We need a quadrant chart that compares shitty/not shitty versus tv appearances/ no tv appearances Fetterman and Carville are top-right -- on TV only because they are so shitty.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h agoCNN producer: El-Sayed is projected to win. Quick, get the biggest fucking loser you can find on air
After months of cat refusing to use his new bed, I put a dirty shirt in it and he plopped right down Cats, man. Idk.
A lot of complaints about Dems are exaggerated/hyperbolic but on gerrymandering, they really are disaster. It's one of the areas where you can legit question whether this is a party that even cares about winning. Imagine thinking we're getting court packing when they can't even do THIS stuff.
Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 24h agoPolitico says New Jersey Dems appear disinclined to put a redistricting measure on the ballot in 2027 after missing the 2026 deadline. A new 11-1 map could target two GOP House seats and protect Dem seats, but some Dems seem uninterested because they’re likely to flip one of the two in 2026 anyway
Laura, and I can't emphasize this enough, LOOMER doing this. what the fuck man
The replies to this op-ed have a strongly-held belief that there is no distinction between public and private goods
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Somewhere in there, Trump bans roombas because he can't take competition
NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 3d agoTrump wants to escalate Trump orders escalation Israeli sources leak orders GCC countries back channel hard Trump climbs down Roomba recharges
Horizon: Forbidden Wilds did a great job with Sylens. So smug! So deserving of being punched in the mouth! One suspects that he was punched a lot in the mouth in his backstory, explaining why he is always physically unavailable for it.
Common core actually attempts to teach math knowledge rather than mostly obsolete calculation techniques (obsolete because we in fact always have calculators now)
The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · 4d agoOther dads: I don’t get this Common Core crap, it’s not how I learned math. Me: I used to tutor and I find it analogous to how I sometimes had to find different ways to explain the same problem to different kids, to give them all avenues to understanding. Other dads: *move to a different room*
A necessary implication is that since data centers use a lot of capital & a fair bit of land but not much labor, they benefit tremendously from our income-focused tax code
Micah@rincewind.run · 5d agoI mean this is fundamentally one of the big reasons why data centers have no local constituency: they don’t actually create a lot of jobs they’ll employ some folks during construction but the actual day to day operation of a data center really doesn’t need many people, especially given its size
I find it incredibly unlikely there's a massive federal post-apocalypse "continuity of government" program, huge exercises and many many billions of dollars, that remained totally unheard of until Annie Jacobsen (of 'terrorist musicians on a plane' fame) uncovered it by asking a retiree or two
Al Mauroni@progmil.bsky.social · 5d agoThe "death of expertise" certainly applies to the discussion of U.S. preparedness for biological threats. I disagree with Annie Jacobsen's views in her recent op-ed in the Washington Post almauroni.substack.com/p/no-one-mak...
In all the AI economic doom scenarios the AI rents all accrue to big tech but reality probably is that they’ll accrue to people whose parents bought SF real estate in the 60’s
Hyperlexic@hyperlexic.bsky.social · 6d agoSan Francisco's rent scene continues to go wild. Median listing for a 2BR is over $6,000??? www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
Some people need to learn the hard way that glorifying violence is NOT cool.
Humble Novice@humblenovice.bsky.social · 6d agoWe need to report this account to the mods ASAP: bsky.app/profile/adyo...
We are at the “r/finance is posting fancams of Chair Powell set to Taylor Swift” point in the cycle of regret over Temu Greenspan.
Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes and Claims of Torture Was Murdered in Ecuador open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes and Claims of Torture Was Murdered in Ecuador
New evidence has emerged of U.S. Coast Guard activity in the aftermath of two strikes, further corroborating survivor testimony.
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these guys are all charismatic megafauna and should be friends
Brandon Moore, PhD@rando.insalubrio.us · 6d agoNewly described Australian fossils tell a wild story: an ichthyosaur ate a pterosaur, then was itself torn to pieces by a pliosaur. This is the first evidence of these three animals interacting within the same food web! 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
One of my daughter's friends told my daughter that the county fair is this weekend. This child is now my enemy.
if anything they don't seem to care enough about monolopies. Why did the urbanists have to study and figure out the US elevator market is captured and overpriced.
Sam@samd.bsky.social · 6d agoit’s remarkable how the antitrust bros took a valid kernel of truth (monopolies bad), overextrapolated it into a nonsensical theory of everything, and now just post dumb shit 24/7
Conspiracy theory: elite fad diets are an attempt by the rich to render themselves inedible to the hungry masses.
bonque, ben (טריפה שאלות)@kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 6d agoThe rich are ultraprocessed these days. I respect my body too much to eat Bryan Johnson
Birds can't read, but the genius of this sign is that they don't need to Meaning is clear
Minor Spear Carrier@tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · last wk.
"And I especially want to thank all the bag holders..."
Luke Kawa@ljkawa.bsky.social · 6d agoCNBC reporting that Situational Awareness has sold its <entire public equities book> Ho. Lee. Crap.
I think this is descriptively correct, although I'll point out that, interestingly, pollsters aren't really polling Revenge (which is interesting in itself), so it's sort of a tough issue to get clarity on, whether you're a candidate or a citizen
Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 6d agoSome accounts I like on here are very invested in the idea that DSA candidates and other progressives are the only way we're going to get GOP accountability, but those candidates aren't running on that, either! It's all economic populism.
I’m definitely in the “I’ve hated AIPAC since before most of you were born and also this is getting really out of hand” camp.
Figured out a new way to do something I don't want to do: consider doing something I hate even more
I feel like a lot of people are ideologically invested in a post American world that has yet to arrive Like no, sorry, this is it! This is the thing you’ve been waiting for! No returns or exchanges; feel free to leave a review though
I deleted a reply that I realized just rephrased and abbreviated the thread I was replying to. Please clap.
Well at least he’s listening to how all his colleagues are talking about this. *WARSH: TIMING OF CAPEX SUPPLY SIDE EFFECTS HARD TO PREDICT
Politics aside, do people believe federal government gas stations with deeply discounted prices are a good POLICY idea? What are they intended to accomplish, in your view? What problem do they solve? www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/b...
Trump promotes ‘Freedom Fuel’ stations that sell cheap gas. How they’re able to do so is unclear | CNN Business
President Donald Trump is heralding a new chain of gas stations that are selling gas for $3.479 a gallon, well below both market prices and wholesale costs.
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