new wants dancer
@jawstadium.bsky.social
certainly hitting my groove any day now
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we’ve been over this
we just did this in Massachusetts
they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving
we just did this in Massachusetts
they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
we’ve been over this
we just did this in Massachusetts
they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving
we just did this in Massachusetts
they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
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“What’s your plan for the Court?” is the only question that matters for 2028 Democratic hopefuls, because if they don’t, the Republican Super Legislature is hatcheting their agenda before it can get off the ground.
December 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“What’s your plan for the Court?” is the only question that matters for 2028 Democratic hopefuls, because if they don’t, the Republican Super Legislature is hatcheting their agenda before it can get off the ground.
my girl's a freak for the squalor
November 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
my girl's a freak for the squalor
idea: a coffee shop with all red letters called URGENT CAFE
customers with open wounds get half off lattes
customers with open wounds get half off lattes
November 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
idea: a coffee shop with all red letters called URGENT CAFE
customers with open wounds get half off lattes
customers with open wounds get half off lattes
new Halloween costume idea : sexy creationist
honestly p scary
honestly p scary
November 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
new Halloween costume idea : sexy creationist
honestly p scary
honestly p scary
might finally write my memoir. working title : the princess and the airpod
November 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
might finally write my memoir. working title : the princess and the airpod
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And what we've done is create communities of belief where saying "Slow down, is this true?" is perceived as an act of betrayal. The vast majority of people in those communities will instead indulge you: tell you that the things you always suspected, and feel correct, are in fact correct.
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
And what we've done is create communities of belief where saying "Slow down, is this true?" is perceived as an act of betrayal. The vast majority of people in those communities will instead indulge you: tell you that the things you always suspected, and feel correct, are in fact correct.
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“but we should cut pay for these overpaid politician fat cats” is the easiest and cheapest attack line in the world and it’s enormously counterproductive because it ensures that these positions get filled by actual fat cats who don’t need the money
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“but we should cut pay for these overpaid politician fat cats” is the easiest and cheapest attack line in the world and it’s enormously counterproductive because it ensures that these positions get filled by actual fat cats who don’t need the money
tired: antilock brake system
wired: abs
inspired: amicable bowel syndrome
wired: abs
inspired: amicable bowel syndrome
November 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
tired: antilock brake system
wired: abs
inspired: amicable bowel syndrome
wired: abs
inspired: amicable bowel syndrome
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Democrats don’t understand that it’s not enough spending hundreds of millions a few months before an election. You have to do politics all the time.
Democratic policies are much more popular policies than Republicans. But because they have little advocacy infrastructure, the public generally doesn't know that it agrees with Democrats.
Messages and policies don't matter if they can't be heard.
Messages and policies don't matter if they can't be heard.
Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
November 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Democrats don’t understand that it’s not enough spending hundreds of millions a few months before an election. You have to do politics all the time.
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Anyway I'm so glad that, out of an abundance of respect for norms and afraid to appear partisan, Merrick Garland paused investigations into Trump before the 2022 midterms. Would hate to see what would happen if we lost our norms and saw government used as a partisan weapon instead!
November 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Anyway I'm so glad that, out of an abundance of respect for norms and afraid to appear partisan, Merrick Garland paused investigations into Trump before the 2022 midterms. Would hate to see what would happen if we lost our norms and saw government used as a partisan weapon instead!
it's weird how a crap shoot and a poop chute are totally different things
November 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
it's weird how a crap shoot and a poop chute are totally different things
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This represents a fundamental misunderstanding of what propaganda and psy ops are. Put simply: When they're done well, you don't believe you're being affected.
October 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This represents a fundamental misunderstanding of what propaganda and psy ops are. Put simply: When they're done well, you don't believe you're being affected.
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This adage in particular is hilarious because Jesus is recorded on multiple occasions just straight giving people fish. At no point does he teach them to fish. He does tell seasoned fishermen to let their nets back out & they are miraculously filled, but he doesn’t teach them HOW, he just provides.
Quoting an adage that is not actually in the Bible to justify starving kids at home and abroad might be the essence of MAGA.
A movement of true idiots.
A movement of true idiots.
October 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This adage in particular is hilarious because Jesus is recorded on multiple occasions just straight giving people fish. At no point does he teach them to fish. He does tell seasoned fishermen to let their nets back out & they are miraculously filled, but he doesn’t teach them HOW, he just provides.
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Excited for 2028 when some state SoS kicks Trump off the ballot, Federal district and appellate judges uphold it and then SCOTUS issues an unsigned 6-3 shadow docket rulling staying the lower court ruling, allowing Trump to stay on the ballot and schedules arguments for the case for February 2029.
October 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Excited for 2028 when some state SoS kicks Trump off the ballot, Federal district and appellate judges uphold it and then SCOTUS issues an unsigned 6-3 shadow docket rulling staying the lower court ruling, allowing Trump to stay on the ballot and schedules arguments for the case for February 2029.
I'm sure this isn't an original observation but
conservatism will always have the advantage that no one feels nostalgic for the things we have yet to build
conservatism will always have the advantage that no one feels nostalgic for the things we have yet to build
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I'm sure this isn't an original observation but
conservatism will always have the advantage that no one feels nostalgic for the things we have yet to build
conservatism will always have the advantage that no one feels nostalgic for the things we have yet to build
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Regular people have values and a belief they're part of something larger than themselves while elites became elite by not having that
ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
October 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Regular people have values and a belief they're part of something larger than themselves while elites became elite by not having that
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billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
October 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
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How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
October 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
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Also argentina immediately used this windfall to slash export taxes so they could replace American soybean farmers' China exports, and USAID was a major buyer of food from US farmers. Should be the easiest issue in the world for Ds to outflank trump
We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.
The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.
October 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Also argentina immediately used this windfall to slash export taxes so they could replace American soybean farmers' China exports, and USAID was a major buyer of food from US farmers. Should be the easiest issue in the world for Ds to outflank trump
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For all of the outrageous policy and politics of the Trump administration, none of this would be possible without a feckless and timid group of Republican legislators who refuse to perform their constitutional roles or hold the executive branch accountable. Complete dereliction of duty.
Markwayne Mullin -- an idiot who once challenged a Senate witness to a fistfight, a dishonest broker who repeatedly claimed Democrats wanted to give health insurance to undocumented immigrants, a partisan hack who *today* said Democrats are "supporting violence" -- is their point man here?
lol, lmao, sure, okay
October 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
For all of the outrageous policy and politics of the Trump administration, none of this would be possible without a feckless and timid group of Republican legislators who refuse to perform their constitutional roles or hold the executive branch accountable. Complete dereliction of duty.
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I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
October 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
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There is also ample survey data that people of any age identify the time period when things were best, e.g. the Good Ol Days, as whenever they were 10-15 years old.
They weren't the Good Ol Days, they're whenever you were a kid. That's what you miss: being a kid.
They weren't the Good Ol Days, they're whenever you were a kid. That's what you miss: being a kid.
Analysis | America’s best decade, according to data
When pollsters asked Americans when America had the best economy, most moral society or best music, one variable best predicted their answers. It wasn’t race, gender or politics.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
There is also ample survey data that people of any age identify the time period when things were best, e.g. the Good Ol Days, as whenever they were 10-15 years old.
They weren't the Good Ol Days, they're whenever you were a kid. That's what you miss: being a kid.
They weren't the Good Ol Days, they're whenever you were a kid. That's what you miss: being a kid.