Elai
@elai.bsky.social
Water engineer, cyclist, walker, talker, weirdo.
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Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden.
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden.
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
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just for context, this appears to be a report that was generated based on a tip submitted online through a form on the FBI’s website. anyone can submit a tip. it’s illegal to submit false tips, sure, but “the president dropped my dead baby in lake michigan” sounds like someone who needs help.
December 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
just for context, this appears to be a report that was generated based on a tip submitted online through a form on the FBI’s website. anyone can submit a tip. it’s illegal to submit false tips, sure, but “the president dropped my dead baby in lake michigan” sounds like someone who needs help.
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Firing Kimmel is impotent and scary. We win by playing those facts against each other
Look, we've got to be willing to use some humor here if we want to make this stick in the culture
September 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Firing Kimmel is impotent and scary. We win by playing those facts against each other
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they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law.
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.
the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.
do not offer it to them.
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.
the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.
do not offer it to them.
September 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law.
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.
the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.
do not offer it to them.
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.
the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.
do not offer it to them.
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This is a very real distillation of why Charles Entertainment Kirk matters so much not just to pigs like Gutfeld but to worms like Ezra Klein. It's quite simple: They've heard of him, so he's real, in a way Hortman, trans people, Black people, immigrants, me, and/or you are not.
Gutfeld: “We don’t need more info. Why is this only happening on the left?”
@jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “What about Melissa Hortman?”
Gutfeld: “I never heard of her til she died.”
Tarlov: “Does it matter?”
Gutfeld: “Don’t play that bullshit.”
@jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “What about Melissa Hortman?”
Gutfeld: “I never heard of her til she died.”
Tarlov: “Does it matter?”
Gutfeld: “Don’t play that bullshit.”
September 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is a very real distillation of why Charles Entertainment Kirk matters so much not just to pigs like Gutfeld but to worms like Ezra Klein. It's quite simple: They've heard of him, so he's real, in a way Hortman, trans people, Black people, immigrants, me, and/or you are not.
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September 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Unbelievably grim account of what happens after you are hit by a car in California.
sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Griffin Gaffney on what happens when you get hit by a car in San Francisco
The Standard’s CEO tells the story of a near-death experience — and the endless complications that followed.
sfstandard.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Unbelievably grim account of what happens after you are hit by a car in California.
sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
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The basketball dildo affair is honestly one of the most menacing things going on right now. It's portrayed as a joke, but it really has the vibe of raptors testing fences.
The fact that the president’s son joined in is a perfect summary of our times
August 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The basketball dildo affair is honestly one of the most menacing things going on right now. It's portrayed as a joke, but it really has the vibe of raptors testing fences.
say what you will about OpenAI, this attitude just shows a tremendous lack of imagination
no shade on academics, who do a lot of very good work, but the number of people who need phd-level experts to advise them on just about anything is extremely small, and all of those people already have those experts advising them
OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”
August 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
say what you will about OpenAI, this attitude just shows a tremendous lack of imagination
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let me throw some fuel on the fire that is the discourse about boys getting laid!!! current-day manopshere content is not good at getting boys laid and that's an effect of the incentives at play. you cannot build an audience of resentful little virgins if you succeed at helping them to have sex
August 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
let me throw some fuel on the fire that is the discourse about boys getting laid!!! current-day manopshere content is not good at getting boys laid and that's an effect of the incentives at play. you cannot build an audience of resentful little virgins if you succeed at helping them to have sex
AI would never replicate this
this is one sentence?!
August 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
AI would never replicate this
Excuse me, aren't you forgetting someone?
August 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Excuse me, aren't you forgetting someone?
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CONTENT ADVISORY: PLEASE BE WARNED THAT THE DEADLINE FOR ALL POSTS ABOUT "AMERICAN EAGLE" AND "SYDNEY SWEENEY" HAS PASSED. IF YOU ARE FOUND IN VIOLATION YOU WILL BE FINED 1500 CLOUT POINTS AND A LABUBU.
August 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
CONTENT ADVISORY: PLEASE BE WARNED THAT THE DEADLINE FOR ALL POSTS ABOUT "AMERICAN EAGLE" AND "SYDNEY SWEENEY" HAS PASSED. IF YOU ARE FOUND IN VIOLATION YOU WILL BE FINED 1500 CLOUT POINTS AND A LABUBU.
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a fundamental problem with the conservative movement is that because they do not know how literally anything works and resent being asked to learn, they see absolutely everything as a conspiracy *they* need to capture and use like the libs obviously are
A huge step toward the politicization of official government statistics.
BREAKING: President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after weak jobs report.
August 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
a fundamental problem with the conservative movement is that because they do not know how literally anything works and resent being asked to learn, they see absolutely everything as a conspiracy *they* need to capture and use like the libs obviously are
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This is an object lesson in the importance of force and violence in politics. ICE is able to flaunt the law because they're willing to use both. Until members of Congress start showing up with breaching teams and armed security, the law is irrelevant. Just a piece of paper.
What are they hiding? You don’t get to slam the door on a Member of Congress during a routine ICE visit. I’ve toured this facility before—so why am I suddenly a “security risk”? My team requested permission. They had no right to deny us. They’re clearly afraid of accountability.
August 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
This is an object lesson in the importance of force and violence in politics. ICE is able to flaunt the law because they're willing to use both. Until members of Congress start showing up with breaching teams and armed security, the law is irrelevant. Just a piece of paper.
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I don't think Ian is saying the Democratic Party needs a white paper on how dudes can get their Ds wet, but it is objectively a bad situation that teenage boys googling "how to get girls to like me" are three clicks away from the Turner Diaries
It’s actually not a real problem Michael. Hope this helps
August 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I don't think Ian is saying the Democratic Party needs a white paper on how dudes can get their Ds wet, but it is objectively a bad situation that teenage boys googling "how to get girls to like me" are three clicks away from the Turner Diaries
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On the flip side weather forecasting will be amazing in 2028 when all those FLOPs get repurposed from woke gradient descent to based and trad Navier-Stokes solvers where they belong
July 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
On the flip side weather forecasting will be amazing in 2028 when all those FLOPs get repurposed from woke gradient descent to based and trad Navier-Stokes solvers where they belong
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If you've been skeptical about the possibility of a Epstein conspiracy, as I have, I encourage you to read this incredible piece of reporting from CBS.
They present fairly compelling evidence that someone doctored the Epstein jail footage and Trump AGs Bondi and Barr and FBI lied about it.
They present fairly compelling evidence that someone doctored the Epstein jail footage and Trump AGs Bondi and Barr and FBI lied about it.
CBS News investigation of Jeffrey Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies
A CBS News investigation found discrepancies between the government's description of the Jeffrey Epstein jail video and what the video shows.
www.cbsnews.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
If you've been skeptical about the possibility of a Epstein conspiracy, as I have, I encourage you to read this incredible piece of reporting from CBS.
They present fairly compelling evidence that someone doctored the Epstein jail footage and Trump AGs Bondi and Barr and FBI lied about it.
They present fairly compelling evidence that someone doctored the Epstein jail footage and Trump AGs Bondi and Barr and FBI lied about it.
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After 9/11, we successfully transformed the southern border from an ailing region to one that was floated by injecting half of its GDP with DHS funds for CBP and ICE. A major component was convincing Mexicans to police other Mexicans and now they’re all MAGA. I think the money can be very persuasive
July 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
After 9/11, we successfully transformed the southern border from an ailing region to one that was floated by injecting half of its GDP with DHS funds for CBP and ICE. A major component was convincing Mexicans to police other Mexicans and now they’re all MAGA. I think the money can be very persuasive
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Once again we find ourselves laughing at a police state that is unafraid to dangle $50K payment packages in front of anyone desperate enough to take it. Once again, this is how you lock-in an economy to the financial flows of the security state turned against its own population.
July 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Once again we find ourselves laughing at a police state that is unafraid to dangle $50K payment packages in front of anyone desperate enough to take it. Once again, this is how you lock-in an economy to the financial flows of the security state turned against its own population.
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Trump has a lot of quislings in the academy and such, but a lot of very powerful institutions simply can't believe what is happening. they stand there like a jacklighted deer going "buhh? guhh?" while MAGA draws a bead on their forehead bsky.app/profile/unav...
one thing i genuinely cannot understand is why Pharma didn't go thermo-fucking-nuclear on RFK et al
July 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Trump has a lot of quislings in the academy and such, but a lot of very powerful institutions simply can't believe what is happening. they stand there like a jacklighted deer going "buhh? guhh?" while MAGA draws a bead on their forehead bsky.app/profile/unav...