Matt

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

Also that gay men with AIDS “should be tatooed … on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.”

Gunman in Deadly C.D.C. Shooting Fixated on Covid Vaccine, Officials Say

RFK Jr. knows the consequences of his rhetoric.

“Mr. Kennedy has previously called the C.D.C. a “cesspool of corruption,” and a fascist enterprise. He accused C.D.C. employees of covering up vaccine harms to children, comparing it to the Catholic Church’s coverup of child sex abuse.”

Gift link.

Financial Matriarchy by 2025? "If women should maintain their present rate of financial ascendency, one statistician has calculated that all the wealth of the country would be in feminine hands by 2025. Of course, no one believes that such a financial matriarchy is coming, but this calculation strickingly [sic] illustrates the rapidity of the present trend." --The Burlington Free Press, 27 Mar 1929

1929: Financial matriarchy by 2025?

Siri why do people assume crypto is a huge fucking scam backed by dipshit bros

gen x now being known as the forgotten generation is just primo content lmao

The space vampire was something else

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.

As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

Now sugar is a “toxin?” But I was just told that cane sugar was winning at making Americans healthy again??

A “coding error” happened to delete passages in the past month relating to exactly what the administration is doing in violation of the constitution techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/k...

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

Patent drawing of a large dog licking a man's hat as the man cuts the dog's nails.

Dog food hat. Patented today.
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White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

futurism.com/white-house-...

Who needs exceptionally high data quality on carbon dioxide distribution and crop health? Not Americans, apparently, willing to simply lay down and let Trump do whatever extraordinarily stupid thing he wants to do next.

She’s an icon, she’s a legend and she is the moment. Now come on now.

My best friend who watches Maddow just called to tell me that she landed the plane and plainly stated that the US is currently being ruled by a consolidating authoritarian regime. Not that it is 'descending into' etc etc but that it is here. Maybe this will move more liberals to say the same.

(You should run, Maura)

#DinglerDinger Delayed Declaration

The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.

Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth.

So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?

When is Trump going to do something about these Canadian wildfires? Tough to be outside. I wonder if he's considered a retaliatory tariff?

Sales cratering ✅
Cybertruck a massive flop ✅
Brand destruction ✅
Months wasted with DOGE ✅

Here’s <$30 billion> Elon

-Love the the Tesla “board”

Make that two insane catches by Greene.

The US economic model it's offering to the world is fartcoin, sports betting, and natural oils, the Chinese economic model is high speed rail and solar panels. Americans have rejected Geist and their country won't survive it

Kotzebue public broadcaster warns of looming closure after federal funding cut Members of the station’s board and staff said the station had enough reserve funding to last a few months, but that the station would close within a year without an alternate funding source.

I was very fortunate to spend a few days last week in Kotzebue, Alaska, just North of the Arctic Circle. I couldn't help but notice their public radio station, KOTZ, which serves the entire region.

Of course, its existence is threatened by Trump.

www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Running for President takes a lot of time

NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident.

She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.

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No other president was allowed to just wave his hands, pretend there is a "national emergency" or fabricated "national security" reasons for ever-changing tariffs & violation of these agreements, & then have the media completely ignore the fact that these laws exist 🤷‍♂️

#FirstWorldProblems get #FirstWorldSolutions

Without Democratic Party weakness there’s no space for GOP evil