What do we have to do to 'subtract' Nate Silver's petulant takes?
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What do we have to do to 'subtract' Nate Silver's petulant takes?
A pre-dog-walk 🧵 on the pandemic. To me, the lesson of the pandemic is a very familiar one, although as far as I can tell, no one is talking about it or learning it (which is also familiar). It's about the contrast between America's two political parties.
It may be long before he dies, as his physiological core of 200 pounds of bitterest acid bile may persist indefinitely…
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u... Bothsidesing GOP militarized fascism: “Red-state governors sending their Nat’l Guard troops to blue-state cities is just another example of the political divide in the country” ‘Bob stalking/beating up Jane is just another example of the couple not getting along’?
In a weird way, this story brings me amusement - and relief … a feeling of simplicity. In these heavy dark times of ICE and DHS horrors, a simple tale of low riders, cops, and Tommy burgers sounds like quaint fun, throwback streetshit stuff from what should still be regular life
Holy crap, now they’re locking up toothpaste, too? Why not blame RFK jr. —- FREE THE FLUORIDE !!!
Too bad that Giuliani was injured.
The big guns doing their thing. How it's supposed to go.
Massive congestive heart failure while he is taking an unusually intense shit in his diaper?
No “explicit” authority? - Suggests that he does have implicit authority: NOPE! “Dubious” authority? - Suggests that he may have some but it’s not clear or unlikely: NOPE! There’s none. Say none or zero or no. Why mislead people as a News organization when you can simply report the direct truth?
Tariffs every other week Cracking down on Putin haha as if
Good Pink Floyd song.
Another Linda Lindas fan. The best kind of power pop, filled with the feeling of old school punk fun and 70s/80s alt-rock stuff. Young asian/latino girls from LA - lots of fun. Their early tag line - "We rebuild what you destroy" - also sticks with me in these times.
Random phishy texts I receive: “I'm heading to Los Angeles for a business trip. If you're free, we could grab dinner together.” I mean… free dinner anyway, right?
Cyndi Lauper at Hollywood Bowl: She’s good, had a successful career of nice songs and seems like a decent and likable person. Artistically: kinda unremarkable, ‘mid’ and middlebrow. If not for the wigs, mild eccentricity and joisey accent, hard to imagine she’d’ve ever stood out for her music.
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Chicago keeping art alive:
Better, or else you might POST THIS AGAIN … Trump be quaking …
National Guardner? National Park Service workers laid off, and now the National Guard is doing landscaping in DC. Felon Trump really turned soldiers into gardeners.
Thank you!
How do we find out which states? What about California?
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but but "he can't do that" !!
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
Is it fair to blame RFK Jr? Don't forget he has an actual worm, alive in his head, literally eating up his brain. Perhaps we blame the worm, not the man? Or blame the GOP Senate for confirming an aggressive worm as the head of a huge U.S. executive dept. But RFK? He's an innocent worm victim.
Breaking character to tell it like it is, point blank.
This is ‘America’ now, eh?
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
This is from Dr Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at CDC and resigned today. He specifically blames RFK Jr, the COVID vaccination recs, and decisions forced down from HHS onto scientists. Please read the whole thing. 🧪
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Good point. The list includes among other things: - cancer (i.e. past skin cancer?) - a smoking history (intensity not specified) - asthma (degree of intensity or formal diagnosis unstated?)
Hoping my Walgreens vax appt next week doesn’t get canceled on me 😣
Interesting quote from the piece: “I use social media to talk about fish. When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish."
So we're resurrecting the 'cold war' in this cold place. Only, as befits these malignant clowns, a greatly dumber and less consequential version.
Sure sounds like a lane for a Dem to rail endlessly about The Clown killing cheap wind and solar energy projects and trying to resurrect money-losing coal. time.com/7311613/ai-e...
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
"bipartisan" What would the the other party be, in this bipartisan'ing ? The fascist maga 'Republicans' ? "Dem/Fascist bipartisanship" - ?
NEW: A whistleblower complaint alleges that Trump officials at the Social Security Administration copied the SSA's primary database of Americans' Social Security Numbers into a private server, sparking security concerns. www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
It is a little unnerving how quickly these screeds are up and spewing and how much big funding is quickly lining up behind them. I am still optimistic that the redistricting measure will pass, but not as optimistic as I’d like to be…
Why even use words at these performative kiss ass show-meetings.
15-25%
That's telling him! And warn him that if he keeps this up, you're gonna issue another scoldy written statement! They better look out!
Okay, okay … I’ll put down the phone and sleeeeeeeeeeeeeee
yay www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
“Trump and his degenerate advisors are doing us a favor by making face masks part of the ... uniform …. they are occupiers … Masks are for secret police and criminal gangs .… the makings of a powerful opposition politics [among] a broad range ... across race and ethnicities, regions and ideologies.”
I wrote to the reporter and he acknowledged it's "a fair comment" - I'll take that.
It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
This piece refers to "Trump's ... efforts to reshape the government." Reshape, really? (If we're doing shapes, how about "disfigure"...) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
Just for today, the Mexican food in Chicago is sublime
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
"I spent weeks researching this question, desperately looking for counter-examples ... Here's what I found: Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once. Ever." 😔
Exactly how many people does it take to create one column of asinine drivel?
Looks like a solid casting choice to play Satan on a tv sitcom.
Not even close, jfc.
Maga is a rolling snowball . . . - Post-Confederacy KKK and fundamentalists - 1920s-1930s Lindberg and Coughlin ilk - John Birchers, Dixiecrats and LaRouchers - modernized via Reaganism, Fox/Rush, and then our beloved Tea Party Voila! Trumpism
So, burning flags will cause riots we’ve never seen before - we know this because we’ve seen them before. ~ the usual Trump gibberish
w t F www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
And while the right wing story was constantly changing, the police report and the story from the teenagers both remained consistent. The teenagers say that big balls was harassing and trying to pick up the 15-year-old girl, and when he wouldn't leave her alone the boy jumped in to defend her.
Those GenX numbers are just … 😣
I heard his approval rating is 137% no ?
I agree, I support you, and you're my Congressman. Now then, with sincere gravity: What Will You DO About It? While posting on BlueSky is nice, a U.S. Congressman can leverage his full legal power and public profile to do more than post.
the traditional classic bsky.app/profile/mich...
As appalling a story as any of em. www.masslive.com/news/2025/08... www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...
America now
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Not so good www.propublica.org/article/tarr...
Homeowner shoots, kills 2 men in ski masks, bulletproof vests claiming to be police, HPD says
Maga military occupation of blue cities is a real damn thing, not a mere “distraction”. If a corrupt military occupation of our cities can’t get your -primary - attention, then what would. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Giant YTD drops in Chicago for basically all crimes. Huge 4-reductions in Chicago for all violence. Murders are down FIFTY PERCENT. Property crimes are dropping, tho still higher than before. But MRAPs don’t stop theft. This is all pretext. Yet the WaPo subhed frames it as a “crime” issue.
Donald Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he's causing families. We'll continue to follow the law, stand up for the sovereignty of our state, and protect Illinoisans.
Warren's: was a mere proposal years ago was not enacted does not exist except as a rhetorical 'overton window' pole for discussion Trump's: exists is current law is one of many core reasons we are in a real life national disaster, for real, right now.
emilylgoodin.com/contact/?con... The reporter's webpage.
JFC www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
Our endless, much higher stakes reimagings of Reagan pulling Carter's solar panels off the White House
Haha, sure. The tariff disaster shocks and degrades the economy (job losses, inflation). So, there'll be soon enough less money in consumers' pockets, and they'll be buying fewer things and generating less tariff money than that Maga-generated garbage report says, anyway.
Ms. Maxwell and the Justice Department thereby jointly exhaled gray heated air up the posterior orifice of the citizenry, the Washington Post has learned.
amused as i heave an enormous demoralized sigh and of course the identical video could be produced for maga America, just change the accents and same damn thing
Let's see if Gavin wears a new cap . . .
What a fuck. - Lies about what he's doing. - Riffs a little bully dance over it anyway. - And wears a stupid hat that a bully moron 8 year old would wear.
Guessing it's because she's an evil slow-thinking sociopathic actual lifelong cult member unmoored by any objective principle that would support good government or the good of the public. But I didn't read the article, maybe they already covered that.
The prospect of lower interest rates spurs the stock market - because investors assume it’ll make it easier for companies to invest in more productivity. But why would companies invest into | this | economy? Erratic tariffs? Immigrant workers/consumers yanked out of the economy? Political upheaval?
Powell: "GDP growth has slowed notably in the first half of this year, to a pace of 1.2%, roughly half the 2.5% pace in 2024. The declining growth has largely reflected a slowdown in consumer spending ... higher tariffs have begun to push up prices in some categories of goods."
Does anything the irrelevant and sadly pathetic Third Way belch out qualify as a “scoop” …
DAILY MEMO: ICE Besieges Los Angeles and Surrounding Counties With Over 20 Raids Profiling U.S. Citizens and More @eltragon.bsky.social
Why not both? I remember Howard Dean stormed into the Dem nom' conversation back in 2003. He, interestingly, talked blunt n tough like a firebrand ... in espousing basically conventional Dem policies. Not saying he was Rogan exactly, but the combo can exist. (But who's currently doing that?)
well . . . sure www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Err, and obviously not 'popular'. (She found some modest popularity back whens in the 90s with and after the Blake Babies, but ... yeah.)
Not a protest song as such, and from 'Trump I', but still resonates pretty well in my book . . . bsky.app/profile/west...
some pure melodic pop songs at the highest level of the craft - my two cents Here Comes the Sun (Beatles) I'd Like That (XTC) God Only Knows (Beach Boys) Fall on Me (REM) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob41...
www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/p... unAmerican Constitution-violating fascist garbage
www.techdirt.com/2025/08/21/a...
“It was a miscarriage of justice then, and it is a miscarriage of justice now.” History's not just rhyming www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
That's a lot of eye makeup. Not exactly the most important point here, but just sayin'.
Timely
Did he specify WHICH 24 hours?