How much of a role did Steve Bannon's War Room (and friends) end up killing the AI moratorium? Quite a bit, it appears. My latest: theverge.com/politics/70442…

it’s a great honor to be featured in White Guy Fieri’s new series on Butterworth’s patrons

Who better to be “man of the week” than FAI’s “quietly influential” EVP, Max Bodach? Sources say he “builds guest lists that shape policy, culture, and taste” 👑

Max Bodach White Guy Fieri prince

I’m going to make Ted Kaczynski look like a harmless prankster

You haven’t done shit until you have your own personal protestors.

When this happens at Butterworth’s all the servers gather around like they’re going to sing happy birthday but instead they pick the customer up and give them a wedgie.

[THE SOPRANOS] The leading man had such a wonderfully vulgar charm. I mean, if there was ever a character who stood for the common man, it was him. Watching the rise and fall of his gut was enough to keep you amused from week to week. (2001)

One of the many failures of American food policy over the past 50 years: less than 20% of Iowa corn is now eaten as corn. Vast majority goes to making ethanol or feeding pigs in china. Someone has to realign our subsidies programs toward making food for Americans.

Things that are all exactly the same to me: Buc-ee’s. Savanah Bananas. Double stacked 1911s. Alt country made after 2015. MAGA hats that arnt red. Black stone grills. Ted Lasso. David Bars. Velo nicotine pouches. Light beers that are basically miller light but named like “dad

I think I’m buying another Subaru bc the category of 4 wheel drive and “easy to park in the city” is entirely theirs

There are a ton of things you can accuse Butterworths of that I’ll accept. But being “downtown” is not one of them. Capitol Hill 4 lyfe.

Beef suet pie, USDA concerns, and “no brown in town”: open.substack.com/pub/danielbart…