@alex

Journalist. @CaOptNews. Dad x3. He/Him. Black Lives Matter. I podcast and write. Hey!

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Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥
@senatorshoshana4h
Such important work!!!
Reily 🍂@reilyseanconnOct 23
Proud of our CON reform in RI. More supply to lower healthcare costs. Exempts home health, behavioral health, imaging & ASCs; CapEx threshold now 50M, and more. “Rhode Island enacted the most sweeping Certificate of Need repeal of any state during the 2026 legislative session.”
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Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺
@sikorskiradekOct 23
No, @elonmusk, the U.S. stopped funding Ukraine last year. In fact, U.S. companies make money on American weapons for which we Europeans pay. The more you meddle in our politics and the more you play politics with your products, the more you damage your brand.
Elon Musk
@elonmuskOct 23
Replying to @elonmusk
And some of that US taxpayer money comes back through multiple laundry machines to fund political campaigns in America, which is why you see some politicians caring more about Ukraine than America!
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Greg Bluestein
@bluesteinOct 24
The U.S. Department of Justice has notified at least six Democratic-friendly Georgia counties it intends to station monitors there on Election Day. #gapol ajc.com/politics/2026/10/geo…

DOJ to send monitors to 6 Georgia counties with Democratic majorities

The U.S. Department of Justice has notified several left-leaning Georgia counties that it intends to station election monitors on Election Day.

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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaumOct 24
A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/po…

In U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project Emerges (Gift Article)

Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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Why is a private citizen deciding our foreign policy
Laura Rozen
@lrozenOct 24
The decision to throttle Starshield “appears to have come from a small circle around the president, Musk and Steve Witkoff…Reports suggest Musk wanted to punish Ukraine for striking Russian refineries. One official says he contacted the White House only after imposing the restrictions.”
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Never speak ill of the boss
Clash Report
@clashreportOct 23
Trump on Ukraine: Elon Musk is a very good person. He is not going to do anything wrong regarding Ukraine. Elon will never do anything wrong. He is a fair person.
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Adam Besvinick
@BesvinickOct 21
Replying to @thogge
Yes, exactly
Adam Besvinick
@BesvinickSep 22
Very useful insight from a portfolio founder: VCs are using Granola and feeding notes into a poorly prompted version of Claude to evaluate and pick apart what founders are saying mid-pitch. The frustrating thing is that AI tends toward groupthink...so "trends" on the internet (whether true or not) color how VCs respond even more today than historically. This founder is tracking those sometimes unfounded trends and turns of phrase and ensuring he rebuts them right out of the gate.
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What a dipshit
Alex Raufoglu
@ralexdcOct 23
NEW!! Rubio on Russia's war in Ukraine: "... people keep talking about it’s a war in Ukraine.  That war is about Donbas. It’s about one region of the country."
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Alex Raufoglu
@ralexdcOct 23
NEW!! GOP Sen. Kevin Cramer says he received a briefing today from Air Force Sec. Troy Meink on Starshield, raising concerns over U.S. reliance on SpaceX. “Fighting wars” can’t be so dependent on private companies, he says.
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Hell yeah - this is so sick
Blake Scholl 🛫
@bschollOct 22
Today's Boom announcements in 90 seconds
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Or until mommy finishes residency
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
@NoahpinionOct 23
When my kid asks "How are babies made?", I'm going to say "A doctor combines a sperm and egg in a test tube, and then freezes it until Daddy's startup has a liquidity event"
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Noah Shachtman
@NoahShachtmanOct 22
The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story here in @VanityFair
VANITY FAIR
@VanityFairOct 22
Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in Transfers

An exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former...

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Josh Kraushaar
@JoshKraushaarOct 22
“Vance’s message differed from comments by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Musk had the authority to enforce his company’s terms of service without input from the administration.”wsj.com/world/trump-called-m…

Exclusive | Trump Called Musk and Asked Him to Lift Ukraine Starlink Restrictions

The military-grade system appeared to be working more normally on Thursday, soon after the call.

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Idk if plane seats are smaller or what but I think my shoulders are now wider than the seat tf
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Mary Ann Azevedo
@bayareawriterOct 22
It was a pleasant surprise to see my friend, @alex, give me (and my latest article) a shout-out in his excellent Cautious Optimism newsletter today! If you don't already, you should subscribe! cautiousoptimism.news/thurs1
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Andy McCarthy
@AndrewCMcCarthyOct 22
If you followed the Trump administration's jihad against Anthropic over restrictive terms of use for Claude, then you're not going to buy its Ukraine blame-shifting to Musk -- as if Starshield terms of use are none of the administration's business ... nationalreview.com/corner/no…

Not Buying the Trump Administration’s Gambit to Blame Musk for Starshield Restrictions | National...

The Trump administration has spent months arguing that the ‘War’ Department won’t accept ‘terms of use’ limitations on battlefield tech.

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gotta say: being home > traveling like 99.999% of the time can i play factorio on my widescreen curved gaming monitors while traveling???? no case/rest
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imagine having to pay the higher price -- the sheer shame of it bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

AI Frenzy Sees Venture Capitalists Backing the Same Startup at Distinct Values

Venture capitalists are fighting to invest in AI startup Emulate, driving its valuation into the billions — even though the company is only three months old and doesn’t yet have a website or product.

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Not a massive shock; what was the last crypto venture hit? Stablecoins did well?
Techmeme
@TechmemeOct 22
Source: a16z plans to drop "crypto" from its flagship blockchain fund, rebranding it to "a16z frontier" and broadening its investment strategy beyond crypto (@leomschwartz / The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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Marc Caputo
@MarcACaputoOct 21
The White House counsel's office warned Politico in a Monday letter that it had 48 hours to retract or correct recent stories revolving around COS Susie Wiles — or it would suffer unspecified consequences. axios.com/2026/10/21/white-h…

White House to Politico: Retract stories or face 'consequences'

The White House counsel demands corrections or retractions.

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