Dave Infante

i'm not an economist but if 900 people can afford to fund $3,000 checks to damn near everyone else in america and still be insanely fuckin rich afterwards maybe they have too much fuckin money

Congress could, and should, ban this. Impose the same rule nationwide as some states already have: if an incumbent doesn't file for reelection by the deadline, the window to file gets extended a week or two.

also very few national outlets want to pay for the travel that type of coverage requires, and a lot of local reporters got laid off, which does not help lol

corey lewandowski and markwayne mullin have to bang now, that's the rule

replace all sentencing guidelines for all crimes with a term of being required to post on Threads

surprised landsman was able to make it to the floor to lick the boot after getting mercilessly chotined just yesterday

ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas

MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag

a student of history

wait i thought it was isis

oh no nitish you handed it to him. you don't gotta do that!

yeah. it is just non-fucking-stop, man

If you know more, bang my line:

Story here:

it’s time Walt

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finally, a booze investment opportunity befitting america's depravity economy

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NEW: I'm hearing that Diageo has laid off its on-premise field team, the Diageo Hospitality Program. Two different sources, both former employees with current contacts at the liquor giant, estimate ~200 workers cut nationwide. Will update if/when Diageo responds to my inquiry.

Sean O’Brien Sold Labor to Trump, and Got Nothing The Teamster boss has cozied up to the GOP, but the Republicans’ anti-labor politics are the same as ever.

"Elected as a union militant [...] O’Brien has spent the last two years shepherding the lambs of the American working class straight to the slaughter via his endorsements and promotions of some of the most reactionary, anti-labor politicians in the land."

I really don't think I should have to verify that I am human to look at the Cheesecake Factory menu online. Dogs and robots should be able to look at 57 types of cheesecakes too.

they taunted a wrathful god and this is what happened

it's Not Good

for the intervening 18 years before joining ap in 2021, rinehart was on the ngo/academic/media-adjacent start-up circuit. maybe she did good work! but as actual reporters at ap point out, it's alarming that these top down directives are coming from somebody who's been out of the game for so long.

i looked up aimee rinehart on linkedin to get a better sense of what sort of person might invoke the borg to workers she is actively trying to deskill. her first, last, and only job as a f/t reporter was a 5mo stint at gannet in 1995. last journalism role at a news org (wsj) ended in 2003.

🤯 Hop-ocalypse Now Coca-Cola recently sent a letter to its domestic distributors with bad news: Due to “facility upgrades at the water source and production facilities in Mexico,” its glass-bottled Topo Chico mineral water will be unavailable stateside until the third quarter of this year. (The American soda giant acquired the Mexican brand in 2017.) But the eponymous hard seltzer will remain available throughout this stretch, because Molson Coors has always manufactured it without the famously fizzy waters of mountainous Monterrey. Which could be good news if you like that stuff… or more bad news, if you’re just now learning that it’s never been the genuine article. Don’t say Hop Take didn’t try to warn you!

And your Hop-ocalypse Now from the latest @vinepair.com Hop Take 🤯: vinepair.com/articles/hop...

this is my politics

Last week, Anheuser-Busch InBev closed its $490-million deal for 85% of BeatBox, an 11.1%-ABV wine-based riot punch that counts Mark Cuban and Shaquille O’Neal among its investors. Street wine is so fucking back, bay-bee: www.fingers.email/p/the-gentri...

The Real Litmus Test for Democratic Presidential Candidates Supporting a wealth tax.

"It is easy to stand up at a campaign rally and yell 'FUCK Donald Trump!' It is much harder, and more meaningful, and requires more bravery, to defy the power of organized money. Don’t get distracted out here." — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

lol noted

well, not "we" but i know what you mean and it is GRIM

this is how we win...