Also who knows what happens without Covid in 2020. Biden was already obviously senile and physically frail. Hard to see him actually campaigning.
Right, I think that last point is its ultimate failure.
There are good questions to ask about the ramifications of the so-called "resistance" to Trump in his first term—how it embraced and revered the national security state, allowed grifters to thrive, and failed to ensure he wouldn't return to the White House—but this one is not
An AI-assisted plushie that fights the loneliness epidemic
This feels like the beginning of a horror movie
pitch perfect example of just because the conclusion is the same (no war with Iran) doesn't mean the reasons are (Ron Paul newsletter types)
This is Mark. He’s a good coach—he can lead players, he can communicate on their level. His problem is that he can’t do math.
When another boy has a media company
do you think the briefing detailed that hey "are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge" or is that what he's highlighting
setting aside the morality of acknowledging the people we're massacring, ignoring them helps to dilute the message that this war is wrong
At no point in this thread are the lives of Iranians even mentioned.
Not really surprising but this guy does often play at being one of the good ones so it’s nice to get a corrective
The 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer is out, and it is one of the most fascinating document of every year (imo).
Edelman is a PR company shaping narrative for companies like Exxon & Shell (greenwashing), and uses this doc to push their clients' narratives as 'leaders'.
www.edelman.com/trust/2026/t...
Baldwin is Wisconsin, you’re thinking of Duckworth?
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It’s slightly confusingly worded
No, it means 7 years old
This is the trade off anti-vaxxers are eager, even excited, to make—your child’s potential death at age seven in exchange for them not vaccinating their children
Two wolves and they’re both stupid assholes
Lotta people saying this guy is stupid and maybe he is stupid. More importantly, he’s evil.
He is not the only Venezuelan player who experienced this over the winter.
life comes at you fast: one day you’re publishing snowden leaks, the next you’re getting second billing behind somebody called sneako
My book on (among other things) how Glenn’s career landed him here is 50% off right now.
Link in next post
it's worth it
Last week, a trial began to determine whether Elon Musk misled Twitter shareholders over his 2022 purchase of the co.
On X, he's been posting his contempt for the trial and praise from followers that "he lost billions of his own money so they internet could stay free."
(Twitter was alway free.)
He made a famous documentary about the Civil War that is often parodied for its sappiness
Paging Ken Burns
over and over the replies here are "the author is defending Platner and saying his tattoo doesn't matter" and when you ask "well did you read it?" they're like "no, of course not"
Over at the newsletter I wrote about how establishment Democrats' problem isn't going "too far left" on "identity politics," it's being feckless invertebrates in the face of autocracy and unchecked corporate power.
yeah I think that's also a reality of this social media site specifically, it's all hyperbole all the time
the way this guy's campaign is going in real life is in stark contrast to how people online are treating it, that's the point I'm making here
