Isn’t it obvious? Jared and his friends are making bank.

I am truly shocked he hasn’t accidentally posted about the Strait of Hormones

Why the fuck should we care? I think he would look awesome in a dress.

The USPS financial situation is complicated. It has a legal monopoly on first-class letter delivery, but that is less and less valuable every year as more simple communications move to the Internet. And it is also the only government agency that not only has to fund its own retirement benefits for its employees, but has to plan to put money away now to help cover retirement needs over the next 75 years.

Take away that retirement funding mandate, which no other agency has, and the USPS is profitable most years.

Making things worse is that the USPS has its own debt limit, separate from the Federal debt limit, which it is right up against right now.

So yes, they lose money, but mainly due to constraints set by Congress, that no other agency has.

Analysis here: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-us-postal-services-fiscal-crisis/

The actual details are bonkers

According to the Daily Caller, the executive order would require the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to compile a list of verified U.S. citizens in each state who are eligible to vote. DHS would undertake the effort with the Social Security Administration, the Daily Caller wrote, citing a White House fact sheet.

The U.S. Postal Service would then be required under the order to only send mail-in ballots to voters who appear on the list, according to the Daily Caller. Election authorities in each state typically send out mail ballots to voters, not the Postal Service.

Aside from being blatantly illegal, I bet if you dig into this you will find that the contracts have been given to all of Musk’s friends, using all the SSA data they stole

… Yet

Be careful what you wish for. I hear Matt Gaetz is still looking for a job…

I didn’t have any problem on my Android phone

During the private conference call with House Republicans, Johnson’s own members criticized the speaker’s plan, according to the source on the line who was granted anonymity to share the private discussions.

That’s a real Profile in Courage right there.

“We’re doing the wrong thing, but I will go along with it because I’m afraid to speak out publicly. I mean, you’ve seen the crazies who vote for me, right? One of them might pop me…”

Stephen Miller, who yelled at Lyons during morning phone calls with administration officials

Normally, I am all for Techdirt’s takes. But I think this one is off the mark a bit, because I legitimately think that infinite scroll and auto play are insidious, and actually harmful enough to be treated as a dangerous design decision.

The whole point of Section 230 is that communications companies can’t be held responsible for harmful things that people transmit on their networks, because it’s the people transmitting those harmful things that are actually at fault. And that would be reasonable in the initial stages of the Internet, when people posted on bulletin boards (or even early social media) and the harmful content had a much smaller reach. People had to “opt in”, essentially, to be exposed to this content, and if they stumble on something they find objectionable they can easily change their focus

But the purpose of the infinite scroll and auto play is to get people hooked on content. The algorithms exist to maximize engagement, regardless of the value of that engagement. I think the comparison to cigarettes is particularly apt. They are looking to hook people into actively harmful behaviors, for profit. And the algorithms don’t really differentiate between good engagement and harmful engagement. Anything that attracts the users attention is fair game.

The author’s points regarding how these rulings can be abused are correct, but that doesn’t negate how fundamentally harmful these addictive practices are. It will be up to lawmakers to make sure that the laws are drafted in such a way that they can be applied equitably… (So maybe we’re screwed after all…)

16, and that’s just the things I’ve said this week

That joke is a gas.

But to make sure all the notes are at the right pitch, you need a tuna fish.

And it would be exceedingly strange if the justices take this claim seriously. The Constitution’s language is clear. The issue was settled in Wong Kim Ark. And Trump’s lawyers want to implement a 145-year-old idea that was deemed unworkable even by one of its preeminent original champions.

What the author fails to take into account is that this Court is bought and paid for. Once the justices rule in favor of their benefactors, they will be awash in gratuities…

But not before! That would be a bribe, and the Court is above bribery! They do have morals, after all.

A small price to pay for the massive gains they will personally make by insider trading

I can speak to one part of it, I used to be one of those people who held the viewpoint that “Well, they are breaking the law to be here, aren’t they?”

Until I was set straight that simply being in the country without proper authorization is not actually a crime. Yes, some people might commit crimes in the course of coming here, like people who somehow evade border checks and make their way in without declaring themselves properly. But simply being undocumented is not a crime. Most people who are here without authorization came here legally (for instance, on a tourist or student visa), then simply didn’t leave when they were supposed to. That is not a crime.

And this is also the reason why immigration “courts” are not part of the judicial branch here, they are administrative courts under the Department of Justice. And that is because they don’t decide criminal matters.

But, explaining all this takes too long, and simply calling them “illegal” is much simpler, isn’t it?

Only an idiot would sign that shit.

Isn’t that the demographic they are going for, though?

Just like the spammers who deliberately put bad grammar and spelling in their emails, they know the people who will click in spite of the obvious red flags are easy marks and can be fleeced for more before carrying on to the scam.

agreed he’s trying to manipulate the market to calm it since gas has skyrocketed. It’s literally the only thing that’s kept his inflation numbers looking low.

I honestly don’t think he cares about that. If inflation shoots up because of the war he will deflect publicly and blame anyone but himself. Meanwhile, he and his friends will continue to manipulate the market for their own personal profit.

It’s a side effect of the SC ruling that held the President can only be held accountable to Congress for his official actions. So, there is nothing keeping him and his friends from trading on insider info regarding his decisions.

He doesn’t care about the popularity of his decisions anymore. If he remains President past the end of his term, he won’t need votes to do it.