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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2d

I knew it! She's been his handler this whole time, hasn't she?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 2d

The collapse of the AI bubble will give us the third bubble driven recession of the century deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-magnif...

The Magnificent Collapse of the Stock and Crypto Bubbles

The third bubble recession of the century will not be fun

deanbaker22.substack.com

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koos167.bsky.social @koos167.bsky.social · 2d

so is a hermit crab, or the concept of heat

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

Janet Mills — who is 77 — should stay the absolute fuck away from the Senate race and this situation is honestly

FRUSTRATING. AS. FUCK.

GRAHAM PLATNER FOR SENATE!

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koos167.bsky.social @koos167.bsky.social · 2d

oh, and family (i.e., christian) values

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koos167.bsky.social @koos167.bsky.social · 2d

REPUBLICANS: the party of small government, fiscal responsibility, and the military

ha ha ha ha ha

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koos167.bsky.social @koos167.bsky.social · 2d

bet

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Carl @listeningtofilm.net · 2d

Makes me think of how the House Dems passed over AOC for ranking member of oversight in favor of a guy who died 6 months later

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact

“And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit.
Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute
was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.

• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available
to any American with an internet
connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly
10%.
• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.

These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific
funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that tree marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences.
Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the
U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people.
We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth
CC
Ms. May Mailman
Mr. Vincent Haley

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koos167.bsky.social @koos167.bsky.social · 2d

"and that means we are going to have to be better than Ezra."

I was desperately wanting to see this line somewhere in your essay. You do not disappoint, sir.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Tom Buckner @justanotherant.bsky.social · 3d

If AI existed when David Simon was writing The Wire, there would be a season of The Wire dissecting how AI was destroying society.

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koos167.bsky.social @koos167.bsky.social · 2d

That's not AI. That's a calculator. AI would convert recipes from Imperial to Cubits and tell you it was in Kelvin.

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s*w*a*c @swac.bsky.social · 2d

I'm in Canada, so I'm more of a CBC guy and only know NPR shows in passing, but this Shapiro seems like ... what's the word ... an idiot?

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 3d

Ari Shapiro doing zero research on his interview subject. David Simon was surprisingly restrained in his response.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Nov 24

If grocery prices had gone down or voters started saying they trusted Harris on grocery prices, the result would not be Harris walking away with the election but the media choosing in a different bad-for-Harris economic issue as the number one issue of the campaign.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 2d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

If you ever stuck up for "ideological diversity ' or good faith debate or whatever and thought guys like Thiessen were part of that congratulations you are a huge sucker and Thiessen and the other conservatives are laughing at you now that they won.

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kimofaus.bsky.social @kimofaus.bsky.social · 2d

This whole thing is terrifying. All democratic countries need to recognise Turning Point USA as a terror organisation. Their members clearly identify with fascism.

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Timmy Chalmette @little-eff.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. Look at everything they have done through the lens of “They are dismantling our country with an eye toward building something more to their liking” and you will liberate yourself from standing slack jawed and wondering what is going on.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2d

Whatever you make of it as a strategy, Ds single-minded focus on the ACA tax credits has actually successfully penetrated the shutdown coverage. It's a pleasant surprise and one imho they'd be well-served to follow here. Farmers farmers farmers, all day every day, people like em more than the troops

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2d

Play offense. Get in front of some farmers and a camera every day and talk about how the admin's corruption and insanity is destroying our agricultural industry. Rs keep talking about a farmer bailout but they can't even pass a CR much less an appropriations bill. It ain't happening this year!

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2d

Also argentina immediately used this windfall to slash export taxes so they could replace American soybean farmers' China exports, and USAID was a major buyer of food from US farmers. Should be the easiest issue in the world for Ds to outflank trump

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2d

The homeowner saw on the security camera that a bear was playing on the outdoor swing every day, but couldn't get on.
So he had a bigger swing built, and this was the result.😎🤣💙☺️

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koos167.bsky.social @koos167.bsky.social · 2d

Yes this 💯. I'm not happy to spend my adult years living through this fucking bullshit, but the fact is my kids are gonna have to REALLY deal with the fallout.

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