Recrudescence of the Kakistocrats
@reddtrain.bsky.social
MSSQL/PGSQL he/him; beer geek, soccer fanatic (#FCD/#ARS/#TSG), board/#KeyForge gamer, Big D born and raised, classical liberal, chaos butterfly and cynical analyst.
What happens when everyone starts chasing the same thing? What happens when the means start becoming less relevant? What happens when everyone, everywhere, is working in shades of Anthropic orange? In today's PMR: what it means to build a post-match report (this isn't about post-match reports).
August 5: Sameness
Lake Como, anyone?
post-match-report.leaflet.pub
For six years, I served as Chair of the Libertarian National Committee, from 2014-2020. During that time, Donald Trump got elected and subsequently defeated, with the Libertarian Party candidate influential in both the 2016 and 2020 election results. The Libertarians had success opposing MAGA.
Everything I know about Sophie Cunningham, I've learned against my will.
His timing “couldn't have been worse. In the four years since he grabbed the keys to his new place, asking prices in the Austin metro have plummeted by nearly 25%.” @businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com/austin-texas...
Out today: Nearly 2,000 juniors across 16 high schools in Houston ISD were pulled from Algebra II and placed in a remedial math course. At some schools, as many as 70% of juniors were similarly demoted into less challenging classes. It wasn't due to poor performance ...
The ‘Houston Miracle’ Shell Game
How Houston ISD’s takeover regime inflated school accountability ratings by systematically holding back certain students
texasobserver.org
FIFA press release coming in hot 😬 "FIFA will not tolerate any attacks on its integrity and will take all necessary measures to defend its reputation"
go ahead, keep adding tasks to my to do list. i will only get sleepier
I know this is Kansas, but Roger Marshall is an utter dipshit who has spent a lot of time on television saying stupid spiteful things and Democrats should at least be able to make this a tough seat to hold.
The Cook Political Report@cookpolitical.com · 22h agoAfter Rev. Adam Hamilton's win in the Kansas Democratic Senate primary to take on GOP Sen. Roger Marshall, we shift the race into a more competitive category, from Solid to Likely Republican. Read this from @jessicataylor.bsky.social:
Promising free DoorDash for all would probably be a winning 2028 presidential platform at this point. No, I don't know how you pay for it. Tax Elon Musk personally into oblivion or whatever. Maybe we can bribe SCOTUS to look the other way.
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 9h agofor reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.
we need to expand the supreme court to overturn the One Night Only Sex Mandate www.polygon.com/one-night-on...
All you have to do is listen to the guy and a million red flags go up. There is zero concern for his daughter. Just tossing blame. A normal parent would be visibly upset and would stop at nothing to find out who hurt her.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h agoNEWSMAX: Your daughter fractured her collarbone and there was a handprint on her upper chest, and it left a bruise. How did that happen? MAX MILLER: What I can tell you is I didn't do that. 9 of the 11 previous days was my ex-wife's care. What's so troubling about child protective services is ...
for Part 2 of the analytics/eye test column we published earlier this week, here are my Jaylen Brown All-Stars! www.theringer.com/2026/08/05/n...
The Jaylen Brown All-Stars
Five NBA players with underwhelming advanced stats who are worth believing in anyway
theringer.com
FWIW, both of VDARE’s founders were on the masthead of the National Review in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Peter Brimelow was also a staffer for Senator Orrin Hatch. This white nationalist thread has been present in the conservative movement for a long time. Screenshot is from 1997.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
Listening to Max Miller spout Mens Rights Activist propaganda reminds me of the time I discovered the most dystopian strip mall to ever strip mall -- the MRA strip mall in downtown San Diego, complete with the local MRA chapter's HQ, an MRA book shop, an MRA lawyers office and a DNA testing facility
I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.
King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 22h agoOnly a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...
So you've fallen in love with soccer. Now what? For the burgeoning American soccer fan, here's a guide, full of obvious (Haaland plays for City, always watch Barca) and less obvious steps (you'll love Trabzonspor and Bodø/Glimt), for loving European club football, too. www.espn.com/soccer/story...
Loved the World Cup? Here's your guide to European soccer, 2026-27
So, you're keen to extend your soccer love after a wonderful summer? Well let Bill Connelly count 10 things you need to know before the new European seasons kick off in mid-August.
espn.com
if he literally makes a new party called the American First Party, i will turn into the joker
oh it's getting real *INFANTINO OFFERS MOROCCO WORLD CUP FINAL FOR SUPPORT: TIMES
My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.
In 1986, contracting HIV meant you were going to die, usually slowly, painfully, and alone. Now it's a chronic illness like hypertension. In 1986, gay and lesbian couples couldn't have their relationships legally recognized and had to adopt elaborate legal workarounds.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 22h agoFood, 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.
NEW: Republican officials were set to vote on a plan to cut almost half of Election Day voting locations in Tarrant County, a major Texas battleground county. But all that changed when outraged voters who packed the meeting room demanded their voting locations remain open.
GOP backs down from suppression scheme in Texas after voter outrage
The plan changed at the last moment, when Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters
democracydocket.com
Would it help if I could reassure you that if I asked probably a few hundred people would show up in my mentions to say I’m not kidding
Linda Tirado@killermartinis.bsky.social · 22h agoWho needs a call? Someone, of the millions of strangers in the world, needs a friend My dm remains open, and it costs me nothing to answer the phone to you.
He wants the aesthetic labor of an Instagram influencer combined with the workload of an 1800s farm wife, all wrapped up in a fantasy that somehow costs zero effort.
