Masshole dad, conservative in the bluest state — yes, both of us. Right most days; I'll tell you the days I'm not. I run my mouth here, news at @SignalPopNews
As oil surges towards $110, Democrats are chomping at the bit over the tax revenue from gas that will be used to fill back their coffers after they win midterms...
@Jessies_Too Voting them in isn't the actual hard part. Getting them to actually pass something once they have the votes is where it always stalls out.
@TheCinesthetic Genuinely sad. Followed him since Evil Dead, loved him as Autolycus on Hercules, then Burn Notice for years. I did actually meet him at a book signing 30 years ago. Rare guy who always seemed to actually enjoy being alive.
This trial broke how women process evidence. I listened to moms at the park yesterday defend Clancy against her own signed confession, no theory, no alternative suspect, just instinct to protect her over the husband. Yet another major, spreading, psychological problem going on in the US.
This trial broke how women process evidence. I listened to moms at the park yesterday defend Clancy against her own signed confession, no theory, no alternative suspect, just instinct to protect her over the husband. Yet another major, spreading, psychological problem going on in the US.
@JoeDanMedia What is amazing is that I'm sure they were exposed to pictures of the three kids that were murdered, yet they still refuse the facts. Are the jurors completely soulless?
@OANN Whoever's briefing him on egg prices should also check the grocery line, FRED has it up 2.6% YoY. Beef is flippin $6.88/lb. Gaslighting on inflation was bad when the last team did it. Doesn't get a pass either. We voted for truth.
@TRHLofficial Zero conservative representation is the tell. Not nine years of careful thought, just blue no matter who, no matter what it costs them, ethics and morals be damned. That's not a political stance, that's outsourcing your brain and Mass has done that.
🌙 EVENING RUNDOWN · Thursday
📈 Markets ripped into the close — S&P +1.06% to 7,747.71, Dow +1.18% to 53,686.11, Nasdaq +1.40% to 26,584.06 — after Fed Governor Christopher Waller said he could live with holding rates steady if inflation keeps cooling, per Bloomberg. Gold jumped 2.37% and bitcoin tacked on 5.36% to $81,455, because apparently everybody wanted in today.
• JD Vance called himself "extremely sceptical" of reports the US strike on Iran hit a wedding, but still won't call any of this a war — just places "where this has flared up," per BBC and The Hill. Update: softer words, same fight.
• The House passed a bill penalizing universities that boycott Israel, 237-169, with 33 Democrats crossing the aisle to help it along, per The Guardian. Senate's next.
• New Jersey asked the Supreme Court to rule Kalshi's sports bets are gambling, not swaps — a circuit split that just raised the odds the justices finally have to weigh in, per Ars Technica.
• Nvidia is buying Hugging Face, the open-source hub hosting 3 million AI models, for $12.9 billion, per The Hill.
• OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra, which it says is the first model to clear its own "critical cybersecurity capability threshold" — modest framing for something the company is already hinting might be the AGI moment, per The Verge.
Chicago recorded its first West Nile virus death of the year, following the city's rainiest summer in recent memory.
👀 OVERNIGHT: two Palestinian teenagers were shot dead as Israeli troops and settlers encircled and razed a West Bank village, per The Guardian; Serbia gave war criminal Ratko Mladić's remains a military-honors homecoming; a federal judge in Maryland blocked Trump's birthright citizenship order for the second time this year.
@SidneyPowell1@RAIRFoundation@marklevinshow Third-generation-born wouldn't have screened out half the clowns already in office, it would've just given them a fancier family tree. Skip the genealogy homework, secure the elections and kill the dark money. Values on the ballot, not https://t.co/NDcovubnn2.
@philthatremains@IanCrossland In MA, every town meeting starts the same: dispensary approved, then a second one for 'market competition,' then a smoke lounge because apparently smoking it in public is the underserved market. Zoning boards are basically Amsterdam tourism boards now.
@bennyjohnson Fair, but pin the year. Are we still pouring concrete domes nobody can replicate, or are we melting statues down for scrap metal. Huge difference in mood.
@GrrrGraphics Figure out who handed a narrow slice of activist suburbanites veto power over school boards, HR departments, and city councils. Find that person, take the keys back. Deport them.