Autumnal Sith
@calvinrestov.bsky.social
Public Policy Analyst and Legislative Advocate
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Democrat wins Miami's mayoral race for the first time in almost 30 years
“Democrat Eileen Higgins, a former county commissioner, defeated Republican Emilio González, NBC News projects.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
“Democrat Eileen Higgins, a former county commissioner, defeated Republican Emilio González, NBC News projects.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Democrat wins Miami's mayoral race for the first time in almost 30 years
Democrat Eileen Higgins, a former county commissioner, defeated Republican Emilio González, NBC News projects.
www.nbcnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Democrat wins Miami's mayoral race for the first time in almost 30 years
“Democrat Eileen Higgins, a former county commissioner, defeated Republican Emilio González, NBC News projects.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
“Democrat Eileen Higgins, a former county commissioner, defeated Republican Emilio González, NBC News projects.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
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back in the ancient times of 2012, tony's obviously fake movie-smart-guy thing--the fast-talking science gibberish, 'reverse the polarity' etc--was forgivable because that's just how "supergenius characters" are written as a rule. it's silly but its whatever.
December 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
back in the ancient times of 2012, tony's obviously fake movie-smart-guy thing--the fast-talking science gibberish, 'reverse the polarity' etc--was forgivable because that's just how "supergenius characters" are written as a rule. it's silly but its whatever.
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This is personally heartbreaking for me, to see my beautiful, beloved, brave baby effectively sacrificed on the altar of Copilot.
December 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is personally heartbreaking for me, to see my beautiful, beloved, brave baby effectively sacrificed on the altar of Copilot.
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“Politico FIFA-ed Trump into giving them an interview. Having flattered Trump into an interview, Politico then flattered him with a series of softball questions.”
I Factchecked Trump’s Big Politico Interview – Because Politico Didn’t!
Interviewer Dasha Burns allowed the president to tell lie after lie, and also failed to push back on his racism. So here is a rebuttal from Zeteo.
zeteo.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
“Politico FIFA-ed Trump into giving them an interview. Having flattered Trump into an interview, Politico then flattered him with a series of softball questions.”
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This mixed metaphor is killing me.
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This mixed metaphor is killing me.
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Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship?
From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and t...
www.teenvogue.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
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DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/d...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/d...
DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her - emptywheel
DOJ withheld Signal texts showing that before DHS started claiming that LaMonica McIver had assaulted two DHS guys, they had circulated video observing that their own actions look "bad."
www.emptywheel.net
December 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/d...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/d...
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I'm only a recent Del Taco convert. Sadly do not have them in my part of CA, so have to seize the opportunity for linguistic confusion and decent fast food while on road trips. We used to have one near by, but I was a fool and never hit it up. Maybe that's why they closed? It's all my fault.
December 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I'm only a recent Del Taco convert. Sadly do not have them in my part of CA, so have to seize the opportunity for linguistic confusion and decent fast food while on road trips. We used to have one near by, but I was a fool and never hit it up. Maybe that's why they closed? It's all my fault.
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Ellison is also part of the consortium who purchased and is poised to control TikTok in the United States.
This isn’t only about “conservatism.”
This is also about a concerted effort to create a pro-Israel narrative landscape across media modes and platforms.
This isn’t only about “conservatism.”
This is also about a concerted effort to create a pro-Israel narrative landscape across media modes and platforms.
If Paramount is allowed to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the conservative billionaire Ellison family will control:
Paramount Studios
CBS
CNN
MTV
HBO
Comedy Central
Nickelodeon
Cartoon Network
Warner Bros.
DC Studios
Fandango
New Line Cinema
TNT Sports
TBS
Oracle
And more.
Paramount Studios
CBS
CNN
MTV
HBO
Comedy Central
Nickelodeon
Cartoon Network
Warner Bros.
DC Studios
Fandango
New Line Cinema
TNT Sports
TBS
Oracle
And more.
December 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Ellison is also part of the consortium who purchased and is poised to control TikTok in the United States.
This isn’t only about “conservatism.”
This is also about a concerted effort to create a pro-Israel narrative landscape across media modes and platforms.
This isn’t only about “conservatism.”
This is also about a concerted effort to create a pro-Israel narrative landscape across media modes and platforms.
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After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
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The Trump admin gave states an ultimatum: Cooperate with the immigration crackdown, or lose your federal funding.
Oregon and 19 other states fought back — and won.
Then officials logged in to the grant website to accept the money, only to find the button to do so was disabled: propub.li/4a4Bsk5
Oregon and 19 other states fought back — and won.
Then officials logged in to the grant website to accept the money, only to find the button to do so was disabled: propub.li/4a4Bsk5
December 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The Trump admin gave states an ultimatum: Cooperate with the immigration crackdown, or lose your federal funding.
Oregon and 19 other states fought back — and won.
Then officials logged in to the grant website to accept the money, only to find the button to do so was disabled: propub.li/4a4Bsk5
Oregon and 19 other states fought back — and won.
Then officials logged in to the grant website to accept the money, only to find the button to do so was disabled: propub.li/4a4Bsk5
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This is the thing with Trump, I honestly believe he experiences visceral emotional associations (especially disgust) with concepts, but has very little mental or even emotional engagement beyond that.
Reptilian not in the conspiratorial sense, but the old triune brain theory sense of the word
Reptilian not in the conspiratorial sense, but the old triune brain theory sense of the word
condemning him is one thing but i’m more just recognizing how truly bizarre his psychology is. not even normal among narcissists or whatever. an aberrantly reptilian point of view. some of the stuff he seems to flout it seems like he actually truly doesn’t ‘get’
December 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This is the thing with Trump, I honestly believe he experiences visceral emotional associations (especially disgust) with concepts, but has very little mental or even emotional engagement beyond that.
Reptilian not in the conspiratorial sense, but the old triune brain theory sense of the word
Reptilian not in the conspiratorial sense, but the old triune brain theory sense of the word
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i think all the time about how trump is one of the most singular, atypical people in america, whose entire life experience, going back at least him as a teenager, is so profoundly different from and unrelatable to almost anyone, including his own social class peers
something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
i think all the time about how trump is one of the most singular, atypical people in america, whose entire life experience, going back at least him as a teenager, is so profoundly different from and unrelatable to almost anyone, including his own social class peers
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he went from having never held any office at any level straight to the presidency. he’s never even run a very large company — all of the trump org scams have been tightly held with a pretty small number of actual employees, they’ve always farmed everything to contractors who they then ripped off
December 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
he went from having never held any office at any level straight to the presidency. he’s never even run a very large company — all of the trump org scams have been tightly held with a pretty small number of actual employees, they’ve always farmed everything to contractors who they then ripped off
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one way the media really fucked us over when it came to trump was portraying him as a big-time, powerful exec who had a ton of world class executive experience, when in reality he was an LLC king who got most of what he had by ripping off people he hired to do the work and cheating on his taxes
he went from having never held any office at any level straight to the presidency. he’s never even run a very large company — all of the trump org scams have been tightly held with a pretty small number of actual employees, they’ve always farmed everything to contractors who they then ripped off
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
one way the media really fucked us over when it came to trump was portraying him as a big-time, powerful exec who had a ton of world class executive experience, when in reality he was an LLC king who got most of what he had by ripping off people he hired to do the work and cheating on his taxes
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this is such a baffling own goal
I mean, I guess it makes some sense in that they’re trying to convince business leaders that their bots are capable of replacing workers, but the overarching message from Big AI has been “AI will take all your jobs”
of course people hate that and hate you
I mean, I guess it makes some sense in that they’re trying to convince business leaders that their bots are capable of replacing workers, but the overarching message from Big AI has been “AI will take all your jobs”
of course people hate that and hate you
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
this is such a baffling own goal
I mean, I guess it makes some sense in that they’re trying to convince business leaders that their bots are capable of replacing workers, but the overarching message from Big AI has been “AI will take all your jobs”
of course people hate that and hate you
I mean, I guess it makes some sense in that they’re trying to convince business leaders that their bots are capable of replacing workers, but the overarching message from Big AI has been “AI will take all your jobs”
of course people hate that and hate you
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I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
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And I should note I actually do believe there are positive use cases for the amorphous suite of tools we inelegantly lump into “AI,” and that there are ways we can balance them out against an economy that is good for the collective whole - but making that case is very specifically not *my* job
December 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
And I should note I actually do believe there are positive use cases for the amorphous suite of tools we inelegantly lump into “AI,” and that there are ways we can balance them out against an economy that is good for the collective whole - but making that case is very specifically not *my* job
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imagine how incredibly insufferable I’d be if I spent all my time sighing heavily about how stupid and ignorant the public is just because they’re afraid of drones and how they can be misused
this is exactly what some AI boosters sound like to me
this is exactly what some AI boosters sound like to me
December 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
imagine how incredibly insufferable I’d be if I spent all my time sighing heavily about how stupid and ignorant the public is just because they’re afraid of drones and how they can be misused
this is exactly what some AI boosters sound like to me
this is exactly what some AI boosters sound like to me
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you cannot just guilt the public out of hating and fearing AI
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
you cannot just guilt the public out of hating and fearing AI
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Yes, there are nice people working on AI technologies who have nothing to do with the high level execs or companies who constantly terrorize the public, but again, while I am a bit more sympathetic to those people, it’s still your collective industry’s PR issue to fix
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Yes, there are nice people working on AI technologies who have nothing to do with the high level execs or companies who constantly terrorize the public, but again, while I am a bit more sympathetic to those people, it’s still your collective industry’s PR issue to fix
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I indeed would have more sympathy for the AI industry writ large around public perception if there hadn’t been years now of genuinely constant attempts at the highest level to make everyone who isn’t an upper-level manager terrified that AI will destroy their livelihoods
December 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I indeed would have more sympathy for the AI industry writ large around public perception if there hadn’t been years now of genuinely constant attempts at the highest level to make everyone who isn’t an upper-level manager terrified that AI will destroy their livelihoods
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tbh i think more charts could use this kind of clear labeling
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
December 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
tbh i think more charts could use this kind of clear labeling