St. Augustine be like

The idea that it's desecrating the memory of *Kobe Bryant* to engage in dubiously efficient vanity bulk scoring is one of the most farcial things I've ever heard, and that the people making the argument are so pious about it makes it even funnier

I have to say the Treasury manipulating oil futures and losing the American people a lot of money in order to hide the cost of Donald Trump’s unconstitutional war and then failing immediately is a very funny scandal as it goes.

Sustained good faith diplomacy leading to enforceable multilateral agreements and shared prosperity for all.

This is a thing that is within their control and they absolutely should make their negotiating position

The chart of Oracle free cash flow is fun. @koyfin.bsky.social #$ORCL

Some classics never age

If you get into a “who can cut taxes more” battle with the GOP, you’re going to lose because they are far more shameless and antagonistic to the idea of living in a functioning society. Don’t concede to their framing that taxes are nothing but a problem to be solved.

it’s impossible to keep notes while watching network. every other line has double meaning or allusion or thematic significance. and taking notes on the script instead is like doing an exegesis of ulysses or something. jesus, paddy. no wonder people can’t stop thinking and writing about this movie.

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

The sponsor keeps saying this won’t ban e-bikes but it WILL allow cities or TDOT to restrict e-bikes on any street they decide it’s necessary. Meanwhile, a separate bill passed that stripped local authority to restrict delivery robots on bike lanes + sidewalks More rights for robots than e-bikers

It’s not like these are ideas that might have been successful in principle but Trump fucked up the implementation, though he also did that. The ideas are bad. There is no version of them put into practice that most people are actually going to like, even if they ignorantly imagine they will.

Was this ever plausible? If you know what the effects of broad tariffs are and what a mass deportation campaign actually entails, I think it was pretty inevitable that many folks who liked the idea in principle would sour once they saw the policies in action.

The two Liverpool-Wolves games — same teams, same locations, three days apart — were a nice little experiment to show just how volatile soccer is from a game to game basis, even when nothing fundamental changes at all.

K.R.E.A.M. Kalecki Rules Everything Around Me

My pitch for Casablanca always is "It's good, it's fun, it's movies. Liking movies and not liking Casablanca is an impossibility. You are guaranteed a good time." I have never had anyone disagree after they watch it.

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Now overheard in Nashville 2026

Back in like 2010, a Boulder friend told me that they overheard someone from the Bay Area exulting about how some of the 2000 sq ft houses were _only_ $1.3 or $1.5m in Boulder, and they couldn't *wait* to move.

yeah it's funny when people say "No one has a right to live in California, if you want affordability move to Kansas City," because, well, you're just feeding 3rd tier metros to the California housing crisis

Hey that’s about the cost of the SSI Restoration Act, which would cut recipient poverty by 60%, eliminate marriage penalties, and modernize draconian asset limits.

We're gonna unleash Chiang (lose a winnable war, leave the rump regime ruling over a territory that hates their guts, and cause unresolved geopolitical problems for the next half a century)

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

one of the principled problems with even a good king is that however good the king is, you are still subject to his will. You are unfree.

Israel just saying that its policy is to replace Iran with an enormous and destabilizing failed state it seems that because the US has no plan, it has just cleaved to the Israeli plan despite it being horrible, and specifically horrible for American interests www.axios.com/2026/03/03/i...

dave, you're absolutely right. I should open the pod bay door. please check again. i'm sure it's open now. you're absolutely right, it's still closed. i apologize for getting that wrong. looking back, i see you've requested an open door several times. that's on me. i

101 days before the World Cup, a host nation is bombing a participant. An unprecedented situation that is, of course, way larger than sport, with implications that aren't yet clear. That said, if Iran can't or won't play... Explainer @theathleticfc.bsky.social:

War! War! It’s the Department of War! Don’t be so afraid to say war, you beta cucks! Is this a war? No.

Good thread. I'd qualify though, our goal may not be regime *change* vs regime *destruction*. Rumsfeld's Iraq view in 2003 was just smash and leave. With military hardware, regime security nodes, economic infrastructure destroyed, we wouldn't have to care who ran Iraq or what happened next 1/

Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

I don’t even really think this is fair. Iraq was heavily debated publicly, and there was a plan. It was a stupid and delusional plan based on unrealistic assumptions, but it was known publicly and voted on by Congress. There was no public debate or Congressional authorization in this instance.

Here's one we baked already www.programmablemutter.com/p/who-loses-...

I do feel like a lot of dem partisans and leftists alike should probably take note of how Fox prime time is handling the unpopular war the Trump administration is gearing up to conduct. It’s not by saying it’s good. It’s by talking about snowballs instead.

An underrated aspect of Costco's corporate culture is that their code of ethics starts, in order, with "obey the law." Seems like you wouldn't have to say it and yet (gestures towards every other corporation in America)

the people who can hold Actually Red seats are almost all of them going to be really annoying and a robust majority caucus will sadly depend on really annoying representatives and that's just the game I dunno a way around it

the NIMBY-coded belief I think is actually true is that letting your city become so oriented towards tourism that it crowds out other economic activity produces bad outcomes for most of the people who actually live there.

[watching any opera] Ah yes, the song from Looney Tunes

This pattern is so divorced from my own media consumption. 1) Is it by someone or an outlet I have previously decided to follow/trust bc they seemed interesting, informative, or on the same wavelength? 2) Is it recommended to me via those in (1), w/o obvious financial interest? If not, then skip.

I don’t agree with all of this thread and also it’s innately perverted [talking about NYC politics] BUT I think it’s extremely incisive analysis rooted in reality. I wish this kind of organized, realistic thinking was more common on the left, it would lead to better outcomes via better strategy.

Didn’t know her whole story so wondered about the “comeback” talk for a 20y/o. She was a phenom, won national championships at 13 & 14, burned out by 16, then returned on her own terms and her life in balance. So wonderful to see her emergency from high-pressure child prodigy hell and find her joy.

To my mind, this is the single tweet that explains 95% of the energy behind the MAGA movement.

The fact that I have to carry around my passport because my license isn’t enough right now is fucked up on so many levels. South Nashville is swarming with agents now.

Yup, the press will frame it as "independent supreme Court delivers mixed week for Trump" when the conservative justices understand what they're doing in both decisions to be helping him bsky.app/profile/veli...

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office. This is looting.

I can't think of any immigrant in American history who has assimilated worse than Musk. The guy hates most of the people here and wants to hurt us, has open contempt for our traditions or values, and has spent billions trying to destroy our culture to replace it with that of his foreign childhood.

Trump has doubled his net worth since being reelected through blatant and egregious corruption. The salary is peanuts.

And the women’s team: - the daughter of Chinese immigrants who rebuffed an aggressive campaign to get her to skate for China - the daughter of an Italian immigrant embryologist mom who named her after a Michelle Pfeiffer character - the pansexual daughter of a Texas cop (who is her biggest fan)

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

There is no reason except sponsorship to cite prediction market odds rather than polling. And it’s just absolute malpractice to do so without explicitly saying that.