The idea of “low-tax” red states is a myth. Lower-income and working-class people pay higher taxes in Texas than in California. Middle-class people pay about the same in both states. Rich people pay much lower taxes in Texas.

I'll tell you what, Dinesh. Even if you had 400 kilos of 90% U-235 and a box of matches, the length of time it would take you to make a nuke is NEVER. The fact is, 60% enriched uranium like the Iranians had isn't even 10% of the way to a bomb. The rest--- engineering, machining,

The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term. propublica.org/article/trump-…

A single GPU can now calculate hundreds of global weather scenarios in under 60 seconds. The exact same task requires a supercomputer and hours of brute-force physics. Google DeepMind recently released WeatherNext 2. The model beats the previous state-of-the-art system on 99.9%

It does feel like if a group of Palestinians with machine guns broke into an Israeli school and shot a bunch of children, it would be breaking news in every outlet on earth…?

The creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, just unknowingly obliterated Elon Musk in one sentence:

Updated list of US House GOP bills that would honor Trump 1) Carve his face into Mt. Rushmore 2) Rename Palm Beach airport after Trump 2a) Rename Dulles airport after Trump 3) Require State Dept to award a "Trump Peace Prize" 4) Declare Trump's birthday a federal holiday

In Opinion Rebecca Archer’s daughter died of measles that she contracted before she was old enough to be vaccinated. “Parents must realize that refusing vaccinations doesn’t just put your own child at risk. It puts other children at risk,” Archer writes. nyti.ms/3QizMM9

“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat.” — Roger Freeman, adviser to Reagan and Nixon, arguing for limits on access to education. The US is functionally illiterate by design. Literacy is a tool of freedom, something that is intolerable in the land of the free.

$META TO INSTALL TRACKING SOFTWARE ON U.S. EMPLOYEE COMPUTERS TO CAPTURE WORKFLOW DATA FOR AI TRAINING -INTERNAL MEMO META TRACKING TOOL TO CAPTURE MOUSE MOVEMENTS, KEYSTROKES AND SNAPSHOTS OF WHAT EMPLOYEES SEE ON THEIR SCREENS -INTERNAL MEMO

When Alex Karp met Mosley to discuss his role at Palantir in 2016, Mosley reported that Karp repeated a memorized speech Mosley's fascist grandfather had made, then did some tai chi & left. That's no interview. Was being the grandson of a notorious fascist all Palantir needed?

The UAE's request for a swap line -- presumably after a big fall in the central bank's $285b in reserves in March/ early April -- confirms that the GCC countries are now a net drain on offshore dollar liquidity. The Saudis also will need to borrow dollars to get through 1/

Breaking News: President Trump is said to be in talks to send Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort to the Democratic Republic of Congo. nyti.ms/48fu8Aw

NYT headline: “Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo.” Among them are interpreters for the US military, families of US service members, and more than 400 children. We’re becoming an evil country.

Approximate estimates of percentages of U.S. munitions expended in Iran war, per CNN : 50% THAAD interceptors 50% Patriot interceptors 45% Precision Strike Missiles 30% Tomahawk missiles 20% Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles 20% Standard Missiles (SM-3 and SM-6)

Trump told you he’d run America like a business. He is. It’s called asset stripping. You sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, and walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag. Congratulations. You didn’t elect a president. You hired a

Trump spoke to Bloomberg, CBS, Axios and the New York Post in one morning. He claimed Iran agreed to an "unlimited" nuclear suspension, to hand over its enriched uranium, and to a weekend deal. None of it was true. A near-deal collapsed within hours — CNN. 1/

The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now. Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the

Breaking news: The Trump administration’s fundraising arrangement for the White House ballroom project shields donor identities and excludes the White House from conflict of interest requirements, according to records obtained by The Post. wapo.st/4tthnef

The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— have about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey, the