Daniel Mintz
@danielmintz.bsky.social
It’s ok, I don’t think I’m that interesting either
One of the clear takeaways from “The Great Influenza” that’s all too resonant today is that 1920s culture valorized WWI heroes, but wanted to memory hole the pandemic. Curious if there were witch hunts targeting those who tried to keep people safe too, or if that’s a modern innovation?
Utterly incomprehensible what the supposed foul there was
Trump got solid boos at this bar in Brooklyn. But nothing like Wemby. Deafening.
Amazing that this man can perfectly execute both of the Great New York Expressions - Italian AND Jewish
That’s totally normal. It’s just from shaking too many hands
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last mo.Caulk is visibly oozing from the columns of the false "Arc de Trump" on display at the Great American State Fair
That was a hell of an assist. Great header too. But the vision and touch to put ball there. Wow
Loitering is not permitted in this location
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · last mo.“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.
The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - the most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never pick up the phone when @ichotiner.bsky.social is on the line"!
The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao
Oooh, the coveted Double Betteridge! Headline AND subhed
I’m in the LV Loop and Wow! It is just as dumb and underwhelming as I expected.
Was canceling Colbert the greatest Streisand Effect of all time?
This should go into the “random guy who’s good at one thing opines stupidly about something he knows nothing about” HOF along with Elon’s cave sub www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/o...
Opinion | How Democrats Can Improve Their Odds, According to a Nobel Economist
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There’s a web comic that shows a tangle of lines converging at “now” to demonstrate the lives you haven’t lives and then extending into the future to show all the lives you still could live. And I can’t find it. Help!😭
The first sentence of this article makes clear what’s actually going on. The headline and social post need to too. #brokennytimes
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo agoBreaking News: President Trump withdrew his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, in an apparent effort to effectively settle the case, which stemmed from the leak of his tax returns in 2019.
Apparently I’m “buy a long-handled shoe horn” years old
This is like me starting a fight and redefining victory as “getting my shoes back.”
Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe “main goal” of the Iran War may have changed, reports Washington Post: “Israeli officials said securing the [Strait of Hormuz] for energy shipments could become the war’s main goal now that regime change and ending Iran’s ability to obtain a nuclear weapon seem out of reach.”
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Crémieux
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Feb 15, 2025
DOGE has a very obvious feedback mechanism for its cuts.
If DOGE makes a big, broad cut against a million programs, people get upset about a few specific, very good ones like PEPFAR, and then that program comes back because DOGE's members are, thus, informed it was good.
Crémieux
@cremieuxrecueil
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Feb 15, 2025
I can only hope people realizing this won't damage the mechanism, because it's still useful to have professionals getting mad about some very good thing getting cut before it's brought back online as a result.
In a word, DOGE is responsive, which is unusual for the government!
Stuart Buck
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Feb 15, 2025
I agree, but it would be more efficient to spend one hour ahead of time talking to experts or just reading up on the history of a program for [disease, student testing, nuclear safety, etc.]
Plus, some programs don't have famous proponents with time to dig into the weeds.
Crémieux
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Feb 15, 2025
I'm highly sympathetic, but there really are thousands and thousands of programs and grants to cut, so I'm not sure the small team doing the cuts has the ability to go through them all one-by-one on their short timeline.
Maybe a system can be developed to assist with feedback.
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Stuart Buck
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Despite some bogus grants, a lot of government is like this cartoon. I bet this "small team" would find a line item for "screwworm sterilization" and delete it, not knowing that they just devastated American farming: https://theatlantic.com/science/archiv
e/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-containment-america-panama/611026/
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Stuart Buck
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Feb 15, 2025
I can see the DOGE tweet: "We canceled a contract for Panamanian screwworms, saving $165 million dollars!!!" [https://aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-an
nouncements/usda-approves-emergency-funding-protect-us…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j2kmiyhld5btzozgzwy3lc2m/bafkreih3ferjvpo53fmioc3sf2qadxltbmisl74luq2ydhxvpxbh3qf3ei)
