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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.

He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

See for yourself

Planning a fishing and camping trip. Forget airports, the Trump administration is now blaming Democrats for the shutdown everywhere (see alert at top). Authoritarianism is on the march in America. Pathetic, scary and sad.

79. American citizen.

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

Whether you know a lot or nothing about Silicon Valley, this is a must read piece by my friend and former Wired bud Steven levy @stevenjayl. He has seen the evolution of tech from its beginnings. He knows everyone. Few have as powerful a lens. It’s just seminal. www.wired.com/story/silico...

YouTube video by Deadspin Sinclair's Soldiers in Trump's War on Media

They should run this instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHf...

Good read.

Happened to me too. I ended up calling them.

I am actually sad to have to say this since I have admired much about Disney CEO Bob Iger over the years, but what a profoundly quisling move this is by someone who knows better. It’s shameful and he has tarnished his once proud reputation.

Had to do it. Gonna save some dough while at it. It was getting expensive too.

Every person of color knew it was going to be a white man.

No prayers needed.

I’m selling a thing and I was told Facebook Marketplace is what everyone uses now, so I begrudgingly installed Facebook after more than a decade. This is the worst app I’ve ever used. We need a national deprogramming effort to show people this isn’t what software or human interactions are.

Work quote: "They weaponize collaboration."

Hey All - I have a friend getting a Masters of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Please take his survey and feel free to pass it around. bit.ly/4caY7du

Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters In a stunning White House appearance that should alarm anyone who cares about constitutional rights, democracy, the rule of law or anything of the sort, Donald Trump and Salvadoran dictator Nayib B…

So many media outlets are not permitted to report the truth.

www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/t...

Invited my college age daughter out to Easter dinner. Her grandparents will treat. She replied that she couldn’t make it. She said: “Sunday is 4/20 and I go to Berkeley.”

Anyone have any idea what she might be referring to?

The Netflix Show That Ruined Everyone’s Lives is Back. Not Enough People Know Who Made It. — Slate He's a household name of a very different sort in Britain.

Donald Trump is an “ageing He-Man cosplayer dressed for court appearance.” - Genius from the creator of Black Mirror.

apple.news/AVljg6lhuSmu...

AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

Media organizations (and spineless law firms) stand your damn ground. This is the way.

apnews.com/article/trum...

Fairfax Scoop ice cream shop. Passive aggressive much.

Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s ChatGPT may be the White House’s latest economic advisor.

Hey rest of the world, please help save us from this.

www.theverge.com/news/642620/...

The Brits are savage 🔥

The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES.

Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.

Warning. ⚠️ the Internet and social media is going to get worse. Nothing is real. Talk to people and see the world instead. Also, do not put beef tallow on your face.

www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...

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Only Bay Area folks would get this.

I was today years old when I learned that "Contra Costa" County literally translates into "Opposite Coast County."

Too late. There are many people who can't write now.
paulgraham.com/writes.html

I just wrote this note to myself as an action for tomorrow:

F/u w/BI re: QCI mtg

Future anthropologists won't understand.

And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.