jamsheed
@jamsheed.bsky.social
once upon a time I had very strong opinions about hypothetical imperatives.
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The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison
11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison
fantastic song.
one thing about the OK House Of Reps I remember from my time growing up there:
they made "do you realize???" by the flaming lips the state rock song then Michael Ivins showed up with a hammer and sickle t shirt to accept it, and they PANICKED and revoked it lmao
they made "do you realize???" by the flaming lips the state rock song then Michael Ivins showed up with a hammer and sickle t shirt to accept it, and they PANICKED and revoked it lmao
The Oklahoma House of Representatives gave that girl an award for writing a terrible essay? For getting a trans person fired? This whole thing is an op.
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
fantastic song.
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It's a campaign of terror.
Her terror (and the terror of entire communities, forced into hiding) is not incidental.
It is a product they are manufacturing, a key part of the spectacle for their intended audience.
Which is the terrorized, but also the terror consumers.
Her terror (and the terror of entire communities, forced into hiding) is not incidental.
It is a product they are manufacturing, a key part of the spectacle for their intended audience.
Which is the terrorized, but also the terror consumers.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
It's a campaign of terror.
Her terror (and the terror of entire communities, forced into hiding) is not incidental.
It is a product they are manufacturing, a key part of the spectacle for their intended audience.
Which is the terrorized, but also the terror consumers.
Her terror (and the terror of entire communities, forced into hiding) is not incidental.
It is a product they are manufacturing, a key part of the spectacle for their intended audience.
Which is the terrorized, but also the terror consumers.
TRAIN DREAMS is the movie this year that everyone loves I and more or less totally fail to connect with leading me to wonder again if there's something fundamentally wrong with me.
it is beautifully shot though. and I really liked the scenes with Kerry Condon.
it is beautifully shot though. and I really liked the scenes with Kerry Condon.
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
TRAIN DREAMS is the movie this year that everyone loves I and more or less totally fail to connect with leading me to wonder again if there's something fundamentally wrong with me.
it is beautifully shot though. and I really liked the scenes with Kerry Condon.
it is beautifully shot though. and I really liked the scenes with Kerry Condon.
who wants to read this? I mean this utterly sincerely: who actually wants to read this turgid, incomprehensible prose?
Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
who wants to read this? I mean this utterly sincerely: who actually wants to read this turgid, incomprehensible prose?
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there are plenty of strategic/messaging reasons to argue that he spends all of his time playing with models and picking out curtains for the ballroom but make no mistake: He is a true believer in all of the most hateful and awful stuff this administration is doing
December 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
there are plenty of strategic/messaging reasons to argue that he spends all of his time playing with models and picking out curtains for the ballroom but make no mistake: He is a true believer in all of the most hateful and awful stuff this administration is doing
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The thing about immigration is that xenophobia and racism are the elite centrist position. Here's a senior fellow at Brookings, spouse of CRFP head Maya MacGuineas, explaining the mere presence of foreigners in Germany is a "problem" that someone must solve with "speed and determination."
November 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The thing about immigration is that xenophobia and racism are the elite centrist position. Here's a senior fellow at Brookings, spouse of CRFP head Maya MacGuineas, explaining the mere presence of foreigners in Germany is a "problem" that someone must solve with "speed and determination."
well that's unfortunate.
Chi Ossé had planned to primary Jeffries next year if he could get the support of DSA. But DSA (narrowly) decided not to endorse, due to concerns the race was unwinnable and picking a fight with Jeffries could imperil Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's agenda. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
DSA recommends against endorsing Ossé’s congressional bid
City Council Member Chi Ossé’s planned primary challenge to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is now on life support.
www.cityandstateny.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 AM
well that's unfortunate.
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Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
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Although Avilés has been endorsed by DSA, she hasn't made a final decision about whether to run for Goldman's seat (NY-10). That's because Comptroller Brad Lander is also planning to run against Goldman – and reportedly would have Mamdani's support – and progressives don't want to split the vote.
December 3, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Although Avilés has been endorsed by DSA, she hasn't made a final decision about whether to run for Goldman's seat (NY-10). That's because Comptroller Brad Lander is also planning to run against Goldman – and reportedly would have Mamdani's support – and progressives don't want to split the vote.
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Given that context, I think Avilés' op-ed can be read as an implicit case for why she'd be the best candidate to take on Goldman. Her rejection of Iron Dome funding and her invocation of the Puerto Rican radical tradition particularly caught my eye. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
December 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Given that context, I think Avilés' op-ed can be read as an implicit case for why she'd be the best candidate to take on Goldman. Her rejection of Iron Dome funding and her invocation of the Puerto Rican radical tradition particularly caught my eye. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
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City Council Member Alexa Avilés – whom DSA has endorsed to primary Rep. Dan Goldman – wrote an op-ed arguing that Zohran Mamdani's victory shows NYC voters want candidates who reject AIPAC and stand in solidarity with Palestinians.
Opinion: From Puerto Rico to Palestine, now is the time to grow our movement
No matter how often our residents voice dissent to additional military funding for Israel, many of their representatives still vote to aid violence.
www.cityandstateny.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:21 AM
City Council Member Alexa Avilés – whom DSA has endorsed to primary Rep. Dan Goldman – wrote an op-ed arguing that Zohran Mamdani's victory shows NYC voters want candidates who reject AIPAC and stand in solidarity with Palestinians.
who is the audience for this post supposed to be? does he really think that lefty bluesky posters lost a house race in tennessee? I mean he's dumb but he's not that dumb.
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM
who is the audience for this post supposed to be? does he really think that lefty bluesky posters lost a house race in tennessee? I mean he's dumb but he's not that dumb.
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She's almost 80. She's never running for office again. Her ideological allies in the Party are dead, dying, or on the way out. Nobody has to give a shit what Hillary Clinton thinks about anything, and the sooner we internalize that, the better off we'll all be.
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
She's almost 80. She's never running for office again. Her ideological allies in the Party are dead, dying, or on the way out. Nobody has to give a shit what Hillary Clinton thinks about anything, and the sooner we internalize that, the better off we'll all be.
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HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
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So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.
wow! definitely a top 3 film for me, and one can't help but be happy for Panahi to get this.
BEST DIRECTOR: Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
wow! definitely a top 3 film for me, and one can't help but be happy for Panahi to get this.
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Armando Iannucci eat your heart out.
December 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Armando Iannucci eat your heart out.
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James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:
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The Times piece by @brendannyhan.bsky.social about No Kings made me curious about the political activism of young people over time. So I pulled some CES data and made some charts. www.pbump.net/o/how-severe...
How severe is the political pessimism of young Americans?
Somewhat buried in the pre-Thanksgiving conversation, Dartmouth University's Brendan Nyhan offered an interesting observation in an essay for the New York Times. "[T]he scale of the protests" targetin...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The Times piece by @brendannyhan.bsky.social about No Kings made me curious about the political activism of young people over time. So I pulled some CES data and made some charts. www.pbump.net/o/how-severe...
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Israel is the biggest threat to stability in the Middle East”
Turkish FM Fidan stood in Tehran and said that both countries regard Israel as “the biggest threat to stability in the Middle East”, citing the situation in Gaza, Lebanon, & Syria, & broader concerns over Israeli “expansionist policies”.
Turkish FM Fidan stood in Tehran and said that both countries regard Israel as “the biggest threat to stability in the Middle East”, citing the situation in Gaza, Lebanon, & Syria, & broader concerns over Israeli “expansionist policies”.
TRT World - Türkiye, Iran vow deeper cooperation, slam Israel as biggest threat
Ankara and Tehran outline plans to boost trade, upgrade border crossings, coordinate on migration and confront regional crises, while reaffirming shared opposition to Israeli policies.
www.trtworld.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Israel is the biggest threat to stability in the Middle East”
Turkish FM Fidan stood in Tehran and said that both countries regard Israel as “the biggest threat to stability in the Middle East”, citing the situation in Gaza, Lebanon, & Syria, & broader concerns over Israeli “expansionist policies”.
Turkish FM Fidan stood in Tehran and said that both countries regard Israel as “the biggest threat to stability in the Middle East”, citing the situation in Gaza, Lebanon, & Syria, & broader concerns over Israeli “expansionist policies”.
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Jean Tinguely
Méta-Malevich
1955
7 metal elements on a wooden box, inside which are wood pulleys, rubber driver belts, metal rods and a 110 V electric motor
61.7 x 49.5 x 16 cm
Méta-Malevich
1955
7 metal elements on a wooden box, inside which are wood pulleys, rubber driver belts, metal rods and a 110 V electric motor
61.7 x 49.5 x 16 cm
December 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Jean Tinguely
Méta-Malevich
1955
7 metal elements on a wooden box, inside which are wood pulleys, rubber driver belts, metal rods and a 110 V electric motor
61.7 x 49.5 x 16 cm
Méta-Malevich
1955
7 metal elements on a wooden box, inside which are wood pulleys, rubber driver belts, metal rods and a 110 V electric motor
61.7 x 49.5 x 16 cm
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today learned that the creator of petroleum jelly gave extremely hands-on demonstrations of the virtues of his product
![Robert Chesebrough, a young chemist whose previous work of distilling fuel from the oil of sperm whales had been rendered obsolete by petroleum, went to Titusville, Pennsylvania, to see what new materials had commercial potential. Chesebrough took the unrefined green-to-gold-colored "rod wax", as the drillers called it, back to his laboratory to refine it and explore potential uses. He discovered that by distilling the lighter, thinner oil products from the rod wax, he could create a light-colored gel. Chesebrough patented the process of making petroleum jelly by U.S. patent 127,568 in 1872. The process involved vacuum distillation of the crude material followed by filtration of the still residue through bone char. Chesebrough traveled around New York demonstrating the product to encourage sales by burning his skin with acid or an open flame, then spreading the ointment on his injuries and showing his past injuries healed, he said, by his miracle product. He opened his first factory in 1870 in Brooklyn using the name Vaseline.[6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5udoh2yruu6u2njprrhkkr3y/bafkreiarwbu5oe4olxpzswzwnhwummnnnm4z5dvs4ikqviude3ur5rooka@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
today learned that the creator of petroleum jelly gave extremely hands-on demonstrations of the virtues of his product
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The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B