"What they say is not the story. That's never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened." - Timothy Snyder | Hindsight is SOMETIMES 20/20. - Me
@DavidAFrench And of course, if that MAGA philosophy had anything more to do with "originalism" than the most superficial, performative lip service, it would never raise the idea of "a new world" in the first place. They're shameless, though.
@JonahDispatch@DavidAFrench@neoavatara Trump does the same, saying “as you know” to reporters about things that they don’t in fact know, aren’t true, and that they then very rarely ever challenge him on.
Tuesday night, protesters packed the City Council meeting in Surprise, Arizona, over a proposed ICE detention center. You need to hear what this man told the Council.
@atrupar The largest building in the world, a flower market in the Netherlands, is about 1/80 the footprint of a 4 x 4 mile plant. Somehow, I don’t think that’s what anybody is going to be building in the near future, let alone adding a power plant to power it.
@extramsg Highly recommend you read "Enshittification" by Cory Doctorow, which explains this kind of response/policy and so much else about Amazon, Facebook, Google, Uber, Microsoft, etc.
@peterbakernyt@OurShallowState@washingtonpost How about if Jeff gave the Post to MacKenzie Scott? She would understand instantly the moral responsibility that Bezos is apparently incapable of perceiving.
Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion
Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion
Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion
Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion
Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million
Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million
Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million
Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion
Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion
Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million
Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5
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@michaelshermer Apparently neither Grok nor you are accurate enough to understand that "to photoshop" and "to broadcast" are two different things. You, Michael, re-broadcast the altered image; you did not, to the best of my knowledge and belief, *alter* it. Does that help?