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Published: June 17, 2025 03:05

thinking about how josh barro used to host "left, right and center" on a liberal public radio station, and he'd be "center" and liz bruenig would be "left." incredible range of opinions that's represented in elite discourse.

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Published: June 16, 2025 23:57

After stumbling up plane stairs and dropping his papers, confusing Justin Trudeau with Stephen Harper and the UK with the EU, the elderly, confused Trump is going home early to rest, using unhinged threats to declare war against Iran as cover. [contains…

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Published: June 16, 2025 23:06

it should be a minimal standard, along the lines of "DON'T PRINT LIES IN THE NEWSPAPER" for opinion pieces to *express the actual opinions of the author* instead of using a dishonest case they think will be more persuasive to get their readership to do the…

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Published: June 16, 2025 21:33

Losing control of motor functions as he struggles to display fake documents for a non-existent trade deal as he's confusing the UK and the EU. Brains are leaking out his ears [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 16, 2025 20:06

I never think about any post I write after I write it one way or another despite them getting blasted out to thousands of people, but I agonize about the mid Letterboxd reviews I've written that only like 25 people read. [contains quote post or other…

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Published: June 16, 2025 19:52

it's like the nigerian prince scam where this stuff is so transparently corrupt in part because they don't really want anyone with half a brain to be exposed to it. the target audience is rubes [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 16, 2025 18:40

they like republicans and want to help them win elections. reporting on declines in crime under democrats would not help republicans win elections, so they don't do that. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 16, 2025 18:13

Northerners in the 1850s didn't realize what they were up against until a Senator was almost beaten to death on the Senate floor by a Southerner. What will it take before the Dems wake up to the danger they're in? [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: June 16, 2025 18:01

An important thing about trying to prevent gentrificaiton by blocking new housing construction is that *it does not work to prevent gentrification,* and I'm not really sure that's true of cities that want to instead reduce tourism by preventing the…

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Published: June 16, 2025 17:48

This myth is one of my big historical pet peeves. Life expectancy was low in earlier eras not because people were middle aged at 25 and died of old age at 40, but because a huge % of people died in infancy and early childhood, bringing the average way…

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Published: June 16, 2025 17:41

A pretty inevitable result of Airbnb creating a zero-sum competition between residents and tourists for housing units, instead of building traditional hotels. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 16, 2025 17:22

this is similar to what I feared would happen to Bernie Sanders if he had won the primary in 2020 - we had already seen indications that Michael Bloomberg was going to jump into the general and run as an independent with a liberal message/aesthetic…

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Published: June 16, 2025 15:54

one thing I keep thinking about is how the upshot of a lot of technological advancements - digital cinema, non-linear editing, computer VFX replacing models and stunts etc etc - hasn't been to improve quality or even to save money, but to enable…

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Published: June 16, 2025 15:39

ah "instant pot got bought by private equity goons that ran it into the ground then started doing a bust-out into a 2023 bankruptcy" now the trump partnership story makes sense [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 16, 2025 15:21

if nothing else I think this is an eye-opening experience for many New Yorkers about who in the media is honest and who are dishonest liars intent on manipulating public opinion to get their preferred outcome. [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: June 16, 2025 01:59

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

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Published: June 16, 2025 01:28

The news media wants to help Trump occupy our cities and rule over us like a king. The people in the media who help Trump are his allies and our enemies, and the enemies of what's left of the actual free press [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: June 15, 2025 23:55

Republicans and conservative Democrats thwarting Obama on closing Gitmo (but Obama mostly doing it anyway) resulted in people getting mad at Obama about Gitmo instead of mad at the Republicans and conservative Democrats. Kind of a problem! [contains quote…

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Published: June 15, 2025 18:19

A lot of blue mayors and governors know the "don't give an order you don't expect to be obeyed" leadership maxim but interpret it as "I guess I can't order the cops to do anything" rather than as a crisis of insubordination. [contains quote post or other…

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Published: June 15, 2025 18:15

This type of lying is especially pernicious - your audience is on guard if you look into the camera and assert "I think deportations are good and popular" but if you, as an interviewer, just sneak that assertion into the premise of a question, people…

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Published: June 15, 2025 16:44

the media didn't like biden and wanted to hurt him so they promoted the "truck caravans" as a major story to try to do that. by contrast, they like trump and want to help him (like they helped him win the election) and so bury or minimize coverage of…

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Published: June 15, 2025 15:27

one disgusting thing fox news does constantly is lead jihads to try to get other journalists fired, like they're currently doing to Kimes. Story after story until they draw blood. If you work for Fox or defend them, you are a traitor to your fellow…

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Published: June 15, 2025 15:20

I don't think we will be able to successfully work the refs - the refs have been bought off already - but calling attention to this is valuable in convincing people on our side to look around and reevaluate who in the corporate media they can trust …

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Published: June 15, 2025 15:06

The media likes Trump and helped him win the election. Now the media wants to help him rule. Once you understand that, you can understand their coverage decisions. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 15, 2025 05:59

there's a tremendous opportunity here for the Padres and Angels to pick up a bunch of Mexican-American fans if they want to take it (there's absolutely not indication that they want to take it) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 15, 2025 05:39

Yes. Specifically like "Hogan-ism" (Larry, not Hulk) is extremely popular, a form of moderate Republicanism that shaves off pretty much all the Christian bigotry and laser focuses on racism. (Especially if, as with Hogan, you pair it with a Dem legislature…

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Published: June 15, 2025 05:33

a story id like to see some followup on is how the leading event AV company in the DC region had all their equipment (being set up for Biden's inaugration) trashed during J6 and presumably now hates Trump? Who did they hire to do the AV work for this…

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Published: June 14, 2025 16:48

even if you are one of the few who assiduously only uses the "Following" tab (or Lists or whatever) your own posts are shown to the vast majority using the For You tab on the basis of a nazi algorithm. Posts Musk doesn't like are buried with no audience,…

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Published: June 14, 2025 04:17

The donors don't want their workforce deported. But you'll be subject to deportation if you quit your job or join a union or try to bargain for better wages or complain about sexual harassment. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 13, 2025 23:34

between this and the push to legally protect cryptocurrency it's hard not to conclude that the trump administration just in affirmatively in favor of identity theft and pig butchering scams. hail to the thief [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: June 13, 2025 23:14

they were always like this. the thing that changed is that the circle of people they felt to have to be respectful to used to include powerful democrats and it no longer does. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 13, 2025 15:56

the giveaway here is that if you were really concerned with more ideological diversity on bluesky, you wouldn't be telling people already on bluesky. What are we supposed to do about it? You'd be telling conservatives that they should join the site. …

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Published: June 13, 2025 04:01

If you can be told what you can see or read Then it follows that you can be told what to say or think Don't use a social media platform that uses centralized algorithmic control of what users see and read. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 12, 2025 21:15

you know i kinda thought the thing where their Republican colleagues all backed the guy who lead an angry mob into the US Capitol to lynch Democrats would've tipped Dems off that their Republican colleagues don't give a shit, but better late than never I…

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Published: June 12, 2025 19:42

It's really telling how Microsoft and Sony are both adrift in their video game strategy after two decades of "try to take over the living room/become a subscription service/be a launchpad for AI" etc etc while Nintendo is chugging along with record profits…

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Published: June 12, 2025 19:10

It would be an absolutely catastrophe for America if it came for this, but the catastrophe will be worse if we don't prepare while we can. One thing Trump understands is pushback, these actions need to have electric-fence levels of immediate consequences…

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Published: June 12, 2025 19:05

Don't print lies in the newspaper. It's the one thing you can't do if you want to succeed as a news organization! Every lie you print discredits every other journalist who works there. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 12, 2025 19:02

It's remarkable how much little actual institutional support Trump has relative to the support he has among the people who control the information environment (the conservative media, the mainstream media and social media). No matter how badly he fucks up,…

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Published: June 12, 2025 18:36

A thought experiment Newsom, Bass etc should really think through: Let's say Trump issues an executive order that's like "I hereby remove the Governor of California from office and replace him with [whoever]". How do you respond to this? Does the answer…

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Published: June 12, 2025 17:47

yes. all the guys on stage with Derek Thompson at CentristCon last week are Cuomo supporters and he's the least "abundance"-y blue state politician in America! Kinda gives away the game. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 12, 2025 16:45

Correct. I think based on the polling, whether to rank candidates besides Mamdami, Cuomo and (extremely unlikely) Lander is basically irrelevant anyway but you might as well fill in your favs of the also-rans. Make sure Mamdami is ranked and Cuomo is not…

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Published: June 12, 2025 15:56

Once you understand this, the "minority drivers get a disproportionate number of speeding camera tickets" thing makes more sense. The roads suck ass in minority neighborhoods - high speed arterials designed to funnel commuters through - while white…

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Published: June 12, 2025 15:48

Tip: A good thing people can do to make Bluesky feel less depressing and politics-dominated is post links to your letterboxd reviews when/if you write them. I do that and it turns out that people like talking about movies.

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Published: June 12, 2025 15:34

"Everyone would be better off if no one was on Vichy Twitter and everyone went somewhere else, but until everyone else does that, Twitter still seems better to me." Like idk do you also throw trash out of your car window? This Doesn't exactly seem like…

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