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I guess I’m on here, using my real initials, after lurking without an account for close to two years. 😬

if you divide US military aid since the Hamas Attack by the number of Palestinian kids in Gaza killed by the Israeli government, you get a number well over a million USD Not saying that’s the best or only way to measure this insanity, but I can’t think of a worse way to spend money.

This could change if more people tried to milk sharks.

Yum yum yum Mr Putin You are a humanitarian And your ass tastes like only the most delicious strawberry ice cream It must be Ben and Jerry’s, it’s so chunky Please Mr humanitarian Putin, May I have another helping? It’s so delicious

On Saturday, US citizen Ricardo Gonzalez was reportedly hit by an unmarked federal vehicle, tased twice by ICE agents and then handcuffed while face down in the gutter screaming that his arm was broken. Read more from @brandonrichardson.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/ice-assaulte...

We've got to nationalize SpaceX. We have no choice. We can't operate our military without them and we can't trust them to serve our national interest. There is literally no other option.

Elon being Elon.

I have friends and family members who were DOGEd for this bullshit, apparently.

The right has no agency. When they mess up it’s because the left didn’t stop them.

Oh yes, Alaska Perennial swing state

I’m thinking out loud but if 6-7 weeks ago you had bought SPY and shorted 10 random stocks in the SP you had a 70% chance of making more money than being long SPY? Not sure if this is how the math would work but if 70% of stocks are down to at least their 50 day moving average…

for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.

St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

All these guys spent all this effort to get "fuck you" money and can't even bring themselves, even once, to use it to say "fuck you" to Trump. Pathetic.

A toddler all proud he did not soil his diaper

Good for headline numbers but not great for an economy. Are employers finding the workers they need? Not if you read any of the surveys they respond to.

As with Mamdani, you simply can not make someone with this much kindness-coded rizz look menacing.

If the left is responsible for stopping 15 year olds from saying dumb shit while the right isn’t even responsible for what the literal President says, humanity is fucked. Sometimes people are wrong on the internet.

#OtD 30 Sep 1973 Chilean army death squad the Caravan of Death flew by helicopter from the south to the north of Chile, and began brutally torturing and murdering around 100 people and dumping them in unmarked graves on the orders of Augusto Pinochet stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1035...

I can’t believe I keep saying this, but Why are our overlords so weird and so dumb?

Fire every NFL commentator today and hire this guy right now. bsky.app/profile/robe...

Nobody likes the opera and classical music like my immigrant father

One ring to rule them all … just kidding. Wow this is cool. Like the slave whispering to Caesar that all this glory can also pass, so be humble. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

I'm just some asshole and have no idea what the veracity of this information really is but I do know that if I was responsible for killing 123 children, I would also say that it was the computer's fault.

AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse www.404media.co/theres-a-100...

Crazy how politicians rose and fell based on the question of “who lost China” Maybe one day we’ll direct the appropriate opprobrium towards the moron who lost our closest ally. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

Law and order Republicans

It's quite incredible how enormously lucky the US administration has been in terms of its economic inheritance - this is the kind of capex boom econ nerds have been yelling for since the GFC - and how determined they seem to be to squander it.

This makes my head want to explode. Thanks to @joshtpm.bsky.social for sharing this. How are you supposed to negotiate peace between countries and not visit one of them? I presume Jared finally found some business deal he could negotiate in Ukraine on the side so it’s worth going now.

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

The reason JKR is suddenly saying more and more “moderate” seeming things is not because her views are “moderate”, you daft shits. It’s because she is registering that her extremely overtly transphobic points are now making her very unpopular.

while milo gets to chit chat on TV with clear access to safety and basic needs, the US is flying untold numbers of immigrants to unsafe countries of origin or other countries where they don't speak the language or know anyone.

Here’s my first ad. I’m running for Congress to fight for my daughters – and yours. So in my first ad, I decided to turn the mic over to them.

Seriously- just abolish ICE

Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.