“Curtis Sliwa sitting shiva for the Times Square Red Lobster” is hysterical on several levels, no one doing it like him
only 8 minutes in and it’s already a new years at the needle for the books
this slide deck is the experience of watching an all-time great jam band reunite for a concert with like the london symphony orchestra except for Internet People good grief well done
"This presentation does not cover Sliwa's radio career because it would be another 100 slides."
chris xu@chrysaora.bsky.social · 9mo agoWas honored to help @chana.bsky.social edit this deep dive compilation of Curtis Sliwa lore gathered over weeks. There is so much jaw-dropping material, we simply could not bear to make it shorter than 76 slides.
I absolutely promise that no matter how much you think you know about Curtis Sliwa you will find surprises in here
chris xu@chrysaora.bsky.social · 9mo agoWas honored to help @chana.bsky.social edit this deep dive compilation of Curtis Sliwa lore gathered over weeks. There is so much jaw-dropping material, we simply could not bear to make it shorter than 76 slides.
If you enjoyed his wild answers during the mayoral debate you'll love: - the award he was given by Richard Nixon! - how he got disqualified from a matzoh ball eating contest! - the gay wedding he officiated! - his terrible security practices and the secrets I never wanted to read as a result!
I kept telling @chrysaora.bsky.social and @smathewss.bsky.social new sliwa facts and eventually this happened
chris xu@chrysaora.bsky.social · 9mo agoWas honored to help @chana.bsky.social edit this deep dive compilation of Curtis Sliwa lore gathered over weeks. There is so much jaw-dropping material, we simply could not bear to make it shorter than 76 slides.
gotta hand it to them, Menstrual Cycle Education is world class thoughtspeak
I see we’ve progressed to the “torturing intellectuals” component of this exercise
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
are they even providing a pretense about why “criminal” Americans can’t be imprisoned within the famously vast and overwrought American prison system?
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · last yr.Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
I wrote this, because a guy on my block told me he was thinking of liquidating his life savings ($10k) so that his money didn’t disappear. Showing him a single graph talked him out of it. I hope it’s helpful to someone.
chris xu@chrysaora.bsky.social · last yr.Last recession, huge amount of middle class wealth was lost because of panic selling. @chana.bsky.social put together a simple, accessible pamphlet for convincing people not to repeat that mistake this time! Please share with anyone who needs to hear this!!
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
the only thing that is allowing me to keep up with the news is @sill.social. I can't recommend it enough.
you know, maybe we deserve what is coming to us
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.Netanyahu: This is a silver-plated beeper. The real beeper is like one-tenth the weight. But it changes history. Fetterman: When that story broke, I was like, "Oh, I love it. I love it." And now it's like, thank you for this.
I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.
I believe this is a world first: An intra-day tariff chart.
Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · last yr.This morning’s new tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum are off, now that it's afternoon.
Congrats to ADL, AJC and the other mainstream Jewish orgs content to sit back while a fascist delivers antisemitic smears against the most prominent Jew in American government
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Trump: "Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned. He's become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He's not Jewish anymore. He's a Palestinian."
startups are small businesses, and we should act like it; I will die on this hill
ceej@ceej.online · last yr.venture capital burned through all of the good “what if a computer could do <x>” business ideas by like 2009 and everything since has required increasingly degrading levels of suspended disbelief. silicon valley must move beyond computers
no stove left behind from touching
George Pearkes@peark.es · last yr.*TRUMP: NO ROOM LEFT FOR DEAL ON CANADA, MEXICO TARIFFS
They are just handing out Pulitzers for going down jd Vance’s twitter follows list and nobody seems to want to take them! I guess wired will get to it eventually!
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last yr.When are major media outlets going to cover the extraordinary white supremacist links of Vance, Musk, and many of the DOGE staffers? There is absolutely no modern parallel for what’s happening: a presidential administration taking instruction from white nationalist extremists.
this story has absolutely everything*: houseboats, effective altruism, multiple murders, chaotic gender identities 🫡, a sword, and so, so much more *for a very specific genre of person
The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians
A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.
wired.com
it's starting to look like everyone is going to learn more about meir kahane this year. that's really ~so~ unfortunate, because he was a fascist and a terrorist, and his name should be forgotten + his legacy wiped from the earth
this would be so cute if it wasn’t such an effective demo of how our society will end
胡子哥@notsaved.bsky.social · 2y agoso a while ago I made up a word and tweeted it
great opportunity for someone to primary elon musk
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last yr.Elon Musk is cratering in polls: WaPo: Only 34% approve of Musk's role, 63% worry about his data access CNN: 54% say it's bad Musk was given a big role Majorities disapprove of Trump in CNN, WaPo, Gallup. On the pod, @juliaazari.bsky.social is great on all this: newrepublic.com/article/1917...
Yesterday @chana.bsky.social pointed me to Judge Reyes’ Wikipedia page and it really adds an extra sprinkling of umami to these updates en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_C._...
Ana C. Reyes - Wikipedia
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Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last yr.Reyes is asking DOJ's Lynch to describe the EO without using "sex." He looks foolish, trying to describe "gender dysphoria" without using the word "sex." She is absolutely making her point.
some talking points other than the obvious if you need them: - this is governmental overreach - this increases the chances of having to strip at the airport for *everyone* - what about intersex people - this is wasteful and inefficient and a dumb use of government resources
chris xu@chrysaora.bsky.social · last yr.If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.