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so we paid the tariffs and now the corporations that passed the costs on to me and you are the ones that are going to be reimbursed, do i have that correct

BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

"He’s always been that little liar. I mean no one—no one—likes him.”

“I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.”

@nlanard.bsky.social reports on Florida Rep. Cory Mills, perhaps the most hated man in Congress, and his many, many scandals. bit.ly/46kf7fP

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

Trump Ramblings on Epstein Take Revealing Turn as MAGA Fury Boils Over As Trump insists he’s “totally exonerated” in the Epstein scandal amid mounting MAGA rage over it, a historian of the right explains how all this is exposing deep rifts inside MAGA—and what will happe...

On the pod historian Nicole Hemmer nails it on Epstein and elite impunity.

"Across the world, elites are going to jail or losing their positions. That’s not happening in the US. People want to understand: Why isn’t it happening here?"

Hemmer is great all throughout:
newrepublic.com/article/2068...

The party of free speech and small government.

Remember the moral panic about safetyism? Trigger warnings? Snowflakes? Well, its actually happening in Texas.

A Cautionary Note to Fellow Dems From an AIPAC Target How big-money super PACs are warping Democratic politics—and how to fix it.

Tom Malinowski argues in an op-ed for the Bulwark that, in response to AIPAC using Republican donor money to intervene in Democratic races, Dem leadership (including, presumably, the AIPAC-endorsed and backed Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer) should disavow the organization and refuse its support.

Skeb has launched their official BlueSky account!

In March they plan to add Bluesky as a new connected social network, in the same way you can with Twitter & Misskey!

(They also mentioned a potential promotional campaign, which may reduce fees for creators during this period)

This is exciting!

Les Wexner's attorney during the House Oversight Committee deposition on Epstein:

"I will fucking kill you if you answer another question with more than five words."

Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology.

Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

We are about to run face-first into a combo of:

- Covid development delays (2020-2022)
- End of Zero-Interest Rate Policy (2022)
- Overinvestment in games-as-a-service (2021-2025)
- AI-based hardware shortages (2025+)

AAA games take 4-7 years to develop and bring to market. It is going to be BAD.

You don’t even have to be able to read this time! The most important pieces are all voiced! lol

Hmm. The US is giving $10 billion in taxpayer dollars, not appropriated by Congress, to a fake board set up by the President and which he put himself in charge of *for life*... seems very, very illegal.

Getting mad about people slandering Miquella because they didn’t understand the (unusually straightforward!) storytelling of the DLC again

I doubt that there's a more effective way to capture unitary executive theory in an image.

And because it's the DOJ building, it also captures the notion that the President is above the law.

Probably should have come here before burning the erdtree this time but

US-led Board of Peace a ‘colonialist operation,’ Cardinal Pizzaballa says - OSV News Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, strongly criticized the U.S.-led Board of Peace, an international body chaired by President Donald Trump to oversee the governance and r...

"What do I think of the Board of Peace? I think it is a colonialist operation: others deciding for the Palestinians."

-Cardinal Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem

Surely we’ve seen enough gay nazis and fascist women by now that insufferable internet fandom drama could get over the notion that your sexuality and gender identity alone determine whether you’re a good person

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.

Everybody hates Cory Sex workers, bankruptcy, stolen valor, a restraining order, and Trump's “Complete and Total” endorsement for Congress.

Veterans accuse him of stolen valor. His international arms company is deep in debt. He had a restraining order placed on him last year. And that's...just the start of it.

Read our profile of Cory Mills here:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

all this stuff makes much more sense if you understand “anti wokeness” as a general backlash to elite accountability more generally, even if you have criticisms of left wing egalitarianism bsky.app/profile/kevi...

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Americans waking up to news that Prince Andrew has been arrested for Epstein ties

With every fibre of my being, let me say this in a loud, clear, booming voice: this should have happened when Virginia Giuffre was alive to see it.

Very excited for "Why does the left hate AI so much? Is it because they're stupid and don't understand it?" to evolve into "Why does the Right hate AI so much? Do they need tax breaks? What do we not understand about them? Do they have too few sweet kisses from papa?"

Today I woke up increasingly fucking angry about this. I'm sure 10+ billion hours of children scrolling an endless dopamine hit of slop games is 100% fine for their development, right?

I don't look at this as market opportunity. I look at this with genuine fear for the next generation.

The other thing about that Sony concert is every Square Enix property concert I’ve gone to has sold out? Game music concerts are really popular

AAA industry’s boner for hollywood orchestral has effectively resulted in major franchises with no recognizable music. do you ever think about how weird it is that assassin’s creed doesn’t have a unifying theme because i’ve played all twenty of em and think about it regularly