Tuesday, July 28, 2026
LOL
Scoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy.bsky.social) 28 July 2026 at 20:45
Fauci Hate
I was never a Fauci superfan for various reasons, but I have never really understood precisely why The Right turned him into an object of hate. Six years later!
2 Planes
I really don't have any idea why this project would cost so much.
Boeing’s money pit of an Air Force One project just sank a little deeper.
The company said it’s making a substantial effort to get the first of two presidential planes out the door – four years later and for billions of dollars more than initially promised.
CEO Kelly Ortberg on Tuesday told employees via an internal email that the company is adding “significant resources” to deliver the heavily modified 747-8 jets by 2028. That ramp-up in production and certification resources in the Air Force One program cost Boeing an additional $280 million last quarter, the company announced in its quarterly financial statement.
The program’s cost overruns have now surpassed $3.1 billion. Boeing has agreed to foot that bill.
Thought controlled missile interceptors?
Sure Why Not
Just checking in with the Harry Potter lady.
Transphobic billionaire author J.K. Rowling has encouraged random people in the United Kingdom to photograph people in women’s restrooms just in case they are transgender. Her advice is likely to result in the public harassment of cisgender women who don’t fit people’s preconceived notions of how a cis woman “should” look — such harassment has occurred many times in the past.
In a Saturday post on X, Rowling noted that someone asked her, “How are you planning to police public toilets” in light of the recent U.K. Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of men and women in the country’s anti-discrimination law is based on biological sex. After the ruling, the U.K.’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said trans women and men “should not be permitted to use” the public restroom facilities that align with their gender.
In response, Rowling said that policing trans people in public toilets can be handled, “Quite easily, really. Decent men will stay out, as they always have, so we can assume all who don’t are a threat, given their disregard for women’s and girls’ safety, privacy and dignity. Photographing, reporting and disseminating such men’s images online will be a piece of cake.”
Moaning Myrtle was a sign of... something.
Already Signed Up
As an extremely important influencer - and renowned Musk superfan - I have had this for months and I encourage all of you to join too.
X Money, a core part of Elon Musk’s mission to turn X into an “everything app,” is rolling out starting today, 9to5Mac reports. The payment platform offers a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments similar to Venmo, along with a metal Visa card users can emblazon with their X username. Other perks include Apple Wallet support and free money transfers on X. It also advertises “up to” a 6 percent APY, but only Premium Plus subscribers are eligible for it — standard Premium subscribers have to deposit a certain amount of money to get a “boosted” 6 percent APY.
Everyone is very impressed by my metal Visa card with my emblazoned X username.
Dealing With Our Own
The Dems are of course not perfect in dealing with bad actors in their midst, but they are, without a doubt, much much better.
Though Dems tend not to get "credit" for dealing with these things. If anything, dealing with them is an admission that is used against them.
I guarantee we'll be hearing about Platner and Swalwell - problems the Dems "dealt with," if not perfectly, forever - while, whether or not he faces any consequences, most people will never even hear of the Miller issues.
I'll leave why that is as an exercise for the reader.
Monday, July 27, 2026
Are We Doing This Again
...repeat every week until the heat death of the universe.
Gonna Be Everything
A trove of chat logs and projects created with Anthropic’s Claude — some including sensitive personal and company information — have been left exposed to Google, making them them searchable to anyone on the web. |I don't claim to know how everything works, but I haven't seen anyone explain why/how the plagiarism machine isn't just feeding your trade secrets and medical information into its training data.
The artifacts appear to have been made public when Claude users opted to distribute a given chat or project to colleagues or associates using the chatbot’s “share” feature. After hitting a “share” button in the top right corner, Claude notes that sharing will create a “public” link, and “anyone with the link can view.” The warning, though, doesn’t alert users that shared content could wind up being indexed by a search engine — meaning that a user could effectively be sharing their Claude-generated document with the entire internet.
I've noticed a lack of people asking, too.
"We'll Go Back To"
Trump says he’s ready for ‘strong military action’ if Iran talks fail President Trump tells Axios that the US is in “very deep talks” with Iran.
“If they don’t work out, we will be go back to very strong military action,” he said.
Trump said he paused attacks on Friday because the countries acting as mediators to bring an end to the US-Iran conflict asked him to. “All of the people that deal with Iran asked me: ‘Don’t fire’.”
Asked how long he was willing to give diplomacy, he said, “Not much time. Either it goes fast or not at all”.
One For The Musuem
If only there were someone with courage and credibility. How does one establish courage and credibility on a "complex and painful problem." Someone else should do something about this. Manager! Manager! There are some kids in the store who are probably up to no good! Eject them! Eject them!
Sure, Jan
The man lies like as transparently as a toddler and our journalists still haven't figured out how to deal with that (or don't want to).
Trump denied that dwindling munitions are a problem, insisting in a statement to The Wall Street Journal that “we have far more munitions than anyone in the world, and far more than we need.”
At the same time, the White House said national security would be at risk if news organizations reported updated U.S. government figures on Patriot and Thaad missile expenditures showing the high number of interceptors that have been used since the war began.
We do too have all the ammunition we need and it is treason to suggest (correctly) otherwise.
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Sure Why Not
"Cool kids on the Internet. They're doing the cool kid chatter. Some of 'em might be the coastal elites, making fun of how I talk. But let's be real. They're making fun of Michigan. They're thinking they're better than us. Their jokes, their criticism, only make me fight harder." -- Haley Stevens
— Howard Mortman (@howardmortman.bsky.social) July 25, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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Yes code switching is a thing but that is not the same as performing your own parody character. For comparison:
Ah, Well, Nevertheless
No worries, we'll be sure to print up Elon's next nonsense.
Everything He Ever Wanted
The extraordinary exchange was captured by the documentary filmmaker Alex Holder, who was granted extensive access to Graham since 2023. It provides an unvarnished look at Graham’s yearslong quest to topple the Iranian regime and the ways in which he persuaded Trump to strike, at times pushing for even more aggressive action than Netanyahu was prepared to take.He was always funny and friendly to me, personally, in the Senate, so who is to say if he was good or bad?
WSJ’s Josh Dawsey reviewed the documentary footage, filmed before Graham’s death. Here is what he learned. Photo: Caroline Gutman for WSJ
“Look what we’ve done here. I almost cried,” he tells the crew, laughing loudly just after U.S. strikes on Iran began in February. “How long have we been pushing this?”
He then tells the crew that Trump was equally happy about the war. “I talked to Trump this morning, he’s jacked, he said, ‘best thing I have ever done.’ He loves blowing stuff up.”