John Manuel

Extremely true, having spent time around my parents’ home, it has escalated significantly post-pandemic. Everything is a grift now, it’s infuriating

UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone comp

A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company.

This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives

As our Executive Director put it: “NC is on the brink of a self-inflicted fiscal crisis.”

Our lawmakers are leading the state down a dangerous road by pushing more tax breaks for the ultra-rich & corporations at the expense of North Carolinians.

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When Mark Carney sets specific goals for Canada to "diversify away" from its reliance on the US—making headlines in Canada but not the US—hear that for what it is: Close partners and allies looking elsewhere for better friends.

This is the silent way that the US loses its pointless trade war.

Also a great theme song

The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Honestly just disagree re: A. Jones. Utley was a great player, but very, very few players in HOF, especially post-integration, with “just” 1800 hits. I think he is HOF worthy but none of those cases is cut & dried. There are reasonable cases against all those players who seem obvious to you.

Not sure which players you mean, and I think Beltran is over the line, but it is not unreasonable to have a high bar. Andruw Jones, for me, is extremely borderline with a .337 career OBP. Who else?

Actually this ballot doesn’t have a slam dunk; lots of people have had this take. The BBWAA has done a much better job than vet committees have.

Who among us has not engaged in knife pranks?

That is a deeeeep cut, and yet also my first reference point for Naylor. Stone Garrett remembers…

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵

• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses

• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal

"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"

— German Music Rights Society

More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS In a new podcast Sam Altman says: " When something gets sufficiently huge ... the federal government is kind of the insurer of last resort, as we've seen in various financial crises ... given the magnitude of what I expect AI's economic impact to look like, I do think the government ends up as the insurer of last resort."

"I'm making billions, and, if it fails, taxpayers will bail me out"

Change one letter, ruin a candy.
Shatchamacallit

Powell's press conference is more consequential than usual:
1. December rate cut may not happen
2. The FOMC is divided ("strongly differing views")
3. Powell very worried—about both inflation and unemployment.

Stocks are falling, bond yields rising, as he speaks.

Livan Moinelo got the crowd a little excited by almost getting a hit (that would've driven in a run).

He's part of a dying breed as next year's Japan Series will mark the last time NPB pitchers will hit as the Central League plans to adopt the DH in 2027.

Jim Palmer, on Twitter, offers his review of former Orioles pitcher Seranthony Dominguez

Opinion | ‘I’m Shocked, Shocked to Find That Gambling Is Going On in Here’ The N.B.A. should have known this was coming.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“The evidence is now in,” David French writes. “The explosive growth in sports gambling is bad for sports, and — most important — it has proved to be bad for the millions of Americans who gamble past the point of prudence and move directly to the point of pain.”

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

wow, which common vaccine was it?

Enten: "Trump is doing absolutely awful in the minds of the American people. We're talking about new lows. CNBC, -13 net approval on the economy. It's -19 among Quinnipiac ... He's not just beating himself with record lows -- this is the lowest for any president ever."

He lost the 2020 election. He knew it. He lied about it. And now he’s demanding your money because knowingly lying didn’t make him President.

Still true!

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

That's the definition of fascism from Robert Paxton, one of the preeminent historians of the subject, from his book ANATOMY OF FASCISM which came out more than two decades ago.

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025