I think it’s helpful context to remember that most businesses owners actually don’t put pure profit in front of ensuring their tiny dictatorships feed their Id. Hanging healthcare over the heads of employees is a useful cudgel to keep that dynamic intact.

Julia Coronado@jc-econ.bsky.social · 9m ago

Universal healthcare is a wildly popular centrist position. It is also a pro business position as it boosts labor market dynamism and removes what for most firms is a non core operation and cost. Asking how it will be paid for in a system as rife w/ inefficiencies as the US sort of misses the point

Why haven’t 29 years of Blackhat fixed cyber security

Fetterman was a no on him a long time ago fwiw. One of the reasons Dem senate leadership has a cordial relationship with him is because he’s predictable.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 1h ago

Genuinely shocked. But good!

Genuinely think this is an anti-big government lane Democrats can carve out that will resonate with a lot of non-libs

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2h ago

It's really not good that the government is trying to force AI companies to make their LLM chatbots "anti-woke" (biased in favor of the right).

Genuinely wonder what emerging new technology or business model has elicited this kind of reaction in the history of public polling

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · 1h ago

"Do you think the development of AI is good or bad for society?" Bad: 70% Good: 30% Marquette / July 29, 2026

She is a miserable narcissist

I think it depends on if you consider the voting public's complete rejection of mass PAX deployments a military problem or political one. Then it becomes an uncomfortable hypotheses that America is at it's "strongest" when we can tolerate sending 150,000 people somewhere to make a problem go away

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 4h ago

The crisis is happening because an idiot is in control of American power projection capabilities, but Iran's ability to control the strait is also a consequence of *waning* not *waxing* American power. if it wanes more, you will have *more* Hormuz's, not less.

the median voter

this is like when the polar bears and the grizzly bears interbreed

Project T.B.O.N.E.@tbone.malware-virus.biz · 4h ago

Now here's a post

7-0 Collin absolutely cooking lately www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/n...

New: McKinney City Council unanimously voted to allow a proposed mosque expansion

A packed, late-night meeting ended with a 7-0 vote allowing a proposed mosque expansion. Here is what is planned and what opponents raised.

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JUICE

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

El-Sayed: "Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can make himself feel a little more manly by making an AI video ... he's a guy who went back to Florida so he could lick every single boot Donald Trump owns to bet for his endorsement."

The only thing private relays are good for are fucking up my Okta suspicious login detection rule

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 7h ago

New from 404 Media: Apple's 'Private Relay' is exposing users' real IP addresses. Private Relay is supposed to protect all your browsing in Safari. But researchers found a bunch of issues that are exposing real IPs. I verified they do. Not fixed, a live issue www.404media.co/apples-priva...

good for her, legitimately

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 7h ago

A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…

how about you year trade, say over 30

Metro North Capital@metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 7h ago

What are the splits on young men who actually make money doing it?

Its the year 2036, the retail green energy industry is what local car dealership fiefdoms turn into. Nobody had paid an electric bill in 3 years. GLP1s are OTC and as safe as ibuprofen Everyone complains about how much it sucks and how nothing has gotten better since 2016.

Understanding the American voter is an art not a science, which makes sense because the best artists were insane people

The real impasta@therealimpasta.bsky.social · 17h ago

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

the whole 'nothing has gotten better' discourse is of course fucking stupid in a million ways, but I just wanted to note that average dog lifespan in the United States has increased by two years since 2000.

The anti-data center stuff is honest to god the most bipartisan I’ve ever seen the electorate in quite some time and I don’t think telling conservatives mad about energy bills they’re communist sympathizers is gonna work

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h ago

"They're spending a lot of money on promoting 'don't build" -- Trump suggests China is secretly running an influence campaign in the US to turn Americans against data centers

Along with “Orange man bad”, I think “don’t listen to the polls” are strong theories that smart people try to talk themselves out of making it more complicated

Not racedep, not edpol, but a secret third thing: mad about 2024

Not making a moral comparison but is the anti-data center movement giving anyone else anti-nuclear power vibes? Just a huge contingent of ideologically diverse people making a huge push for policy change?

Decision Desk HQ@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 19h ago

Decision Desk HQ projects No wins the Augusta Township Measure - Rezone Agricultural Residential to General Industrial for Data Center #DecisionMade: 10:35 PM EDT

From a 1986 perspective, describing what the iPhone does would legitimately sound like Star Trek shit

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 19h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

I am shopping

You gotta admit Stevens going on to beat the shit out of Rogers and give Dems the Senate along with a bunch of DSA/DemSoc wins is funny

Stevens coming back and beating AES would be a discourse Chernobyl People gonna be wilding the fuck out with the government names

Jeff Flake just endorsed Ossoff, gotta legitimately hand it to the man.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · yesterday

A big social factor too. Republican officials are terrified of being labeled a traitor, becoming a hate object of right-wing media, and shunned by friends and family. Adam Kinzinger's family members publicly denounced him for saying the Constitution is good and a violent attack on America is bad.

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IT'S THE WONDER OF NATURE BABY

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 22h ago

Name your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.

Holy shit

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 20h ago

The AP hasn't called either contest yet, but Missouri's Amendment 4 is losing 82-18 statewide and failing in every county with 10% of votes reporting so far. Kansas' Amendment 1 is losing 71-29 and getting crushed in numerous Trump counties with 26% of votes in. These look over