What union? There’s no union.
If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.
January 10, 2026 at 2:24 AM
What union? There’s no union.
Reposted by Neal Parikh
My favorite Larry/Steve story is from when Steve went back to Apple. Larry goes, Gil Amelio is saying, “Apple is like a ship with a hole in the bottom. And my job is to get it *pointed* in the right direction.” Steve laughed so hard he fell off his stool.
January 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
My favorite Larry/Steve story is from when Steve went back to Apple. Larry goes, Gil Amelio is saying, “Apple is like a ship with a hole in the bottom. And my job is to get it *pointed* in the right direction.” Steve laughed so hard he fell off his stool.
I remember in “Super Pumped,” Eddy Cue calls up Travis, the CEO of Uber, after Apple finds they are abusing App Store rules: “You need to be in Cupertino at 9 AM tomorrow and Tim is going to sit in and decide whether Uber exists or not.”
I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...
Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I remember in “Super Pumped,” Eddy Cue calls up Travis, the CEO of Uber, after Apple finds they are abusing App Store rules: “You need to be in Cupertino at 9 AM tomorrow and Tim is going to sit in and decide whether Uber exists or not.”
It’s even worse than this because he deliberately whitewashes the thing in his inbox and tries to make it sound like they all want these laws enforced legally and peacefully. They absolutely do not. Where is the description of that?
What an indecent waste of syllables--three paragraphs of "Gosh, things sure are complicated in this big world of ours and if we could all just sit and talk..." about the murder of an innocent woman by masked secret police. Centrist banality combined with narcissistic I-am-America's-pastor preening.
New CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil closing the broadcast from MN last night.
January 9, 2026 at 11:13 PM
It’s even worse than this because he deliberately whitewashes the thing in his inbox and tries to make it sound like they all want these laws enforced legally and peacefully. They absolutely do not. Where is the description of that?
It’s a ludicrous idea. We were not allowed to accept gift mugs or chocolate when working for the NYC government. Forget about being violent. The standards are higher not lower.
Frey: "I think [Vance] also asserted that because you work at the federal government you somehow have absolutely immunity from committing crimes. That's not true in any law school in America, whether it's Yale or Villanova or anywhere else. That's not true."
January 9, 2026 at 10:45 PM
It’s a ludicrous idea. We were not allowed to accept gift mugs or chocolate when working for the NYC government. Forget about being violent. The standards are higher not lower.
Can’t believe this is an actual headline
Genuinely the stupidest people.
🚨 BREAKING: France will delay this year’s Group of 7 summit to avoid a conflict with the mixed martial arts event planned at the White House on Donald Trump’s birthday.
Read the story: www.politico.eu/article/fran...
Read the story: www.politico.eu/article/fran...
January 9, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Can’t believe this is an actual headline
One thing he may find annoying is a thing I ran into. I once tried to ban the use of facial recognition in public schools and public housing in NYC. I got people to agree but at the last minute the law department had to kill it because it cannot be done by executive order.
In his first press conference as NYC mayor, Zohran Mamdani announced three executive orders on housing and tenant protection
One will revive the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants. He also revoked prior orders issued since Eric Adams’s indictment
One will revive the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants. He also revoked prior orders issued since Eric Adams’s indictment
Mayor Mamdani announces housing-related executive orders
In his first press conference as New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani announced three executive orders around housing and tenant protection.
abc7ny.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:16 PM
One thing he may find annoying is a thing I ran into. I once tried to ban the use of facial recognition in public schools and public housing in NYC. I got people to agree but at the last minute the law department had to kill it because it cannot be done by executive order.
This is badass
Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.
January 1, 2026 at 11:02 PM
This is badass
Was revisiting this one.
December 28, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Was revisiting this one.
Reposted by Neal Parikh
The Trump administration have gutted science agencies, terminated research programmes and cancelled billions of dollars in grants to universities
go.nature.com/4pMeAuU
go.nature.com/4pMeAuU
Will US science survive Trump 2.0?
President Donald Trump and his administration have gutted science agencies, terminated research programmes and cancelled billions of dollars in grants to universities. What are the long-term impacts for the United States and the world?
go.nature.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The Trump administration have gutted science agencies, terminated research programmes and cancelled billions of dollars in grants to universities
go.nature.com/4pMeAuU
go.nature.com/4pMeAuU
Good summary.
My latest newsletter is about the spiked 60 Minutes story and the reactionary psychology of Bari Weiss.
Bari Weiss Fulfills Her Destiny
stringinamaze.net
December 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Good summary.
Somehow? They hate Jesus, it’s a good chance they will hate the Pope
It remains unbelievably funny that somehow the church picked the one possible American cardinal for pope that the right absolutely fucking loathes
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Somehow? They hate Jesus, it’s a good chance they will hate the Pope
Reposted by Neal Parikh
This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
Reposted by Neal Parikh
The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision.
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision.
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
I asked ChatGPT to take a look at some text. It can’t do this at all yet it can draft mathematical diagrams.
December 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I asked ChatGPT to take a look at some text. It can’t do this at all yet it can draft mathematical diagrams.
I am angry that this turd (not Josh) is bothering Bill over a seminal piece of American art. Here’s one of my favorites that a lot more people need to read.
December 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
I am angry that this turd (not Josh) is bothering Bill over a seminal piece of American art. Here’s one of my favorites that a lot more people need to read.
Of all the trials to mess up. Incredible. It’s such a slam dunk it’s like you shouldn’t even need a lawyer to win
December 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Of all the trials to mess up. Incredible. It’s such a slam dunk it’s like you shouldn’t even need a lawyer to win
It’s amazing how many legit people got themselves pulled into this clearly sham operation
CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their boss’s anti-woke “university” in Austin.
Via @ngluckman.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
Via @ngluckman.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
December 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It’s amazing how many legit people got themselves pulled into this clearly sham operation
I really do think it’s very important to completely destroy whatever this ends up being.
“.. What started as a 500-seat ballroom connected to the East Wing grew to 650 seats. Next, he wanted a 999-seat ballroom, then room for 1,350.” 🤡
@nytimes.com @lukebroadwater.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
@nytimes.com @lukebroadwater.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
November 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I really do think it’s very important to completely destroy whatever this ends up being.
This is the Trump plot line I least understand. I have literally no clue what they’re doing or why. I mean I know they’re randomly killing fishermen but just why and why Venezuela and why any of this
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This is the Trump plot line I least understand. I have literally no clue what they’re doing or why. I mean I know they’re randomly killing fishermen but just why and why Venezuela and why any of this
Never knew this. Wild.
RIP Tom Stoppard.
Hardly his most important work, but I remember having my mind blown by learning he had rewritten most of the dialogue on INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, one of the funniest movies ever made
Hardly his most important work, but I remember having my mind blown by learning he had rewritten most of the dialogue on INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, one of the funniest movies ever made
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Never knew this. Wild.
Very funny
Deleted a tweet up thread about this exchange below bc I believe I misheard it. Hegseth was being asked about his use of the term “jagoff,” not JAG officers. Extra confusing bc he had just been asked about who prosecuted military crimes. Apologies for my mistake.
bsky.app/profile/dber...
bsky.app/profile/dber...
This is incorrect as I heard and understood the exchange; Hegseth was being asked about his use of the term “jagoff,” not about JAG officers generally. (Whether Hegseth considers all JAG officers to be jagoffs is another question of course.)
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Very funny
We are going to bulldoze the entire thing. I don’t care what he builds there.
Even the architect Trump hired to build his massive addition to the White House objects to the president's vision. The two have argued about the size of the 90,000-sq-foot project that would dwarf the mansion. @jonathanreports.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
We are going to bulldoze the entire thing. I don’t care what he builds there.