Manyakitty

The Kentucky whiskey and bourbon industry is on life support due to reciprocal tariffs and general boycott of American goods in places like Canada.

Eight months of that asshole’s stupidity and arrogance was all it took to destroy an entire industry.

Democratic voters and activists should be proud to see their elected leaders turn the tables on MAGA autocrats. That is how to fight back—and how to mobilize voters nationwide.

I was one of the columnists who left the Post after owner Jeff Bezos demanded the Opinion section largely focus on “personal liberties and free markets." Yes, they’re under pressure. But maybe these leaders kinda like what Trump’s doing.

— Perry Bacon, TNR's newest team member
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That's encouraging (not) 🤢

It's really important to understand that if an elected official invites you to consider a country's finances as somehow analogous to household finances (a la Thatcher), they are *lying* to you and you should treat with scepticism *everything else* that ever comes out of their mouth.

My god

Today in "CEOs are sociopaths"

All of them. Yikes.

🧵This is the official transcript of the videotaped deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell.

This is the deposition that Maxwell fought to hide.

Held at the law offices of Boies, Schiller & Flexer, on April 22, 2016 in NYC

The transcript is more than 400 pages long, 7 hours of depositions held over 2 days

The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

I have plans for monkeys to fly out my butt and that's not happening either.

International students should go elsewhere for the foreseeable future. This is absolutely ridiculous.

😂 fair point.

A couch

I believe the reason techbros push bland, insipid & homogenous language is partly because they themselves inhabit these adjectives, but also because such language is a great way to stunt creativity & critical thinking.

President Trump promised to “end inflation” and increase affordability, but the Commerce Department reported an increase in the Federal Reserve’s go-to monthly inflation indicator for June.

https://trib.al/TYWth37

Did you say “admitted to the bar in 2024?”

The DEI of it all. This is insane.

It Takes a Government Bondi and Bove are the chief villains—but they couldn’t have done it alone.

"Bondi and Bove are grotesque figures. But grotesques don’t gain power in healthy democracies. They flourish when institutions falter—when guardrails are removed, norms are shredded, and complicity becomes widespread."

open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

👇🏼!!!!!

Oh

"AI" is IT from A Wrinkle in Time.
"Just give in," the AI pushers say. "We can all be together in this. You don't have to think."

Time to hold onto your inner Meg, friends.

Trump Administration Prepares to Drop Seven Major Housing Discrimination Cases Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under…

Records obtained by ProPublica show the Trump administration is preparing to shut down seven major investigations of alleged housing discrimination and segregation, including some where HUD already found civil rights violations had occurred.

By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

Plus, this guy knows how to win a statewide race in NC. Trust him.

word of the day:

pimptress

This is praxis, I’m so serious. Politely wasting as much time as physically possible. Rage doesn’t work. Wasting their money complaining does. This thread contains a GREAT script for being a confused but polite menace, talking point by talking point

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

One thing we need to bring back is having idiots be embarrassed to be idiots.

This is very stupid but worth remembering that Trump was convicted of felonies related to his effort to influence the 2016 election by burying a story about his having slept with a porn star.

This.

OMG 😮