@dessamo.bsky.social
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We are going to win
December 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
We are going to win
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A characteristic conservative/liberal division is that conservatives believe in a top-down worldview, not just hierarchies of people & the world (man/woman, white/black, human/nature, etc) but also of knowledge: first principles/inconvenient facts.
Here: digital superiority vs safety facts
Here: digital superiority vs safety facts
Nice of fElon to prefers his swasticars are unnecessarily built as death traps — with doors that are electrically controlled, rather than mechanically.
Perhaps he considers the # of deaths (15 so far) are "the cost of doing business."
#TeslaTakedown
🧾 www.cryptopolitan.com/elon-musk-pe...
Perhaps he considers the # of deaths (15 so far) are "the cost of doing business."
#TeslaTakedown
🧾 www.cryptopolitan.com/elon-musk-pe...
December 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A characteristic conservative/liberal division is that conservatives believe in a top-down worldview, not just hierarchies of people & the world (man/woman, white/black, human/nature, etc) but also of knowledge: first principles/inconvenient facts.
Here: digital superiority vs safety facts
Here: digital superiority vs safety facts
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Also funded by crave and directed by a guy who wrote and directed for letterkenny. Truly a sign that we should be spending more money on media
December 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Also funded by crave and directed by a guy who wrote and directed for letterkenny. Truly a sign that we should be spending more money on media
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It's funny: when the Trump administration gets truly desperate, when they are flailing to meet their promises to lower prices, they just announce a bunch of old Lina Khan initiatives.
The keyword there is "announce." They're parroting economic justice concepts without the follow-through.
From me:
The keyword there is "announce." They're parroting economic justice concepts without the follow-through.
From me:
When in Doubt, Pretend to Be Lina Khan - The American Prospect
The Trump administration’s plans to lower prices are just Biden-era retreads. Unfortunately, they’re just plans, with no expected follow-through.
prospect.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It's funny: when the Trump administration gets truly desperate, when they are flailing to meet their promises to lower prices, they just announce a bunch of old Lina Khan initiatives.
The keyword there is "announce." They're parroting economic justice concepts without the follow-through.
From me:
The keyword there is "announce." They're parroting economic justice concepts without the follow-through.
From me:
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worth noting that the legit NYT reporters who come on here just to post their articles get a good bit of pickup
Overall, this big @nytimes.com investigation identified $500m+ that was donated to Trump-backed groups AFTER the election from 346 donors.
It found that more than half of the donors have benefited in some way from actions by Trump or his administration. (gift link)
It found that more than half of the donors have benefited in some way from actions by Trump or his administration. (gift link)
December 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
worth noting that the legit NYT reporters who come on here just to post their articles get a good bit of pickup
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One factor on this they need to consider is that the resolution itself should either name the impeachment managers or else provide some acceptable mechanism for appointing them. An impeachment with no managers is, procedurally, kind of like if a tree falls in the forest but nobody hears it.
@rokhanna.bsky.social: "Massie and I are drafting articles of impeachment as we speak about Pam Bondi and Blanche."
December 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
One factor on this they need to consider is that the resolution itself should either name the impeachment managers or else provide some acceptable mechanism for appointing them. An impeachment with no managers is, procedurally, kind of like if a tree falls in the forest but nobody hears it.
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Everyone resigned to Paramount taking control of Warner Bros. Discovery and therefore CNN should be contacting their state attorney general to tell them to right now give their intentions to block any illegal merger that consolidates entertainment studios and reduces competition.
For those of us warning about democracy's potential disintegration, the decision by CBS to pull an exhaustively researched 60 Minutes piece, critical of Trump, is another red alert moment.
When truth disappears as the media gets coopted by the regime, there's little left.
When truth disappears as the media gets coopted by the regime, there's little left.
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Everyone resigned to Paramount taking control of Warner Bros. Discovery and therefore CNN should be contacting their state attorney general to tell them to right now give their intentions to block any illegal merger that consolidates entertainment studios and reduces competition.
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Bootlegging
samizdat
VPN’s
Pravda state media
Secret prison camps
Welcome America to life under authoritarianism
samizdat
VPN’s
Pravda state media
Secret prison camps
Welcome America to life under authoritarianism
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Bootlegging
samizdat
VPN’s
Pravda state media
Secret prison camps
Welcome America to life under authoritarianism
samizdat
VPN’s
Pravda state media
Secret prison camps
Welcome America to life under authoritarianism
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"What was the content of this new concept? Rhetorically, it included allusions to ideas of place, the dignity of work, the importance of storytelling, the new-old cliches of abundance, wellbeing,& human flourishing"
Essay on Post-Neoliberalism: lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
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Essay on Post-Neoliberalism: lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
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I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
December 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"What was the content of this new concept? Rhetorically, it included allusions to ideas of place, the dignity of work, the importance of storytelling, the new-old cliches of abundance, wellbeing,& human flourishing"
Essay on Post-Neoliberalism: lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Essay on Post-Neoliberalism: lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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A Serious country that does not want more terrible mass shootings
“The government will establish a national gun buyback scheme to purchase surplus, newly banned and illegal firearms – the largest buyback since the Howard government initiated one in 1996,” the Australian PM said.
Follow live updates at theguardian.com
📷: Dominic Giannini/AAP
Follow live updates at theguardian.com
📷: Dominic Giannini/AAP
December 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
A Serious country that does not want more terrible mass shootings
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LOL - Senate (and House) Republicans are ending their "probe" into Hegseth's boat strikes after they got Schumer, Durbin and majority of the Senate Democratic Caucus to vote for a $900 billon defense authorization bill for Trump/Hegseth.
December 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
LOL - Senate (and House) Republicans are ending their "probe" into Hegseth's boat strikes after they got Schumer, Durbin and majority of the Senate Democratic Caucus to vote for a $900 billon defense authorization bill for Trump/Hegseth.
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Utterly psychopath.
Smith says she supports accreditation for Jordan Peterson's online school to correct what she says is a lack of freedom of speech in Alberta's universities.
Nenshi Grills Smith in Legislature over Jordan Peterson's School via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Nenshi Grills Smith in Legislature over Jordan Peterson's School via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Nenshi Grills Smith in Legislature over Jordan Peterson’s School | The Tyee
Alberta’s premier defended her quiet efforts to accredit the psychologist’s for-profit online ‘academy.’
thetyee.ca
December 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Utterly psychopath.
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The Financial Stability Oversight Council was created after the 2008 financial crisis to prevent future crises by spotting and addressing emerging risks.
The Trump administration is ignoring that history and turning the FSOC’s mission on its head, making it into a tool for deregulation.
The Trump administration is ignoring that history and turning the FSOC’s mission on its head, making it into a tool for deregulation.
December 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The Financial Stability Oversight Council was created after the 2008 financial crisis to prevent future crises by spotting and addressing emerging risks.
The Trump administration is ignoring that history and turning the FSOC’s mission on its head, making it into a tool for deregulation.
The Trump administration is ignoring that history and turning the FSOC’s mission on its head, making it into a tool for deregulation.
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the easy messaging against the data centers imo is "they are investing your pensions in building a big gaming computer that has to have all its parts replaced every five years forever. is that what you want your pension to own shares in? the shares they pay you with?
These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
the easy messaging against the data centers imo is "they are investing your pensions in building a big gaming computer that has to have all its parts replaced every five years forever. is that what you want your pension to own shares in? the shares they pay you with?
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As Mike Johnson loses control of the House, there's a discharge petition to force a vote for a wildly popular congressional stock trading ban. It already has more than enough Republicans to pass, if all Dems sign on. Sources working on the bill say Hakeem Jeffries is squandering this opportunity.
House Democratic Leaders Urged to Force a Vote on Stock Trading Ban - The American Prospect
Enough Republicans are on a discharge petition to get a House vote to end congressional stock trading—if Democrats sign on.
prospect.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
As Mike Johnson loses control of the House, there's a discharge petition to force a vote for a wildly popular congressional stock trading ban. It already has more than enough Republicans to pass, if all Dems sign on. Sources working on the bill say Hakeem Jeffries is squandering this opportunity.
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Republicans are scared shitless after the TN-07 special election showed a 13-point shift against them. What would that look like nationwide? Democrats flipping about 600 state legislative seats, winning 6 new state trifectas and breaking a lot of supermajorities heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/10/h...
How Tennessee 7th’s 13-point Democratic shift would look across the nation for 2026
Last week, Republicans won the special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District by 9%, and it has them scared shitless. That’s because the margin was 13% worse than the previous representat...
heartlandsignal.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Republicans are scared shitless after the TN-07 special election showed a 13-point shift against them. What would that look like nationwide? Democrats flipping about 600 state legislative seats, winning 6 new state trifectas and breaking a lot of supermajorities heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/10/h...
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The force with which I just smashed the preorder button may have seriously damaged my keyboard.
Tarnoff and Slobodian, writing a booklength guide to Muskism? Yes, pleaseandthankyou.
Tarnoff and Slobodian, writing a booklength guide to Muskism? Yes, pleaseandthankyou.
Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
December 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The force with which I just smashed the preorder button may have seriously damaged my keyboard.
Tarnoff and Slobodian, writing a booklength guide to Muskism? Yes, pleaseandthankyou.
Tarnoff and Slobodian, writing a booklength guide to Muskism? Yes, pleaseandthankyou.
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And a timely reminder that Yggy and the Cavers told us over and over that we shouldn't fight on immigration because it was just increasing the salience on Trump's strongest issue. Huh. Seems like fighting might be worthwhile, in addition to being morally right
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Trump 22 points underwater on immigration in new AP-NORC poll.
No wonder Kristi Noem fled her hearing today.
No wonder Kristi Noem fled her hearing today.
December 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
And a timely reminder that Yggy and the Cavers told us over and over that we shouldn't fight on immigration because it was just increasing the salience on Trump's strongest issue. Huh. Seems like fighting might be worthwhile, in addition to being morally right
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bsky.app/profile/simo...
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No one has done more to counterbalance the corrupting influence of the "we can't have nice things" dweebs (Yggy, Silver, etc.) than Way to Win. This new report is well worth your time to read and incorporate into your work if we really want to win.
The politics we have as Americans ultimately is up to us. We can choose for our democracy to be a dreary march to the drab center or running over groups of people with a metaphorical bus. Or we can choose an imagination battle that realigns the center so we can fight and build on favorable terrain.
December 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
No one has done more to counterbalance the corrupting influence of the "we can't have nice things" dweebs (Yggy, Silver, etc.) than Way to Win. This new report is well worth your time to read and incorporate into your work if we really want to win.
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SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary
The Taken actor can be heard calling mRNA COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news
December 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
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After tallying all 2025 red-to-blue State Legislative flips (after last night’s GA flip), I wondered what % it was of all 2025 State Legislative elections…but I got sidetracked and forgot to do the calculation.
So naturally @boltsmag.org did it for me:
21%!
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
So naturally @boltsmag.org did it for me:
21%!
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
In 2025, Democrats Flipped 21 Percent of GOP-Held Legislative Seats - Bolts
At the start of Donald Trump’s first presidency, in 2017, large Democratic victories in New Jersey and Virginia, paired with overperformances in special elections, foreshadowed the blue wave of the......
boltsmag.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
After tallying all 2025 red-to-blue State Legislative flips (after last night’s GA flip), I wondered what % it was of all 2025 State Legislative elections…but I got sidetracked and forgot to do the calculation.
So naturally @boltsmag.org did it for me:
21%!
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
So naturally @boltsmag.org did it for me:
21%!
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
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Imagine those 'darn leftists' making lists of forbidden words....
According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Imagine those 'darn leftists' making lists of forbidden words....
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Bari Weiss just appointed anchor Tony Dokoupil to CBS Evening News.
Here's what Ta-Nehisi Coates had to say about him: zeteo.com/p/ta-nehisi-...
Here's what Ta-Nehisi Coates had to say about him: zeteo.com/p/ta-nehisi-...
December 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Bari Weiss just appointed anchor Tony Dokoupil to CBS Evening News.
Here's what Ta-Nehisi Coates had to say about him: zeteo.com/p/ta-nehisi-...
Here's what Ta-Nehisi Coates had to say about him: zeteo.com/p/ta-nehisi-...
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Originally posted Dec. 6: 🇳🇴🇵🇸 Norway Warns Gaza Ceasefire “Cannot Hold” W/o Urgent Political Steps
▪️Norway’s FM Espen Barth Eide warned that the Gaza ceasefire is “very fragile” & could collapse w/in weeks w/o immediate movement on the political track.
“We are now in a very fragile ceasefire...
▪️Norway’s FM Espen Barth Eide warned that the Gaza ceasefire is “very fragile” & could collapse w/in weeks w/o immediate movement on the political track.
“We are now in a very fragile ceasefire...
![“We are now in a very fragile ceasefire. We can either go forward or backward. I don’t think we can stay many more weeks in this situation. The alternative is back to war, [and] descent into total anarchy — or we move forward.”
▪️Eide said the Trump-backed 20-point plan lacks clear sequencing, making implementation easy to stall.
“The plan says many of the right things, but it’s not very clear what happens first and what happens next.”
“Parties can always say, ‘I’ll do my part only when he has done his part.’ That’s a problem.”
He urged that the transitional bodies — the Palestinian governance mechanism, the Board of Peace, and the international stabilization force — be established “this month.”
“Those are the key answers: get the sequencing right, get the institutions in place.”
▪️On security arrangements, Eide said outside militaries will not fight Hamas or impose disarmament:
“It is very unlikely we will get any consensus on an international force that will do the job of physically disarming Hamas against their will.”
Any demobilization, he argued, must be Palestinian-led and post of a political arrangement, noting that Hamas has indicated it would only move on weapons once credible institutions are in place.
▪️He stressed that the transitional bodies must be temporary and clearly lead back to PA governance, saying Palestinian self-determination cannot be conditioned on completing reforms.
▪️Eide also delivered a rare rebuke of Israel’s long-standing leverage over the process:
“We have to take away the de facto veto Israel has enjoyed for decades. They have a voice, but they cannot be the sole decider of what happens in territory they illegally occupy.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:avtgggryiqtjlg5wwsufccua/bafkreibf7qqrjrn6sn4r6lmzzppwndkddbf7xgf7k2bnho36sn55hccpcu@jpeg)
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Originally posted Dec. 6: 🇳🇴🇵🇸 Norway Warns Gaza Ceasefire “Cannot Hold” W/o Urgent Political Steps
▪️Norway’s FM Espen Barth Eide warned that the Gaza ceasefire is “very fragile” & could collapse w/in weeks w/o immediate movement on the political track.
“We are now in a very fragile ceasefire...
▪️Norway’s FM Espen Barth Eide warned that the Gaza ceasefire is “very fragile” & could collapse w/in weeks w/o immediate movement on the political track.
“We are now in a very fragile ceasefire...