Jim Pollaro
@jimneedscoffee.bsky.social
Huge upside factor, low floor.
Banned in real life by Elon
Banned in real life by Elon
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Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
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I wrote about the "Appeasement Eight" Senate Democrats getting the party to fold to Trump in the government shutdown, and why it shows that pro-democracy Americans badly need a real opposition party, full of leaders who recognize the United States isn't a normal rule of law democracy anymore.
Democrats Have to Get Out of a Normal Democracy Mindset
By folding in the government shutdown in exchange for virtually nothing, eight Democratic senators aid Trump's authoritarian takeover rather than oppose it
www.arcdigital.media
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I wrote about the "Appeasement Eight" Senate Democrats getting the party to fold to Trump in the government shutdown, and why it shows that pro-democracy Americans badly need a real opposition party, full of leaders who recognize the United States isn't a normal rule of law democracy anymore.
Damn Canada, you didn't have to go this hard.
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Damn Canada, you didn't have to go this hard.
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
October 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
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Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.
I ❤️ Portland
I ❤️ Portland
October 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.
I ❤️ Portland
I ❤️ Portland
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October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
PSA: Don't gamble.
In NFL games this week, a QB scored a TD after falling twice. Another team scored a TD on a play they threw an INT.
In NFL games this week, a QB scored a TD after falling twice. Another team scored a TD on a play they threw an INT.
October 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
PSA: Don't gamble.
In NFL games this week, a QB scored a TD after falling twice. Another team scored a TD on a play they threw an INT.
In NFL games this week, a QB scored a TD after falling twice. Another team scored a TD on a play they threw an INT.
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The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.
September 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.
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i think how we got here is that the right's favorite move is working the ref and the radical centrist's favorite move is self flattery that they could never be worked
September 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
i think how we got here is that the right's favorite move is working the ref and the radical centrist's favorite move is self flattery that they could never be worked
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what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
September 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
Imagine your dad didn't love you so much you made this hat.
August 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Imagine your dad didn't love you so much you made this hat.
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When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.
August 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.
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Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.
August 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.
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WhiteSox-Bulls-Bears-Fire is the worst plausible one I could come up with.
August 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
WhiteSox-Bulls-Bears-Fire is the worst plausible one I could come up with.
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In half the corporations in America they're scrambling to slap some AI bullshit on whatever they do, not because it accomplishes anything for their employees or their customers but because the bosses have been told it's the future and they'd better get on board or they'll be left behind
Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews
Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews
Food photos can be ‘enhanced’ onto new plates.
buff.ly
July 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
In half the corporations in America they're scrambling to slap some AI bullshit on whatever they do, not because it accomplishes anything for their employees or their customers but because the bosses have been told it's the future and they'd better get on board or they'll be left behind
"What perfect albums came out when you were 16?"
1994:
1994:
July 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"What perfect albums came out when you were 16?"
1994:
1994:
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Tesla sales are down 20%, the Cybertruck is a flop of unprecedented proportions, Starship keeps failing to make orbit while leaking fuel into its engine bay, X is worth a fraction of what Musk bought Twitter for, XAI has to pay Telegram to become the first adopter of Grok, Elon does nothing but miss
May 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Tesla sales are down 20%, the Cybertruck is a flop of unprecedented proportions, Starship keeps failing to make orbit while leaking fuel into its engine bay, X is worth a fraction of what Musk bought Twitter for, XAI has to pay Telegram to become the first adopter of Grok, Elon does nothing but miss
@richarddeitsch.bsky.social In today's @espn.com preview for the Carolina-Florida NHL game, the entire first paragraph is gambling. Who is this serving, and for those of us that aren't professional bettors, what the hell does all of this garbage mean?
May 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
@richarddeitsch.bsky.social In today's @espn.com preview for the Carolina-Florida NHL game, the entire first paragraph is gambling. Who is this serving, and for those of us that aren't professional bettors, what the hell does all of this garbage mean?
@richarddeitsch.bsky.social espn-abc came back 30 seconds late to the start of ot in star-jets game 7. What are we even doing here? There's no excuse
May 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
@richarddeitsch.bsky.social espn-abc came back 30 seconds late to the start of ot in star-jets game 7. What are we even doing here? There's no excuse
@downgoesbrown.bsky.social Toronto blowing playoff series is the best performance art in the world today
April 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
@downgoesbrown.bsky.social Toronto blowing playoff series is the best performance art in the world today
@richarddeitsch.bsky.social Jackie Robinson Day. Where baseball will celebrate an American Hero and not talk about how they did absolutely nothing while the DOD disrespected him and his legacy
April 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
@richarddeitsch.bsky.social Jackie Robinson Day. Where baseball will celebrate an American Hero and not talk about how they did absolutely nothing while the DOD disrespected him and his legacy