JD Vogt

I think it’s a feint and an attempt to get folks to quit.

A ballroom doesn’t cost 200 million. Where does the extra money go?

Always look for the grift to explain a whack policy.

Good article - thanks for identifying what might be a wind shift. Still believe there will be a strong urge to sanewash. And also revealing that it took a threatening, dopey lawsuit to affect this change.

Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about fealty Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about making tech companies bend the knee in exchange for a pass.

www.theverge.com/report/78228...

Article points out that the Secretary of Homeland Security can exempt the $100,000 and travel restrictions from any person, business or industry they want (it's in the fine print) So it's just a tool to create leverage for more extortion.

It’s our country and our laws, what is allowed is what we choose to allow.

The platforms make editorial decisions via their algorithms and face no threat of liability. Platforms don’t want that liability because it would force them to internalize costs they currently dump on society.

The lower courts are seeing what everyone else sees. The majority is in the bag and they don’t want to defend or explain it.

It’s hilarious and congrats on the nominations

Even the Atlantic can’t resist clickbait and its own enshittification

Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers A whistleblower complaint says that the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.

www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...

Talarico owns Will Cain so hard that he has to tap out of their interview based on "time"

The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities

It is genuinely shocking how little Trump's attack on universities relies on law and policy. Even this profile of May Mailman, a Harvard-trained lawyer, who is active in the Trump administration's plan to transform higher education, barely mentions legal predicates.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

They are probably all being asked to cross legal lines, like political targeting (Harvard), political enemies audits (eg Schiff), Data sharing with agencies like DHS. Not willing to do time for Don.

Has he though? I’ve seen plans for adding a tacky ballroom to the White House, foreign golf vacations, receiving a 400M airplane ’gift’ from a nation that funds Hamas… I guess these and other personal enrichment efforts don’t take time away from ending a war on day one. What a dopey headline.

Why can’t she get a glass of water from the tap?

Why why why does the msm not push back on this BS? People besides Aaron would actually watch these shows if they were held to account.

It’s been very frustrating as a news consumer. There’s been too much news analysis where the tariffs are treated like any other economic policy instead of asking hard questions that would belie the policy and demonstrate that they are a coercive stunt with no serious strategy - just feels of the day

IRS head says free Direct File tax service is ‘gone’ “Big beautiful Billy wiped that out.”

Look, you can't just have the public pay for quality public services and say job well done. It will be a disaster. You're destroying my ability to grift folks and where does that leave me? I'm the victim.

www.theverge.com/news/717308/...

Oh thank god, this was so high on my priority list for making a meaningful difference in my life. It’s definitely what’s been holding us back as a country.

Headshot from his Nosferatu audition.

Losers

So Jake, after his lies and bad faith arguments, is he permanently disinvited?

Purposefully cruel

That paragraph stood out to me as well. The Republican Party constantly shows us that they believe grifters are the best qualified people to lead the country.

This Is the Presidency John Roberts Has Built The country is witnessing the creation of an all-powerful institution, and one man is responsible.

Further proof that the John Roberts court interprets the constitution and creates law for partisan ends. He's not a legal scholar, but a hack. and a large reason why our systems seem so screwed up. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I’d be very interested in the Dodge scripts/queries that identified the folks to get rid of and the criteria they used to do so. Probably quite revealing.

Sorry you are dealing with this.

Surprised that “desecrated” is in his vocabulary