Vance: There was a video circulating on X where this woman jumps off a diving board. And it's a very large person, a person who clearly has some weight problems. And she goes into the pool and then, like, the whole building collapses.
TPM – Talking Points Memo
• David Kurtz
SCOTUS, Congress, and the Trump Ballroom Fiasco
It’s Too Easy to Blame Only SCOTUS The Roberts Court rightly gets heaped with opprobrium for its role in enabling...
Electrek
• Peter Johnson
Volvo’s cheapest EV can now power a campsite or coffee maker
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Renaming Lake Ontario
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that 63% of Americans said they opposed renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, compared to just 14% in favor.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
House to Vote On Chuck Edwards Censure
“The House plans to vote Tuesday on a censure motion against Rep. Chuck Edwards, the North Carolina Republican whom the House Ethics Committee found last month had engaged in ‘persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct’ toward two female staffers,” the Washington Post reports. “While the panel found that Edwards did not engage in sexual activity with […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Massie Names Epstein Co-Conspirators
“Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who has been a key figure in a push to release files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in the last few years, read off over a dozen names of what he said were ‘Epstein co-conspirators’ on Monday,” NewsNation reports. Said Massie: “On the House floor tonight, I read the […]
Vance on Trump posting an AI photo of himself as Jesus:
He's a bit of a ball buster. He likes to have a good time. And I think that if people appreciated his humor, they would recognize he's trying to keep things light.
Defector
• Tom Ley
Bill Simmons Is De-Apexing
It's been an eventful year for Ringer founder and podcast host Bill Simmons. He ended 2025 and began 2026 at a peak in popularity, thanks to his performance on a podcast titled "Bill’s 50 Most Rewatchable Movies of the 21st Century," which earned him the kind of crossover ap...
The Texas Observer
• Gus Bova
The Year for Magical Thinking
By the beginning of the 2024 electoral cycle, I’d spent enough time as a progressive-leaning observer of Texas politics to have developed a certain telltale armor. No one was going to convince me that Colin Allred was about to succeed where Beto O’Rourke had failed, or that Texas was prepared to reject Trump. And, while […]
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Vance: Trump is so fascinated by AI. When people bring him these memes of, you know, here's you hanging out with Abraham Lincoln, he'll be like, oh, that actually looks like a photo of me.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
ICE Arrests 50,000 People in August
“ICE officers and agents arrested roughly 50,000 people in August,” NBC News reports. “That number is on par with July’s number, which was the highest single monthly arrest total during the second Trump administration.”
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Ralph Norman Encourages Write In Votes for Him
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) told reporters it was “shocking” that President Trump spent $800,000 to defeat him in the GOP primary against Darlene Graham and encouraged his supporters to vote for him as a write-in candidate in November.
University of Florida professor Christopher McCurdy, the leading scientist urging policymakers not to criminalize kratom, has accepted travel reimbursements, donations to his university’s foundation and funding for symposiums from the American Kratom Association.
None of this is mentioned in the papers he publishes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kratom-legalization-christopher-mccurdy-research-conflict-of-interest-aka?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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Vance: I'm trying to focus on doing as much of God's work as possible. And if that leads to the end times, okay
Vance: I'd be not shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us. But I try not to focus too much on it
Bryce Crawford: I'm a Christian. It made me upset when Trump posted that AI photo of himself as Jesus.
Vance: Did Donald Trump mean to post a meme of himself as God? No
BREAKING: A U.S. Postal Service official has filed a whistleblower report alleging the agency is pushing ahead with a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement Trump’s order giving the federal government more control over mail voting, despite a court order blocking the plan.
Electrek
• Fred Lambert
Waymo opens robotaxi rides to the public in 3 new cities, now 14 total
Waymo opened its driverless ride-hailing service to the general public in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa on Monday, bringing the Alphabet-owned company to 14 US cities.
Tens of thousands of people in each market had already signed up before the doors opened, and Waymo says it will let them in gradually over the coming weeks.
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I noticed when I quit Twitter in 2013 that my blog posts became more my own, less influenced by my old online community. I think it’s a good idea every once in a while for us to poke our heads outside whatever the current filter bubble is. The web is a big place. That diversity is a strength.
Chocolate eyeballs in 13 states have been recalled over undeclared allergens.