the problem, fundamentally, is that rural voters don't want the economy to be "good" in the typical sense of being efficient or productive, they want it to be "good" in a moral sense where it rewards the people and industries they like
So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"
To take this seriously a sec: when your political-economic system allows massive inequality to explode, it creates a class of people who have no material problems but do have the resources & power to make their trivial irritations the central business of politics—at immense material cost to others.
"this is why crypto keeps attracting capital" lmfao okay lets not confuse things we wish were true with things that are actually happening
🔥 “IT’S A TRAIN.”
Since even Boring’s own estimates show the Elon tunnel will only handle a tiny fraction of NASHVILLE traffic, Joe Lee suggest tying some Tesla cars together and putting them on a track for a real solution 🚂
(The anti-tunnel resolution passed)
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
If Chinese social media platforms have collectively decided Justin Sun is little more than a scammer in an entrepreneur’s clothes I don’t know what we see differently tbqh
"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."
A journalistic third rail that none of the major outlets would ever touch is that the fact that the wealthy and powerful use op-eds (and equivalent platforms) to push easily debunked lies for their own self-interest is, itself, newsworthy.
I do understand that this is, fundamentally, what the press believes their job is, but I would argue that if the role of a newspaper is simply to serve as a message board for elite debate, it is not an institution or occupation worthy of much intrinsic respect or deference.
Green by the AM
Influencer's fleeing Dubai right now.
Man, so lame
It appears they dressed up one of the Mar-a-Lago cabins into a pretend situation room
No need to apologize for saying how you feel
The fallacy of Great Man theory in action
It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
other people can make inroads and find common ground with regretful trump voters, in my personal capacity as a private citizen i am committed to hating those dumb motherfuckers for the rest of my life
What was extraordinary about it exactly?
Credit is reallyyyy weak to finish the day
Cover of The Lancet:
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
whats mega frustrating about these people with large platforms is that they don't believe in anything. they don't have any values that they will stand by and happily peddle some other ideology if it feels trendy/pays them more more money
i hate it
Ellison: I’ve been hearing a lot about paying rappers/influencers, offering them pardons, and not disclosing that they’re being compensated.
They don’t even need to say, “Vote for Trump.” What they can say is, “None of these elections really matter anyway.” That kind of talk can swing an election.
he should probably just retire
clown
The Rare Republican Who Brawls With Trump — and Is Ready for More
The NYT has run a thousand of these pieces over the last decade: The brave Republican pushing back against Trump and leading the party back to normalcy.
The shift never comes.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...
democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly
sigh
Every few years, American finance realizes this one thing called speculation (investment) and this other thing called speculation (fiction) are the same thing. AND THEY FREAK THE FUCK OUT. And then forget again almost instantaneously.
aeon.co/essays/the-f...
