The anti-data-center mood in Bluesky lately feels to me like the left’s version of Trump’s aesthetic allergy to wind turbines.

‘Excruciating and Agonizing’: A New Reality for Jewish Democrats www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

1/2 Iran said Flight PS752 crashed because of mechanical problems. Mahsa Amini was not killed by state violence. Itan did not supply Russia drones for Ukraine. Iran is not arming the Houthis. Iran did not kill protesters. There are no political prisoners in Iran.

Sometimes I suspect those who are obsessed with Manchin, Fetterman, Sinema, and other “traitors” are the same people who have never enrolled in a math class that they weren’t required to take.

Kind of dismayed by the conspiracy stuff on this platform the last few months, by the anti science, by the absence of nuance. Trump is a monster. The IRGC are monsters. The data centers aren’t particularly large generators of carbon or water and run the Bluesky platform I’m typing on.

Why did all of Bluesky turn against data centers all at once two months ago? Do we know that it is data centers that allow us to post on Bluesky? A little nuance and self awareness please.

Joe Kent, Marjorie Taylor Green, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Candice Owens, even Joe Rogan. Stop celebrating that they’re critical of Trump. These conspiracists are most angry that he followed a Jewish state into war and that he’s been distracted from the real work of targeting domestic enemies.

Is CPI relevant if the price of toasters, TVs, silverware, and clothing approaches zero and the cost of housing, healthcare, childcare, and medical care approaches infinity?

“Norms” and “institutions” have been very good to me in my life. I suspect they have not been good for a large number of persuadable voters who once pulled the lever for Trump. Please stop lamenting the erosion of norms and institutions and focus instead on “Failure to work for your interests”

A good day to be a Virginian…Morgan Griffith never represented my community in congress. But I can’t wait for Tom Perriello (or Beth Macy) to. youtu.be/Y1MUMKQlLtM?...

Looking for a little nuance in the AI debate on Bluesky: (the probability that the technology will cure a loved one of a disease? the probability the technology will turn against humankind autonomously? How could it effectively be stopped at this point if we wanted to?)

In the face of the authoritarians the republicans have put up for public office, can Democrats open up all their primaries to all registered voters, regardless of party affiliation? It would bring in D candidates to my right, but desperate times…

Trump won 26 states by >10 points each… if Ds are ever going to take the senate, they will need to win in one of these 26. The math: we need “traitor” Ds like Manchin and Golden to pass legislation or confirm judges. Some pro life, hawkish, anti environ or regressive tax Ds will need to be welcomed.

“Together, renewables — including solar, wind, hydropower, and bioenergy — were the biggest source of U.S. electricity in March, according to data from the think tank Ember. Along with nuclear power, they supplied more than half of U.S. power.” e360.yale.edu/digest/us-re...

“a former staffer of Mr. Swalwell’s alleged that he sexually assaulted her” Then, from another woman “Mr. Swalwell had touched her thigh and tried to kiss her in the booth of a bar” These two accusations should not be reported in the same article Be better NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

Dear illiberal left: so no one without $100,000 down payment can live in a single family detached house as a renter because you, existing homeowner, don’t like the aesthetics of large companies owning homes they rent out? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

If when automation replaced the toll booth operators, card catalog librarians, typists, payroll clerks, movie rental cashiers, and most bank tellers & travel agents you hailed it as progress…pause and breath when you lose your mind as knowledge workers face the same pressure under the weight of AI.

No, you don’t now like Joe Kent. He blames Jan 6 on the deep state, calls for Fauci to be charged with murder, and is on Russia’s side in the Ukraine war.

I was today years old when I appreciated the potent anti-authoritarian tool that is federalism www.startribune.com/greg-bovino-...

Cmon guys….the ayatollah was a monster. Trump will probably fuck this up because he’s surrounded by losers, but the ayatollah was a monster

Good for you, Claude… apple.news/AY4syh8TfSX6...

It kind of was a conspiracy. A billionaire and co-conspirators we still don’t know the names of, represented by the former Mayor of New York, were /1

Right now, if you search YouTube for Spamberger’s SoTU response, you get a video that begins with four minutes of silent nothing before she gives a pretty good speech….Democratic comms team: be better.

Thank god someone finally called this out….where has the libertarian left been? The Epstein Files Should Never Have Been Released www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

Can someone explain to me: if a US president did what the former South Korean president did, and got a life sentence for…would the American president enjoy presumptive immunity?

The ruling was not a rebuke to Trump nor a split among conservative justices. They don’t like tariffs. They don’t like environmental regulations. They don’t like CFPB independence. They do like Fed independence. They don’t like USAID. They do like racial profiling….politicians in robes.

Written up in the times…wonder why I don’t see this debate on TV news? Should Drug Companies Be Advertising to Consumers? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

“We want to be a nation of home owners”… “Your home’s appreciation is the best way to build wealth” When you say it out loud it seems obvious that these two American ideals are in long-run opposition to one another. Never occurred to me in the 00s

Some leaders have fought the corruption and civil rights abuses of this administration. Others have coerced the federal government to release the names and private emails of rich people who committed no known crimes but were in communication with a monster. Which ones will history lionize?

The story isn’t that a D flipped a Trump+17 district. We saw that swing in NJ and VA. The story is that the D won by 14. That’s net 31 points. Last time: Ernst +7 Collins +8 Tillis +2 Rubio +16 Vance +6 Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

Reading Blue Sky on Iran massacre defend the regime on anticolonial grounds makes me sad. I hope those posts are bots and not sentient trolls.

Add to my list: leaders that the illiberal left embraced because they were anti-colonialist, only to find that once in power they tortured opposition figures. Ayatolla Castro Chavez Mugabe Gadaffi Saddam Husein

Fox News front page vs New York Times front page…why do you think the prosecutor resigned? (They think we are stupid)

The difference between stated preference and revealed preference… www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I’d like to see more on this platform about what comes next in V, who administers elections? will a new constitution be needed? Who will the military and police report to? When can the 900 political prisoners held there be released? How will a free press be set up?…”it’s illegal” won’t help V.

It’s times like these when I wonder if the UN could have a temporary constitution for when a dictator is deposed. “Elections will take place in 90 days for 50 legislators and a head of state…the legislators will adopt a permanent constitution four months later. The police fiction will be filled by…”

In 1970 Californians used as much electricity as the rest of the country and had about the same electricity rates. Now their rates are double ours and they use half the electricity (and have a killer economy). High electricity rates (4% of GDP and in line with peer countries) aren’t the problem /1

Watching NFL games since they added the retired referee to the broadcast a few years ago, I’m surprised how rarely I learn anything from rules guy. Broadcasters: fire the ref and add a data guy. When Buffalo went for two last week I wanted to know if the odds favored that decision or not.

Wishing Mamdani the best, but my God every economist says freezing rent will, in the medium term as building new rental housing is disincentivized, raise rents later. NYC has the most existing rent control and has the highest rents. Support for this policy is the left’s version of vaccine denialism

This October 2020 Vox piece on the filibuster has aged well www.vox.com/21424582/fil...

Blooper: Watch max’s elbow slip off her own knee at the end of this video

Hard to question the committee’s decision to include Miami and Alabama now.

The answer to right wing populism is never left wing populism. Otherizing rich people doesn’t work as well as otherizing foreigners because many see the rich as aspirational and left wing populism as “anti-prosperity for me.” Clinton didn’t do it. Obama didn’t do it.

For years the Epstein story was an Alex Jones and QAnon obsession. Crickets from Democrats. Does anyone really believe us when we say this is about justice for the victims? Just because you evoke the victims on cable news doesn’t mean that’s what this is about. Stupidest. Issue. Ever.

“The images include pictures of Epstein with… Trump, Bannon, Clinton, Summers, Gates, Woody Allen, Richard Branson, Alan Dershowitz..They do not appear to show illegal activity by these individuals.”…if not illegal activity, then why would your government release them?

Listening to James Talarico on Chris Hayes right now and I'm just not sure why the conventional wisdom is that he's the future. Democrats who communicate like him keep loosing national elections. He interviews exactly the opposite of Gavin Newsom. One sounds coached and one sounds well-read.

Jon Pardi performed at the Big12 championship game and once it’s on YouTube you gotta listen to it. His voice sounds like punishment.

Democrats pls don’t put Mark Kelly on the 2028 ticket. He’s not even the most talented senator from Arizona. Sending fundraising texts every 5 minutes while putting MSNOW viewers to sleep is not winning strategy. Strong bio cannot edge out communication style. Ask John Kerry (who had a better bio)

M Ali, Trump, Jim Brown, and Namath stayed friends with OJ Simpson after the murders. Yoko Ono and Paul Shafer orbited Phil Specter after. Tebow (Hernandez), Trent Reznor (Manson), Sinatra, Anthony Quinn (Gotti). Why do you want your government to release the names of those who emailed by Epstein?/1