uncle of the second class

JCPOA?

It was too long ago, I can't place it, so honestly it could've been British people saying it. It wouldn't have seemed exceedingly affected I don't think though, or at least, no more affected than basically everything people in certain circles said. xD

I keep feeling like I should compile a running list, it's impossible to keep track.

I want to say I heard swish a few times in New York around that timeframe?

Once again, I am promising Democrats there are literally thousands of former department of justice people who will crawl over broken glass to prosecute this administration given the chance

Market reaction sort of implies it's not a large enough provision?

Search only within posts I had seen.

Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial A Los Angeles judge ordered Meta officials to remove their AI glasses at a trial over the impact of social media on users.

"The judge upbraided the Meta team and said if you guys have recorded anything, you have to dispose of it or I will hold you in contempt," Jacob Ward, a technology journalist and the host of the Rip Current Podcast, told CBS News, calling the incident "an extraordinary misstep" by Meta.

I have a few times. I have no idea where I absorbed the phrase though.

Krugman puts his finger on what should be the starting point for any attempt to make sense of our current political moment.

Schakowsky withdraws Donna Miller endorsement in 2nd Congressional District over AIPAC support The congresswoman on Thursday told the Sun-Times she "cannot support any candidate running for Congress who is funded by these outside interests."

Wow, good for Jan Schakowsky, pulling her endorsement of Donna Miller in IL-02 after she got propped up by AIPAC $
chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

FBI has literally made zero progress on the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping btw

This stuff took years to build, decades even. And that damage is all completely aside from whatever problematic things they did or left behind, just reestablishing security in these programs is going to be costly.

Another state moves to keep payments to college athletes secret South Carolina lawmakers have approved a bill to keep secret how much money teams and athletes are paid under new college sports rules.

Seems fine. apnews.com/article/nil-...

It's going to be genuinely difficult to figure out how much money he and his family literally just took from US taxpayers. Don't even mean the crypto scam profiteering shit, like actual treasury money that by one mechanism or another he turned into his own money.

Palestinian-American Teenager Shot by Israeli Settlers in West Bank Dies of Wounds

www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...

We’ve been offloading noxious declining industries from downtown to the Calumet region for generations, why should the Bears be any different

That this statement isn't the centerpiece of current coverage is why restructuring the 4th Estate is as vital to our national survival as stripping billionaires of wealth, disempowering the presidency, and expanding the courts.

I mean I've certainly seen it covered on here, but that's just Bluesky.

He just doesn't understand anything, like he's cosplaying a university professor.

we had a team of incredibly dedicated elite government coders

public servants forgoing much more lucrative gigs because they wanted to make government work for people

some of them were my friends or former colleagues

they worked in the GSA, 18F, and the USDS

this administration fired them all

I continue to think this is a big factor in why the Bosses were so easily able to get the Marks to go along with the anti-woke hysteria.

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir "If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

DHS now has a $1 billion tab with Palantir

Another incredible scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/depart...

From the beginning this has felt like it was more on the Atlantic than anyone else, they didn't vet this piece at all seemingly.

An arts panel made up of Trump appointees approves his White House ballroom proposal A federal panel made up of President Donald Trump's appointees has approved his plan to build a massive ballroom on the site of the former White House East Wing.

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, a panel made up of Trump appointees, approved the president's White House ballroom proposal.

UK blocking Trump from using RAF bases for strikes on Iran The disagreement over the use of British sites is behind the US president’s withdrawal of support for the Chagos Islands deal, The Times understands

"The Times understands that the UK is yet to give permission for the US to use the bases in the event that Trump orders a strike on Iran, owing to concerns that it would be a breach of international law."

This is a BIG deal given the US-UK military relationship.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Under pressure, Cook County’s top prosecutor outlines plan to crack down on law-breaking ICE agents

Over the past month, elected officials have criticized Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke for failing to act as aggressively as her counterparts in Minnesota in response to shootings by federal agents.

It’s pretty astonishing how little attention the media has given to Trump’s economically disastrous policies

Especially after years of on-the-ground inflation reporting under Biden

Not exactly the same thing, but I'm convinced the time value of money should be drilled into people's heads at a very young age.