[glass breaks]

What it feels like defending capitalism on Bluesky

AJ is an odd duck can't imagine he is an easy boss, I didn't love Shildt's love of bunting but he seemed like a good guy.

It's all one enterprise. Musk, Inc. As Tesla shareholders will discover as soon as Elon can get his hands on Tesla's cash to shovel into the xAI cash incinerator. electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Of course you don’t bet against Bari Weiss, she’s backed by the house.

they’re scared fucking shitless of this weekend, or, at the least, are scared fucking shitless of trump seeing it on the television

Which makes the folks complaining about how it would be easier to simply take down capitalism rather than do this protest even funnier

These guys are terrified of the numbers that are going to turn out on Saturday, and that's all the more reason to put down your "wine mom protest" objections and join them.

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

i could swear this isn’t the first one of these stories i have heard about this specific police force cooperating with and enabling ICE

upset that i cannot post "Adrian Veidt did nothing wrong" as bait now because Peter fucking Thiel beat me to it

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

“I’m a cop. I am not supposed to feel dread. He’s a brown person. HE’S supposed to feel dread!” Bari nods sympathetically.

That's why they play the games.

Certain type of person just shows up here every month to post bait (and 50% of them write for the Atlantic)

Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!

So much of modern conservatism is either deliberately misreading children’s media, or just this meme.

A win is a win but bleh that wasnt pretty

If they haven’t “resolved the issue,” then they shouldn’t be using the shadow docket to overturn long-standing precedents.

Graham Platner is a very high-ceiling candidate in Maine with a lot of potential. He's also extremely untested and while he looks promising for Democrats, it's pretty important to have a primary here to see if there are any red flags that bubble up. Just let it go and log off.

Man why is this game, very rude to be this ugly this early in the morning.

update: I have both filed a request for the incident report and left a message with the communications officers for the TAMU police, who are currently asking around to see if there is additional sandwich information in any reports. (I asked other questions too, but also sandwich)

For a lot of people there is comfort in their being a right answer (and this holds even if you don’t know what the right answer is). CharGPT offers those folks the illusion of a right answer they can look up for ~everything.

This sums up what I was trying to get at with my criticism of Klein, although much better written. There is a reason Arendt is a celebrated philosopher and I am not. But Klein is courting the convinced at the expense of the truth, which will doom us all! Criticism of him is warranted.

I hate profiles of conservatives who are worried that their country is changing and would welcome profiles of liberals and leftists who are afraid of same thing from the opposite direction and treated their concerns the same kind of reflexive deference

Vance is lying but also... Trump posted the orders himself online! Why are you asking if this happened or not?

Even Donald Trump is failing the "who was president in 2020" bar trivia question

gotta burn this motherfucker down folks

This is kind of the whole deal. To me, at least. Unfortunately, our media is so focused on the horse race, they won’t dig into how D’s can trust the GOP if pocket recissions, legislative recisssions, and illegal impoundment renders any budget agreement moot.

Correct Reprogramming is intended (and the language is written) to give the Executive latitude to not be overly strictured because when we're talking about almost a trillion dollars a few billion might not be 100% aligned But it is ALWAYS done in consultation with approps, particularly their PSMs

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

So dominion voting got sold, look at this fascinating statement from their new owner (not to doom but this is, uh, suboptimal). www.dominionvoting.com

this is fucking obscene

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

lol, shoutout to the accounts who spent days saying she was done

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

OMB currently googling "which appropriations are more than one year"

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

When people wonder how Epstein continued to have powerful friends even after everybody knew, consider that a Nazi salute followed by blithely starving children and cutting off their life sustaining medicines wasn’t a deal breaker for anyone in power positions.

One issue society has is that every single major institution hates society and wants to kill as many people as possible.

There is no senior Republican less equipped at this moment to chair Approps than Susan Collins. If you chair Approps, you defend the cmte's prerogatives and its members (sometimes even minority), yet Collins won't go to the mattresses to defend her own state. If only she had an inner Ted Stevens.

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

One thing I've noticed is that even well-educated people underestimate how much control over the structure of the courts congress has. Almost nothing about the courts requires a constitutional amendment to change

Here is the entirety of Article 3. Unless you're changing something spelled out here, you don't need an amendment

This is one of the important take aways for me. Whether or not the Regime can achieve 20m deportations; or affect every single immigrant; (some people argue we’re doomers when their reach is so small); the fact is, they will keep TRYING to make it worse. There’s no limiting principle or ideal to

I understand the optics here but this is also literally why Charles met his end in Whitehall, either Article I means what it says or it doesn't and the Constitution is dissolved

The ease with which officials lie in 2025 is honestly terrifying