Kris Stoever

h/t Amanda Moore @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social for posting this yesterday.

The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot.

🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1

Netflix’s new studio is moving 117 WWII memorials that have stood for decades

More than 100 World War II monuments honoring New Jersey’s fallen soldiers are being relocated to make way for a massive Netflix production studio at the former Fort Monmouth Army base.

www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

Rally goer is wearing a tee shirt that reads Unpaid Protester

At the Virginia Votes rally

The way you do this is to stop dwelling on the arguments and talk about the people who are making them. The argument is wrong and absurd, someone who raises or persistently is a traitor trying to undermine the constitutional order. The problem is media won’t take this second step.

There's a bunch of places where the text is written in such a way as to maybe suggest some kind of loophole or gamesmanship or something

The thing is, the Constitution isn't JUST the text. And when you appreciate the thing in its entirety, it's often quite simple to just say "nah"

US farmers face $44 billion in losses as costs rise and markets shrink Soybeans sit in storage, farm bankruptcies are rising, and total farm debt continues to climb. By nearly every measure, American farmers are struggling.Experts say financial pressures are expected to ...

Due to rising costs, low crop prices and the effects of the trade war, economists project that growers could see roughly $44 billion in net cash income losses from their 2025–26 crops. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-f...

cooper making the classic blunder of thinking voters are like corporations, law firms, and universities

Jeffrey Epstein Was Investigated For Money Laundering, Emails Reveal A federal prosecutor requested that a grand jury issue subpoenas for “every financial transaction conducted by Epstein and his six businesses” dating to 2003, the emails show. She even called one of E...

Emails reveal that Jeffrey Epstein was investigated for money laundering.

A federal prosecutor requested that a grand jury issue subpoenas for "every financial transaction conducted by Epstein and his six businesses" dating to 2003.

She even called one of Epstein's most important clients.

Attention, United States!

Russian propagandists threaten striking American territory with a "squadron of 18 Poseidon torpedoes" to completely destroy the very notion of the US as a maritime civilization.

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/53277-new-second-term-low-donald-trump-job-approval-government-spending

Maybe it was way more than seven million? "8% of Americans say they participated in a No Kings protest on October 18."

p.s. Older people are really showing up.

A notable thing about Vance in this whole thing about his "Christian faith" and hoping his wife becomes Christian is that Catholics do not talk that way.

They call themselves "Catholic" more often than "Christian." He never uses the word Catholic. Like he doesn't want to offend evangelicals.

Russ Vought Gets Some White Christian Nationalists at Play

Guys, @ninaburleigh.bsky.social is always good but she’s been on a heater the last few weeks.

This Russ Vought dude—the one who said he wanted federal employees in trauma—is such a fucking loser.

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

Denver has one of the nation’s sharpest drops in restaurant spending Denver's decline in restaurant spending is more than triple that of cities like Austin and Boston.

denverite.com/2025/10/31/d...

Today’s Republican politicians act as if they’ve read only the first half of “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.”

A Halloween parade float with the gates of Auschwitz

Evidently there was an Auschwitz-themed float in a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania.

The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.

Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.

14 strikes. 61 dead. “But the administration does not know their identities.” 🤷🏼 🛶 💣

theweek.com/politics/pen...

Hours after SNAP, WIC, Head Start, and other critical benefits expired for millions of Americans, Donald Trump is arriving at his golf club in Florida.

Exclusive | Elon Musk’s SpaceX Set to Win $2 Billion Pentagon Satellite Deal The funding would support the development of satellites for President Trump’s Golden Dome project.

Trump gives Elon Musk $2 bn from the Treasury in a non-competitive tender relating to the worthless Golden Dome technology. This is pure corruption. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

More Democrats should get more combative with the media, in particular by calling out questions that have an unspoken premise of "GOP voters are realer Americans than you," or in this case, "the president can break the law if voters in a city choose a mayor according to their own preferences."

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

We're finally seeing a bit of headway in learning how the Kremlin bankrolls Nigel Farage and his inner gang as well as his political projects like Brexit and Reform UK. This has been well known to intelligence analysts for more than a decade, but very little of it has made its way into the press.

A Brief Biannual Update on the Publication You Are Reading How Things Work.

A quarter decade deep in the HOW THINGS WORK game
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/a-brief-bi...

“A genuine hug took place.”

Does everyone touch the head of someone they’re not close to when they hug?

Picture of Timothy Snyder sitting and writing outside the U.S. Capitol.

In D.C., and lots here to talk about. I will write something soon.

Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi and HUR Chief Kyrylo Budanov, likely on the Pokrovsk axis.

Trump's 90,000-Square-Foot Ballroom Plan Puzzles the Experts His planned space would be much larger than luxury banquet halls in the US capital and a departure from traditional presidential style.

Putting aside, just for a moment, the problem of the demolition: Does Trump's White House ballroom make sense on its own terms?

Absolutely not: A 1,000-person ballroom is far too large for white-glove dining. One expert called it a "cattle call"

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The fallout from the AI-fuelled dash for gas A supply crunch in giant turbines for gas-powered plants threatens environmental and geopolitical consequences

US utilities and AI developers have made a coordinated rush for gas turbines, spurred by OpenAI and SoftBank’s $500bn Stargate project to invest in AI infrastructure, including gas-fired power stations. The US is forecast to account for 46% of global gas turbine orders this year, up from a recent

The US, Japan, Australia and Canada have begun a rapid evacuation of their embassies in Mali following a fuel blockade and attacks by the Salafi Jihadist group JNIM.

Diplomats are warning that the country’s crisis could trigger a wider Sahel collapse.

Public service announcement from Revolutionary Fred