The Fig Economy
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This also belies a child’s view of morality, that we can total up a life, a people, a nation, tally up the good and the bad, roll them together into one number and determine where it lies relative to a threshold and say what’s on this side is Good and what’s on this side is Bad.
No see when an alcoholic talks about what a piece of shit he is and how many people he’s hurt, I just absolutely lean into it and tell him he should drink himself to death- it’s the only right thing to do! Am I supposed to lie and tell him he can be better and he’s been a good friend in the past?
January 4, 2026 at 4:12 AM
This also belies a child’s view of morality, that we can total up a life, a people, a nation, tally up the good and the bad, roll them together into one number and determine where it lies relative to a threshold and say what’s on this side is Good and what’s on this side is Bad.
Holy cow what the hell
"Senior Venezuelan government officials, led by Vice President Delcy Rodríguez...have quietly promoted a series of initiatives in recent months aimed at presenting themselves to Washington as a “more acceptable” alternative to Nicolás Maduro’s regime...funneled through intermediaries in Qatar."
Exclusive: Venezuelan leaders offered U.S. a path to stay in power without Maduro
Delcy and Jorge Rodríguez used Doha backchannels to offer Washington a 'Cartel Light' plan for a managed Venezuela transition that keeps chavismo in power.
www.miamiherald.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Holy cow what the hell
The flip side of this is like those days when I’m like “I already fucked yo my diet at 10 am by eating a cookie so I am bad and may as well gorge myself all day.” No. We can always make the right choice and telling people they’re axiomatically bad only encourages them to continue to be so.
I am 100% tired of the "actually we're the bad guys, how dare you suggest otherwise" shtick. If a pleasant lie gets Americans to regret their country's sins tell the goddamn lie for half a minute
January 4, 2026 at 3:18 AM
The flip side of this is like those days when I’m like “I already fucked yo my diet at 10 am by eating a cookie so I am bad and may as well gorge myself all day.” No. We can always make the right choice and telling people they’re axiomatically bad only encourages them to continue to be so.
Is Hegseth wearing a zip top sweater over a shirt and tie and under a suit jacket? @dieworkwear.bsky.social is this legal?
January 4, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Is Hegseth wearing a zip top sweater over a shirt and tie and under a suit jacket? @dieworkwear.bsky.social is this legal?
This opens up the possibilities of who placed those bets on Polymarket.
(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops ..
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January 4, 2026 at 3:02 AM
This opens up the possibilities of who placed those bets on Polymarket.
Also if drug trafficking is a reasonable justification, then wholly domestic drug dealers become foot soldiers in a war against the United States in which they never enlisted, and in which the the US asserts the right to use preemptive lethal violence à la Duterte.
This is really good. One point: as Hathaway says, “If drug trafficking is a reasonable justification, then a whole range of possible arguments can be made that basically mean that self-defense is no longer a real exception.” This is true, and there’s a great example to use in thinking it through.
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
January 3, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Also if drug trafficking is a reasonable justification, then wholly domestic drug dealers become foot soldiers in a war against the United States in which they never enlisted, and in which the the US asserts the right to use preemptive lethal violence à la Duterte.
It’s interesting because of the four impeachments of presidents in history, in one (Johnson) the senate had a supermajority and couldn’t do it, Clinton’s was a joke, and in Trump’s case we saw the only same-party votes in our nation’s history for conviction.
Johnson was the last time the Senate had roughly a 2/3rds majority for one party so yeah. If it couldn’t be done then it can’t be done.
January 3, 2026 at 10:22 PM
It’s interesting because of the four impeachments of presidents in history, in one (Johnson) the senate had a supermajority and couldn’t do it, Clinton’s was a joke, and in Trump’s case we saw the only same-party votes in our nation’s history for conviction.
If the reason an issue is in the news is because a crime has been committed against a person and a statement starts with two paragraphs talking shit about the victim and how it’s good the crime was committed against him, that kind of sucks actually.
Yeah, mostly they’ve been just fine*, and also zero people will make their decisions on anything on the basis of any of them.
*plus or minus the annoying tic of leading with denouncing Maduro, which probably also doesn’t matter.
*plus or minus the annoying tic of leading with denouncing Maduro, which probably also doesn’t matter.
January 3, 2026 at 10:06 PM
If the reason an issue is in the news is because a crime has been committed against a person and a statement starts with two paragraphs talking shit about the victim and how it’s good the crime was committed against him, that kind of sucks actually.
It is always and forever Terriers.
Name your fav show that was cancelled too soon
January 3, 2026 at 9:49 PM
It is always and forever Terriers.
I’ve created a starter pack of all of the contributors to the short story collection The End of the World as We Know It that I could find here on Bluesky. Also it put me on it and I don’t know how to take myself off? lol. But seriously, give these folks a follow.
January 3, 2026 at 8:33 PM
I’ve created a starter pack of all of the contributors to the short story collection The End of the World as We Know It that I could find here on Bluesky. Also it put me on it and I don’t know how to take myself off? lol. But seriously, give these folks a follow.
Texts from my wife.
January 3, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Texts from my wife.
This is a very interesting thread. I think the one part I zero in on is impeachment, and how partisanship has functionally repealed it. But that has implications far beyond just that provision. There’s *lots* of stuff in there whose only means of redress is impeachment.
A concept I've been meaning to float to make sense of what's happened to the US Constitution is an idea from the British constitutional tradition: "implied repeal."
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
January 3, 2026 at 7:43 PM
This is a very interesting thread. I think the one part I zero in on is impeachment, and how partisanship has functionally repealed it. But that has implications far beyond just that provision. There’s *lots* of stuff in there whose only means of redress is impeachment.
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A concept I've been meaning to float to make sense of what's happened to the US Constitution is an idea from the British constitutional tradition: "implied repeal."
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
January 3, 2026 at 7:35 PM
A concept I've been meaning to float to make sense of what's happened to the US Constitution is an idea from the British constitutional tradition: "implied repeal."
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
So like, uh, if Congress doesn’t assert its powers here, it’s another case where the body is voluntarily disbanding itself. If the answer to “how does Congress enforce laws governing the use of the military” is “president does whatever the fuck he wants,” then that’s the ballgame.
Right, like if it’s not flagrantly illegal stuff like war crimes, and it’s stuff they’d be allowed to do with congressional authorization and they don’t and he orders it anyway, what’s the mechanism to figure that out?
January 3, 2026 at 7:34 PM
So like, uh, if Congress doesn’t assert its powers here, it’s another case where the body is voluntarily disbanding itself. If the answer to “how does Congress enforce laws governing the use of the military” is “president does whatever the fuck he wants,” then that’s the ballgame.
Seems like this makes a lot of the earlier speculation about a negotiated exit and about us running the country turn out not to have been true, right?
VP Delcy Rodriguez, whom Trump indicated earlier today was collaborating with the US government, is live on television right now.
Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet.
Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"
Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet.
Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"
January 3, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Seems like this makes a lot of the earlier speculation about a negotiated exit and about us running the country turn out not to have been true, right?
Everybody’s got “I will make them lose (to whom, Karl?)” covered, so I’ll just point and laugh at the idea that anybody next week, let alone in November or three Novembers from now, is going to base their vote on disliking Jeffries’ press release on this. Insane stuff.
January 3, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Everybody’s got “I will make them lose (to whom, Karl?)” covered, so I’ll just point and laugh at the idea that anybody next week, let alone in November or three Novembers from now, is going to base their vote on disliking Jeffries’ press release on this. Insane stuff.
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if i was running a political party and every time my opponents held power they started illegal wars for oil and crashed the economy i would simply say that repeatedly
January 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM
if i was running a political party and every time my opponents held power they started illegal wars for oil and crashed the economy i would simply say that repeatedly
I’m not usually one to obsess over wording of press releases, but damn, man, this is pretty weak. Doesn’t have any kind of “what in the blistering fuck?” to it, and such that it comes closest, it’s only after two paragraphs that seem in support of Trump and his actions.
January 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
I’m not usually one to obsess over wording of press releases, but damn, man, this is pretty weak. Doesn’t have any kind of “what in the blistering fuck?” to it, and such that it comes closest, it’s only after two paragraphs that seem in support of Trump and his actions.
It’s like we’re putting a Türkiye style deep state in place in Venezuela, except *we* are *their* deep state.
So Trump's plan, in so much there is one, is to say that the VP is now the President of Venezuela and if they step out of line he Sicarios them as well?!
Really is rule by the dumbest fucking people.
Really is rule by the dumbest fucking people.
January 3, 2026 at 6:52 PM
It’s like we’re putting a Türkiye style deep state in place in Venezuela, except *we* are *their* deep state.
Me: wonder what my pals are up to on Facebook
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January 3, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Me: wonder what my pals are up to on Facebook
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So like they’re essentially trying to instantiate a spheres of influence world, right? With a major power at the head of each, and let’s call them for lack of better terms, Eurasia, Eastasia, and Oceania?
Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"
January 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
So like they’re essentially trying to instantiate a spheres of influence world, right? With a major power at the head of each, and let’s call them for lack of better terms, Eurasia, Eastasia, and Oceania?
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Every person who stayed home in 2024 or argued that Harris was as bad as Trump or worse or that regardless of outcomes the US had to be punished for this or that who is now acting outraged and appalled should be entirely ignored, honestly. Congrats, this is the bed you helped make.
January 3, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Every person who stayed home in 2024 or argued that Harris was as bad as Trump or worse or that regardless of outcomes the US had to be punished for this or that who is now acting outraged and appalled should be entirely ignored, honestly. Congrats, this is the bed you helped make.
Teapot Dome + Watergate + Iran Contra + the Chicago Black Sox scandal, somehow.
Rod Blagojevich is really the skeleton key for how these bastards and everyone in their orbit views government. “I got this thing and it’s fucking golden” is the ethos at the top and it’s almost certainly percolating a permission structure downward.
as a final note this is part of why i have such a burning hatred for gamblers right now. you have to assume from here on out that everything admin does will be subject to insider trading of some sort
January 3, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Teapot Dome + Watergate + Iran Contra + the Chicago Black Sox scandal, somehow.
Rod Blagojevich is really the skeleton key for how these bastards and everyone in their orbit views government. “I got this thing and it’s fucking golden” is the ethos at the top and it’s almost certainly percolating a permission structure downward.
as a final note this is part of why i have such a burning hatred for gamblers right now. you have to assume from here on out that everything admin does will be subject to insider trading of some sort
January 3, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Rod Blagojevich is really the skeleton key for how these bastards and everyone in their orbit views government. “I got this thing and it’s fucking golden” is the ethos at the top and it’s almost certainly percolating a permission structure downward.
So the argument here is that a president* can direct his corrupt AG to bring an indictment against a foreign head of state and that short circuits any need to get permission from Congress for invading their country and abducting them? Seriously?
I really hate the *how is this guy a professor* shtick, but come on man.
January 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
So the argument here is that a president* can direct his corrupt AG to bring an indictment against a foreign head of state and that short circuits any need to get permission from Congress for invading their country and abducting them? Seriously?