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This Q4 data coming lower than even the lowest range of expectations solidifies my sense that the loss of economic data from the shutdown made Q3 look a lot better than it was (that was especially true of employment numbers).

In most democracies Trump’s reckless and wild abuse of power through his tariffs would cause the government to fall or the leader to be removed.

The imposition of these tariffs against the will of Congress, the courts, our allies, and the American people.

It’s clear grounds for removal.

…and with them the reliability necessary for “just in time” logistics. A nation doesn’t get network effects when the dictator cuts it out of the grid for spite and his family’s bribery demands, even if later some of those demands are lowered.

Though this particular bribery and looting channel is now (temporarily) closed to the President and his family, over his terms Trump has still succeeded in breaking and destroying whatever society-wide gains there were still accruing from US-led globalization; those treaties are gone gone gone…

This particular pairing is also extremely stupid because the HUMAN Schwarzenegger played in the original movie beat the Predator, why do you need to see the robot version of that, what is happening?!?

I fundamentally do not trust government figures who think everyone on the Internet should be using their real names, that's so clearly bad for people it should be embarrassing to say it out loud

Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for an end to widespread anonymity on the internet, saying users should post under their real names. "I want to see real names on the internet.

Ending online anonymity would not be some magic cure to “fix” whatever problems plague the internet. But it would make a lot of people a lot less safe, and much less free to speak.

This is the headline number driving things like Glacier National Park not needing to limit the total number of visitors in the park anymore, the crush is definitely off

Oh, I did not know that claims were transferrable, a big ole mess could get even messier

Okay my read: since the court struck down the tariffs as unlawful from the start, it's refund time. Jurisdiction will be US Court of International Trade, they'll have to unpack it. But there should be refunds coming. Looks like a complete repudiation of IEEPA-based tariffs and total loss for Trump.

Well, hot damn

This is what a large proportion of the violence in internal conflicts looks like: a state relying on regular people for intelligence, regular people weaponizing the state within their own communities, and security forces not knowing/caring what’s motivating the sources whose information they act on.

I know this is old, but I've had to wrestle with the guts of Windows for the last month, so I think this is particularly rich coming from the CEO of a company that could just make better products to win market share, but, uh, doesn't

Not every Stasi informant was blackmailed into it. A feature of Stalin's reign of terror was the recruitment of neighbors and rivals leveraging state police into their petty beefs. Plans for national recovery need to reckon with the fact that some folks who aren't perpetrators are still shitty

Forget promising to tear it down, promise to impeach him for the totality of this megalomaniacal mad king shit

Also, the fact is that the limited pool of contractors who are willing to taint themselves with this shit is chock full of folks who are happy to rake in retainers and not put so much as a shovel in the ground

Trump is also famously a control freak about tiny property details, so folks would struggle to build his shit even if he had his own Albert Speer, a regime architect, but he does not.

I need people to pump the brakes on “Tear this down!” because it doesn’t and won’t exist. It’s despicable that the concept exists, I get it, but don’t make the same imaginary leap as Trump

They won’t even break ground on this project and not because they care about permits, but because they can’t be bothered to create build drawings, they just love models

Wegen sowas ist mein Opa damals mit der Familie aus der DDR geflohen. Weil er es nicht mehr ertragen hat, als Lehrer den jungen Leuten diese staatlich aufgedrückte Ideologie unterrichten zu müssen. Eine Ideologie, der er nicht getraut hat und die voller Lügen war.

More money goes to a mid-tier group of 4 college quarterback than to any of these Olympians

“That’s what I’m fucking talking about” made it to an Olympic broadcast. Alysa Liu, Olympic hero

Is this Georgian skater using music from Ghost the Musical and not the movie? Oh, yeah. I respect the theater nerd energy of this so much

Sorry KPop Demon Hunters, I do have to catch up with this first

There is so much pent up demand for joy and to believe in the future.

Why yes, I am catching up on the women’s free skate

It’s not even a metaphor, they literally tell you that you have a personal sous chef thanks to Williams-Sonoma and AgentForce and that’s literally impossible for an AI agent

Jeebus, this Salesforce sous chef commercial is terrible. Like the Bear is a massive hit and you don’t know what a sous chef does?!

It was 73 in Lincoln 2 days ago and tonight it will be 14° with 6” of snow. It’s been a RIDE

Am currently reading Bad Company by @greenwell.bsky.social and based on what I have read so far I am sure that everything at Walgreens is very fine and very normal and that there is no need for concern, alarm or OH MY GOD WTF