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The Democratic party would win elections repeatedly if they competently challenged corporate power.
jakecole.bsky.social Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 20h
There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
December 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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jesspish.bsky.social
My question is why is it not a violation of "objective journalism" to allow a high-profile man caught in a scandal to profile another high-profile man caught in a scandal.
jaywillis.net Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 17h
There is a LOT going on in Jeffrey Toobin’s weird soft-focus profile of Tom Goldstein, but my favorite recurring bit is all the people who know poker finding creative ways to politely make clear that Tom Goldstein is not good at poker www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...
Goldstein's style of play reflected his swaggering, risk-friendly approach to litigation. "Very often lawyers, or people in general, want to make every conceivable argument, and you get in the situation where, by making every point, you essentially make no points," he told me. "I'm a big believer that you have to figure out what your winning argument is. It is a poker thing, and that is being willing to say: This is not working. And if I just sit here and hedge my bets and argue both, I'm not going to accomplish anything." As Bill Perkins, an Austin, Texas-based hedge fund manager, put it: "Tom is extremely wild and crazy, like a lunatic at the poker table. He's fearless, an overbluffing kind of a player, what we call a chip bully. He tried to run people over at the table. You want controlled aggression, and he had unbridled aggression." For better or worse, in poker and elsewhere, Goldstein believed in going all-in. The first major turning point in Goldstein's poker career came in 2008, when he put up the $10,000 fee to enter the World Series of Poker, a multiday extravaganza in Las Vegas. On the first night, after the tournament had ended for the day, Goldstein sat down at a table at the Bellagio. "I end up playing without looking at my cards," Goldstein said. That, to put it mildly, was an unconventional strategy. He bet wildly and recklessly, but his opponents were flummoxed by his blind aggression. Goldstein told me he ultimately played that way for 18 hours and won some $400,000. That night was also significant because it's when Goldstein met Dan Bilzerian. An heir to a family fortune, Bilzerian became famous for his extravagant and louche lifestyle as a professional poker player in Las Vegas, and later for being a social media influencer whose posts often featured guns and women in bikinis. Bilzerian recalled Goldstein's antics that night: "People were all watching the game and talking about what a [expletive] maniac he was." After getting the loan from Resnick, Goldstein promptly lost $9 million playing ring games. "Playing ring poker against a bunch of people requires enormous discipline, enormous patience, and those are just not things in poker that I have," Goldstein said. "If you're playing against eight people, just mathematically, the odds that somebody has a hand that's better than yours are quite high. If you're playing against one person, you don't have to be nearly as patient. What's rewarded is being very aggressive. So heads-up, in essence, is built for me." Goldstein started taking on investors in his heads-up contests, who would share in his wins and losses.
December 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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bdgesq.bsky.social
As the Times story on the CA Billionaire Tax Act notes, if the Act is adopted in Nov. of 2026 it will impose a tax on all individuals who were resident in CA as of Jan. 1 (i.e., next Thursday). It is very unlikely billionaires can really move before then. Is that constitutional, though? Read on.

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bdgesq.bsky.social Brian Galle @bdgesq.bsky.social · 3d
More seriously, as most readers here know I helped draft the CA billionaire tax initiative text and you just can't get out of it by setting up a couple of LLCs in Florida. We have thought about how to block these fake paper moves for 4 years.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d
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.
December 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
Ok this is new to me. Some good lyric work here.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFTs...
Josh Ritter - Truth is a Dimension (Both Invisible and Blinding) [Live Solo Acoustic]
YouTube video by Josh Ritter
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December 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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andrealuck.bsky.social
Hey Martians, did I mention we now also have a video of epic Phobos passing over a Martian dust storm near Pavonis Mons? 🌪️🌋🥔

Video & full info: flic.kr/p/2rNN8wk
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

@esa.int Mars Express HRSC
300 MP Photo quoted below
Easy zoom: easyzoom.com/image/674026
December 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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bartenderhemry.bsky.social
Billionaires are always talking about moving somewhere else, the real news here is that newsom's throwing his weight behind opposing it, another sign he's not the guy
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d
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 3:07 AM
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muellershewrote.com
Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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kren.bsky.social
I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential
BEST HAM in the airport sign @ BCN
December 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"Sodium is nearly 50 times cheaper than lithium and can even be harvested from seawater, making it a much more sustainable option for large-scale energy storage”
December 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
If Jews ever decide to proselytize, this would be the opening scene in the recruitment video
willoremus.com Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 5d
they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE
December 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Interesting post Department of Labor. Why don't we check in to see how James Truslow Adams ended the 1931 book in which he coined the term "American Dream?"
U.S. Department of La... & . Follow 2d • The American Dream belongs to the AMERICAN PEOPLE. 3.4K • 1.3K 98
December 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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blakeprof.bsky.social
Congratulations to Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social. I often despair that the Court can be pulled away from the abyss, but his brief shows it (sometimes) can. Whatever your thoughts on the Court in general, these interventions really matter. A proud moment for the legal academy.
How a Scholar Nudged the Supreme Court Toward Its Troop Deployment Ruling
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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check1check2.bsky.social
We saved 3K at least this year in gas after switching to EV. Even if I didn't get free charging at work the net savings would be about 2500. No one is going to unring this bell.
stephenjudkins.bsky.social Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 6d
It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs!

It's mostly just the US that's being left behind
December 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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schnorkles.bsky.social
I would note that SCOTUS sees the same things that we all do about the administration falling apart and becoming historically unpopular, and if you think that Kavanaugh in particular isn't explicitly responding to public criticism of him then I don't know what to tell you
December 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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The end of soot-laden windows. The arrival of broadband internet. Cheaper and more reliable electricity. Rhode Island’s first electricity co-op. The return of birdsong.

Here are the myriad benefits the first US offshore wind farm has brought to Block Island, from @catrineinhorn.bsky.social.
A Rhode Island Wind Farm Changed Their View. And Their Lives, for the Better.
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September 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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blakeprof.bsky.social
The Court did something good today. The Court is also responsible for the authoritarian mess we’re in, and has made it substantially worse over the past 6 months.
a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .
ALT: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .
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December 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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dandrezner.bsky.social
+1000
aedwardslevy.bsky.social Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 7d
I know many Jews have complicated feelings about Christmas but I will say that I absolutely love a holiday in which everything around me is festive and yet there are zero societal explanations placed on me personally to do *anything* and also there's possibly dim sum
December 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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anildash.com
Where those Harper’s Letter folks at
December 22, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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gelliottmorris.com
A November YouGov poll had ICE favorability underwater by 14 points among all Americans and 37(!) points among political independents today.yougov.com/politics/art...
December 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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all stilled.

Jane Hirshfield
UNDER THE RIVER Under the river of the world, the world. And beneath that palace, a palace—just the same. From the quarry ledge, children dive over and over into blue sky: it always greets them the same, laughter, then towels, and going home with watery ears. It sings to them then for hours, hushing the rest— family, dinnerware, tires spinning by, all stilled. Open-winged for those moments between world and world, the rooms leading one to the next, each linoleum floor marble-cool, the ceilings stencilled with water lilies, stars.
December 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor
December 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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seancasten.bsky.social
49. The game isn't over by far. But make no mistake: we are winning. That's something to be proud of. It's something to accelerate. It's nothing to take for granted. And it's certainly no time to take Yglesias' advice and fumble the ball so the other team won't feel so sad. /fin
December 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
(trying to explain after being woken up from cryosleep) our society was, well. It was about power, right? So you had your presidents, and your public intellectuals, and your magicians. No, magicians. Those were the big three I guess. And they were all just sort of able to be pedophiles together
December 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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seanokane.bsky.social
The Trump / Lawnmower kid meme but trump is redacted
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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rincewind.run
the number one requirement for the next Dem president is that they are willing to look back

with a flamethrower
elienyc.bsky.social ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 10d
There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
thedailybeast.bsky.social The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 10d
The president's name was added to the sign outside the performing arts center.
December 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM