@stewardish.bsky.social
It is interesting that the arguments against inheritance tax are rooted in a narcissism that sees a child not as their own individual person, but as an extension of the parent.
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
It is interesting that the arguments against inheritance tax are rooted in a narcissism that sees a child not as their own individual person, but as an extension of the parent.
“Rich people admit they are rich”
challenge level: impossible
challenge level: impossible
Hmm, I'm not rich nor am I writing laws. By the time I die, a million won't be worth all that much. I am simply a contributing member of a capitalist society who sees the benefits of capitalism but also a huge need for necessary, essential, and even efficient (return on investment) social services.
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
“Rich people admit they are rich”
challenge level: impossible
challenge level: impossible
I appreciate when rich people are honest that they are rewriting the laws so they don’t have to contribute to society because they think their grandchildren are more important than normal people.
I think it’s bad when policy is based on that, but it is honest.
I think it’s bad when policy is based on that, but it is honest.
The scraping, saving, sacrificing, incredible hardworking is me -- and I want to leave a few million to my grandkids who I'm also raising now. Are they just "lucky" or are they part of a conributing, law abiding, hardworking family who are productive members of society?
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I appreciate when rich people are honest that they are rewriting the laws so they don’t have to contribute to society because they think their grandchildren are more important than normal people.
I think it’s bad when policy is based on that, but it is honest.
I think it’s bad when policy is based on that, but it is honest.
This is why emoluments are unconstitutional
“Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them,” Trump said at a campaign stop in 2015. “They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.”
Trump meets business partner In the Oval Office
From “bad situation” to “things happen”: How Saudi money changed Trump’s tune on Khashoggi's murder.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This is why emoluments are unconstitutional
Imagine having watched Trump win twice and having learned nothing.
The second one of those is not because it wins you votes: it is because it is wildly unethical to do other wise.
The first one of those doesn’t even have that going for it.
The second one of those is not because it wins you votes: it is because it is wildly unethical to do other wise.
The first one of those doesn’t even have that going for it.
Some controversial ideas of mine:
1. It’s better to say things voters agree with than things they disagree with
2. When in office, it’s important to try to do a good job of governing
1. It’s better to say things voters agree with than things they disagree with
2. When in office, it’s important to try to do a good job of governing
November 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Imagine having watched Trump win twice and having learned nothing.
The second one of those is not because it wins you votes: it is because it is wildly unethical to do other wise.
The first one of those doesn’t even have that going for it.
The second one of those is not because it wins you votes: it is because it is wildly unethical to do other wise.
The first one of those doesn’t even have that going for it.
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This is what guys like Yglesias, and everybody else making hay about Kamala supporting transition care in prisons, want to happen everywhere.
EXCLUSIVE: A forced detransition policy had disastrous effects in one Georgia prison, according to the manager of the medical unit there.
The policy is on hold due to a court order requiring prisons to re-start hormone treatments for incarcerated people in GA.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
The policy is on hold due to a court order requiring prisons to re-start hormone treatments for incarcerated people in GA.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
EXCLUSIVE: Forced Detransitions ‘Nearly Toppled’ Medical Unit in Georgia Prison During Care Ban — Assigned
In the midst of a lawsuit, a Georgia prison resumes gender affirming care for trans inmates.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This is what guys like Yglesias, and everybody else making hay about Kamala supporting transition care in prisons, want to happen everywhere.
He should have been fired and driven out of public life in 2005.
Harvard is a force of classism & sexism, laundering the dumbest children of the rich like they were subprime mortgages. I know our state constitution promises its independence, but it is a net evil to the world.
Harvard is a force of classism & sexism, laundering the dumbest children of the rich like they were subprime mortgages. I know our state constitution promises its independence, but it is a net evil to the world.
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
He should have been fired and driven out of public life in 2005.
Harvard is a force of classism & sexism, laundering the dumbest children of the rich like they were subprime mortgages. I know our state constitution promises its independence, but it is a net evil to the world.
Harvard is a force of classism & sexism, laundering the dumbest children of the rich like they were subprime mortgages. I know our state constitution promises its independence, but it is a net evil to the world.
The government should be forced to pay for any damage its officers do.
Border Patrol has been in Charlotte for less than a week and has already tried to arrest this U.S. citizen TWICE. www.charlotteobserver.com/article31293...
‘Why just me?’ Charlotte man says Border Patrol broke pickup window, stole keys
“Are you an illegal immigrant?” the man said an officer asked. He replied that he didn’t have to answer and asked why he was singled out.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The government should be forced to pay for any damage its officers do.
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This is the strength of our city. We’ll honor the trust these families put in us by making this a place where they can thrive.
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This is the strength of our city. We’ll honor the trust these families put in us by making this a place where they can thrive.
I don’t understand how people who say “ideology” like it is a normal word are calling us nerds.
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I don’t understand how people who say “ideology” like it is a normal word are calling us nerds.
@reuters.com published the photo in 2016, but they cropped out the part where Trump was literally grabbing Clinton’s dick.
Not only had this President committed sexual assault, he committed sexual assault of another President and the media chose to hide that from us.
Not only had this President committed sexual assault, he committed sexual assault of another President and the media chose to hide that from us.
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
@reuters.com published the photo in 2016, but they cropped out the part where Trump was literally grabbing Clinton’s dick.
Not only had this President committed sexual assault, he committed sexual assault of another President and the media chose to hide that from us.
Not only had this President committed sexual assault, he committed sexual assault of another President and the media chose to hide that from us.
My options for the House so far: the insecure mouthpiece of the national party, the centrist with no opinions of her own, the progressive with no money, the bowtie who thinks fascists will stop being fascists if you fix their parking tickets, a former Republican and a maybe-currently-a-Republican.
November 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
My options for the House so far: the insecure mouthpiece of the national party, the centrist with no opinions of her own, the progressive with no money, the bowtie who thinks fascists will stop being fascists if you fix their parking tickets, a former Republican and a maybe-currently-a-Republican.
They reported on how Podesta’s risotto recipe rather than on Trump’s supporters doing Watergate-in-cyberspace, but sure: a convicted pedophile with photos of a presidential candidate with his victims is just a reason for a reporter to conspire on how best to do a blackmail.
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
They reported on how Podesta’s risotto recipe rather than on Trump’s supporters doing Watergate-in-cyberspace, but sure: a convicted pedophile with photos of a presidential candidate with his victims is just a reason for a reporter to conspire on how best to do a blackmail.
Ever since The New York Times fired its public editor, it has become an anti-democratic propaganda outfit and instead of admitting that its journalists are mad we noticed.
In the meantime it has brought fascism to America & is waging an anti-trans crusade.
In the meantime it has brought fascism to America & is waging an anti-trans crusade.
As a former member of NYT’s finance team & the co-author of this story exposing the relationship between Epstein & Bill Gates as well as one on Epstein & JPMorgan, I am really frustrated to see people claiming that NYT sat on publishable info about Trump and Epstein 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/b...
Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Ever since The New York Times fired its public editor, it has become an anti-democratic propaganda outfit and instead of admitting that its journalists are mad we noticed.
In the meantime it has brought fascism to America & is waging an anti-trans crusade.
In the meantime it has brought fascism to America & is waging an anti-trans crusade.
If Senators can just decide to give themselves $500,000, they should just cash out America and take the money somewhere warm.
It was a nice run, but America is obviously done. Whichever Senate is the last one gets to keep all the profits.
It was a nice run, but America is obviously done. Whichever Senate is the last one gets to keep all the profits.
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If Senators can just decide to give themselves $500,000, they should just cash out America and take the money somewhere warm.
It was a nice run, but America is obviously done. Whichever Senate is the last one gets to keep all the profits.
It was a nice run, but America is obviously done. Whichever Senate is the last one gets to keep all the profits.
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Beatings. Sexual assault. Psychological abuse.
These are some of the horrors endured by the more than 250 men the US sent to El Salvador on flimsy evidence of gang membership, according to a new comprehensive report.
These are some of the horrors endured by the more than 250 men the US sent to El Salvador on flimsy evidence of gang membership, according to a new comprehensive report.
Trump sent men to torture in El Salvador, report confirms
Human Rights Watch found that Venezuelans shipped to El Salvador by the United States were beaten almost every day.
www.motherjones.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Beatings. Sexual assault. Psychological abuse.
These are some of the horrors endured by the more than 250 men the US sent to El Salvador on flimsy evidence of gang membership, according to a new comprehensive report.
These are some of the horrors endured by the more than 250 men the US sent to El Salvador on flimsy evidence of gang membership, according to a new comprehensive report.
My liberal friends were so mad when I said the Nazi tattoo would help more than it hurt.
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My liberal friends were so mad when I said the Nazi tattoo would help more than it hurt.
The Democratic Party and Communists both think the only reason they aren’t in charge is because they haven’t yelled at people enough.
November 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The Democratic Party and Communists both think the only reason they aren’t in charge is because they haven’t yelled at people enough.
This is why they got people who aren’t up for reelection next year.
They knew they were doing bad, so they recruited the least-accountable to take the fall.
They knew they were doing bad, so they recruited the least-accountable to take the fall.
all six D's who voted for this god awful thing including the corrupt give away to senators need to be primaried
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is why they got people who aren’t up for reelection next year.
They knew they were doing bad, so they recruited the least-accountable to take the fall.
They knew they were doing bad, so they recruited the least-accountable to take the fall.
I don’t think people’s dislike of homelessness is irrational or just a lack of empathy or false consciousness. Pretending it is doesn’t help us get to actual solutions.
There is only so far you can shame people into ignoring their amygdala.
There is only so far you can shame people into ignoring their amygdala.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I don’t think people’s dislike of homelessness is irrational or just a lack of empathy or false consciousness. Pretending it is doesn’t help us get to actual solutions.
There is only so far you can shame people into ignoring their amygdala.
There is only so far you can shame people into ignoring their amygdala.
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it is very amusing that the DC abundance bros are mad about Lina Khan being one of Zohran’s transition co-chairs even though the other co-chair is Maria Torres Springer, NYC’s ultimate abundance YIMBY technocrat
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
it is very amusing that the DC abundance bros are mad about Lina Khan being one of Zohran’s transition co-chairs even though the other co-chair is Maria Torres Springer, NYC’s ultimate abundance YIMBY technocrat
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"He wants to lock up Netanyahu" is funny ignorant criticism when the Israeli justice system also wants to lock up Netanyahu.
Imagine having a brain so poisoned by right-wing media that your impression of Zohran Mamdani is "he hates everyone" when his entire campaign has been the opposite of that. hellgatenyc.com/election-day...
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"He wants to lock up Netanyahu" is funny ignorant criticism when the Israeli justice system also wants to lock up Netanyahu.
This trial is going to end in a hung(ry) jury
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This trial is going to end in a hung(ry) jury
Trump is just jealous because Maduro is a more successful and popular dictator than he is.
November 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Trump is just jealous because Maduro is a more successful and popular dictator than he is.