Adam Graff

I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.

Whether it's Joe Biden condemning the killing of Charlie Kirk in 2025 or Charlie Kirk calling for the killing of Joe Biden in 2024, both men have issued strong words about the other's killing.

Elon says every single person will want a $50k robot to shuffle around their house folding clothes in three times the amount of time it would take you to do it and spouting antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists: Adrian Holovaty added ASCII tab importing to Soundslice to avoid user complaints and confusion, but has mixed feelings about it https://www.holovaty.com/writi...

Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

"I voted for lawless, anonymous, masked, and unchecked police" is one hell of a jump from "eggs cost too much."

A bad President, for instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government; I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked. He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of securing allegiance to the government.

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

56? This is bananas...

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a bird feeder with Hitchcock ties 😄😄

Headline from the independent: Trump gives rambling speech about trophy wives, golf and the 'great late' Al Capone in politically-charged West Point address

Headline from the New York Times: Trump Gives Commencement Address at West Point, Stressing a New Era

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

The concern for Jews is patently disingenuous, given Mr. Trump’s sympathy for Holocaust deniers and Hitler fans. The obvious motivation is to cripple civil society institutions that serve as loci of influence outside the executive branch. As JD Vance put it in the title of a 2021 speech: “The Universities Are the Enemy.”

Amazing guest essay in the NY times from a Harvard prof: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

Tesla Starts Accepting Cybertruck Trade-Ins – According to Tesla, a Cybertruck Loses $35,000 Over 6,000 Miles ($5.6 Per Mile) Tesla has reversed its policy barring Cybertruck trade-ins. A Cybertruck owner says Tesla offered him $65,400 for his $100,00 truck with 6,200 miles. This means, according to Tesla, a Cybertruck loses...

Tesla now accepts Cybertruck trade-ins, and the official resale loss is $35k over just 6,000 miles.

I repeat: according to Tesla itself a Cybertruck loses $5.60 cents per mile, not counting the cost of electricity, tires, etc.

Unprecedented levels of flop!

www.torquenews.com/11826/tesla-...

When I finally throw out a vendor provided notepad, I imagine it saying to me "Was I a good notepad?" Yes, yes you were a great notepad...🗒️📒

It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System Thanks to a new breed of chatbots, American stupidity is escalating at an advanced pace.

It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System https://gizmodo.com/its-breathtaking-how-fast-ai-is-screwing-up-the-education-system-2000603100

Obama deported 3.16 million. Biden deported 5.4 million. Yet the ICE officers during those terms wore uniforms and didn't have to wear masks

Under Trump, they're wearing masks, hoods and often street clothes.

What are they hiding from? The law?

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1

Trump administration asks IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status The directive to the IRS is a significant escalation of President Trump’s feud with Harvard University and other Ivy League institutions and other nonprofits.

I’m old enough to remember Republicans falsely accusing the IRS under Obama of withholding tax exemptions for political reasons. Now that’s precisely what Trump is trying to do. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

In retrospect, it continues to seem like a really bad decision by the New York Times to push out Paul Krugman, their longtime columnist who won his Nobel Prize in the economics of trade and geography right before we have 4 years where trade policy is the #1 crisis in the country.

☘️ Look, it's golf. I get it.

☘️ But Rory McIlroy's Masters victory was one for the truly good guys. He didn't take the Saudi's gruesome blood money to play on an odious tour endorsed by the world's most notorious, orange cheater.

☘️ He stayed loyal and true to who he is, and tonight he's the champ.

The Kleptocracy Presidency Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.

"We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world"

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What movies never show up on streaming that I should track down the DVDs for? Almost everything 80s, certainly. Couldn't find The Saint... #movies

How a Secretive Gambler Called ‘The Joker’ Took Down the Texas Lottery A global team of gambling whizzes hatched a scheme to snag the jackpot; millions of tickets in 72 hours

Bernard Marantelli had a plan in mind. He and his partners would buy nearly every possible number in a coming drawing. There were 25.8 million potential number combinations. The tickets were $1 apiece. The jackpot was heading to $95 million. If nobody else also picked the winning numbers, the profit would be nearly $60 million. Marantelli flew to the U.S. with a few trusted lieutenants. They set up shop in a defunct dentist’s office, a warehouse and two other spots in Texas. The crew worked out a way to get official ticket-printing terminals. Trucks hauled in dozens of them and reams of paper.

You read this headline and immediately think it must be some sort of technical error or complex algorithm beating the odds, but no: The tickets were too cheap and the jackpot too big so they just bought every possible ticket

I wonder if Roman elites watching the fall of their empire also thought: “This is so stupid.”

As of today, it is cheaper to import a fully-built computer than it is to import the parts and build it in the U.S.

Just an incredible strategy to bring assembly lines back to the U.S.

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

Tesla takedown in Lisle Illinois

WHATEVER THEY'RE PAYING THE ASSASSIN'S CREED SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER ITS NOT ENOUGH