Michael Rigg

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

One pretty foolproof way to know your government is fascist is when your government tries to punish you for calling it fascist.

Listen to me hard: If you want to be influential on Bluesky then you need to just make up shit about Democrats.

What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others

I'm not sure what "politically" means here. I don't think Democrats should make scolding Trump voters the core of their campaign or anything, I am merely a podcast host who is posting on the internet! I think morally blaming Trump voters is correct on the merits. That's it, that's the post.

UC slows something down by about 18 hours. We know this bc Senate Dems have already used it several times They’ve already filibustered nearly every bill Repubs tried to pass No filibuster for nominations so what they do is irrelevant unless they get 4 Repubs to vote against Trump Anything else?

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

This moron thinks tricky Dick Nixon was better for workers than Joe Biden. Amazing.

This past week, the Chinese learned 1) exactly where Trump's pain points are; 2) how much to squeeze them before he flinches; and 3) how little America's partners and allies want to help this president. Highly useful information.

Clear evidence of the existence of God.

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“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/h...

Hegseth just gave Jeffrey Goldberg permission to publish Hegseth’s texts. If they don’t contain war plans, no reason for Goldberg to hold back any more.

Uh oh the Trump administration accidentally added us to their group chat

The people who run this country genuinely do not know how shit works. They inherited the machinery of empire that tilts the world massively in their favor and said “idk bro, seems kinda gay to me.” You cannot have a serious debate about their plans or philosophy because there’s no there there.

Kids may die from preventable diseases, but libs will cry.

If there’s one thing that’s going to make me quit BlueSky, it’s the constant “X is a distraction from Y” nonsense. One part of the forest burning is not a distraction from another part burning when the whole forest is burning. 🔥

Always annoyed when people here assert that all Republicans have been fascists from Reagan on down to Trump. You sound like MAGAs who claim every Democrat is a Marxist. You're just demonstrating that you lack the ability to imagine anyone who could disagree with you and not be completely evil.

Based on the reaction to today’s column, I’m right. Calling out willful ignorance makes people uncomfortable. As it should. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Bowie, gone nine years ago today. His unbelievably prescient BBC interview — from 1999, about the internet’s sudden, mass adoption — is always worth a listen. #RIP 🙏🏼

Fundamentally these people are driven by the same distrust and trauma that leads people to think the Earth is flat or Bill Gates is putting microchips in vaccines. It's just a different flavour of the same bullshit way of thinking.

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

Republican president appoints a Republican congressman to be AG, Republican senators balk at confirming him, he's replaced by another Republican and somehow it's still the dastardly libs who are the real villains. Incredible commitment to the bit, I have to applaud it.

Suddenly, the US stock market has soured on the Trump presidency. The most obvious explanation is that Fed is not likely to cut the interest rate as much as anticipated, since inflation just rose. But this is hardly the full explanation./1