What entity is paying for the new East Wing Ballroom? Who will legally own the structure?

wait, for like a day or two, was nazi tattoo guy a Bluesky main character? oh no.

one great thing about the full Reagan speech is that he emphasized the anticompetitive / tariff-protected-industries-make-low-quality-high-price-goods aspect of tariffs.

x.com has democratized the car wreck you can’t look away from.

Since China increasingly owns the global automobile industry, maybe we can revise our built environment so we are not isolated and helpless without constant access to that product. I mean we should have anyway, but maybe declining domestic lobbying clout and geopolitical exigency will help.

lethality is overrated. like, extremely.

the Wayback Machine as a very personal, very fragmentary, time machine. web.archive.org/web/19970419...

why is it a “legitimate interest” to give me RSI?

if i make fake video of fake video does that make it real?

can’t wait for the “ICE Academy” film franchise.

couldn’ve just gone for Pikachu, could he?

those won't leak. it's pretty obvious when you try to take code across borders, right? and i'm sure China can be trusted to enforce copyright and anticircumvention law, to not tolerate "cracking" of protections on commercial software the US might have forbidden them to acquire.

“Once you know they do get mad about some things, you get to notice all the things they don't get mad about.” ~Atrios www.eschatonblog.com/2025/10/floo...

it would be kind of funny if it was literally George Soros George-Soros-ing Argentina, just taking in all that Bessent cash with short sales.

he could, um, remit it to the US Treasury to help pay down the national debt!

“When someone threatens to burn down your house unless you do as you're told, and then they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep doing what they told you.” ~Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/p...

in the West Wing part of my imagination, he wakes up badly hung over, realizes what he has done, and immediately has “i am a fucking idiot — Croatia ‘12” tatooed in a circle around the thing.

how is Russia supposed to stay part of the international manosphere after it has killed all its young men?

who knew 2030 would look so much like 1814?