Chris Lay
@chrislay.bsky.social
Villen, lefty, runner, engineer, in that order.
Formerly @christopherlay on the former birdsite.
Formerly chrislay on Zuckbook.
Also @chrislay at extinct pachyderm dot online.
Some ville, Mass
Formerly @christopherlay on the former birdsite.
Formerly chrislay on Zuckbook.
Also @chrislay at extinct pachyderm dot online.
Some ville, Mass
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Chris Lay
@chrislay.bsky.social
· Jul 24
An idea: UBI+JG. The SOEs staffed by the JG produce the basket of goods and services necessary to dignified material existence and participation in society, priced so that the whole basket costs the UBI. The UBI is fully taxed away by progressive income tax by the time you get to 1.5x median income.
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jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane
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finally had to do this for work. i look forward to updating it every other week or so
A Complete Timeline of the Relationship Between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were close pals before falling out in the mid-2000s, and the president is still plagued by the association.
www.rollingstone.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
finally had to do this for work. i look forward to updating it every other week or so
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No aurora by you? Clouded over? Peep the live stream from Minnesota. Full sky/overhead #aurora ongoing:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevQ...
Live Dark Sky Views from Ely, MN
YouTube video by Larry Olson
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
No aurora by you? Clouded over? Peep the live stream from Minnesota. Full sky/overhead #aurora ongoing:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevQ...
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I just kind of think all these people should, after a fair trial in which they are zealously represented before a jury of their peers, be eaten
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I just kind of think all these people should, after a fair trial in which they are zealously represented before a jury of their peers, be eaten
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This type of thinking could solve a lot. What if health insurance executives had to put their families on their cheapest plan?
15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.
I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This type of thinking could solve a lot. What if health insurance executives had to put their families on their cheapest plan?
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this is the thing, authoritarians like to portray themselves as hard-headed realists doing the national interest that liberals won't... but actually these guys are morons, acting out their atavistic bullying instincts and calling it Master Plan
It really is funny how common "military action in the near abroad to distract from domestic troubles at home" is in the authoritarian playbook
It has a success rate of like 5% and a backfire rate probably north of 50
It has a success rate of like 5% and a backfire rate probably north of 50
so at what point does the president greenlight Venezuela strikes to take energy away from the new epstein drops?
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
this is the thing, authoritarians like to portray themselves as hard-headed realists doing the national interest that liberals won't... but actually these guys are morons, acting out their atavistic bullying instincts and calling it Master Plan
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Primarying is the peaceful, non TOS violating option.
listen, we've all had a lot of fun today learning that we truly are ruled by a pedophiliac cabal that permeates every level of big business and government, but also let's not take our eye off the fact that the senate Dems completely betrayed their base and must be primaried until they're all gone
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Primarying is the peaceful, non TOS violating option.
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This week is reminding me of how hard it was to sustain confidence in media during the period when the initial Me Too stories first came out, hearing jokes at work and from fellow journalists that cast unsubstantiated doubt on women. Dark days
November 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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god damnit
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
god damnit
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Obviously corrupt on its face but even worse when you remember that Congress refuses to create a damages remedy for people abused by federal law enforcement, including ICE, and SCOTUS has narrowed the court-created remedy to almost nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Obviously corrupt on its face but even worse when you remember that Congress refuses to create a damages remedy for people abused by federal law enforcement, including ICE, and SCOTUS has narrowed the court-created remedy to almost nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...
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I would be utterly thrilled to rid the Democratic Party of everyone who was pals with Jeffrey fucking Epstein
why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy
why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I would be utterly thrilled to rid the Democratic Party of everyone who was pals with Jeffrey fucking Epstein
why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy
why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy
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Good stuff:
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Good stuff:
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TIM FOUND IT
BLESS YOUR HEART, TIM
BLESS YOUR HEART, TIM
November 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
TIM FOUND IT
BLESS YOUR HEART, TIM
BLESS YOUR HEART, TIM
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99% of Republicans understand nothing about intraleft politics. they’re still saying shit like “you won’t be so happy when BILL CLINTON is implicated will you?”
November 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
99% of Republicans understand nothing about intraleft politics. they’re still saying shit like “you won’t be so happy when BILL CLINTON is implicated will you?”
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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government by the rapists, of the rapists, for the rapists
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
government by the rapists, of the rapists, for the rapists
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this is bait and so it’s important not to get too worked up about it. but a couple notes about how dishonest it is. (1) implies all the docs out today are related to the discharge petition; they’re not. and the petition itself remains unlikely to generate new documents for the public.
Imagine if Dems in the Senate hadn't caved. The House wouldn't be in session rn, the discharge petition wouldn't be signed, people wouldn't have SNAP, govt workers would be RIF'd & the GOP would have some decent talking points. But also online rage addicts would be happier! YMMV!
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
this is bait and so it’s important not to get too worked up about it. but a couple notes about how dishonest it is. (1) implies all the docs out today are related to the discharge petition; they’re not. and the petition itself remains unlikely to generate new documents for the public.
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People on food stamps said they were willing to sacrifice to protect health care benefits. They’re furious that the Democrats gave up.
SNAP Recipients Crushed by Democrats Caving on Shutdown: “They Just Wasted It All”
People on food stamps said they were willing to sacrifice to protect health care benefits. They’re furious that the Democrats gave up.
interc.pt
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
People on food stamps said they were willing to sacrifice to protect health care benefits. They’re furious that the Democrats gave up.
This list needs to be the compromise position, the minimal standard for the Democratic Party going forward. If a Dem elected isn't on board with every one of these points they've got to get got in the next primary.
Not that anyone has any free brain space to focus on the future of the Republic this morning. But I put together this short piece on how to figure out which Senators should be purged from Congress. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List
Over the last couple days I’ve argued both that the denouement of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This list needs to be the compromise position, the minimal standard for the Democratic Party going forward. If a Dem elected isn't on board with every one of these points they've got to get got in the next primary.
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I don't think people really internalize the knowledge that in 1860, the outright majority of the populations of South Carolina and Mississippi was enslaved, as well as over 40% of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana, and over 30% of North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. Staggering numbers!
November 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I don't think people really internalize the knowledge that in 1860, the outright majority of the populations of South Carolina and Mississippi was enslaved, as well as over 40% of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana, and over 30% of North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. Staggering numbers!
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I say all the time that 200 people run the world and it’s not a joke.
It’s the same in the arts, btw. 200 people are responsible for like 70% of the culture consumed worldwide.
It’s the same in the arts, btw. 200 people are responsible for like 70% of the culture consumed worldwide.
Whats so unnerving, among many other aspects of the whole sordid Epstein miasma, is how incestuous the world of these elites are. Everyone knows everyone. The personal, social, and professional spheres all overlap.
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I say all the time that 200 people run the world and it’s not a joke.
It’s the same in the arts, btw. 200 people are responsible for like 70% of the culture consumed worldwide.
It’s the same in the arts, btw. 200 people are responsible for like 70% of the culture consumed worldwide.
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the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
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