Turns out the most unrealistic thing about Dune was that the septuagenarian emperor realized that the highest priority was that the spice kept flowing and backed down rather than destroy the basis for his civilization.

Here's Susan Collins expressing her support for a war that has killed hundreds, displaced millions, cost billions, and accomplished nothing, while sounding alarmingly open to a bloody ground invasion. 25 years since sending me and my friends to war, and she has learned nothing.

Is there an org pushing Dems on tax cuts? Hochul is trying to eliminate a tax on tips, Booker proposing no tax on first 72k, Van Hollen trying to eliminate taxes on first 46k, Porter eliminating state income tax on first 100k and now this. What is behind this insane trend?

A good thing to come out of this case would be if thousands of people read the books and zines that were called dangerous by the feds in the Prairieland case. Don't you want to read the forbidden texts? Don't you want to know why the state is so scared of these words?

Good reminder that Israel could not, and cannot, do this on its own. End the war now.

ça fait des années que c’est un secret de polichinelle dans le monde de la tech, ceux qui ont suivi mes threads sur le sujet savent que Palantir n’a jamais été un simple prestataire du gouvernement américain mais une infrastructure parallèle conçue dès le départ pour s’enraciner

>That modest one-bedroom apartment you wanted to leave your family to help them get on the property ladder? The mayor will take half of it. This is wrong. The bill contains a $1.75 million primary residence exemption and the 50% marginal rate doesn’t kick in until $30 million

Meanwhile, we have the "American Future" PAC, funded by sportsbook DraftKings, telling us how Jaime bravely led the fight against ICE. DraftKings is spending $1.2 mil in Illinois in a pretty transparent bid to repeal gambling taxes: inthesetimes.com/article/debug

The Biden DOJ went after Live Nation with an antitrust case in conjunction with 40 states. Live Nation donated $500K to Trump’s inaugural fund and unsurprisingly, his DOJ lets them off with a small fine so they can continue screwing the public. Kid Rock voted for this.

It can be and should be done in so many American cities

When you've lost Ann Coulter what the fuck

There's this odd notion among some on the Left that mentioning the Iran War's blowback risk to the homeland is saber rattling for intensifying the war. I think it's the opposite - the more the public learns about that risk, the more pressure there will be to end the war.

Karp answers a protestor yelling, "you are killing my family!" by smirking and saying the primary cause of death for Palestinians is idiocy and terrorism. This is someone for whom Palestinians have been completely dehumanized.

That thing that AI bros said would never happen, happened again.

People say American cities can’t build infrastructure but Atlanta has a fully automated subway with platform screen doors and 90 second headways that serves a quarter million trips a day. It’s just in their airport.

We were told NIH funding cuts were about eliminating DEI. But the data now shows grants are down across nearly every field of medicine: cancer, diabetes, mental health, brain disorders. With the greatest cuts hitting Alzheimer’s research, down more than 50%.

Meanwhile the US has basically torpedoed all MRNA vaccine development and has drastically cut cancer research. Getting hope from one story where it’s not even clear the dog benefited versus reality: maybe a whole generation of progress loss on that very front.

La Sombrita - $300k development cost - little shade - no weather protection The Bus Bus Stop - $25k development cost - tons of shade - snow, wind, rain protection - 100% recycled material

Practically everything he found was price-gouging from contractors or outsourcing. The mindbending part of DOGE was that it was going to increase public spending by cutting public staff. Building state capacity saves money.