now: @fluxon prev: @golden (& @goseeddb) @Techstars @google ex-Londoner, drove nuclear submarines and built solar-powered race cars. Tsundoku master.
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Perhaps the most important startup equation? (Constant improvement trumps all)
As spotted at @homebrew HQ.
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If a Somali commits a crime in Minnesota he’s Somali but if he saves 20 kids on a runaway school bus he’s a Minnesota Man
A Minnesota man is opening up after he saved nearly 20 children when their school bus driver suffered a medical emergency.
Read more: abcnews.link/t1I488m
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There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator.
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Trump says that if Republicans lose in North Carolina he will use the power of his office to deny US Marine Corps veterans’ claims for medical treatment for cancer and other life threatening diseases resulting from decades of water contamination by toxic chemicals at Camp Lejeune
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Amy Acton's estranged mother lost custody of her children after her second husband was charged with rape and indicted by a grand jury. In court, Amy's mother stood by her husband instead of her twelve-year-old daughter. They haven't spoken since that day in court, nearly 50 years ago.
Politics has become such a disappointing sport of outrage-fueled mud-slinging, personal attacks targeting families, and blatant lies designed to divide. Candidates should debate the issues and focus on convincing voters that their plans and leadership will make life better. That's what politics should be about: bringing people together. Stunts like today's attack ad against Dr. Acton are beneath anyone seeking to lead. nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/po…
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Interest payments on the debt have exceeded 3% of GDP only twice since 1940—in 1990 and today.
In 1990, Congress responded by passing a law to reduce the federal deficit by raising taxes and cutting health spending.
In 2026, Congress responded by doing as close to nothing as is possible and the only major fiscal plan on the table is to ADD $1 trillion in spending in a last-minute panic.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Important context needed: Trump previously promised 2 dividends and never followed through.
In early 2025, Trump publicly backed a roughly $5,000 “DOGE dividend”
In November 2025, he promised a $2,000 “tariff dividend”
newsweek.com/every-dividend…
Live-streaming an execution?? That’s f**king ghoulish, and (IMO) un-American.
I’m very anti-death penalty, but this is one of the rare cases I have no problem with it. Live-streaming, though? That’s the kind of 💩 third world countries do.
nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/po…
The corruption is just so brazen!
Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail.
“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.”
Read story w/ dream team: @rebeccaballhaus @drewhinshaw @JoeWSJ wsj.com/politics/policy/guil…
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In 2019, Trump was forced to cancel plans to hold the G7 at his own golf club amid GOP objections to self dealing. In 2026, he will hold the G20 at his own golf club and the critics have gone silent. How Trump has moved the ethical line in his second term. nytimes.com/2026/10/04/us/po…
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The best part of being married is getting to say "let me check with my wife" about something you personally have absolutely no intention of doing.
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Alexandria's bus system overspent by $3 million because someone hard coded their cash balance in the Excel spreadsheet and no one caught it
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🚫 NO WAY BACK
Lions trail Bills 24-41
2:50 left, Q4
No away team has ever come back from a bigger deficit
Old record: 16 pts (2019)
@Lions @BuffaloBills
NFL fans! --- I built a site that tracks games and posts here when the losing team is past the point of a comeback.
Follow and subscribe to @ComebackCeiling!
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Kanye West did a song titled Heil Hitler and is currently doing a concert tour, which has included multiple dates at Raymond James stadium in Tampa that has banned Macklemore for saying end the genocide & free Palestine
fucking absurd
Promoters have pulled Macklemore from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he called for a “Free Palestine” on stage:
“We have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup”
(rollingstone.com/music/music…)
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Regular reminder that, in February, CBO projected that it would take at least 30 years for the 10-year Treasury rate to surpass 4.4%. Seven months later it hit 5%.
That's what happens when a president launches a war, blows up deficits, and then demands to borrow $1.3T more.
Breaking News: The 10-year Treasury yield, one of the world’s most important interest rates, breached 5% for the first time in years, capping a long stretch of turmoil in the bond market that has pushed up borrowing costs for companies and consumers. nyti.ms/3UPIvaY
