This might be the best sequence of Sixers basketball I've seen in recent memory. Euphoric.
Whatever you're doing, stop for a minute to watch this. Trust me. 🔥👇
However dumb you think the process for destroying USAID was, it was dumber.
This is from Nicholas Enrich's new book Into the Wood Chipper, describing a meeting with Trump-appointed USAID leadership *after* they had largely gutted the agency
Stories like this are frustrating b/c the Biden economy was strong but hampered by inflation not of Biden's doing whereas Trump's economy is weak and hampered by inflation DIRECTLY caused by his doing yet in the minds of voters (and the media) there is no difference b/t the two
Neguse: Where is this company headquartered?
Noem: I don’t know.
Neguse: I don’t know either. We can’t find it. We did find an address that’s registered to a political operative. This company that received 143 million dollars was incorporated 8 days before this contract went out.
You want the American people to believe that this is all above board, that $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquarters, doesn't have a website, has never done work for the federal government before and is registered apparently or attached to a residence from a political operative, and of course one of the subcontractors of that contract, as you know, is a political firm that's tied to, to you back when you were governor of South Dakota?
86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer refuses to turn his fields into an AI data center even for $15M
Mervin Raudabo was offered $60K per acre but refused to destroy the farms he’s been running for over 60 years.
Instead, he sold development rights to a conservation fund for $2M — the land will stay farmland forever.
Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it.
@housleyd@ZeroBasis kinda shocked that none of the replies seem to be fixated on the underlying assumptions of his argument being bitcoin compounding at 20% and the dollar collapsing lol
HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA — ICE assaults a mother driving daughter to school for not having social security number memorized.
"Agent became flustered when she couldn't repeat the number... then just lunged at her," said daughter.
She showed agents work permit, social security card, drivers license, and car registration—they arrested her anyway.
"I want this video out there because I want my mother home," explained her 16-year-old daughter.
Jaykie Funez-Andrade is currently being detained at the Rockingham County Jail with no pending criminal charges—as a "courtesy" to ICE.
HT @LongTimeHistory
The USAID cuts were evil on a soul chilling level. Like, "not intervening on Rwanda" tier bad and non-wonks don't care.
Like people just don't care that millions are going to die to save the governmental equivalent of change in a couch cushion, and I can't fully process that.