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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.
A lot of people who said "Je suis Milo" are going to be weirdly silent about this one.
You go to war with the martyrs you have. This is now a pro-Don Lemon propaganda account and he is to be considered an unstoppable ubermensch until such time he is once again a free moron. May death come swiftly to his enemies.
January 30, 2026 at 4:00 PM
A lot of people who said "Je suis Milo" are going to be weirdly silent about this one.
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You go to war with the martyrs you have. This is now a pro-Don Lemon propaganda account and he is to be considered an unstoppable ubermensch until such time he is once again a free moron. May death come swiftly to his enemies.
January 30, 2026 at 2:41 PM
You go to war with the martyrs you have. This is now a pro-Don Lemon propaganda account and he is to be considered an unstoppable ubermensch until such time he is once again a free moron. May death come swiftly to his enemies.
Thing is, we said this repeatedly, then Iranians protested in reliance on that promise, then we did nothing when they were massacred.
It's too late now!
It's too late now!
Lindsey Graham: "If you're protesting, Donald Trump does have your back"
(He's not talking about in the United States)
(He's not talking about in the United States)
January 28, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Thing is, we said this repeatedly, then Iranians protested in reliance on that promise, then we did nothing when they were massacred.
It's too late now!
It's too late now!
Looks like someone wearing one of those masks from Mission Impossible
January 28, 2026 at 5:50 AM
Looks like someone wearing one of those masks from Mission Impossible
BTW by this barometer, the murder of Alex Pretti is having an even bigger impact than the murder of Renee Good.
My personal barometer of this is "people on social media who don't normally talk about politics posting about the latest thing". And it's spiking harder than anything since, perhaps, Russian's invasion of Ukraine.
January 25, 2026 at 4:40 PM
BTW by this barometer, the murder of Alex Pretti is having an even bigger impact than the murder of Renee Good.
I actually do worry that a Republican could punish blue states and gain a political advantage. E.g. quietly undercutting federal funding to stall their economy, to give Republicans a leg up in local races.
But sending ICE in explicitly in retaliation will probably have the opposite effect.
But sending ICE in explicitly in retaliation will probably have the opposite effect.
Maine has one of the smallest per capita immigrant populations in the country. There are like 6,000 undocumented immigrants in the entire state. There's obviously zero legitimate basis for any kind of enforcement surge there—it's just a naked pretext to punish them for voting for Democrats.
January 23, 2026 at 11:30 PM
I actually do worry that a Republican could punish blue states and gain a political advantage. E.g. quietly undercutting federal funding to stall their economy, to give Republicans a leg up in local races.
But sending ICE in explicitly in retaliation will probably have the opposite effect.
But sending ICE in explicitly in retaliation will probably have the opposite effect.
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This something I want people to understand. If you don’t get their names, they’re just gone. There’s no arrest record and the snatch-and-grabs can last seconds. People simply disappear and we can’t find out who they are or what happened to them.
They seem to be making a habit of it.
This child was taken 10 days ago, no idea who he is, if he is with his family or even if his family knows what happened to him.
This child was taken 10 days ago, no idea who he is, if he is with his family or even if his family knows what happened to him.
January 23, 2026 at 4:54 PM
This something I want people to understand. If you don’t get their names, they’re just gone. There’s no arrest record and the snatch-and-grabs can last seconds. People simply disappear and we can’t find out who they are or what happened to them.
This also strikes me as another "we agree to do what we were already doing" but to the extent it's more than that, it's incumbent on the Dems next time they hold power to unilaterally renounce all sovereignty gained in this deal.
If this is meaningfully different from the status quo, it's not obvious to me how. We've had an agreement granting us jurisdiction over US military bases there for 75 years. We could easily have arranged to build another one without this psychotic brinksmanship.
“.. Denmark would give the United States sovereignty over small pockets of Greenlandic land where the United States could build military bases, according to three senior officials ..”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 22, 2026 at 12:16 AM
This also strikes me as another "we agree to do what we were already doing" but to the extent it's more than that, it's incumbent on the Dems next time they hold power to unilaterally renounce all sovereignty gained in this deal.
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me again
January 15, 2026 at 9:17 PM
me again
Just to say it - any gift the president accepts automatically becomes property of the United States.
If he tries to take it with him we send the FBI to take it back.
If he tries to take it with him we send the FBI to take it back.
The Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.
January 16, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Just to say it - any gift the president accepts automatically becomes property of the United States.
If he tries to take it with him we send the FBI to take it back.
If he tries to take it with him we send the FBI to take it back.
IMO key fact to understanding Trump's worldview.
In fact, Trump was like the only person in American public life who *praised* the Chinese government for its Tiananmen crackdown.
Trump claims to want to bomb Iran over human rights concerns. This excuse is obviously pretextual, fake and not something Trump has ever expressed interest in until 12 days ago. Nevertheless, as I write, corporate media is uncritically reporting on it as if it’s a sincere and genuine conviction.
January 15, 2026 at 3:24 AM
IMO key fact to understanding Trump's worldview.
On this and on the Powell indictment, Tillis is leaning hard into the "Trump's advisors" thing even though these are clearly Trump pet projects.
Annoying, but this is a huge departure from 2018-2020 & 2023-2025 when Republicans who insufficiently praised Trump were drummed out of the party.
Annoying, but this is a huge departure from 2018-2020 & 2023-2025 when Republicans who insufficiently praised Trump were drummed out of the party.
On Greenland, Tillis blasts Trump’s advisers:
“It’s going to be something that someone in the White House has told the president to double down on, and I just don't believe it's achievable.” Adds “whoever's giving it to him needs to get the hell out of the White House.”
“It’s going to be something that someone in the White House has told the president to double down on, and I just don't believe it's achievable.” Adds “whoever's giving it to him needs to get the hell out of the White House.”
January 14, 2026 at 9:37 PM
On this and on the Powell indictment, Tillis is leaning hard into the "Trump's advisors" thing even though these are clearly Trump pet projects.
Annoying, but this is a huge departure from 2018-2020 & 2023-2025 when Republicans who insufficiently praised Trump were drummed out of the party.
Annoying, but this is a huge departure from 2018-2020 & 2023-2025 when Republicans who insufficiently praised Trump were drummed out of the party.
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Dems' statements are worse than your parody, because they usually imply that Trump does in fact care about economic issues and is capable of fixing them and just happens to be distracted at the moment.
January 11, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Dems' statements are worse than your parody, because they usually imply that Trump does in fact care about economic issues and is capable of fixing them and just happens to be distracted at the moment.
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Part of the problem here is that it affirms the image of Trump as a competent President, implying that if he applied his "laser focus" on the economy that he would succeed. Doing the opposition's work for them.
The White House is laser focused on threatening a military takeover of Greenland.
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
January 11, 2026 at 3:48 AM
To add to this ... I think that many people who claim that she was a domestic terrorist, will say the same about us.
Some people will say that this shows people can look at the same facts and come to opposite conclusions and we need more dialogue.
That's incorrect. We're right and they're lying.
Some people will say that this shows people can look at the same facts and come to opposite conclusions and we need more dialogue.
That's incorrect. We're right and they're lying.
Something that feels new: I don’t think there’s one single person who actually believes Renee Good was a domestic terrorist. I think every person who claims to, without exception, is consciously and willfully lying. I don’t typically think that.
January 9, 2026 at 7:05 PM
To add to this ... I think that many people who claim that she was a domestic terrorist, will say the same about us.
Some people will say that this shows people can look at the same facts and come to opposite conclusions and we need more dialogue.
That's incorrect. We're right and they're lying.
Some people will say that this shows people can look at the same facts and come to opposite conclusions and we need more dialogue.
That's incorrect. We're right and they're lying.
Much like with ICE, in 2029 and possibly a lot sooner "ban Twitter" is going to be the moderate view.
Yet another reason why every major media outlet that reported "grok apologized and promised to put in place new safeguards" was so full of shit (beyond the fact that Grok can't apologize and was just responding to a user prompt, Elon has made it clear: he wants X to be the deepfake abuse creator)
Grok producing vile sexualized deepfakes of women and children isn’t an accident
www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/t...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/t...
January 8, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Much like with ICE, in 2029 and possibly a lot sooner "ban Twitter" is going to be the moderate view.
Between this and the video evidence/eyewitnesses, seems like you could have a state prosecution even without FBI cooperation.
January 8, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Between this and the video evidence/eyewitnesses, seems like you could have a state prosecution even without FBI cooperation.
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Think it's possible to have a model of political sentiment around inflation where people are upset about it, but where they aren't *homo economicus* either.
The sentiment isn't "this is blowing up my budgeting spreadsheet" but "in my day a steak cost a nickel"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkQ8...
The sentiment isn't "this is blowing up my budgeting spreadsheet" but "in my day a steak cost a nickel"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkQ8...
December 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Think it's possible to have a model of political sentiment around inflation where people are upset about it, but where they aren't *homo economicus* either.
The sentiment isn't "this is blowing up my budgeting spreadsheet" but "in my day a steak cost a nickel"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkQ8...
The sentiment isn't "this is blowing up my budgeting spreadsheet" but "in my day a steak cost a nickel"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkQ8...
Where I disagree with Yglesias thought:
* Just because immigration isn't the *best*-polling issue doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it
* Some issues are naturally more salient than others
* National party figures and moderate candidates don't have to talk about the same things
* Just because immigration isn't the *best*-polling issue doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it
* Some issues are naturally more salient than others
* National party figures and moderate candidates don't have to talk about the same things
I feel like we do a new version of this argument every day, but everyone’s data agrees that Trump’s weakest issues are health care and cost of living and that those are the things that are most useful to Democrats trying to flip GOP-held seats.
Sincerely don’t even know what the debate is.
Sincerely don’t even know what the debate is.
matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong.
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Where I disagree with Yglesias thought:
* Just because immigration isn't the *best*-polling issue doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it
* Some issues are naturally more salient than others
* National party figures and moderate candidates don't have to talk about the same things
* Just because immigration isn't the *best*-polling issue doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it
* Some issues are naturally more salient than others
* National party figures and moderate candidates don't have to talk about the same things
Separately from bothering me as an American, this bothers me as a Jew; that they are sullying a religious event (even something kitschy for a minor holiday) with, not only political BS, but real bottom-feeder political BS.
Miriam Adelson encourages Trump to serve an illegal third term during a Hanukkah celebration at the White House. The crowd chants "four more years!"
December 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Separately from bothering me as an American, this bothers me as a Jew; that they are sullying a religious event (even something kitschy for a minor holiday) with, not only political BS, but real bottom-feeder political BS.
The plus side is that under a future Dem administration, having one of these is basically an admission of guilt. We should spread the message now - anyone who buys one of these will be prosecuted for a felony in the future.
so if you personally pay donald trump you get a fast track to a green card
trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol
December 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The plus side is that under a future Dem administration, having one of these is basically an admission of guilt. We should spread the message now - anyone who buys one of these will be prosecuted for a felony in the future.
Checked this just now and it's still like this.
CBS News has these 2 stories online ...
Dec. 12: "Trump says leaders of Thailand, Cambodia agree again to stop fighting"
Dec. 13: "Fighting rages on Thai-Cambodian border despite Trump's ceasefire claim"
Which one is displayed on CBS' homepage? The out-of-date one that makes Trump look good.
Dec. 12: "Trump says leaders of Thailand, Cambodia agree again to stop fighting"
Dec. 13: "Fighting rages on Thai-Cambodian border despite Trump's ceasefire claim"
Which one is displayed on CBS' homepage? The out-of-date one that makes Trump look good.
December 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Checked this just now and it's still like this.
People who are pro-capitalist and anti-socialist because of incentives to work hard should maybe consider the effect of so many people getting rich unethically, in the government and in Silicon Valley.
Why should I aspire to a rewarding career contributing to society, and not to insider trading?
Why should I aspire to a rewarding career contributing to society, and not to insider trading?
online gambling is essentially legal and open money fixing and laundering at this point
December 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
People who are pro-capitalist and anti-socialist because of incentives to work hard should maybe consider the effect of so many people getting rich unethically, in the government and in Silicon Valley.
Why should I aspire to a rewarding career contributing to society, and not to insider trading?
Why should I aspire to a rewarding career contributing to society, and not to insider trading?
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3 Americans reportedly killed and 3 more injured by an ISIS attack in Syria (1 civilian among the dead, the other 5 military personnel).
You may remember Syria as one of those US forever wars that peace president Donald Trump ended, and ISIS a terrorist group that Trump declared totally destroyed.
You may remember Syria as one of those US forever wars that peace president Donald Trump ended, and ISIS a terrorist group that Trump declared totally destroyed.
December 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
3 Americans reportedly killed and 3 more injured by an ISIS attack in Syria (1 civilian among the dead, the other 5 military personnel).
You may remember Syria as one of those US forever wars that peace president Donald Trump ended, and ISIS a terrorist group that Trump declared totally destroyed.
You may remember Syria as one of those US forever wars that peace president Donald Trump ended, and ISIS a terrorist group that Trump declared totally destroyed.