Andrew Needham

Envision a better future….

Who are we to challenge that a former top state budget official needs to use ChatGTP to get up to speed on the single biggest issue in the state for the last 20 years, that the Cuomo campaign couldn’t bring for a typist to help said one-armed man out, and also couldn’t be bothered to proofread it

greg byrne, nate oats, and kalen deboer should field questions about this at their next media availabilities. make the best-compensated and most visible employees of the institution submit their no-comment if they don't want to weigh in

The gist of all these people “coming to their senses” now is that they wanted to go about their daily lives while engaging in their licentious special interest without public censure but failed to comprehend that a coalition of the all societal resentment results in shredding society as a whole

I think we should be looking at the Cuomo endorsements by electeds, unions, and plutocrats in the same way as similar forces are cutting deals or holding their tongues with Trump - it’s anticipatory obedience.

A+ work to certain of the New York City media outlets that participated in the multi-year subway crime panic that led us to this moment.

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Tbf, scams are like 1/4 of the us economy at this point.

congrats democrats, you got played like chumps. but at least you're respecting the office or some bullshit

Don’t tell me democracy is at risk and a constitutional crisis is unfolding and the best you got is a modified ping pong paddle.

Good at pump and dump scams, though.

Done

There’s a vote for the REI Board! If you’re an active member you can vote at vote.escvote.com/REI/

The board has union busted and endorsed Burgum for Dept of Interior. They are unfit for their roles and need to be voted out.

1. Short everything
2. Announce tariffs
3. Close out short positions
4. Buy the dip
5. Call off the tariffs
6. Sell the spike
7. Repeat

Is there any reason to believe Trump's entire inner circle isn't doing this?

Teaching Walden this week

Me (to 17 year old son): “R, ‘most men lead lives of quiet desperation’”

R: “Yep.”

Musk is so attention-hungry that all this is as apt to please him as anger him. You know what would really hurt Musk? Jailbreaking every Tesla in Europe so that all its subscription features – which represent the highest-margin line-item on Tesla's balance-sheet – could be unlocked by any local mechanic for €25. That would really kick Musk in the dongle.

And before you ask, yes, there are better solutions. Canada could do this as easily as Europe:

pluralistic.net/2025/03/04/o...

less than eight years ago she said what Al Franken did goes beyond party, beyond friendship, and that what he did disqualifies him for public office

Yet another Dem senator with extremely high negative WAR

That person is a trustee of the university that employs both of us. [shaking head]

2 things can be true at the same time:

1. America’s universities are under attack & it is a crisis
2. OMG Harvard is NOT “the soul of higher education” & its crises pale in comparison—“pale” feels too weak a word— to what state, regional, & community colleges—ie the actual soul of US higher ed—face

On thing Trump has long known and that he’s conveyed to his administration is that the legal system acts so slowly that it basically conveys impunity.

This is yet another example of the way the political press goes out of their way to make sense out of incoherent button mashing.

“Than expected” is the key phrase here. It indicates the kinds of just so stories about public sector work that politicians and pundits have been telling for a generation, stories that bear little resemblance to the reality of public sector work.

America’s Flex [title of article on Trump tariffs] He believes he can’t advance his `America First’ agenda without rebalancing trade with other countries. This, he says, will make them do things that are in the US’s interest. With these latest tariffs, he had demanded that Canada, Mexico and China do more to stop drug trafficking.

Huge tariffs, likely to cause economic havoc in the United States are a “flex”? What kind of headline is this? Once again, it is a framing along the lines that the White House communications team would put out there.

“8 signs that your backyard might be a potash mine!”

He only comes back from scandal if he wins

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"The president has been impeached. That's a pretty big lesson...I believe that he will be much more cautious in the future."

- Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), February 2020

www.cbsnews.com/news/susan-c...

I understand the words 'there is no ethical consumption under capitalism' but nobody told me that meant that if I watched Jake the Snake Roberts vs William Regal in 1992 there would be no Department of Education in 2025.

Andrew Cuomo's 20-page 'affordability plan' for New York City has precisely two pages on housing: Come for the taking credit for 421-a (no mention of letting it die), stay for extending the property tax cap to New York City homeowners -- drive.google.com/file/d/1HyUV...