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These are the most apolitical people you’ve ever met in your life who are just dedicated to public health and service
once again I am asking people to correctly answer the question "who was President in 2020"
Trump take job. Trump take economy
PANTHEON: “.. Fewer [job] openings than unemployed people for the first time since Covid.” #JOLTS
ISTM there is a positive feedback loop between weather and income redistribution and liberal democracy. Eliminating redistribution leads to wealth and income inequality which itself erodes liberal democracy
RIP Graham Greene. An all-time great character actor
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
i know its basic of me but i really think we dont just come out and say guys like musk and trump are fucking dumb enough. we're more than willing to say it about poor and middle class people but somehow theres this idea that if you have a lot of money you cant really be dumb. but listen to those two
Trump has reversed the biggest growth of American manufacturing in at least this century
Wait…
Everything is going to hell because all the people in charge of things are big dummies who keep hiring and promoting all their big dummy friends
like if the baseline condition for your panelists is "does not lie to your audience" and "likes Trump" its basically impossible to book someone. They're either lying about the facts of the world, or lying rhetorically (pretending to be Trump reluctant or skeptical but are actually pro-Trump)
think about how rotten your soul has to be, how broken your moral compass, to think drag queen story hour is a sign of social decay but snuff films of war crimes is exemplary, stand out, should be shared far and wide. these people are sick
"the typical black American has much deeper American roots than the typical white American. Trump himself, whose grandparents were all foreign-born, is an excellent example of relatively shallow white American roots." www.niskanencenter.org/logic-populi...
All I want is for everyone to hate these fucking fascists as much as I do. That's really all that remains of my politics.
More and more every year, when it comes to hiring the likeability question now completely swamps the competence question and the result is what you would expect: senior management a) surrounded by people they adore and b) presiding over rapidly failing organizations
I think hiring decisions have always been a compromise between "Is this candidate competent / qualified?" and "Is this candidate someone a like / will enjoy working with?" But something has changed over my working life
yes exactly tho I kinda hate that we've settled on the "high trust vs low trust" terminology since the supposedly "low trust" group is hilariously trusting! they are defined by being gullible, credulous rubes who trust claims by others instead of critically interrogating them
finally, I think the overall attitude on bluesky re: how elected Dems should behave - "give them not one fucking inch" - is a lot closer to what the actual Dem base wants than the Clintonian triangulation the centrists are pushing and most of them can't see that because they find leftists annoying
The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
"Look over there, the space force is moving to alabama!" lmao LOSER shit
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.
'It's the leading cause of death among children ages 1 to 4 and is one of the top causes of death among children ages 5 to 14' huh.
Like, I'm pretty sure noticeable cost discontinuities in the form of rapidly disappearing stimies and other COVID era supports are a big part of why Trump is back in the White House
I feel like one could spend an entire academic career studying noticeable cost discontinuities (NCDs) and their unintended political and social consequences
Sometimes the micro-marriages occur between two Gen Zers who have not met before but whose friends and/or family think they would get along. These so-called "sight unseen micro-marriages" are becoming increasingly popular among those who struggle with conventional micro-marriage
What if — and bear with me here — It Happens *on* an actual kitchen table? Would the Dem gerontocracy still consider it a distraction?
Mostly Trump, but also Republicans more broadly. Everyday, every R in The House and Senate wakes up and decides they are going to allow Trump to fly the economy into a mountain. They could curb or eliminate Trump's tariff powers at any time, but they all choose not to (because they are cowards)
Trump crash economy
IMHO, most Americans are still repulsed by corruption, cronyism, and nepotism. Trump and company's self-dealing is one of his weakest areas and the Dem leadership failing to loudly and repeatedly attack it is malpractice and negligence
In a strong and crowded field, one of the Dem gerontocracy's biggest strategic blunders is not attacking Trump and Rs on their shameless and widespread corruption
"In fact, the extent to which a society has low poverty seems to be almost inversely related to how much of their welfare state is specifically focused on “the poor” through means-tested benefits." www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/08/29/t...
Trump take school supplies
My high school history teacher did a great bit about Germany carrying out an elaborate plot to sneak a dangerous weapon into Russia during WWI and the reveal at the end was the weapon was Lenin (and my teacher wasn't wrong!)
It's that time of year again, welcome back to school kiddos! This week we're going to address Toronto's back to school/micro mobility campaign & ask that they direct all available resources at dangerous drivers who cause hundreds of serious injuries & deaths each year in TO. 📷 @tomflood.bsky.social
The city of Oslo has been lowering speed limits quite aggressively, even on the few urban highways that still exist. And drivers seem to largely be adhering to the new limits. So now, traffic sometimes feels like it’s moving slow motion. This is from a cycling trip yesterday.
If only we could pinpoint the cause of increasing economic pessimism since the 1980s. Surely it can't be Americans constantly electing politicians who promise to make the economy worse for everyone except the ultra-wealthy.
The American Dream is doing fine, we all just need to work harder to be born rich.
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say
our ecosystem is focused on, imo, accurately describing the class systems of american life, and the various way they're unfair and should be changed, improved, or destroyed altogether. their ecosystem is a vulgar nationalist one, and it's a nationalism that's always under assault
"President Trump owes us answers about his health": weak, frames him as good-faith statesman, boring "What did JD Vance know about Trump's health and when did he know it?": interesting, carries implication Trump's health is fucked up as a given, implies scandal spreading throughout admin
one way to understand why very rich people so often go mad is to realize they have long been surrounded by the kind of persuasive but truth-indifferent sycophantic affirmers that OpenAI and its peers have only recently made accessible to the rest of us.
COVID was Dems' fault because they acknowledged it. Any societal disruption could've been avoided if only we pretended. First time US media and voting public didn't hold the president responsible for a bad thing on his watch. Even as he messed it up on live TV. Nothing I can think of comes close.
Its impossible to know what is happening exactly with Missing Trump but a reasonable interpretation of the available info is he had a stroke or mini stroke and is slurring his speech and doesn't want to be seen in public in that condition.
the 80s and 90s were such an amazing era for little kids watching movies that they absolutely should not have been watching
I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Compare the murky, indeterminate data on school closures to the stark, decisive findings on vaccine hesitancy. Republican policies and rhetoric killed hundreds of thousands of people! We don’t need to bolster this fake narrative. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
"Smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too." Seeing this billboard up has been incredible and this shot from @visionzerovancouver.ca of the team of volunteers is pretty moving TBH.
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
I was always very small as a kid due to chronic illness but my dad would always tell anyone who asked that it was bc he made me smoke cigarettes and sleep in a little bed
(Wiping away a tear) That… is *parenting*
The third exclamation point really makes it
man’s never met a press camera he didn’t want to be in front of and has been calling into every right wing radio station and cable show to rant for decades, if he’s doing neither, something weird is up
through this lens, one of the big issues with this entire generation of dem leadership is the degree to which they've internalized the humiliations of both the post-9/11 foreign policy failures and the last decade of reactionary rage
The vast bulk of this is going to be government employment, which used to be a huge ladder to stable lives for Black women but under Trump has become affirmative action for white MAGA men.
The Constitution provides Congress the power to override a Presidential veto. They aren’t co equal on law passing. Congress is the superlative body.
As long as they are applied consistently. Good sauce for the goose is good sauce for the gander.
By my lights, Moore is just using the governorship of Maryland as a springboard to national office and I think more an more Marylanders — including many of his supporters — are starting to realize this. Moore is the quintessential "empty suit".
Moore is not adversarial by nature. He's a bog standard "centrist" Dem who never held elected office in Maryland before running for Governor and went from Wall Street to running an NGO and straight into the State House. He fundamentally doesn't care about Maryland or Marylanders
One of the best unintended consequences of people carrying cameras around in their pockets everywhere: the destruction of the myth created by film and television that police are hyper-competent, real-life superheroes rather than the uneducated and out of shape oafs and buffoons they actually are
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
To me, the film revolves around Toller's line – brilliantly delivered by Hawke — "Well somebody has to do something!". I agree that Schrader believes "something" is "find community and connection where you can" rather than "commit violence that harms innocents".
These people are in a cult and live inside a batshit alternate reality and are trying to get as many Americans as possible to join them inside it.
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
I no longer think most American media outlets can be saved or reformed. The decay simply goes too deep. As with our constitutional order, we have to scrap the fundamentally broken and dysfunctional institutions we have and start fresh with something new
Something I have come to believe more and more is that a big part of How We Got Here is the deep rot, corruption, and decadence within mainstream American media organizations.
Raddatz is just being willfully stupid here. Also, Moore directly answered her question and she kept asking it. That's not journalism. It's badgering.
one of the most important technological revolutions in history and it has nothing to do with AI. Trump and his petrostate paymasters want to stop it but at best they'll succeed at costing Americans billions by leaving us slower to adopt it.
I think the press have a duty to take seriously the real concerns of real Americans and demand that Trump take the presidential fitness test on camera.
The minute Vance laid eyes on the couch in The Oval Office, he knew the old man had to go
After Lee was executed, his corpse should have been propped up in a box outside his ruined mansion with a sign that read "This is what happens to slavers and seditionists around here"
Good morning! MAGA/MAHA dude Jay Bhattacharya will forever be remembered as RFK Jr’s biggest champion (he campaigned for him/spoke at his rallies) & the NIH director who presided over the destruction of US health research—including childhood brain cancer research 🤬 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Pedal through any Dutch city, and it feels like it’s always been filled with red cycle paths. But the fact is urban cycling infrastructure didn’t exist anywhere until 1975, when a trial project in Tilburg laid the basis of a national standard for legibility, comfort, and status for people on bikes.🧵
If you accept the premise that "illegal Migration" is a serious issue, then you are part of the problem. This is a moral panic and every time you affirm it as an issue you play into the signification spiral. Progressives/left must reject the issue itself not just the "solutions" of the right.
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
The fact that we all immediately & instinctively (& probably correctly) assume that SCOTUS will reverse today's ruling again highlights not only how it's all politics all the way down, but also how much utter disdain the Wizards in Robes have for their own senior judicial colleagues.
4/ Grant and Sherman and really especially Grant created an entirely new form of highly mobile warfare which simply had not existed before they created it. The origins of the Lee myth paradoxically start from a great disapointment: Jefferson Davis. While Lincoln was greatly underestimated ...
when it happens, it's gonna be like the end of prohibition for a week
no one really cares about hegseth or gabbard or a bunch of these other Trump freaks, but firing RFK Jr. really could torch Trump with a big section of his coalition. The wellness/anti-vax/MAHA people are low-trust and low-info and many will take their ball and go home if spurned.
After Minneapolis, Vice President Vance and Melania Trump are out there trying to shift the topic from guns to mental health. But as usual, the rhetoric is the opposite of reality—Trump's drastic Medicaid cuts in his big, ugly bill will greatly impact mental health services. trib.al/kmStLpp
BOOM. The federal appeals court rules Trump's tariffs illegal, because they are. There's no national emergency, and so the power to tariff a country rests with Congress. Trump admin has lost at every stage of the process, but stay tuned for the Supremes to chime in.
The thing about conservatives who say they’d never end a family relationship over politics is that, like every other thing they say, they’re lying.
I hope they sue them for BILLIONS.
Not just an attack on “experts” or science. It’s an attack on facts, knowledge, education or anything that could support someone questioning their iron rule. The bedrock of totalitarian, authoritarian regimes and dictatorships. That’s what RFK Jr is calling for. Only the dictator knows “the truth.”
Because to them Trans People dont matter. Same game you see in any fascist takeover. The "opposition" wants someone to throw to the wolves to protect themselves. I am not Trans...but I will die on the hill to protect them. If the Dems dont then fuck the Dems. Full stop.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
It will be deeply funny to me if Biden outlives Trump
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
Trumpflation, Trumpflation, Trumpflation
trump take egg
If this is true (which I think it mostly is), it implies many of the founders had one or more of the following: - A terrible understanding of history - A grossly inaccurate view of human nature and group dynamics - An incredibly impoverished imagination
(guy whose opinions are bad) bluesky? the echo chamber????
It's also important to be honest about who did what. We are increasingly realizing that accountability is important for future planning. So: Joe Biden, and his chief legal advisor Bob Bauer, also failed us on this. Bauer and Biden chose Garland. Then, they didn't fire Garland. That was failure.
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
Hand Solo
Merrick Garland is, imho, possibly the worst AG in US history
Not for the past, but for the future: Merrick Garland completely failed us. He failed us because he didn't drive change in DOJ culture to prosecute insurrectionists, coup plotters, and white collar criminals. And everyone who said "Just Wait! Garland's doing it!" should be disregarded forever.