I watch my neighbors get stressed out by pickup/dropoff etc and that is all solved if your kids can just walk to school.
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I watch my neighbors get stressed out by pickup/dropoff etc and that is all solved if your kids can just walk to school.
I need a cross-over of the Trump Death Watch and Deadline Day Fabrizio Romano: Here we go! Trump to life support
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
And actually backing Ukraine 3 years ago.
*Secret Service guy* Is there a zombie behind me? There's a zombie behind me isn't there?
Numb hits it - if you don't think this site is interesting its because you haven't followed interesting accounts and expect the app to push content into your feed. This is old-school interent where you have to do some minimal work.
Does it have an algorithm like TikTok/X/YouTube to try to make its users addicted? Not that I can tell and that's actually a good thing.
I tried to stay on Twitter because nothing could match it on breaking news...but it lost that years ago now. Bluesky is actually even better on that.
My feed isn't full of sludge I have 5x as many followers Experts actually engage in meaningful dialogue And there's no Nazis ........ Sounds like this app is thriving actually
I argued that Trump has killed tourism and tariffs are hurting the middle class and they looked at me like I was an alien
I have fairly affluent neighbors who go to LV frequently and we had a recent conversation about how LV is dead. They said it was amazing how easy it was to get into restaurants and tickets to shows. Their argument was LV nickle and dimes too much so people are done going
When they announce his death they better end it with "thank you for your attention to the matter" just like he'd want.
When they announce his death they better end it with "thank you for your attention to the matter" just like he'd want.
I'm on team "raise taxes" but even I understand that if the US government hoovered an additional 8 TRILLLION dollars in taxes out of the economy in 8 months it would absolutely crater the economy.
All of Trump's social media posts remind me of this monty python scene
Allow me to invite you to consider what the Only Topic of The Sunday Shows would have been if this were Joe Biden
bc it turns out the 21 year old kid who got murdered by the police was a delivery driver the delivery guys are going hard during these protests. i couldn’t download this video but here’s a screen recording.
BYU with 69 points. Nice.
I've been told this means you should not be eligible for any public positions
Huh
Frankly I’m surprised more comparativists aren’t saying, “Aw that’s so cute. America’s having its first little premature rumor and speculation frenzy about the autocrat’s death after his public absence for a brief period” (common in authoritarian regimes)
"Trump did something unconstitutional but is allowed to continue" Story of the past 10 years
Someone's scared of the burbs
Remember when Biden was working on National Plan to End Parkinson's bill, and was consulting with experts, and NYT ran this hit piece?
One thing about never-Trump Republicans, during Trump II particularly: They understand that the world they knew is dead. They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).
Bluesky is really thriving off of schrodinger's dead president
This whole website right now:
5 is least worst?
So likely recovering from a medical procedure they dont want to tell us about because he's a king not an elected official?
I and a few others have seen it this way since January
Just got done driving and are we speculating that Trump is dead for any particular reason other than that he has not shown up for two days and he had everyone praise him for three hours as if he was confronting his own mortality?
Saying they’re unconstitutional but leaving them in place anyway pretty much sums up everything from the last 8 months
The polling they have shows them losing 2026 so they're desperate to change the rules so they can't lose.
Fight together or hang alone
yay?
I think no one would contest that undercover work is the exception.
We will have to hale people before truth and reconciliation commissions for these deeply unconscionable violations of human rights. What is the point of law if honest compliance on one’s own volition means state retribution?
Choosing a bottom half PL team over a top of the table Bundesliga side is a choice.
Not gonna lie, surprised by this one.
That dog isn't going to wag itself.
A+ picture there
The euphemisms elite media have to come up about illegal or unconstitutional. "legally untested maneuver"
Agents of the state should not be able to conceal their identity.
Hey, why are these cops covering their badge numbers?
The survey takes about 2 minutes. Note that there are some leading questions, designed to discourage you from selecting the IRS option, e.g. if you say you want to select an IRS product, you get a pop-up explaining the costs to the IRS. But this would be far less than paying a private vendor!
Iowa's back on the menu boys
Major incumbent Republican senators ducking out is a good sign that 1) they think they're going to lose BUT ALSO 2) conservative elites still are not fully in on the Trump project
I wonder if some of the antipathy directed at Bluesky by pundits is because academics and journalists were the core of Twitter granting it elite legitimacy and then we all got up and left them behind.
I have worked with 100s (perhaps 1000s?) of different databases in my career and I have never come across a clearer correlation in all my research than # of guns/capita and violent deaths. Everything else usually requires more parameters to tease out the co-variation.
I wonder if people will finally remember who was POTUS when schools closed because of an uncontrolled disease.
He's aware this can be done to him after he leaves office?
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
Amazing how spurs fans never learn
This is what's curious to me. I haven't seen him since the Dear Leader meeting yesterday.
Oh 100% the statement was a blatant lie because the leadership doesn't respect their own voters.
They're still going to gerrymander things. They basically said so in their statement because they want "urban and rural voters in the same districts". They're going to try to run out the clock by putting forward a gerrymandered map.
Is it just me or is Vance making a lot more media appearances and now openly talking about Trump potentially dying?
A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...
Feel free to also go with the Bryce Harper "That's a 🤡 question bro"
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
This is good, its showing that vertical, horizontal, and social accountability are still functioning. They can see things are unpopular People are mobilizing against them And they can only go where elites allow them
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
In the shot with the far field goal you can see me and I'm starting to jump over the guardrails just a second after George get's into the endzone www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4je...
A person I went to high school with just became a grandparent
"The findings confirm that, while Twitter was once the platform of choice for a majority of science communicators, those same people have since abandoned it in droves. And of the alternatives available, Bluesky seems to be their new platform of choice." arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Meaning that as the principal, his agents still have sufficient autonomy that they can defect from his wishes. This is a critical element of authoritarianism that parties usually solve, but which doesn't necessarily exist here. (2/2)
@donmoyn.bsky.social Just something you should keep in mind is that the true level of "control" in an autocracy is almost impossible to observe ex ante and something that can usually only be inferred ex post. He may have de jure control of some of these things, but not effective control (1/2)
This was the case when I did it last night, but then I refreshed the page after it asked for a prescription and it let me through so who knows?
paging @tompepinsky.com and @lmorgenbesser.bsky.social Democratization via elections: No Failed authoritarian consolidation via elections: Yes?
1/Our client was notified tonight by White House staff in the personnel office that she was fired. As a presidential appointee, senate confirmed officer, only the president himself can fire her.
Not a good day when the experts that help disease from spreading basically say it "That's it, I'm done"
Ne Win destroyed Myanmar's economy by changing all currency to be divisible by 9. Can't wait for Trump to do something similar
Today in "stop hitting yourself"
As a person of faith I become angry when people who claim to believe in the same God refuse to recognize the value of God's own creations. If you think Children are God's creations then maybe work to protect them?
So my academic friends who run quant surveys… did we know that qualtrics included a section about using data to train genAI in their privacy statement? Are u including this in ur IRB? Cuz ppl I’m asking say they didn’t know and this is not my neck of the woods (I am a qual researcher lol)
We don't have to live like this.
They are going to kill so many people.
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
Yellen not at all pulling her punches in this op-ed for the FT www.ft.com/content/d2ea...
GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Wait, for real??
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
As long as incumbents lose, democracy is not lost.
Staahhhhhhpppp
This is one way the military can slowly expand political prerogatives. Incremental, non-threatening actions that dont negatively affect people. Once they do it, its hard to claw back if parties are feckless
NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa. This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%. This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.
Thanks SCOTUS!
He really thinks the victim is to blame
Oh oh oh oh I know what happens!!!
This is just so mind numbingly dumb
And you thought your faculty meetings were bad
I won't believe the Swift news until Fabrizio Romano posts "here we go"
Why are young people not rallying to protect institutions like the Democratic Party (which calls them antisemites), universities (which call them antisemites), and traditional journalism and media (which call them antisemites)?
Apropos of nothing, a reminder that German stock markets kept climbing in an almost uninterrupted fashion in the run-up to WW2. Investors are really, really bad at pricing serious institutional and political risks.
Best guess?? They think he'll lose.