Franklin Digito Robovelt 🇺🇸
@fdrobovelt.bsky.social
Tried and true classic liberal Democrat. Believe in America. Believe in science. Believe we can disagree and still coexist.
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Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
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Every leader in the world, especially our enemies, knows how easy it is to manipulate Trump with flattery and bribery.
If he was a Democrat everyone would be appalled at the national security risk and demand he be removed.
If he was a Democrat everyone would be appalled at the national security risk and demand he be removed.
December 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Every leader in the world, especially our enemies, knows how easy it is to manipulate Trump with flattery and bribery.
If he was a Democrat everyone would be appalled at the national security risk and demand he be removed.
If he was a Democrat everyone would be appalled at the national security risk and demand he be removed.
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@borowitzreport.bsky.social nails it!
December 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM
@borowitzreport.bsky.social nails it!
I know everyone is ragging on Newsom for this clip, but is he just against a wealth tax but still on on board with larger income taxes for billionaires?
The wealth tax as an idea is somewhat controversial...
Doesn't mean he's pro-billionaire. 🤷♂️
IDK
The wealth tax as an idea is somewhat controversial...
Doesn't mean he's pro-billionaire. 🤷♂️
IDK
Gov. @gavinnewsom says he disagrees with Mayor @zohrankmamdani about the need for a wealth tax on billionaires, which he is “adamantly against” - says Dems are a “big tent party” with both views.
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
December 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I know everyone is ragging on Newsom for this clip, but is he just against a wealth tax but still on on board with larger income taxes for billionaires?
The wealth tax as an idea is somewhat controversial...
Doesn't mean he's pro-billionaire. 🤷♂️
IDK
The wealth tax as an idea is somewhat controversial...
Doesn't mean he's pro-billionaire. 🤷♂️
IDK
Kind of amazing how these dudes can be SO wrong and the companies are just too big to fail...or even convince stock owners the company isn't worth investing in.
Meta Platforms is planning cuts to the metaverse—an arena Mark Zuckerberg once called the future of the company—and will shift spending to AI wearables.
Meta Plans to Shift Spending Away From the Metaverse
Zuckerberg’s bet on immersive online worlds has lost the company more than $77 billion since 2020.
on.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Kind of amazing how these dudes can be SO wrong and the companies are just too big to fail...or even convince stock owners the company isn't worth investing in.
Can't we just pass a law saying scotus has no jurisdiction over election/districting issues?
We really need term limits for SCOTUS
i can’t believe we’re going to be dealing with these guys for the rest of my life
i can’t believe we’re going to be dealing with these guys for the rest of my life
December 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Can't we just pass a law saying scotus has no jurisdiction over election/districting issues?
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And I'll add that one of the reasons why students may not value the experience of writing is because much of the writing they're asked to do in school does not require thinking. In fact, they're given lots of methods (templates, et al) that actively discourage thinking.
December 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
And I'll add that one of the reasons why students may not value the experience of writing is because much of the writing they're asked to do in school does not require thinking. In fact, they're given lots of methods (templates, et al) that actively discourage thinking.
If non-combatants surrender on the open seas and no one can hear them over the drone rotars...did they ever really surrender?
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), to reporters, after viewing video footage of the U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean on Sept. 2:
"Righteous strikes." "Entirely lawful."
"Righteous strikes." "Entirely lawful."
December 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
If non-combatants surrender on the open seas and no one can hear them over the drone rotars...did they ever really surrender?
The "fight" they were trying to stay in was called "life"
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The "fight" they were trying to stay in was called "life"
So we are going to help people determine truth via...gambling...on people's opinions???
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
So we are going to help people determine truth via...gambling...on people's opinions???
Just a reminder that humans are largely...humans. Men talk crap about women and women about men.
The idea that if women were in charge and managed everything and men "sit down and shut up" and the world would magically be perfect is...wishful thinking.
The idea that if women were in charge and managed everything and men "sit down and shut up" and the world would magically be perfect is...wishful thinking.
Dear Good Job: I work in a progressive public school in a small department where I am the only man. slate.trib.al/B9V6AyI
My Entire Department of Teachers Is All Women. I’m Fed Up With the Way They Talk About Men.
It's exhausting!
slate.trib.al
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Just a reminder that humans are largely...humans. Men talk crap about women and women about men.
The idea that if women were in charge and managed everything and men "sit down and shut up" and the world would magically be perfect is...wishful thinking.
The idea that if women were in charge and managed everything and men "sit down and shut up" and the world would magically be perfect is...wishful thinking.
This is the idiot future these people are driving us toward.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is the idiot future these people are driving us toward.
Incel Inside™️
Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion Tuesday to help launch “Trump accounts,” which give 25 million kids under 11 a $250 Treasury-managed investment stake.
Billionaires Find a Way to Give Away Money and Make Trump Happy
Andrew Carnegie put up 2,500 libraries. The Rockefellers eliminated diseases and founded a panoply of museums, universities and national parks. Michael Dell is spreading the wealth in a different way, $250 at a time.
bloom.bg
December 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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*This* fucking guy again...FFS
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
*This* fucking guy again...FFS
Disgusting.
SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.
December 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Disgusting.
At some point there will be a company that starts offering a service that manipulates the data available to these algos...to rig it so you get cheaper products...if we do indeed head down this pathway.
It’s unclear why the prices differ, but a new notice on Target’s website offers a potential hint: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”
Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs
A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how.
www.wired.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
At some point there will be a company that starts offering a service that manipulates the data available to these algos...to rig it so you get cheaper products...if we do indeed head down this pathway.
Somehow I doubt when Musk goes to buy eggs they'll try to charge *him* $80 per egg.
It’s unclear why the prices differ, but a new notice on Target’s website offers a potential hint: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”
Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs
A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how.
www.wired.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Somehow I doubt when Musk goes to buy eggs they'll try to charge *him* $80 per egg.
I get it...talk long enough and you're gonna get to this point...just riffing about virgin GPUs birthing AI Jesus...but...man, you gotta step back and start asking what are you doing here.
December 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I get it...talk long enough and you're gonna get to this point...just riffing about virgin GPUs birthing AI Jesus...but...man, you gotta step back and start asking what are you doing here.
Yep
The first rule of low-turnout special elections is you do NOT talk about low-turnout special elections.
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Yep
Really weekend at bernies level shit right there.
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Really weekend at bernies level shit right there.
Nice try.
I'm not *that* old. 😄
I'm not *that* old. 😄
If Stranger Things was remade today and set the same number of years ago as S1 it would be in 2003 and instead of a resurgence of a Kate Bush song it would be Hoobastank, the kids would dress up for Halloween like Neo and Trinity. No I can’t prove this is actually correct I am not going to do math.
December 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Nice try.
I'm not *that* old. 😄
I'm not *that* old. 😄
They also skip the part where everyone watching porn on their device is also showing everyone around them they are watching porn on their device.
In fact clear devices would only work in a dystopian future where society has outlawed privacy...
In fact clear devices would only work in a dystopian future where society has outlawed privacy...
the visual shorthand for futuristic technology in a lot of mainstream media now is like "what if your phone or tablet was just a clear rectangle" bc they've run out of ways to make tech look "newer" and it's literally a terrible idea like why would u want that it would make reading so difficult
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
They also skip the part where everyone watching porn on their device is also showing everyone around them they are watching porn on their device.
In fact clear devices would only work in a dystopian future where society has outlawed privacy...
In fact clear devices would only work in a dystopian future where society has outlawed privacy...
Could we...and I'm just spitballing here...replace the fossil fuels with...say...humans running around continuously as they shoot laser beams and/or paintball at each other? 😉
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Could we...and I'm just spitballing here...replace the fossil fuels with...say...humans running around continuously as they shoot laser beams and/or paintball at each other? 😉
I feel like the only place the instructor went a little off is the "demonic" being "offensive" to minorities.
That isn't really relevant to the grading IMO.
Students should feel free to write "offensive" material in college without fear of being punished for it.
That isn't really relevant to the grading IMO.
Students should feel free to write "offensive" material in college without fear of being punished for it.
idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
December 1, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I feel like the only place the instructor went a little off is the "demonic" being "offensive" to minorities.
That isn't really relevant to the grading IMO.
Students should feel free to write "offensive" material in college without fear of being punished for it.
That isn't really relevant to the grading IMO.
Students should feel free to write "offensive" material in college without fear of being punished for it.