Ok so it’s good that I’m sitting here with the new baby but also very hard to not watch the stock market rn and reach for a pen

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Still at hospital, holding lil Octavia, Indiana Fever on the laptop, spouse comfy and recovering. Life is good. Even got to go home and do the evening routine with Ada. :)

Nothing more emblematic of the two sides than David Sacks responding to a meticulously evidenced DOJ indictment with, "But surely this pales in comparison to what Ukraine is doing entitely in my imagination?"

It’s been absolutely wild to see the upsurge in foreign lobbying-related prosecution in recent months. We have charges relating to: —Bob Menendez (Egypt) —Henry Cuellar (Azerbaijan) —A former NSC official (South Korea) —A Hochul aide (China) —RT (Russia) Absolutely wild.

China, Korea, and Japan together build over 90% of the world's shipping tonnage. The US builds just 0.2% This week in a Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 / Construction Physics cross post, I look at why the US struggles to build ships. construction-physics.com/p/why-cant-the…

FIRE's new survey of 59k college students is out. Unfortunately, a significant percentage of them have disastrously illiberal ideas about free speech. - 32% said that using violence to stop a campus speech is acceptable to some degree — up from 27% last year and 20% two years

Trying to register legally eligible voters is now considered "trying to steal" an election. Can't make this up.

I see that founder mode has already been diluted into ‘everything founders do is right and any criticism thereof is invalid’ Bummer

Hot damn I know airbase this is cool to see

Baby update

Agreed - Putin sucks and Ukraine is gonna beat their invasion back with grit and (hopefully) a never-ending stream of support from the free world!

Just sayin' - some of us were on to Tucker a while back. thebulwark.com/p/you-do-not-u…

The UK CMA objects to Google's ad tech practices, says Google harms competition by using its online display ad dominance "to favour its own ad tech services" (@ryan_browne_ / CNBC) cnbc.com/2024/09/06/bri… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240906/p7#a240…

+160k consensus 4.2% UR expected TRADING ECONOMICS tradingeconomics.com/calendar

KREMLIN SAYS US MOVES AGAINST RUSSIAN MEDIA AMOUNT TO UNACCEPTABLE PRESSURE DESIGNED TO CLOSE DOWN RUSSIAN VIEWPOINTS

BREAKING: 142K Jobs, unemployment falls to 4.2%. Last two months revised down by 86K Economists had expected 165K jobs, and a 4.2% unemployment rate bloomberg.com/news/live-blog…

4 industry groups with negative job growth over the last 3 months