Laura Bridgewater

People Most Curious About Glowing Stove Discover It's Hot

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The goal for GM isn’t to create great cars that their customers love, it’s to raise their stock price from $80 to $110 by convincing rich people that they are on the verge of creating the car of the future that will do your laundry and suck you off

One of my biggest *putting on the They Live glasses* moments was realizing that these firms are not trying to impress us as consumers with these products and announcements, but instead are trying to convince investors that they are a growth stock

way too much of US defense funding is currently going to people who basically have the mentality of cruel 14 year old boys who have just discovered the joys of smoking weed

Americans were upset about inflation, so they threw out the leaders who oversaw slowing inflation, opted for a candidate promising to raise prices faster, and got what they voted for.

Ohio isn't Michigan or Wisconsin. It hasn't been a swing state, having crossed into red state territory a decade ago. In the biggest statewide races this year, polls have Democratic candidates Brown (US Senate) and Acton (governor) leading by multiple points. Hence the gross Vivek/JD desperation.

Like damn that throwaway subplot from the 2000s suddenly comes up again, kudos to the writers

It has come to my attention that many people are unaware that the person who figured out that the private key was 4 was a Something Awful forums goon: forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.p...

everything old is new again

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@andertoon.bsky.social

The future I want is not smart cars that take the place of human beings. The future I want is a massive plethora of trains that enable human beings to meet each other in cool places without driving.

Anyone who writes that a future car will be sort of a best friend doesn’t have friends.

this is where impunity (and unaccountable wealth) leads & why we need to build a movement for accountability for all those who've escaped it for so many years

“Trump’s second administration has constituted such a broad assault on American law and values that we will require something more than prosecutions: a society-wide initiative to deal with it.” That’s right, and as @davidakaye.bsky.social writes, the time to start laying the groundwork is now.

"I have to get people to a specific place where ground infrastructure might be damaged RIGHT NOW" is about as good a case for a private plane you can get.

(Incidentally, I have always thought of all federal agencies it would be completely reasonable for FEMA to have a private plane and people would probably be surprised they don't have one.)

"I'm going to fly to you on a private jet to tell you that we won't give you any money to rebuild your town" is *chefs kiss* edition.cnn.com/2026/10/20/p...

A history professor once told us that wars stop when nobody is left who benefits any further from them. Putin is the only person today who can stop this war. No matter what Ukraine, the U.S., or anyone else does or wants, this war will continue so long as Putin is in the Kremlin. Period.

Q: There's a report that FEMA is telling states to prepare to handle disasters on their own. Any reaction? OSSOFF: So the Trump administration is telling folks across the country to prepare to fend for themselves while taxpayer dollars are sent to back Don Jr & Eric's mining interest in Kazakhstan?

Re-professionalizing and de-politicizing DoD will be crucial. And doable, as this thread with specifics shows. Add Thiel-Palantir to Musk-SpaceX and Luckey-Anduril review. Courts martial for boat bombings. Problem is, it’ll take political will, and there’s at least two more years of damage to go.

@andertoon.bsky.social

High gas and diesel prices are hurting Trump’s approval and Republicans’ midterm chances. If they lose, Trump will be mad at Iran for not surrendering like he wanted. So he’ll bomb after the election. And to make himself feel strong after a humiliating public rebuke. It won’t achieve anything.

A plurality voted Trump in 2024 after he: -Vowed to make Ukraine surrender -Said the problem in Gaza was Israel holding back too much And earlier: -Pardoned war criminals -Argued the mistake in Iraq was not enough war crimes or resource theft -Praised China for Tiananmen Square This was a choice

not to be grim, but holding the governorship in as many states as possible helps with unforseen senate vacancies too.

Getting more state-level institutional power via the midterm elections is another significant way to prepare to counter a 2028 coup attempt (h/t for the addition, @sethdmichaels.bsky.social). Cuts off state-level manipulation schemes pre-vote and count or electoral vote falsification schemes after.

I didn't realize anyone was going to interpret a warning about a 2028 coup attempt as an argument that winning the midterms doesn't matter or would somehow be bad. It's the opposite. Getting some federal institutional power now is a major, crucial step to prepare to counter a 2028 coup attempt.

Admirer of Orban how? Admire what, exactly? The corruption enriching himself, his family, and cronies? The state’s forced takeover of media? Getting rid of the country’s top ranked university? Anti-LGBT bigotry? Abusing power to render elections no longer free or fair? The pro-Putin foreign policy?

he should have to answer more questions about what, specifically, he admired about orban

lmao what a loser

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Saudi Arabia (majority stake) and Jared Kushner (minority stake) buying Electronic Arts is one of the underrated instances of oligarchic media consolidation. Should be considered along similar lines as the Ellisons taking over Warner Bros.-Discovery or Musk taking over Twitter.

Rich serial liar said words! The job of the free press is to uncritically repeat those words in headlines, and spread them widely for free.

Also, you know. Bluesky is not a fucking Nazi bar.