Michael Paolucci
@michaelfpaolucci.bsky.social
Situation gets rough, then I start to panic.
On Neil Young’s birthday, this lyric from “Revolution Blues,” a paranoid song inspired by Charles Manson no less, seems pretty apt right now:
“So you be good to me and I'll be good to you
And in this land of conditions I'm not above suspicion
I won't attack you, but I won't back you”
“So you be good to me and I'll be good to you
And in this land of conditions I'm not above suspicion
I won't attack you, but I won't back you”
November 13, 2025 at 4:38 AM
On Neil Young’s birthday, this lyric from “Revolution Blues,” a paranoid song inspired by Charles Manson no less, seems pretty apt right now:
“So you be good to me and I'll be good to you
And in this land of conditions I'm not above suspicion
I won't attack you, but I won't back you”
“So you be good to me and I'll be good to you
And in this land of conditions I'm not above suspicion
I won't attack you, but I won't back you”
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Another revelation from all of these emails is that many of the richest and most powerful people in the country absolutely cannot write. Helps explain their sweaty embrace of LLMs.
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Another revelation from all of these emails is that many of the richest and most powerful people in the country absolutely cannot write. Helps explain their sweaty embrace of LLMs.
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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Not the first time, but I'm always struck how elite boomers email each other in a syntax, style, and grammar I'd be embarrassed to send my closest friend in an informal chat. The most generous assumption I'd expect from a note like this is that they'd think I was drunk.
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Not the first time, but I'm always struck how elite boomers email each other in a syntax, style, and grammar I'd be embarrassed to send my closest friend in an informal chat. The most generous assumption I'd expect from a note like this is that they'd think I was drunk.
Just went to the mint on a field trip with my son’s class last spring. Saw some of the last pennies
The American penny will pass away later today after a prolonged illness. It was 238 years old. https://cnn.it/4oYYE7q
November 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Just went to the mint on a field trip with my son’s class last spring. Saw some of the last pennies
Neil Young is 80. I always play his music around this time of year as we approach Thanksgiving. Maybe it’s because he has an album called Harvest, or maybe it’s because he appears in The Last Waltz, the Band’s farewell concert famously captured by Martin Scorsese on Thanksgiving Day, 1976.
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Neil Young is 80. I always play his music around this time of year as we approach Thanksgiving. Maybe it’s because he has an album called Harvest, or maybe it’s because he appears in The Last Waltz, the Band’s farewell concert famously captured by Martin Scorsese on Thanksgiving Day, 1976.
8 monumental cowards under this dome tonight.
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
8 monumental cowards under this dome tonight.
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Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.
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Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
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Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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At a time when our politics feels broken, we need leaders like @mikiesherrill.bsky.social for Governor.
Mikie will work to create jobs, lower costs, and do what’s right for the people of New Jersey.
Mikie will work to create jobs, lower costs, and do what’s right for the people of New Jersey.
November 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
At a time when our politics feels broken, we need leaders like @mikiesherrill.bsky.social for Governor.
Mikie will work to create jobs, lower costs, and do what’s right for the people of New Jersey.
Mikie will work to create jobs, lower costs, and do what’s right for the people of New Jersey.
Cue Joni Mitchell 🎶
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Cue Joni Mitchell 🎶
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Perhaps the least shocking headline I’ve ever read. Centrists are just as zealous as anyone else and they often, because of the way they orient themselves in the middle, project an air of superiority as if they are the only adults in the room. It’s BS. One cannot be halfway opposed to Trump.
October 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Perhaps the least shocking headline I’ve ever read. Centrists are just as zealous as anyone else and they often, because of the way they orient themselves in the middle, project an air of superiority as if they are the only adults in the room. It’s BS. One cannot be halfway opposed to Trump.
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You need to see this…
Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.
Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.
October 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
You need to see this…
Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.
Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.
No better place to say eff you to a wannabe king than where it all started.
October 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
No better place to say eff you to a wannabe king than where it all started.
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STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.
VANCE: No, George, I sai--
STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
VANCE: No, George, I sai--
STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
October 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.
VANCE: No, George, I sai--
STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
VANCE: No, George, I sai--
STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
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someone on here the other day said it feels like we’re watching a baseball game where one team decides every inning to not take their turn at bat
The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.
Here’s a thought.
Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.
Here’s a thought.
Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.
September 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
someone on here the other day said it feels like we’re watching a baseball game where one team decides every inning to not take their turn at bat
An upside-down Statue of Liberty holding a hot dog instead of her tablet while Orwell looks on in the background? Symbolism is definitely not dead…
September 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
An upside-down Statue of Liberty holding a hot dog instead of her tablet while Orwell looks on in the background? Symbolism is definitely not dead…
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I would normally be horrified about someone releasing a video to talk about being indicted but this is pretty disciplined.
September 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I would normally be horrified about someone releasing a video to talk about being indicted but this is pretty disciplined.
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Their tough guy act sure seems to disappear anytime the rest of us stick together and tell them to get fucked.
FCC boss Brendan Carr now says his 'easy way or the hard way' comments about Jimmy Kimmel weren’t meant as a threat to pull licenses if Disney didn’t suspend him 🧢
September 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Their tough guy act sure seems to disappear anytime the rest of us stick together and tell them to get fucked.
Today is my 16,000th day on earth. A little while back, my son asked me how many days old everyone was and I found this site that calculates it for you and as it turns out, I was closing in on the big 1-6-0-0-0. I gotta say I don’t feel a day older than 15,999. Here’s to another 16,000!
September 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Today is my 16,000th day on earth. A little while back, my son asked me how many days old everyone was and I found this site that calculates it for you and as it turns out, I was closing in on the big 1-6-0-0-0. I gotta say I don’t feel a day older than 15,999. Here’s to another 16,000!
Read this thread on McCarthy going after a war hero in the 1950s and see if any of it sounds familiar.
Never forget that in McCarthy’s insane communist witch hunt he decided to go for that noted pinko George Marshall. You know, the guy who built the AEF campaigns in WWI, built the Army for WWII, oversaw the war, served as secretaries of both defence and state, rehabilitated Europe and Japan…
September 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Read this thread on McCarthy going after a war hero in the 1950s and see if any of it sounds familiar.