Both scammers and your phone OS operator keep track of answer rates and answering unknown numbers makes it more likely that those callers will get through scam filters to other people. Do not answer unknown numbers. The important ones will leave a voice mail or follow up with a text.

I think the lesson of the last decade is that when you suddenly remove American leadership the gap gets filled by *nothing* Europe badly lacks capacity, China has domestic neuroses to match the US, and another way of phrasing "prioritizing regional balances of power" is "more small wars"

If a U.N. employee really did stop the escalator when the Trumps got on it, that person should be fired. Whether you consider it a legendary prank, a minor act of resistance, or dangerous tampering with a conveyance, it's clearly a firing offense (and I assume whoever may have done it knew that).

A very good piece. I continue to think the "pro family conservative pronatalists" are shooting themselves in the foot with opposition to IVF. Tech bro arguments aside, IVF has helped far too many normie middle-class conservative parents. It simply will be a part of any real pro-natalist cause.

Trump is waging a war on American science and innovation. His $100,000 fee on H-1B visas will chase top researchers to other rich countries. In the long-term, our living standards will likely be lower as a result www.vox.com/politics/462...

Democrats need to be able to win in places like OH/NE/IA to win the Senate and it's possible that a Democratic Party with more appeal to swing voters may have helped Sherrod Brown keep his seat in 2024

the definition of "liberal" driving people off their rocker, part six million

If grace is Kirk’s legacy, reflected so beautifully by his wife, then a lack of grace is the central reality of Donald Trump’s presidency. Trump himself delivered on that following Erika’s touching forgiveness with his own vow of vengeance. www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

What's the exact complaint here? I think Democrats should make some strong demands to avoid a shutdown, and I don't think Schumer and Jeffries are at this time. But they're going to have to communicate those demands in some way, such as sending a letter or in a meeting.

Build the cube

This is absolutely false, because non-voters preferred Trump even more than voters did. There is one and only one way out, and it is conversion not turnout.

When I look at the changing demographics of the electorate that votes in presidential elections and what happened in the mainstream Democratic Party from 2012 - 2024 I admit I'm at a loss as to what a Stancillist thinks *should* have happened

no better example of "the left just yells" than the widely propagated idea that the journalism that has led to some of the most damaging information on the current administration (e.g. the NYT and Haberman) are in any way covering things up for the administration

what I want, as a free speech defender, is to attempt to minimize punishments meted out by both private and government actors to people who do not deserve punishment

My take on current Bluesky discourse is that if you want a social network where the users all agree that the Wall Street Journal's reporting is definitionally a Terms of Service violation you're going to have an audience that can fit in a single free Discord channel (so just go do that instead)

In my opinion, if a bipartisan group of legislators have the political capacity to pass a bill like this they would have the political capacity to pass a bill reforming the broad powers of Sec. 232 and Sec. 301 tariffs. And they should just do that instead

"don't RSVP for a protest" discourse is so good. like old twitter. my goodness it's back

just get one fucking out dot com

Seeing bsky hive mind spinning this into the idea that he was just an apolitical nihilist with ideosyncratic views and well, the fact that he killed Kirk because Kirk was too hateful and you can't negotiate with hate does not strike me as an apolitical disaffected zoomer

A good example of New York Times derangement syndrome is that the Trump Administration is currently suing the New York Times for being too mean to them and literally their legal arguments are that the NYT editors hate him

Abreu followed @bendubose.bsky.social's advice tonight and made sure not to walk the leadoff batter by just throwing heaters down the middle Now let's see what happened...

Econ professors are less left wing than academia as a whole but still largely Dem because among high achieving econ and finance folks, people who are willing to sacrifice earning potential for prestige are generally leftish personality types

A friend of mine who was a probationary employee was fired and then brought back as a "whoopsie! Sorry about that!" onboarding within a month Not the most egregious violation but it still really sucked for them for awhile!

It's wild to see people just refusing to concede even the smallest point: public health officials allowed the Floyd protests while still tamping down on other (even outdoor!) activities (And of course that famous letter from a bunch of health workers)

Young male Trump voters:

"The Montana YIMBY movement did the right thing by working with Gianforte, because doing so was the only way to put a meaningful dent in Montana’s housing crisis."

This is why it's so frustrating that people on this website focus so intently on their idea that the New York Times is not calling Donald Trump a fascist in the correct way. It doesn't matter! New York Times readers all voted for Harris!

Seems like it was just yesterday that the allegation was that Ezra Klein was controlled opposition because of Marc Andreesen and Peter Thiel

Guy claims he just made an innocent tweet about Marc Andreesen when it's clearly about the broader political project. Called out on it, blocks, claims abundance is juche. Fun times with smart people!

the dastardly authors of the book Abundance, using a buzzword to smuggle in their nefarious ideas like "build solar panels" and "publicly fund MRNA research"

The biggest problem for Democrats is that high turnout voters who consider themselves independent or moderate or centrist think that Democratic candidates are too left-wing and do not think that Donald Trump is too right-wing

2005 in the discourse again?!

Max is correct of course. People yell at the New York Times partly because it's easy and partly because there are NYT reporters on Bluesky and it feels like you can make a difference But Donald Trump isn't president because the NYT failed to call Donald Trump a fascist in the correct manner

"Blueskyism", which is a really bad phrase that could mean anything, is the denial that this dynamic exists

If you can subtract part of your coalition - and specifically a part of your coalition that is not going to vote for the other guys - while stealing an equivalent size of your opposition's coalition that is in fact a good idea

Canada was about to turn conservative like the rest of the G8 countries until Donald Trump started agitating for a war which allowed the Canadian Left to become the patriotic and nationalist party

"The biggest problem with smartphones is not that they’ve changed human nature, but that they’re designed to show us the worst people in the world. Take that in for a second." open.substack.com/pub/getbette...

Can you FOIA AI prompts for images created and then put out by executive agency social media departments? I would be *very* curious to see what went into this one.

Mario Kart prices normalized to 2025 dollars. Yes, video games were much, much more expensive in the 90s. www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

didn't we just have a week of discourse about how staying on Twitter will make you a Nazi by marinating you in Nazi slop? if the marinating thesis is correct, wouldn't you WANT centrists to be on this site so you can marinate them in socialist slop?

there are roughly 35 conservatives in the country who are never trumpers and they are all on this website

All of this is true but it's also true the Trump Administration is explicitly doing this to challenge the legality of rescissions at SCOTUS. I'd defend journalists' choice of words here.

Professional DC politicos love VEEP

this is the correct debate to have! and the centrist libs everyone hates say the way to rhetorically code as moderate is to verbally emphasize policy stances that are favored by large numbers of the public, and de-emphasize or stop talking about the ones that poll poorly

the capital-D Discourse around this post is why bluesky is bad. this is an interesting poll!

Notes on a meme from the Houston Astros subreddit today Love finds a way

it happened to me: my NIMBY local politician won my vote because they solved a non-housing and non-zoning municipal issue (problems with the city with trash collection)

Not sure what's even going on here. Union Station has been owned by the Department of Transportation for a long time.

libertarianism intensifies