Jon Spaihts

YouTube video by Gary Whitta SECRET PROJECT REVEALED

I'm bored today so I decided it's time to announce the secret project.

The Treasury Department has its own Epstein file containing thousands of bank records. My investigators reviewed a portion of those records last year. I've demanded the Secretary Bessent produce the file for further investigation. He has refused repeatedly.

Reporter to MBS: "U.S. intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist..."

Trump: "Fake news...He's done a phenomenal job. You're mentioning someone who was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about…things happen."

50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath

50 reasons to want more walkable cities.

If it was Trump's money I'd agree. But it's ours!

If we do succeed in voting these corrupt fools out, bet you anything a bunch of this taxpayer-funded gold gets filched. That may have been the plan from the get-go.

You have traded away all your leverage for the empty promises of proven bad-faith negotiators. You don't understand the stakes of this fight, and you don't understand the length your opponents will go to. This was time to fight. To hold the line. You let us all down.

Your capitulation is a grotesque betrayal of the American people. Shame.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.

More than 260,000 will be children.

Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Sentence of the moment:
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Relatedly, the housing contracting industry is still boasting about the air-tightness of all of its doors and windows, desirable for efficiency in heating and cooling. With no discussion of exhaust and makeup air.

The American HVAC industry is so focused on heating and cooling that they talk obsessively about the tonnage of various units, while seeming actively confused by questions about CO2 levels, fresh air, and makeup air. How did the business culture get like this? And what will it take to change it?

democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.

The Speaker of the House is meant to be of service to the House, with largely secretarial duties, rather like a jury foreperson - not an autocrat who can single-handedly shutter the institution indefinitely. Here, as in so many other places, we're going to need some new laws.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

And in this case, the bullshit is attended by non-trivial downsides. Like, you know, Nazism.

For Tesla, that means autonomous vehicles, and even silly humanoid androids. Musk is the chief flim-flam man of this aspirational story. The tentpole holding up the line on the stock chart. They need him not for his engineering, but for the mythology that surrounds him. In short, the bullshit.

Tesla, like Uber and WeWork before it, trades at a price-earnings ratio utterly unsupported by its core business. The line only keeps going up if you make stockholders believe they own a piece of some tech-driven paradigm shift coming down the pike.

What I meant! And you're right!

Our entire political discourse is a bad faith enterprise, so asymmetrical as to render the whole affair meaningless.

Imagining Obama pardoning a slew of supporters convicted of political violence, who then went on to commit further crimes.

Imagining Obama awarding himself a quarter million dollars out of the public treasury on a whim.

Just imagining the reaction if Obama or even Biden had bulldozed a wing of the White House without warning, and without consulting a single soul anywhere in the government. The outrage machine would've screamed eternally.

I've seen people speculate that Trump's ballroom vanity project is a sign he never intends to leave the White House.

It's also possible that he suspects he may not live out his term, and this is his Pyramid of Giza.

Either way, it's genuinely shocking to see the damage done.

It has happened!

200 days of 100% WindWaterSolar on CA's main grid in 2025

Including a record battery output of 47.69 GWh on 10/17

Gas down 18.5% v '24 & 37.2% v '23
PV up 14.6% v '24 & 43.5% v '23
Batteries up 56.8% v '24 & 202.7% v '23
Demand down 2.1% v '24 & 1.3% v '23

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

It amazes me that the Trump Administration is justifying the killings by calling the victims...something that doesn't exist.

Setting aside that we don't even have evidence that the boaters we're blowing up are drug-runners. Or that they were headed for the US, or that their boats even had the range to come this far...