David Bloom

congratulations Bluesky users, you will still be young about 15 years from now

this is an important reminder to get your covid vaccination

my case for voting Wiener in CA-11 is pretty simple: he will either be brilliant or he will be terrible. and if he ends up being terrible, he will be easier to get rid of than Connie Chan because none of the establishment will go to bat for him.

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Killing household pets and helping pedos escape justice…. next DHS secretary?

Lights are reflected off a bulletproof screen as President Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina. More photos of the week: reut.rs/4yGkBNh 📷 Evan Vucci

While Wedgewood tried to pass off their fraud as an “experiment” there are concerning indicators they were trying to herd Democratic primary electorates towards the GOP’s desired winners in ME (Platner), MI (AES) and WI (Hong), or trying to bait us into wasting money on long shot races like MS.

UNITED CEO Scott Kirby: “.. Wealth inequality has become a danger to our society, .. We should have a national wealth tax ..” @nytimes.com $UAL www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/b...

Is this even legal?! She’s a lawyer! She can sue!

Elon Musk is single-handedly funding the Ken Paxton campaign:

Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.

What streaming platform is going to be willing to host this?

reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news

Incredible stuff happening in the Nate Silver midterm forecast. The Kansas #kssen US Senate election is more competitive than Maine #mesen. And Alaska #aksen is the tightest US Senate race in the country. It really feels like a realignment is happening.

actually we should normalize banning people for platforming JD Vance

Trump approval now at -22.4, his low point for the term and now lower than at any point in his first term, even after Jan. 6. By comparison, he was at a "mere" -11.6 at this point in 2018. Original post

Everything's falling into place

Fog is roaring back toward San Francisco! After a 90-degree day yesterday, the sea breeze is picking up this afternoon and the marine layer is filling with low clouds. Dense fog will push across much of the city this evening into Friday morning. Track it: www.sfchronicle.com/projects/bay...

they could offer me $5000, i still ain't doing that.

Sorry it just occurred to me that there may be people who haven’t seen clip from the Quibi show where Rachel Brosnahan plays a woman dying because of her golden prosthetic arm and I needed to fix that

remove him from the senate democratic caucus. if he does this tonight, the removal must happen tomorrow. you don’t get to call yourself a Democrat and do shit like this.

It looks like one of the emergency slides may have improperly deployed? Which if so i would like to know A LOT more about how that happened. Did a crew member mess up the arming/disarming procedures, or did the mechanism malfunction on mfing Air Force One??? Plane shouldn't fly until replaced.

That's absolutely wild - you're watching a $400+ million dollar fireworks show. Can't keep doing that forever. And just think of what Ukraine could do with $400m in interceptors.

Since everyone is posting their favorite Zelda content youtu.be/ejxyt5zYdps

great! (and yes, it was airside) www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/i...

“The SPR was originally designed for 5 full drawdowns. Instead, it has executed dozens of large & small releases over the past 40 years” “Because the system was not designed for this many cycles, the repeated injection of water and extraction of oil have caused severe cavern deformation”

One of the Dem weaknesses is that we refuse to attack the MAGA base. Meanwhile they attack Dems as inherently evil people who might be demonic and whatever their corrupt politician is doing “Dems are worse”

This in no way excuses her, and in fact makes it both funnier and grosser: is it possible she thinks a hijab is a keffiyeh

the funniest possible thing would be if trump forces cable companies to bring back CableCard and forces broadcasters to stop encrypting ATSC3

this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

A friend of mine argues that Trump generally manic-posts when he’s stuck in the situation room bored and waiting for something to happen, i.e. he thinks it’s correlated with Trump ordering military stakes and looking at his phone while waiting for them to be carried out 

Not really going to get in on the politics here but the conversation between @volts.wtf and CF's Jan Sramek was fascinating. Sramek is planning something very different than what you'd think based on "tech utopia" and "backed by Marc Andreessen", both of which are very bad things.

this is such a strange rallying cry to insist on something that would be counterproductive, ineffective, and worse than the status quo. no idea why this is suddenly a talking point.

GOP talking points becoming indistinguishable from scammers who deliberately say stupid stuff so that only the easiest marks are still paying attention.

The Justice Department appears to have included a fake AI-generated. citation in an ICE detainee's case. Judge Jarbou, a Trump appointee in Michigan, called it out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I won't be happy until 95-year-old former ICE agents are being wheeled into courtrooms in the year 2089 because they talked too much and a hobbyist fascist hunter got tipped off by a person who befriended their great-grandchild in college

i highlight that cnn is not backing jennings "As a CNN Political Commentator, Scott Jennings is not a full-time employee or journalist for the network...His account of a personal conversation with Senator McConnell reflects his experience and is not CNN reporting."