alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦

Journalist. @CaOptNews. Dad x3. He/Him. Black Lives Matter. I podcast and write. Hey!

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

Written words: https://t.co/Ciz1wLTlJy
Spoken words: @twistartups
Favorite person: you!

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

The U.S. Department of Justice has notified at least six Democratic-friendly Georgia counties it intends to station monitors there on Election Day. #gapol

https://t.co/G8mOsscIVp

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE
https://t.co/rO3P7aJa8h

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

Why is a private citizen deciding our foreign policy

[Laura Rozen @lrozen]

The decision to throttle Starshield “appears to have come from a small circle around the president, Musk and Steve Witkoff…Reports suggest Musk wanted to punish Ukraine for striking Russian refineries. One official says he contacted the White House only after imposing the restrictions.”

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

Never speak ill of the boss

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Trump on Ukraine:

Elon Musk is a very good person. He is not going to do anything wrong regarding Ukraine.

Elon will never do anything wrong. He is a fair person.

[Adam Besvinick @Besvinick]

@thogge Yes, exactly

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

What a dipshit

[Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc]

NEW!! Rubio on Russia's war in Ukraine:

"... people keep talking about it’s a war in Ukraine.  That war is about Donbas. It’s about one region of the country."

[Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc]

NEW!! GOP Sen. Kevin Cramer says he received a briefing today from Air Force Sec. Troy Meink on Starshield, raising concerns over U.S. reliance on SpaceX.

“Fighting wars” can’t be so dependent on private companies, he says.

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

Hell yeah - this is so sick

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Today's Boom announcements in 90 seconds

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

Or until mommy finishes residency

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

When my kid asks "How are babies made?", I'm going to say "A doctor combines a sperm and egg in a test tube, and then freezes it until Daddy's startup has a liquidity event"

[Noah Shachtman @NoahShachtman]

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story here in @VanityFair

[Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar]

“Vance’s message differed from comments by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Musk had the authority to enforce his company’s terms of service without input from the administration.”https://t.co/8Tl5CP6H1S

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

Idk if plane seats are smaller or what but I think my shoulders are now wider than the seat

tf

[Mary Ann Azevedo @bayareawriter]

It was a pleasant surprise to see my friend, @alex, give me (and my latest article) a shout-out in his excellent Cautious Optimism newsletter today! If you don't already, you should subscribe!

https://t.co/6fia5kG218

[Andy McCarthy @AndrewCMcCarthy]

If you followed the Trump administration's jihad against Anthropic over restrictive terms of use for Claude, then you're not going to buy its Ukraine blame-shifting to Musk -- as if Starshield terms of use are none of the administration's business ... https://t.co/ZI4cukpTal

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

@winsletts @grok we have been ignored

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

Not a massive shock; what was the last crypto venture hit? Stablecoins did well?

[Techmeme @Techmeme]

Source: a16z plans to drop "crypto" from its flagship blockchain fund, rebranding it to "a16z frontier" and broadening its investment strategy beyond crypto (@leomschwartz / The Information)

(Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

@winsletts @grok how many token pre-sales/SAFT-style investments did a16z make in the crypto space, and how much money did regular investors lost?

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

gotta say: being home > traveling like 99.999% of the time

can i play factorio on my widescreen curved gaming monitors while traveling???? no

case/rest

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

imagine having to pay the higher price -- the sheer shame of it https://t.co/3mpmWAqUgN

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

The White House counsel's office warned Politico in a Monday letter that it had 48 hours to retract or correct recent stories revolving around COS Susie Wiles — or it would suffer unspecified consequences.

https://t.co/yKLCpdZfVP