daymeryl
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I knew the em dash *before* he came to class.
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What's the proportion of articles written about insane left winger undergrads at Oberlin (enrollment 3,000) vs the right wing Christian administration at say, Grand Canyon University (enrollment 60,000) bsky.app/profile/plaw...
You’d have no idea reading the national media that there’s a massive network of right-wing colleges and universities, just like you’d have no idea that the vast majority of TV news is run by right wing corporations
December 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
What's the proportion of articles written about insane left winger undergrads at Oberlin (enrollment 3,000) vs the right wing Christian administration at say, Grand Canyon University (enrollment 60,000) bsky.app/profile/plaw...
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They didn't like Biden and sought out stories to hurt him. By contrast they like Trump so try to bury negative stories about him and minimize them
Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.
December 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
They didn't like Biden and sought out stories to hurt him. By contrast they like Trump so try to bury negative stories about him and minimize them
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I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)
In retrospect the Bush-era War On Christmas stuff seems more ominous than it did at the time. It was just cable news guys crying about dumb/fake shit, then and now; I mean the campaign to turn Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about, into just another thing to get mad about.
December 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)
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Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
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It's incredible how much of this stuff is just out in the open, but because Trump said "Russiagate hoax!" 5000 times, the media was brainwashed into treating it like a nothing story instead of one of a ten alarm scandal
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It's incredible how much of this stuff is just out in the open, but because Trump said "Russiagate hoax!" 5000 times, the media was brainwashed into treating it like a nothing story instead of one of a ten alarm scandal
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The leaders of the US auto industry had a difficult path towards relevancy, only by leaning on the support of Biden's IRA. They've decided to throw that away, juice some ICE profits for a few more years, and let their successors deal with the incipient crisis of global uncompetitiveness
December 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The leaders of the US auto industry had a difficult path towards relevancy, only by leaning on the support of Biden's IRA. They've decided to throw that away, juice some ICE profits for a few more years, and let their successors deal with the incipient crisis of global uncompetitiveness
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The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
December 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
4. Yglesias instead seems to implicitly argue that politicians should only do what wins elections, virtue be damned. One wonders what he thinks of those foolish 1850s abolitionists. As Condleeza Rice once said, politics is the art of making the impossible inevitable. That ain't this.
December 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
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2. What he says about climate is patently false (more on that later) but to the extent he's saying "politicians shouldn't do the right thing unless it's popular", I'd note only that that is a toddlers view of leadership. If the popular kids are mean, should you be mean?
December 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
2. What he says about climate is patently false (more on that later) but to the extent he's saying "politicians shouldn't do the right thing unless it's popular", I'd note only that that is a toddlers view of leadership. If the popular kids are mean, should you be mean?
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Very cool!
December 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Very cool!
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When media says “Biden should have been more empathetic,” what they really mean is “when Biden attempted to point out that things were better, we told everyone he was lying and then demanded he admit he caused the economic disaster we were all sure existed”
December 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
When media says “Biden should have been more empathetic,” what they really mean is “when Biden attempted to point out that things were better, we told everyone he was lying and then demanded he admit he caused the economic disaster we were all sure existed”
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Do you want to feel incandescently angry? Read coverage of Biden’s economic addresses, where he would truthfully relay great progress with accurate numbers, and it would get covered as a pack of lies. Then look at what the current guy does, who is covered the same way edition.cnn.com/2023/01/28/p...
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Do you want to feel incandescently angry? Read coverage of Biden’s economic addresses, where he would truthfully relay great progress with accurate numbers, and it would get covered as a pack of lies. Then look at what the current guy does, who is covered the same way edition.cnn.com/2023/01/28/p...
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I’m convinced the stress and constant annoyance of living in an economy where every corporation is constantly trying to screw you over is a big part of why people are unhappy with the economy, the government and status quo in general.
December 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I’m convinced the stress and constant annoyance of living in an economy where every corporation is constantly trying to screw you over is a big part of why people are unhappy with the economy, the government and status quo in general.
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they dont do this because they like Trump and want to help him. after he is gone and no longer of use to The Powers That Be, they will all laugh and swap stories about how "everyone knew" how it was much worse than is being openly reported now
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News account tomorrow need to make clear that this is a public display of mental breakdown.
News account tomorrow need to make clear that this is a public display of mental breakdown.
December 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
they dont do this because they like Trump and want to help him. after he is gone and no longer of use to The Powers That Be, they will all laugh and swap stories about how "everyone knew" how it was much worse than is being openly reported now
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It’s not that social media is inherently evil. It’s that human social interactions and dynamics are the most powerful force for shaping ideology, belief, behavior, even how we experience reality - and social media scales them up globally and makes them largely frictionless.
People started dancing until they passed out from exhaustion due to social pressure/contagion/whatever, idk why people think social pressures of thousands or even millions of people wouldn't make people go insane.
December 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
It’s not that social media is inherently evil. It’s that human social interactions and dynamics are the most powerful force for shaping ideology, belief, behavior, even how we experience reality - and social media scales them up globally and makes them largely frictionless.
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Yup. And if you spent 21/22 whining about the cost of your burrito taxi or whatever you should understand that you were an accomplice to this effort and that effort worked - first in prompted policy changes that slowed the labor market, then in defeating Biden/Harris bsky.app/profile/fogg...
Ultimately for these people, Biden's unforgivable sin was presiding over the tightest labor market in memory where bosses could not pointlessly force employees to RTO or sexually harass/extort favors from female employees without consequences.
December 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Yup. And if you spent 21/22 whining about the cost of your burrito taxi or whatever you should understand that you were an accomplice to this effort and that effort worked - first in prompted policy changes that slowed the labor market, then in defeating Biden/Harris bsky.app/profile/fogg...
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Genuinely think our society is lost if we can’t find a way to start caring that the ostensibly most powerful man in the world acts like this.
December 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Genuinely think our society is lost if we can’t find a way to start caring that the ostensibly most powerful man in the world acts like this.
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the weird two-year stretch in which i was older than every nfl quarterback is finally over. hopefully that will never happen again
The Colts will start QB Philip Rivers on Sunday against the Seahawks, sources tell The Insiders.
Age 44, out of retirement, after a full week of practice, Rivers is a go.
Age 44, out of retirement, after a full week of practice, Rivers is a go.
December 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
the weird two-year stretch in which i was older than every nfl quarterback is finally over. hopefully that will never happen again
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these guys are very obviously a bunch of white nationalists and it is getting kind of old to watch them talk around it as if we don’t already know the deal
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
these guys are very obviously a bunch of white nationalists and it is getting kind of old to watch them talk around it as if we don’t already know the deal
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It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
If He Builds It, Tear It Down
Pendulums must swing.
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December 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
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the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
Amtrak reports Mardi Gras service among most successful ever https://mynbc15.com/news/local/amtrak-provides-boost-to-mobile-businesses
Amtrak's Mardi Gras service boosts Mobile tourism with higher than expected ridership
Amtrak says the new Mardi Gras service that connects Mobile to New Orleans is one of the most successful services ever launched and it's on track to double the
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December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
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Yes the same way they ran "100% chance of recession" headlines a month before Biden's midterms, they will unleash "THE COMEBACK KID" in the second half of 2026 bsky.app/profile/scho...
That narrative is precisely timed to drop a month before the midterms.
December 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Yes the same way they ran "100% chance of recession" headlines a month before Biden's midterms, they will unleash "THE COMEBACK KID" in the second half of 2026 bsky.app/profile/scho...