cassius marcellus clay
@cmclay.bsky.social
Mostly politism, sometimes track and field, sometimes a secret third thing
really fucked up they didnt use tony's legally recognized alias, Tony Double-Cut Dokoupil
February 9, 2026 at 11:37 PM
really fucked up they didnt use tony's legally recognized alias, Tony Double-Cut Dokoupil
Any phone with a lithium battery can also be a lighter, the catch is you can only use that function exactly one time.
A calculator that’s also a lighter, AND an alarm clock!? You can’t get more convenient than the Casio QL-10, at least in 1981 when it was released! Nowadays we have calculators and alarm clocks on our phones, bring back the lighters! 🔥📱😅
February 9, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Any phone with a lithium battery can also be a lighter, the catch is you can only use that function exactly one time.
This is the posting equivalent of standing on the corner in your underwear screaming about lizard people and the end times
Bots are only as capable as their programming, human stupidity is limitless.
Also, I voted for Harris to not only protect against Project2025, but also to give Palestinians a chance.
It was their own American DSA Uncommitted Movement “allies” that threw them under the bus.🤷🏻♂️
bsky.app/profile/have...
Also, I voted for Harris to not only protect against Project2025, but also to give Palestinians a chance.
It was their own American DSA Uncommitted Movement “allies” that threw them under the bus.🤷🏻♂️
bsky.app/profile/have...
February 9, 2026 at 9:54 PM
This is the posting equivalent of standing on the corner in your underwear screaming about lizard people and the end times
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Today @cato.org published our report providing the first look at the fiscal effects of the wave of legal & illegal immigration over the last 3 decades. It shows immigrants created surpluses every year, by a combined $14.5 trillion, even as deficits grew www.cato.org/white-paper/...
February 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Today @cato.org published our report providing the first look at the fiscal effects of the wave of legal & illegal immigration over the last 3 decades. It shows immigrants created surpluses every year, by a combined $14.5 trillion, even as deficits grew www.cato.org/white-paper/...
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How can new people cut the deficit? First, a significant portion of spending is "pure public goods," military & interest payments on old debt, that don't increase b/c of immigrants. This means the average new person is paying more in taxes than they receive in benefits...
February 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
How can new people cut the deficit? First, a significant portion of spending is "pure public goods," military & interest payments on old debt, that don't increase b/c of immigrants. This means the average new person is paying more in taxes than they receive in benefits...
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And immigrants are better-than-average! Even tho they earn lower wages, they work at so much higher rates that they account for a greater share of total earned income, which results in a higher-than-average share of tax revenues. Immigrants pay more taxes.
February 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
And immigrants are better-than-average! Even tho they earn lower wages, they work at so much higher rates that they account for a greater share of total earned income, which results in a higher-than-average share of tax revenues. Immigrants pay more taxes.
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On the spending side, immigrants don't cost more than the US-born. Here's everything the government spent money on over the last 30 years. Immigrants were much less costly in two areas: old age benefits and education. Why...?
February 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
On the spending side, immigrants don't cost more than the US-born. Here's everything the government spent money on over the last 30 years. Immigrants were much less costly in two areas: old age benefits and education. Why...?
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For education, immigrants arrive in the US at the average age of about 25, meaning that the US gets workers without having to pay to educate them. They are more costly while in school due to bilingual education, but they're much less likely to be in school
February 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
For education, immigrants arrive in the US at the average age of about 25, meaning that the US gets workers without having to pay to educate them. They are more costly while in school due to bilingual education, but they're much less likely to be in school
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What about needs-based assistance? Immigrants are overrepresented in the poverty population, but account for about the average rate for needs-based assistance. Status-based restrictions keep their use rates below the rate predicted by their poverty rate
February 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
What about needs-based assistance? Immigrants are overrepresented in the poverty population, but account for about the average rate for needs-based assistance. Status-based restrictions keep their use rates below the rate predicted by their poverty rate
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When you put it all together, this is what the fiscal flows for immigrants have looked like for the last 30 years. Immigrants have reduced the deficit every year for 3 decades.
February 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
When you put it all together, this is what the fiscal flows for immigrants have looked like for the last 30 years. Immigrants have reduced the deficit every year for 3 decades.
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For decades, nativists have sold America this narrative that immigrant welfare is behind our deficits and debt. This figure shows how absurd that is. This is all government expenditures, federal, state, and local, for the last 3 decades. Immigrants are not to blame:
February 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
For decades, nativists have sold America this narrative that immigrant welfare is behind our deficits and debt. This figure shows how absurd that is. This is all government expenditures, federal, state, and local, for the last 3 decades. Immigrants are not to blame:
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NEW: There were more voters to Kamala Harris's right - but to beat Trump, she only needed 8% of the leftists who refused to back her. www.peoplesline.org/p/kamala-har...
Kamala Harris could have won by running harder to the left
Once again, claims that eligible voters are only available to the center or right are extremely misleading.
www.peoplesline.org
February 9, 2026 at 6:56 AM
NEW: There were more voters to Kamala Harris's right - but to beat Trump, she only needed 8% of the leftists who refused to back her. www.peoplesline.org/p/kamala-har...
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this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
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If there’s one thing we don’t tolerate in America it’s Spanish words. To do that in San Francisco California…well it makes me angry, and I’ll say that all the way from Los Angeles to Bonita Springs Florida
February 9, 2026 at 2:50 AM
If there’s one thing we don’t tolerate in America it’s Spanish words. To do that in San Francisco California…well it makes me angry, and I’ll say that all the way from Los Angeles to Bonita Springs Florida
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going to start referring to all this no-caffeine, omni-spectrum sobriety, celibacy, 996, workout and diet focus stuff as "mormonism with silicon valley characteristics" because it's more polite than calling it "homeschool mindset"
February 9, 2026 at 5:23 PM
going to start referring to all this no-caffeine, omni-spectrum sobriety, celibacy, 996, workout and diet focus stuff as "mormonism with silicon valley characteristics" because it's more polite than calling it "homeschool mindset"
There are a lot of delusional NYT op-eds but this one might be the most shameless reversal of reality ive ever seen. Not sure any single group more rapidly abandoned everything they had pretended to believe to ally with fascists than libertarians
February 9, 2026 at 7:58 PM
There are a lot of delusional NYT op-eds but this one might be the most shameless reversal of reality ive ever seen. Not sure any single group more rapidly abandoned everything they had pretended to believe to ally with fascists than libertarians
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i just saw someone say "Kid Rock makes music for the people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody" and hol up i need a minute
February 9, 2026 at 4:22 AM
i just saw someone say "Kid Rock makes music for the people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody" and hol up i need a minute
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Excellent reporting work here. “Of the 67 people identified by the BDN, 58 of them lacked a criminal record that could be independently verified despite claims that the operation was meant to capture the “worst of the worst” #mepolitics
www.bangordailynews.com/2026/02/09/m...
www.bangordailynews.com/2026/02/09/m...
ICE said it was arresting ‘the worst of the worst’ in Maine. We only found a few criminals.
The BDN used court records and other sources to identify 67 of roughly 200 people arrested in Maine during last month's surge.
www.bangordailynews.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Excellent reporting work here. “Of the 67 people identified by the BDN, 58 of them lacked a criminal record that could be independently verified despite claims that the operation was meant to capture the “worst of the worst” #mepolitics
www.bangordailynews.com/2026/02/09/m...
www.bangordailynews.com/2026/02/09/m...
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I think growing up in the specific time we did has a lot of us taking "they'll just jailbreak it" for granted. There still isn't a working root for Amazon tablets made after 2019. The Xbox360 is 20 years old and we're only just now seeing a softmod on the horizon.
They can lock stuff down now.
They can lock stuff down now.
You would immediately be able to buy a speed limiter hacking kit on the black market and all the worst people would have them disabled. We've seen this before with every other technological solution to a societal problem, from covid vaccination cards to plane transponders.
February 9, 2026 at 6:35 PM
I think growing up in the specific time we did has a lot of us taking "they'll just jailbreak it" for granted. There still isn't a working root for Amazon tablets made after 2019. The Xbox360 is 20 years old and we're only just now seeing a softmod on the horizon.
They can lock stuff down now.
They can lock stuff down now.
these arguments always fall apart the same ways:
1. ignoring that lack of fed legalization causes inconsistent state regs
2. restrictions on dosage that arent based in any science and arent applied to any other substance in society
3. pearl clutching about popularity, again not applied to others
1. ignoring that lack of fed legalization causes inconsistent state regs
2. restrictions on dosage that arent based in any science and arent applied to any other substance in society
3. pearl clutching about popularity, again not applied to others
February 9, 2026 at 5:23 PM
these arguments always fall apart the same ways:
1. ignoring that lack of fed legalization causes inconsistent state regs
2. restrictions on dosage that arent based in any science and arent applied to any other substance in society
3. pearl clutching about popularity, again not applied to others
1. ignoring that lack of fed legalization causes inconsistent state regs
2. restrictions on dosage that arent based in any science and arent applied to any other substance in society
3. pearl clutching about popularity, again not applied to others
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From out indefinitely with mononucleosis to Super Bowl champion. Anything is possible.
February 9, 2026 at 3:25 AM
From out indefinitely with mononucleosis to Super Bowl champion. Anything is possible.
pats gettin COOKED
February 9, 2026 at 2:25 AM
pats gettin COOKED
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Every young person sentence online reads like this to me now:
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
February 8, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Every young person sentence online reads like this to me now:
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
they definitely didnt fail to notice this. whether investigations were suppressed or were never serious, and whether due to malfeasance or incompetence? who knows.
when epstein got his sweetheart deal the prosecutor claimed it was bc he was told epstein "belongs to intelligence"
when epstein got his sweetheart deal the prosecutor claimed it was bc he was told epstein "belongs to intelligence"
Epstein was in and out of Russia every few months according to his travel documents, but Mandelson was partying in nightclubs in St Petersburg and regularly in Moscow.
How did our intelligence services fail to pick this up? Or were their reports and investigations suppressed?
How did our intelligence services fail to pick this up? Or were their reports and investigations suppressed?
February 8, 2026 at 3:05 PM
they definitely didnt fail to notice this. whether investigations were suppressed or were never serious, and whether due to malfeasance or incompetence? who knows.
when epstein got his sweetheart deal the prosecutor claimed it was bc he was told epstein "belongs to intelligence"
when epstein got his sweetheart deal the prosecutor claimed it was bc he was told epstein "belongs to intelligence"
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The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
February 8, 2026 at 4:58 AM
The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"