Bobby Big Wheel
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ANALYSIS: Ohio Democrats show when a bad map is a good deal
Aaron Kleinman writes, "Ohio Democrats just gave up a congressional district to Republicans. Good on them."
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My triumphant return to blogging at @heartlandsignal.bsky.social is about (what else) how the bad map passed in Ohio was a good deal for Democrats heartlandsignal.com/2025/10/31/a...
Again, I don't know how this was supposed to end other than with a district wholly in Salt Lake County. Anyway, Utah now has a safe Democratic congressional district.
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Again, I don't know how this was supposed to end other than with a district wholly in Salt Lake County. Anyway, Utah now has a safe Democratic congressional district.
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the fun thing about the BBC story is that I can't actually read about it for more than couple of minutes at a time because it makes me feel too insane :)
The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
the fun thing about the BBC story is that I can't actually read about it for more than couple of minutes at a time because it makes me feel too insane :)
JCO just showing everyone the value of an education in the humanities
![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
JCO just showing everyone the value of an education in the humanities
YouTubeTV is now saying that ESPN has to pay them to show this game
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
YouTubeTV is now saying that ESPN has to pay them to show this game
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Imagine 2008 but it's because we gave a bunch of 15-year loans to people buying Nissan Altimas.
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Imagine 2008 but it's because we gave a bunch of 15-year loans to people buying Nissan Altimas.
The funniest thing to happen now would be for Joyce Carol Oates to win the Nobel next year for her tweet. The least funny thing to happen would be Elon getting so incensed that he buys Warner Brothers and makes the Animaniacs anti-woke.
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The funniest thing to happen now would be for Joyce Carol Oates to win the Nobel next year for her tweet. The least funny thing to happen would be Elon getting so incensed that he buys Warner Brothers and makes the Animaniacs anti-woke.
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Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.
Good day to not be online, feels like I missed a lot of posts where people get called shitgoblins and whatnot, real 2013 Twitter stuff
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Good day to not be online, feels like I missed a lot of posts where people get called shitgoblins and whatnot, real 2013 Twitter stuff
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I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
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bar trivia is pretty good, bowling or pool or whatever would also be fine, this is mostly a well-solved problem
as the husband of a mahjong addict, dudes need to identify an activity that can be done relatively easily in groups with minimal financial commitment so they can get out of the house for 2-3 hours on a school night, have two beers, and shoot the shit with their buddies.
It won't be mahjong tho.
It won't be mahjong tho.
This is excellent, and great fun to read. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
bar trivia is pretty good, bowling or pool or whatever would also be fine, this is mostly a well-solved problem
Elias Portolu by Grazia Deledda is similarly bad but nobody goes a-nutting
Arne by Bjornsterne Bjornson is hilariously dated and bad, and I mean literally look at this shit man
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Elias Portolu by Grazia Deledda is similarly bad but nobody goes a-nutting
When they said Keri Russell wasn't hot in The Diplomat. I got so mad I had to go outside.
What’s your all time favorite Hollywood Homely fail? When a woman is meant to be unattractive but she’s gorgeous. Thinking of how Safety Not Guaranteed has a key moment where a man’s ex is in the script old and no longer attractive and she’s a knockout who the movie still plays as old.
November 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
When they said Keri Russell wasn't hot in The Diplomat. I got so mad I had to go outside.
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Somehow James Talarico following porn stars got covered before this
mainstream media report on jd vance’s twitter mutuals, challenge level: impossible
He has already chosen, what the fuck are we doing here
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Somehow James Talarico following porn stars got covered before this
I used to have to go to Austria for work in the fall and YouTubeTV options remind me of that. Trying to figure out how to ask the bartender to put on a Purdue game in German.
Honestly this new version of YoutubeTV is fine. The Big Ten and Big 12 are our most important conferences, and UConn is must watch
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I used to have to go to Austria for work in the fall and YouTubeTV options remind me of that. Trying to figure out how to ask the bartender to put on a Purdue game in German.
Follow Your Heart by Susanna Tamaro is some saccharine bullshit, Chicken Soup for the Soul ass book
The Distant Lover by Christoph Hein is some classic East German alienation, good but it made me just want to read Stasiland or watch The Lives of Others again instead.
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz is dated and clumsy, but you have to admit that a story about Christians in Nero's Rome hits hard right now.
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Follow Your Heart by Susanna Tamaro is some saccharine bullshit, Chicken Soup for the Soul ass book
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
Jim Rockford, living in a trailer outside Mos Eisley, charging people 200 credits a day plus expenses
ironically what makes star wars stuff best is when it is 'something else, but also star wars'
e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
November 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Jim Rockford, living in a trailer outside Mos Eisley, charging people 200 credits a day plus expenses
It is 2007ing out there, keep your head on a swivel
PENN STATE takes the lead on No. 2 Indiana with 6:27 to play. Happy Valley is rocking.
November 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It is 2007ing out there, keep your head on a swivel
This was very good, especially if you've read the play but never seen it performed. And yes, there's a little Easter Egg for Millennials in there.
Excited to see Bluesky celebrity @alexwinter.com and an old acting chum of his in a play tonight
November 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
This was very good, especially if you've read the play but never seen it performed. And yes, there's a little Easter Egg for Millennials in there.
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SOCRATES: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom.
PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom.
DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers
PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom.
DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers
November 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
SOCRATES: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom.
PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom.
DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers
PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom.
DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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my best argument for this is that when Schumer was assembling a cave team last spring made up of retiring D senators who would never have to face the voters again, he was on it. it would have been hard to dodge, certainly! but he was on it.
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
my best argument for this is that when Schumer was assembling a cave team last spring made up of retiring D senators who would never have to face the voters again, he was on it. it would have been hard to dodge, certainly! but he was on it.
This was an amazing resource for me this week and will only be more relevant as the midterms approach
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November 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This was an amazing resource for me this week and will only be more relevant as the midterms approach