Edward Carney
@ecarney.bsky.social
Executive dysfunction, a conspicuous lack of marketable skills, and a paradoxical ambition to build a better society from the ground up.
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Edward Carney
@ecarney.bsky.social
· Feb 21
Growing up, I recall a lot of people asking, "How could the German people let this happen?" but no one ever asked, "Would they have let if happen if they could effortlessly access detailed information about current events and history and had also been warned all their lives to not let this happen?"
I know that people on Bluesky and in left-wing spaces as a whole hate hearing this, but barring some sort of Damascene conversion experience, the only way awful people become less awful is through positive reinforcement when they take their first tentative steps in a positive direction.
November 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I know that people on Bluesky and in left-wing spaces as a whole hate hearing this, but barring some sort of Damascene conversion experience, the only way awful people become less awful is through positive reinforcement when they take their first tentative steps in a positive direction.
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Gary Kabeya, an asylum-seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on the West Side on Halloween, several days before he was about to start a job with UPS.
An asylum-seeker from Africa volunteered across Buffalo. Now he's in ICE custody
Gary Kabeya, an asylum-seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on the West Side on Halloween, several days before he was about to start a job with UPS.
buffalonews.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Gary Kabeya, an asylum-seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on the West Side on Halloween, several days before he was about to start a job with UPS.
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Reminder that to virtually all US citizens who aren’t chronically online, all leftists are liberals
Saw someone repost this but, folks, this is literally the liberal position. It doesn't get more liberal.
November 16, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Reminder that to virtually all US citizens who aren’t chronically online, all leftists are liberals
It's SO strange that they felt compelled to retain an allusion to the original Microsoft partnership but also to create a ridiculous backronym that changes the meaning of those letters.
Awful, awful branding.
Awful, awful branding.
Today, MSNBC becomes @ms.now: MS NOW – My Source for News, Opinion, and the World.
While our name has changed, who we are has not. You’ll find the same commitment to justice, progress, and the truth.
Same mission. New name.
While our name has changed, who we are has not. You’ll find the same commitment to justice, progress, and the truth.
Same mission. New name.
November 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It's SO strange that they felt compelled to retain an allusion to the original Microsoft partnership but also to create a ridiculous backronym that changes the meaning of those letters.
Awful, awful branding.
Awful, awful branding.
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one thing you should not discount is the idea that if the party is obviously going down in flames, that every Republican he has dominated is going to want to kill and eat him. i am not being metaphorical.
November 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
one thing you should not discount is the idea that if the party is obviously going down in flames, that every Republican he has dominated is going to want to kill and eat him. i am not being metaphorical.
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Merrick Garland left a standing impression that no one powerful will ever be held accountable. Democrats should rectify that by saying, loudly and every hour, that people who act on illegal orders will face punishment by the next DOJ.
Dems can say: Are you really sure you want to trust Trump, of all people, when he tells you that what he’s directing you to do is lawful, and that you’ll be protected later as a result? That’s a tenuous position for anyone to put themselves into—and Dems should not hesitate to say so.
Awful: Trump's boat bombings are now being justified by a new legal memo that relies on WH's own determinations as evidence. Memo also says people can't be prosecuted for the killings. But that reveals WH knows there's legal vulnerability here, Ds tell me.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Merrick Garland left a standing impression that no one powerful will ever be held accountable. Democrats should rectify that by saying, loudly and every hour, that people who act on illegal orders will face punishment by the next DOJ.
TIL there are people who deny the Satanic Panic ever occurred, despite a vivid public record of it having been platformed on television CONSTANTLY, leading to court cases that sent many real, identifiable people to PRISON for YEARS.
The number of dudes saying they grew up playing D&D in the 1980s Bible Belt and say the Satanic Panic never happened and is a myth made up by anti-Christians is striking.
Just Blocked my third.
My patience with delusional fuckwits is zero and I'm not giving them a platform for their stupidity.
Just Blocked my third.
My patience with delusional fuckwits is zero and I'm not giving them a platform for their stupidity.
November 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
TIL there are people who deny the Satanic Panic ever occurred, despite a vivid public record of it having been platformed on television CONSTANTLY, leading to court cases that sent many real, identifiable people to PRISON for YEARS.
Do tell! I'm on the edge of my seat.
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Do tell! I'm on the edge of my seat.
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Oh, so you’re reaching the correct opinions? You’ve come to agree with me? You ass. You fucking moron. You inbred piece of filth. You subhuman drooling waste of genetic material. What took you so long? Do you want a cookie? Do you want a bottle and a baby blanket? Does baby want a nap? You ghoul. Yo
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Oh, so you’re reaching the correct opinions? You’ve come to agree with me? You ass. You fucking moron. You inbred piece of filth. You subhuman drooling waste of genetic material. What took you so long? Do you want a cookie? Do you want a bottle and a baby blanket? Does baby want a nap? You ghoul. Yo
I can think of nothing better for child development than encouraging an infant to believe that death isn't real and will never affect them.
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I can think of nothing better for child development than encouraging an infant to believe that death isn't real and will never affect them.
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This is the first thing to make me smile since about yesterday noon. Enjoy it!
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is the first thing to make me smile since about yesterday noon. Enjoy it!
Tens of millions of Americans are so thoroughly awash in propaganda that while they may stop supporting Trump after it becomes clear to them that he's stolen from the public and raped children, they will not under any circumstances consider that the Democratic Party might be a better, alternative.
Barber update: He’s pissed. Thinks Pam Bondi should be in jail, Trump should be impeached. Still doesn’t like Democrats but thinks Republicans are screwed for years.
The two events looking back that get him the most:
-tech CEO’s at the inauguration
-the Trump coin pump and dump
The two events looking back that get him the most:
-tech CEO’s at the inauguration
-the Trump coin pump and dump
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Tens of millions of Americans are so thoroughly awash in propaganda that while they may stop supporting Trump after it becomes clear to them that he's stolen from the public and raped children, they will not under any circumstances consider that the Democratic Party might be a better, alternative.
Among a preponderance of disturbing observations about the electorate, I have little doubt the President of the United States could survive the exposure of physical evidence that he'd raped hundreds of underage girls, but could never survive the revelation that he'd had one (1) homosexual encounter.
Mark Epstein asked his brother Jeffrey Epstein whether Steve Bannon could confirm if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba. Jeffrey Epstein: "I thought I had tsuris,” using the Yiddish term for troubles. #OpDeathEaters
![From:
Mark L. Epstein
Sent:
3/21/2018 2:54:13 PM
To:
'jeffrey E.' [jeevacation@gmail.com]
RE: hey
Subject:
High
I'd rather be in Donni Dee's shoes.
Importance:
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 10:43 AM
To: Mark L. Epstein
Subject: Re: hey
you mean DONNI TEE
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Mark L. Epstein
wrote:
You and your boy Donnie can make a remake of the movie Get Hard.
Sent via tin can and string.
On Mar 21, 2018, at 09:37, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>
wrote:
and i thought- I had tsuris
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:32 AM, Mark L. Epstein
Ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba?
wrote:
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 2:15 PM
To:
Subject: Re: hey
All good. Bannon with me
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 1:49 PM Mark L. Epstein
wrote:
How are you doing?
A while back you mentioned that you were prediabetic. Has anything changed with that?
What is your boy Donald up to now?
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November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Among a preponderance of disturbing observations about the electorate, I have little doubt the President of the United States could survive the exposure of physical evidence that he'd raped hundreds of underage girls, but could never survive the revelation that he'd had one (1) homosexual encounter.
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![Gregory Possum-Encounterer @gr... • 8mo
Achieve enlightenment
> You can't do that here.
Get satori
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Become one with universe
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@griph.bsky.social
Go up
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>drop Desires
you now have 2 Desires
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Somebody actually posted to Nextdoor about the impromptu anti-ICE rally in Buffalo and I briefly thought, "Maybe the users of this site aren't so bad." Then I opened the comments and saw a dozen repetitions of the word "illegals," plus people straight-up cheerleading for ICE as they would the Bills.
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Somebody actually posted to Nextdoor about the impromptu anti-ICE rally in Buffalo and I briefly thought, "Maybe the users of this site aren't so bad." Then I opened the comments and saw a dozen repetitions of the word "illegals," plus people straight-up cheerleading for ICE as they would the Bills.
Begging the question for me but not for thee.
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Begging the question for me but not for thee.
If you've been looking for object lessons in cognitive dissonance, the past two days have been an embarrassment of riches.
November 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If you've been looking for object lessons in cognitive dissonance, the past two days have been an embarrassment of riches.
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Editors tend to be beholden to things, right?
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Editors tend to be beholden to things, right?
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the key problem here is that the threshold for "publishable info" is a moving target and it moves to Trump's benefit
As a former member of NYT’s finance team & the co-author of this story exposing the relationship between Epstein & Bill Gates as well as one on Epstein & JPMorgan, I am really frustrated to see people claiming that NYT sat on publishable info about Trump and Epstein 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/b...
Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
the key problem here is that the threshold for "publishable info" is a moving target and it moves to Trump's benefit
I'm not much moved by the generally negative initial reception for this movie, because I recall people being pretty down on I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House, and that's probably my second favorite cinematic ghost story of all time.
i like Osgood Perkins' movies more than most, and the same is true of Keeper, which hinges on an incredible performance from Tatiana Maslany:
Tatiana Maslany Brings the House Down in 'Keeper'
The director of 'Longlegs' and 'The Monkey' is back with another horror movie you'll either love or hate.
movieweb.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I'm not much moved by the generally negative initial reception for this movie, because I recall people being pretty down on I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House, and that's probably my second favorite cinematic ghost story of all time.
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Very strongly, with regard to cognitive
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Very strongly, with regard to cognitive
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in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
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We are invited to assume that the New York Times did not know what Epstein was telling Landon Thomas about Trump. I decline to extend that charity.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
We are invited to assume that the New York Times did not know what Epstein was telling Landon Thomas about Trump. I decline to extend that charity.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.
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Why is Peter Parker so sad about his uncle being killed? It’s not like he did anything.“
Yeah, man. That’s the point. He did nothing.
Yeah, man. That’s the point. He did nothing.
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Why is Peter Parker so sad about his uncle being killed? It’s not like he did anything.“
Yeah, man. That’s the point. He did nothing.
Yeah, man. That’s the point. He did nothing.
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This is what male solidarity & collective action to oppress women looks like:
Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.
Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is what male solidarity & collective action to oppress women looks like:
Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.
Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.