#MAGA people are saying immigration just made NYC pick a socialist mayor. It shows MAGA does not understand New York City and its immigrants (side note, I'm married to one). The socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani overwhelmingly won in gentrified, highly educated, mostly white

Life in 1776: - heat is such a luxury that Thomas Jefferson can’t write in deep winter bc his ink freezes (one reason perhaps why Independence Day is in July) - nighttime darkness is such a burden that George Washington reportedly spent $15k in today’s dollars on candles every

Reading about Javier Milei — paragraphs like this should be internalized by every public policymaker in the west

Classic example of (costly/absurd) tariff avoidance: Delta is stripping out US-made engines from new Airbus jets in Europe and then installing them in grounded, US-based planes - all to avoid Trump's tariffs. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Little Tokyo today in LA outside Gavin Newsom’s press conference. No badge number, no name plate, no identifying marks. I don’t know how you can call yourself a man and go about your life like this.

A terrible decision bad for almost everyone. Six quick reasons why: 1. Bad for Intel's long-term viability, as politics, not commercial considerations, increasingly drive its decisions. (SOEs are notoriously slow, bloated, & unproductive.) Foreign govts might also target it.

P.S. If you don't see why the government becoming a large (the largest?) shareholder in Intel - and thus having a keen interest in its share price - is wildly different from (and worse than) a grant, contract, or tax break, I don't know what to tell you.

He lied?

Well. It finally happened. Wordle 1,537 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 78/99 Luck 99/99

Drone shot I took of basilica ruins in Lin, Albania (2019). I asked ChatGPT to render a 3D version of how it likely looked. Incredible result!

cancel culture is awesome if you are the one cancelling

Trump cut U.S. military aid to Taiwan the *same day* he made a TikTok deal with Xi Jinping. And it turns out the financial benefits of Trump's TikTok deal are going to his own billionaire allies. Insanely corrupt.

Why did $KVUE see massive put blocks on Fri 9/19—two days before WaPo’s 9/21 scoop and the 9/22 WH presser? 9/19 options: ~179.31K total; 20,000 contracts in the Nov ’25 $17P.

As I was saying…

Don't worry -- Trump is going to trade Taiwan's sovereignty for China's promise to buy more Iowa soybeans, just like he did with Hong Kong. And if he negotiates well, he might even get TikTok sold to his son-in-law as part of the bargain. EVERYTHING IS FINE.

Santos steals and lies, and today he walks free; Bolton tells the truth and burns. The rule of law is dead.