brokenelm.wsky.social
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I like things, and try to be kind.
Pinned
📌
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Okay, this is dumb, but I had to draw it. If you're like me and enjoy Pokemon, maybe, hopefully, this is for you.
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Okay, this is dumb, but I had to draw it. If you're like me and enjoy Pokemon, maybe, hopefully, this is for you.
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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NEW: I wrote about the secret history of Santacon, which began its life as a weird little art prank attended by a bunch of my friends. Now, a new documentary explores its absurd, anarchic, hysterical early years: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...
The secret history of Santacon, America’s most hated Christmas Party
A new documentary explores the booze-soaked and vomit-slicked gathering's radical roots.
www.motherjones.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
NEW: I wrote about the secret history of Santacon, which began its life as a weird little art prank attended by a bunch of my friends. Now, a new documentary explores its absurd, anarchic, hysterical early years: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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i mean this sounds cool but our masculinity depends entirely on how much petroleum we consume so you can see how our hands are tied
bsky.app/profile/davi...
bsky.app/profile/davi...
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
i mean this sounds cool but our masculinity depends entirely on how much petroleum we consume so you can see how our hands are tied
bsky.app/profile/davi...
bsky.app/profile/davi...
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i
could
smell
the
onions
and
the
mustard
!!!!!!!!!
could
smell
the
onions
and
the
mustard
!!!!!!!!!
November 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
i
could
smell
the
onions
and
the
mustard
!!!!!!!!!
could
smell
the
onions
and
the
mustard
!!!!!!!!!
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The deep irony is that the people who complain the most about how liberals are "in a bubble" are the the most embubbled of all. And they never say it about self-described conservatives, even though their whole deal is about living in a bubble: watching only Fox News in their all-white neighborhoods.
This Ross Douthat piece is a parody of pundit's disease. Voters think about politics exactly as I do, making fine-grained ideological assessments! If you lost it was because you weren't centrist!
Only one who has never encountered an actual voter can believe that.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
Only one who has never encountered an actual voter can believe that.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
Opinion | It’s Obvious Why Harris Lost in 2024. But Can Democrats Accept It?
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The deep irony is that the people who complain the most about how liberals are "in a bubble" are the the most embubbled of all. And they never say it about self-described conservatives, even though their whole deal is about living in a bubble: watching only Fox News in their all-white neighborhoods.
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Rebranding all solar panels as "sun extractors."
November 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Rebranding all solar panels as "sun extractors."
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
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Answer this dumbass question every time LIKE THIS
October 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Answer this dumbass question every time LIKE THIS
3° is half a Bacon
Trump’s Pentagon told Congress that all they need to strike boats is evidence that they are three degrees away from a known member of a designated drug cartel & that the survivors of strikes were released because they didn’t have evidence necessary to charge and put them on trial.
October 31, 2025 at 5:32 AM
3° is half a Bacon
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Because their imaginations are fucking tiny and they only understand petty grievances.
October 31, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Because their imaginations are fucking tiny and they only understand petty grievances.
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I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
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This colossal Times of London/de Blasio screwup gets more amazing at every turn.
Scoop via @maxtani.bsky.social
www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
Scoop via @maxtani.bsky.social
www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
This colossal Times of London/de Blasio screwup gets more amazing at every turn.
Scoop via @maxtani.bsky.social
www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
Scoop via @maxtani.bsky.social
www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
Will I'm incensed... Ok, more annoyed. But, this is soo soo dumb. Like the reference makes no sense, kaneda is the good guy in the scene. And the pronunciation is well off
They’re really pushing into more and more niche pop culture, too
October 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Will I'm incensed... Ok, more annoyed. But, this is soo soo dumb. Like the reference makes no sense, kaneda is the good guy in the scene. And the pronunciation is well off
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Didn’t even have to look at the Voting Pamphlet to know I’m voting for Katie Wilson.
Mayor Harrell Sweeps Wheedle Off the Needle: tinyurl.com/4z63dc85
October 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Didn’t even have to look at the Voting Pamphlet to know I’m voting for Katie Wilson.
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stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude
Hmm, two Tracey's Ullman
October 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Hmm, two Tracey's Ullman
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it will never not be odd that 80 percent of america lives in cities but the only real americans are the rural ones
October 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
it will never not be odd that 80 percent of america lives in cities but the only real americans are the rural ones
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In this piece: The New York Times did not think the No Kings protests were all that significant – which is indicative of how much mainstream institutions have bought into the idea that only Trump and his supporters represent “real America” and have a right to have their message amplified.
October 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In this piece: The New York Times did not think the No Kings protests were all that significant – which is indicative of how much mainstream institutions have bought into the idea that only Trump and his supporters represent “real America” and have a right to have their message amplified.
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ICE: “We don’t racially profile.”
Also ICE: Stops a Hispanic looking woman on her way into Walmart and immediately demands to know where’s she from.
She says “here” and they say “where’s here? Were you born here?”
Papers please.
That’s what we’ve become.
Also ICE: Stops a Hispanic looking woman on her way into Walmart and immediately demands to know where’s she from.
She says “here” and they say “where’s here? Were you born here?”
Papers please.
That’s what we’ve become.
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
ICE: “We don’t racially profile.”
Also ICE: Stops a Hispanic looking woman on her way into Walmart and immediately demands to know where’s she from.
She says “here” and they say “where’s here? Were you born here?”
Papers please.
That’s what we’ve become.
Also ICE: Stops a Hispanic looking woman on her way into Walmart and immediately demands to know where’s she from.
She says “here” and they say “where’s here? Were you born here?”
Papers please.
That’s what we’ve become.
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Mad Magazine, over 50 years ago
October 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Mad Magazine, over 50 years ago