qhardy
@qhardy.bsky.social
Nobody on their deathbed ever said, "I wish I'd been less grateful."
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@qhardy.bsky.social
· Dec 24
Never, ever, think you've already made your life's worst mistake.
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What a terrible day to know how to read
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What a terrible day to know how to read
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It's hard to overstate what a disaster Kash Patel is. See the many disturbing details here, from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, an expert on the FBI. "The longer this chaos continues," he writes, "the more likely we’re going to face a catastrophic intelligence failure." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Kash Patel, the FBI's agent of chaos
The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director.
www.motherjones.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It's hard to overstate what a disaster Kash Patel is. See the many disturbing details here, from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, an expert on the FBI. "The longer this chaos continues," he writes, "the more likely we’re going to face a catastrophic intelligence failure." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Not to mention, few of these 30 million largely imaginary people arrive here with funds to purchase an American home.
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Not to mention, few of these 30 million largely imaginary people arrive here with funds to purchase an American home.
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Right, everyone predicted he would need to order a military action today to distract from the Epstein emails. The “Department of War” is delivering
Pete Hegseth announces Operation Southern Spear.
There doesn’t seem to be reporting yet on what this means. But I assume it’s not good.
There doesn’t seem to be reporting yet on what this means. But I assume it’s not good.
November 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Right, everyone predicted he would need to order a military action today to distract from the Epstein emails. The “Department of War” is delivering
At least he's clear about what we need to hate.
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
At least he's clear about what we need to hate.
Who doesn't love playing Current Events?
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Who doesn't love playing Current Events?
Another reminder that Hegseth, Noem, RFK, Bondi, Patel, and Gabbard have company.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Another reminder that Hegseth, Noem, RFK, Bondi, Patel, and Gabbard have company.
UTTERLY IGNORING THE BOLD STEPS TAKEN LATE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF WARREN HARDING!
Q: In the interests of transparency, why not just go ahead and release the full Epstein files?
LEAVITT: This administration has done more with respect to Epstein transparency than any administration ever
LEAVITT: This administration has done more with respect to Epstein transparency than any administration ever
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
UTTERLY IGNORING THE BOLD STEPS TAKEN LATE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF WARREN HARDING!
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Here's how Jim Comey mocks Pam Bondi's attempt to retroactively make Lindsey Halligan a magical pony on Halloween.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![On October 31, 2025—36 days after Ms. Halligan purported to secure the indictment, 31
days after the statute of limitations had expired, and 11 days after Mr. Comey had filed his motion
to dismiss—the Attorney General purported to “appoint Ms. Halligan to the additional position of
Special Attorney, as of September 22, 2025, and thereby ratify her employment as an attorney of
the Department of Justice from that date going forward.” ECF No. 137-1. But that action cannot
retroactively transform Ms. Halligan into an authorized government attorney on the day she
purported to secure the indictment. In Lucia, for instance, the Supreme Court found an
Appointments Clause violation and set aside an adjudication because the relevant official “heard
and decided [the petitioner’s] case without the kind of appointment the [Appointments] Clause
requires.” 585 U.S. at 251. It did not matter that the official’s “prior appointment[]” had been
“ratif[ied]” by a Head of Department after the adjudication had been completed and “[w]hile th[e]
case was on judicial review.” Id. at 252 n.6. If such a post hoc ratification of a prior invalid
appointment sufficed, then the government could moot every Appointments Clause challenge.
The government cites no authority suggesting that an invalid appointment can be excused
so long as the government allegedly “intended” to vest the relevant official “with the powers” of](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreif47wlavvtkcmm3xbwy76l2owgnsxuxqkm4uc6vmjlkupk2l66uwy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Here's how Jim Comey mocks Pam Bondi's attempt to retroactively make Lindsey Halligan a magical pony on Halloween.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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meanwhile, even more people will lose healthcare
New at Can We Still Govern? New Medicaid work requirements will see an estimated 5 million lose coverage.
Small investments in in-house tech capacity could allow states to start preparing now to expand automatic renewal of clients. Here is the evidence 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-a-van-...
Small investments in in-house tech capacity could allow states to start preparing now to expand automatic renewal of clients. Here is the evidence 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-a-van-...
Lessons from Pandemic Era Medicaid Automation for Work Requirements
Small tech capacity investments offer big returns
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
meanwhile, even more people will lose healthcare
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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Republicans treat Democrats in D.C. like chumps even before the vote.
Q: Will you assure House Democrats they'll get a vote on ACA subsidies by a date certain?
MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.
MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Republicans treat Democrats in D.C. like chumps even before the vote.
A convincing theory about intelligence, Andrew Ross Sorkin's excellent book, and remembering how good it is to wonder if you're wrong. thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/two-or-mor...
Two (Or More) Wrongs
Changing my mind about changing my mind
thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A convincing theory about intelligence, Andrew Ross Sorkin's excellent book, and remembering how good it is to wonder if you're wrong. thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/two-or-mor...
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AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats.
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats.
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
Celebrate accordingly.
November 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Celebrate accordingly.
That stat is terrifying.
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
That stat is terrifying.
I'm surprised we haven't seen them already.
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I'm surprised we haven't seen them already.
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Cuomo and his billionaires spent $65 per vote. Mamdani and his backers spent $15.81 per vote. Who’s the fiscally responsible one here?
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...
Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg
A blizzard of outside spending on ads, including a spot that linked Zohran Mamdani to 9/11, failed to move voters and may have even backfired.
www.thecity.nyc
November 7, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Cuomo and his billionaires spent $65 per vote. Mamdani and his backers spent $15.81 per vote. Who’s the fiscally responsible one here?
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...
Someone has never had a decent plate of goat curry.
November 6, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Someone has never had a decent plate of goat curry.
If each dollar in Nvidia's $5 trillion valuation was a single second of time, the total would be over 150,000 years, the time it takes The North American Tectonic Plate, and a person's fingernails, to advance 2.5 miles.
AI valuations made simple.
thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/ai-analogi...
AI valuations made simple.
thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/ai-analogi...
AI Analogies "R" US
Making the big numbers bite-sized, like they do in Journalism.
thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
If each dollar in Nvidia's $5 trillion valuation was a single second of time, the total would be over 150,000 years, the time it takes The North American Tectonic Plate, and a person's fingernails, to advance 2.5 miles.
AI valuations made simple.
thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/ai-analogi...
AI valuations made simple.
thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/ai-analogi...
Most populous country in Africa, sixth largest in the world; six cities with a pop >1 million; 50% Muslim/48% Christian; >300 ethnic groups speaking >500 languages; tropical rain forest in the south, desert in the north, w/ mountains, plains, swamps & jungles; he can't name the leader.
Let's roll!
Let's roll!
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Most populous country in Africa, sixth largest in the world; six cities with a pop >1 million; 50% Muslim/48% Christian; >300 ethnic groups speaking >500 languages; tropical rain forest in the south, desert in the north, w/ mountains, plains, swamps & jungles; he can't name the leader.
Let's roll!
Let's roll!
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Texas thread:
WOAH. Texas GOP Executive Director Jen Hall and another top party official just resigned. In her letter to party Chair Abraham George, Hall said she "cannot in good conscience continue to work this way" but doesn't elaborate. Hall and George are both longtime Tim Dunn allies. This is...interesting.
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Texas thread:
Must be interesting to be a Republican congressperson of at least minimal intelligence, looking at Trump's popularity, yesterday's election results, and the Supreme Court faceplant, and thinking, "J.D. Vance is his successor."
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Must be interesting to be a Republican congressperson of at least minimal intelligence, looking at Trump's popularity, yesterday's election results, and the Supreme Court faceplant, and thinking, "J.D. Vance is his successor."
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Looks like a nail salon
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Looks like a nail salon