Just listened to an hour and a half podcast of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz with Adam Neumann (WeWork guy) and they explain why they've invested nearly half a billion into him saying a real estate guy they know said: "Only 2 people have successfully branded real estate: Neumann and Trump."
The thing that stands out here is so many Dems run campaigns terrified of (and thus buying into) the Fox News framing. Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for. RE:
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social)
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of ...
It's worse than that, though. It's something that was widely known AND uncontroversial, and he thinks reveals the biggest coverup in the history of America. RE:
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Kevin Collier (@kevincollier.bsky.social)
I don't keep up with Taibbi's work much, but every time I see one of his revelations it's just a normal detail I reported years ago about how the U...
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It should be disqualifying to be a member of congress to get a meme this wrong. RE:
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Chris Jackson (@chriscjackson.bsky.social)
Probably one of the worst attempted memes in history.
Still get a little jolt of excitement to see someone like [@davidbrin.bsky.social](
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David Brin (@davidbrin.bsky.social)
Hugo-winning, best-selling sci-fiction author, NASA consultant, physicist, inventor - whose prediction scores offer a deluded sense of competence! ...
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Fascism For First Time Founders
Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to b...
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Why would NYC want to vote for a guy who will run away from the city (he doesn't live in anyway) if he loses? He's just broadcasting that he's not a NYer. RE:
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New kayak, who dis? https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreiakxv56ljsw2r5dvkmgdefcesemyeq5rvklgzvwt4dskpcjcf24rq
Remember, just recently UATX let go of a faculty member for posting an innocuous thing on LinkedIn about having respectful discussions about DEI initiatives, and UATX people told her that a major funder told them she had to be fired. [www.techdirt.com/2025/05/19/w...](
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Since the start of the Trump administration, many of our biggest concerns about how MAGA would attack free speech have not only proven true, but ha...
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Will Sommer (@willsommer.bsky.social)
A new sign of trouble at Bari Weiss's University of Austin—Larry Summers resigns from advisory board over the university's direction.
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Generally not one to jump on board the whole "FAFO" line, but... sometimes... RE:
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The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social)
An American who moved his family to Russia to avoid LGBTQ+ “indoctrination” is being sent to the front lines despite being assured he would ser...
Things can always get dumber. RE:
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Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com)
WSJ claimed the Trump–Epstein article was an “exclusive.” But what if I told you they fully intended to show it to people? https://storage.co...
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