we progressives are so useless There are 100s of administration jobs that require Senate Approval, aside from the 22 cabinet level jobs yet a good spreadsheet that shows how each senator voted on each nominee doesn't seem available these summarize only the 22 cabinet jobs, and even then, only a

The thing about @nytimes.com critics, including afaik most "media" critics, is that they are all to eager to point out when the Times does wrong, but rarely explicitly give the times credit for doing right meanwhile, NPR and PBS have the most awful mush, and those same critics are silent

a silly hypothetical, but when I ask people IF our choice is Vance vs Newsom in 2028 THEN will you vote for Newsom [ alternate ] will you be better off with Vance ? to me, a surprising number of people are unwilling to say I will vomit and vote for Newsom, cause, truly, we will be better off

ProTip If you want to find the Federal building, or the Federal courthouse in any city, just look for most ugly example of modern architecture

Dear everyone. Please provide source articles for your posts. Don't just take a screenshot of text within an article, crop it and post it with no sourcing. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

That peer reviewed papers are on average better then non peer reviewed papers does NOT mean that all peer reviewed papers are good many are not so, of course you should know this, but if you see a "hot" paper, wait a week and let the experts go thru it

New video on why you won’t receive a tariff check www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEDA...

nice 3 points 1 at about 3min30sec,Paul notes that if or when rebates are issued for the illegal tariffs, that a lot of the money will go to chinese companies, as they are the payor of record 2 why can't anyone but Paul do basic lighting so eyeglass reflections are minimal ? is this so hard ? 3

"funny" normally, after the 1st year or so of a president's term, senior aides start to leave, cause senior aid to POTUS is an incredibly demanding and stressful job but Trump's senior aids are lazy and inept; they don't work hard ( I guess) and don't care enough, or aren't smart enough, to be

Social media, yknow. When everyone can spray their thoughts to the world, you realize how crazy everyone really is.

if this is news to you, drop everything and watch this excellent video “i know what it is!” no you do not!

This is a case of clever people coming up with a bad idea: 1. If the loan system is broken, fix that directly and don’t use the tax system as an imperfect proxy. 2. It’s a huge volume of new tax returns and admin for HMRC. 3. It gives the greatest benefits to higher earners. 1/3

If you follow @thetnholler.bsky.social you are not doing it right if you don't believe me, read the replies

Heads up folks: @thetnholler.bsky.social posted an AI-generated video this morning that was a deepfake of the captain of the U.S. women’s hockey team, and they seem to be promoting it as if it’s a real video. So watch out for that and don’t spread fakes.

Absolutely shocking graph www.ft.com/content/649d...

old jokes about seduction and romance: Familiarity breeds attempt Candy is Dandy, but Liquor is Quicker :)

you kids all know about plaster casters, right ?

Sigh far as I know, the pee tape is just fantasy but a fantasy liberal types like to think is true ditto this post, asserting that Putin has stuff on Trump; just chemtrail level conspiracy bullshit

I assume news professionals like @dankennedy.net and @jeffjarvis.bsky.social have known this for a while, but the print ed of the NYT is not a newspaper, in any traditional sense it is a new fangled thing, a daily magazine, with some news, most of it a few days old, along with opinion/analysis

Newton, MA 25 Feb 2 feet of snow on the ground, but the sun is shining and you can feel the warmth of the sun's rays, unlike 2 weeks ago when the sunshine was pallid & offered no warmth A few birds are, oddly, singing as if it is spring I saw one flying insect, a gnat like thing foolish critter

I checked to be sure it isn't a hoax, and there are several news links about it, independent of Alejandra's reporting. So, yes: seems real. Awful. Those Republican shitbags. h/t @rincewind.run

For complex historical reasons that are boring and trivial, I have credit cards from 4 banks and none of the websites are "very good" but the JPMorganChase website sucks but that could be because I use Bing browser+ wintel laptop (Firefox often just doesn't work on websites for major companies)

nice post from which one can make an important point Contrary to what people here often say, all trump voters are NOT stupid, or racist, or misogynist some are but many are just normal humans, which means, very sadly, they have incoherent political views that are not fact based just life

[ only half joking ] so the titantic amount of money being spent on AI data centers is a good thing, cause it is absorbing all this extra cash ? LOL

This is who typically turns out for primaries. From a national progressive group endorsement.

[ broken record whining ] The SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA issues its written opinions in PDF format, and such opinions , often 50 or even 100 pages, may have several seperate parts, the maj opinion, the dissent, etc and the PDF DON'T HAVE BOOKMARKS SHAMEFUL ARROGANT STUPID

Kids the oldest form of this joke, far as I know, is the Trotsky Stalin Telegram Joke

Just me, almost surreal how vile @npr.org 's reporting is think I'm using social media hyperbole ? read and decide for yourself www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n... the drug prices is particularly vile as , afaik, Trump's big thing actually has higher prices fuck you @nprfreshair.bsky.social

Just me posting about politics on bluesky is not doing anything useful; it is just a circle jerk (ok, that is hyperbole, but not much) you actually want to do something about #SOTU take this video clip from @atrupar.com and email or phone your US Rep, and your US senators, and your news media

I didn't watch the SOTU, cause why And I didn't have any strong feelings about what Dems should have done before and during the speech That is, until I saw this & Just me, I wasn't thinking the Dems were spineless, but wow

one of many examples of bone headed errors made by Trump people and you might ask, why ? 1 They are just stupid 2 They are overworked - there is an incredible volume of cases around immigration, and they don't have enough staff 3 They think we are a stupid and lazy as they are 4 The are people

The posts below are what is wrong with political commentary, & even the entire "left wing" media world What we need is a transcript with comments, from a panel of experts, on each claim What we get instead are snippets, cause of course except for the @nytimes.com no one has time ( = $) to produce

Can you spot the error? in.pinterest.com/pin/vintage-...

Trust In News The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is broken up into 351 towns* (see reply) &, except maybe for the most sparsely populated ones, each town is responsible clearing Snow off of city streets (I think the state, or maybe County , does the major highways) Anyway , here in MA the weather

just me hot takes are bad I have no interest in SOTU takes so, to cleanse my timeline, muting SOTU and state for 24 hours

As Ryan says, the blog post by Prof Claussen is highly recommended My takehome: the SCOTUS decision barring Trump from using IEEPA for tariffs will have little or no effect Indeed, If I were being cynical, I would say the conservative justices knew this, and they ruled against trump to

This seems good, but what is lacking is some strategy or theory for how to oppose trump at SOTU

[ Pedantic whining ] WBUR is, still, one of the most respected and influential news voices in the Boston area So a report on the great Blizzard of 2026 should be authorative WBUR outsources this to 1degreeoutside.com and the news story by 1degreeout isn't bad but I have a nit to pick

This is really good news, and god knows we all need good news but, of course, don't get complacent; Nov 2026 is a long long way in political time IMO, the midterms deserve a lot of your time as a priority item but midterms are a marathon, so pace yourself

Notable development in Fulton County's motion for return of election materials seized by FBI: The clerk of court, Che Alexander, seeks to join the case. DOJ previously argued that the Fulton Board of Elections does not have standing bc the clerk had custody of the ballots.

i repost things from @eji.org to remind people that "much worse' is really, really bad way worse then where we are now

Far as I can tell, if you are a small account that almost no one pays any attention to (like me, and lack of attn is reasonble) then the best way to become a big account that gets lots of attn is to find vira posts that have a lot of likes (> 100) but very few replies, and

That feeling when one of your posts goes miniviral (for me, a huge number of likes) and yo have no clue why

nerdy science stuff you may have seen a super cool science thing where researchers wanted to find hiQ antibodies against RSV, a virus which can cause life threatening illness in newborns they wanted antibodies, cause the std treatment is to inject a clinical grade antibody (a "mAb" in the jargon)

As you watch them cheer an adjudicated rapist tonight, keep in mind that the House Republican majority hinges on protecting members accused of domestic violence (Mills) and sexual harassment (Gonzalez).

The American Presidency Project has made a list of every designated survivor for a State of the Union Address and SOTU-like session of Congress since 1984. (Note that there was not one in 2021 because most of the Cabinet watched remotely due to the pandemic.) www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/pr...

In 2024, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales talked about filling the unusual and “sobering” role in 2007, and why, after being given two choices, he opted to be airborne in a military aircraft because “it would be kind of cool to fly around … as the president gave the State of the Union.”

If you read this article, you may ask: why are these very $ clothes so bizarre of course, the clothes are bizarre so that they are instantly recognizable; the goal is for people to know you spent some absurd amount of money that is all; it is about flaunting your wealth, nothing more

Bluesky: PhD economics is a fraud, just PhDs helping the rich [ PhD economists do study that agrees with what bluesky likes [ Bluesky: PhD economics is a reliable source for detailed, complex analysis of the economy

bluesky The @nytimes.com is ignoring this important story about an ICE whistle blower !!! down with the mainstream media !!!! NY Times: really ? that story is above the fold