Hello, 9-1-1? I'd like to report a murder?
Common people@uncommonpeople.bsky.social · 5d agoLOL, LMAO, and GTFO.
Jonathan V. Last
@jvl.bsky.social
Editor of The Bulwark https://www.thebulwark.com/ Host of a Secret Podcast. Also a super double-secret podcast you can't find.
Common people@uncommonpeople.bsky.social · 5d ago
Maybe Hassett can sell his house and move to a small town next to one to set a proper example for the peasants. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
This is shaping up to be the greatest day in online Philadelphia history
Tony Romo arrested in Milwaukee on suspicion of operating under the influence
Former Cowboys QB Tony Romo was arrested on suspicion of operating while under the influence in Milwaukee, according to the sheriff’s office.
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Opinion | When I vote for Trump, it’s a strategic triangulation that doesn’t reflect my real values. When urban Democrats nominate a leftist in a deep blue district, it’s proof that every member of their party is an America-hating extremist.
Bari Weiss’s central conceit is that she knows better than the mainstream media because of woke excesses. She has an unearned arrogance, which the anti-woke Right celebrated. Her outlet, The Free Press, is worse than legacy media - riddled with ideological drivel, not real journalism. Now CBS.
Jonathan V. Last@jvl.bsky.social · 2w agoWorst part of the new @status.news report is that the Bari Weiss team appears to get its view of what is actually happening in the world from Twitter. They were asking Vega to include things that *weren't real* b/c they didn't know any better. www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...
under the cloak of boring technical guidance, the Trump administration is working to delete the existence of millions of immigrants, steal congressional seats and redirect potentially hundreds of billions of federal dollars www.thebulwark.com/p/inside-tru...
Inside Trump’s Stealth Trick to Rig the Census—and Congress
The administration’s latest power grab is disguised as boring technical guidance.
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I'd be interested in a graph plotting US public opinion of Israel against various other countries' opinion of the US. See how big the shift against the US has been in Canada, Spain, Denmark, etc. Magnitude is probably less; but trend similar?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoEnten on the 67 point swing (!!!) against Israel among Americans: "We're not just talking about the Democratic base anymore. The general electorate has turned against Israel. This is not just a left issue. It's an American issue. The trend line is unbelievable."
Seems important for America to internalize this lesson, too.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2w agoThere are many takeaways from this, but it does show how one monster at the top can destroy a country’s global standing in a very short time, possibly for generations.
Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)
In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.
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Worst part of the new @status.news report is that the Bari Weiss team appears to get its view of what is actually happening in the world from Twitter. They were asking Vega to include things that *weren't real* b/c they didn't know any better. www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...
In the Economist interview, Musk says "money won't matter by 2036." Then why offer SpaceX on the public market? Is it fraud to sell people something you think will soon have no value?
Colleague, 3 mins ago: "Did you see LeBron is going to Philly?" Me: Shapiro will be insufferable. Colleague:
"'The Last Straight Woman' is probably better conceived as an exploration of tensions than an attempt to resolve them, which is why, despite this long and incomplete list of disputes, I thoroughly enjoyed it." Clare Coffey reviews Phoebe Maltz Bovy:
Against Heteropessimism
Accounting for the nature of straight women’s desire is hard. What to do about it?
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think i just solved a paradox. the trick is to have another cat open the box.
If you would like some #realtalk about Lindsey Graham, I'm your huckleberry. www.thebulwark.com/p/lindsey-gr...
Lindsey Graham: The Good, the Bad, and the Banality of Evil
A cautionary tale about the human condition.
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There is no purer distillation of optimism than a Container Store purchase.
Every single paragraph of this 10,000 word piece is filled with stuff I wish I'd written. It's amazing. harpers.org/archive/2026...
It's hard to stay focused on the news when Jersey Jack's Sonic Pinball just dropped. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pubr...
Sonic the Hedgehog Pinball Official Trailer | Jersey Jack Pinball
YouTube video by Jersey Jack Pinball
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Trump and Vance are doing so much winning that Iran is now allowed to sell oil—at market price!—to America. That's right. Thanks for Donald Trump you can now pay the Iranian regime for the privilege of filling your tank. www.thebulwark.com/p/thanks-to-...
Thanks to Trump You Can Now Fill Your Car with Iranian Gasoline!
Hope you’re not sick and tired of all the losing—because Trump is just getting started.
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They found a way to support the Iran surrender in less than 48 hours.
Trump's "American flag blue" reflecting pool is looking quite green. With the pool covered in algae and debris, Brendan Hartnett took a water sample and the results weren't great…
I've lost count how many times I've thought of this 'The Dark Knight Rises' line over the past decade
In two days’ time, we will have the biggest IPO in history. SpaceX will shatter records. It’ll be the most obscene financial orgy in a century. Like watching John D. Rockefeller and Louis XIV spitroast Caligula. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-war-of...
The War of Magical Thinking
Iran. Elon. Trump.
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1) Platner is not a Nazi. 2) He’s a sonofabitch and the cult forming around him is bad. 3) There are real Nazi-types out there, who hold (or held) government power and want to get rid of every black and Hispanic person in America. www.thebulwark.com/p/nazis-real...
Nazis, Real and Imagined
Graham Platner isn't a Nazi. Guess who is.
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Good at what "mass deportation" is actualy about, and just who's a nazi and who isn't from @jvl.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Nazis, Real and Imagined
Graham Platner isn't a Nazi. Guess who is.
open.substack.com