Rob Fisher
@robfisher.bsky.social
Photographer, Climber, dog-lover, and avid reader.
I used to think we had transitioned to the grift economy, but I realize now that we've been forever stuck in the extraction economy.
I cant wait until you can take out loans to support your gambling addiction as one final mechanism to funnel all cash to the ultra wealthy.
I cant wait until you can take out loans to support your gambling addiction as one final mechanism to funnel all cash to the ultra wealthy.
"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
truthout.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I used to think we had transitioned to the grift economy, but I realize now that we've been forever stuck in the extraction economy.
I cant wait until you can take out loans to support your gambling addiction as one final mechanism to funnel all cash to the ultra wealthy.
I cant wait until you can take out loans to support your gambling addiction as one final mechanism to funnel all cash to the ultra wealthy.
I don't understand how these people can fail to recognize the dystopia they seem to be advocating.
We want to turn everything into a casino and use it as an extraction mechanism to funnel more wealth directly to the wealthiest people in history.
Freedom! Merit! Entrepreneurialism! Or whatever.
We want to turn everything into a casino and use it as an extraction mechanism to funnel more wealth directly to the wealthiest people in history.
Freedom! Merit! Entrepreneurialism! Or whatever.
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 1:12 AM
I don't understand how these people can fail to recognize the dystopia they seem to be advocating.
We want to turn everything into a casino and use it as an extraction mechanism to funnel more wealth directly to the wealthiest people in history.
Freedom! Merit! Entrepreneurialism! Or whatever.
We want to turn everything into a casino and use it as an extraction mechanism to funnel more wealth directly to the wealthiest people in history.
Freedom! Merit! Entrepreneurialism! Or whatever.
I wish this was about his absolute shit economics takes rather than his abhorrent Epstein connection, but I’ll take it.
I’m sure he will sleep well at night surrounded by his intense wealth, but hopefully the public embarrassment haunts his dreams.
I’m sure he will sleep well at night surrounded by his intense wealth, but hopefully the public embarrassment haunts his dreams.
December 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I wish this was about his absolute shit economics takes rather than his abhorrent Epstein connection, but I’ll take it.
I’m sure he will sleep well at night surrounded by his intense wealth, but hopefully the public embarrassment haunts his dreams.
I’m sure he will sleep well at night surrounded by his intense wealth, but hopefully the public embarrassment haunts his dreams.
That sort of language is sure to upset the donor/pundit class. He should definitely tone it down to “the undeniably good force of the free market want to destroy our democracy.”
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
December 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
That sort of language is sure to upset the donor/pundit class. He should definitely tone it down to “the undeniably good force of the free market want to destroy our democracy.”
Every time I think Megan Kelly can’t be THAT monstrous she goes and proves 100% she’s worse than I can imagine.
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Every time I think Megan Kelly can’t be THAT monstrous she goes and proves 100% she’s worse than I can imagine.
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Yet another long feature article about political violence that refuses to acknowledge the basic reality that right-wing violence is far more common than left-wing violence.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Yet another long feature article about political violence that refuses to acknowledge the basic reality that right-wing violence is far more common than left-wing violence.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The fact that mainstream media hasn't figured out how to handle the gish gallop, non sequitur, filibustering yet is an indictment of their whole project.
If you can't best a dim bulb like Noem in an interview, what does that say about you?
If you can't best a dim bulb like Noem in an interview, what does that say about you?
Kristi Noem refuses to directly answer a question about what Trump means by "remigration" -- a word that, as Kristen Welker notes, is often invoked by white nationalists in Europe
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The fact that mainstream media hasn't figured out how to handle the gish gallop, non sequitur, filibustering yet is an indictment of their whole project.
If you can't best a dim bulb like Noem in an interview, what does that say about you?
If you can't best a dim bulb like Noem in an interview, what does that say about you?
I'm pretty sure Zuck would be 1000% with child slavery if it helped drive engagement.
The book "Careless People" was an enlightening confirmation that Meta is run by soulless, greedy out of touch weirdos.
The book "Careless People" was an enlightening confirmation that Meta is run by soulless, greedy out of touch weirdos.
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I'm pretty sure Zuck would be 1000% with child slavery if it helped drive engagement.
The book "Careless People" was an enlightening confirmation that Meta is run by soulless, greedy out of touch weirdos.
The book "Careless People" was an enlightening confirmation that Meta is run by soulless, greedy out of touch weirdos.
Shoving these LLMs into almost every aspect of our economy in a desperate bid to replace human labor with digital slaves who constantly lie can only be a recipe for success.
Thankfully, the entirety of the stock market isn't backstopped by this floundering (and worsening) technology.
Thankfully, the entirety of the stock market isn't backstopped by this floundering (and worsening) technology.
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Shoving these LLMs into almost every aspect of our economy in a desperate bid to replace human labor with digital slaves who constantly lie can only be a recipe for success.
Thankfully, the entirety of the stock market isn't backstopped by this floundering (and worsening) technology.
Thankfully, the entirety of the stock market isn't backstopped by this floundering (and worsening) technology.
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
I've been frustrated by this forever. I'm not sure what the point of maintaining access if all your reporting is either a) being lied to constantly or b) being used as a tool of propaganda.
What's the point?
What's the point?
We saw on Friday elite solidarity rather than professional solidarity when Trump called a female reporter “piggy” and not a single one of her colleagues came to her defense—presumably because they didn’t want to threaten their own proximity to power.
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I've been frustrated by this forever. I'm not sure what the point of maintaining access if all your reporting is either a) being lied to constantly or b) being used as a tool of propaganda.
What's the point?
What's the point?
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This person was the President of Harvard University, the US Secretary of the Treasury, and the Director of the National Economic Council of the United States.
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This person was the President of Harvard University, the US Secretary of the Treasury, and the Director of the National Economic Council of the United States.
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NY Times says Josh Shapiro—narcissist who hates pro-Palestine protesters and "makes centrism sound urgent"—is the Dems' future over progressives like Mamdani who actually won on economic justice. No party snatches defeat from victory like these idiots.
Watch the full video: youtu.be/1GGkemM2geA
Watch the full video: youtu.be/1GGkemM2geA
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
NY Times says Josh Shapiro—narcissist who hates pro-Palestine protesters and "makes centrism sound urgent"—is the Dems' future over progressives like Mamdani who actually won on economic justice. No party snatches defeat from victory like these idiots.
Watch the full video: youtu.be/1GGkemM2geA
Watch the full video: youtu.be/1GGkemM2geA
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just left snippy messages for schumer and gillibrand. first time for everything i guess!
202-224-3121
202-224-3121
November 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
just left snippy messages for schumer and gillibrand. first time for everything i guess!
202-224-3121
202-224-3121
You can't because this framing specifically is designed to say, "I'm for sensible things without actually outlining policies for those things "
You are for safe neighborhoods? Great. Is that in opposition to leftists? No? What policy position are you taking to keep neighborhoods safe?
You are for safe neighborhoods? Great. Is that in opposition to leftists? No? What policy position are you taking to keep neighborhoods safe?
Name the ‘moderate position’ on literally any issue. Quickly.
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
You can't because this framing specifically is designed to say, "I'm for sensible things without actually outlining policies for those things "
You are for safe neighborhoods? Great. Is that in opposition to leftists? No? What policy position are you taking to keep neighborhoods safe?
You are for safe neighborhoods? Great. Is that in opposition to leftists? No? What policy position are you taking to keep neighborhoods safe?
When the conservative movement tells you who they are .... BELIEVE THEM!
W/o serious, sustainable pushback from all of polite society, things will continue to get so much worse. Eventually there will be a new political influencer that thinks Fuentes isn't hardcore enough dragging things rightward.
W/o serious, sustainable pushback from all of polite society, things will continue to get so much worse. Eventually there will be a new political influencer that thinks Fuentes isn't hardcore enough dragging things rightward.
the bleakest moment in this article is the point where a heritage staffer, horrified by fuentes, discovers that "a growing number" of heritage interns are groypers
My assumption is that the New York Post has better sources inside Heritage than most other press outlets. One tidbit of note: Princeton's Robert P. George, a Heritage trustee, is said to be pushing fellow board members to oust its president Kevin Roberts. Hope he succeeds.
November 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM
When the conservative movement tells you who they are .... BELIEVE THEM!
W/o serious, sustainable pushback from all of polite society, things will continue to get so much worse. Eventually there will be a new political influencer that thinks Fuentes isn't hardcore enough dragging things rightward.
W/o serious, sustainable pushback from all of polite society, things will continue to get so much worse. Eventually there will be a new political influencer that thinks Fuentes isn't hardcore enough dragging things rightward.
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Pure cruelty.
Officially, stores cannot give SNAP recipients preferential treatment absent a waiver, w waivers given to places encouraging healthy eating.
So obvs a rule aimed at preventing junk-food places from targeting SNAP.
This is … SO much not that.
And this enforcement is a CHOICE.
Officially, stores cannot give SNAP recipients preferential treatment absent a waiver, w waivers given to places encouraging healthy eating.
So obvs a rule aimed at preventing junk-food places from targeting SNAP.
This is … SO much not that.
And this enforcement is a CHOICE.
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Pure cruelty.
Officially, stores cannot give SNAP recipients preferential treatment absent a waiver, w waivers given to places encouraging healthy eating.
So obvs a rule aimed at preventing junk-food places from targeting SNAP.
This is … SO much not that.
And this enforcement is a CHOICE.
Officially, stores cannot give SNAP recipients preferential treatment absent a waiver, w waivers given to places encouraging healthy eating.
So obvs a rule aimed at preventing junk-food places from targeting SNAP.
This is … SO much not that.
And this enforcement is a CHOICE.
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Poll: Americans say “too divided”
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive
Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes
Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left
Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive
Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes
Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left
Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.
I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
November 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Poll: Americans say “too divided”
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive
Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes
Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left
Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive
Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes
Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left
Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.
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It's rich that Klein of all people would weigh in on this. He's the quintessential lib pundit who 1) talks to no one on the ground, 2) has no relevant expertise at all, and yet 3) is confident in the path forward. It's the pundits and consultants who have strangled the party to death!
I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
November 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It's rich that Klein of all people would weigh in on this. He's the quintessential lib pundit who 1) talks to no one on the ground, 2) has no relevant expertise at all, and yet 3) is confident in the path forward. It's the pundits and consultants who have strangled the party to death!
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Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!
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Yes. Very casually turning the SSFA into a determination that any statute addressing race discrimination must be time-bound. Just absolutely untrue. An utter usurpation of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.
Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.
October 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Yes. Very casually turning the SSFA into a determination that any statute addressing race discrimination must be time-bound. Just absolutely untrue. An utter usurpation of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.
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You know, to paraphrase @kenwhite.bsky.social , if you joke about some things, it’s kind of like ‘ironically’ fucking a goat.
Sure, you may say it’s for irony or performance art or to be provocative or whatever, but at the end of the day, you’re still balls deep in a goat.
Sure, you may say it’s for irony or performance art or to be provocative or whatever, but at the end of the day, you’re still balls deep in a goat.
JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."
October 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
You know, to paraphrase @kenwhite.bsky.social , if you joke about some things, it’s kind of like ‘ironically’ fucking a goat.
Sure, you may say it’s for irony or performance art or to be provocative or whatever, but at the end of the day, you’re still balls deep in a goat.
Sure, you may say it’s for irony or performance art or to be provocative or whatever, but at the end of the day, you’re still balls deep in a goat.
No, it's just doing politics "the right way" or something.
I feel bad for all those people who miss out. Coates isn't a radical but he certainly has a beautiful mastery of the English language and is moreso on the right side of history than many of his contemporaries.
I feel bad for all those people who miss out. Coates isn't a radical but he certainly has a beautiful mastery of the English language and is moreso on the right side of history than many of his contemporaries.
October 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
No, it's just doing politics "the right way" or something.
I feel bad for all those people who miss out. Coates isn't a radical but he certainly has a beautiful mastery of the English language and is moreso on the right side of history than many of his contemporaries.
I feel bad for all those people who miss out. Coates isn't a radical but he certainly has a beautiful mastery of the English language and is moreso on the right side of history than many of his contemporaries.
My midlife crisis, from reading @edzitron.com's amazing newsletter is that the financial sector is going to historically crash the world economy for the 2nd time in my lifetime, because techbro CEOs have conned them into thinking digital slaves are right around the corner.
October 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
My midlife crisis, from reading @edzitron.com's amazing newsletter is that the financial sector is going to historically crash the world economy for the 2nd time in my lifetime, because techbro CEOs have conned them into thinking digital slaves are right around the corner.
This is a wild quotation. The man, realizing his eugenic, Nazi solution to the homeless was a bit too far for most audiences, eked back into acceptable dialogue without demonstrating a change of heart is "doing it the right way" and not pushing the Overton window rightward towards death camps.
Brian Kilmeade carefully considered the criticism of his stance and changed his mind, conceding that not all homeless people should be liquidated by lethal injection. That’s doing politics the right way.
—Ezra Klein
—Ezra Klein
September 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is a wild quotation. The man, realizing his eugenic, Nazi solution to the homeless was a bit too far for most audiences, eked back into acceptable dialogue without demonstrating a change of heart is "doing it the right way" and not pushing the Overton window rightward towards death camps.