Frostbyte
@frostbyteepsilon.bsky.social
The worst opinions you've ever heard, emitted in a shrill, porcine voice
I have a great deal of contempt for AIPAC but they do not have the power to "steal" an election. Stuffing ballot boxes, changing vote totals, that's election stealing. Convincing people to vote for a candidate via ads and outreach is just an election. The distinction matters
I know it sucks, but Dems have got to be prepared to inherit a munitions-and-readiness hole that is going to be expensive to fill, but which will need to be filled. Hardly the only such hole, but it will be a big one.
Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 14h agoWho knew ridiculously long deployments and demanding op tempos run a ship and crew into the ground!
If AIPAC's commitment to arming a rogue state isn't enough for you, I cannot emphasize enough that this organization is just a slush fund for GOP donors to influence Dem races. Their donor base is mostly conservatives who want Republicans to win.
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 15h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
i can’t help it, this is such a hysterically, comically corrupt fucking presidency, just comic book villain levels of cartoonish corruption
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h agoLombardo on Trump: "When the press and media runs him down, they think about 'he's taking care of his billionaire friends.' But those billionaire friends provide jobs. And unless you take care of them, those jobs are absent."
AIPAC is explicitly fighting for a Republican Senate majority.
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 15h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
What is truly "shocking" about the polling miss in Michigan is that it is completely average for a primary "The expected error on the margin between two primary candidates in a race for governor or U.S. Senate is a whopping 13.0 points." blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/2026-texas...
Do we really know who's leading the Texas Senate races?
Primary polls have historically been rather unreliable, and a surge in new primary voters means turnout assumptions matter more than usual
blog.fiftyplusone.news
|horses|@chemotaxis.bsky.social · 20h agoPolling is like really fucked. Strikes me as a huge problem honestly.
It might be nice to actually have to write software again
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterdayGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
Yeah for all my jokes, I actually think this has a chance to be a pretty good outcome for the party overall. A more conciliatory AES and a party establishment which doesn’t feel doomed may actually be pretty good for focusing on the GOP
Vibecession Forever@ghazelleberner.bsky.social · yesterdayI don’t think there’s enough vote for Stevens left but this will be a close result. My hope is that the El-Sayed/DSA/far left contingent don’t get despondent but realize that both factions need each other. It’s time to cut the shit and fight MAGA, not Democrats.
I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
"The sabotage of government functions is itself a reward for antiliberals, but also a weaker IRS fosters easier tax evasion and financial fraud for their rich and powerful friends." www.liberalcurrents.com/actually-col...
Actually Collect Taxes
A gameplan for turning an overlooked federal agency into a flagship of liberal governance.
liberalcurrents.com
Data are clear: Speed safety cameras are arguably the fastest, most effective, most affordable way to cut traffic fatalities
David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 2d agoA story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)
4/ each sides victim/self affirmation Stuart Smalley narrative and most of those really cannot withstand first contact with the actual facts.
3/ Dem nominee has been a “centrist” by this maximal definition. And again, I want everyone to rally around ES. Because he’s the nominee (or will be in a few hours) and I think he can win and for the country’s sake we need him to win. But I guess particularly online you get exposed to …
2/ how easy it is to get lost in one’s own narrative. Elissa Slotkin just won in a bad year for Dems. Sen Peters won this seat before that. In fact Michigan hasn’t elected a Republican to the senate since the GOP wave year of 1994 and he promptly got bounced after one term. And basically every …
I say this in the context of trying to get people to rally around El-Sayed since he’s almost certainly winning tonight. But I was reminded of something this morning when an ES supporter said ‘well we’re tired of nominating centrists again and again and having them keep losing.’ And it occurred to …
cost of labor went *up*, because a technically smart person who can repair washing machines or refrigerators can also make oodles working on industrial machines instead
See, this is a really important point. The cost of materials dropped like a stone but the cost of labor stayed the same, so it really is now cheaper -- even in the long term! -- to throw away stuff that gets worn instead of repairing it.
Vimes’ boots theory except it’s both rich and poor would rather throw out their boots every year than resole them because labor cost of resoling and opportunity cost of going to a cobbler and back to pick them up are higher than ordering a new pair to your door. Vimes-Baumol-Amazon prime theory.
DOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement.
Blaming this on villainous far-away capitalists is what the kids call “cope.”
wait, this is an unpopular take? I would have thought it was obvious but I may have missed discourse. Amazon exists because people want cheaper goods sight unseen, Temu etc even more so.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 4d agoI think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
people constantly get negatively polarized into being racist. sometimes they get better from it. other times worse. people genuinely change their beliefs
