Behind the paywall, but basically the suits at Fox ordered everyone there to ignore Trump's unhinged July speech about the 2020 election.
Maria Bartiromo snitched to the Trumpers.
She forgot who her actual bosses are and got fired.
A bit more here.
Friday, September 04, 2026
The Senior Senator From Pennsylvania
I don’t think I would enjoy being a senator. Also I never tried to get the job. 
One morning in June, three paralyzed military veterans in wheelchairs from rural Pennsylvania arrived at the office of Sen. John Fetterman for a long-awaited meeting to discuss legislation that would improve their care.
Fetterman’s staff greeted them with bad news: The Pennsylvania Democrat had to cancel. He’d told his staff he may have eaten something bad and wasn’t feeling well, according to people familiar with the matter.Less than an hour after his staffers met with the veterans in his place, Fetterman walked into his office, showing no signs of illness. He had an appointment he didn’t want to miss, he told staff: an interview on Fox News to discuss Israel and the war in Iran.
The hardworking evil ones to the most damage, but I do have extra contempt for people who too lazy to do the important jobs they asked for.
CHOP is the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Thursday, September 03, 2026
The Pro-Genocide Wing
Partial list, at least.
Here are the 33 Democrats who voted with Republicans to block federal funding to American colleges if they engage in boycotts against Israel — a foreign country that's committed genocide and killed Americans using American tax dollars:
— Prem Thakker ツ (@premthakker.bsky.social) 3 September 2026 at 17:40
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Spinning The Wheel Of Iran Options
Regime change-war-sanctions-war-war-sanctions-peace deal-war-sanctions-war-regime change
The Nazi Memorabilia Guy Is Big Fans Of The Pro-Israel Guy
I somehow missed this a month ago.
Draw your own conclusions.
Good Luck
Self-driving cars work better than I predicted, though not nearly as well as their boosters claimed, but navigating London is a challenge!
Londoners are now able to hire self-driving taxis for the first time, after rides in Wayve’s autonomous vehicles were added to the Uber app on Thursday.
The chances of landing a robotaxi on request immediately are slim, with only 15 vehicles so far licensed. That contrasts with the more than 100,000 private hire vehicles in the capital – roughly the same number of Uber customers who have registered to take autonomous rides.
The cars will still come with a licensed human driver sitting in the front seat, ready to take over the controls should the need arise.
We are still not close to demonstrating the business case for these things. Drivers are cheap!
And yes, I understand the value of the fantasy personal robot car, but all of these self-driving taxis still have significant human intervention (which they obscure) whether behind the wheel or remotely.
Is It Genocide Yet
Ratko Mladić died recently. It is worth reminding yourself what exactly the Butcher of Bosnia was involved with that we called "genocide."
Israel’s defence minister has said his country is seeking Donald Trump’s support to approve plans to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in what has widely been condemned as a potential war crime.
Has it widely been condemned? Missed that. If it happens it will get very complicated.
It is fashionable to blame voters for everything - and daring to care about genocide is one of those things - but Dem electeds are also divided into pro- and anti-genocide camps. You can choose for yourself how many are in each.
The Center For American Progress
Centrists, man...
The history makes it easy to cast Tanden as the Democratic Establishment’s enforcer, more interested in disciplining the party’s left flank than in considering the failures of the center. What’s missing from that picture is how progressive CAP has become. Matthew Yglesias, the centrist Substacker (and former ThinkProgress blogger), points to the disjunction between Tanden’s reputation and CAP’s work. “Most people evaluate Neera on the basis of her Twitter persona,” he told me. But if you ignored the feed and simply read the organization’s policy output, “you would almost think, Well, this is the moderate wing of the Bernie Sanders movement.”CAP’s policy positions bear that out. Among its proposals for addressing the affordability crisis is a voluntary program in which grocers who restrain price increases on staple foods would get temporary relief from credit-card swipe fees — hardly the sort of policy usually associated with the party’s corporate-friendly center. The Washington Post editorial board derided it as price controls. “That one didn’t get a ton of love, to be honest,” said Jared Bernstein, Biden’s former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and now a CAP senior fellow, who helped write the proposal. He rejects the idea that it was an attempt to reposition CAP in a way that would neutralize the left: “That’s a direct result of recognizing that the affordability crisis requires a bold policy response.”
program in which grocers who restrain price increases on staple foods would get temporary relief from credit-card swipe fees
That's almost full communism! Imagine trying to implement this! The application process! The bureaucracy!
Imagine running a little corner store and trying to prove you restrained price increases on staple foods to get your temporary swipe fee relief?
Is this a joke? I can't even tell. Does the writer want us to understand he is laughing at this, too, or is is he marveling at this model of left wing policy, genuinely?
Wednesday, September 02, 2026
I Think It Is?
Benefits like, uh, growth and stuff or whatever.
Altman told the gathered ministers and representatives that countries shouldn’t overlook the improvements to daily life poised to come from AI.“I think it is non-negotiable that you have to use it,” he said. “The economic growth and benefit to people that can come from this, the value to a country, is too high to ignore.”
Memories
As a veteran of the Lieberman wars, when official Washington acted as if primarying a "respected" sitting senator was the equivalent to setting up the guillotines, I've been amused at the inconsistent application of that view of primarying incumbents since.
It comes down to:
Primarying centrists, hawks, reliable corrupt torchbearers of the Washington Consensus: unfathomable, unforgivable violence
Primarying left-coded candidates, even if they aren't all that lefty: good, smart.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Lizard Overlords
Finally some good news.
Another giant reptile is clawing its way toward disrupting the South Florida ecosystem as an invasive species.
The Nile monitor -- a semi-aquatic lizard that can grow up to 6 feet and is equipped with razor claws -- has been establishing populations in the area since the 1980s, according to ecology experts.
Bye Seth
The Dem party always has a few Seth Moultons, guys who are quite convinced that if only everyone else would be a bigot like he is that Dems would rule forever. More than that, it is unfair that anyone disagrees and they should shutupShutupSHUTUPSHUTUP.
Transgender rights weren’t even close to the most prominent issue in the 2024 campaign. To the extent they were, it was a 2019 video of Harris supporting gender-affirming care for people in federal prison, a much harder position to defend than young people playing sports. It was strange that Moulton singled out transgender athletes for the Democrats’ defeat, as opposed to Biden, Harris, or their campaign strategists. Even worse, he whined when he was criticized for his remarks, suggesting those rebukes showed Democrats don’t tolerate alternative views. Moulton wanted to attack transgender participation in sports without those who support transgender athletes forcefully criticizing him in response. Sorry Seth, that’s not how free speech or open discourse works.
It is one thing to be that guy. It is another to think that is the kind of guy who wins statewide primaries against incumbents in Massachusetts.
Like many blue states, Mass is not is overwhelmingly lefty as it is sometimes characterized, but the median dem primary voter is not a fan of that shit.
Tuesday, September 01, 2026
All My Apes, Cheap
One issue with the LLM business model is that with all the apparent competiton, how do the prices not stay low?
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