It is kinda funny that “taking over” Hormuz has become the get out of jail free card, the strait is merely the shortest part of the gulf, there is still hundreds of miles of coastline that Iran can lob drones and missiles from

more things that are bad: -not paying for your subway fare -playing loud music/videos on transit without headphones -littering -all sorts of shady car stuff like covering up your license plate, registering your car in the wrong state, getting a fake disability placard, speeding, etc.

people getting mad about this are telling on themselves

shoplifting is bad. cheating on your taxes is bad. smoking on the train is bad. not picking up your dog’s poop is bad. we live in a society, act like it!

trump and netanyahu having entirely different goals and end states here is going to be a considerable impediment

Honestly thank God y'know imagine if they bombed to lose

announcing myself as the new CEO of Dudesky

Guys the shoe thing is as close to seeing someone get professionally humiliated in public as you are likely to see

You average normie Democrat in 2026 loves AOC, wants to abolish ICE, and thinks Israel shouldn’t get another penny from us. It’s laughable how out of touch centrist consultants and politicians are.

To complete the 'time is a flat circle' discussion we're having rn about this being nearly 6 years to the day where Trump started bullshitting us about how bad covid was, the likelihood that we get some form of "like a miracle, it will go away" about high gas prices from him today is pretty high

We used to be a country

Hey remember when the White House just played Phantom super loud for no reason

This is partly, I think, because most writers really didn’t understand epidemiology, virology or public health in any depth. But also, there was a willingness to attribute good faith to MAHA arguments that wasn’t remotely deserved.

Yes, a regressive tax hike will be necessary, not out of distributional fairness, but out of a need for more efficiency due to how much we're going to need to dig ourselves out of a hole of a generation of Republican fiscal policy and Dem capitulation to same

What were the bribes paid?

For instance, if the humanitarian disaster continues to roil in Iran, and if it gets worse because of Trump hitting electrical and desalination facilities, we will likely lose whatever positive relationship we've had with the Gulf states and India is likely over

The election of Trump—both of them—will reduce the scope of every American’s future, as well as reducing the scope of who can be and will want to be an American

The consequences of this war for Americans will be bleak and take decades to unfold, but it will impoverish and provincialize them in ways that would have been unimaginable ten years ago

I'd wager a majority of Americans believe Epstein died when Biden was president.

I had a reply the other day who said that Biden was they guy who said to bleach people's lungs for COVID. They really thought that was Biden

remembering when Trump had that press conference announcing Google had built them a Covid tracking tool at the start of the pandemic and the market shot up 10% (!) on the news and it turned out to be a total fabrication they just made up

Its insane to be contemplating an additional tax break while we operate with one o the largest structural deficits we have ever faced

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

But think about how long that is in posting days, that's practically forever A very large part of my practice in re IRS responses is educating/informing people of the time horizon, which in 2025 can get some pretty shocked stares

"Iran war drags on" my siblings in christ it is day seven

Okay, who did this

I hate to tell people but 2024 had absolutely nothing to do with who was the oldest man with the most oatmeal for brains

The insurrectionists wanted to overturn an election. They didn’t. They did anticipate and help bring into being a political future in which those who control the federal government believe that they were right. That is a success, if not by the lights of their initial goals.

I like to look back on feted FP experts takes and smile as they still get fawned on for their insights at Aspen

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

I had really hoped against hope that the likeliest consequence of an incredibly irresponsible aerial bombardment, a humanitarian disaster in the middle of a country that is incredibly difficult to supply via traditional means, did not rear its ugly head but here we are

Claude code experiment proceeding, I talked to my buddy who is in machine learning from way back and he gave me some really cool pointers which I appreciated and sort of helped me evaluate its plans and outputs and help me keep Claude from running out way ahead of me

Every single talk I have with boosters of this technology at some point the person will make the claim that everyone is going to lose their job because of it, and some people take those statements seriously

Man it had been a while since I'd angrily interacted with a pro-Trump on the pandemic wrecker account, takes me back. I hated it, to be clear

The reason Biden shares Trump's shame in mishandling the pandemic is Murk's law, no more, no less

Any comment from these guys?

You don't take assets and time and attention away from INDOPACOM and put them to CENTCOM and claim anything is about China, that's fucking ridiculous

i have come to the view that there is an extent to which elites are projecting the salience of bigotry on the broad public. *they* are preoccupied with this stuff and so they imagine the public must be obsessed with it.

update: bsky.app/profile/geor...

it is obviously true that there's bigotry of various kinds among the unwashed masses but, despite what the decorum demands of class apparently have some of y'all believing, this is very obviously a feature that the rulers and the ruled have in common

I HAD A DREAM OF DREAMS GONE BY WHEN HOPE WAS HIGH AND LIFE WORTH LIVING I DREAMED THAT LOVE WOULD NEVER DIE I DREAMED THAT GOD WOULD BE FORGIVING

Plenty of that across industries, there’s this pervasive belief that President Trump could never make a catastrophic mistake, or if he did, it could be reversible by the omnipresent “adults in the room”. That is, American biz genuinely believes the WH could never break something they couldn’t fix.

Democrats: "oh no anything but that"

I HAD A DREAM OF DREAMS GONE BY WHEN HOPE WAS HIGH AND LIFE WORTH LIVING I DREAMED THAT LOVE WOULD NEVER DIE I DREAMED THAT GOD WOULD BE FORGIVING

hey man absolutely hate to keep dunning you like this but did you happen to remember where you saw the unsupported claim that Platner's wife is Jewish?

the problem, fundamentally, is that rural voters don't want the economy to be "good" in the typical sense of being efficient or productive, they want it to be "good" in a moral sense where it rewards the people and industries they like

Bombur(he/him):"Bombur is a cozy dog on his throne." #corgi #corgicrew #dogsofbluesky

btw I'm still livid about the switch, have no desire to relitigate it or see its like ever again, and even I admit #3 is unquestionably true. The international comparison leaps off the page. You can't even call it vibes because it was everywhere

every incumbent party on the planet got walloped and Harris/Dems did better than almost all of them she overperformed in swing states where she campaigned heavily compared to the rest of the country she absolutely could have run a better campaign (Gaza!) I don’t know if it would have been enough

my theory of the Harris campaign, which makes exactly nobody happy: 1. she was put in an incredibly deep and arguably insurmountable hole by Biden 2. she made significant errors, largely in not separating herself from him enough 3. her results were still in the upper range of plausible outcomes