Tommaso Sciortino
@sciortino.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, East Bay YIMBY, socdem🧦, founding board member of @eb4everyone, singer/pianist, 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇪🇺, I � Unicode, Gemini CLI Dev
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My last word on the matter
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In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help.
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help.
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
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you cannot create a viable third party without changing the constitution.
to change the constitution, you need control of one of the major political parties, at minimum.
anyone refusing to accept this is a fucking child i'm tired of entertaining.
to change the constitution, you need control of one of the major political parties, at minimum.
anyone refusing to accept this is a fucking child i'm tired of entertaining.
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
you cannot create a viable third party without changing the constitution.
to change the constitution, you need control of one of the major political parties, at minimum.
anyone refusing to accept this is a fucking child i'm tired of entertaining.
to change the constitution, you need control of one of the major political parties, at minimum.
anyone refusing to accept this is a fucking child i'm tired of entertaining.
As of the first of this month I have worked at Google for the majority of its existence.
Sadly, it was the less lucrative half.
Sadly, it was the less lucrative half.
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
As of the first of this month I have worked at Google for the majority of its existence.
Sadly, it was the less lucrative half.
Sadly, it was the less lucrative half.
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The automated problem factory!
‘A new service called Objector is offering “policy-backed objections in minutes” to people who are upset about planning applications near their homes.’
Another reminder that AI can be used for things you don’t like as well as things you like…
Another reminder that AI can be used for things you don’t like as well as things you like…
Bloody hell www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The automated problem factory!
I like to collect academia memes for my wife (who is a big deal professor) and this is like the ideal find.
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I like to collect academia memes for my wife (who is a big deal professor) and this is like the ideal find.
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I think drawing swastikas on a Jewish day school is bad and whoever did it should be punished to the full extent of the law regardless of the direction from which they are trying to terrify Jews
November 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I think drawing swastikas on a Jewish day school is bad and whoever did it should be punished to the full extent of the law regardless of the direction from which they are trying to terrify Jews
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Anybody who has watched the Times pull this shit for ages knows this game. Good piece.
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Anybody who has watched the Times pull this shit for ages knows this game. Good piece.
Sad to learn no one on earth sells aperiodic monotile bathroom tiles.
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Sad to learn no one on earth sells aperiodic monotile bathroom tiles.
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I would like to wish all “human overpopulation” activists a very pleasant “you first.”
November 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I would like to wish all “human overpopulation” activists a very pleasant “you first.”
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I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.
Of course he was found not guilty. Losing a delicious sandwich is punishment enough!
November 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Of course he was found not guilty. Losing a delicious sandwich is punishment enough!
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“if you elect Republicans they will actually pass and implement Republican legislation” is a sentence that should be banal but everyone smart understands is an extinction-level scenario for the party as it currently exists
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“if you elect Republicans they will actually pass and implement Republican legislation” is a sentence that should be banal but everyone smart understands is an extinction-level scenario for the party as it currently exists
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straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.
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While it takes different aesthetic forms depending on local context, the conflict over housing in America is between a group of people who believe they should be able to use housing policy to pick and choose their neighbors and another who believes that people should have freedom to move.
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
While it takes different aesthetic forms depending on local context, the conflict over housing in America is between a group of people who believe they should be able to use housing policy to pick and choose their neighbors and another who believes that people should have freedom to move.
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"We did it, Patrick! We defeated cringe liberal norms on the limits of political discourse."
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"We did it, Patrick! We defeated cringe liberal norms on the limits of political discourse."
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we should use ai to heaven ban billionaires from interacting with actual society
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
we should use ai to heaven ban billionaires from interacting with actual society
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This is absolutely playing in my head in the voice of Orson Welles.
“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.”
Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.
Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This is absolutely playing in my head in the voice of Orson Welles.
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Also on this point, something that a lot of folks don't appreciate is the fairly large swath of people who would qualify as "natsec liberals" who are now fully radicalized onto a "fuck the state of Israel entirely, not just Likud" platform
It's more of a localized problem to the ME specialists
It's more of a localized problem to the ME specialists
On foreign policy I’d say the Democrats should aspire to elect Bellingcat Liberals, which is basically the same as a NatSec liberal but capable of seeing obvious facts about Israel
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Also on this point, something that a lot of folks don't appreciate is the fairly large swath of people who would qualify as "natsec liberals" who are now fully radicalized onto a "fuck the state of Israel entirely, not just Likud" platform
It's more of a localized problem to the ME specialists
It's more of a localized problem to the ME specialists
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the leftist fantasy of building a large, complex bureaucracy to handle large, complex human problems without any technocratic expertise whatsoever
The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.
The reason 30 Rock succeeds years later while parks and rec has aged like a toilet full of milk, is that 30 Rock doesnt shy away from portraying Liz Lemon as an obvious villian with a victim/hero complex, whereas Leslie Knope was played just a straight hero character, even tho she is a neolib shill
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
the leftist fantasy of building a large, complex bureaucracy to handle large, complex human problems without any technocratic expertise whatsoever
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ah yes, aristocracies — known the world over for their innovation, flexibility and capacity to meet new challenges
Meet Rockbridge, the secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future.
It roots its action in a “controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.”
It’s method: a venture capital approach to politics.
gift link:
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It roots its action in a “controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.”
It’s method: a venture capital approach to politics.
gift link:
wapo.st/3Jsvgrl
The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future
Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An “aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.
wapo.st
November 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
ah yes, aristocracies — known the world over for their innovation, flexibility and capacity to meet new challenges
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"And we will build a city hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of antisemitism... Where the more than one million Muslims know that they belong."
This is the kind of solidarity we need.
This is the kind of solidarity we need.
Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 AM
"And we will build a city hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of antisemitism... Where the more than one million Muslims know that they belong."
This is the kind of solidarity we need.
This is the kind of solidarity we need.
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we will let bill kristol have one regime change. he gets el Salvador
the future of the democratic party is a coalition of the wokest people on tumblr and absolutely dead-eyed pursuers of the national interest and the maximization of GDP
funny that the two groups in the political class who have been the least enthusiastic about trump term 2 are like neocon blob guys and economists
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
we will let bill kristol have one regime change. he gets el Salvador