@lshorts.bsky.social
New platform, new handle. In another life I was a cloud.
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It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand
An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand
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Intolerable contempt of the law.
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Intolerable contempt of the law.
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1/ So it looks like grand juries may be one of those Chesterton's Fence things. For years, I thought the grand jury system was useless since they almost always do what the prosecutor asks. But now we see they are no-billing on some charges and prosecutors are trying to bypass them w/ chicanery.
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
1/ So it looks like grand juries may be one of those Chesterton's Fence things. For years, I thought the grand jury system was useless since they almost always do what the prosecutor asks. But now we see they are no-billing on some charges and prosecutors are trying to bypass them w/ chicanery.
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Securing defections from the authoritarian regime is the centerpiece of any successful pro-democracy resistance.
Politics isn’t fandom—when someone leaves the authoritarian coalition, we should take it as a win.
Politics isn’t fandom—when someone leaves the authoritarian coalition, we should take it as a win.
BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
November 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Securing defections from the authoritarian regime is the centerpiece of any successful pro-democracy resistance.
Politics isn’t fandom—when someone leaves the authoritarian coalition, we should take it as a win.
Politics isn’t fandom—when someone leaves the authoritarian coalition, we should take it as a win.
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the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
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“Actually, he only raped teenagers” is a hell of a thing to say out loud.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“Actually, he only raped teenagers” is a hell of a thing to say out loud.
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“We killed a bird, cooked it, and ate it as part of a feast day,” is to my knowledge a concept which every culture has. How can one possible fail at comprehending the Thanksgiving turkey?
It’s how you end up with language like “paperwork American” or the idea that Thanksgiving turkey is some sort of natural ethno-national tradition that certain other groups are incapable of ever appreciating
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
“We killed a bird, cooked it, and ate it as part of a feast day,” is to my knowledge a concept which every culture has. How can one possible fail at comprehending the Thanksgiving turkey?
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Here's Republican Megyn Kelly defending men who rape 15-year-old girls. Megyn Kelly has a 14-year-old DAUGHTER.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Here's Republican Megyn Kelly defending men who rape 15-year-old girls. Megyn Kelly has a 14-year-old DAUGHTER.
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The modern Republican Party has so many pedophiles and rapists that it makes me feel like I'm crazy because how is this even possible
November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The modern Republican Party has so many pedophiles and rapists that it makes me feel like I'm crazy because how is this even possible
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Jeffery Epstein hanging out in Trump Tower ~1 week after the 2016 election, cool cool
November 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Jeffery Epstein hanging out in Trump Tower ~1 week after the 2016 election, cool cool
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DOGE ATE MY HOMEWORK
WHITE HOUSE: FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY BEEN DAMAGED WHITE HOUSE: OCTOBER JOBS REPORTS LIKELY NEVER RELEASED
November 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
DOGE ATE MY HOMEWORK
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This case has one of my favorite non-dispositive facts of all time - that the prisoner showed up to jail with a Fifth Circuit decision saying dreadlocks could not he cut, and the guards threw it out and shaved him anyway
At 10am, Supreme Court hears arguments in this religious rights case involving a Rastafarian prison inmate whose dreadlocks were cut off against his wishes:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Supreme Court weighs Rastafarian man's religious rights claim over shorn dreadlocks
Damon Landor is seeking damages after Louisiana prison officials cut off his dreadlocks in violation of his religious beliefs.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This case has one of my favorite non-dispositive facts of all time - that the prisoner showed up to jail with a Fifth Circuit decision saying dreadlocks could not he cut, and the guards threw it out and shaved him anyway
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Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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keep thinking there’s something dialectical here
Nixon: bad character (moral idiot)
Reagan: no character (destructive plasticity)
Trump: anti character (plastic moral idiocy)
Nixon: bad character (moral idiot)
Reagan: no character (destructive plasticity)
Trump: anti character (plastic moral idiocy)
November 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
keep thinking there’s something dialectical here
Nixon: bad character (moral idiot)
Reagan: no character (destructive plasticity)
Trump: anti character (plastic moral idiocy)
Nixon: bad character (moral idiot)
Reagan: no character (destructive plasticity)
Trump: anti character (plastic moral idiocy)
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This isn't to say that there's never a use for tariffs. They're instrumental in the early stages of economic development, helping to cultivate the expertise and infrastructure for particular industries.
This is not a situation that the United States has found itself in since the 19th century
This is not a situation that the United States has found itself in since the 19th century
Tariffs are the pro-labor policy of fools. All you're doing is robbing your exporters to pay non-exporters
In the context of Maine: you're stealing from the lobsterman, in order to pay the lumberman. Except you're not even really paying the lumberman, you're lining the pockets of his boss.
In the context of Maine: you're stealing from the lobsterman, in order to pay the lumberman. Except you're not even really paying the lumberman, you're lining the pockets of his boss.
Good thing no Dem stuck their neck out for Trumps' extremely stupid tariffs ( @golden.house.gov )
November 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This isn't to say that there's never a use for tariffs. They're instrumental in the early stages of economic development, helping to cultivate the expertise and infrastructure for particular industries.
This is not a situation that the United States has found itself in since the 19th century
This is not a situation that the United States has found itself in since the 19th century
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Tariffs are the pro-labor policy of fools. All you're doing is robbing your exporters to pay non-exporters
In the context of Maine: you're stealing from the lobsterman, in order to pay the lumberman. Except you're not even really paying the lumberman, you're lining the pockets of his boss.
In the context of Maine: you're stealing from the lobsterman, in order to pay the lumberman. Except you're not even really paying the lumberman, you're lining the pockets of his boss.
Good thing no Dem stuck their neck out for Trumps' extremely stupid tariffs ( @golden.house.gov )
Tariffs are consistently both one of Trump’s worst issues and the most highly salient issues for voters and I still think we don’t talk about them enough
November 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Tariffs are the pro-labor policy of fools. All you're doing is robbing your exporters to pay non-exporters
In the context of Maine: you're stealing from the lobsterman, in order to pay the lumberman. Except you're not even really paying the lumberman, you're lining the pockets of his boss.
In the context of Maine: you're stealing from the lobsterman, in order to pay the lumberman. Except you're not even really paying the lumberman, you're lining the pockets of his boss.
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Scolding people for being shocked is bad. "You don't pay as much attention to the world as I do" isn't great for broadening a coalition. Also, "all bad stuff is the same" is wrong. Refusal to gate-keep Nazis from a major party *is* new. And it's valuable to remain shocked by things you can explain.
If you’re shocked by the Heritage Foundation defending Tucker Carlson — who’s done more to normalize antisemitism & white nationalism than almost anyone — you haven’t been paying attention. That same extremism is at the core of Project 2025, from mass deportations to gutting core democratic rights.
1. A watershed moment.
The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to Trump…this is something new
The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to Trump…this is something new
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Scolding people for being shocked is bad. "You don't pay as much attention to the world as I do" isn't great for broadening a coalition. Also, "all bad stuff is the same" is wrong. Refusal to gate-keep Nazis from a major party *is* new. And it's valuable to remain shocked by things you can explain.
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This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
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Ben Shapiro believed the post-Holocaust taboo against antisemitism was sufficiently strong that he could support a political movement dedicated to tearing down other taboos against bigotries in the name of fighting "wokeness," and the one against antisemitism would remain. Turns out he was wrong.
October 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ben Shapiro believed the post-Holocaust taboo against antisemitism was sufficiently strong that he could support a political movement dedicated to tearing down other taboos against bigotries in the name of fighting "wokeness," and the one against antisemitism would remain. Turns out he was wrong.
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I'd say that you can find good in many people who voted for Trump, but you won't find it in their reasons for voting for Trump or in their ideas about politics.
I know Trump voters who can be kind and generous and loving. If you ask why they voted for Trump they'll give you misinfo and bigotry.
I know Trump voters who can be kind and generous and loving. If you ask why they voted for Trump they'll give you misinfo and bigotry.
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I'd say that you can find good in many people who voted for Trump, but you won't find it in their reasons for voting for Trump or in their ideas about politics.
I know Trump voters who can be kind and generous and loving. If you ask why they voted for Trump they'll give you misinfo and bigotry.
I know Trump voters who can be kind and generous and loving. If you ask why they voted for Trump they'll give you misinfo and bigotry.
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Mother of 8 charges sexual abuse by ICE—she was deported very next day.
Agent engaged in "severe sexual harassment" and demanded "sexual favors."
After her story aired on television Thursday night—she was deported on Friday morning.
Reyna Mendoza is the mother of 8 children—all U.S. citizens.
Agent engaged in "severe sexual harassment" and demanded "sexual favors."
After her story aired on television Thursday night—she was deported on Friday morning.
Reyna Mendoza is the mother of 8 children—all U.S. citizens.
October 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Mother of 8 charges sexual abuse by ICE—she was deported very next day.
Agent engaged in "severe sexual harassment" and demanded "sexual favors."
After her story aired on television Thursday night—she was deported on Friday morning.
Reyna Mendoza is the mother of 8 children—all U.S. citizens.
Agent engaged in "severe sexual harassment" and demanded "sexual favors."
After her story aired on television Thursday night—she was deported on Friday morning.
Reyna Mendoza is the mother of 8 children—all U.S. citizens.
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if you're wondering how things are going in texas, the chairman of the Tarrant County GOP is joking that Nov. 1st, the day SNAP benefits are poised to run out, is "National Chimp Out Day"
October 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
if you're wondering how things are going in texas, the chairman of the Tarrant County GOP is joking that Nov. 1st, the day SNAP benefits are poised to run out, is "National Chimp Out Day"