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[J Silver @JLynnSilver]

I am officially more horrified by the things I see on @Twitter than @Tinder these days. #day170

[Hugo Lowell @hugolowell]

NEW @WIRED: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sought to ingratiate themselves to Trump after the 2024 election — who in return mocked them behind their backs, per new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

— Zuckerberg sent Trump a photo of a letter one of his grade-school kids wrote that looked forward to the “golden age of america”

— Bezos denigrated The Washington Post to Trump and described the newspaper as one of his worst financial investments

— Trump showed off texts from Zuckerberg and Bezos to other guests, including to Elon Musk, who mocked them as “Firstclass groveling”

— Months after their dinner, Bezos tried to get a favor from Trump, telling him it was a risk for SpaceX to dominate govt space contracts

— Bezos suggested Trump tell Deputy Defense Secy Feinberg to ensure“contractor diversity,” opening the door for Blue Origin to get contracts

— But Trump ultimately screwed over Bezos after he reconciled with Musk, and instead expanded SpaceX’s access to US space launch sites

— WIRED obtained the details from “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” by @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan ahead of June 23 release

[David Rattigan @davidmrattigan]

buying this and then dying immediately and forcing my descendants to finish building it over the next 100 years

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Some guy named Nick Bilton serving an audience of 1 (Bari) service an audience of 1 (Ellison) serving an audience of 1 (Trump). This is how oligarch-authoritarian takeover of media happens

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

BRUTAL indictment of @bariweiss by Scott Pelley:
"For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified." Then it gets worse...

[jackantonoff @jackantonoff]

you caught you?

[Tom Winter @Tom_Winter]

NEW: The FBI and Federal prosecutors in New York say they've charged Sean Pildes, the leader of "SantaCon" an annual charity fundraiser in NYC, with allegedly pocketing a significant amount of the proceeds himself.

Pildes was arrested this morning and charged with wire fraud.

[J Silver @JLynnSilver]

@Uber For the first time in almost a decade I downloaded @lyft again. I was picked up in one min after waiting for the Uber app to connect me to a rider. I use uber multiple times a week but I think I’m done. It’s gotten shittier, there is no benefit to loyalty.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Breaking: House Republican leaders rejected a Senate-passed bill to fund most of DHS, blocking an effort designed to end TSA staffing shortages https://t.co/z3W2PpPKcu

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Just a reminder that DOGE failed at every possible level:

* At the micro level, they misread, misled and straight up lied about many of the 'savings'. They'd announce '500m saved!' and it would be some contract where the money was 98% already spent and already wasn't being renewed.
* At the macro level, they didn't impact spending at all. The government spent more in 2025 than 2024.
* At the institutional level, they didn't even convince the GOP that deficits are a problem worth caring about. The GOP only signature bill in 2025 exploded the deficit by trillions of dollars.
* At a personal level, Elon got run out of town with his tail between his legs. The most notable public facts about the Cracked Coders are that one of them was a mini-Hitler, one was called 'big balls', and none of them bothered to learn how the government actually works before they set it on fire.

They gutted a bunch of important institutions, fired whole departments at random, decimated medical research funding, killed millions of people dependent on USAID, and still failed at every possible level.

[🦢 @meishato]

"Underage girls testing positive for pregnancy at detention centers."

Let me fix that for you.

"Children being raped at detention centers."

There you go.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is totally insane.

A war correspondent just received death threats from online gamblers who wanted him to change his reporting on an Iranian missile strike so they could collect a payout. One bettor had $900,000 riding on the outcome.

He told the journalist he knew where he lived and who his family members were. 

This is what prediction markets on life and death actually look like in practice.
This is exactly why I introduced the DEATH BETS Act with Senator @AdamSchiff.

The DEATH BETS Act would ban contracts on assassinations, deaths of world leaders, and acts of war on platforms like Polymarket. This story shows exactly why that matters. 

When you let people place million-dollar bets on whether a missile kills someone, you create a financial incentive to threaten journalists, manipulate information, and profit from human suffering.
https://t.co/V8rQt5vMc3

[Dan Primack @danprimack]

The White House, Oracle and Silver Lake won't answer questions about a $10 billion payment that was apparently required to secure the TikTok sale.

It's unprecedented. And officially undisclosed.

U.S. investors and biz leaders should want answers.

https://t.co/Y0n8MTHFKa

[Smirkley @Smirkley]

NYC “Nonprofit” shelter execs: what they make running a system that costs ~$82K/person/year:

Jack Brown, CORE: ~$1M+
Raul Russi, Acacia: ~$1M
Lymaris Albors, Acacia: ~$0.9M
Joanne Oplustil, CAMBA: ~$0.8M
Rosa Gil, Comunilife: ~$0.7M

[Anna Bower @AnnaBower]

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives?

A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit.

Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit?

A: No, we didn’t.

[Jonathan Blitzer @JonathanBlitzer]

According to @nytimes, "after selling his company in 2021, Markwayne Mullin reported less than 30 stock trades in 2022...In 2023, his first year as a senator, Mr. Mullin reported more than 100 trades, rising to more than 130 trades last year." https://t.co/50bS5bnNtm

[Frank Chaparro @fintechfrank]

NYC entry-level job postings:

2019: ~61k
2020: ~45k
2021: ~55k
2022: ~64k
2023: ~50k
2024: ~43k

It's getting grim for young New Yorkers looking for work.

source: bloomberg

[🍁 @72Breezy]

makes sense check the rest of them

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Dozens of former workers at Noma, one of the top-ranked restaurants in the world, say its chef physically abused employees. https://t.co/Ds5kLdWpib

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

https://t.co/Gg7Zb09IMR