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The immediate political challenge for Trump is that, regardless of the prospects of his policies boosting U.S. manufacturing over the long term, in the short term they are likely to inflict pain on two major constituents of the G.O.P. coalition: working-class maga voters and Republicans in business.

Right!? You would think this is the case in a normal world. I guess we’ll see how strong the cult thinking is.

The administration argued that it cannot bring back Abrego Garcia because he’s in Salvadoran custody and knocked down concerns that he’s likely to be tortured or killed at CECOT.

If this isn’t pure evil I don’t know what is. In the future, please vote for people who won’t send people to foreign countries specifically to deny them due process and then refuse to act when they made a mistake. If these people are guilty, bring evidence and let them have their day in court. That’s the American way.

Crawford defeated Brad Schimel, who received financial support from Elon Musk and an endorsement from President Donald Trump. Her victory means that the nonpartisan court's 4-3 liberal majority will remain in place.

Good to know there are some things Musk can't buy.

The Trump administration has laid off the entire staff of a $4.1 billion program that helps millions of low-income households pay for heat during the winter, unnerving state officials who are now wondering whether they will still receive millions of dollars in expected federal payments.

Just your regular reminder that Republicans want suffering and they are making it happen. This money will go to Musk types instead so they can upgrade the pool on their backup yacht.

Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed "for most things" in the world, says Bill Gates.

LOL, man these billionaires are telling on themselves by promoting the idea they don't need labor anymore. AI's primary function is to devalue labor and it's not much more than that. These sorts of predictions are part of that devaluation process. Your work is valuable! Join a union.

Waltz, who invited Goldberg into the Signal chat, said yesterday that he was investigating “how the heck he got into this room.”

We’re all looking for the guy who did this.

There's almost no precedent for the heads of Defense, State, Intelligence and National Security to be sharing such sensitive military intelligence in a forum that was known to be unsecured.

Bad boys don't play by the rules. Operational security is for sheeple.

This all goes to the fundamental point Trump has never been able to accept: that the US government is the property of the American people and it persists over time with individual officeholders merely temporary occupants charged with administering an entity they don’t own or possess.

If there's no record, there's no crime.

How much poop is in our water? The Supreme Court says “not enough.”

I really enjoy the 5-4 Podcast about Supreme Court decisions and this latest episode is a great example. Maybe "enjoy" is the wrong word. I guess I appreciate some gallows humor with my legal analysis.

Reference to due process first appeared in a statutory rendition of clause 39 in 1354 thus: "No man of what state or condition he be, shall be put out of his lands or tenements nor taken, nor disinherited, nor put to death, without he be brought to answer by due process of law."

People have been working to curb our worst human impulses for a long time. Let’s learn from history and keep that going instead of continually rediscovering why people have been working on it.

None of this will be easy. This is Google, after all. But as a great leader once put it, nothing in the world is worth doing unless it means endless suffering that only benefits the ownership class. That was me, I said that. But someday very soon, a humanoid powered by AGI will be the one saying it, as it denies your insurance claim.

Too real, SF Standard. Sometimes I wonder if these tech leaders can hear themselves. Just truly disconnected from working people.

"The American people are saying loud and clear, we will not accept an oligarchic form of society," Sanders said, according to Colorado Public Radio. "We will not accept the richest guy in the world running all over Washington, making cuts to the Social Security Administration, cuts to the Veterans Administration, almost destroying the Department of Education—all so that they could give over a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the wealthiest 1%."

34,000 people for an off-season rally is pretty surprising. Seeing pictures from this event is a relief, highly recommended.