only 8 minutes in and it’s already a new years at the needle for the books

this slide deck is the experience of watching an all-time great jam band reunite for a concert with like the london symphony orchestra except for Internet People good grief well done

"This presentation does not cover Sliwa's radio career because it would be another 100 slides."

I absolutely promise that no matter how much you think you know about Curtis Sliwa you will find surprises in here

If you enjoyed his wild answers during the mayoral debate you'll love: - the award he was given by Richard Nixon! - how he got disqualified from a matzoh ball eating contest! - the gay wedding he officiated! - his terrible security practices and the secrets I never wanted to read as a result!

I kept telling @chrysaora.bsky.social and @smathewss.bsky.social new sliwa facts and eventually this happened

gotta hand it to them, Menstrual Cycle Education is world class thoughtspeak

I see we’ve progressed to the “torturing intellectuals” component of this exercise

are they even providing a pretense about why “criminal” Americans can’t be imprisoned within the famously vast and overwrought American prison system?

I wrote this, because a guy on my block told me he was thinking of liquidating his life savings ($10k) so that his money didn’t disappear. Showing him a single graph talked him out of it. I hope it’s helpful to someone.

Good news. The American empire is falling. Bad news. I’m an American

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

the only thing that is allowing me to keep up with the news is @sill.social. I can't recommend it enough.

you know, maybe we deserve what is coming to us

I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.

I believe this is a world first: An intra-day tariff chart.

Congrats to ADL, AJC and the other mainstream Jewish orgs content to sit back while a fascist delivers antisemitic smears against the most prominent Jew in American government

startups are small businesses, and we should act like it; I will die on this hill

no stove left behind from touching

They are just handing out Pulitzers for going down jd Vance’s twitter follows list and nobody seems to want to take them! I guess wired will get to it eventually!

this story has absolutely everything*: houseboats, effective altruism, multiple murders, chaotic gender identities 🫡, a sword, and so, so much more *for a very specific genre of person

it's starting to look like everyone is going to learn more about meir kahane this year. that's really ~so~ unfortunate, because he was a fascist and a terrorist, and his name should be forgotten + his legacy wiped from the earth

this would be so cute if it wasn’t such an effective demo of how our society will end

lmao, jesus

great opportunity for someone to primary elon musk

Yesterday @chana.bsky.social pointed me to Judge Reyes’ Wikipedia page and it really adds an extra sprinkling of umami to these updates en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_C._...

some talking points other than the obvious if you need them: - this is governmental overreach - this increases the chances of having to strip at the airport for *everyone* - what about intersex people - this is wasteful and inefficient and a dumb use of government resources

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

This was just 233 days ago:

alas, another dissertation has dropped

Here’s what I’m watching for: allowing unqualified people to be declared contracting officers or allowing non-contracting officers to award contracts. Otherwise they have to convince a bunch of career COs to break the law, and that’s going to be difficult.

looking forward to the cybersecurity effects of every federal law enforcement agency running a python script that deletes any code or document with the word “privilege”. hacking the government is back again, yea baby

that little ping is you heard is the sound of a grad student finally finding their dissertation topic

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

Call the kids taking over the US government Campus Protesters so Dems will take action

somebody will write such a bangin dissertation about the emergence of pull requests as vital documentation of the destruction of American Institutions github.com/HHS/Head-Sta...

Every news thing now is like “law enforcement agency dissolved: all power to Zod!” and then the Dems posting “iron workers have been the backbone of American industry for 100 years, and now tariffs are breaking our promise to them”

my biggest instinct this week, other than ordering a copy of my birth certificate, has been to celebrate the heroism of americans, especially federal employees, who are refusing to comply with tyranny. This will be a thread of their names/photos/actions, until I find a better way to honor them.

fwiw, this is a core principle in the new religion that James Rodgers (Stephen Miller lackey) created by mashing up the Book of Mormon and Jordan Peterson. he discusses this in a section called “Pathological Altruism”

a very happy year of the snake to american hero phyllis fong

nobody is talking nearly enough about the 700 page book James Kenneth Roger's wrote about the new Christian sect he invented, so I guess I will share some highlights

lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train labyrinth.zone/notice/Aq5V7...

in our hearts forever

if new year's at the needle has no fans, my entire family is dead

the year it looked like a nuclear meltdown is my personal fave, but the out of sync drones is such a close second. the entire family is glued to the tv awaiting this year's entertainment

fb marketplace 🤝 craigslist, pt ii

3 days

please don't, I know the tech bro that eventually ends the world is going to be raised through childhood on agile methodology