@DukeStJournal

I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives, and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I think Teddy Roosevelt is looking at me funny.

[@DukeStJournal @DukeStJournal]

@JoumannaTV where we’re at: the world is being held in check by a conflict with unquantifiable vertical economic and geopolitical ramifications, and both sides can be summed up with a Monty Python gif

[Sam Koppelman @SammyKoppelman]

Just as a reminder, Nvidia is:

*Anchoring the Anthropic IPO
*OpenAI’s big investor
*Backstopping neoclouds like Coreweave
*Guaranteeing Stargate data centers

Deals negotiated by Jensen personally.

The idea that this problem can be isolated to one company is absurd.

[Fred Katz @FredKatz]

This is the best version of Karl-Anthony Towns that's ever existed. Some of the passes tonight have been craziness.

[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

This is a clip of an actor and a director having a productive conversation about the character that ends with them on the same page and the actor wanting to jump right into the scene now that he gets it, but a lot of people are projecting very odd stuff onto it

[Chris McGuire @ChrisRMcGuire]

Stunning report. At this point it seems like Howard Lutnick and Jeff Kessler are just outright defying the President's orders on export controls. The President apparently ordered Secretary Lutnick to crack down on China's access to controlled AI chips in Southeast Asia--and reportedly has ordered this three separate times--and they're just...not doing it.

Why is Lutnick refusing to act? Why is he allowing China to continue to get AI chips via Southeast Asia? At this point, Lutnick isn't just protecting Nvidia, he's straight up protecting Chinese companies--reportedly against the wishes of the President and the entire rest of the Cabinet. Is Lutnick personally benefitting from China getting access to AI chips?

This is a total breakdown inside the administration on a major national security issue. There has to be accountability for this. Congress obviously will investigate, but how is it that the President's own appointees are just refusing to execute the President's orders? I've never seen anything like this.

[Kris Pursiainen @krispursiainen]

I thought this all felt a bit familiar.

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

Saw him play live many times. Brought electricity and excitement. He was the man for us at the time. Moved so stylishly. 🙌💙🧡🙌

[Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait]

.@thegarance has a rule of affairs: it's either one or many, never two.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Imagine a historian in 2035 writing a political history of the 2020s, and he points out that every election, the out-of-power party won a cost-of-living election and then used their mandate to ignore or exacerbate affordability only to be destroyed in the next election, where voters again said “to be clear, I don’t want whatever bullshit you’re up to, I just want life to feel more affordable,” and then, once again, the winning politicians prioritized everything except affordability, and this story repeated itself over and over again.

One of my strongest held political opinions right now is: Democrats should do everything they can to avoid that history being written.

[@DukeStJournal @DukeStJournal]

Huang out https://t.co/wWwQLEcN9B

[On This Day in Simpsons History 🇺🇦 @dailysimpsons]

33 years ago today... TRAMAPOLINE! TRABAPOLINE!

#TheSimpsons episode “Bart's Inner Child” premiered November 11, 1993.

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

“The premise is simple, Lemon: Contestants must hide Shaquille O’Neal from the people of Dallas. If this works, the network is ready to greenlight similar shows like ‘Will You Co-Sign Lenny Dykstra’s Loan?’ and ‘Can You Convince a Georgia Football Player to Call an Uber?’”

[Peter Hamby @PeterHamby]

How big was the Dem win? They've driven Vivek offline

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

Now that Florida has nuked the municipal government tax base by eliminating much of the residential property tax, towns will be in search of large business property tax payers….

[@DukeStJournal @DukeStJournal]

@DougHeye ok but judging from that joke, she might be stuck in mid-2016 mentally and not aware of what happened between then and now

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

“We Were Always Blue” is the first AI art that was also a documentary.

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

Today in 1918, after surviving 4 years of trench warfare, my great-grandfather walked the Champs-Élysées w/2 of his little girls.

[@DukeStJournal @DukeStJournal]

Tester has said, “My agreement with Palantir is advisory in nature, it is not lobbying,” and that not surprisingly translates to him being a non-lobbyist in name only and always making sure Karp or another Palantir employee is in the room in order to skirt lobbying rules.

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

Politico: The Tech Right Pivots Left

Nowhere is that hard pivot more on display than with Alex Karp, the CEO and co-founder of secretive tech giant Palantir, which bet massively on Trump 2.0 and became an administration darling in the process

Inside Palantir’s Manhattan lair, in an exclusive sitdown with Playbook, Karp — who once criticized the Democratic Party as “totally irresponsible” — deployed the word ‘progressive’ eight times to describe his philosophy while acknowledging Democrats ‘absolutely’ corrected in 2026 enough to win back his support in 2028.

Karp: “I’ve been a Democrat my whole life. I grew up in a far left environment. I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet, and I absolutely believe Palantir— all of our products are essentially progressive.”

Link to article: https://t.co/hYUgQk6q2W

[Terry Matalas @TerryMatalas]

#UltraVision #WandaVision #Marvel #VisionQuest

[@DukeStJournal @DukeStJournal]

this is the funniest thing you’ll read all week

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

Politico: The Tech Right Pivots Left

Nowhere is that hard pivot more on display than with Alex Karp, the CEO and co-founder of secretive tech giant Palantir, which bet massively on Trump 2.0 and became an administration darling in the process

Inside Palantir’s Manhattan lair, in an exclusive sitdown with Playbook, Karp — who once criticized the Democratic Party as “totally irresponsible” — deployed the word ‘progressive’ eight times to describe his philosophy while acknowledging Democrats ‘absolutely’ corrected in 2026 enough to win back his support in 2028.

Karp: “I’ve been a Democrat my whole life. I grew up in a far left environment. I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet, and I absolutely believe Palantir— all of our products are essentially progressive.”

Link to article: https://t.co/hYUgQk6q2W

[Ronnie Fieg @RonnieFieg]

6-0 on Kith Nights at the Garden.