Jorge A. Caballero

Kids are brutal

bar chart that shows FY2026 City of LA liability payouts $9,361,736 paid out in first month of the fiscal year The larger the amount, the taller the bar is in the bar chart with Police having the tallest bar in the bar chart: Police $6,035,269 Street Svces $1,725,000 Misc. $1,353,069 Rec & Parks $200,000 Sanitation $48,399

CITY OF LA LIABILITY PAYOUT NEWS 📰

🚔 $500,000 settlement to two reporters who LAPD arrested while covering a past protest

❌ Recently, a Judge ordered the LAPD to stop shooting journalists covering protests w/ rubber bullets

💰 $9,361,763 paid out in first month of FY2026

Pro-raw milk and anti-vaccination is the policy position of the US Department of Health and Human Services. WTF. WTAF. I can't. I'm sorry, I just can't.

AP: “.. About half of all Americans say the cost of groceries is a ‘major’ source of stress in their life right now ..”

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*Katherine Ryan ("The Glitter Room" is great. "In Trouble" is solid as well)

- Rosebud Baker: The Mother Lode
- Sarah Silverman: Postmortem
- Michelle Buteau in Radio City Music Hall

Oldies but goodies:
- Beth Stelling: If You Didn't Want Me
- Sheng Wang: Sweet & Juicy
- Kathryn Ryan (anything)
- Michelle Wolf: It's Great To Be Here

And FTR the fix worked for her— she says, "Thanks!!!"

I stg my wife just told me that she was watching a show and the audio suddenly changed to Spanish. I asked if it was the guilded age and, she said, "Yes! How'd you know?!"

And then I told her that you had *just* posted about this exact thing

Never beating the "can't take a joke" allegations

Misogynistic pundit that called Columbia University's settlement with Trump "the best day higher ed has had in a year" is now clutching his pearls about Trump's authoritarianism

The US accounts for about half of Japan's rice imports, according to the World Bank. This policy change in Japan means that Trump's trade war is going to have the net effect of lowering demand for US rice exports

citing: wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtra...

Thank you for the feedback. I do plan to make a change that will address this issue, and to add Hawaii and Alaska to the bot. In terms of timing, it will probably be sometime late August/early September.

Cornell Expected to Reach Settlement with Trump Administration to Restore Federal Funding Cornell University is expected to reach a settlement with the Trump administration to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding that has been revoked over the last several

“The ransom that [Columbia] ended up paying strikes me as a pretty good value if you decide you’re going to pay ransom,” he added. “But the problem with paying ransom is that it incentivizes the taking of more hostages.”

www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...

Breaking: Trump fires his tape measure because it told him his penis is one inch long.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

I've gotten two independent reports now of people being approached online by a fake WIRED staffer.

Not sure what this actor's goal is, but don't hesitate to reach out to me, @couts.bsky.social, or someone else you know on our staff if you receive a suspicious message.

CDC Cuts Experts Out of Panels That Develop Vaccine Policy The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told physician groups, public health professionals and infectious disease experts that they will no longer be invited to help review vaccine data and ...

After gutting the panel & putting his anti-vaxx allies in charge, now Kennedy is going further—ejecting physician groups, doctors and nurses, and infectious disease experts from working groups who look at the data and advise the panel. HHS says they're all "biased."
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To this day PR people ask me if Intuit really asked me to delete this part of the interview and shake their heads in sad disbelief. My friends what we sell here is our ethics policy

I’ve seen literally a hundred or more internal DHS documents that classify property damage, including graffiti, as acts of “violence.”

In fact I wrote about this two weeks ago: www.wired.com/story/dhs-te...

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while consolidating its own reach and power.

NEW: After massive contract terminations for consulting giants like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power.

www.wired.com/story/palant...

There are no tariffs on the Epstein files. Release them, for the benefit of the economy

BREAKING: BLS reports that the economy added only 73,000 jobs in July, FAR below expectations.

ALSO, if you have more info on Palantir's role in the Trump administration pls reach out

Signal: makenakelly.32

Stanford Hires Former Nike CEO As Next Athletic Director — Sports Illustrated The reported outside-the-box hire comes in a time of transition for the Cardinal. In a time of transition for Stanford athletics at the micro and macro level, the Cardinal are reportedly thinking outs...

Stanford Hires Former Nike CEO As Next Athletic Director

There are no tariffs on the Epstein files. Release them, for the benefit of the economy

Advertising clients aside, a lot of people stay active on X b/c they're fooled by bots and dormant accounts into thinking they can't abandon that audience.

But how much of it is fake?

Everything is terrible, here is a picture of my ridiculous dog

The Mavs owner who traded away Luka is now trying to get rid of Thomas Massie

“If I can’t trade stocks ahead of the release of market-moving information that I have access to as part of my public service, what’s even the point of being in Congress?”