Chad

Torching Fed credibility in the midst of an inflationary spiral—for obvious political reasons—does not strike me as particularly wise. We see this over and over again. Attempts to appease Trump do not work but have terrible consequences. Might our elites one day learn their lesson??

My #1 celebrity crush. I can fix him (even though he's perfect already).

All of BlueSky rn. Time is a circle.

"Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop." A hopeful 🧵from Brazil

This is absolutely wild. In Israel, you vote for a party. The party then assigns a representative to a seat. But that representative—who did not personally run, who has no voter-constituents to whom he is answerable—is then a member of the congress and can do w/e he wants (inc. changing parties).

Американский предатель, иди на хуй!

It's hard to mock conspiracy theorists when half of the conspiracies are true. Even QAnon turned out to be directionally correct! Our elites are so craven and operate with such impunity that absolutely nothing they say or do can be trusted.

Bolsonaro appears to have successfully subverted Brazilian democracy

Same

Tin foil thoughts: MAGA has rigged the vote in Texas. If they hadn't, they would have brought their California action there rather than in California.

But they would never lie to us!

Losing on an Aaron Rodgers scramble is the ultimate humiliation.

The resident BlueSky Republican troll is today asserting that MAGA operatives are LYING about how bad the polling is to TRICK US into being overconfident ... and that it's worked! So much fucking cope.

A glimmer of hope

A very hopeful meditation on an ambiguous and uncertain political moment. I want to believe.

I don't like all the national football people watching the Saints. Our shame should be relegated to the local beat writers who are forced to watch.

Another evil layer to this ad from Josh Turek: When he turns to say "stop the nonsense from both extremes," he opens with a clip of Rep. Becca Balint, the first openly gay woman to represent Vermont in congress and one of the few openly gay members of congress.

The difference between Saturday at 3pm and Sunday at 3pm: indescribable. Sunday is a dark horse candidate for worst day of the week.

Useful thread 📌 #Anjuna www.reddit.com/r/AboveandBe...

Bell Labs was capitalism. Bell Labs was a monopoly. The thing that is different now isn't the economic superstructure. It's us. It's society. We have embraced sociopathy as the highest social good. We have raised monsters. Look around. This is the dystopia we've all fearfully imagined.

Somebody needs to revisit some literature on what leadership means. the notion that you should stay quiet in the face of moral injustice (for political expediency) and then expect folks to follow you into battle afterwards is bananas

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The face of the white trash "Real Americans" who are destroying the country. Animal abusers and child rapists entirely convinced of their own righteousness. Backwoods garbage. The worst of the trailer parks.

This is a REALLY interesting/compelling thesis as to why TERFism hasn't taken hold in the American center-left as it has in Labour

Someone has archived archive.ph/2026.10.22-2...

This crazy Kushner corruption stuff in the Vanity Fair story is all first term right? When we still were supposed to have "guard rails." Can you imagine how bad it is now?

Trae is coming to NOLA on Jan 9! #NOLAsky

24th J.D.C. on its bullshit again

MODS MODS

Normally there's a lot of false fits and starts during the transition from summer to winter, but this year – at least so far 🤞 – it's like God just flipped a switch one day.

"If your $100 was in response to a fundraising text or email, the single most expensive way to raise money in American politics, $65 is instantly consumed by the cost of asking you for it. " newrepublic.com/article/2163...

In shocking new poll, Gen X continues to suck absolute shit

Adherents of Satan's perverted "Christian" cult supporting the Antichrist? Shocking. Just as liberals have become too feckless/timid/self-doubting to defend liberalism, so too with Christians and Christianity—they should be calling out these apostates as the demonic force they are.

Musk’s wealth is a threat to democracy—not just in the U.S. but everywhere. He’s probably the greatest threat to the free world today.

The resident BlueSky Republican troll is now arguing that Trump isn't wrong to claim that the US has "acquired" Greenland because the new agreement prohibits China or Russia from exploiting Greenland's minerals. Words, what do they mean?

Joined @stephruhle.bsky.social on MSNOW to talk about the AI bubble, its differences to the Dot-Com Bubble, and how if AI "doesn't work out" it's everyone's problem, with retail investors making up 20% of the market's volume and having over $4.65tn in direct exposure to AI stocks.

James and Jody's set at the Gorge 😍 on.soundcloud.com/yXv4A7ssoSKh...

I just assume the point Nicholas makes below is already clear to everyone. The regime operates out of the executive and the Supreme Court. It may want but does not need Congress (as will soon be made even clearer). "Wasting" the coup on 2026/27 never made any sense. 2028/29: absolutely.

NEARLY 10% This is straight-up vote tampering. They can't stuff the ballot boxes but they can remove the votes they don't want.

What's most amazing to me about people who insist we must play dumb about Trump's obeisance to Putin ("he just admires dictators!"): It requires us to ignore all we know about how Putin operates. And it requires us to completely memory hole Helsinki. Trump is clearly compromised. Come the fuck on.

gift link: www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

TIL

Luv 2 performatively grumble when mein Führer does traitor shit