Soo any confirmation that Maduro's people sort of colluded with Trump's people to get rid of Maduro? Is that right?

So is the US Catholic Church the least rotted out American institution? Man, did not see that one coming

I want to know how a parliamentary system would be better able to control Trump’s illegal action. Let’s look at Israel surely they have it figured out.

No.

Wrecked

Did y’all know that Fiorella LaGuardia was half Italian, half Jewish and Episcopalian?!

Wait HOW much aspirin

The breadth vs. depth thing is weird because you can't really get either from a couple years of school, majoring or minoring or whatever. You get introduced to a few things and you go off and develop breadth or depth at your job and in your space time over the next several years

could you imagine if it happens before midterms

If they can't find veins anywhere else but the back of his dang hands imagine what else must be going on

2026 is going to be a call an ambulance but not for me type of year

i am rooting as much as is appropriate for mamdani to be an effective mayor because if he manages it, he will be an important model and national leader for american progressives — one part fiorello la guardia, one part robert la folette

Your regular reminder that most right wing propaganda takes an actual bad thing that people hate and DARVOs it or otherwise messes with context or scale. Part of the ratfuck is to get you, well-intentioned lib, to defend the bad thing and look insane.

Who else has fallen off *violently* in 2025? Klein, Tooze, who else

they call me (one of) the bsky.app/profile/actu...

My family is in this picture and I don't like it

Israel will absolutely get closer to Russia as the US becomes slightly less supportive, it's just not a wonderful deal for Israel because Russia sucks, but, well, ok

You still see people doing “economic anxiety” arguments when we’ve long since figured out the Trump base is wealthy whites without degrees.

renaming mar-a-lago "black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, and no human is illegal" and then getting mad when kid rock declines to perform there

Yep

I guess a man can check out of the group chat full of weight-lifting democratic socialist Kindleberger Groupies with a faith in the eternal and immutable character of the left hand side of the dollar smile but he can never leave.

I actually blame Karthik for laundering some of these ideas about the USD and Treasuries + geopolitics brain genius stuff

Respectfully, the Republican Party controls the House of Representatives and the Senate, and also has a supermajority of Justices on the US Supreme Court

We are deficit troofing (leftishly?) in 2025

Where's Romanchuk when you need someone to talk sense about debt markets

Let's play who's a dumbass about currency and debt! I'll go first! It's you!

Continued electrification and the conversion of downtowns into pedestrian-transit-robotaxi zones are two trends that I think will get more widespread over the next decade

We built a society where millions of Americans live like kings and they’ve started acting like it (dumbasses obsessed with petty status squabbles)

Right, like, I visit Florida and Tennessee to see family and dear friends. And I’ve considered/might have to move there for those reasons. Wouldn’t otherwise!

Deciding what vision the Democrats will try next will be the core question of the 2028 primary. In the meantime, while Trump is not done attacking, his attack has 'culminated' - run out of steam. The 2026 midterms will be the field of the counter-attack.

Unlike many languages, English has a complex system of grammatical structures to show symbolic distance and formality including “don’t curse at your mother” and “we’re in church”

Biden: and this guy, he really did it. No fooling, walked west planting apple trees, good kid. Did good work for this country. *smash cut to Indiana nursing home* 250 year old Johnny Appleseed: Joe Biden is one of the best men i have ever meet.

Bluesky is the new place to go for high-level political discussions because half of the pundits, for lack of a better word, have credentials like "Guy who plays in a Portland post-punk band". "Professional video editor in San Diego". "Commodities trader in Nova Scotia". "Person named Sharon"

Let’s get some “is hip-hop revolutionary“ discourse going

Dipshit Pragmatism >>> Pop Bayesian Social Psychology

Suppose that we have an experience.

I like Newsom or Pritzker against Vance, seems like a cinch

Periodic reminder that most right wing propaganda (ex-real cult crazy like Qanon) takes a real thing that people really don't like, and DARVOs it or otherwise screws with context or proportion. Part of the propaganda value is to get you, well-meaning liberal, to defend the bad thing and look insane.

Is it time to roll out the "nobody knows what eugenics was" posts

This is incorrect and Pelosi was pretty good

It's important for everyone to understand that this was by design by The Powers That Be, who experienced existential panic in the first half of Biden's first term as workers had a favorable job market for the first time in two decades. They put in huge effort to stopping it.

Archipelago: Earth

A LOW-COORDINATION SCENARIO

I've been gathering data with a probe of some type and it's official: you are getting dumber

I know people don't literally mean burn everything down when they say Burn It All Down but has anyone ever tried to burn something down? It's surprisingly hard work unless the wind is blowing real fast.

Funnily enough this is part of a plot point in BEN HUR

Sometimes science studies is the kind of hooey people complain about but it makes a very good point which is that if you take on board the notion that the scientific consensus changes over time that makes is harder to say real/fake about a lot of the history of science

Some ancient astronomers were anti-astrology, some were pro-. But in general the above point is correct: the esoteric stuff is rather hard to tease out from the practical stuff in many cases.

- St. Augustine of Hippo

I feel like all of this makes sense if you remember that about 15% of the electorate are liberals, construed broadly, and like 5% are to the left of that. Everyone else is in it for other reasons which are not bad necessarily but don't mistake it.