Jay Garmon
@jaygarmon.bsky.social
writer | husband | father | geek
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Can’t emphasize how much this is true. Your ability to generate attention is your most marketable skill as a writer, for better or worse. Especially right now. If you hate someone but keep sharing their articles, the people who employ them look at that and go “hey, they’re always in the convo”
if you hate the writer, do not share the writer's articles. people clicking on the articles is how the writer gets paid. "how do THEY still have a job in journalism, when so many talented people are being laid of?!" you, because of you. you are why.
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Can’t emphasize how much this is true. Your ability to generate attention is your most marketable skill as a writer, for better or worse. Especially right now. If you hate someone but keep sharing their articles, the people who employ them look at that and go “hey, they’re always in the convo”
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One thing that seems like it would be potentially valuable right now is for some kind of private/academic consortium to try to compile and release data about the state of the economy, since it seems like official stats are almost certainly going to be either nonexistent or wildly unreliable.
NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."
WH claims 'inflation tamed,' per DoorDash stats. Company says that's not in its report.
It comes the same week we learned the WH would likely not release key economic reports for October.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
One thing that seems like it would be potentially valuable right now is for some kind of private/academic consortium to try to compile and release data about the state of the economy, since it seems like official stats are almost certainly going to be either nonexistent or wildly unreliable.
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Say it louder for the back of the room, “This person is undocumented” does not mean “this person has ZERO rights”
Even if it were true, "taking jobs from Americans" is not a criminal offense that calls for committing human right abuses against said person and potentially renditioning them to third countries with poor human rights records
"This person is undocumented" does not mean "this person has ZERO rights"
"This person is undocumented" does not mean "this person has ZERO rights"
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Say it louder for the back of the room, “This person is undocumented” does not mean “this person has ZERO rights”
Yeah, it's well established that bats are associated with irredeemable bloodsucking monsters.
Friendly reminder to stay away from bats or else you'll spend your entire fucking day off fighting with evil insurance companies
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Yeah, it's well established that bats are associated with irredeemable bloodsucking monsters.
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The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
If you thought Louisville played at frenetic pace...!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
Grace College scores 172 points to set women’s college basketball scoring record
The small school from Winona Lake, Ind., surpassed the previous record held by two schools, and it wasn't even close.
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
If you thought Louisville played at frenetic pace...!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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loading up “oh you mean epsteins best friend?” into the family holiday argument arsenal like im van helsing equipping a wooden stake
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
loading up “oh you mean epsteins best friend?” into the family holiday argument arsenal like im van helsing equipping a wooden stake
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it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
HURTFUL
i'm sorry sir but baby got back came out in 1992
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
HURTFUL
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It's not just that he's a pedophile, he was the least popular pedophile
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It's not just that he's a pedophile, he was the least popular pedophile
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
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What sick dogshit place are we living in where "child sex trafficking and pedophilia" is an "issue" and not a "put everyone in jail and throw away the whole jail" situation
Enten: "Trump is 39 below water on the Epstein case. 39 points in the negative! My goodness gracious. What Trump has been selling on the Epstein files, the Epstein case, the American people have not been buying at all ... less than half of Republicans are buying it. This is his worst issue by far"
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
What sick dogshit place are we living in where "child sex trafficking and pedophilia" is an "issue" and not a "put everyone in jail and throw away the whole jail" situation
Louisville has a unique version of this problem as our urban core is almost exclusively a business district. Commuting is so easy that nearly all residences are suburban/exurban.
Rebuilding the urban core means rethinking it as a whole.
Rebuilding the urban core means rethinking it as a whole.
When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
if you cant go in to the office 3 days a week then you really can't complain when cities are hollowed out. cities are places where ppl work and network. getting rid of that makes cities useless
November 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Louisville has a unique version of this problem as our urban core is almost exclusively a business district. Commuting is so easy that nearly all residences are suburban/exurban.
Rebuilding the urban core means rethinking it as a whole.
Rebuilding the urban core means rethinking it as a whole.
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It's another layer of national degradation and moral decline to see the political media treat child rape like just another horserace issue.
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It's another layer of national degradation and moral decline to see the political media treat child rape like just another horserace issue.
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people are being very flip about the possible harms of getting rid of the filibuster *right now* in a way that imo undermines the core case that the Republic is in special peril. it's clearly all downside until 2027 even if you grant electoral backlash! Dems can't have a trifecta until 2029!
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
people are being very flip about the possible harms of getting rid of the filibuster *right now* in a way that imo undermines the core case that the Republic is in special peril. it's clearly all downside until 2027 even if you grant electoral backlash! Dems can't have a trifecta until 2029!
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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emailing in a semi-literate manner isn’t a sign of stupidity, it’s another form of rich asshole arrogance because you don’t think you owe anyone coherent thoughts
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
emailing in a semi-literate manner isn’t a sign of stupidity, it’s another form of rich asshole arrogance because you don’t think you owe anyone coherent thoughts
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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I like that cybertrucks are so easily identifiable by their headlights, so you can tell who the divorced loser douchebags are even in the dark
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I like that cybertrucks are so easily identifiable by their headlights, so you can tell who the divorced loser douchebags are even in the dark
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New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
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What color smoke rises from the Vatican when the Pope excommunicates a vice president?
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
What color smoke rises from the Vatican when the Pope excommunicates a vice president?
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The discharge petition to force a vote on the Epstein Files only received a handful of GOP votes.
But when we get the actual vote to release them, I'm presuming we'll see a whole lot more, right?
"Congressman _____ voted against releasing the Epstein Files" isn't an ad you want before the midterms
But when we get the actual vote to release them, I'm presuming we'll see a whole lot more, right?
"Congressman _____ voted against releasing the Epstein Files" isn't an ad you want before the midterms
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The discharge petition to force a vote on the Epstein Files only received a handful of GOP votes.
But when we get the actual vote to release them, I'm presuming we'll see a whole lot more, right?
"Congressman _____ voted against releasing the Epstein Files" isn't an ad you want before the midterms
But when we get the actual vote to release them, I'm presuming we'll see a whole lot more, right?
"Congressman _____ voted against releasing the Epstein Files" isn't an ad you want before the midterms