I have said privately that while I don’t necessarily begrudge anybody who chooses to leave the US, but A. That is tremendously privileged and b. I do think we have to be very skeptical about giving them roles in the country once we defeat fascism simply because they didnt stand and fight

In the final analysis, the political order has broken down primarily due to the desires & ignorances of the American people.

the scope of human evil is incredible, i see why people invented hell

emotive butlerian jihad now: the machine may not wear a human face.

I still wonder about the alternate universe where Martha Stewart won The Apprentice gig, and how things would have gone.

The key factor that everyone seems to always forget is that Trump was the host of what was once the highest rated show on network TV - a purportedly non-fiction show that portrayed him as a hyper-savvy and hyper-successful businessman.

Where my sleepy joe Biden mofos at?

the Fascism Knowers all fleeing the country to whine from foreign lands was just another type of elite capitulation. i hope they enjoy their employment elsewhere because i am disinclined to offer it back to them should they return.

Feels more and more like the crypto bubble and metaverse nonsense were crude training exercises for us to now take on the final boss of AI

Clooney sharing his all knowing political opinions while he dances between France and Italy is ridiculous. No one wants to hear him trash Kamala and by the way, IMO she would have been a trillion times better than what we have. And Hunter? Take a look at the current son's historic level shenanigans.

i really dont think these people are equipped to live in the world they built.

there is no political proposal that more divides the tiny percentage of us who live and breathe politics and literally *everyone else* than politician salaries

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

Ok come the fuck on, Mr "Beast" is opening a theme park called "Beast Land" in the Middle East

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

I really think we can drive a wedge between church ladies and the rest of the right and it will hurt! Do you think Groypers are organizing fund raisers and phone banking for candidate?

Huge. We need to do something about this in New Jersey so badly. People just do not build condos. Too risky.

THE GASLIGHTING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

His charisma is fundamentally incompatible with me (and likely many of the people on Bluesky) but it’s kind of insane to say it doesn’t exist

It's worth noting here that Steve Bannon has no policy prescriptions. He's not saying to lower prices or change foreign policy or any of that. He's saying they need to seize the state.

It is *obscene* that that beast wearing the skin of a man called Elon Musk was just awarded a trillion dollar pay-package after he personally signed the death warrant of hundreds of thousands of innocents earlier this year.

Incredibly dark for this to get approval. Any regime intent on denying their own citizens from leaving is a direct threat of violence.

How evil is it to have knowledge of this and stay silent? newrepublic.com/post/202813/...

if trump scraps the filibuster, the likelihood of democrats taking the senate in 2026 increases substantially

AGI should, in theory, be able to do basic arithmetic correctly

New: Zohran Mamdani has critized both Obama and Biden pretty harshly over the years. But after his election win Tuesday, both ex-presidents called Mamdani separately to praise his "moral compass" and influence on the Democratic Party in the Trump era. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/06/o...

I don’t understand camps saying: Dems need to follow the Mamdani model to win the midterms; or Dems need to follow the Spanberger model to win. It’s a big country. Different approaches work in different places. Candidates who connect w/their specific constituencies is the model.

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Actually they did have a choice in 2024.

What to call your prof

man I gotta be honest. I know this is a joke, and it gets at a truth about how weird the prof/undergrad labor relation is in the US academy. But once I got to grad school and discovered there are profs out there who actually do take colloquial honorifics DEADLY SERIOUSLY, and as a politics? woof

The password to the Louvre’s video surveillance system was “Louvre,” according to a museum employee

Always fun to remember the years of Corbyn-aligned types in the UK arguing that it was a horrific smear to suggest David Miller was perhaps a tad anti-Semitic. Anyway, here he is throwing a tantrum because Mamdani condemned swastika graffiti on a Jewish school

the jury nullification take is wrong. If that’s what had happened they wouldn’t have sent a note to the judge asking for definitions of relevant terms. They just didn’t think he did the crime after considering the evidence and following the given instructions. Don’t charge sandwich cases.

this has been one of my central arguments the past ten years. the theory underpinning the anti-democratic elements of the american constitutional order is wrong!

frankly, yes, Cuomo ran the worst campaign of all time on top of being a disgraced sex creep Mamdani is exciting, his campaign was great, I like the guy, but just objectively I don’t think you can look at his campaign and assume it’s the template for future democratic electoral hegemony, right?

Hey Somervillains, anyone know a Jennifer L? She dropped a corporate ID on the GLX bike path just inbound of Central St. i clipped it to the fence nearby.

the great thing about Musk's comp package being heavily incentive-gated is that it guarantees a decade of systemic financial fraud at the heart of the market. good job everyone

I am so tired of hearing pundits - left, right, and center - ponderously announce that "what voters really care about is inflation and prices." WHAT IS THE EVIDENCE WHAT IS THE ACTUAL LINKAGE YOU SEE BETWEEN THESE THINGS AND ELECTION RESULTS PLEASE, DO THE BARE MINIMUM AND SHOW A RELATIONSHIP

one of the early warning signs that Heritage was going full Nazi was that all their sane foreign policy hawks quit years ago when they started defending Putin

Jefferson wrote these famous lines: "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure." Note he was talking about someone else's blood.

Regardless of what comes after, there simply will not be an alternative to demolition of the ballroom and very significant gutting and reconstruction. The new construction will not be secure and the old construction has been completely compromised.

DC sandwich shops a golden opportunity has emerged

thank god for our right to a trial by a jury.

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as corrosive as the homeownership economy is, putting people in homes is actually a foundational requirement of modern civilization whereas ensuring they have AI generated short form videos is not bsky.app/profile/cono...

If the US moved to a European style health care system, I would no longer have the freedom to carefully choose a new doctor by looking for an in-network Vietnamese physician whose office is near a place that looks good to get lunch.

RIP Dick Cheney, you would have loved to see the Senate refuse to vote on constraining presidential authority to wage war against fishing boats he doesn't like

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