Jumulo Jimbus
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Just another friggen massive storm cloud.
You and I — all of us taxpayers — funded this $533 million artillery plant outside of Dallas. It hasn’t produced a single usable shell. Yet the defense contractor, General Dynamics, has never been held publicly accountable. Nor has it had to pay a penny back… 1/
There’s a remarkably intimate explanation for why there are more Americans working than ever before. It’s called population growth. In this post, I explain the economics of Trump’s latest jobs brag—and the birds and the bees behind it. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/the-birds-...
The Birds and the Bees of Economics
Trump says more Americans are working than ever. There’s a remarkably intimate explanation.
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Gotta hand it to the president for bringing back aiport catering trucks into the the news. www.nytimes.com/1999/08/27/I...
Airline Drug Sting Likely to Generate Action by Congress (Published 1999)
U.S. authorities have indicted 58 people — mostly employees of American Airlines or a major German-owned airline catering company — after investigators uncovered an extended network of drug and weapon...
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You have to admit that dressing the President of the United States as Senator Padme Amidala of Naboo was a creative solution to mitigate a risk
Need Curb Your Enthusiasm or Veep music overlaid on this
John Hudson@johnphudson.bsky.social · 2mo agoVideo: The Turkish catering truck nonchalantly moving from Air Force One to the other plane
How about we get a 3 liter bottle of "soda" and someone pours it into him?
Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 2mo agoAgain, it is an *exceptionally* strange situation where the president of the US gets to literally invent preposterous things out of thin air every day and no one can do anything about it
Sir, I'd think you were less idiotic if you didn't publish this slop... The fuck you think this is?
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3mo agoTrump on Iran 🤦♂️
I read this last week an had a chuckle. The laughing has only accelerated. Hey Carter I'd love to hear what they're saying about SpaceX at the DCC these days...
Anyone picking £50,000, please contact Pete Hegseth through Signal to schedule your free testosterone replacement therapy appointments
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 3mo agoIf you had a choice between instantly receiving £50,000 or a 50% chance to win £1m, which would you pick? £50,000: 73% 50/50 chance of winning £1m: 21% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
TIL mentor as a word comes from the name of the character Mentor who guides Telemachus.
Pretty sure tens of millions of Americans know things the president doesn't know, many of them are practical life skills like how to buy groceries, mow the lawn, take your kids to school. Others are much simpler such as this guy hasn't a fucking clue with respect to his poorly conceived Iran war.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3mo agoReporter: There are no signs that Iran intends to stop fighting--so, what is the plan? Trump: How do you know that? Do you know something that I don’t know?
Is it me or does this description of “the status quo for decades” bear zero resemblance with reality? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, was killed Friday in the attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.
Texas soldier among those killed in Iranian attack on U.S. base in Jordan
Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, was killed Friday in the attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.
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Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.
WIRED@wired.com · 3mo agoYesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
Well golly, maybe THIS time it will turn out to be true. (It will not turn out to be true.)
Politico@politico.com · 3mo agoDHS says it found thousands of non-citizens on voter rolls in four states
I fully support ripping Vought by any means necessary...including B Dalton call backs.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agowow -- Tillis eviscerates Vought about DOGE's fake budget cuts & tells him, "My understanding is the last time you worked in the business world was at B Dalton's books when you were putting yourself through law school...I don't love the idea of DOGE shit we're picking up because people did it wrong"
