Jacob Weindling
@jakeweindling.bsky.social
Editor at Large @splinternews.bsky.social
Rabid Colorado sports partisan.
Mildly rabid lefty partisan.
Reluctant finance guy.
Accidental UFO reporter-ish (more on that later).
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Rabid Colorado sports partisan.
Mildly rabid lefty partisan.
Reluctant finance guy.
Accidental UFO reporter-ish (more on that later).
Signal: JacobWeindling.16
Intergalactic is my favorite kitschy monster movie youtu.be/qORYO0atB6g?...
December 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Intergalactic is my favorite kitschy monster movie youtu.be/qORYO0atB6g?...
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I took podcast bro Jon Stewart's latest jab at people who wear masks, the gobsmackingly vacuous Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, and his ascension to becoming America's newsman and posited that his career tracks along the major themes of this era of collapse. www.jezebel.com/jon-stewart-...
Splinter: Jon Stewart Is a Symbol of America's Crumbling Democracy
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
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December 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I took podcast bro Jon Stewart's latest jab at people who wear masks, the gobsmackingly vacuous Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, and his ascension to becoming America's newsman and posited that his career tracks along the major themes of this era of collapse. www.jezebel.com/jon-stewart-...
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Honestly, if Heated Rivalry manages to be the thing that finally de-mystifies homosexuality for normie sports media... that's just a firm cultural victory for Canada. History book shit.
i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me
December 31, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Honestly, if Heated Rivalry manages to be the thing that finally de-mystifies homosexuality for normie sports media... that's just a firm cultural victory for Canada. History book shit.
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I'm sure this title won't make anyone mad and the comments under the blog will be very reasonable www.jezebel.com/jon-stewart-...
Splinter: Jon Stewart Is a Symbol of America's Crumbling Democracy
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
www.jezebel.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I'm sure this title won't make anyone mad and the comments under the blog will be very reasonable www.jezebel.com/jon-stewart-...
Sheeeeeeeiiittttt
RIP Isiah Whitlock Jr. We loved all the characters you played, especially as Clay Davis.
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The Wire: Shit Clay Davis Says | HBO
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December 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Sheeeeeeeiiittttt
I'm sure this title won't make anyone mad and the comments under the blog will be very reasonable www.jezebel.com/jon-stewart-...
Splinter: Jon Stewart Is a Symbol of America's Crumbling Democracy
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
www.jezebel.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I'm sure this title won't make anyone mad and the comments under the blog will be very reasonable www.jezebel.com/jon-stewart-...
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People get all worked up over MMT but you can't name a framework that has been as consistently correct about how interest rates and the dollar work in practice.
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
People get all worked up over MMT but you can't name a framework that has been as consistently correct about how interest rates and the dollar work in practice.
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If you confidently predict that bond vigilantes will attack the world's most liquid financial market which also happens to be the world's most important reserve asset, as so many have done for so many decades, I'm going to ask you to show some work on what is changing here and now.
December 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
If you confidently predict that bond vigilantes will attack the world's most liquid financial market which also happens to be the world's most important reserve asset, as so many have done for so many decades, I'm going to ask you to show some work on what is changing here and now.
It's true, you can't report the news until a NYT editor uses language no human has ever used before to write a deceptive headline absolving Trump of any wrongdoing
There is a culture of immediate gratification that isn't satisfied by rigorous fact-gathering and editing. The internet runs fast and shallow.
December 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It's true, you can't report the news until a NYT editor uses language no human has ever used before to write a deceptive headline absolving Trump of any wrongdoing
Whatever all of us in Denver did to maintain the vibes over the last 18ish hours worked. Never been so happy to hear a player is out for a month.
December 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Whatever all of us in Denver did to maintain the vibes over the last 18ish hours worked. Never been so happy to hear a player is out for a month.
This brainstem's democratic hero tried to overturn the 2020 election
And if you refuse to give someone credit for standing for liberal democracy just because they don’t agree with your policy preferences, you’re missing the big picture. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-marjor...
Why Marjorie Taylor Greene Gives Me Hope
People don’t change—but they can remember who they are.
www.thebulwark.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This brainstem's democratic hero tried to overturn the 2020 election
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I think a lot of people would be perfectly happy with illiberal policies (like the ones MTG continues to support for trans people, immigrants, women, free speech, you name it) as long as they can keep the uniparty, Morning Joe framework of politics they've lived with their whole lives
I’ve seen a bunch of responses to the Draper profile of MTG complaining about her pushing ahead a bill that restricts gender-affirming care for minors. This is a misunderstanding of what she’s doing. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-marjor...
Why Marjorie Taylor Greene Gives Me Hope
People don’t change—but they can remember who they are.
www.thebulwark.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I think a lot of people would be perfectly happy with illiberal policies (like the ones MTG continues to support for trans people, immigrants, women, free speech, you name it) as long as they can keep the uniparty, Morning Joe framework of politics they've lived with their whole lives
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We are spending $1 trillion on debt service alone at this point, the fiscal crisis is here, and we gotta soak everybody up and down the scale to get out of it with our hair intact
One of my more controversial opinions is that the US needs to significantly raise taxes to the tune of a couple % of GDP right now, even before any expansive social democratic reforms, and that means you—yes you, dear highly educated professional—will need to pay up, not just nebulous billionaires.
December 30, 2025 at 1:58 AM
We are spending $1 trillion on debt service alone at this point, the fiscal crisis is here, and we gotta soak everybody up and down the scale to get out of it with our hair intact
So cool how neither party here believes in democracy
December 30, 2025 at 5:12 AM
So cool how neither party here believes in democracy
If Jokic is seriously injured what is the point of anything anymore
December 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
If Jokic is seriously injured what is the point of anything anymore
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Foreign Policy Analysis is low key the darkly funniest field ever now. Are we at war? Does the president himself know? Who are we at war with? Why? Something to do with drugs and/or oil? We’re either invading Venezuela, Nigeria, neither, or both.
Either Trump believes the US struck a Venezuelan facility on Christmas Eve because he was told that erroneously, or he's conflating different stories, or we actually did what he claims. Regardless of explanation, we need that information.
December 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Foreign Policy Analysis is low key the darkly funniest field ever now. Are we at war? Does the president himself know? Who are we at war with? Why? Something to do with drugs and/or oil? We’re either invading Venezuela, Nigeria, neither, or both.
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
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Speaking of typos, someone should direct Ms. Dhillon to U.S. v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir. 2005), aka the greatest footnote in appellate court history.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Speaking of typos, someone should direct Ms. Dhillon to U.S. v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir. 2005), aka the greatest footnote in appellate court history.
scholar.google.com/scholar_case...
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These are the most dead end people in politics. They have nothing to offer the discourse other than their own bigoted ignorance dressed up as sarcastic wisdom because they are dullards who know nothing about the modern world.
December 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
These are the most dead end people in politics. They have nothing to offer the discourse other than their own bigoted ignorance dressed up as sarcastic wisdom because they are dullards who know nothing about the modern world.
Most mediocre and unremarkable thinker in politics strikes again
The perfect Yglesias post: declaring “billionaires are good, actually,” as if it was some bold, counterintuitive take.
December 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Most mediocre and unremarkable thinker in politics strikes again
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My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves.
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The Enshittifinancial Crisis
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December 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
Feel like Jon Stewart's legacy would be a lot different if more people remembered the Rally to Restore Sanity
December 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Feel like Jon Stewart's legacy would be a lot different if more people remembered the Rally to Restore Sanity
Outside the Super Bowls, the Tebow season is my favorite Broncos season precisely because they kept winning when it didn't make any sense and it drove everyone insane.
In my opinion, winning is amazing and the additional "my team that won was also the best team according to objective metrics" that online fans seem to need reflects a failure to cherish the experience of winning
December 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Outside the Super Bowls, the Tebow season is my favorite Broncos season precisely because they kept winning when it didn't make any sense and it drove everyone insane.
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also the two anglosphere nations to not get completely destroyed by the global financial crisis... almost as if
australia also has much more normal politics than canada and it's basically the only country on earth to have managed to replace industry with construction in employment... almost as if
australia also has much more normal politics than canada and it's basically the only country on earth to have managed to replace industry with construction in employment... almost as if
at the rate the US and UK are going, i guess the major Anglosphere nations that will still be normal liberal democracies are Australia and Canada
December 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
also the two anglosphere nations to not get completely destroyed by the global financial crisis... almost as if
australia also has much more normal politics than canada and it's basically the only country on earth to have managed to replace industry with construction in employment... almost as if
australia also has much more normal politics than canada and it's basically the only country on earth to have managed to replace industry with construction in employment... almost as if
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The wages of liberal transphobia and xenophobia is political death
it took the Tories 15 years of fucking everything up to obliterate their party. Keir Starmer did it in 18 months
so it happened - greens just met labour in the polling average
December 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The wages of liberal transphobia and xenophobia is political death