Alex Vindman, Dem Senate candidate in Florida, reported the following income/payments received in '25: —$1.4M for consulting work (no details about what this entailed, tho he's previously advised defense firms) —$140k from Substack —$128k from Kettering Foundation —$48.5k for a handful of speeches

Meta also says the plaintiffs didn't offer sufficient evidence to support their claim that AI tools targeted vulnerable workers for layoffs. Interesting wording here: "The question is not whether Meta used technology in its RIF process; the question is whether Meta’s process violated the law."

Meta further complains that if an emergency injunction is granted—meaning the workers continue to receive benefits, etc, and the case proceeds—then the workers should have to submit a security bond of "at least $10 million." Meta claims this is because some plaintiffs' RSUs will vest

Meta worker alleges he was laid off a month after beginning his pre-approved paternity leave. Says he always received stellar performance reviews.

another Meta worker alleges she was part of the mass layoffs a few months after disclosing her pregnancy to Meta

One Meta worker, who was on approved pre-birth maternity leave, had her role eliminated on May 20. She gave birth on May 22, lawsuit says.

refreshing my memory: Here's "Dianne Feinstein's" statement from March '23. Took her 2 more months to return to Senate, at which point NYT reported on complications she had suffered from shingles. She spent summer needing significant help casting votes, made "statements" via her staff, died Sept '23

GOP Senate leaders taking a page from Nancy Pelosi and Alex Padilla, who offered similarly vague, obfuscatory statements about Dianne Feinstein shortly before she died. We have reached the "insulting our intelligence" phase of Mitch McConnell's weeks-long hospitalization.

Not sourced on this story like Clay Travis and Dave Portnoy, but I’m skeptical of superfluous reports describing Lutnick, Andrew Giuliani and a “team of elite lawyers” like they’re SEAL Team Six. FIFA made up a peace prize for Trump last year; I’m not sure it needed much arm-twisting

Dallas: “oil” and “Macau,” which is a reference to the Adelson family owning a bunch of casino resorts out there 🥴

🚨Tom Kean Jr has lost Darren Rovell

Refused to tell anyone anything about his health for four months just to wind up to the Zack Fox song

This is a man who is running for president, starting now

David Safier is now boosting his own posts about Fetterman on Fox News. Read my story about Safier and Fetterman below

also, the article quite clearly explains why it's likely the 79-year-old in question is well-connected. Acting like it could be any one of 4 million people in that age cohort is a ridiculous defense

seems the White House has trotted out the spokesperson who didn't directly answer straightforward questions to clean up his own mess

Some people are saying this is "corrupt," but have they considered that Kirsten Gillibrand's son studied "HISTORY" and played squash in college?

the good news is we can keep tabs on this developing news story via ESPN's most thoughtful analyst/reporter

The short version is: it seems UChicago was given a "legacy" version of Claude Enterprise, meaning Anthropic is subsidizing the costs and metering each user's AI usage. Why would Anthropic do that? I have a theory www.hardresetmedia.com/p/decipherin...

I'm seeing a lot of "he's going to leave the Democratic Party" takes, and I don't think that's true. Basically every source I've talked to doesn't think he'll leave, in large part b/c it's a pain in the ass to go independent or flip parties. Also this:

meanwhile, Senator Fetterman's most recent social media contribution is reposting an AI-generated image of a dog staring at a rotisserie chicken

Still lots of votes to be counted in the California governor's race, but Silicon Valley darling Matt Mahan is currently a distant fourth place in Santa Clara County; Mahan is the mayor of San Jose, which makes up roughly half of the total population of Santa Clara County

I fear we're going to get an entire summer of these (presumably ghostwritten) posts from Kyle Kuzma

Meanwhile, here's how another Israeli official—Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter—speaks about Chuck Schumer's support for Israel, according to a senior staffer who attended a meeting between Leiter and John Fetterman last year

Kuzma asked about his interest in "American Dynamism," Anduril, SpaceX: "There's a lot of tensions & stress going on geopolitically. I love where I'm from, I love America... if you're an investor why are you not focused on investing into 1. serious things but 2. things that have America's interest?"

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just read the original column and lemme tell you: it's not good when you have to add an editor's note that takes up an entire page www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/s...

Senator John Fetterman is back to meme-posting about Israel. As I reported last week, Fetterman has almost no one left in his inner circle. His (unofficial, unpaid) top political adviser, David Safier, has glowingly referred to the senator as the "Secretary of Trolling."

Kuzma desperately trying to be included in the Giannis "Kalshi investors" trade package this summer

The pound-for-pound worst player in the NBA, Kyle Kuzma, is now posting pro-Kalshi slop (seems v possible they're posting on his behalf) and also claiming that he's investing in "autonomous defense"