The most undersold element of Ukraine funding in my view:
Sending antiquated US inventory to Ukraine and using new funds to modernize America’s defense capabilities is the only way to get Dems to support essential defense upgrades

It is a Biden base liability so it’s left unsaid

'American Compass has received more than half of its funding from two foundations best known for boosting progressive causes, Hewlett Foundation and the Omidyar Network, the philanthropic firm run by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.' notus.org/money/american…

Well, lesson learned. Never buy tickets from StubHub StubHub Support. Flew all the way out to Vegas only to be told an hour before the show that our tickets would not be delivered, and no alternative tickets would be provided. What a fucking scam.

SCOOP: The Chinese Embassy has been quietly lobbying Congress against the legislation that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

Wow! Not needing permission from other hospitals to start a new hospital leads to more hospitals. Who could have guessed?

Harpo Marx

SCOOP: A TikTok data scientist says he was assigned a Seattle-based manager on paper, while actually reporting to a Beijing-based ByteDance executive, who ordered him to regularly email U.S. data in spreadsheets to ByteDance workers in China during 2022. fortune.com/2024/04/15/tik…

Not everything needs a merch tie-in

Not now, I'm watching this on a loop for the next hour

Turns out clothes are reusable. Gene just saved me a boatload!

Trying to imagine the masochist who visits a Daily Mail page, closes the fourteen popup ads, navigates through the half-dozen autoplay videos, then decides to click 'allow.'

Extremely important thread

New: NYC mayor Eric Adams skipped a banquet honoring Taiwan’s president after a top Chinese diplomat sent him a letter warning that his attendance at the March 2023 function could cost New York its “friendship” with China.

The Chinese lobbying, revealed by National Review for

In other words, while there is a robust, competitive market for media production and distribution – as evidenced by Stewart leaving Apple for another platform – Apple has a monopoly on the Apple distribution channel and is thus guilty of anticompetitive behavior.