Owen Smigelski

In authoritarian crackdowns, it’s important to randomly ensnare some people whom one would think would be safe, so that everyone is at least a little bit afraid that something could happen to them. The regime scales up its power of intimidation over a much larger group than those directly affected.

"Utterly unqualified": Trump BLS pick gets panned by fellow conservative economists Conservative economists cited examples of Trump's BLS pick appearing to misunderstand data he would be responsible for.

Most people in Trump’s orbit are “utterly unqualified” so why is this a concern now?

If we all went blind and spoke and understood only Swahili the @nytimes.com would not be any less suited to report on the moment

musk's "creation of a new political party" resulted in a three week furrowed-brow news cycle that wasted everybody's time

If this happens, I will immediately stop using Chrome.

And yet they think they're the wittiest smartest people ever.

"dumb fucking asshole" as both cultural identity and governance

I was today years old when I learned that driving ATVs on the street and doing wheelies is serious/violent crime worthy of a fascist takeover of law enforcement

Trump’s pick for BLS commissioner suggests suspending the monthly jobs report | CNN Business EJ Antoni, nominated by President Donald Trump Monday to become the next commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, suggested that the agency should suspend its monthly jobs report, claiming it ...

They'll start with no monthly data, then no quarterly data, etc. But of course they'll be making stuff up to promote Trump and make Biden look bad.

Ranking domain registrars based on the latest .com data: GoDaddy, Namecheap and more

A look at the biggest domain name registrars. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers April 2025. Here are some takeaways from this month's…

Russians hail historic Alaska ties ahead of Trump-Putin summit on Ukraine Lawmakers and commentators have praised the choice of venue, suggesting it could strengthen relations between the two nations.

Russians are cheering the location, because of course Trump is a fucking moron easily played by the Russians.

Musk threatens 'immediate' legal action against Apple over alleged antitrust violations ChatGPT was ranked No. 1 in the top free apps section of the American iOS store. Apple has tied up with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into its products.

I’m sure the rankings have everything to do with Apple, and not the fact that Grok has called itself Mechahitler and randomly returns white genocide conspiracies.

NEVER FORGET — when the National Guard WASN’T called, and that he lied when he said he couldn’t.

Trump to nominate longtime skeptic of Bureau of Labor Statistics as new agency head Trump's naming of conservative economist E.J. Antoni comes after he fired the previous BLS commissioner, claiming without evidence that the July jobs report was "rigged."

August jobs are already up 750,000 or more

Please do not insult the many fine snails that I have known.

Ex-marine convicted of killing three people released to US in prisoner swap Dahud Hanid Ortiz, convicted in Venezuela of triple homicide in Madrid, is one of 10 US nationals flown to Texas

A convicted triple murderer is on the streets in Orlando, Florida tonight after being freed by Donald Trump. He used an 'axe and machete to butcher his way through a Madrid law office."

Dahud Hanid Ortiz is here. Now.
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imagine Fox Mulder and Dana Sculley in this exact situation.

ill tell you one thing: Mulder would lose his sidearm chasing this man

The most important thing to know about Trump’s manufactured crisis in DC is that his administration is still covering up what’s in the Epstein files.

At this point, Lauren has had so much plastic surgery that she looks like a Bond villain.

"For the president, this is something that hits home, because he is a visual person and the visuals of him driving to his golf course and seeing those homeless encampments" -- Politico's Dasha Burns puts on a masterclass in Trump sanewashing on Fox News

What happened to Salt Bae? The rise and fall of the chef who’s now being thrown out of luxury private parties His disastrous performance in the final of the last World Cup caused thousands of people to lose interest in him.

I find it strange that shitty food, abusing workers, and charging insane prices couldn't bring this moron down, but grabbing the World Cup and bothering Messi was enough to finally turn Salt Bae into an unwelcome joke.

Wall Street is concerned about the reliability of government inflation data on eve of CPI Beneath the Bureau of Labor Statistics' reports on consumer and producer prices will be simmering questions over the data's validity.

whoops our lobbyists put facts-optional authoritarian pudding heads into prominent positions of power, who could have possibly predicted they'd be unreliable narrators with a tendency to fudge the numbers

One-size-fits-all pancreatic cancer vaccine showed promise in early trial The vaccine doesn't prevent cancer from happening in the first place, but an early-phase trial found it could reduce the odds of recurrence.

How long until RFK, Jr pulls all US government funding on this?

Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling Kim Davis, a former clerk who refused gay couples, brought the appeal.

Do we have any hope that this SCOTUS will not reverse Obergefell and end marriage equality?

OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years’ time college graduates will be working ‘some completely new, exciting, super well-paid’ job in space While Bill Gates has said the two-day workweek could come within the next decade, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Gen Alpha college graduates will be too busy planet-hopping.

Why does the media report anything this grifter says as even remotely true? It's all lies to boost OpenAI.

Fascist wannabe dictators are gonna lie about crime and then escalate against perceived imaginary enemies. This is a dangerous escalation.

photo of my orange and white cat (finn) and my grey tiger stripe (Koda) peacefully napping on a white blanket on an orange couch.

very important update

AOL ditching dial-up service, a relic of the internet in the '90s and early '00s The online service provider said it will end the service on Sept. 30.

TIL that AOL still does dialup

Trump moves Obama, Bush portraits to hidden stairwell Once a dramatic feature of the White House entryway, the official portrait of former President Barack Obama has been moved to a decidedly less prominent position, underscoring the years-long tensions ...

Every day Trump shows what a petty and pathetic weakling he is