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U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

What if instead of weird one-off extortion schemes the government just collected meaningful and stable amounts of corporate tax revenue hmmm www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

want to be in a throuple. not for love, just the homes i want to buy require 3x my income

Also, Andrew Cuomo spent $20 million of NY taxpayers' money to subpoena phone (& gynecological records!) of women who accused him of sexual harassment. How else might those 20 million have been spent? For instance: on resources and services for needy New Yorkers?

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Which kind of former coder are you: baking bread, too many synthesizers, or woodworking?

There's one clear, actionable lesson from Mamdani's win, and it's that the first step is having your mother direct Monsoon Wedding

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

RIP maestro
From the Vatican Rag to Hanukkah in Santa Monica, from Poisoning Pigeons in the Park to Pollution, Who’s Next? and National Brotherhood week, nobody wrote funnier brilliant songs better or better brilliant songs funnier

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It's basically safer to be a subway rider in New York City that a driver or passenger in a car anywhere in the US.

among the many things they don’t tell you about having kids is the amount of money you will shell out to buy various berries

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends.

But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.

See you soon, NYC.

simplest explanation is that the court conservatives believe trump is sovereign and thus free of all limits on his authority

According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans.

President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.

I don’t think people get how much of their food comes from California.

A flier for Writers With Drinks on Saturday 7/12 at 7 PM at Strut, 470 Castro Street. This is a FREE event, donations requested. Featuring photos of June Martin, M.M. Olivas, Alex Hanna, Natasha Muse and Lio Min.

Writers With Drinks is BACK this Saturday 7/12 at 7 PM. Featuring June Martin, M.M. Olivas, Alex Hanna, Natasha Muse and Lio Min. Hosted by me!

It's at Strut, 470 Castro St. SF CA. FREE, donations requested.

This is a raucous righteous evening of spoken word and generous weirdness. Mutate with us!

Video: ICE agents drive SUV through protesters at S.F. immigration court Immigration agents clashed with protesters, who were trying to stop an arrest, in San Francisco’s most violent ICE encounter of 2025.

ICE OUT OF SF

Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani

Margaret Sullivan from the top rope

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo Zohran Mamdani’s campaign had a visual language like no other, drawing on hand-painted bodega signage and New York iconography in a completely fresh way.

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign had a visual language like no other, drawing on hand-painted bodega signage and New York iconography in a completely fresh way.

brad lander primary chuck schumer

So unused to good news

Hearing that Andrew Cuomo’s tried and true strategy of acting like he deserves your vote because he has so many rich friends may actually not work out for him but Mamdani’s unorthodox tactic of knocking on every door in New York seems to be unexpectedly effective?

This is why is great to see #TeslaTakedown protests mutating into campaigns against Palantir.

This week, folks are rallying in Palo Alto in the bay area: actionnetwork.org/events/palan...

Our budget agreement with the Governor is now public.

We fully protected public transportation funding — reversing all proposed cuts — & fully protected the $750M loan to Bay Area transit systems we previously agreed to with the Assembly. 🧵

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American people wouldn’t notice them. “Don’t make any sudden movements, or they’ll spot us,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said out of the corner of his mouth, […]

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

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All this because y’all hated a successful 2-term Black President & two overqualified Women presidential candidates.🤦🏾‍♂️

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

Climate Change Will Bankrupt the Country Climate-fueled disasters cost America almost a trillion dollars over the last year, far more than economists predicted.

turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...

What message does it send, especially to women, that the democrats will pull out all the stops to rally around a disgraced fucking rapist rather than let a socialist win a single mayoral election? I’m so tired of this shit dude

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.

ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.