CD Wilsher

We're living through one of those rare historical periods: a revolution by the rich. Usually, the rich oppose revolution because they benefit from the status quo. But this is a period where they think they can benefit from radical change (see the fencing of the commons in 18th Century Britain).

Protester to Trump: “Shove that ballroom up your fat ass!”

Here's one for NYT Pitchbot. x.com/petersavodni...

After losses in Brazil and Serbia yesterday, this is designed to make Trump feel better. bsky.app/profile/joem...

Trump can't hand put pardons now. If he did, everybody who got one would quit. Continuing to crime on behalf Trump would be crazy because the pardon wouldn't cover their new crimes. Everybody who wants a pardon has to keep criming and hope the pardon comes through. bsky.app/profile/wash...

North Korea's Democratic. It's right there in their name.

If Amy Acton was a good daughter, she would have teamed up with her mother to get rich off an Alzheimer’s drug they knew wouldn’t work. by Vivek and Geetha Ramaswamy

I read the Bond novels when I was 12-13 and Turner is the closest of any actor ever to looking like the Bond I imagined.

Ruin a song by adding "In My Pants" to the title. Please please me in my pants.

In the bedrock of my soul I know he started out thinking the press pool was a literal pool and has been seething with disappointment since he discovered the mistake

At Corinthians 13:13, Paul says that charity (meaning empathy and compassion) is the greatest virtue. bsky.app/profile/reic...

Not good.

The media ended Joe Biden's presidency under an avalanche of negative news coverage about an objectively better economy than the one we're living through now even though voters disapprove of Trump more than Biden yet the media isn't hitting Trump nearly as hard as they did Biden

Diatribe=a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something. This is not a diatribe.

AI credit spreads are bursting a bit.. GS

It is outrageous that many self-imagined liberals ran from Walz because Trump yelled "fraud, Black people, Somalis." There was some fraud, as is the case everywhere, but there is zero evidence that it was especially large compared to other states.

Some people Vance has accused of ingratitude or similar: Abdul El-Sayed Kamala Harris Zohran Mamdani Ilhan Omar Joy Reid Volodymyr Zelensky I couldn't find any white Christians.

This is when AI revenue growth should be exploding, not slowing down. bsky.app/profile/carl...

Add “for Tax Purposes” to a movie: The Apartment for Tax Purposes.

Harris didnt include her job at McDonald's on her resume and that was a two week news story.

With today's news that the Producer Price Index went up 1.3% in September alone, the PPI is up 6.3% over the last 12 months. www.bls.gov/news.release...

I really don’t care that you have an imaginary friend but asking me to care about your imaginary friend is a bit much

Lots of old, poor people have Medicare and Medicaid. I guess this came as a shock to Kennedy. bsky.app/profile/fint...

Kimberly Guilfoyle's blatant corruption raises new questions about Gavin Newsom's judgment.

Thinking back to a year ago, when Ezra Klein did a podcast with Ross Douthat & said that to be competitive Democrats should run anti-abortion candidates in Ohio & Kansas.

I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.

Ruin a book by adding a word: To Have Not and Have Not

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton

Funny how the press demanded every last detail of Biden's health status but studiously ignore Trump's issues.

Apparently, Ellison's plan is to pay off $80 billion in debt through streaming when the only companies that are profitable at streaming are Netflix and, maybe, Disney.

Are we sure that David Ellison isn't another Edgar Bronfman, Jr., who sold the family's liquor business and got into the music business at the height of file sharing?

Let's all AGREE that a President suggesting that a foreign adversary taking out 2 American cities is "a small price to pay" is the most fucked up thing a President ever said. 25th Amendment NOW.

Media more interested in a single death from pneumonia in central Russia than Trump's daily corruption.

Is this a good idea? bsky.app/profile/fint...

Okay, who had the Black Death on their 2026 bingo card?

for reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?'

One item in the September jobs report that didn't get the attention it deserves is that jobs in oil drilling keep falling. The industry thinks that if Trump and Netanyahu's Iran war ever ends, oil prices will plummet

Does this mean they're skipping right over Iran/Contra?

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

Does it work both ways? Will the Super Bowl now be called the Artificial Bowl? bsky.app/profile/atru...

The AI companies desperately want government regulation in order to A. Establish a regulatory moat that will keep out competition; B. Bail them out when the AI bubble bursts; and C. Provide them with immunity from lawsuits. So, they are always hyping the risks of AI.

Trump is, for some reason, really wrapped up in the 70s, so starting an oil crisis must bring back fond memories.

According to BBC's livestream, one of the six Raptor engines failed, and although the Starship reached low-earth-orbit, SpaceX decided to cut the mission short and reenter 7 hours early ....But you'll notice all of SpaceX's public statements about this are completely positive spin

The Left supported AES as long as he was opposed by the establishment candidate. Now that he's the Democratic candidate, he's part of the establishment and no longer pure, so they won't support him.