Really good @thehometownholler.bsky.social featuring @blairreeves.bsky.social if you want to learn a bit about NC state politics. overcast.fm/+ABGNDtOVbMg

If I'm reading the votes correctly, if there were 3 additional living Democrats in the U.S. House, the Republicans could not have passed the reconciliation bill they just did. Another RBG effect - the ego of the olds wreaking long-term damage. Absolutely damning indictment of the Democrats.

The wrong reason to be mad at the Democrats is that they're not lefty enough or whatever. The proper reason to be mad at the Democrats is that the party leadership is a gerontocracy and they're sorta okay with that.

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Bernie Sanders has been embarrassing himself in public for nearly ten years straight and the dude needs to go home and retire.

Watching the Trumpy tech guys learn Econ 101 in real time today as they digest what government price controls do

Are all NYT economics reporters bad, or just that one guy who appears to be innumerate?

TIL that there are still areas in northeastern France - zone rouge - that are still so devastated from World War One that they're legally restricted from any use. No housing or farming is allowed there due to the vast amount of human and animal remains and unexploded ordnance.

They don't have any plan. There's no Big Conspiracy, in the formal sense; it's just a pure war on competence. They're careless people, breaking things, and don't particularly care because they know they won't be around when it comes time for picking up the pieces.

"We're seeing promising growth in advertising revenue" The advertising:

You guys all know that David Brooks is actually bad, right?

AOC drawing an audience of thousands in Utah, a Trump +22 state that is absolutely not politically competitive in any way, suggests that maybe crowd sizes aren't really very meaningful.

Just a reminder that a lot of the glib stock market/investing wisdom you read about on social media might be fine advice if you're a professional trader with a 7-figure fund. But if you're playing around with a Robinhood account, a lot of that doesn't apply to you. You're the chum.

All the tariff memes are pretty good, but I can only imagine the memes circulating over on weibo right now making fun of Americans for thinking they're going to manufacture iphones. We can't even build houses in this country. You want me to attach a rear photo array??

Whoever we are, wherever we stand, one thing we can all rally around in these times of discord and strife is cheering on as Duke basketball chokes at the last second and goes home sad. 😆

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

The reason to oppose the Trumper assault on ivy league universities is because of its capricious corruptness. Targeted research defunding is being done purely for political theatrics, to punish institutions for expression. That's awful. That said, I have no love for these institutions themselves.

Okay, this thing is very funny though, right

This article, written by @davidfrum.bsky.social eight years ago this month, was remarkably prescient. He was right. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

This insight, from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, is one that a lot of liberals will have a hard time accepting - but it's true. Houston has a lot of problems. But more people can afford to live there than, like, NYC or Boston. So they do, and that matters.

I am not a big Biden fan for a number of Reasons, but this is a pretty good sign that Joe was right to preemptively pardon everyone.

For years, I've kept up a running thread of what I've read on The Bad Site. I am now moving that thread over here. Just finished - The Art of Power by Nancy Pelosi www.audible.com/pd/B0D1RRLRK...

the truth about jd vance is that he’s almost certainly right that his classmates looked down on him and they were right to do it

One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism

Wait, so Sheryl Sandberg was actually a baddie all along and her crafted persona was purely an elaborate performance of self-flattering do-gooderism?

@patrickwyman.bsky.social You will not bait me into replying on the bad site, so: positing that invading Canada is itself a mind-numbingly stupid idea, theoretically you'd only really need to take that southern 15% of Ontario, right?

9 years ago, Musk got big coverage for saying that his target for manned flights to Mars was 2025. 2025 has arrived. Those flights to Mars have not. Instead Musk has destroyed a social media co, is destroying a car co, and is wrecking US govt + US economy. www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-swi...

Nothing is clearer by now than the fact that few profiles in courage are emerging from our elite class. They have largely chosen capitulation instead. It's time to replace them instead.

Twitter is increasingly unusable now. Just an algorithmically generated swamp of shitty RW slop accounts. It's not just gross - it's boring.

Yeah, it really feels like Threads launched too early.

It's really good to see Democrats fighting back with every tool at their disposal.

This might be a very constructive development for society. VCs are not politicians or judges or pastors. They’re in an adversarial market and objective reality is a far larger binding constraint than for other flavors of cultist.

So I assume Twitter's API blocking is also what has turned off link unfurls in iMessages. How does it work with Bluesky?

Someone's gotta do the correlation between new Blue Sky signups and the murder of tweetdeck.

Killing off Tweetdeck was probably the last straw. Idk how you're even supposed to use Twitter on the web without it, in a non-broadcast-only sort of way.

Parag Agrawal rn

Trump and COVID so brain-poisoned one of the wealthiest humans alive that he blew most of his highly leveraged fortune on an unprofitable and poorly-run social network, which he promptly ran straight into the ground. We live in amazing times.

"Platform risk" seems like a whole theme for the early 2020s.

Okay, I'm here. We can begin.