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10 corporations that kept their promises after January 6, 2021 After a violent mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, hundreds of corporations took action to communicate to the public that democracy itself was more important than maximizing their po...

1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years

But we've identified 10 promise keepers:

Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft

Manmohan Singh, Indian Prime Minister, Dies at 92 The country’s first Sikh prime minister, he introduced free-market reforms that turned India into an economic powerhouse and sought reconciliation with Pakistan.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

Trump's transition is happening over private emails. Federal officials are nervous. Agencies are weighing in-person requirement for sensitive data.

i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

Democrats aren't a serious party. Agreeing to pass the new CR = Charlie Brown to Johnson's Lucy. Not only incentivized deal breaking, they are not following Mitch McConnells devil's insight that Americans will put all the blame on the party with power. No extra credit for getting beltway plaudits.

Jeffries: In our nation's history, 25% of our nation's debt was accumulated during the four years of the former president, 25%. How dare you lecture America about fiscal responsibility ever.

President Musk is handed a defeat before he officially takes office. He is going to scold VP Trump for failing to follow through on his directives

Support for RFK Jr equates fruitcake lunacy with open-mindedness, blindness to hard fact with far-sightedness, rejection of the scientific method with enlightenment. He is easily the most dangerous nominee of a deadly bunch of weirdo sycophants and lethal suckups to Donald Trump.

The CTA holiday train, complete with Santa in downtown Chicago…

Really great piece in @theathletic.bsky.social by Mike Sando detailing how the Chiefs win so many close games and whether it’s sustainable.

This chart is amazing—shows how much Mahomes impacts games with his legs in clutch situations.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/598...

what's the family that we know has been wealthy for the longest? like there's documented evidence that they were rich (by the standards of every era they were in) and the line of continuity between generations is clear. is it the UK royal family?

Aaron Rogers lost again. That’s a shame.

on June 9 2024 dopey dipshit @JoeyMannarinoUS blurped: Hate speech is free speech. Misinformation is free speech. There are no definitions of those things that can be clearly defined without inherent bias. Every human will inherently have a different definition of hate speech. Therefore, shutting people down for hate speech and misinformation is inherently wrong.

on December 6 2024 dopey dipshit @JoeyMannarinoUS quoted someone who joked he’s the United Healthcare CEO’s shooter and blurped: How is this allowed? This can get me killed.

how it started / how it’s going

two posts from threads first is from @camillecardonaa and says: I just found out that only 1.5% of Japan's population is Christian and I'm heartbroken. second is a reply from @orangedweller and says: Hi. Japan's homicide rate is 07% per 100K. United States homicide rate is 5.7% per 100K. Japan's unhoused population in 2024: 2,820. United States unhoused: 653,104. Japan also has one of the highest food security rates in the whole big world. Meanwhile, in the US, 18 million people are food insecure. Maybe this Sunday you can ask the Christians what their bible says about poor people and murder. Sorry bout your heart.

gotDAMN

Paul Krugman retires as Times columnist | The New York Times Company

And it’s official. I’m immensely grateful to the world’s greatest news organization for giving me a platform all these years, and greatly appreciate the moving sendoff 1/

www.nytco.com/press/paul-k...

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

It shouldn’t be ignored that Kash Patel chose to plead the Fifth in response to a grand jury subpoena over the Mar-a-Lago classified documents.

He only testified, involuntarily, after being granted immunity.

Think about that. Trump’s FBI nominee pled the Fifth in response to a DOJ subpoena.

Having a modern morning — ie both on phones. Me: "Martial law in Korea!" Robin: "I don't see that anywhere" Me: "It's on Bluesky"

This site has arrived

My entire timeline is football. WERE HERE AND WE AINT LEAVING

Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting Don't make this hard

Getting started with prompting AI in three (free) posts:
1) Easy prompting for most: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/getting-st...
2) Approaches to prompt "engineering": www.oneusefulthing.org/p/innovation...
3) A bit on how LLMs work that is relevant for prompting: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/thinking-l...

You decide whose description of Kash Patel is most accurate:

NYT: "firebrand loyalist."
WSJ: "loyalist."
WaPo: "staunch defender."
AP: "steadfast Trump ally."
Me: "Trump henchman."

Democracy Docket is fiercely independent. It will never obey. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

Russian spying ring ‘planned honeytrap to bait journalists’ Two Bulgarian men have pleaded guilty to spying for Russians in the UK

A Russian spy ring was tasked with kidnapping and/or murdering my two colleagues, Christo Grozev and Roman Dobrokhotov, a UK court has now heard. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

That’s why I want Scott on our new editorial board!!! Growing the board with experts who have thoughtful balanced views and new candidates are accepting the challenge to join us! Way to go Scott and thanks for accepting @latimes @ScottJenningsKY Stay tuned we are making this happen

Billionaire owner of the LA Times spiked the paper’s endorsement of Harris, now filling the paper’s editorial board with right-wing hacks

There is nothing thoughtful about Scott Jennings