chowsky

chowsky

@chowellsky.bsky.social

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"The Bad Advice Machine" or, how the pursuit of wealth has broken the US political system and tilted policy away from what most Americans want

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this is the core of Trump’s grifting ‘this is the best, I am the best, don’t you want what I have, don’t you want to be like me?” which fails when the prospective mark doesn’t want or already has whatever is needed for self-validation and works when the mark lacks that validation

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump rants like a lunatic at a women's health event: "That stone is so beautiful ... see the cushions? Those beautiful yellow cushions? Don't they feel nice? I have them specially made ... you have the new heliport and ballroom."

El-Sayed delivers a primer for anyone who needs an explainer on the practice of faith, separation of religion and state, or a pushback on right-wing scaremongering (watch to the end when Tommy slinks off out of the room, defeated)

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

thread 100% right

NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

(1/X) Yesterday, Trump posted a snuff video of a man being killed by a tiger and cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink. If a Democratic president had at any point done either of those things, there would have been big political blowback. For Trump, there will be none, zero, nada....

trying to watch my state's college football games they're spread out among multiple streaming services which i don't have a subscription for if i can find them at all the broadcast signal for all but a few stations doesn't reach where i live it's not the matchups, it's the availability

IrishStar.com@irishstar.com

College football's television audience is noticeably smaller through the first month of the 2026 season compared to last year.

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. "Hi, I'm a venomous 'fuzzy worm' in a grandmother's backyard biting a three-year-old and sending them to the emergency room." (when asked, three-year-old me said 'a fuzzy worm bit me')

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promotional statue for the upcoming Chris Nolan adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey Lummus Park, on Miami, Florida’s South Beach, sunrise #photography #movies #Odyssey

any lawyer with the qualities required to be considered "really competent" would refuse to take on what they know is a bullshit politically-motivated effort that leaves them with mostly MAGA movement morons and a few competent-but-evil prosecutors

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social

Bondi's former chief of staff Chad Mizelle: "Part of the reason the weaponization work has been difficult is that you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent." From @paulareidcnn.bsky.social and other @cnn.com folks: