One way to tell that markets are functioning extremely well: good news, they pump. Bad news, they also pump!

Are you telling me my tax dollars are being sent to rebuild all the shit that Pete Hegseth blew up also with my tax dollars

RT @stealthygeek: So BEST CASE scenario is it costs us $300 Billion, 13 American lives, 2 yrs of cruise missile and interceptor reserves, a…

To think people put their faith in Donald Trump...

Domestic air travel in the US was once fairly reliable and fairly affordable. It has completely collapsed in both dimensions. Feels like a sign of a civilization past its peak.

Whichever airline you think is the worst, the others are actually all equally bad.

Same park in Tel Aviv: On the left- Israeli Arabs marking Eid al Adha- last month. On the right- Tel Aviv gay parade, yesterday. Anyone wants to tell me that Israel is an apartheid state?! ( photo credit- Haaretz, TLV municipality)

Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?

The way the stock market pumps like crazy every time Trump says he has a deal with Iran MIGHT be an indicator that the markets aren't functioning well.

I remember during Biden, the press combed through hundreds of pages of White House visitor logs, found a guy that was a Parkinson’s specialist, then accused Biden of having Parkinson’s disease and hung it from the country. Are they going to apply that same energy with these 22 mystery specialists??

If Democrats can't make any headway with Trump saying he loves inflation they should really pack it up.

Hey DOGE and NEWSMAX, can we get an update here?   Turns out preventing a flesh-eating parasite from invading U.S. livestock wasn’t government waste…

I’ll say it again, I don’t know how we can function as a country when half of the voters think a Republican losing the mayoral race in LA is evidence of a conspiracy or widespread corruption. Would anybody on the left respond this way if e.g. AOC lost the gubernatorial race in Oklahoma? We can’t function in a world where one of the major parties thinks elections are only legitimate when they win.

Everyone knows that a two-state solution would involve an Arab-only Palestine alongside a multiethnic Israel with a sizable Arab minority with full citizenship. Yet we're supposed to believe that Israel is the racist apartheid ethnostate. As ever, hatred of Israel is subrational.

This was the top of the New York Times last night. The first thing every reader sees the moment they land on the homepage of the most influential news outlet on earth. All three stories about Israel. There is a famous communications scholar named Maxwell McCombs who developed what is now called the "agenda setting theory." His core finding is simple: The press is not very good at telling people what to think. It is extraordinarily good, however, at telling people what to think ABOUT. And what the New York Times has decided you should think about, every single day, multiple times a day, forever and always, is Israel. You cannot saturate the most influential newsroom in the English language with relentless coverage of one small country and then act surprised when the public becomes similarly hyper-fixated with it. The animosity we constantly see is the predictable output of editorial selection, repeated daily, until it becomes the background music of how people think about the Jewish state.

This is an argument that has been repeated often for many years, and here's the thing: Everyone on all sides of the conflict knows deep down that this is 100% true.

This is the type of crisis that a Democratic president would be held personally responsible for by the media. Instead it’s getting virtually no national attention despite the issue being directly connected to federal cuts enacted by the Trump administration

In honor of Pride month, here’s a list of countries in the Middle East that recognize same sex marriage: 1. Israel

If the private capital markets set a goal to incinerate as much money as possible in as short a time as possible, would it look different than today's late-stage VC market?

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.