Facebook's final evolution: The internet's Dollar General

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I know some people on here are going to twist this into somehow being a bad thing, but part of being persuasive is learning where to pick your spots , because this shit is expensive and, if this happens, it will be awesome

McAfee rarely says something I actually like, but he’s right: it’s impossible to root for a side in the YouTube TV - Disney battle. Do your sympathies lie with the company with the world’s 4th biggest market cap or the network that drove the hideous last 10 years of conference realignment?

We’ll see what happens etc etc but it’s encouraging that the non-insane Supreme Court conservatives are finally starting to talk this way. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Spanberger-Sherill-Zohranism lives

A banner week for “don’t threaten me with a good time” content

refusing to say whether or not you voted for the Democratic candidate for mayor is such a damning indictment

A perfect insight into the kind of kind of person that joins ICE. They're not in control of their own lives and don't take responsibility for their own actions. Sandwiches "explode" on them.

David Lynch was trying to get us to recognize this for decades.

When you talk to people who aren’t particularly engaged with politics, they genuinely can’t believe — as in, they simply refuse to believe you—when you try to explain just how incompetent every single government leader is right now.

This entertaining and insightful essay hit extra hard after a decade as a Brooklyn-based podcaster (which, admittedly, describes 12.67% of Bluesky users). It also reminded me why I love @thebaffler.com and how important it is to support publications like this—so I bought a one-year subscription 🫡

Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

they must end this game before the daylight savings clock adjustment. nobody knows what will happen if baseball gets into the time shift. we could get stuck in the time wormhole forever

This game has everything.

The Bill Simmons/Joe House pods: Not for everyone, but, to me, hugely aspirational. Achieving a level of popularity and fame that lets you put out a weekly pod with an old friend who tells you how right you are about everything? The dream!

It's insane that this even needs to be said. “A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

“We love stealing jewelry we’re just not in love with stealing jewelry”

Not sure if Bluesky works for this or not, but here goes: I need a better barber. Any barbershop recs for Park Slope or the surrounding area?

I’m neutral on whether the tired old move-to-the-center strategy actually works, but I did find it funny how much this summary of “elite opinion” pretty much perfectly correlates with my own opinions!

There will be roughly 47 remaining upper middle class jobs by Dec 31.

Just realized it’s been 10 years since the last Sarah Vowell book. What gives?

Puzzled why anyone would vote for this measure. Aren’t we living through the effects of what happens when low-information voters actually do show up? boltsmag.org/new-york-cit...

You can make a case that being a congressperson is both the easiest job in the world and, given the state of gerrymandered districts, the job with the best job security.

It’s not that I want to spend my time and energy thinking about what an idiot this guy is, it’s just that he keeps getting in front of cameras reminding me again and again.

I absolutely believe this.

Thought we’d moved past the Bluesky phase of getting mad at NYT headlines. I guess not :(

The upshot is we really don’t seem to have enough terrible people to complete Trump, Miller et al’s fascist takeover. I think this holds true as long as the protests and civil disobedience continue to shine a light on ICE monstrosities, which denies a permission structure to the fence-sitters.

Something sort of quaint about it being an underground poker ring though. Old school!

Hardly the biggest story right now, but this is pathetic from the West Midlands police. www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...

In general I of course despise Trump’s kangaroo court nonsense, but the Comey stuff is, admittedly, pretty funny.

The 10 year old designed / drew the pumpkin face and it’s got a grizzled tabloid reporter from the 70s vibe where I imagine it starting every sentence with “listen, kid…” and I feel like it needs a cigar in its mouth.

Idk, my position is kinda “it’s a useful tool that’s clearly here to stay but is also over hyped and has substantial negative externalities”

All good then—I’m sure the type of person that uses protein powder uses it sparingly and only in moderate doses

I forgot what baseball stress felt like 😬

Mackinac

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

"since California was admitted to the Union as part of the Compromise of 1850, there have been more than 220 proposals for it to divide or secede" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

College football, like the US itself, is one of those things I like more the less I read about what’s going on in it.

This is genuinely the biggest story in the country and everyone is talking about it, from journalists to all non-Jeffries/Schumer politicians. It must feel good to post like this but it’s really not a very helpful framing.

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Being sent to jail after getting stabbed does feel like a Trump EO that the Supreme Court would rubber stamp.

This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.

I’m ok with the shutdown, but it’s probably not great that I consider myself a reasonably politically informed person and couldn’t actually tell you what the goal, let alone endgame, is for Schumer.

Playoff baseball somehow even more stressful on the radio.

Have done a complete 180 on Federalism over the last 9 months. All it took was for all 3 branches of Federal Govt to collapse at once.

It feels both that nothing is shocking, but it’s still important to go through the motions of acting like it is because otherwise where are we left.

Great Second Captains this week about the hideous behavior from American fans at the Ryder Cup. It got to the point that I was, genuinely, rooting for Europe as the Americans attempted their Sunday comeback. open.spotify.com/episode/0JWg...