Tyler

the tech world has genuinely not grappled with how many people despise them and what they make

A retailer with no advertising budget. Four thousand products on the shelf. A hot dog priced the same as it was when Reagan was president. Costco shouldn't be the most powerful brand in retail. But it is. The rule is almost annoyingly simple: cap markups at 14%. Most stores are at 20% or higher. Every dollar of efficiency gets handed back to the customer as a lower price. That's the flywheel. Lower prices bring more members. More members bring better supplier deals. Better deals bring lower prices. Run it for forty years and nobody can catch you. Ninety percent of members renew. Every year. For decades. You don't get loyalty like that from coupons. You get it from making people feel, every single visit, like they got away with something. Strip away the warehouses and the hot dogs and what's left is a simple decision: the customer eats first. Almost nobody has the discipline to actually do it.

Graham Platner owns AR-15s. He opposes an assault weapons ban. And he says Democrats are missing the bigger picture on gun violence. “If we really gave a shit about gun deaths… we would be dealing with this in a much more holistic fashion.”

It takes a lot of balls to talk back at Vader

This is incorrect (she had had cancer twice)

The GOP played a long game for decades, targeting the judiciary as the path to single-party rule. The centrifugal forces on the republic will rip it apart.

In light of the ongoing staffing crisis in our regional offices, we can report that the NLRB will be conducting some limited hiring in the next few weeks. Attorney, investigative, and administrative positions will be posted across the country. Hiring windows will be very short.

momentum 😤

Hey friends, tough news to share. I was impacted by layoffs today at The Daily Wire, so I am looking for opportunities in journalism/communications here in D.C. Any suggestions are welcomed!

Putting my whole hand on the third rail here but if we really wanted to have a conversation about the minor moral compromises that people with “good politics” are out here making, we’d talk about who’s sending their kids to private school.

One of the reasons I am a liberal and not a leftist is that leftist morality is about power, not rights. Good actions reduce power imbalances, bad actions exacerbate them. Murder, theft, and discrimination can all be justified if they harm a “powerful” person or group. Liberals condemn these actions because they violate individual rights and dignity. Liberalism seeks equal rights, leftism seeks equal power.