Carthaged
@carthaged.bsky.social
Delenda Est, but with exhausted characteristics. Trying to be normal
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everyone was right to attack his character and good faith at the time and they're right to attack it now. Ilan Wurman is a man of low character, a racist fascist pig. anyone still friends with him in light of this obvious truth is also of low character
I’m not an expert in this area—I’m just an insurance law nerd—so I’m not qualified to answer. It’s a great question for Ilan. My main point is that too many people aren’t asking him this but instead attacking his character, intelligence, or good faith.
July 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
everyone was right to attack his character and good faith at the time and they're right to attack it now. Ilan Wurman is a man of low character, a racist fascist pig. anyone still friends with him in light of this obvious truth is also of low character
The sheer contempt she feels for us. All of us! I’ve had to remember that I’m an adult several times trying to write this, and that I shouldn’t say horrible things about anyone, even corrupt oligarchs who overstayed their fucking welcome by decades.
December 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
The sheer contempt she feels for us. All of us! I’ve had to remember that I’m an adult several times trying to write this, and that I shouldn’t say horrible things about anyone, even corrupt oligarchs who overstayed their fucking welcome by decades.
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In fairness to him, he then lit the embers by spending a month on a “talking to right wing voices” tour, and the show hasn’t been the same since
Still can't believe Ezra Klein burned all left-of-center credibility he had with "Charlie Kirk was doing politics the right way"
December 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
In fairness to him, he then lit the embers by spending a month on a “talking to right wing voices” tour, and the show hasn’t been the same since
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At this point, Trump is not a mere politician but a symbol—a representation of the Schmittian capture of America under his watch. If you're a supporter, you know with full conviction that there's nothing you can do that he wouldn't pardon. You support Trump—that's the only thing that matters.
December 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
At this point, Trump is not a mere politician but a symbol—a representation of the Schmittian capture of America under his watch. If you're a supporter, you know with full conviction that there's nothing you can do that he wouldn't pardon. You support Trump—that's the only thing that matters.
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Bluesky is the new place to go for high-level political discussions because half of the pundits, for lack of a better word, have credentials like "Guy who plays in a Portland post-punk band". "Professional video editor in San Diego". "Commodities trader in Nova Scotia". "Person named Sharon"
December 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Bluesky is the new place to go for high-level political discussions because half of the pundits, for lack of a better word, have credentials like "Guy who plays in a Portland post-punk band". "Professional video editor in San Diego". "Commodities trader in Nova Scotia". "Person named Sharon"
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EV transition + direct to sales, basically
How do you actually destroy car dealers from a policy perspective? Just let people buy cars direct?
car dealership should go straight to jail
December 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
EV transition + direct to sales, basically
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This is honestly funny.
Of all the ETF slop, I can’t believe this is the one that can’t get listed.
!['Grift' ETF Tied to Washington Access in Trump Era
Hits a Wall
Summary by Bloomberg Al
• Wall Street's ETF machine has been creating riskier products, but the Tuttle Capital Government Grift ETF has been rejected by major exchanges.
• The ETF, which targets firms with ties to Washington powerbrokers, has not received a formal explanation for the rejection from the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, or Cboe.
• Tuttle Capital's CEO, Matt Tuttle, plans to keep the ETF's name and thesis unchanged, and is hoping to list it on the Texas Stock Exchange, which is set to begin trading next year.
By Isabelle Lee
12/29/2025 13:14:31 [BN]
(Bloomberg) -- Wall Street's $13 trillion ETF machine pushed boundaries this year, cranking out ever-riskier products to feed retail traders hooked on yield, leverage and novelty.
But when Connecticut-based Tuttle Capital Management proposed an exchange-traded fund tracking the perceived value of political access, the machine ran into a wall.
The Tuttle Capital Government Grift ETF - ticker GRFT - is designed to target firms with apparent ties to Washington powerbrokers, from cabinet officials to stock-trading lawmakers. Yet no major exchange has agreed to list it, according to Matt Tuttle, chief executive of Tuttle Capital.
Tuttle said the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq Inc. and Cboe Global Markets Inc. offered no formal explanation. He received cursory phone calls, he said, that conveyed little more than a no.
GRFT's registration became effective with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in the fourth quarter - according to a filing. While that status should allow the fund to proceed, it reflects a procedural milestone rather than an active regulatory endorsement, according to Bloomberg Intelligence's James Seyffart.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kdgcvfaickr7turpo6suzbqp/bafkreifl7uuylenw34vovic6q7w6lulqdz4zjubdmn4jr7zlfhnneniyfa@jpeg)
December 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This is honestly funny.
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never taken a dime from a billionaire, I merely *incidentally* profited by publishing a complete horseshit story a billionaire wanted published, on the condition I do it on the platform he owns, so that I could convert the attention into subscribers on a different billionaire-funded platform
a lot of dumb dumbs at the Atlantic, but man, Caitlin Flanagan is on another level
December 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
never taken a dime from a billionaire, I merely *incidentally* profited by publishing a complete horseshit story a billionaire wanted published, on the condition I do it on the platform he owns, so that I could convert the attention into subscribers on a different billionaire-funded platform
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I’m going to riff on this: Starting a new meal delivery service called Lecter. It’s largely single source specializing in offal.
Mine is called cannibal (I’m thinking bigger than VCs, we want to attract a wide capital base and some international investors are not familiar with Tolkien or Lucas). I won’t be taking questions.
December 29, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I’m going to riff on this: Starting a new meal delivery service called Lecter. It’s largely single source specializing in offal.
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When I think of savage indoctrination pipelines, I think of *checks notes* Princeton ROTC.
December 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
When I think of savage indoctrination pipelines, I think of *checks notes* Princeton ROTC.
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Ezra Klein is cashing in the right way
December 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Ezra Klein is cashing in the right way
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Rest in piss Bardot
December 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Rest in piss Bardot
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Garland was a terrible choice for AG for the same reason he was Obamas best shot at replacing Scalia
This was obvious at the time.
This was obvious at the time.
Joe Biden’s fatal flaw was relying on the reluctant institutionalist Merrick Garland to prosecute the case of insurrectionist Donald J Trump. Had Garland done his job, Trump would have been banned from office and America and the world would not be in this predicament.
December 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Garland was a terrible choice for AG for the same reason he was Obamas best shot at replacing Scalia
This was obvious at the time.
This was obvious at the time.
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October-7th and what followed have radicalized me very hard against ethnonationalism. Just legions of people on every side who should and absolutely do know better saying “ok but [attrocity] is good when it’s us tho” and being taken seriously for some reason. Fuck your blood and fuck your soil.
I read Just and Unjust Wars and it’s so funny how much of his stuff post-October 7 is him saying things he said were wrong in his book are okay when Israel does it
December 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
October-7th and what followed have radicalized me very hard against ethnonationalism. Just legions of people on every side who should and absolutely do know better saying “ok but [attrocity] is good when it’s us tho” and being taken seriously for some reason. Fuck your blood and fuck your soil.
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yes. because what MAGA extremists believe and advocate is fundamentally unamerican. not conservative. not even reactionary. unamerican. these are foreign ideas that failed at enormous human cost within living memory. these are not serious people. they are maladjusted wreckers. symptomatic.
speaking as a personal example of this "heritage American" they have recently dragged back out of the rotting landfill of American history, I can tell you that even the literal DAR disagrees with these idiots! they *attend naturalization ceremonies* in celebration of immigrants becoming Americans!!!
there's no such thing as a "heritage american" and brain-damaged constitutional law professors and members of the vox cinematic universe treating it with respect is bad, and they should be berated
borders are fake, and america is what it is in the best sense due to periodically recognizing that
borders are fake, and america is what it is in the best sense due to periodically recognizing that
December 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
yes. because what MAGA extremists believe and advocate is fundamentally unamerican. not conservative. not even reactionary. unamerican. these are foreign ideas that failed at enormous human cost within living memory. these are not serious people. they are maladjusted wreckers. symptomatic.
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I actually hate this tendency. The obsession with canonicity and lore destroys any role for the audiences' imagination in engaging with media.
Yeah, and I have to say I don't mind that there aren't a million spin-off shows trying to canonically fill in every piece of "missing" lore like I'm not capable of imagining things for myself.
December 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I actually hate this tendency. The obsession with canonicity and lore destroys any role for the audiences' imagination in engaging with media.
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Also super important we take all of elons money and put him in a tiny cell immediately, both for his litany of crimes but also a capital revolt cannot be tolerated
December 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Also super important we take all of elons money and put him in a tiny cell immediately, both for his litany of crimes but also a capital revolt cannot be tolerated
Stephen Miller, they are not talking about you. The security forces you “control” are saying you are not part of their nation for not acknowledging their “Savior”.
Kristi Noem is telling us that America is strictly a white, Christian nation. Sometimes we tolerate others. Sometimes not.
December 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Stephen Miller, they are not talking about you. The security forces you “control” are saying you are not part of their nation for not acknowledging their “Savior”.
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"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Juice.
Juice.
Check out the Kavanaugh FN 4; I think it's pretty clear that the Kavanaugh Stop thing has gotten to him:
December 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Juice.
Juice.
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The mistake, of the NYT & everyone else, was in participating in the obvious bad faith lie that this lawless authoritarianism was about saving money & reducing the debt. We could have just all acted like adults, & read the laws & constitution, & treated it like the criminal enterprise it always was.
December 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The mistake, of the NYT & everyone else, was in participating in the obvious bad faith lie that this lawless authoritarianism was about saving money & reducing the debt. We could have just all acted like adults, & read the laws & constitution, & treated it like the criminal enterprise it always was.
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and The Atlantic employs Conor Friedersdorf and Helen Lewis!
that graeme wood piece on bari weiss might be the worst thing i have read coming out of the atlantic in years
December 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
and The Atlantic employs Conor Friedersdorf and Helen Lewis!