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@Snappie0776 @LqLana can u give an example of a sports star or celebrity who got similar treatment?

@LqLana You just told me you know nothing about the military. I was in the Navy Ceremonial Guard in DC. We did stuff like this all the time and that was in the Clinton years.

Hold the fuck up. Hold up. Those are Honor Guards? I'm literally flabbergasted. The disrespect is off the charts. Just fucking wow. #DemsUnited

@Shulli @DNIGabbard None of the documents released mention gain of function research. They are all programs to support containment and treatment.

@DNIGabbard Why on Earth would previous Administrations fund armageddon level (gain-of-function) virus research? The WHY must be answered before getting lost in the who, when, how, and what details.

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine. In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted. odni.gov/index.php/news…

@oscredwin @ciphergoth I’m curious why you blame democrats instead of republicans?

@ciphergoth Democrats actively created the situation where the sorts of Republicans who might have voted against RFK can't keep a Senate seat. That WHY partisan control of the Senate is so important.

This is new behavior, BTW. It's only in the last 20 years that the parties have gone after moderates this hard and it's made congress a much harder place to broker deals.

@powercreek @tracewoodgrains The left has not trusted the court to rule on partisan cases in any way except party lines since Bush v Gore and therefore does not care about legal reasoning.

@tracewoodgrains I agree! But they never (OK, not that I've seen) bother to dispute the /legal/ reasoning. Roe was terrible law from the day it was written, and it seems like the left now generally concedes that. I never see any argument that Dobbs is actually *wrong*.

Roe v. Wade locked the cultural debate on abortion in place for a generation, and after it was overturned the pro-abortion-availability case immediately and soundly won the revived argument among the public

@Militarymama17 @RobertFaturechi What’s the whole story?

@RobertFaturechi That is actually a crock of shit because you’re not even telling the whole story about any of it so here’s what I’m gonna tell you until you put the whole story out complete and not one-sided shut up

New: A top White House aide intervened to get a $620 million Pentagon loan for a company tied to Donald Trump Jr. “The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved. propublica.org/article/donald…

@lessin They’re using a slow pool. Would have been a record at any Olympics in the last few cycles.

I can't figure out who to blame for the enhanced games -- is it the fault of the organizers only allowing FDA approved drugs? or is it indictment of the FDA? if you are going to do lots of drugs you really need to be smashing world records for it to be interesting..

@gbrl_dick @hankgreen Extremely different. “Content” is 4-5 OOM less to produce than any of those media channels which means it can be produced by people who never have to make themselves legible to peers, investors, producers etc. imagine a pitch meeting for chud the builder or hasan piker

@hankgreen seems odd though right. it’s not like the selection heuristics that drove traditional print media, cable news, radio news etc were biased in fundamentally different directions, is it?

guys why is this happening?

@WillManidis UMPI your pace 1.8k every 8 weeks do as many classes as you can

@tyler72396666 @jbarro They have more fun than on school teams? Or there aren’t school teams?

@jbarro Cause they have fun, only reason needed for me. It is expensive and I do feel bad for those that get priced out. An empty nest plan is to try to start pickup free soccer nights at local parks for like 9-12 y.o. We’ll see.

I have never heard any parent speak positively about this travel-team private-league sports stuff. So why do they have their kids participate in it? (The answer is rarely "my kid is headed for D1") Don't schools have teams anymore? theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/…

@nikitabier @David_Ingram @MikeIsaac Can you confirm explicitly that the algo doesn’t downrank certain media accounts like nytimes?

@David_Ingram @MikeIsaac We don’t have a “relationship” with anyone. It’s a social media platform, where everyone has an equal opportunity to participate. Elon’s opinion on the publication has no impact on their ranking in the algorithm.

even if i werent a journalist who worked at the outlet he's referring to, this is such a reductive way to look at the internet and news if you choke out the sources that produce new information, over time that goes away and the void is filled with crap (pushed by paid accts)

@JamesLNuzzo In a more civilized time your inability to walk down and up a slope, convince a woman you could carry a load, or plan water consumption would rightly result in your death or banishment and the distribution of your wives and property.

The following is a true story from my life, which is related to the contents of this article in The Guardian: In July 2009, I hiked part of the Grand Canyon with an ex-girlfriend, who I will call Sara. Sara and I were both in our 20s, and we were accompanied by four high school-aged relatives/friends. The plan was to head off early in the AM to hike the 10 miles down, stay over night at the bottom, and then hike the 10 miles up the next day. During the hike down, Sara's walking was slow, and she was pre-occupied with taking nature photos at every possible opportunity. Her slow walking was a problem because, although we started early, it was July and the sun was starting to beat down on us--something that would only becoming progressively worse with more time on the trail. As I recall, everyone in the group recognised Sara's slow walking as a problem. Everyone but Sara understood that we needed to get to the bottom of the Canyon sooner rather than later, because we were in the sun doing strenuous exercise, and we didn't have endless supplies of water. It was also the first time any of us had hiked the Grand Canyon. Sara continued her slow walking and picture taking. At multiple points, we offered to carry Sara's bag for her so that her load would be lighter and she could walk more easily. Sara refused to give up her bag. She wanted to prove that she could do the hike without help. If my memory is correct, around the 5 mile mark, the group decided to split up. I stayed with Sara, and the high schoolers went on ahead of us, walking at their "fast" (i.e., appropriate) pace. Sara continued to walk slow, and signs of extreme fatigue / heat exhaustion were setting in. Sara became unwell physically and mentally. Again, I offered to carry her bag for her. Again, she refused. Though I was fit, I was also starting to feel unwell. In fact, I don't think I've ever felt that close to health exhaustion in my life. I was also not in a good place. Making matters worse, we ran out of water, and there were no water stations for the remainder of the hike. The key reason that why we ran out of water was Sara's slow walking, which continued to expose to the sun. Moreover, when we ran out of water, we weren't even close to the end. As I recall, we were still about 2-3 miles away from the end when we ran out of water, and we didn't even know where the end was because we were unfamiliar with the trail. Also, by that time, there wasn't a single soul left on the trail--no one walking down or up. We were alone. It was an awful experience. At one point, Sara had basically given up; she sat down in the middle of the path and wouldn't move. Eventually, perhaps through motivational efforts, Sara continued walking and we got to the end. When we got to the bottom, the high schoolers told us that they were so worried about us that were thinking about calling a rescue party to look for us. We slept over night at the bottom and then hiked the 10 miles back up the next day. Remarkably, after all that, Sara still would not allow anyone to carry her bag on the way up. Sneakily, when she was not looking, we would take things out of her bag to lighten her load. Bottom line: Sara's stubbornness, her desire to prove how strong and independent she was, her lack of adequate fitness, and her unwillingness to listen to people who understood nature, physiology, and physical fitness better than her, almost killed her...and me. She caused the high schoolers significant distress, and had they stayed with us, she might have also put them at increased health risk. During the hike, Sara exhibited a set of behaviors that I wanted nothing to do with moving forward. The "alpine divorce" can work in both directions but for different reasons.

@johnarnold @DavidAFrench There’s been a decline in white color crime prosecutions so more people see defectors and unethical people, some of whom stole from them specifically, having greater access to those positional goods.

Very good op-ed: "How Can America Be So Miserable When It’s So Rich?" @DavidAFrench gives 2 reasons: (1) scarce goods like land in desirable neighborhoods and NFL game tickets and (2) positional goods - there is always someone who sits in the front of the plane and someone who gets on last. As wealth rises, demand for scarce and positional goods increases, and businesses focus more heavily on serving that demand. Seating on Southwest Airlines was originally based on when you arrived. Then they created one premium tier. Now every seat has a distinct price. This evolution went from no positioning to near perfect positioning. Most people can afford many everyday comforts, like a large TV or meal delivery, so competition for scarce and status-linked goods intensifies. That dynamic can leave people outside the top wealth tier feeling worse off, even as their material standard of living improves. "No one is the clear villain in this story, and that’s one thing that makes the problem difficult to solve. We can’t target and defeat a specific set of bad actors who are immiserating America. Everyone is acting in rational self-interest." The growing discontent, almost impossible to reverse, drives the move towards populism as voters demand solutions to problems that can't be solved.

@gfodor @tytonidowl @ChrisO_wiki @DanielleFong It changes the voter registration process right before an election in a way that causes massive cost increases and unprecedented timelines for gov’t software projects. If it was phased in and included modernization funding like most other laws there would be less pushback.

@tytonidowl @ChrisO_wiki @DanielleFong what's the primary issue?

It's not an exaggeration to say that the next few weeks will determine whether the US remains a democracy.

@benlandautaylor I went to the address listed in McDonald’s 10-K. I found 0 burgers for sale. Turns out the whole company is a scam!

I believe it. Me and the boys have been finding similar medical fraud here in San Francisco, vacant offices and all.

@Cibolan2000 @johnloeber There are 0 ca construction workers making 35k except maybe some interns or apprentices

@johnloeber While you may consider it beneficial for society that someone formerly making 200K in a white collar job would be making 35K doing blue collar labor I doubt they will see it that way!

@CamoDiver @SaysSimulation It’s actually because they never forgot our terrible trigger discipline last time we teamed up. Listen to the cockpit audio squad leader gets pissed off when a guy says the convoy looks friendly

The Yookay strategy appears to be one of weakening Trump’s bargaining power relative to the Iranian regime so that they either remain in place or draw the US into a quagmire. Very clear that London has an interest in undermining America and keeping the conflicts going in the Middle East. We shouldn’t forget that they drew the lines on the map a century ago, and have manipulated the region extensively since through a variety of covert actions and proxies.

The world is changing very, very fast, and this is a major development. Our close "ally" the UK just denied the US the use of its bases for a potential Iran conflict. And Bulgaria just said "you know what, we're going with America on this, not the EU'. Hungary would likely 1/

@Noahpinion I don’t think we are giving away the country to foreigners or people are choosing to not have children because they prefer burrito taxis.

It's not often that I agree with this guy, but here I do. There has been real, significant progress in health since 2006 -- better cancer treatment, GLP-1s, vaccines, etc. But the devastation of human society from phones/social media has outweighed that progress overall.

@NightCityTimes @michaelxpettis @AGZC6 1. Price discrimination helps wealthy consumers as they get products sooner. 2. Can’t vary quality on drugs so they either exist or they don’t. In general pharma is underproduced compared to surgery/devices. 3. As richest country US benefits the most from current situation

@michaelxpettis @AGZC6 Why was it Americans’ job to subsidize drug prices for the rest of the world?

Very interesting Bloomberg article on how distorted the global market for pharmaceuticals has become. It seems that drug prices were high in the US in part to keep them low in Europe. Perhaps it was inevitable that this system became unsustainable. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@JamesYo43532848 @talmonsmith Where did the new credit come from? Interest Rates are still elevated, which reduces the amount you can borrow. Has there been some innovation in debt financing?

@talmonsmith The mechanics

for American businesses, unit profits from current production (the amount of pre-tax profit generated per every dollar of operational expense) has risen from around 5 cents per dollar for much of the 20th century...to over 20 cents per dollar in recent years an absolute machine

@rcbregman The study used allocates corporate taxes to shareholders, which is where most of the USs high billionaire rate comes from. US companies have had higher profit margins than European ones. Also allocates payroll taxes to employees, excludes transfers.

Whenever European billionaires threaten to leave Europe for the US, feel free to remind them that they'll actually pay more income tax over there 👍