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Art Vandelay
@artsvandelay.bsky.social
· Nov 25
People think that the tariffs are paid for by China. But they're actually paid for by me, Art Vandelay.
I agree this is giving a vision of "bottom v top" politics as opposed to "left vs right" politics. And that vision is ...
incoherent because "left vs right" is a much better schema for our political divides than "bottom vs top".
incoherent because "left vs right" is a much better schema for our political divides than "bottom vs top".
this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
just bleak, man
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I agree this is giving a vision of "bottom v top" politics as opposed to "left vs right" politics. And that vision is ...
incoherent because "left vs right" is a much better schema for our political divides than "bottom vs top".
incoherent because "left vs right" is a much better schema for our political divides than "bottom vs top".
@chrislhayes.bsky.social is just trying to avoid having to say "unique New York" on air.
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social is just trying to avoid having to say "unique New York" on air.
This but in the other direction from what he means.
Ok Matt Taibbi has posted.
November 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This but in the other direction from what he means.
They love to shit on NY, but I haven't eaten from any of those places in years.
The tweet about people today having more extreme nacho flavor than peasants 500 years ago, but for NYC vs the rest of the country and good pizza.
The tweet about people today having more extreme nacho flavor than peasants 500 years ago, but for NYC vs the rest of the country and good pizza.
Late-stage MAGA means accepting that things will never be great again
November 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
They love to shit on NY, but I haven't eaten from any of those places in years.
The tweet about people today having more extreme nacho flavor than peasants 500 years ago, but for NYC vs the rest of the country and good pizza.
The tweet about people today having more extreme nacho flavor than peasants 500 years ago, but for NYC vs the rest of the country and good pizza.
Relatedly, when someone sends me an email that visually looks like ChatGPT output (certain patterns of bolding, bullet points, etc), I get annoyed that someone's sending me AI slop.
... it's especially annoying when it resembles how I previously wrote emails and feel like now I have to change.
... it's especially annoying when it resembles how I previously wrote emails and feel like now I have to change.
The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Relatedly, when someone sends me an email that visually looks like ChatGPT output (certain patterns of bolding, bullet points, etc), I get annoyed that someone's sending me AI slop.
... it's especially annoying when it resembles how I previously wrote emails and feel like now I have to change.
... it's especially annoying when it resembles how I previously wrote emails and feel like now I have to change.
IMO Bush v Gore is the turning point towards more political SCOTUS confirmations.
Before 2000, they were usually nearly unanimous, even for e.g. Scalia and RBG. Since 2000, *always* large opposition.
The idea that SCOTUS might swing a presidential election made the status quo untenable.
Before 2000, they were usually nearly unanimous, even for e.g. Scalia and RBG. Since 2000, *always* large opposition.
The idea that SCOTUS might swing a presidential election made the status quo untenable.
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
IMO Bush v Gore is the turning point towards more political SCOTUS confirmations.
Before 2000, they were usually nearly unanimous, even for e.g. Scalia and RBG. Since 2000, *always* large opposition.
The idea that SCOTUS might swing a presidential election made the status quo untenable.
Before 2000, they were usually nearly unanimous, even for e.g. Scalia and RBG. Since 2000, *always* large opposition.
The idea that SCOTUS might swing a presidential election made the status quo untenable.
Then they came for the Jews, and I pointed out various other groups that they could come for afterwards, confident that they'd never come for me.
Then they came for me, and the people I'd betrayed defended anyway, and I told them to STFU.
Then they came for me, and the people I'd betrayed defended anyway, and I told them to STFU.
oh cool, now we have Indian-American zoomer idiots that think that they can draw the line to include them to exclude them from MAGA's anti-Indian sentiment
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Then they came for the Jews, and I pointed out various other groups that they could come for afterwards, confident that they'd never come for me.
Then they came for me, and the people I'd betrayed defended anyway, and I told them to STFU.
Then they came for me, and the people I'd betrayed defended anyway, and I told them to STFU.
Also an example of how much of a pass the media gives Trump.
Trump has repeatedly posted AI pictures/videos of him wearing a crown, robes, etc.
This NYT times guy either doesn't know about it, or doesn't think that bad things Trump does "count".
Trump has repeatedly posted AI pictures/videos of him wearing a crown, robes, etc.
This NYT times guy either doesn't know about it, or doesn't think that bad things Trump does "count".
Actually the most self-aware NYT leader since he knows the reason he’s become fully entrenched in the MAGA mindset is because he’s still on twitter.
Just insane thing for a NYT editor to say publicly:
October 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Also an example of how much of a pass the media gives Trump.
Trump has repeatedly posted AI pictures/videos of him wearing a crown, robes, etc.
This NYT times guy either doesn't know about it, or doesn't think that bad things Trump does "count".
Trump has repeatedly posted AI pictures/videos of him wearing a crown, robes, etc.
This NYT times guy either doesn't know about it, or doesn't think that bad things Trump does "count".
It's an arithmetic progression (i.e. difference between two consecutive numbers is the same), so the average value is the average of the middle two numbers (or just the middle number if the length was odd).
Average * length = sum.
Average of 15 and 17 is 16.
16 + 16 + 16 + 16 = 32 + 32 = 64
Average * length = sum.
Average of 15 and 17 is 16.
16 + 16 + 16 + 16 = 32 + 32 = 64
It's Mental Math Monday! How would you mentally calculate 13+15+17+19?
October 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM
It's an arithmetic progression (i.e. difference between two consecutive numbers is the same), so the average value is the average of the middle two numbers (or just the middle number if the length was odd).
Average * length = sum.
Average of 15 and 17 is 16.
16 + 16 + 16 + 16 = 32 + 32 = 64
Average * length = sum.
Average of 15 and 17 is 16.
16 + 16 + 16 + 16 = 32 + 32 = 64
The other redeeming thing about Sliwa is his absolute undiluted red-hot searing hatred for Andrew Cuomo
i think the thing which is most redeeming about Sliwa is that he is absolutely a reactionary but he is also absolutely committed to multiracial solidarity
One of the weirder things about Sliwa is that he is an OG right wing paramilitary operative in ways that Trump is at least in theory trying to emulate with the current iteration of ICE and violent currents within MAGA but neither recognizes any kind of kinship with the other.
October 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The other redeeming thing about Sliwa is his absolute undiluted red-hot searing hatred for Andrew Cuomo
Are you supposed to say out loud that you're doing secret operations?
We’re gonna end up doing Bay of Pigs 2.0, huh
Trump confirms CIA authorization in Venezuela reut.rs/3KWIeOd
October 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Are you supposed to say out loud that you're doing secret operations?
C.f. the original
October 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
C.f. the original
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Don't you think it would be better if they dropped the "no kings" label and instead changed it to the "extend ACA subsidies" protest?
Raise the salience of an issue that polls well!
Raise the salience of an issue that polls well!
October 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Don't you think it would be better if they dropped the "no kings" label and instead changed it to the "extend ACA subsidies" protest?
Raise the salience of an issue that polls well!
Raise the salience of an issue that polls well!
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I remain skeptical that somehow the Democratic establishment's pro-Israel consensus will simply fall apart over night, if it would it would have already done so, but the fact is that there will be more new Mamdanis and more Sara Jacobs and more Greg Casars than new Hoyers, Schumers, and Bidens.
October 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I remain skeptical that somehow the Democratic establishment's pro-Israel consensus will simply fall apart over night, if it would it would have already done so, but the fact is that there will be more new Mamdanis and more Sara Jacobs and more Greg Casars than new Hoyers, Schumers, and Bidens.
Even the "liberal" media does this - good thing happens and they write "good job Trump" as the subhead, something they don't do for any other president.
@mtsw.bsky.social Trump being lionized for getting 20 hostages back whereas Biden got basically no credit for getting over 100 back….any idea why that might be?
October 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Even the "liberal" media does this - good thing happens and they write "good job Trump" as the subhead, something they don't do for any other president.
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The controversy over Columbus Day used to be kind of Tony Soprano type guys who were taught that Columbus was a great explorer in grade school and just didn't want to think hard about it. Trump by contrast explicitly likes and endorses the genocidal stuff
"President Trump issued an official proclamation declaring Monday, October 13 'Columbus Day.' The proclamation goes on to present a white Christian nationalist version of American history with much more emphasis on Christianity than Trump’s previous proclamations." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
October 12, 2025
On October 9, President Donald J.
open.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The controversy over Columbus Day used to be kind of Tony Soprano type guys who were taught that Columbus was a great explorer in grade school and just didn't want to think hard about it. Trump by contrast explicitly likes and endorses the genocidal stuff
It should really be anathema for people left-of-center like Clinton to have anything to do with CBS at this point.
Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.
Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.
Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.
October 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It should really be anathema for people left-of-center like Clinton to have anything to do with CBS at this point.
In fairness they explained their reasoning by saying it's the same as the last time the case came up to SCOTUS.
The last time the case came up to SCOTUS ... they did not explain their reasoning.
The last time the case came up to SCOTUS ... they did not explain their reasoning.
Sotomayor and Kagan also dissented, though they did not join KBJ's opinion. We can safely assume this was 6–3.
The majority did not explain its reasoning, but suggested that the government faces a "harm" by maintaining TPS—one greater than the harm to 300,000 Venezuelans who may soon be expelled.
The majority did not explain its reasoning, but suggested that the government faces a "harm" by maintaining TPS—one greater than the harm to 300,000 Venezuelans who may soon be expelled.
October 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
In fairness they explained their reasoning by saying it's the same as the last time the case came up to SCOTUS.
The last time the case came up to SCOTUS ... they did not explain their reasoning.
The last time the case came up to SCOTUS ... they did not explain their reasoning.
If Pam Bondi tries to interfere then throw the book at the guy.
Pam Bondi's DOJ now running interference for far right influencers arrested by local cops in Portland. Opens investigation into arrest of Nick Sortor www.kgw.com/article/news...
Conservative influencer Nick Sortor among those arrested after fights break out at Portland ICE facility
Sortor posted Friday morning about his arrest on social media, telling PPB to "lawyer up." The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into his arrest.
www.kgw.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
If Pam Bondi tries to interfere then throw the book at the guy.
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This is premeditated homicide and quite possibly piracy.
There is no even arguable legal authority for the president to commit an extrajudicial killing of these men. There is no declaration of war or other legal basis for any military action. There is no applicable legal justification or defense.
There is no even arguable legal authority for the president to commit an extrajudicial killing of these men. There is no declaration of war or other legal basis for any military action. There is no applicable legal justification or defense.
Hegseth: ‘Earlier this morning, on President Trump's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in
October 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is premeditated homicide and quite possibly piracy.
There is no even arguable legal authority for the president to commit an extrajudicial killing of these men. There is no declaration of war or other legal basis for any military action. There is no applicable legal justification or defense.
There is no even arguable legal authority for the president to commit an extrajudicial killing of these men. There is no declaration of war or other legal basis for any military action. There is no applicable legal justification or defense.
ICE is gonna be real popular when they interrupt the game to bodyslam some 75 year old grandma live on the most watched TV program of the year.
Trump Official Says ICE Will Be at Super Bowl Looking for Immigrants: ‘We Will Find You’
Trump Official Says ICE Will Be at Super Bowl Looking for Immigrants: ‘We Will Find You’
Corey Lewandowski appeared on Wednesday's edition of The Benny Show, where Benny Johnson asked whether ICE will be present at the game at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
The post Trump Official Says ICE Will Be at Super Bowl Looking for Immigrants: ‘We Will Find You’ first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
October 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
ICE is gonna be real popular when they interrupt the game to bodyslam some 75 year old grandma live on the most watched TV program of the year.
Bosh! Flimshaw!
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.
October 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Bosh! Flimshaw!
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This is true and also we should never accept that Trump v. United States is a valid precedent. It's not and as many justices should be removed and/or diluted with more seats and/or jurisdiction stripped as may be necessary, and eventually the repudiation of it should be codified by amendment.
fun fact that while trump v. us says that the president cannot be held criminally liable for using his core powers, this does not extend to his officers
September 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This is true and also we should never accept that Trump v. United States is a valid precedent. It's not and as many justices should be removed and/or diluted with more seats and/or jurisdiction stripped as may be necessary, and eventually the repudiation of it should be codified by amendment.
Hey NY Times, quick, @mtsw.bsky.social is asleep, post some questionably sourced wishcasting about how Harvard is going to capitulate to Trump:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
Trump Says a Deal With Harvard Is Close
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Hey NY Times, quick, @mtsw.bsky.social is asleep, post some questionably sourced wishcasting about how Harvard is going to capitulate to Trump:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
This is also 100% something that is only happening because of the Supreme Court immunity case.
It's the situation that they called an "extreme hypothetical" that would never happen. Took 14 months.
It's the situation that they called an "extreme hypothetical" that would never happen. Took 14 months.
What the United States is actually doing is using its massive military capabilities to airstrike random boats full of Latino people because Stephen Miller is all-but-open fascist who gets a weird semi-sexual thrill out of killing people of color. It's absolutely rogue state behavior
If you act like a rogue state you should get treated like a rogue state
September 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This is also 100% something that is only happening because of the Supreme Court immunity case.
It's the situation that they called an "extreme hypothetical" that would never happen. Took 14 months.
It's the situation that they called an "extreme hypothetical" that would never happen. Took 14 months.