Jeff Hauser

Perhaps Quinn Hughes, Matt Boldy, and Brock Faber will have a chance to meet Aliya Rahman at tonight's #SOTU in DC. h/t @thesaltybrunette.bsky.social

"United States' Kyle Connor (81), seen here alongside Zach Werenski (8), Jack Hughes (86) and Clayton Keller (91), appears to not have attended with Team USA to the White House. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)AP"

"Kyle Connor, Jake Guentzel, Brock Nelson, Jackson LaCombe and Jake Oettinger.

They are the US Men's hockey players who decided to skip visit to the Trump's White House. www.nj.com/sports/2026/...

A Democratic president would have called on a Dem Congressman to resign if this had come out.

Trump can’t, of course, because he is a lifelong sexual predator in the midst of covering up his own relationship and deeds with the driver of an international child sex ring.

The legal profession as it currently exists in the United States needs to be burned to the ground.
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How to stop a dictator I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.

I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward

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end the witch hunt

The most recent Epstein cancellation was a few hours ago of the influential medical doctor Peter Attia

While many might view the behavior and comments of those individuals as ugly, nothing has yet emerged to suggest they did anything sufficiently wrong or criminal to merit losing their jobs. There is no clear evidence to conclude that any of them were complicit in Epstein’s crimes.

Get in loser, we're doing the cancel culture panic again
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however I enthusiastically endorse right-wing contrarians to really double down on support for Jeffrey Epstein's friend group. it's a winning issue.

the Peter Attia 'unjust cancellation' was for abandoning his sick child to go and party with Jeffrey Epstein. these people are moral voids.

Trump: I am threatening an illegal war with Iran, covering up evidence I sexually assaulted a 13 year old, openly stealing from the Treasury, trying to ban critical media, steal the midterm elections, and kill American citizens who oppose me.

Democrats: We must maintain strict decorum!

General McClellan over here not pressing his advantage.

It’s really fucked up! nauseating and enraging—

Sollenberger is the real deal and EVERYONE should be following him and his Substack.

The Epstein Scandal Reveals the Dark Side of Bipartisanship The hands forever reaching across the aisle too often do so in the service of monstrous corruption.

The Epstein Scandal Reveals the Dark Side of Bipartisanship newrepublic.com/article/2067... via @newrepublic.com

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.

The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.

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Man, how mad do you think Savannah Guthrie is right now?

Lol they're not your friends, Kash.

And you can't use federal resources—including the FBI's $62M private jet—to go on a taxpayer-funded Olympic getaway & locker room bender.

Adding it to the evidence file for our investigation, @raskin.house.gov.

What was Bill Pulte’s charity really funding with this mystery donation? It gave $65,000 to a nonprofit that records suggest is an LLC linked to Trump's legal defense.

Bill Pulte is so sketchy.

Happy to have contributed a quote to this excellent article. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Excited for another round of Autopsy Discourse! We worked super hard in our work to not flatten what we heard from voters on Gaza. For some, certainly, it was as simple as seeing Biden and Harris as pro-genocide. But for many more, it was more of another datapoint that Democratic priorities were -

GREENWIRE | The Interior Department on Monday unveiled a final rule that pulls back more than 80 percent of the agency's regulations tied to implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, the nation's bedrock environmental law. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said NEPA for decades "has been twisted into a weapon" to block energy, infrastructure and conservation projects. "Under the leadership of President Trump, this administration is fixing that," Burgum said in a statement. "We are cutting unnecessary bureaucracy, speeding up approvals, and putting Americans back to work, while enforcing NEPA as Congress originally intended." The final rule largely adopts a draft the agency released last summer, which was criticized for curbing public input and analysis of energy projects. The draft cut close to one-sixth of the agency's regulations implementing NEPA, instead switching most of the remaining rules to less-stringent guidelines. The final rule rescinds more than 80 percent of Interior's prior NEPA regulations, "with the majority of those regulations moved into a streamlined Departmental NEPA Handbook of Implementing Procedures," according to the Interior Department. The regulation arrives on the heels of the White House last year pulling back nearly 50 years' worth of rules that the Council on Environmental Quality had issued to implement the law since 1977, when President Jimmy Carter signed an order directing the agency to issue rules under NEPA. Associate Deputy Secretary Karen Budd-Falen said that "Interior is restoring NEPA to what Congress intended — a procedural law that informs decisions, not a regulatory maze that delays them for years."

Holy shit.

The fossil-fuel industry wanted "permitting reform" (ie, gutting the National Environmental Policy Act) so badly that the Trump regime went ahead and did it illegally.

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Also: the decision of what to write down and what to skip is, in itself, an act of compression.

Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.

A California agency received 20k AI-generated comments opposing heat pump rules. Staff called a sample to verify—several said they never sent comments. Raises serious questions about the opposition campaign that helped kill the clean air standards, that would've prevented 1000s of premature deaths.

Incredible threat to the integrity of the public comment process

Another gold medal performance by the women.

Another example of why our highest court shouldn't have the lowest ethics standards. As our @hannahstoryb.bsky.social has covered in @prospect.org, Justice Alito's extensive oil holdings should have propelled him to sit out from considering this case. And he's not the only justice with such ties.

where's John Roberts?

Wait, retired politicians do NOT have to chase money???

Hi Bari- Reaching out to ask if you'd heard about Stephenie LaGrossa-Kendrick, a contestant on Survivor's 50th season (premiering this week) who attacked former contestant Eliza Orlins for being a "fucking Jew" in a video rant. After Orlins defended herself, instead of penalizing LaGrossa-Kendrick, CBS lawyers issued a warning to Orlins. As someone who literally wrote the book on how to fight antisemitism, I thought you might have some thoughts. Let me know.

decided to drop her a line myself

People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much.

stories like this will mention the AI "doomer narrative" (SkyNet will kill us all, often pushed by industry insiders), but not mention it pre-empts more realistic criticism (Grok's data center in Memphis is aiming its pollution directly at black people) the industry doesn't want to talk about

AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains The people keeping food flowing from farm to table are being increasingly muscled out by AI automation, and the results may be grim.

On another aspect of logistics, Home Depot has invested heavy into AI.

Days ahead of both of the last snowstorms, my local Home Depot was sold out of snow shovels and salt / salt alternatives. This time it was also sold out of snowblowers and firewood.