Tuesday, July 08, 2025
Framing
Monday, July 07, 2025
Another Fine Elon Product
In its first year on the road, the Cybertruck ended up being tied to five fire fatalities through Jan. 1, a concerning trend that makes the rate of such fatalities higher than that of the notorious Ford Pinto, which was in production from 1970–80.
Baby Steps
The debate is no longer progressive vs. moderate; that is very 2017.
— Elissa Slotkin (@ElissaSlotkin) July 6, 2025
The debate is how do you answer one question: Is the second Trump administration an existential threat to democracy or is it bad but survivable?
I believe it is an existential threat. https://t.co/0AT2AUjMqo
Sure, Jan
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: President Trump's Justice Department and FBI have concluded they have no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a "client list” or was murdered, according to a memo detailing the findings obtained by Axios.https://t.co/Dyt4ycKRuV
— Axios (@axios) July 7, 2025
An official Trump White House account posted this 5 months ago btw https://t.co/3TxT72LAcb
— Democrats (@TheDemocrats) July 7, 2025
Agendas
It's always clear when the NYT has an agenda, but they do the "I know you are but what I am I" thing when you point out the obvious. The critics of the Times are always "activists" who expect the newspaper to depart from its Vulcan objectivity and impartiality to push an agenda, while they are the platonic ideal of journalistm, merely pursuing truth wherever it may lead.
Death Cult
Texas braces for more rain as death toll mounts to at least 82 with dozens missing
Sunday, July 06, 2025
Of Course They Did
The Tony Blair Institute For Taking Bribes To Do Middle East Murder couldn't not:
The Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclave’s economy with a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”.
It envisaged all Gaza’s public land being put into a trust for development, whose assets could be sold to investors via digital tokens traded on a blockchain. Gazans would be offered the chance to contribute their privately owned land to the trust in return for a token that gave them the right to a permanent housing unit.
How my apes doing?
Amazing people:
When first approached by the FT regarding its role in the project, a TBI spokesperson said: “Your story is categorically wrong . . . TBI was not involved in the preparation of the deck, which was a BCG deck, and had no input whatever into its contents.”The FT then provided details of a 12-person message group used for the project — including two TBI staff, BCG consultants and the Israeli businessmen — and an unpublished TBI document shared within the group titled “Gaza Economic Blueprint”.At this point, the TBI spokesperson said: “We have never said TBI knew nothing about what this group was working on or that they weren’t on calls in which the group discussed their plans.”
Keep On Extending
Mr. Deals gives everybody another 3 weeks or so. Remember when all the MAGAs were fantasizing about having iPhone factories up and running by June 1, or whatever.
Countries that don't make trade deals with the U.S. by August 1 can expect tariff rates to return to the levels announced in April, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday.
It had been July 9.
Kooky Billionaries And Politics
I suspect it to be more funny than important, with a reasonable chance that he just forgets about it in a month. Unless he has some genuinely cunning plan I can't fathom, the smarter play for a rich guy is the threat of primary challenges against Republican candidates.
The cult of Trump beats the limited cult of Elon. I don't think he gets this.
Most likely it all comes to little. They almost always claim they speak for the "middle" which is both stupid and clever. Stupid because they believe it, clever because our stupid Advanced Politics Knowers love calling far right things "centrist" if you give them any excuse.
Saturday, July 05, 2025
Horrible
Rescuers search for over 20 girls from Texas camp as flooding death toll rises to 27
What's It All About Then
Mamdani pretended to be black, because black people have lots of unfair advantages that he wished to exploit.