Tom Bozzo
@atbozzo.bsky.social
Dad, spouse, economist, cyclist, Lego maniac, long lapsed blogger (not necessarily in that order). Tend to prefer my 70 square miles to the surrounding reality.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
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Also, Hegseth is coming for Sen. Mark Kelly because he reminded troops that they have a duty not to commit crimes *like this one*
Making an appropriately big deal out of this blunts that attack and demonstrates the need for what Kelly and company did.
Making an appropriately big deal out of this blunts that attack and demonstrates the need for what Kelly and company did.
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Also, Hegseth is coming for Sen. Mark Kelly because he reminded troops that they have a duty not to commit crimes *like this one*
Making an appropriately big deal out of this blunts that attack and demonstrates the need for what Kelly and company did.
Making an appropriately big deal out of this blunts that attack and demonstrates the need for what Kelly and company did.
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The DC shooter appears to be a man from Afghanistan who the Trump administration granted asylum. The response should NOT be that this granting of asylum was a mistake Trump should be blamed for. That 2020 decision was the right one, tho in this one case it turned out badly. The problem is the guns.
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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These fascist thugs should just say “white people” and stop pretending that classical thought, golden-age Islamic philosophy, renaissance authors, enlightenment thinker, American pragmatists, English liberals, &c has shit to do with their know-nothing race war.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
These fascist thugs should just say “white people” and stop pretending that classical thought, golden-age Islamic philosophy, renaissance authors, enlightenment thinker, American pragmatists, English liberals, &c has shit to do with their know-nothing race war.
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Wilhelm von Osten was a German math teacher, mystic, phrenologist. He also owned a very clever horse he named HANS.
Around 1894, he took his horse on tour, demonstrating his exceptional number sense skills.
van Osten would ask a question: "What is 2 x 6 ?"
Clever Hans would tap his hoof 12 times.
Around 1894, he took his horse on tour, demonstrating his exceptional number sense skills.
van Osten would ask a question: "What is 2 x 6 ?"
Clever Hans would tap his hoof 12 times.
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Wilhelm von Osten was a German math teacher, mystic, phrenologist. He also owned a very clever horse he named HANS.
Around 1894, he took his horse on tour, demonstrating his exceptional number sense skills.
van Osten would ask a question: "What is 2 x 6 ?"
Clever Hans would tap his hoof 12 times.
Around 1894, he took his horse on tour, demonstrating his exceptional number sense skills.
van Osten would ask a question: "What is 2 x 6 ?"
Clever Hans would tap his hoof 12 times.
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I know that fact-checking Trump is like repeatedly slamming your dick with a door, but over on Truth Toilet, he said there are "hundreds of thousands" of Somali "refugees" just in Minnesota. There are 42,500 Somali immigrants in MN. And only 705 under TPS in the entire country. Lies are all he has.
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I know that fact-checking Trump is like repeatedly slamming your dick with a door, but over on Truth Toilet, he said there are "hundreds of thousands" of Somali "refugees" just in Minnesota. There are 42,500 Somali immigrants in MN. And only 705 under TPS in the entire country. Lies are all he has.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen (contemporary edition, all 2023-5):
Beach Bunny (x2)
boygenius
Mdou Moctar
Ratboys (x4)
Weyes Blood
Beach Bunny (x2)
boygenius
Mdou Moctar
Ratboys (x4)
Weyes Blood
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Neko Case
They Might Be Giants
The Replacements
Billy Bragg
New Order
Neko Case
They Might Be Giants
The Replacements
Billy Bragg
New Order
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
-Linda Rondstadt
-REM
-Talking Heads
-Beautiful South
-Harry Belafonte
-Linda Rondstadt
-REM
-Talking Heads
-Beautiful South
-Harry Belafonte
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen (contemporary edition, all 2023-5):
Beach Bunny (x2)
boygenius
Mdou Moctar
Ratboys (x4)
Weyes Blood
Beach Bunny (x2)
boygenius
Mdou Moctar
Ratboys (x4)
Weyes Blood
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Democrats disproportionately rely on corporations to do their messaging. In this case, energy companies. In many other cases, corporate media. It’s delusional.
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Democrats disproportionately rely on corporations to do their messaging. In this case, energy companies. In many other cases, corporate media. It’s delusional.
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Afghans saved many American lives during the war. Way more troops are alive because of them than have been harmed by asylum-seekers. The potential reward of coming to the US was key to securing cooperation. Kicking everyone out will ensure no one helps again.
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Afghans saved many American lives during the war. Way more troops are alive because of them than have been harmed by asylum-seekers. The potential reward of coming to the US was key to securing cooperation. Kicking everyone out will ensure no one helps again.
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Kind of baffling how all the Serious People have converged on this notion that climate change is yesterday’s news right around the time it actually starts to have a visible, day to day impact that even regular people have to go out of their way to not notice.
People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Kind of baffling how all the Serious People have converged on this notion that climate change is yesterday’s news right around the time it actually starts to have a visible, day to day impact that even regular people have to go out of their way to not notice.
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Idea: Swap out the WH Press Corps with the audience at an Econ seminar
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Idea: Swap out the WH Press Corps with the audience at an Econ seminar
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Americans, 2024: I generally remember pre-COVID being better than post-COVID and blocked out 2020. Let's do pre-COVID again.
Americans, 2025: So it turns out that Trump was not the reason things felt better pre-COVID, and Biden was not the reason things felt worse after.
Americans, 2025: So it turns out that Trump was not the reason things felt better pre-COVID, and Biden was not the reason things felt worse after.
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Americans, 2024: I generally remember pre-COVID being better than post-COVID and blocked out 2020. Let's do pre-COVID again.
Americans, 2025: So it turns out that Trump was not the reason things felt better pre-COVID, and Biden was not the reason things felt worse after.
Americans, 2025: So it turns out that Trump was not the reason things felt better pre-COVID, and Biden was not the reason things felt worse after.
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I’m just a naïve professor of politics, but it seems to me that it wouldn’t be *that* hard to mandate that every data center project add sufficient renewable capacity to zero out its impact on the grid.
… and when the bubble bursts we’d at least be left with *some* kind of economic & social good.
… and when the bubble bursts we’d at least be left with *some* kind of economic & social good.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I’m just a naïve professor of politics, but it seems to me that it wouldn’t be *that* hard to mandate that every data center project add sufficient renewable capacity to zero out its impact on the grid.
… and when the bubble bursts we’d at least be left with *some* kind of economic & social good.
… and when the bubble bursts we’d at least be left with *some* kind of economic & social good.
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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It really is something that Elon personally tanked the EV side of the business and his plan to turn things around is "robots" and investors haven't crushed each other trying to get out the door
Tesla's EU sales were down 48.5% in October, and are down 30% in a year-to-date when EV sales are up 26%.
Tesla's China sales fell 35.8% in October, for an 8.4% decline year-to-date.
Tesla's US sales fell 24% in October, after incentives expired.
IT'S HAPPENING!
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
Tesla's China sales fell 35.8% in October, for an 8.4% decline year-to-date.
Tesla's US sales fell 24% in October, after incentives expired.
IT'S HAPPENING!
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It really is something that Elon personally tanked the EV side of the business and his plan to turn things around is "robots" and investors haven't crushed each other trying to get out the door
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At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
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As a particularly obsequious hanger-on I guess Kirill Dimitriev better hope that his wife's links to Putin's daughter through work in the same research institution protects him from the wrath of more experienced courtiers
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
As a particularly obsequious hanger-on I guess Kirill Dimitriev better hope that his wife's links to Putin's daughter through work in the same research institution protects him from the wrath of more experienced courtiers
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can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
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This will never be me - I bought an M4 Mac Air just before my book tour - but I think the premise of "device hoarding" here is ridiculous. With every major purchase, buy as well as you can and then use that thing until you can't use it any more. That's just sensible.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This will never be me - I bought an M4 Mac Air just before my book tour - but I think the premise of "device hoarding" here is ridiculous. With every major purchase, buy as well as you can and then use that thing until you can't use it any more. That's just sensible.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
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EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
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I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
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When you draw a platoon leader like Hegseth, it’s your worst nightmare. You just ride it out until he’s gone and gets replaced by someone who isn’t a complete jackass. Only a fool like Trump would put one of them in charge of the entire defense department.
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
When you draw a platoon leader like Hegseth, it’s your worst nightmare. You just ride it out until he’s gone and gets replaced by someone who isn’t a complete jackass. Only a fool like Trump would put one of them in charge of the entire defense department.