Shot on his Polaroid 600 Instant Camera, naturally. https://t.co/5N1sWuN66Q
— Marc Andreessen ๐บ๐ธ (@pmarca) February 24, 2026
The only industry that AI won’t own is media
— Brycent (@brycent) February 24, 2026
If you aren’t building a media moat or collaborating with one
You’re chalked
Damn.
— ๐๐ข๐จ๐ก ๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฎ๐ท ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) February 24, 2026
Iranians are chanting "This is the final battle, Pahlavi will return" right into the faces of basijis.
This is something that can easily get them killed.
Courage off the charts. pic.twitter.com/2pEea0xgA6
A SOTU Like No Other So little truth, so much time .......... Was the plan to turn public opinion around by boring America into submission? ......... Did any previous SOTU contain so many lies? ........... For the most part they weren’t Big Lies, lies that are persuasive because people can’t believe that anyone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”. They were, instead, small lies that added up to a false — and completely unpersuasive — portrayal of where we are. ................. Affordability, especially with regard to housing and health care, is a real problem, not fully captured by standard measures. And it’s a problem Trump didn’t address at all — instead, he’s doubling down on his massively unpopular tariffs, which make the problem worse. ............ there are two big disconnects. First is the gap between what Trump promised — he was going to bring grocery prices down, cut energy prices in half — and what he has actually delivered. Second is the gap between his wild boasts about how great things are and the reality of a K-shaped economy that is leaving many Americans behind. .............. Trump’s desire for external validation is, frankly, pathetic. And the truth is that we are despised like never before.
........... It’s true that in some ways the world fears us in a way it didn’t before — in the same way that one steps carefully around a belligerent drunk in a bar. But we haven’t been this weak on the world stage since before World War II.
How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All The Sunshine State has an opportunity to save American democracy from big corporate money ........... If California were an independent country, it would have the fourth-largest economy in the world (behind Germany and ahead of Japan). ........... corporate political spending was growing before Citizens United, but the decision opened the floodgates to the unlimited super PAC spending and undisclosed dark money we suffer from today. ............. Between 2008 and 2024, reported “independent” expenditures by outside groups exploded more than 28-fold — from $144 million to $4.21 billion. Unreported money also skyrocketed, with dark money groups spending millions influencing the 2024 election. ........... individual states have the authority to limit corporate political activity and dark money spending, because states determine what powers corporations have. ............ In American law, corporations are creatures of state laws. For more than two centuries, the power to define their form, limits, and privilege has belonged only to the states. ................ States don’t have to grant corporations the power to spend in politics. In fact, they can decide not to give corporations that power. ............. This isn’t about corporate rights, as the Supreme Court determined in Citizens United. It’s about corporate powers.
.................... When a state exercises its authority to define corporations as entities without the power to spend in politics, it will no longer be relevant whether corporations have a right to spend in politics — because without the power to do so, the right to do so has no meaning. (Delaware’s corporation code already declines to grant private foundations the power to spend in elections.) ............... Importantly, a state that no longer grants its corporations the power to spend in elections also denies that power to corporations chartered in the other 49 states, if they wish to do business in that state.
................... “Every corporation operating under the laws of this state has all the corporate powers it held previously, except that nothing in this statute grants or recognizes any power to engage in election activity or ballot-issue activity.” ............... I hope Gavin Newsom gets 100 percent behind this effort. If he has his eye on the White House in 2028, this would be a feather in his electoral cap. The Citizens United decision is enormously unpopular. Some 75 percent of Americans disapprove of it. ............ It’s time to make Citizens United history. California (and Montana) can lead the way.
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