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I’m team Digger good

Trump was impeached in 2019 for attempting to extort Zelensky. After taking office the second time, he sent Scott Bessent (nephew of Rep. John Jenrette who was imprisoned after the FBI's Abscam sting) to do it again.

This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com

Among the worst ideas floating around is that "the free market" will naturally achieve desirable results for society. No, it won't, not even in theory, much less in practice. Markets don't optimize "good for society" unless you make them.

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

This is the kind of insight that could turn you into a more humble public servant or a nihilist, and I think we know which option Graham chose.

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An excellent little rant about the myriad structural reasons why health care care produces florid market failures.

Probably putting too fine a point on but my official time of death for the rules-based order is this: youtu.be/tXrkVnQE2GU?...

a subtle but devastating cost of having allowed winner-take-all dynamics to take hold in markets is a loss of the basic intuition, “what those people did, we can do too.”

There’s a mine off the coast of Australia that has predicted a century of major wars, and it’s opening again. I went there to better understand tungsten, a critical mineral at the heart of the geopolitical struggle between the US and China: 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Shekhar Gupta's outlet making up an enormously viral quote pitting people against billionaires ... I can't even 🤣

#caturday yin-yang nap

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

Was at a seminar where an older participant talked about how he now asked Claude for a summary of anything he had to read, and here's what Claude had said about this text and what he thought of that. Was very sad. We complain about kids and AI, but I think 60somethings might be the worst victims.

Just a bunch of blind baby birds squawking "Plot, plot, plot" with upturned beaks.

nap on a hot #caturday afternoon

From this side of the train car, this ad is a little concerning.

Even if a $18,000 BYD car is sending data back to Shenzhen I don’t really care because by that point I’ll be in the Chinese Car Hackers Discord channel sharing PCBs that prevent it from doing that along with 3D printing STLs of cup holders in the shape of Luffy from One Piece.

He was elected to help the Mittalstand, Scott.

Jacobins have long backed the role of a revolutionary Vanguard.

The problem with "geopolitical risk" is that it is not risk but uncertainty so it isn't really quantifiable, thus there's no "efficient allocation" that can happen because that doesn't happen in conditions of uncertainty.

The two key neologisms of the French revolution were terrorism (1794) and nationalism (1798). For reference: Liberalism (1812) Socialism (1827) Conservatism (1830) Anarchism (1840) Communism (1840) Capitalism (1850) Feminism (1894) Fascism (1919) Environmentalism (1922) Totalitarianism (1923)

i guess those celebrating soras death didnt get the memo that some of us need daily personalized greetings from james bond—for mental health

Black mirror version of Yeltsin in american store

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

Straight out of Second Civil War (1997) "Every President has his foibles, this one just needs a role model ... that Trade War thing .. We got him all fired up over Harry Truman ... I thought he was going to nuke the Japs all over again" "What would Roosevelt have done if he'd had this crisis?"

Being Rupert Murdoch is a full time job that only Rupert Murdoch is really good at. Larry Ellison is about to discover that media assets aren't an unalloyed source of power, and that owning them presents a giant, hyper-complex attack surface for your other businesses.

dan bongino and kash patel lying unconscious on the ground after bonking their heads together as they both bent down to examine what is later determined to be their own footprints

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

I've been trying to confirm my intuition that the rank "General" is actually "Captain General" and this led me to fact that Admiral is actually Sea Emir.

Despite being RFK Sr's number one hater, this University of Kansas speech rolls around in my head once a month.

Mark Zuckerberg now positioned to be the weirdest rebound relationship in world history

RFK believes that he is one of the genetic elect and that it is a violation of the natural order to either impose on the genetic elect with public health OR prevent nature from taking its course with those who are predestined to biological damnation.

Night Night, Blue Sky Walkers, sleep tight.😴 Sunset over my beloved Blue Ridge Mountains, NC.

We’re getting an economic nuclear winter. But it was a small price to pay for ending free speech on campus. by Bill Ackman

My three-yea-old was watching CNBC when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why does the nice orange man want to put tariffs on the penguins?" And when I told her "Because penguins are globalist shitlibs who steal American manufacturing jobs with unfair trade practices," she started crying.

Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I am very, very weak, but they are two different things.

the sickos man is very cold. let him inside

This is why republicans do not believe sex can be consensual

I am still wrapping my head around the fact that the Navajo Code Talkers, who, y'know, SUCCESSFULLY KEPT WAR SECRETS Secret apparently needed to be memory-holed to make room for the true glory of sharing war plans with a journalist you *invited* into the group chat

The other octopi in the ocean: