"By conventional accounting, SpaceX's AI segment still lost $1.3 billion from operations." $SPCX But of course "conventional accounting" fails to take into account the expected $45 trillion profit from humanoid robots on the Moon promised by Ketamine Leon. finance.yahoo.com/markets/arti...

SpaceX’s first earnings reveal the cost of becoming an AI giant: Chart of the Day

SpaceX is becoming an AI giant faster than expected — and it's spending like one.

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I bid $50 for the heroic portrait of Deadeye Dick Cheney shooting his hunting partner in the face. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/04/m...

George W. Bush paintings of Kennebunkport to go on display at fund-raiser in Maine - The Boston Globe

More than 40 paintings of the seaside town by the former president will be on exhibit to raise money for the preservation of St. Ann's Episcopal Church.

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Because if there’s one thing all Bostonians can agree on, it’s that parking is so cheap and plentiful we can afford to turn over 250 spaces to the Mad King’s body-snatchers. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/04/m...

ICE seeking nearly 250 parking spots in downtown Boston, per market research notice - The Boston Globe

The agency issued a notice last month that it sought to identify suitable parking spaces in more than a dozen cities across the country, including Boston.

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Here’s what the @nytimes.com thinks is a page one story: Rich nepo baby retires from pumping millions into sh***y self-serving political causes to spend more time with his Gulfstream jet with the Hermes seats. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/n...

Ronald Lauder, a Billionaire G.O.P. Backer, Closes His Wallet

Ronald S. Lauder, a major funder of conservative political causes, has not given a single dollar this year to Republicans in his home state, and his super PAC has gone idle.

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“It’s not obvious at all that Rubio has provided any value-added over any other lapdog who would have occupied his position in his stead. Like everyone else, he has functioned as a yes man for Trump. Indeed, he has failed in both of his foreign policy roles.” - @dandrezner.bsky.social

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 5h ago

Marco Rubio is ostensibly neglecting his State Department duties to stay close to Trump and focus on the important stuff… except for the most important foreign policy quagmire of the day. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/why-isnt-m...

Since 1980 it has been a core Republican principle, embraced by all Republicans, including those reinventing themselves as our allies, Adam, that feeding the poor and healing the sick is "wasteful social spending."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h ago

BREAKING: Republicans are no longer worried about deficits and debt Bessent: "I'm not as bothered by it ... if '26 is flat to slightly up, this isn't wasteful social spending "

This is a great point to make if you are lecturing to college students, but it’s a pretty silly point to make if you are running for governor.

Oh boy I'm going to have to disagree on this one. Every Democrat will be accused of being anti-Thanksgiving. Ketamine Leon's dark money machine can churn these attack ads out in seconds.

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 17h ago

thanksgiving is a celebration of colonialism. she's not wrong. ppl are saying she should lie or that normies will never forgive her. which...I am very, very skeptical that anyone will actually vote on this. 1

Wait until Maine voters figure out what those wild bears are doing in the woods. #mesen

Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · 19h ago

Susan comes out against Todd Blanche now that he's got the votes. So tiresome. (We called it: tinyurl.com/3bepafkz) #MEpolitics

Kinda like the poor families they kicked off Medicaid and food assistance

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 20h ago

😳 Rep. Pete Stauber indicates there's something gravely wrong with Tom Emmer's health: "You have no idea what Congressman Emmer is dealing with right now. If you did, you would've never made that comment. He's fighting for his damn life today!"

as long as you are hurting Black and Brown people … all is forgiven

I blame liberal elites for not leaving their Bluesky bubble to reach out to them.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 21h ago

maga will accept as leaders rapists, pedophiles, white supremasicsts, wife beaters, con artists, conspiracy theorists, absolute morons, paid foreign agents, & people who are *all* of those things but you can't be even slightly pro-immigration, that's the line newrepublic.com/article/2138...

NYPD is a rogue organization. If the mayor promises something like that and the cops don't do it (or worse actively help ICE) it will spell the end of his mayoralty in many ways. It will be Leon Blum and the French Generals, New York Edition.

How about “if immigration agents try to enter your home without a judicial warrant, call 911 and we will dispatch armed NYPD officers to protect you from criminal activity?”

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · yesterday

Looking forward to many front page @nytimes.com pieces about how the Republican embrace of antisemitic extremists threatens to divide their party and make Republicans unelectable and yada yada yada

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 24h ago

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

Coming up next in @nytimes.com : The Democratic embrace of candidates who don’t parrot the Likud Party line spells doom for their Jewish support, according to three Chasids my clerk interviewed on Eastern ` Parkway and one real estate finagler. By #Bretbug ``````

jstreetdotorg.bsky.social@jstreetdotorg.bsky.social · 23h ago

Every election cycle, we hear predictions that American Jews are abandoning the Democratic Party. The data keeps telling a different story. As @haliesoifer.bsky.social writes, Jewish voters have overwhelmingly backed Democrats for years – and our own polling is consistent with that trend. 1/2

Great technological leap from the old days of yellow stars.

Ted Hesson@tedhesson.bsky.social · 2d ago

ICE is beginning to outfit Haitian immigrants with ankle monitors after the Trump admin ended their deportation protections www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Coming up in all Israeli media: Why don't American Jews understand our plight anymore?

jstreetdotorg.bsky.social@jstreetdotorg.bsky.social · yesterday

A razor-wire fence put up by settlers is keeping Palestinian children in Umm Al-Khair from getting to school. 115 House Democrats are calling on Prime Minister Netanyahu to tear it down and take action against the settler violence and intimidation that Palestinian families face every day. 1/2

"And that's why I'm going to continue to let the Senate carry on business as usual in a spirit of bipartisan cooperation!"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."

He seems nice.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d ago

It was this one, and, yes, I do believe that was an All In first.

How's that "bipartisan cooperation" workin' out for ya, Sen. Amy "Hot Mess" Klobuchar?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Klobuchar: "More than six months after Renee and Alex's deaths when I asked Acting AG Blanche if the department would finally fully cooperate with state law enforcement in these investigations, he said 'it depends on what full cooperation means'...Minnesotans deserve transparency and accountability"

Yes, let's stand by and do nothing while Israeli extremists and hatemongers destabilize a vital US Middle East ally. More genius diplomacy from the court of the Mad King. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Jerusalem’s most important Muslim religious site facing ‘imminent’ threat of Israeli takeover, says Jordan

Country convenes emergency meeting of ministers from Arab and Islamic world, fearing such a move could ‘trigger a religious conflict’

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Any word on his immigration status?

Andrew M. | Founder & Advisor 🇬🇷 🇺🇸@andrewmfounder.bsky.social · 2d ago

The In-N-Out Burger shooter comes from a family immersed in Trump propaganda. The shooter loved General Flynn, Elon Musk, and RFK Jr. He was pro-natalist and wanted to join ICE, but didn't have a college degree.

The last “good” Republican was interred in Frank Sargent’s grave.

All In with Chris Hayes@allinwithchris.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Tillis and Cornyn caved even though they have literally nothing to lose,” says Chris Hayes. “At the national level, there really are no ‘good’ Republicans under Donald Trump.”

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McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · yesterday

The Inherited Platform (Nepotus lecturus) HABITAT: Fourth-generation family-owned newspaper editorial board. CALL: “I once met [NAME OF A SCOTUS NOMINEE] at a fancy cocktail party, and he is perfectly lovely and rational. No need to be hysterical about your rights, ladies.”

Fox “News” exclusive: photographic evidence that woke Virginia is allowing aliens to vote.

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · yesterday

Northern Virginia it’s that time again—go vote and earn your sticker vote.virginia.gov

Their bipartisan work is done

Craig R. Brittain@craigbrittain.com · 2d ago

On August 10th the US Senate begins a month long paid vacation. They will not return to session until mid September. They intend to fund ICE, DHS and the rest of the system at their current level until December, and then go relax at our expense.

And a if a Republican (like Counselor Underpants) manages to sneak into a fair, no pierogis for them!

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

I do rather like the specificity of ejecting them from fairs. Is there kind of a large trebuchet for ejecting fascists, cartoon style? I think this is a good idea, workable, and we could fund raise off it, across the world, so many fascists need expelling from our shared social spaces.

In all of the ho-ho-ho Real Housewives level reporting about the spat between the Mad King and Jeannie Pirro, there apparently isn’t room to point out that a meeting between a prosecutor and a President about a case is illegal and unconstitutional. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

Pirro Meets With Trump at the White House After He Said She ‘Choked’ in Reflecting Pool Case

President Trump said Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., “folded like an umbrella.” For now, her job appeared to be safe, according to two people familiar with the meeting.

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More #winning !

Dean Baker@deanbaker13.bsky.social · yesterday

Factory construction is down almost a quarter over the last year and a third since Trump took office. www.census.gov/construction... That's very MAGA!