Divide and a concert review of twenty-one pilots)

When a Democrat praises Lindsey Graham and ignores his vital role in enabling an autocratic takeover of American government, it's because it's all a game to them. It's because they view Congress as a private members club and because they are immune from the consequences of government action.

counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them

Super disingenuous framing by HuffPost. Look. I'm the king of calling Bernie and his Bernie Bros and the DSA Bros out on their anti-Black racism. This is not that. He was asking a *Black leftist*, how they address nonsense from *Black centrist* because as a white leftist, this is not his place.

Charles Gaba ✡️@charlesgaba.com · 4w ago

Holy Shit. 👀 www.huffpost.com/entry/surgin...

One challenge in maturity is whether you can swallow enough of your pride to support what is right and just and ethical, or whether your ego will prevent you from ever admitting you made a mistake.

Speedrunning the journey from “calling everyone snowflakes” to “demonstrating how to be a brittle snowflake”.

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pretty rich stuff from Rep. Brandon Gill considering he’s a carpetbagger in his district — which he oddly never seems to find time to talk about — and only has that congressional seat because his father in law is Dinesh D’Souza, a first generation immigrant.

Birth of a nation is like Citizen Kane. The first time you see Citizen Kane, you’re like “wow it really is THAT good.” you see birth of a nation for the first time in your life. “wow it really is THAT racist.”

Joshua Erlich@joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 5mo ago

friends, I have brought you a gift

You’ll be so surprised to know that this piece is so incoherent that it doesn’t actually tell you what the left doesn’t want you to do on Father’s Day, and what you should do (apparently?) is to buy the writer’s book (?)

If he were a Columbia student and said this his citizenship would be revoked

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2mo ago

Vance blasts Israel’s response to Iran deal: “You're a country of nine million people. You can't just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.”

Damn I didn't know cheetos were made out of ingredients

According to my Amazon Echo Show, the “trusted news sources” for daily news briefings are the NY Post and Fox News so I threw my echo show in the garbage.

/3 Anyway, I don’t think Jesse would devote himself to helping get minorities in Europe killed. But I think he would do a multi-part series critiquing and mocking anyone who didn’t want minorities in Europe killed.

NY Magazine is a usually a great publication, but this article is a logically incoherent “flooding the zone with shit” take. G&T programs for sure are imperfect, but this long article adds nothing useful to the discussion.

New York Magazine@nymag.com · 2mo ago

Proponents of Gifted & Talented programs have promoted the notion that the smartest children need extra enrichment to reach their potential and that we can measure the beneficial impact on the children who receive it. But not a single part of this story is true, reports Katie Arnold-Ratliff.

lol Mariska literally sprinted from her second show to the Garden www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Mariska doing a matinee and a 7 pm performance of her one-woman Broadway show and then watching the greatest comeback in Finals history actually looks like the Jordan flu game

Look, I’m sorry but I just can’t believe the Knicks came all the way back. And I bet a lot of my fellow basketball fans feel similarly. This calls into question the legitimacy of their Game Four win.

Me, a smart free thinker who won’t surrender to the Woke mob: how is it possible a Republican lost in Los Angeles

I am terribly sorry I am not an avid reader of yours, but I don't think your objectively incorrect statements are going to be less incorrect in broader context of all your bsky posts

This show is fucking great

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Okay, I’ve got a new TV recommendation. #WidowsBay is a great spooky-comedy starring Matthew Rhys. I’m four episodes in. (Don’t worry, it’s not too scary. And I say that as a weenie.) Also, the show reminds us that Massachusetts is a truly bizarre realm.

I never thought I’d miss Donald fucking Rumsfeld

Dan Lamothe@danlamothe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hegseth at Normandy: "Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies. Beaches in Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria. Boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not."

/2 Also: notice the parallels between Trumpism and the sort of Matt Stoller politics on display here: the notion that what the people really want is to be able to be douchebags in public without any social sanction. The commonality is being assholes; whether it’s for left or right is just cosplay.

here's what i wrote

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 2mo ago

- @jamellebouie.net’s column not long before his reelection on how a second Trump era would likely mean the end of the American republic as we knew it (he didn’t mean 🇺🇸 literally wouldn’t exist; the U.S. has gone thru multiple republics already) has rung in my brain for the past year and a half