AkivaMCohen

@akivamcohen.bsky.social

Orthodox Jewish father of 5; Litigation Disaster Tour Guide; Jets Fan. Fighting the widening gyre.

It's nice to see someone genuinely care about their minions, rather as viewing them as disposable once they've played their role in the evil scheme. This is how it's done, y'all

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Advice for my younger friends: if you want to encourage yourself to stay healthy and functional, to exercise and eat well... ...pick a couple of motherfuckers you really want to outlive.

So the answer to this is "yes, I do want this," where "this" is "business owners to decide they are not going to run ads they actually believe are false" For the same reason I want them to not run ads for neo-Nazi websites. The solution to "what if it's run by a right winger who takes down all...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4d ago

The fake Zuck speech in the trailer is totally right. Do you want one person to decide what ads can run on social media platforms? It's 2026 - look around! What if the Trump-aligned tech oligarchs just said they were taking down all Democratic ads because of "fact-checks"?

The fake Zuck speech in the trailer is totally right. Do you want one person to decide what ads can run on social media platforms? It's 2026 - look around! What if the Trump-aligned tech oligarchs just said they were taking down all Democratic ads because of "fact-checks"?

Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 6d ago

First clip of Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg in ‘THE SOCIAL RECKONING.’ The film arrives in theaters October 9. #TheSocialReckoning #JeremyStrong

Fwiw I do this all the time and people seem to be able to tell the difference between "this is a good point, I want to riff on it but it would be rude to do that in your mentions" and "look at THIS asshole" Frankly, I'd like to think I'm helping the former be the default assumption

Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast@irhottakes.bsky.social · 4d ago

I wish RTing people with a comment didn’t have such a belligerent connotation because sometimes you just want to riff without telling a random person minding their own business to eat shit and go fuck themselves.

Netanyahu at the UN: There wasn't a single Israeli in Gaza on the morning of October 7. Not a civilian, not a soldier. Nobody's going to care about this but that's wrong. There were two Israeli civilians in Gaza then: Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who'd been held by Hamas for years.

honestly I just enjoy the decision tree. I can't outsource that to a computer because I am internally inconsistent and therein lies the fun. Ladd McConkey had the big Q but gave me the good vibes, and had he 0'd out for the week I would have lost

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

TRUMP "I'm building a ballroom for entertaining." > "I'm building a ballroom for national security." "I'm building an arch to celebrate our greatness." > "I'm building an arch for national security." "I'm banning those reporters b/c they suck." > I'm banning them b/c national security."

Listening to the hearing in the challenge to Trump banning Politico/MSNow/etc from the WH Parties will get 20 minutes a side. Judge starts with "where I'm at, so you can tailor your argument" "I have to start with the DC Circuit precedent that exists ... DC Circuit held in Sherrill there's a