David Wheeler

This is the cost of the Senate filibuster: the last time the House, Senate and POTUS were all under D control (2020 - 2022) the House passed bills to eliminate gerrymandering and give DC statehood. The Senate did nothing on either in spite of having majority support. And so here we are.

blithely lying knowing there are zero consequences for lying is a hallmark of this administration

tfw a new life awaits you on the off world colonies

For the love of god can we stop airing articles about "X tech bro says this is gonna happen in X years clearly just in service of a publicity stunt". No. It's not going to happen. Obviously. Why are we indulging this?

Wow love for wall street to be in 1928 while the tech giants are in 2000. Sure hope none of these precariously placed dominos are attached to anybody's pension.

We’re all saying it, but this scary-city thing is such BS. I’ve lived in Manhattan & Brooklyn since 1993, I take the subway & walk all over the place & I’ve experienced *zero* serious crime. Cities are big, dense places full of crowds & strangers, but that doesn’t make them apocalyptic crimepots

Great story.

very human/very disturbing. a painfully real and in its way beautiful (abt the victim's work as a caregiver) description of a life horribly disrupted by getting caught in the nihilism maw of the Miller/Trump destruction machine.

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Oh no.

“Release Mamdani’s admission records”? He didn’t get in! What Columbia policy could a random 17 year old have violated by ticking a box on a form

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i can't even imagine the freakout if like mamdani or ilhan omar had ever refered to lenders as "shylocks." but unlike them, trump actually has a very long history of making disparaging remarks about jews

An opinion writer is not allowed to criticize the paper on social media for using a Nazi source but the reporter who worked with the Nazi source was free to leave a long social media trail being buddy-buddy with the Nazi in public

Trump's argument for the elimination of the estate tax is that the heirs of the super rich will no longer have to go beg a predatory Jewish banker for a bridge loan to overcome cash flow problems associated with the $15 million dollar estate they're about to get.

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

The New Work Cimes OPINION GUEST ESSAY A Lot of People Are Asking Questions About Our Nazi Writer Already Answered By Us Having A Nazi Writer July 4, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET

The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/

Yes this is the kind of bigot they seek out in order to target trans people for hate; they just expanded to letting him also source Nazis for their efforts to amplify eugenicist propaganda.

And people told me I was overreacting in comparing the concentration camp to Auschwitz. They're not being subtle about what they want to do

You’re my Senator, and you’re a disgrace to the office. Your last act before resigning should be to apologize. And for the record, you’ve been giving handouts to those same billionaires through your embrace of crypto grift for years — listening to Silicon Valley and ignoring New York entrepreneurs.

This is a critique of the masters of the universe who think so little of expertise that LLM mediocrity will take over the world.

It is not a criticism of someone who finds a tool useful for learning new things.

(Sorry for the delayed reply, I’m a Bluesky dilettante.)

My favorite Zohran moment of this campaign. And why, more generally, he won:

Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.

Generative AI in software engineering is going to cause orders of magnitude more P1 outages than it solves over the next few years.

Quid pro quo Cryptocurrency companies are reaping the benefits of their contributions to Trump and other pro-crypto politicians. Company Benefit Contribution Justin Sun and Tron SEC enforcement case stayed pending resolution Criminal investigation possibly paused $75 million to purchase WLFI tokens from Trump-owned World Liberty Financial $37.7 million to purchase $TRUMP memecoins (via HTX) Listed USD1 for trading on HTX Cumberland DRW SEC enforcement case dismissed with prejudice $100 million investment into Trump-owned Trump Media & Technology Group $100,000 to crypto-focused super PACs Ripple SEC enforcement case stayed pending resolution Joint request to return $75 million of previous SEC fine to Ripple $73 million to crypto-focused super PACs $5 million to Trump inauguration fund Coinbase SEC enforcement case dismissed with prejudice Relaunched bitcoin borrowing program previously shut down after SEC warnings $75 million to crypto-focused super PACs $1 million to Senate super PACs $1 million to Trump inauguration fund Sponsored Trump birthday military parade Andreessen Horowitz Four Andreessen Horowitz employees installed in formal or informal positions of influence at the White House $70 million to crypto-focused super PACs $5.35 million to Trump super PACs Gemini SEC enforcement case stayed pending reslution SEC investigation ended with no action $4.9 million to crypto-focused super PACs $2.6 million to Trump super PACs Kraken SEC enforcement case dismissed with prejudice Relaunched staking services which were shut down as part of a February 2023 SEC settlement $1 million to Trump super PACs $1 million to Trump inauguration fund $1 million to crypto-focused super PACs Circle SEC approved IPO Favorable stablecoin regulation $1 million to Trump inauguration fund $1 million to crypto-focused super PACs Robinhood SEC investigation ended with no action $2 million to Trump inauguration fund ConsenSys SEC enforcement case dismissed with prejudice $800,000 to crypto-…

Quid pro quo between cryptocurrency firms, the Trump administration, and the Trump family’s crypto ventures.

www.followthecrypto.org/quidproquo

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