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One sign of a bubble is when the major players do gimmicks to hide the cost of the bubble.

If the thing was clearly a good value, they'd just say "look at us investing in this valuable thing," rather than this obvious shell game to avoid booking the cost of building a data center.

Comedy is legal again

Only someone this wealthy would so flippantly suggest you uproot your life, sell your house, pull your kids out of school, quit your job, request a transfer — all to save 50 basis points on CPI. 🤡

The Lame Duck in His Labyrinth Trump Is About to Get More Dangerous, Not Less.

The Lame Duck in His Labyrinth:
Trump Is About to Get More Dangerous, Not Less.
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Local police officers and sheriffs in Mobile, Alabama, are abducting a man from the waiting room of a car dealership mechanic shop on behalf of ICE/DHS. During the kidnapping, he is administered an unidentified sedative.

“.. ‘Some people better get fired on Monday for the gross buffoonery we just witnessed over the last four days,’ Bacon wrote ..”

@mediaite.com 🤡
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.

Trump’s rise was not some accidental aberration. The forces that made it possible for him to take over on the Right won’t simply disappear as we are entering the Twilight of the Trump era. There are no “moderates” left in a position to recapture the Republican Party.

If you’re wondering why MTG is waiting for January 5 to resign….it’s always about the money

People who advocate for electing the president by popular really are saying that federalism shouldn't matter - largely because they like the way that big cities would control elections. (For now.) This is dumb, especially now, when federalism has been a godsend.
A thread.
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I mean…good, right?

Bro, we just want the planes to take off and land, on the agreed-upon schedule, can you focus on that?

Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

Trump is using CBP to monitor the movements of pregnant women by car from states that ban abortion into states where it is legal. To what purpose? Well, that's obvious. And it's dystopian. It's the ultimate Big Brother.

Page One in Iowa.

My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.

So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.

If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1

What could possibly go wrong, you ask?

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👇🎯 Also, no free & fair elections: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Jeff is right. No one knows. Least of all the “moderate” Senators pretending it’s 1990s-style politics as usual, instead of life under competitive authoritarianism.

“.. The economy is increasingly dependent on ‘three narrow, interconnected 'A-pillars':

1) affluent consumers

2) artificial intelligence-fueled investment

3) asset price gains”

@bloomberg.com
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Lots of planes waiting to depart LGA.

Lots of planes waiting to depart EWR.

Lots of planes waiting to depart IAH.

List of cancels so far, with 1400 shown. Delta is 363 of them.

Delta leading in cxls so far this morning at 10% of mainline ops, and long lines for departure in multiple airports.

Yesterday airlines started with fewer and eventually cxld more. Will be interesting to see if this number grows today or if they can hold it steady.
#avgeek

Quickly...

Rule of Thumb: 60 airplanes per hour per runway. 1 min. takeoff. 1 min. arrival. (Lots of exceptions. "Heavy" aircraft being a big one.)

The "Z" facilities (ZTL = Atlanta Center) are American. The "C" facilities are Canadian.

Planes all over North America waiting to depart for EWR.

#VAgov 🇺🇸

So did all the rich people move out of NYC yet?

190. SNAP WTF? A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next

If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:

Here’s an easy way to find out how to donate to your local food bank this weekend. 🇺🇸

@feedingamerica.org
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It’s shit like this that makes me think the GOP doesn’t care about winning elections and they’re just not planning on having them. Because no one who thinks they have to win elections does this.

So to cap their horrible week, Senate Republicans refused a deal to reopen the government in exchange for just helping people with health insurance and now the president wants the Supreme Court to say he doesn’t have to obey the law and feed the hungry.

Amazing.

"We spoke with nine C-level U.S. airline executives and senior officials across six U.S. carriers for this story. They expressed varying degrees of skepticism, but none felt the cuts were without some level of political interference."

I legit can’t figure out the play on these FAA flight cancellations. Who’s the White House trying to pressure. And who do they think people are gonna get mad at when Thanksgiving goes down the drain?

Spanberger win leads Democratic sweep of statewide races in Virginia - WTOP News Election Day has brought two major victories for Democrats in Virginia’s statewide races.

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A Confederacy of Toddlers The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.

Trump’s voters have become like the members of the administration, delighting in the crassness and obscenity that pours out of the president and his circle whenever they are challenged. But policies suffer and the public is poorly served.

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