You know that "People, people who need people.." song? ...I'm not one of those people.
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I don't know anything about liability re: the knockon effects of this, but the next true feature for this website would be something like Craigslist or an Events listing. They shouldn't be trying to reinvent Twitter, they should be trying to revive classifieds.
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
So weird. And not the harmless 'early Wes Anderson character' type, but the creepy "don't leave that arsehole alone with the kids or pets" type of weird.
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Just like over on this side, there are plenty of "Real"s over there who want to turn the calendar back to before 1948 to a time when they had colonized a third of the earth in order to gain control of the spice trade, but then... could never figure out what to do with them.
OK who did this?šš
Yeah they're pretty, um 'special' ...a bunch of Irishmen who in order to be thought of as Englishmen dress up like Scotsmen in honor of a Dutchman.
Wouldnāt be a Labor Day without the best union public service announcement ever made (parody or real) youtu.be/_3mw49mk_x0
ā.. a scene .. almost certainly intended for an audience on the other side of the world: The leaders of China, Russia and India .. smiling and laughing like good friends ..ā @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
According to officials cited by the Financial Times, the aircraft carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was forced to make an emergency landing after Russian interference disrupted GPS navigation systems at a Bulgarian airport. Pilots had to rely on paper maps to land safely.š
Rubberneckking. Never a good idea, drunk or sober.
The police version of the crash, as relayed by a local Manchester reporter, is unsurprisingly quite different from what Giuliani's spokesman says. The whole thing is even more murky now, however. manchester.inklink.news/rudy-giulian...
University of Michiganās consumer sentiment index was 74.0 in December, now 58.2 in August. Conference Boardās consumer confidence index was 104.7, now 97.4. Government officials shouldnāt go on TV and blatantly lie like this.
...has the ER said what his blood alcohol level was at time of admission yet?
Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. He has not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm like you Vance. bsky.app/profile/cara...
Got you.
Its a stack of circular saw blades (with spacers) for a table saw.
I don't usually cotton to the "less regulatory oversight" faction here in the U.S. of A. but I do think that this is most definitely a case of European Nanny State Overreach which we must keep out of Freedom-Land at all costs:
An acceptable use of wood product, sir.
Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes. The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.
More likely stablecoins will reinforce dollar dominance & cause the next systemic banking crisis bsky.app/profile/mcop...
My first thought.
Next week? ...I dunno 'bout that! bsky.app/profile/bird...
"No dieting, no exercise...lose pounds in days...this one simple trick...its worked for thousands!"
"...get those spots between the folds where the pancake builds up"
...77.
I wrote this weeks after trump won in 2016 and almost ten years later I still think there is basically nothing more to say, not because I am super smart but because this is all so very empty and stupid www.lawfaremedia.org/article/bull...
Itās not much consolation, but history will remember what she did and what this is.
I have been saying this for something like 15 years and I am so tired, folks: the tactics. Of the right. Don't work. For the left. Because their politics are divisive and anti-community. Ours aren't. They win when politics is toxic and vicious. We win by building solidarity.
It's the hands, right? ...it's the hands.
"Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line" ...you'll never have a Trump figure in the Liberal leaning political party, the disarray is a feature...not a bug.
A former mayor of Santa Monica says it best: gentrification is too much money chasing too little housing
...and don't forget his flip flop on congestion pricing...
What are the odds Mr Hughes is short NFLX and hoping for a quick tempest in a MAGA teacup?
Too so...wait, no its not...nevermind.
Writing teacher advice for Democratic strategists: Your audience is NEVER everyone, and acting as though it is will lead to generalities that appeal on average but not in specific. You find your audience through specificities. Relying heavily on polls and consultants leads to tepid messaging.
There are some horrible people out there. Apparently, the man is Piotr Szczerek, the CEO of Drogbruk, Poland.
Please, people, don't ever be this guy. Don't let your kids grow up to be this guy. Don't be friends with this guy. #USOpen.
Reup: John Roberts gave Ed "Big Balls" Cositine live and unaudited access to every Americans' social security data. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
The Catholic Christofascist undoing of 250 years of democracy and not a peep from NYT, Wapo, Mother Jones or any legacy MSM. @jayrosen.bsky.social @sulliview.bsky.social @markjacob.bsky.social linktr.ee/dissentinbloom dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/one-blood-...
Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.
Interesting. Did she die of heart disease secondary to excessive use of diet pills also?
An intelligence masterclassš¤¦āāļø
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
Is there a swim suit competition?
Good.
ATLANTA: āThe city is opening a grocery store to clear up a downtown food desertā¦ City leaders say the market will help those in the area who have not previously had easy access to healthy food.ā (cc: everyone acting like @ZohranKMamdani is crazyš¤) www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
The Governors of some States must start by having their Legislature amend existing law. bsky.app/profile/magg...
Who do these incels think they'll be "breeding" with?
Compare and contrast. The New York Times on: "no controlling legal authority" ...no problem using the word when its a Democrat.
This has to do with state laws that ā in some states ā explicitly forbid pharmacists to administer vaccines that haven't been recommended by the CDC's vaccine advisory panel. Legal experts said the liability concerns are real, given the government's actions/inaction.
And dangerous.
In the spirit of good faith discourse here, Iām going to go 1 by 1 and address @jwmason.bsky.socialās critiques here! (PS, read my article on the YIMBY policies that Zohran could use to fix NYCās housing crisis if you havenāt already)
There's a lot to like in @samd.bsky.social's recent piece on housing policy under a future Zohran administration. Some thought/questions, in a spirit of dialogue. www.liberalcurrents.com/zohrans-5-st...
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'For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.'
"...the free market..." Thalidomide children would like a word.
Oh, the humanity...š¤§
Fox News is propaganda aimed at the wilfully ignorant, selling them an enemy to hate The NY Times OTOH are indoctrinators, on a par with organized religion, selling illusions about how the status quo is leading us on a path to peace and prosperity for everyone Both are liars bsky.app/profile/orig...
NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25" While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12 Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans:
little known fact: In 2020, Republicans lost the White House and the Senate.
Democratic strategists and political consultants were the ones who told Harris to stop Waltz calling Republicans weird and told her to ignore the trans ads by Trump. They should all be unemployable right now.
Names should be named...just like David Shorās Blue Rose Research was: bsky.app/profile/maxk...
Dem messaging nerds: Messages about Donald Trumpās ārising authoritarianismā are āunconvincingā Trump: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
When working in healthcare has become an environment with the potential for so much aggression and violence that you need a duress badge (essentially a panic button with geolocator) for on-site work š¤·š½āāļø. This has escalated incredibly since the pandemic a lot thanks to vilifying health care workers.
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One of the most tragic ironies of what the US has done to PEPFAR & USAID is that there is an incredible new drug that could deal a crushing blow to HIV globally. I wrote about lenacapavir for @foreignpolicy.com & the millions of lives it might not save. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/25/l...
...make sure the subpoena covers the Polaroids Epstein took of the "wonderful secrets" he had with his "enegma" friend and those topless teen girls.
If you think that @rweingarten.bsky.social & the @aft.org should NOT be partnering with murderous companies like OpenAI, please call the AFT, ask for the president's office, and tell them to STOP PUSHING "A.I." INTO SCHOOLS. (Pls be nice to the person answering the phone.) 202-879-4400
Antivaxxers are going all in to outright deny germ theory, falling in line with Kennedy. This post suggests that hand, foot, & mouth disease is actually "vaccine injury" rather than a viral infection.
Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States. Democrats are responding the only way they know how: by heeding the advice of the wonks who helped get them into this situation ā and whose advice is to avoid discussing what Trump is doing. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump is likely to beat the Dems to the punch on "not honor"ing presidential pardons.
A farmer should *husband* the land and animals under his care. He should not be inviting his pig into his bed like a husband.
Just so weāre all 100% clear here, ācomfort womenā means sex slaves.
*Ameican Christian Nationalists listening intently & taking notes*
Common painkillers have been linked to antibiotic resistance. Australian scientists report ibuprofen & acetaminophen are complicit in a major threat: resistance. When bacteria are exposed to an antibiotic along w/ painkillers, bacteria develop more mutations, grow faster & emerge highly resistantš
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crowās yacht
In addition to collecting a progressive taxation from these wealthy entities, a national sovereign wealth fund should be collecting royalties for leases granting access to raw materials and intellectual property from government sponsored research (and investing those funds in improving our lives)
"Public/Private Partnerships" are economic chimeras that should NOT exist. They are ultimately socialism for corporations while the rest of us are consigned to the tender mercies of "the markets." Of course, some real democratic socialism would be welcomed. #UBI #MEDICARE4ALL #FREEEDUCATION
Whether the State merges with Capital Interests or Capital merges with government you get the same Authoritarianism.
...so not a disagreement in principle, but only a question of who is the senior and who is the junior partner?
Howard Lutnick on CNBC indicates that the Trump administration will try to partially nationalize defense companies like Lockheed Martin
Todayās Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military āquick reaction forceā and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things Iāve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
