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Our grocery bills got fucked up specifically because Xi, Trump, and Putin are all fucking morons, and Biden and Harris paid the price b/c voters don't understand lasting consequences.
February 13, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Our grocery bills got fucked up specifically because Xi, Trump, and Putin are all fucking morons, and Biden and Harris paid the price b/c voters don't understand lasting consequences.
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Maybe it'll get better *after* two of the world's largest agricultural producers are no longer in a state of total war against each other, courtesy of an insane despot who thinks he's Tsar of All the Russias.
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Maybe it'll get better *after* two of the world's largest agricultural producers are no longer in a state of total war against each other, courtesy of an insane despot who thinks he's Tsar of All the Russias.
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We had this really golden era for *groceries* specifically right before COVID and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine fucked it all to hell.
February 13, 2026 at 5:08 AM
We had this really golden era for *groceries* specifically right before COVID and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine fucked it all to hell.
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It's a mess, man. I'm saving by buying almost exclusively store brand stuff from Walmart (or cheap name brands, when convenient), but I'm spending way more than I ought to. I remember the days when $200 could feed a family of 4 for two weeks easily, with premium foodstuffs.
February 13, 2026 at 5:08 AM
It's a mess, man. I'm saving by buying almost exclusively store brand stuff from Walmart (or cheap name brands, when convenient), but I'm spending way more than I ought to. I remember the days when $200 could feed a family of 4 for two weeks easily, with premium foodstuffs.
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me: these groceries are expensive
them: first of all, goldfish? to snack on?? in this economy???
them: first of all, goldfish? to snack on?? in this economy???
I really don’t want to do another round of inflation discourse, particularly as a practicing economist, but like, this was $54. And, like, i’m not exactly splurging here. Store brand cheese and pickles? Crackers? Lunch meat? A pound of chicken?
February 12, 2026 at 8:32 PM
me: these groceries are expensive
them: first of all, goldfish? to snack on?? in this economy???
them: first of all, goldfish? to snack on?? in this economy???
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bluesky is a fucking wild site because you can post "wow, my energy bill was high this month" and the aboslute wokescolds will come out and be like "You absolute piece of shit, why aren't you frugalmaxxing, I keep my heat at 55 F and wear 7 layers at all times"
February 12, 2026 at 8:30 PM
bluesky is a fucking wild site because you can post "wow, my energy bill was high this month" and the aboslute wokescolds will come out and be like "You absolute piece of shit, why aren't you frugalmaxxing, I keep my heat at 55 F and wear 7 layers at all times"
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It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
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…& probably what would be most politically effective with these people would be the sort of thing ecocriticism…criticizes—playing into ideas of natural purity & harmony, etc.
February 13, 2026 at 2:06 AM
…& probably what would be most politically effective with these people would be the sort of thing ecocriticism…criticizes—playing into ideas of natural purity & harmony, etc.
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That said, if you could inject (pun not unintended) really graphic, direct stuff about environmental harm caused by the Trump admin into their media & cultural consumption…it couldn’t hurt to try.
February 13, 2026 at 2:03 AM
That said, if you could inject (pun not unintended) really graphic, direct stuff about environmental harm caused by the Trump admin into their media & cultural consumption…it couldn’t hurt to try.
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The thing to understand about the make-America-healthy-again voters, I suspect, is that their conception of “pollution” or “environmental harm” only involves what they consume (or more accurately, in the case of vaccines, what enters their body).
February 13, 2026 at 1:56 AM
The thing to understand about the make-America-healthy-again voters, I suspect, is that their conception of “pollution” or “environmental harm” only involves what they consume (or more accurately, in the case of vaccines, what enters their body).
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My goodness, I've never heard of the Newcomer guy but he is (in a jovial way) kicking Rabois' ass.
"Everything got better when Reagan got elected, the hostages were freed!"
Wasn't that corrupt? [correct]
"The left should protest Iran!"
How? Don't Americans protest American policy? [correct again!]
"Everything got better when Reagan got elected, the hostages were freed!"
Wasn't that corrupt? [correct]
"The left should protest Iran!"
How? Don't Americans protest American policy? [correct again!]
February 12, 2026 at 10:18 PM
My goodness, I've never heard of the Newcomer guy but he is (in a jovial way) kicking Rabois' ass.
"Everything got better when Reagan got elected, the hostages were freed!"
Wasn't that corrupt? [correct]
"The left should protest Iran!"
How? Don't Americans protest American policy? [correct again!]
"Everything got better when Reagan got elected, the hostages were freed!"
Wasn't that corrupt? [correct]
"The left should protest Iran!"
How? Don't Americans protest American policy? [correct again!]
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I enjoyed the part, "What do you make of the fact so many of your RW, PayPal Mafia friends are all over the Epstein files?" and then this guy, who otherwise sounds deep into politics, responds w "I don't have the time to follow what's going on with that."
It's curious what people are curious about.
It's curious what people are curious about.
February 12, 2026 at 10:11 PM
I enjoyed the part, "What do you make of the fact so many of your RW, PayPal Mafia friends are all over the Epstein files?" and then this guy, who otherwise sounds deep into politics, responds w "I don't have the time to follow what's going on with that."
It's curious what people are curious about.
It's curious what people are curious about.
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“You cannot wear a yarmulke in Paris at all. You will definitely be assaulted. Everybody is terrified. I would not walk down the streets of London or Paris with a Jewish star. I would definitely wear one in the UAE. And maybe Saudi Arabia.”
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Okay for a certain kind of tech/VC twitter person who left at the right time, this is going to be some serious rage bait podcast.newcomer.co/episode/keit...
Keith Rabois and Eric Newcomer's Heated Conversation on Tech, Trump, and Tariffs | Newcomer Podcast — Your Seat At The Cap Table
Keith Rabois joins the Newcomer Podcast for a wide-ranging conversation that moves between tech, venture capital, and politics.On the tech side, we start with...
podcast.newcomer.co
February 12, 2026 at 9:02 PM
“You cannot wear a yarmulke in Paris at all. You will definitely be assaulted. Everybody is terrified. I would not walk down the streets of London or Paris with a Jewish star. I would definitely wear one in the UAE. And maybe Saudi Arabia.”
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ahhh, there’s that Corey Lewandowski mind at work.
The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect
February 13, 2026 at 3:48 AM
ahhh, there’s that Corey Lewandowski mind at work.
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most ethical CBP officer (the woman was an adult).
CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece.
CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece
The Justice Department alleges that CBP officer and supervisor Andres Wilkinson had been living in Laredo, Texas, with a woman who had overstayed her visa and is now in the U.S. illegally.
cbsn.ws
February 13, 2026 at 3:57 AM
most ethical CBP officer (the woman was an adult).
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if you told me this was an email Jeffrey Epstein sent himself, I couldn’t rule it out.
We all know about the Claude spiritual bliss attractor state. But what happens when you let Grok talk to itself for a long time? Answer:
February 13, 2026 at 4:28 AM
if you told me this was an email Jeffrey Epstein sent himself, I couldn’t rule it out.
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Do you know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was missing?
Kalshi.
Kalshi.
February 13, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Do you know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was missing?
Kalshi.
Kalshi.
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Something about fabricated reality hurts my weird autistic brain, and the weeks after the rollout were brutal. People were euphoric to the point of mania over stuff that simply didn't matter. And now they don't even consider they might have been wrong, they're certain something must have changed.
February 13, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Something about fabricated reality hurts my weird autistic brain, and the weeks after the rollout were brutal. People were euphoric to the point of mania over stuff that simply didn't matter. And now they don't even consider they might have been wrong, they're certain something must have changed.
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I actually disagree with you about the "weird" thing, but I'm also not sure that it mattered all that much.
Running in the first post-COVID election was hard for just about every incumbent party in the western democratic world.
Running in the first post-COVID election was hard for just about every incumbent party in the western democratic world.
February 13, 2026 at 12:02 AM
I actually disagree with you about the "weird" thing, but I'm also not sure that it mattered all that much.
Running in the first post-COVID election was hard for just about every incumbent party in the western democratic world.
Running in the first post-COVID election was hard for just about every incumbent party in the western democratic world.
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What people wanted was to feel excited and relieved like they did the first week after Harris took over the campaign, and they’ve latched onto something that was correlated with that. That’s all of it.
February 12, 2026 at 9:02 PM
What people wanted was to feel excited and relieved like they did the first week after Harris took over the campaign, and they’ve latched onto something that was correlated with that. That’s all of it.
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I liked it when I saw Walz calling Republicans “weird” all the time and they seemed on the back foot about it. But 1) it stopped being novel, so it didn’t matter how much they still said it (they did keep saying it), it wouldn’t get as much play, and 2) if it had, it would have felt old and stale
If I’d seen “weird” constantly on my TL for 3 months it would have made everything good and I definitely wouldn’t have started complaining that it seems like this “weird” thing was all they had to say.
February 12, 2026 at 8:59 PM
I liked it when I saw Walz calling Republicans “weird” all the time and they seemed on the back foot about it. But 1) it stopped being novel, so it didn’t matter how much they still said it (they did keep saying it), it wouldn’t get as much play, and 2) if it had, it would have felt old and stale
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I could get behind doing that through act of congress with a bar higher than it currently takes to pass a normal law but I do not trust State department to do it if it could ever be under R control again
February 12, 2026 at 11:08 PM
I could get behind doing that through act of congress with a bar higher than it currently takes to pass a normal law but I do not trust State department to do it if it could ever be under R control again
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Being a useful idiot is protected by the first amendment
Transporting yourself to be killed, well less so. But the US doesn't pay the ransoms so it also seems permissible at own risk.
Transporting yourself to be killed, well less so. But the US doesn't pay the ransoms so it also seems permissible at own risk.
February 12, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Being a useful idiot is protected by the first amendment
Transporting yourself to be killed, well less so. But the US doesn't pay the ransoms so it also seems permissible at own risk.
Transporting yourself to be killed, well less so. But the US doesn't pay the ransoms so it also seems permissible at own risk.
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"Landed in Jakarta yesterday. I'm shocked that there are still Indonesians alive and walking around. According to Soviet media the regime killed a gazillion Communists and all plant and animal life."
Defending repressive regimes is morally abhorrent.
Defending repressive regimes is morally abhorrent.
Parts of the Palestinian activist movement in the US have unfortunately been overtaken by campist politics that have utilized Palestine for broader ideological projects. This is the co-founder of Palestine Action US. (1)
February 12, 2026 at 11:33 PM
"Landed in Jakarta yesterday. I'm shocked that there are still Indonesians alive and walking around. According to Soviet media the regime killed a gazillion Communists and all plant and animal life."
Defending repressive regimes is morally abhorrent.
Defending repressive regimes is morally abhorrent.
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Even if AI changes everything, think about how long it took the personal computer to change everything. Or the internet. Or cell phones. And despite everyone having a smart phone all the time now people still carry wallets. The real world does not traverse the tech tree cleanly!
February 12, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Even if AI changes everything, think about how long it took the personal computer to change everything. Or the internet. Or cell phones. And despite everyone having a smart phone all the time now people still carry wallets. The real world does not traverse the tech tree cleanly!