joking aside Faroese smoked salmon might be my favorite food on the planet. goated breakfast material
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joking aside Faroese smoked salmon might be my favorite food on the planet. goated breakfast material
definitely A. I can’t get enough smoked halibut
(if you haven’t seen it, that is) us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
I definitely agree, but also the CRM was a tightly organized and disciplined org that had a clear goal and tactics lined up to achieve it rather than protest for its own sake. Tom Ricks’ book is very good on this
Never been a better time to subscribe to The American Prospect, I guess. Support your friendly neighborhood not-fascist media
I am very dubious that any changes whatsoever will lead TikTok addicts to quit the app entirely, if Elon proved anything it’s that such people will tolerate basically anything
golden opportunity for anyone who wants to fund an alternative short form video app (ugh), there’s one chance bsky.app/profile/pear...
Not sure he qualifies as an oligarch but dont forget the LA Times
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it’s not great! bsky.app/profile/dari...
well, don’t have to bother trying to post on TikTok now at least
preview here! www.leftanchor.com/e/why-christ...
fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus episode, we have @philipchristman.bsky.social on to talk about his book Why Christians Should Be Leftists www.patreon.com/posts/139047...
Extremely interesting piece from a former fact checker at the New Yorker which includes the information that David Remnick prevented the use of the word genocide in their coverage because he personally didn't believe it was a genocide. bidoun.org/articles/hou...
"America’s entire power structure has been taken over by the very same sort of dumbasses who have been yelling at all of us on the internet for years." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...
and the EU is doubling down on austerity. really the 21st century will go to whoever stops kicking themselves in the balls for no reason, and China is definitely ahead at the moment
I mean I'm not optimistic, but it doesn't even have to be a real glimpse into Chinese life, just some influencer going "OMG YOU GUYS"
they really did luck into manufacturing something that much of the rest of the world is willing to import in large quantities bsky.app/profile/elli...
yes, but also true that the same ignorance can spark curiosity, particularly when it involves saving money
good question. the thing is while Trump is fucking us up bad, China is also doubling down on an investment- and export-led, low-consumption growth model that passed its sell-by date like 10 years ago
maybe we can get TikTokers to do some bill comparisons. hell maybe we can get President Xi to fly people over there
it's batshit fucking crazy. like more than a third of US TOTAL installed capacity
I wonder if Chinese people paying 2 cents a kWh (or whatever) will weigh on Americans having to pay 30-50 cents because of Trump's attack on domestic energy. dubious, but not impossible
as Stephen says you have to think about batteries, the grid etc, it's not quite that simple. but beyond obvious that China is going to be absolutely swimming in dirt cheap electricity within 5-10 years
buhh good lord
very instructive article here. you don't repair a broken democracy with timid rules-bound proceduralism www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/dem...
He thinks POTUS means "Boss of America" and always has. He thinks everyone should grovel and scrape to him the way all his sycophants, toadies, and family members do
"I can't swim!" RIP to one of the greatest www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyR7...
They're trying to rig the election and get rid of Ossoff. Get rid of absentee and early voting and then whoops Fulton County doesn't have enough machines on election day and the lines are 7 hours long. Old playbook but it works
he's *such* a little pissbaby. simply cannot handle even the most oblique criticism
We got @delauro.house.gov to talk about Russ Vought's illegality and the upcoming budget fight. prospect.org/power/2025-0...
seems like he actually knows city politics very well and has not-terrible ideas in many areas? there's an above average mayor buried under all the gold doubloons in there somewhere
well that is part of what needs to happen though. for instance I have been begging the devs on here to give me some kind of subscription option, I will pay even if it doesn't have any additional features
Declaring that a private business refusing to print a vigil poster for the President's friend is a civil rights violation is an interesting legal argument. Brings to mind Colorado cases Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission and 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis.
It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.
straight up steel plate on the end of the stock, they weren't fussy in those days lol
funnily enough I also am increasingly convinced that people like this are what you need to understand wtf is happening inside an LLM bsky.app/profile/jack...
oh sure, I just compare it to a Soviet bolt action rifle I also tried that kicked like a mule. my buddy could hit a playing card at 100 yards with that thing but I extremely could not
pondering it I think this almost has to be true. for an LLM the really valuable text is going to be textbooks, technical literature, abstract philosophy, sophisticated nonfiction, ie stuff that doesn't sell a million copies
completely new world where being inflexibly pro-Israel is a liability, the left has a tremendous opportunity right now
a soldier friend of a friend was practicing with his M4 one time and let me have a go, I drilled a beer can at like 50 yards on the first try. modern guns are pretty easy to use!
November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...
maybe we’ll solve the Korean relationship crisis by bringing men and women together around a shared hatred of Yankee dipshits. if we’re all banned from the country permanently, worth it
this is appropriately blistering. the Koreans are fucking pissed and they are entirely right to be english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
this guy is just a fucking moron bsky.app/profile/nycs...
I’m sure they’ll try stuff against civil-society groups and people if they find an opening, but the VP telling folks to call people’s bosses is sort of a tell that the fed govt. can’t lawfully or semi-lawfully do much here.
guessed the author before clicking and yep, got one at least
a contemplated secession of a relatively contiguous minority region in a small country is not comparable to ripping the global hegemon in half. if there were negotiations (there wouldn’t be) they would fail and the solution would be a test of arms
I love my son more than anything but a lot of that fulfillment is only possible *because* I have autonomy and comfort (ie sufficient money)
it could be worse yeah, though eastern Oregon and Washington are also full of psychos
"When a platform is designed to suppress your reach while amplifying extremists, staying isn’t pragmatic. It’s masochistic." www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s...
right, and it's the same people who are tearing up norms and invading blue cities with the military who want national partition. the idea that it could be done through calm good faith negotiations is preposterous
ahhh I am going to get one of these for my burr grinder, I use a power drill to drive it but it's a pain in the ass to hold on to it
you could imagine it if Americans were all saints. they aren't, to understate it extremely. that's why the war established the principle that secession is unconstitutional, confirmed by Supreme Court precedent as well
I've got a lot of family in Idaho, it would be nice to be near them, but I just won't raise my kid in a place like that
because the last time this happened, again, there was a massive war that killed 750,000 people
this is a country with a highly fragmented political geography, literally hundreds of trillions of dollars of wealth at stake. it's also full of anti-social lunatics with like 500 million guns in private hands. dunno what else to tell you
because it means war. this isn't Czechoslovakia
"The Ironworkers invested approximately a million dollars in training members for wind-turbine production, Langlais told me." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-econ...
21-point gap between men and women
and how is the decision made--hyper-gerrymandered state legislatures? county level? suppose once the principle of secession is established, cities try to secede from their states? war is the inevitable result bsky.app/profile/eke....
one thing I notice about raising my son is he is *constantly* touching me, my wife, and daycare friends. most all primates are like that. we live in a profoundly unnatural society
ah yeah, we'll just have an amicable breakup, as soon as we figure out who gets federal public lands, gold reserves, national institutions, the military, and of course the currency
when have Silicon Valley tech executives ever steered us wrong, I ask
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good lord
Conservative notions of free speech boil down to “*I* get to say what I want, and *you* get to shut up, or be persecuted by the state.” prospect.org/education/20...
"What our screens and online worlds deny us is the ability to contemplate one another as full people, as fellow humans, and—crucially, for a liberal democratic society—as fellow citizens." www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-the-...
I've been saying! prospect.org/education/20...
the GOAT
New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...
yeah, they were doing great thanks to Big Fiscal. and "wanting to exploit their workers more" can easily end up reducing profits. bosses value a compliant and easily abused workforce more than money bsky.app/profile/tft....
to be clear, not saying the usual MAGA racist bile wasn't their primary motivation. these are just the excuses they told themselves to justify electing a deranged madman bsky.app/profile/tft....
oh yeah they are (by and large) hardcore believers in MAGA ideology, that's why they were willing to take such an insane risk. they were doing great under Biden!
"The system all of us were raised in has been shattered. It can’t be reinstituted. You will have to build a new system which blocks the paths to this kind of dictatorial presidency." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-u...
yeah not even Project 2025 called for that, it was an Elon Musk special because he was mad at them for investigating Starlink
the classic Onion piece theonion.com/study-iraqis...
I will say I don't think anybody anticipated just how fuckin crazy Trump's trade war would be, particularly jacking them WAY up and down at random all the time, but we all knew it would happen and that farmers' export markets would take a beating
good video on this from @sarahtaber.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=badG...
oh they for sure heard about it, they just thought they'd benefit on net by being able to threaten workers with deportations, and get a bailout like last time if problems cropped up bsky.app/profile/smht...
The budget fight shows the limits of popularism. Yes, "we're not doing a deal without lowering health care costs" probably polls best among people who hear it but "we're not doing a deal because we can't trust these fucking guys" is easier to get in front of people who don't follow the news
"No matter where he was tweeting from, Patel seemed to have forgotten that the aftermath of an assassination might not conform to the rapid incentives—dopamine, constant attention—of live-tweeting." www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...
From Chicago, @emmarjanssen.bsky.social reports that while National Guard troops may not be coming to the Second City for now, ICE raids are growing, a shooting death occurred last Friday, and peaceful protesters are getting manhandled and shot at with pepper balls. prospect.org/justice/2025...
they did, they just thought they'd get to farm the mailbox and be able to export better. good video on this www.youtube.com/watch?v=badG... bsky.app/profile/timw...
my half-baked take is that so far companies are eating the bulk of the tariff costs, the AI boom is compensating for a lot, and it just takes a long time for these dynamics to play out
is this "dark abundance"? www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
"The U.S. agricultural workforce fell by 155,000 — about 7 percent — between March and July, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That tracks with Pew Research Center data that shows total immigrant labor fell by 750,000 from January through July."
Denmark is on track to wipe out the most dangerous strains of HPV. New data shows the vaccine has all but wiped out HPV16 and HPV18. It's a powerful proof point for what widespread, equitable vaccine coverage can do. buff.ly/3do5Sfo #ShareGoodNewsToo
I do think a major parallel we're seeing to the politics of the 1850s is that for the entire early republic northern members of Congress were punished by their voters for belligerence, southern members were punished for *not* being belligerent. Until, northern attitudes changed
next Dem president should give every one of these guys a million bucks, just for starters. and hold a festival in Seoul where they get to take turns pelting Stephen Miller with rotten fruit for a week
pretty much impossible not to conclude that both him and Schumer are biliously Islamophobic
Yesterday former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for an attempted coup. Unlike in the US, Brazil punishes those who try to overthrow the government. Trump is“very unhappy,” about the decision. From Robert Kuttner: trib.al/rDWflAw
meanwhile, what the right is currently doing, creating a database of progressives who committed wrongthink so they can be harassed, is not a "reaction" to cancel culture. it's just what the right does. I was put in one of these databases years ago simply for working at a nonprofit the right disliked
A long-ish thread on this scandal and why it's so bad, which military historians and people interested in historiography may find interesting even if you're not Australian. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.
he’s got a case of Reddit woo inflected atheism that would have been fine in 2015, but is not anymore alas
what is telling about Hochul is that she is legendarily tin eared and incompetent and yet still manages to say the right thing like 60 percent of the time under Trump. the bar is that low
yeah he seems to legit care about that in a way beyond narrow political self interest
