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Yankees talk. Ohio State talk. And other general musings and gripes.
Yankees talk. Ohio State talk. And other general musings and gripes.
Headline focuses on Mamdani instead of Massachusetts policy.
Just give us the news without editorializing the fucking *headline*
Just shitty media standards www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Just give us the news without editorializing the fucking *headline*
Just shitty media standards www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Headline focuses on Mamdani instead of Massachusetts policy.
Just give us the news without editorializing the fucking *headline*
Just shitty media standards www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Just give us the news without editorializing the fucking *headline*
Just shitty media standards www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Yea, and that's kind of the big issue!
And then they want to claim that (gasp) no there's never antisemitism involved!
And then they want to claim that (gasp) no there's never antisemitism involved!
One of the many obnoxious things about how people discuss Israel is they don't take it as just a place where ordinary people live and do ordinary people things but instead a criminal enterprise where every citizen is a vehicle for geopolitical propaganda & affairs. Israeli existence as conspiracy.
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Yea, and that's kind of the big issue!
And then they want to claim that (gasp) no there's never antisemitism involved!
And then they want to claim that (gasp) no there's never antisemitism involved!
WHAT in the absolute FUCK is this?
November 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
WHAT in the absolute FUCK is this?
Western Europe has about a ~4-5 year head start on what’s coming here.
Anyone who doesn’t see it, simply isn’t paying (enough) attention.
Anyone who doesn’t see it, simply isn’t paying (enough) attention.
I do not expect any of Mamdani's supporters or any of the DSA or any of the phony Progressives to understand the problem or to even care that there is a problem
www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...
www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...
Jews see Mamdani’s win as a warning sign | The Jerusalem Post
It’s tempting to pin the blame on one candidate, but the reality is significantly more uncomfortable.
www.jpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Western Europe has about a ~4-5 year head start on what’s coming here.
Anyone who doesn’t see it, simply isn’t paying (enough) attention.
Anyone who doesn’t see it, simply isn’t paying (enough) attention.
How much of a brain rotten asshole you have to be to buy what Hasan Piker is selling.
Leaving aside his antisemitism, just what is this shit? Who’s rooting this on?
Racist and a huge phony.
Leaving aside his antisemitism, just what is this shit? Who’s rooting this on?
Racist and a huge phony.
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
How much of a brain rotten asshole you have to be to buy what Hasan Piker is selling.
Leaving aside his antisemitism, just what is this shit? Who’s rooting this on?
Racist and a huge phony.
Leaving aside his antisemitism, just what is this shit? Who’s rooting this on?
Racist and a huge phony.
TJ Lavin to the Real World/Road Rules All-Stars circa 1999
November 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
TJ Lavin to the Real World/Road Rules All-Stars circa 1999
I am begging @mayorwu.boston.gov …. Put an end to this sadistic bullshit of closing the Pike East from Logan to one lane at night for no reason.
Stop this insanity.
Stop this insanity.
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I am begging @mayorwu.boston.gov …. Put an end to this sadistic bullshit of closing the Pike East from Logan to one lane at night for no reason.
Stop this insanity.
Stop this insanity.
Bullshit. People can be aware of the issues in this country without cooking their brains through algorithmic garbage designed to piss you off and feed you antisemitism.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Bullshit. People can be aware of the issues in this country without cooking their brains through algorithmic garbage designed to piss you off and feed you antisemitism.
Honestly - how long was the shutdown to go on? Another month? 3 months? Til the midterms?
Walking through Logan this morning, knowing all these TSA badges are going without pay. Fewer ATCs keeping watch on planes in the sky…
How much chicken had to be played?
Walking through Logan this morning, knowing all these TSA badges are going without pay. Fewer ATCs keeping watch on planes in the sky…
How much chicken had to be played?
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Honestly - how long was the shutdown to go on? Another month? 3 months? Til the midterms?
Walking through Logan this morning, knowing all these TSA badges are going without pay. Fewer ATCs keeping watch on planes in the sky…
How much chicken had to be played?
Walking through Logan this morning, knowing all these TSA badges are going without pay. Fewer ATCs keeping watch on planes in the sky…
How much chicken had to be played?
I promise you, AIPAC doesn’t pay any attention to whatever this group is.
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I promise you, AIPAC doesn’t pay any attention to whatever this group is.
I am currently standing in Terminal A in Logan Airport and, for a Monday morning, it’s fucking dead in here.
So seems accurate! 👇
So seems accurate! 👇
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I am currently standing in Terminal A in Logan Airport and, for a Monday morning, it’s fucking dead in here.
So seems accurate! 👇
So seems accurate! 👇
They threw away their careers for $12,000.
Absolutely insane.
Absolutely insane.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
They threw away their careers for $12,000.
Absolutely insane.
Absolutely insane.
They want to put Bibi and Gallant in The Hague? Ok, they’re your focus.
Protesting, disrupting, and general jackassery b/c you can’t accept an Israeli orchestra just tells us you’re taking your war to all Israel and, by extension, all Jews.
Protesting, disrupting, and general jackassery b/c you can’t accept an Israeli orchestra just tells us you’re taking your war to all Israel and, by extension, all Jews.
One day people will realize hate is a tool fascists use to control each infected host until it dies.
Love is life itself, freedom, creation, renewal, hope.
A man lights a flare in crowded symphony hall in Paris as the Israeli Philharmonic plays.
They respond by playing HATIKVAH!
Am Yisrael Chai🇮🇱
Love is life itself, freedom, creation, renewal, hope.
A man lights a flare in crowded symphony hall in Paris as the Israeli Philharmonic plays.
They respond by playing HATIKVAH!
Am Yisrael Chai🇮🇱
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
They want to put Bibi and Gallant in The Hague? Ok, they’re your focus.
Protesting, disrupting, and general jackassery b/c you can’t accept an Israeli orchestra just tells us you’re taking your war to all Israel and, by extension, all Jews.
Protesting, disrupting, and general jackassery b/c you can’t accept an Israeli orchestra just tells us you’re taking your war to all Israel and, by extension, all Jews.
With no guarantees that the orders we anticipated booking in Q4 will pull through into the future whenever these assholes decide the federal government should function.
Fuck both of these parties. Fucking useless.
Fuck both of these parties. Fucking useless.
“Fine keep it shut”
Cool. My company will now have to sit on hundreds of thousands of dollars of backlog we planned to deliver to customers whose government contracts are now frozen.
On top of our ~$400K in weekly tariff dues.
We exist in the real world.
Cool. My company will now have to sit on hundreds of thousands of dollars of backlog we planned to deliver to customers whose government contracts are now frozen.
On top of our ~$400K in weekly tariff dues.
We exist in the real world.
fine. keep it shut. Trump's approval seems to drop every week this goes on. rollcall.com/2025/11/07/r...
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
With no guarantees that the orders we anticipated booking in Q4 will pull through into the future whenever these assholes decide the federal government should function.
Fuck both of these parties. Fucking useless.
Fuck both of these parties. Fucking useless.
“Fine keep it shut”
Cool. My company will now have to sit on hundreds of thousands of dollars of backlog we planned to deliver to customers whose government contracts are now frozen.
On top of our ~$400K in weekly tariff dues.
We exist in the real world.
Cool. My company will now have to sit on hundreds of thousands of dollars of backlog we planned to deliver to customers whose government contracts are now frozen.
On top of our ~$400K in weekly tariff dues.
We exist in the real world.
fine. keep it shut. Trump's approval seems to drop every week this goes on. rollcall.com/2025/11/07/r...
Republicans denounce new Democratic offer to end shutdown - Roll Call
A new Senate Democratic plan for ending the partial government shutdown met with a wall of Republican resistance late Friday.
rollcall.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“Fine keep it shut”
Cool. My company will now have to sit on hundreds of thousands of dollars of backlog we planned to deliver to customers whose government contracts are now frozen.
On top of our ~$400K in weekly tariff dues.
We exist in the real world.
Cool. My company will now have to sit on hundreds of thousands of dollars of backlog we planned to deliver to customers whose government contracts are now frozen.
On top of our ~$400K in weekly tariff dues.
We exist in the real world.
“End city contracts with companies that do business with Israel”
Goodbye to New York City’s IT infrastructure lol
DSA are a bunch of clowns.
Goodbye to New York City’s IT infrastructure lol
DSA are a bunch of clowns.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“End city contracts with companies that do business with Israel”
Goodbye to New York City’s IT infrastructure lol
DSA are a bunch of clowns.
Goodbye to New York City’s IT infrastructure lol
DSA are a bunch of clowns.
My 2028 nominee. Flex on them Josh.
Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My 2028 nominee. Flex on them Josh.
Air travel is about to be a nightmare worse than the steady-state hot mess it already is.
Underlying economic conditions are bad (if not miserable in pockets).
Food benefits are frozen.
Manufacturing is about to contract by double-digits in 2026.
What exactly are you all trying to "get" here?
Underlying economic conditions are bad (if not miserable in pockets).
Food benefits are frozen.
Manufacturing is about to contract by double-digits in 2026.
What exactly are you all trying to "get" here?
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Air travel is about to be a nightmare worse than the steady-state hot mess it already is.
Underlying economic conditions are bad (if not miserable in pockets).
Food benefits are frozen.
Manufacturing is about to contract by double-digits in 2026.
What exactly are you all trying to "get" here?
Underlying economic conditions are bad (if not miserable in pockets).
Food benefits are frozen.
Manufacturing is about to contract by double-digits in 2026.
What exactly are you all trying to "get" here?
Meanwhile our government doesn’t work, our Navy is rusting from the inside out and 60%+ of the American voting populace couldn’t care less.
China has commissioned its latest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, after extensive sea trials, state media reported. The ship will help what is already the world's largest navy expand its power farther beyond its own waters, experts say.
China commissions new aircraft carrier as it seeks to extend power far from its coast
China has commissioned its latest aircraft carrier after extensive sea trials, adding a ship to what is already the world’s largest navy and one that experts say will help it expand its influence and reach farther beyond its own waters.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Meanwhile our government doesn’t work, our Navy is rusting from the inside out and 60%+ of the American voting populace couldn’t care less.
I beg to differ. You ever eat a tuna sub from Subway? Things can go very wrong, very quickly
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I beg to differ. You ever eat a tuna sub from Subway? Things can go very wrong, very quickly
My first car was my dad's 1986 Volvo 240DL. This exact color, but with tan upholstery interior.
After years and years of repairs (he literally had zip ties holding the bumper on at the end), it finally tapped out in 2013 with ~290,000 miles
It's my dad's 75th birthday next year. I AM TEMPTED.
After years and years of repairs (he literally had zip ties holding the bumper on at the end), it finally tapped out in 2013 with ~290,000 miles
It's my dad's 75th birthday next year. I AM TEMPTED.
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
My first car was my dad's 1986 Volvo 240DL. This exact color, but with tan upholstery interior.
After years and years of repairs (he literally had zip ties holding the bumper on at the end), it finally tapped out in 2013 with ~290,000 miles
It's my dad's 75th birthday next year. I AM TEMPTED.
After years and years of repairs (he literally had zip ties holding the bumper on at the end), it finally tapped out in 2013 with ~290,000 miles
It's my dad's 75th birthday next year. I AM TEMPTED.
Sent this text to my cousin this afternoon.
A car exploded injuring 6 firefighters in the Bronx tonight.
This is also the job.
A car exploded injuring 6 firefighters in the Bronx tonight.
This is also the job.
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Sent this text to my cousin this afternoon.
A car exploded injuring 6 firefighters in the Bronx tonight.
This is also the job.
A car exploded injuring 6 firefighters in the Bronx tonight.
This is also the job.
But people will try the damn hardest to gas light us that it was AIPAC, or Hasbara, or whatever other nonsense why New York Jews didn’t vote for Mamdani.
Jewish voters overwhelmingly support Democratic candidates.
78% voted for Kamala.
Hillary got 71%.
Gore, Kerry, and Obama got 70-79%.
In the most Jewish city in America, the Democratic mayoral candidate got 33% of the vote.
That says a lot more about the candidate than about Jewish voters.
78% voted for Kamala.
Hillary got 71%.
Gore, Kerry, and Obama got 70-79%.
In the most Jewish city in America, the Democratic mayoral candidate got 33% of the vote.
That says a lot more about the candidate than about Jewish voters.
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
But people will try the damn hardest to gas light us that it was AIPAC, or Hasbara, or whatever other nonsense why New York Jews didn’t vote for Mamdani.
I’m gonna say something…
Now that he’s mayor, can someone get him to do stop doing the ER-era George Clooney head tilt every time he speaks into a camera?
Now that he’s mayor, can someone get him to do stop doing the ER-era George Clooney head tilt every time he speaks into a camera?
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I’m gonna say something…
Now that he’s mayor, can someone get him to do stop doing the ER-era George Clooney head tilt every time he speaks into a camera?
Now that he’s mayor, can someone get him to do stop doing the ER-era George Clooney head tilt every time he speaks into a camera?
Season 3 of The Diplomat dropped today??
Hell yea.
Hell yea.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Season 3 of The Diplomat dropped today??
Hell yea.
Hell yea.