James Kinsale
@jameskinsale.bsky.social
Writer. Science, culture, politics, and history dilettante.
Piggy?! ANYONE else's career would be over.
BLOOMBERG REPORTER: “If there’s nothing incriminating in the Epstein files why not…?”
TRUMP: “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.” 😕
TRUMP: “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.” 😕
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Piggy?! ANYONE else's career would be over.
"You're not getting paid, but you can buy this rebranded Two Buck Chuck tax free!"
“Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin confirmed the exchanges were carrying Trump wines in a statement to Forbes, saying, ‘The brave men and women of the USCG are pleased to be able to buy Trump wine and cider tax free.’”
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"You're not getting paid, but you can buy this rebranded Two Buck Chuck tax free!"
Reposted by James Kinsale
I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC
I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents.
I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.
I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents.
I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC
I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents.
I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.
I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents.
I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.
The future AI cash flows can only be inferred based on hype. This is the dark matter of the tech universe, only this matter is dollars that don't exist.
Matt Levine (@matt-levine.bsky.social) keeps writing about AI in precisely the same tone he wrote about crypto and NFTs.
"This is, you know. This is fine."
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
"This is, you know. This is fine."
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The future AI cash flows can only be inferred based on hype. This is the dark matter of the tech universe, only this matter is dollars that don't exist.
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." - Animal Farm
Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings and sexual assaults in several states, warns an FBI bulletin to law enforcement agencies issued last month.
The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." - Animal Farm
Reposted by James Kinsale
An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
Chicago
October 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
Chicago
Reposted by James Kinsale
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies www.propublica.org/article/elon...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies
The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...
www.propublica.org
October 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies www.propublica.org/article/elon...
This movement of categorical grifters - every single one - complains that (the fantastically-named) Brilyn Hollyhand is just after the money? They complain that he's too entitled? Entitled rich Republicans are the sole beneficiary of your entire political philosophy!
Conservative teen Brilyn Hollyhand has infuriated MAGA faithful with his private jet ride and aspirations to Charlie Kirk's legacy. But is he overstating his connections to TPUSA?
My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/private-je...
My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/private-je...
Private Jet-Flying, Charlie Kirk-Wannabe Teen Sets Off MAGA Firestorm
The fight over Brilyn Hollyhand symbolizes a bigger problem for MAGA.
www.thebulwark.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This movement of categorical grifters - every single one - complains that (the fantastically-named) Brilyn Hollyhand is just after the money? They complain that he's too entitled? Entitled rich Republicans are the sole beneficiary of your entire political philosophy!
Detainee deaths in custody are 4x higher than previous admins. "What happens when our leaders and the people who work for them see immigrants not as human beings but as scum? And what happens when that is also applied...to others, like journalists and political opponents?" - Adrian Carrasquillo
The “Moral Monsters” Among Us
Immigrants are dying now. Will people of good conscience speak up?
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Detainee deaths in custody are 4x higher than previous admins. "What happens when our leaders and the people who work for them see immigrants not as human beings but as scum? And what happens when that is also applied...to others, like journalists and political opponents?" - Adrian Carrasquillo
The absolute sleaze of Cory Mills continues.
Scenes From Post-Law DC: Cory Mills Sex Tape Threats Edition
We’ve got more from Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL), the avatar of post-law...
talkingpointsmemo.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The absolute sleaze of Cory Mills continues.
Happy Canada Day! Thank you for remaining a model of sanity and good governance that so many of us down here can look up as we slide deeper into our inevitable imperial decline.
July 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Happy Canada Day! Thank you for remaining a model of sanity and good governance that so many of us down here can look up as we slide deeper into our inevitable imperial decline.
There was a time you could go to a Greyhound station that looked like this Art Deco masterpiece (now a museum in Arkansas). Now the station would be down two flights of concrete steps into a packed, cacophonous room lit with a single light bulb next to a pawn shop's dumpsters.
June 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
There was a time you could go to a Greyhound station that looked like this Art Deco masterpiece (now a museum in Arkansas). Now the station would be down two flights of concrete steps into a packed, cacophonous room lit with a single light bulb next to a pawn shop's dumpsters.
I love this entertaining perspective on the planning and logistical fails of the Trump parade from a professional events planner.
Thread by @dougblandry on Thread Reader App
@dougblandry: I just got back from the Trump parade and I have to say it was legitimately the worst executed mass attendance event I’ve ever seen One overarching thought: how do you spend $80 million ...
threadreaderapp.com
June 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I love this entertaining perspective on the planning and logistical fails of the Trump parade from a professional events planner.
This is Trump's birthday parade that happens to coincide with the U.S. Army’s 250th, which can be used as cover for a parade straight out of Pyongyang. At least it's going to rain!
Forecasters Warn It May Rain on Trump’s Military Parade
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This is Trump's birthday parade that happens to coincide with the U.S. Army’s 250th, which can be used as cover for a parade straight out of Pyongyang. At least it's going to rain!
A car pulled up near an FDA employee heading home for the day. "A young man in business attire shouted at her from the car: ‘This is DOGE and this is your Last Supper!’ He laughed and drove off. She received her RIF notice the next morning.”
Fired HHS employees allege in a new class-action lawsuit that DOGE terminations were based on “hopelessly error-ridden” personnel records with “systemic inaccuracies.”
Fired HHS employees allege terminations were based on ‘error-ridden’ personnel records
Agency personnel files listed incorrect performance ratings that were used to determine which employees would be laid off, according to a new lawsuit.
www.politico.com
June 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A car pulled up near an FDA employee heading home for the day. "A young man in business attire shouted at her from the car: ‘This is DOGE and this is your Last Supper!’ He laughed and drove off. She received her RIF notice the next morning.”
Every day is TACO Tuesday. Thanks to @markhamillofficial.bsky.social!
May 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Every day is TACO Tuesday. Thanks to @markhamillofficial.bsky.social!
♫ I was so high I did not recognize
The chaos agent in my sight
The painful ring around my eye ♫
The chaos agent in my sight
The painful ring around my eye ♫
OMG! Elon is so high it looks like he’s hallucinating!
May 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
♫ I was so high I did not recognize
The chaos agent in my sight
The painful ring around my eye ♫
The chaos agent in my sight
The painful ring around my eye ♫
It's just going to be poor people first, the natural order for the great circle of life.
Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night.
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠
May 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It's just going to be poor people first, the natural order for the great circle of life.
In Virginia, a 29-year-old man near Waynesboro was recently charged with selling fentanyl as a ‘terrorism act.’ Selling fentanyl is terrible but is not terrorism in any way, shape, or form. I hope that juries routinely reject this wild new overinflated definition of terrorism.
May 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
In Virginia, a 29-year-old man near Waynesboro was recently charged with selling fentanyl as a ‘terrorism act.’ Selling fentanyl is terrible but is not terrorism in any way, shape, or form. I hope that juries routinely reject this wild new overinflated definition of terrorism.
In case you've forgotten, in the fog of crazy, that the media company literally owned by the President markets multiple “documentaries” filled with shocking statements linking Christianity and other faiths to shadowy, sinister alien conspiracies, such as “Lizard People.”
President Trump’s Media Company Is Offering Movies About ‘Lizard People’ And Other Wild Conspiracy Theories
Less than two minutes into the movie, the narrator makes a shocking...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
In case you've forgotten, in the fog of crazy, that the media company literally owned by the President markets multiple “documentaries” filled with shocking statements linking Christianity and other faiths to shadowy, sinister alien conspiracies, such as “Lizard People.”
One sample: epidemiologist Katherine Keyes is listed in the MAHA report as the first author of a study on anxiety in adolescents. But she was surprised by the citation, because she didn’t write the paper listed.
again all of this stuff is resignation-level for literally everyone involved www.notus.org/health-scien...
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
One sample: epidemiologist Katherine Keyes is listed in the MAHA report as the first author of a study on anxiety in adolescents. But she was surprised by the citation, because she didn’t write the paper listed.
One rocket didn't experience 'rapid unscheduled disassembly.'
China extends its reach into the Solar System with launch of asteroid mission
Tianwen-2 will first return samples from an asteroid, then explore a mysterious comet-like object.
arstechnica.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One rocket didn't experience 'rapid unscheduled disassembly.'
"That provision was unknown to me when I voted for it." Mike Flood (R-NE)
Republican Rep. Mike Flood appeared before his constituents in Nebraska for a town hall that turned ugly as he tried to defend Trump’s “big, beautiful bill."
Unfortunately, Flood hadn’t actually read the bill...
Unfortunately, Flood hadn’t actually read the bill...
Republican Crumbles When Pressed About Tax Bill at Heated Town Hall
Republicans Rep. Mike Flood struggled to defend supporting Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" tax bill in front of angry constituents at a town hall.
www.rollingstone.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"That provision was unknown to me when I voted for it." Mike Flood (R-NE)
We all knew this was coming. I recall somewhere in the fog of time this phrase that Republicans once used: "picking winners and losers." By the way, they thought that was a BAD thing.
This appears to be the first time Trump has threatened a US company directly with tariffs.
Trump threatens Apple with 25% tariff to force iPhone manufacturing into US
Apple first US firm in Trump’s trade war crosshairs as tariff talks go sour.
arstechnica.com
May 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
We all knew this was coming. I recall somewhere in the fog of time this phrase that Republicans once used: "picking winners and losers." By the way, they thought that was a BAD thing.