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Meet the Press put together a supercut of Trump being for the BLS jobs numbers before he turned against them

If you put the DOGE guys on a desert island where the only way out was to say the magic words “I’m not sure what the answer is, let me consult someone who has worked on this problem for a long time” they would all starve to death

I cannot recommend listening to this highly enough

This is an incredible interview and discussion. Very eye-opening and emotional. Also available as a podcast called "Autocracy in America". Highly recommend

All it takes to get invited onto @jimmyfallon.bsky.social is wishing you could rehabilitate the term “Nazi”

Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.

Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters' wurst nightmare By Associated Press UPDATED: August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM ET SHREWSBURY, Pa. (AP) - A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions.

A writer waits a lifetime for a moment like this.

also, this is very Soviet, except that Stalin then arrested and executed the statisticians

This is how they managed statistics in the old USSR.

Not sure there’s a better endorsement of Zohran’s politics than a random guy from another country thinking he should be able to meet with Zohran on demand because he is wealthy

This Tuckahoe home won a $1.26 billion contract for an ICE detention center. The owner isn't talking. The company’s website is dated and largely accessible only via login.

how much of the money from the ICE/tax cuts bill is just going to go to scammers, do you think? www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...

Would love for you guys to get the band back together for one last ride. I was thinking about workshopping a take about how Daryl Morey is like the prime Russell Westbrook of NBA GMs. Both are excellent at 90% of the job, but the other 10% is so devastatingly costly that it never works. Thoughts?

Come on, "Royale with Breeze" was right there.

Mamdani’s Campaign ‘Taking Steps’ in Case He Gets Hassled Reentering U.S. The mayoral candidate will be arriving at JFK airport after a trip to Uganda.

Let's be clear about what's happening here: "Gets hassled" is a euphemism "gets detained under threat of armed force by secret police"

My "favorite" Kessler "fact check" was when he called Bernie Sanders a liar for correctly noting that "Three people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America." Kessler's argument was that it doesn't count because "people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth."

If you loved an author’s book, tell them! They will completely ignore it because they’re fixated forever on the anonymous person who once gave them two stars on goodreads but it’s probably good for your karma

What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.

The President is taking approx $1B of taxpayer funds from a military project to refurbish a plane given to him by a foreign nation, which he plans on taking with him when he leaves office.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution” “The president remained steadfast in his novel interpretation of constitutional law.” “Faced with the choice between clinging to the letter of the ...

OMG. Hilarious, but right on target. New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for "The President Violated the Constitution": “The president, tiptoeing precipitously down the sidelines of legality, inadvertently ran the constitutional football out of bounds.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...

total mentions on Fox Business yesterday:

Obama -- 101
Epstein -- 5

My reaction to that completely batshit press briefing by Tulsi Gabbard in which she accused Obama of “treasonous conspiracy” is that whatever is in the Epstein files about Trump must be really really bad

You probably learned about homonyms in school: words that are pronounced or spelled the same but differ in meaning.

bear (animal)
bear (carry)

But did you know there are actually two kinds of homonyms: homophones and homographs.

Let’s dew this.

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Heartbroken by the news. I was blessed to be able to cover War Pigs and get your recognition. Ozzy Forever 🤘🏿

Remember when scholars of authoritarianism told us he would go after his political opponents, unions, academia, and the media and people were like, “But Tim Walz got the date wrong from when he was in Tiananmen Square?”

this clip perfectly illustrates how Republicans *successfully* flood the zone with conspiracy theories

1. Ron Johnson is asked about Epstein
2. He immediately changes the topic to Obama
3. The host chases the shiny object and asks about Obama. Johnson never has to weigh in on the Epstein coverup.

total mentions on Fox Business so far today

Obama: 53
Epstein: 1

Hillary Clinton's emails: 6

Trump blasts out conspiracy theories directly on social media and live on TV during press events carried by every cable network. Obama releases statements in the voice of his spokesperson through his office. Guess which method gets more attention?

How the crypto industry bought Trump (and by extension DC) What could possibly go wrong?

New in PN: How the crypto industry bought Trump (and by extension Washington)

"It’s a story of the remarkable power of money in politics, and of presidential corruption on a scale that not long ago was unimaginable."

This point was also the main critique from Dave Karpf's substack review of Thompson's latest book, "Abundance." I never read the book, in part because of that review. Nonetheless, I generally have enjoyed Thompson's work. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.