Karl Popper

We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

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How MSG became Maximum Spy Garden under Knicks owner James Dolan For 25 years, MSG has been shot through with a 'culture of paranoia' that stems straight from the owner's box

At @nygroove.nyc, James Dolan's tenure has been shot through with a "culture of paranoia." Once MSG installed facial recognition tech, he scaled up. Now a lawsuit reveals just how far he'll go to target his perceived enemies. In Dolan's mind, he has so, so many enemies nygroove.nyc/james-dolan-...

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, (Red, Orange and Maroon) 1963
oil on canvas, 67-½" × 41-5/8" × 1-5/8" (171.5 cm × 105.7 cm × 4.1 cm) unframed
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Trump says "bad, sick" Democrats could have doctored the Epstein files to make him look bad. Great logic by Cheetolini. He's suggesting the Dems framed him, but forgot to release the dirt, let him win the election, and then quietly turned over the Epstein files to him.

Simon Nixon said: “The real win from the EU’s perspective is that it has successfully fended off Trump’s demands that it rewrite its regulatory rulebook to benefit U.S. companies.

“The irony is that this is the one thing that U.S. companies would have most wanted out of any trade deal.

Europe surrenders to Trump (and thus secures a victory by the back door) S&P 500 futures moved up 0.27% this morning. But the STOXX Europe 600 rose by more than double that in early trading as investors in Europe realized that the pact seems to contain several advantages f...

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We’re at war with Iran because Trump hated our first Black president, who had already negotiated and signed a deal to keep Iran’s ability to build nuclear weapons in check, with monitoring and verification.

the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable

Proponents of STEM as a field always frame it as pure and objective, its advances driven only by the scientific method and eventually diffusing into society by way of the economy and medicine.

But science, and tech especially, can never be dissociated from the politics of the society it bathes in.

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, (Black, Red-Brown on Violet), 1969
acrylic on paper mounted on panel, 39 x 25 ½ in. 99 x 64.7 cm. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS)

𝚂𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚔𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚊𝚡 𝚍𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech – The Markup Healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn

When you answer the prompts on a state health website, it might be quietly sending your answers to social media companies like LinkedIn and Snapchat. We investigated who’s doing that:

Analysis | Donald Trump is a new kind of Republican. Yes, his agenda includes Middle East invasions, sexual culture wars, throwing people off their healthcare, and exploding the debt with handouts to the ultra-rich. But he also sells his own crypto, bibles, and cell phone service.

Among non-evangelicals, at least, I'd bet a great predictor of whether you voted for Trump is how you felt about "Breaking Bad". If you thought Walter White was awesome and Skyler was a joykill, I would bet lots of money on how you voted.

Is Fordo really the most important thing about Iran’s nuclear program or is the focus on it designed to drag the US into the war? Since Fordo is the only target that needs US planes and bunker buster bombs.

This administration really is just a war on a free and open society

Congressman Joaquin Castro:

“If President Trump intends to get the U.S. more involved in the war between Israel and Iran by attacking Iran, he must come to the Congress, make his case, and secure an authorization before he pulls our country into yet another war in the Middle East.”

Here are the most frequent ways an NBA playoff series plays out (higher seed here means the team with home court advantage).

Most common - higher seed sweep. Next most common - your typical gentleman's sweep.

Senator Padilla was driven violently to his knees–as if made to kneel before the authority of the executive–because the administration called his questions “disrespectful”.

This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.

seems to me the basic error these centrists are making is that they are playing on enemy turf, rather than trying to raise the salience of issues that favor them

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he wants to abolish the income tax and fund the government almost entirely through tariffs, thereby delivering the most regressive bonanza to the rich in the history of American taxation. He has said this many many times. He said it *at the announcement* and yet pieces like this just ignore it.

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen?

We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

Don't tell anyone about this but over the last three years General Motors shareholders are outperforming Tesla shareholders.

Presidents Trump and Musk are already working hard to bring down the cost of stocks to a level where average Americans can afford them again. I imagine groceries will not be far behind.

He also seemed to understand that the only way to get EU off the sidelines was to get the Cheeto to reveal his true colors. Done and done. Kudos to him.

“The law is what Congress passes & the supreme court interprets & the president has an obligation to obey the law…to hire lawyers who make a good faith efforts to interpret what the law requires, not to hire lawyers who are going to be writing him permission slips to do whatever he might like…”