Easy Eye
@easyeye.bsky.social
More of a listener than a talker these days.
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
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I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
“When the 8 African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system,” says the sheriff of Charlotte. These new sheriffs broke ties with ICE.
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE
Boosted by new supermajorities, Republicans are closing in on legislation to mandate more collaboration with ICE and preempt local policies hard-won by immigrants’ rights advocates.
boltsmag.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
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We're upping our rates for the third time. Do you like to pay $29.99 per month or let your parents truly die forever
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We're upping our rates for the third time. Do you like to pay $29.99 per month or let your parents truly die forever
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Peggy Hinaekian, Birds On A Wire, c. 2000s
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Peggy Hinaekian, Birds On A Wire, c. 2000s
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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We used to have the Bureau of Labor Statistics collect inflation data but under Trump we’ve outsourced it to DoorDash
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
We used to have the Bureau of Labor Statistics collect inflation data but under Trump we’ve outsourced it to DoorDash
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How is the evidence piling up if you can’t even clearly define the term that the evidence applies to
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
How is the evidence piling up if you can’t even clearly define the term that the evidence applies to
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I just called Durbin to tell him not to cave but that was real easy for me to do with a full fridge
there is some tension between the (correct) level of apocalypticism on this site about food aid running out and the unwillingness to make any compromises in service of making it not run out
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I just called Durbin to tell him not to cave but that was real easy for me to do with a full fridge
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Hey uhhhh I have some questions about this image of Schumer they chose
Senator Lindsey Graham: “Democrats are demanding we continue to throw money at a broken Healthcare System that enriches Insurance Companies at the expense of American Consumers. We refuse to be held hostage! ”
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Hey uhhhh I have some questions about this image of Schumer they chose
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9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
November 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.
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Bonus points for Musk defining a swindler as someone who tells an audience whatever they want to hear.
I was thinking the same thing as I paid for my bulletproof Cybertruck robotaxi with X, the banking app, as it took me to the spaceport for my flight to Mars.
I was thinking the same thing as I paid for my bulletproof Cybertruck robotaxi with X, the banking app, as it took me to the spaceport for my flight to Mars.
November 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Bonus points for Musk defining a swindler as someone who tells an audience whatever they want to hear.
I was thinking the same thing as I paid for my bulletproof Cybertruck robotaxi with X, the banking app, as it took me to the spaceport for my flight to Mars.
I was thinking the same thing as I paid for my bulletproof Cybertruck robotaxi with X, the banking app, as it took me to the spaceport for my flight to Mars.
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I think what is happening here is that Jackson is doing the 48hr pausing so the First Circuit (hopefully) declines to place a stay pending appeal (which would be a longer stay) and then the Court will be in the tougher position of delaying SNAP for a longer stay period.
#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
November 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I think what is happening here is that Jackson is doing the 48hr pausing so the First Circuit (hopefully) declines to place a stay pending appeal (which would be a longer stay) and then the Court will be in the tougher position of delaying SNAP for a longer stay period.
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Referring the admin’s emergency petition to the whole court would have slowed down getting the payments out. We expect a First Circuit decision within the next day, day and a half. Monday a.m. tops. Stay tuned.
#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
November 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Referring the admin’s emergency petition to the whole court would have slowed down getting the payments out. We expect a First Circuit decision within the next day, day and a half. Monday a.m. tops. Stay tuned.
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We’re flying today and this is just a gentle reminder to thank the TSA
they’re working without pay and it’s a tough job
they’re working without pay and it’s a tough job
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We’re flying today and this is just a gentle reminder to thank the TSA
they’re working without pay and it’s a tough job
they’re working without pay and it’s a tough job
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Good lord. The short version is "What a person looks like is a better predictor of career advancement than their performance in school. Therefore, what a person looks like must correlate to being a 'better' employee." First part is likely true, but probably not for the reasons assumed in the 2nd
November 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Good lord. The short version is "What a person looks like is a better predictor of career advancement than their performance in school. Therefore, what a person looks like must correlate to being a 'better' employee." First part is likely true, but probably not for the reasons assumed in the 2nd
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Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani
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I know it’s an annoying hobbyhorse of mine, but you actually cannot create a socialist utopia if you are cynical about government. Sorry. You can dislike stuff the government does now, but you *must* have faith in its capacity to do good, or else how tf is it implementing Full Socialism?!
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I know it’s an annoying hobbyhorse of mine, but you actually cannot create a socialist utopia if you are cynical about government. Sorry. You can dislike stuff the government does now, but you *must* have faith in its capacity to do good, or else how tf is it implementing Full Socialism?!
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if they were smart, they’d realize his victory showed that sincere, Lin-Manuel-esque aesthetics are actually very effective at selling socialist ideas to normie libs. but they are not smart.
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
if they were smart, they’d realize his victory showed that sincere, Lin-Manuel-esque aesthetics are actually very effective at selling socialist ideas to normie libs. but they are not smart.
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so voting matters, huh
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
so voting matters, huh
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
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The true twist here will come when Leo intervenes to deny Vance an annulment, and some TradCath bishop grants it himself, prompting an excommunication and a split from Rome that lasts a century and a half
Hypothetical: If you were a super-successful opportunist that had a shot at landing the man who was just about to become President when the old dying stroke victim finally succumbs, would you take a shot at the crown?
October 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The true twist here will come when Leo intervenes to deny Vance an annulment, and some TradCath bishop grants it himself, prompting an excommunication and a split from Rome that lasts a century and a half
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“Peter Thiel “drew on a wide swath of religious thinkers, including… the **Nazi jurist** Carl Schmitt, whose work he said helped create the core of his own beliefs” … 1/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“Peter Thiel “drew on a wide swath of religious thinkers, including… the **Nazi jurist** Carl Schmitt, whose work he said helped create the core of his own beliefs” … 1/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally.
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
Progressives really hope, and maybe even believe, that there is some magic thing they can hijack to attract conservative voters.
The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.
The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.
I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
October 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally.
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"