Santiago Posas
@sposas.bsky.social
Lawyer, nerd, Latino Jew, leftist. He/him.
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That thing where you’re a Jewish cat and you love your challah.
December 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
That thing where you’re a Jewish cat and you love your challah.
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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Some of you will believe any horrific allegation about our president merely because it's fully consistent with who he is
December 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Some of you will believe any horrific allegation about our president merely because it's fully consistent with who he is
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'Low utility'?!
Studying poetry, its existence (and your own) as a part of history, learning how all that came before you matters, makes you 'high utility' to others. Alive, interesting, worth knowing
If education to you is just 'an expensive investment' who would even want to talk with you
Studying poetry, its existence (and your own) as a part of history, learning how all that came before you matters, makes you 'high utility' to others. Alive, interesting, worth knowing
If education to you is just 'an expensive investment' who would even want to talk with you
This is a truly profound ratio, but I do want to emphasize also that like, this attitude makes sense, and it's part of the gap in higher education as to what students want and expect out of a very expensive investment.
December 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
'Low utility'?!
Studying poetry, its existence (and your own) as a part of history, learning how all that came before you matters, makes you 'high utility' to others. Alive, interesting, worth knowing
If education to you is just 'an expensive investment' who would even want to talk with you
Studying poetry, its existence (and your own) as a part of history, learning how all that came before you matters, makes you 'high utility' to others. Alive, interesting, worth knowing
If education to you is just 'an expensive investment' who would even want to talk with you
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If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
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I can't believe I've never done such an obvious meme before and also never seen it done before
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I can't believe I've never done such an obvious meme before and also never seen it done before
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“and I’d do it again”
Tiny criminal, photographed this morning.
She jumped in the plant and promptly got digging zoomies.
She jumped in the plant and promptly got digging zoomies.
October 23, 2025 at 5:48 AM
“and I’d do it again”
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This was worse then you could possibly imagine. Holy fucking shit.
Holy shit.
Holy shit.
Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”
Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
October 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This was worse then you could possibly imagine. Holy fucking shit.
Holy shit.
Holy shit.
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The Sun-Times is reporting Border Patrol took at least two teenage boys today when they hit Little Village, again.
One is said to be a 16-year old student, U.S. citizen, and student at Benito Juarez Community Academy.
One is said to be a 16-year old student, U.S. citizen, and student at Benito Juarez Community Academy.
Federal agents detain Little Village high school student, deploy tear gas in faceoff with protesters
Feds wearing military-style camouflage gear and gas masks were seen tear-gassing and pepper-spraying protesters during the confrontation near a discount mall.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The Sun-Times is reporting Border Patrol took at least two teenage boys today when they hit Little Village, again.
One is said to be a 16-year old student, U.S. citizen, and student at Benito Juarez Community Academy.
One is said to be a 16-year old student, U.S. citizen, and student at Benito Juarez Community Academy.
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the Platner discourse has frustrating echoes of the Newsom discourse, in that people seem to want us to just give up now and lock in without waiting to see if something better turns up. this isn't blackjack! we can keep asking the dealer to turn over more cards for like another YEAR
Anyone telling you this spells doom in Maine is being silly.
It is now 230 days until the primary and 377 days until the general.
And it’s not like the campaign has already been going for a long time. Platner just announced 293 days before the primary and 440 days before the general election.
It is now 230 days until the primary and 377 days until the general.
And it’s not like the campaign has already been going for a long time. Platner just announced 293 days before the primary and 440 days before the general election.
October 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
the Platner discourse has frustrating echoes of the Newsom discourse, in that people seem to want us to just give up now and lock in without waiting to see if something better turns up. this isn't blackjack! we can keep asking the dealer to turn over more cards for like another YEAR
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there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.
"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't
there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
October 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.
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This is such a tedious misdirect. Yeah while we’re here let’s check everybody’s 1040 before they take the Staten Island ferry. If you make more than $200,000 a year that’ll be $3 please.
A fierce debate about who should be able to use government benefits in one of the world’s most expensive cities has animated the mayor’s race in New York in its final stretch, as Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo offer starkly different approaches to easing the city’s affordability crisis.
Is It ‘Subsidizing the Rich’ to Make Buses and Child Care Free for All?
Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner in the New York City mayor’s race, would make some public benefits available to everyone. Andrew Cuomo, his top challenger, wants to help the neediest residents.
nyti.ms
October 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is such a tedious misdirect. Yeah while we’re here let’s check everybody’s 1040 before they take the Staten Island ferry. If you make more than $200,000 a year that’ll be $3 please.
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"You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent."
October 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
"You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent."
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look mom, i got quoted in vanity fair
October 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
look mom, i got quoted in vanity fair
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October 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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That’s called burying the lead
October 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
That’s called burying the lead
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The application to be a federal corrections officer now has several essay questions, including one (#7) in which applicants are expected to explain how they would advance the president's executive orders in the role:
October 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The application to be a federal corrections officer now has several essay questions, including one (#7) in which applicants are expected to explain how they would advance the president's executive orders in the role:
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There are, of course, ways to save money in this business. Many US clothing factories run on what's known as a "piece rate" system, where workers are paid per operation, not by the hour. This system allows factories to skirt minimum wage laws.
It's also how we get US sweatshops
It's also how we get US sweatshops
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
There are, of course, ways to save money in this business. Many US clothing factories run on what's known as a "piece rate" system, where workers are paid per operation, not by the hour. This system allows factories to skirt minimum wage laws.
It's also how we get US sweatshops
It's also how we get US sweatshops
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It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:
— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:
— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
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Tech CEOs loathe former FTC chair Lina Khan for breaking up their monopolies and protecting consumers. Antitrust could play an even larger role, with subsidized or state-owned stepping in to increase competition. From Ryan Cooper: trib.al/8OkqU1R
The Socialist Case for Antitrust
Markets need regulating. Always have, always will.
trib.al
October 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Tech CEOs loathe former FTC chair Lina Khan for breaking up their monopolies and protecting consumers. Antitrust could play an even larger role, with subsidized or state-owned stepping in to increase competition. From Ryan Cooper: trib.al/8OkqU1R