Dr. Talc

Q: Now that you know the backstory about Amy Acton and her stepfather and why she hasn't talked to her mom in so long -- her stepfather was indicted for rape -- do you change your mind about the ad? TRUMP: No. No. It's a mother speaking badly against Amy Acton. You don't know anything.

1/ Restoring Yandex's damaged data centres will take at least six months and cost billions. Disruption is already severe; Russian manufacturers and distributors face imminent disaster due to Ukraine's strikes causing the collapse of the state-operated goods tracking system. ⬇️

"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate

"Many, many people are surprised to learn" this principally because it isn't true. Montesquieu is cited more times (11) in more essays (4) than Plutarch (3, 3). Heck, the Abbé de Mably is cited as often as Plutarch. And what do citations even tell us? Locke isn't cited at all...

U.S. Treasury just auctioned 10-Year Treasuries at a yield of 5.3%, the highest level this century 🚨 🚨

From Steve Rattner Data centers are booming... all other private construction is shrinking.

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

25th Amendment when?

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴

Have you seen the original artist Russ Heath's comic strip reply to Lichtenstein:

From @allrisenews.com. Whenever anyone asks a Democrat about a twitch streamer, they should counter with this, which is only one among several dangers to children that Elon has introduced to this world.

Cost of diesel for a typical Los Angeles-to-Dallas truckload: $1,430 — up about $600, or 72%, from the day before the Feb. 28 strikes on Iran.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️

ICYMI, Dylan Byers was name-checked as the reporter who amplified Reddit conspiracies about the identity of the Boston Marathon bomber and ruined the lives of the family members of the late Sunil Tripathi www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Bari Weiss has plunged CBS News into ratings calamity. —"Evening News" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —"CBS Mornings" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —And now "60 Minutes" has posted worst ratings of 21st century More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

the reason my likely presidential candidate tier list has two people at the top - Ossoff and AOC - is that they are by far the most effective messengers of I Am Fucking Furious And There Must Be Consequences, which is the most deeply held conviction of the Dem base

LEFT: Donald Trump today, dozing off as the names of those who died on 9/11 are read. RIGHT: Joe Biden today, paying respects to those lost on 9/11. Who's "sleepy" now, loser?

“.. The Atlanta Fed calculates that as of May, a household would need income of $124,674 a year to afford a median-priced home … that is 45% more than the median household makes.” - Schwab

Unions are the only major institution that has gained and not lost support since the Great Recession. Yet after Labor Day, the people who write about “the working class” for a living will manage not to say the word “union” out loud again for 364 days. www.contrariannews.org/p/labor-day-...

This man delivers a no-bullshit takedown of Trump and his MAGA supporters, no fucks given. We should all be this mouthy and vocal. And I love his hat.

Feel free to share and screenshot.

A rusting U.S. aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in Thailand: An embarrassing testament to the gross incompetence of Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Losing, for all the world to witness. China must be giddy at our shameful demise.

A parable: Yesterday, a whistleblower provided us a blueprint of Trump's plan to cheat in the midterms by trashing (disproportionately Democratic) mail ballots by the truckload. Hours later, House Democrats provided the decisive votes to fund Trump's government. www.offmessage.net/p/stop-donal...

Note on pieces like these, not only is there no suggestion that Republicans should distance themselves from him, there's no hint that there's a reason to. No recap of his CSAM machine. No inflammatory racist quotes. No mention of the DOGE death toll. No history of his fabulist quotes.

I... was not ready for that paragraph

Still mad about the Star Trek muppet fiasco. Like, if you're going to quote *that* Star Trek scene, you need the audience to be *completely* on your side already, and boy o boy was I not, so my reaction was genuinely "how *dare* you?"

you can write a lot of thinkpieces about the structural problems with american governance but also "don't elect grandpa cheesebrain"

Annihilation on Collider's list of the top 10 American novels of the past 15 years. collider.com/best-america...

Technically, they’re Remains now.

Wages growth is slowing (real wages are negative)

"Both nonfarm payroll employment (-23,000) and the unemployment rate (4.1 percent) changed little in July". Previous 2 months revised down. Very weak report.

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Long form version of my postmortem on the birthright citizenship case (tldr just listen to Justice Jackson), courtesy of the fine folks at @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/there-is-n...

My response to Elon Musk.

Surprised I’d never come across this remarkable statistic until now: “In 2024, Trump received 82% of the white evangelical/born again vote. He lost the rest of the vote by a whopping 18-point margin, 58% to 40%.”

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... Charlotte and I turn a classical eye on the Odyssey movie, not to quibble about archaeological detail, but to ask what more you can get out of the film (for better or worse) if you know the poem. Pedants revolt but not too pedantic!!

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

Of course, the insane part is Trump got more votes in California (6,081,697) than every other state but Texas (6,393,597) and Florida (6,110,125).

The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.

This is what I have verified about Taylor Farms and this administration: 1. Bruce Taylor met with Trump on 07/16/26. 3. The FDA reversed its previous warning about Taylor Farms on 07/19/26. 4. Taylor Farms gave $1 million to Trump's PAC. I don't know when, but that's what got Taylor the meeting.

Crude Oil has 43 days of supply left in the U.S. — the lowest inventory in 45 years @barchart.com ⛽️

The toxic influencer who has made "hyper-masculinity" his brand was arresting wearing Doris Day clam-digger slacks and a kicky purple blouse.

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Yet another Kalshi offering that serves no legitimate economic purpose. It's not possible to make a rational bet on this without material non-public information. It's a market solely for fraud by both regulators and corporate insiders, and everyone connected to it in any way should go to prison.