Christopher Siddall @CSSiddall

The Once and Future City of Washington Washington, D.C. Joined September 2010

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Christopher Siddall @CSSiddall

12 hours ago

Lost contact with reality.

Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur

17 hours ago

I want to be the first to say it, I think there’s a chance @RoKhanna saves the country.

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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca

18 hours ago

There are two kinds of directors. This is the other kind. Google has 12,000 of them.

Scoop: A Google director resigned over the company's AI deal with the Pentagon for classified work. "I am quite sad that it had to come to this, and desperately hope Google management re-discovers its moral compass," he wrote in a letter circulated internally

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Christopher Siddall @CSSiddall

13 hours ago

Vibes are our strength.

Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7

13 hours ago

The vibes are insane. Driving through the great state of Louisiana on our way to New Orleans. It’s crazy how diverse this country is, every day the scenery looks different.

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Christopher Siddall @CSSiddall

13 hours ago

Probably true. @SpaceX

Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin

24 hours ago

🧵The SpaceX IPO isn’t overpriced. The future is underpriced. Fourteen years ago, Facebook’s IPO was mocked as a failure. I called it a Strong Buy. Those who listened made a fortune. SpaceX is the same story — only much, much bigger. It's the East India Company all over

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Christopher Siddall @CSSiddall

13 hours ago

We fought like hell to ban door-to-door ballot collection in Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union.

Jillian Michaels @JillianMichaels

14 hours ago

⚠️ CALIFORNIA OPENED THE DOOR 29 DAYS EARLY... AND ALMOST NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT IT. For 29 days before Election Day, campaigns can reportedly see who's voted, who's holding a ballot, and exactly where to focus their efforts. Then comes the part that will make your jaw hit the

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Anish Moonka @anishmoonka

2 days ago

Inflation would have taken a $35 concert ticket to about $50 today. The jump to $350 came from a change in how the music business makes its money. Fifteen years ago, the concert was an ad. Artists made their money selling albums, and the tour was there to sell more CDs. Then streaming showed up and wrecked that. Spotify pays about $0.003 to $0.005 per play, so an artist with 10 million plays in a year makes around $30,000. Money from recorded music fell so far it hit bottom in 2014 at $13.1 billion, down from $22 billion in the CD days. The album stopped paying the bills. So the tour became the paycheck instead of the ad. For many working musicians it now brings in up to 80% of their income. Even Taylor Swift, the biggest streaming artist alive, made 91% of her 2018 money on tour and under 6% from streaming. When the live show is the only thing left to sell, it gets priced that way. Then there is who controls the tickets. Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged in 2010 and never let go. Ticketmaster now handles about 80% of tickets when they first go on sale at major venues, and Live Nation owns or runs close to 78% of the big outdoor amphitheaters. In April 2026, a jury in New York found the company ran an illegal monopoly that overcharged fans. Live Nation made a record $23 billion in 2024. Fees pile on top. A 2018 government report found fees add about 27% to a ticket's price, and a look at 40 recent concerts put it closer to 28%. That turns two $100 tickets into a $256 bill. To be fair, the venue keeps most of that fee, not Ticketmaster, whose own share is only a few percent. The biggest jump came from something newer. After the pandemic, promoters saw that fans would pay almost anything, so they turned on dynamic pricing, the same way airline seats cost more as a flight fills up. Bruce Springsteen's $400 seats shot up to $4,000 and $5,000 the moment they went on sale. Live Nation's own finance chief said it plainly: stadium tickets are now priced to scare off scalpers. That means setting the official price at whatever a scalper would charge, so the extra money goes to the artist and Ticketmaster instead of a reseller. The $35 ticket made sense when a concert sold a $15 album. The $350 ticket makes sense when the concert is the product, the streaming money barely counts, and one company controls almost the whole path to the stage.

Jack Califano @jackcalifano

2 days ago

does anyone have an explanation for why concert tickets were $35 fifteen years ago and now they're $350

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Christopher Siddall @CSSiddall

21 hours ago

@anishmoonka Good piece but dispiriting.

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Christopher Siddall @CSSiddall

2 days ago

Sure, we took the money but we also gave a lot of that money to Congress and the White House.

Miranda Devine @mirandadevine

2 days ago

She's smirking. She thinks it's funny.

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Christopher Siddall @CSSiddall

2 days ago

Walter Cronkite at Katama just off the Vineyard. @ScottPelley

Mediaite @Mediaite

6 days ago

Boat Captain Scott Pelley Thanks Fans for All the Love After 60 Minutes Firing: 'You Are the Wind in My Sails' mediaite.com/media/boat-cap…

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Christopher Siddall @CSSiddall

2 days ago

Wow. They must really want the Senate. @johnthune

Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar

2 days ago

BREAKING @jewishinsider via @marcrod97: "Ex-Biden chief Ron Klain defends Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo" Klain: "The tattoo was a skull and crossbones to remember his fallen comrades from his service in Afghanistan" jewishinsider.com/2026/06/ron-kl…

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Christopher Siddall @CSSiddall

2 days ago

Keep an eye out for Moscow joining the fray in Belfast. It’s their kind of thing.

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Christopher Siddall @CSSiddall

2 days ago

Do not hype July 13 as the date. Lower expectations and campaign for your candidate.

OSZ @OpenSourceZone

2 days ago

A top GOP Senate strategist told NBC News that Republicans are holding their opposition files on Platner until after the filing deadline (fearing Democrats will 'Biden him' off the ticket)

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Christopher Siddall @CSSiddall

2 days ago

One day, I will tell this man “the goat story.”

Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati

2 days ago

@Hotshot_Movie 200 goats. Full time. Year round. This is NOT hard. In malibu the summer before the fire I commissioned a herd of goats to clear brush. Everything around burned. Our property survived. But goats aren’t union members and don’t kick back $$ to his campaign.

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Christopher Siddall @CSSiddall

2 days ago

Act Blue signs went up in my Dupont Circle neighborhood on George W. Bush’s Inauguration morning. I soon saw signs that “Bush=Hitler” when I walked to the Mall.

CSPAN @cspan

2 days ago

ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones invokes the Fifth Amendment for all questions. Full video here: c-span.org/event/house-co…

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Christopher Siddall @CSSiddall

2 days ago

@WSJ tells Europe not to annoy us about soccer. Thanks @gerardtbaker. Cc: @vonderleyen

Gerard Baker @gerardtbaker

3 days ago

I’m so tired of these solipsistic English lectures. No one here is embarrassed. Three quarters of Americans don’t care about the World Cup. The other quarter are on a spectrum between interested and excited and are not going to let whiny foreigners tell them what to think.