James Downie

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

Oh this is actually worse, we haven't had a judicial filibuster since 2013 dawg

NYT: "Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say Adm. Alvin Holsey is leaving less than a year into his tenure, and as the Pentagon escalates attacks against boats in the Caribbean Sea."

"It was unclear why Admiral Holsey is leaving now, less than a year into his tenure...

But one of the U.S. officials...said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Venture Capitalist Resigns From Salesforce Foundation Over Benioff Comments

well damn www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

1. Booooo
2. Their loss.
3. See point 1!

As data centers upend electric grids, the largest operator in the US is facing down a revolt from state officials A coalition of 11 governors has threatened to withdraw from grid operator PJM.

As data centers upend electric grids, the largest operator in the US is facing down a revolt from state officials.

A coalition of 11 governors has threatened to withdraw from grid operator PJM.

grist.org/climate-ener...

#Climate #BosPoli #AI #Data #Electricity #Utilities

I asked Tom Homan as he walked past reporters on White House North Lawn: “Did you take the $50k cash in a bag?”

Homan: “Give me a break”

As I wrote earlier this week, the fact that WH staffers are so eager to share misleading footage just to match Trump's talking points makes it even more telling that they can't find anything to match President Grandpa's rambling about Portland being "bombed out." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Mamdani Is a ‘Sewer Socialist.’ That’s a Good Thing.

Mamdani is persuading center-left doubters by making clear his goal is to deliver services to New Yorkers under stress, not to build some left-wing utopia. Welcome to the old American tradition of Sewer Socialism.
My @nytimes.com column:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

I too don't want anyone taking medical advice from RFK, but guess who voted to confirm him as the person people should take medical advice from.

"Young children and even babies appear to have been subjected to the indiscriminate use of tear gas by Defendants' officers."

Opinion | Dems want to play it safe in Maine’s white-hot Senate race. That’s a mistake. An absurd amount of energy is spent trying to avoid primaries, when, in fact, Democrats should want more of them.

A crowded Senate primary in Maine is good for everyone - let them fight it out, and the person who wins will show they have what it takes for the general.

My latest at MSNBC: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

These teams consistently did some of the best reporting at the network. 💔

Kavanaugh really, really wants a time limit on remedies for racial discrimination. I really, really want a time limit on racial discrimination in America. But guess what

Wow, that's a lot of future potential residents at the home of Clarence and Ginni Thomas

Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.

Medicare has stopped paying physicians due to the shut down. Standing right on the third rail www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...

We really can't have any nice things, can we.

Looks like Pulte filed his backdated Form 3 yesterday, the day we published my story. Better 7 months late than never! fanniemae.gcs-web.com/static-files...

Marc Andreessen Backs Call For Elon Musk To Spearhead $10 Trillion US Re-Industrialization Plan: 'This Is The Way' Prominent tech investor, Marc Andreessen, expressed support for a suggestion for Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO, Elon Musk to lead a $10 trillion program to reindustrialize America. Andreessen Agrees Musk Sh...

As @graceblakeley.substack.com wrote, "For a long time, planning and capitalism have been thought of as opposites....Instead, we should ask where planning is taking place, how it is being executed, and whose interests it is serving." finance.yahoo.com/news/marc-an...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid" We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!

Marc Andreessen Backs Call For Elon Musk To Spearhead $10 Trillion US Re-Industrialization Plan: 'This Is The Way' Prominent tech investor, Marc Andreessen, expressed support for a suggestion for Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO, Elon Musk to lead a $10 trillion program to reindustrialize America. Andreessen Agrees Musk Sh...

Remember kids: Spending trillions of dollars to "reindustrialize America" is dastardly socialist central planning...unless billionaires do it. finance.yahoo.com/news/marc-an...

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

OpenAI books about $13bn in annual recurring revenue, 70 per cent of which comes from consumers using ChatGPT, which costs $20 for a standard subscription, according to people familiar with the company’s finances.

As it happens, this is almost exactly the same as Nintendo’s annual revenue. Which seems like the right comparison- a successful producer of electronic toys. on.ft.com/4nMkP0B

This is indistinguishable from Ben Shapiro et. al. losing their minds when Barack Obama didn't magically declare the end of racism.

arguably quite a bit worse than anything Charles I did, at least in terms of how things are supposed to work

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

This is especially hilarious coming from a guy whose hedge fund lost 90% of its assets. If anyone's gotten "picked up" after disaster, it's Bessent himself.

(source: www.rawstory.com/scott-bessen...)

A guide to the $1 trillion-worth of AI deals between OpenAI, Nvidia and others Artificial intelligence companies are striking deals worth much more than they make in revenues.

whole lotta pledges… www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/a...