Wendell Albright
@wendella.bsky.social
Diplomatic dude. I know a little about international economics. I once explained the electoral college on Mongolian TV. Climate change believes in you. Vaccines are good, actually.
"I could smell the mustard and onions."
"I could smell the mustard and onions."
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Wendell Albright
@wendella.bsky.social
· Jun 10
It's like Asimov's "Nightfall" except instead of the stars driving us insane, it's social media...
he is a stone cold moron
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
he is a stone cold moron
Trump cucks JD
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Trump cucks JD
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This. There’s a reason why the Tea Party wasn’t a new party. It’s much cheaper to take over an existing party. Mamdani doesn’t have to be an outlier, we can find more candidates capable of meeting the moment and free ourselves from these centrists and their enablers.
“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 8:35 PM
This. There’s a reason why the Tea Party wasn’t a new party. It’s much cheaper to take over an existing party. Mamdani doesn’t have to be an outlier, we can find more candidates capable of meeting the moment and free ourselves from these centrists and their enablers.
counterpoint: this won't happen
Trump: "We're gonna issue a dividend to our middle income people and lower income people of about $2,000, and we're gonna use the remaining tariffs to lower our debt."
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
counterpoint: this won't happen
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To be frank, from here in the United States, I wonder if our politics might not be healthier if we thought of Mexico as being as much of our 'brother country,' so to speak, as Spain or France and of Iraq and Syria not as infinitely distant 'others,' but as 'cousin-countries' as it were.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
To be frank, from here in the United States, I wonder if our politics might not be healthier if we thought of Mexico as being as much of our 'brother country,' so to speak, as Spain or France and of Iraq and Syria not as infinitely distant 'others,' but as 'cousin-countries' as it were.
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Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy.
For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.
The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.
The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy.
For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.
The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.
The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
"Vance is a soulless striver who will sell off anything if he thought it would give him more power. We don’t have to ask if he would betray his wife and kids. He does so nearly every day by promoting a vision of America that has no room for them in it."
People gossiped about JD Vance and Erika Kirk. Then, inevitably, came the "don't gossip" scoldings.
Screw it! Let's defend wild speculation. First, these two deserve it.
Second, the gossip tells us a lot about JD Vance's political future. An analysis.
www.salon.com/2025/11/10/w...
Screw it! Let's defend wild speculation. First, these two deserve it.
Second, the gossip tells us a lot about JD Vance's political future. An analysis.
www.salon.com/2025/11/10/w...
Why JD Vance and Erika Kirk's hug made tongues wag
The vice president’s current wife, Usha, is a growing political liability
www.salon.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"Vance is a soulless striver who will sell off anything if he thought it would give him more power. We don’t have to ask if he would betray his wife and kids. He does so nearly every day by promoting a vision of America that has no room for them in it."
Doctor Marshall UNDERSTANDS it. He is just willfully misrepresenting how this all works.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Doctor Marshall UNDERSTANDS it. He is just willfully misrepresenting how this all works.
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right? “over 90% of houses never burn down, this is why fire departments aren’t necessary
you will get a check for $100 and you should buy all the extinguishers you think you might need”
you will get a check for $100 and you should buy all the extinguishers you think you might need”
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
right? “over 90% of houses never burn down, this is why fire departments aren’t necessary
you will get a check for $100 and you should buy all the extinguishers you think you might need”
you will get a check for $100 and you should buy all the extinguishers you think you might need”
Japanese also has a word for 'the day after tomorrow', 明後日 (asatte)
Did you know that "noon" never used to be at 12? Or that a "second" is actually the second of something?
These are just a couple of the revelations in my latest wordy nerdy video.
Do please give it a watch:
youtu.be/TK-8gfqmFNo?...
These are just a couple of the revelations in my latest wordy nerdy video.
Do please give it a watch:
youtu.be/TK-8gfqmFNo?...
Time words don't mean what you think
YouTube video by RobWords
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Japanese also has a word for 'the day after tomorrow', 明後日 (asatte)
they pretend to be so stupid, counting on their voters actually being so stupid as to accept this 'logic'
Remember that insurance is actually a thing you hope never to use, and then read this critique.
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
they pretend to be so stupid, counting on their voters actually being so stupid as to accept this 'logic'
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I get angry with dems at times because I expect better out of them. I dont expect an ounce of decency, decorum, or dignity out of the gop. I'll always fight to elect democrats period. Repubs are the culprits for this mess we are in, however I'm tired of dems always having to save the day.
#RantOver
#RantOver
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I get angry with dems at times because I expect better out of them. I dont expect an ounce of decency, decorum, or dignity out of the gop. I'll always fight to elect democrats period. Repubs are the culprits for this mess we are in, however I'm tired of dems always having to save the day.
#RantOver
#RantOver
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We've been hearing this tired Reagan-era talking point for 45 years: "I don't want to pay for some undeserving stranger's insurance!"
You already are, bro. That's how private insurance works, too--you just pay a lot more and get a lot less with the private version.
You already are, bro. That's how private insurance works, too--you just pay a lot more and get a lot less with the private version.
Comer: "This is a fake economy. You can't have 1/3 of America receiving some type of free government healthcare and then have another 1/3 that's getting a subsidized rate. That falls on the final 1/3 that's having to pay increased premiums."
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We've been hearing this tired Reagan-era talking point for 45 years: "I don't want to pay for some undeserving stranger's insurance!"
You already are, bro. That's how private insurance works, too--you just pay a lot more and get a lot less with the private version.
You already are, bro. That's how private insurance works, too--you just pay a lot more and get a lot less with the private version.
well one thing about her recent flirtation with reality is it has gotten her a lot of media attention
New in PN: Marjorie Taylor Greene flees Trump's sinking ship
"Whatever her motivation, it's clear MTG believes it's to her advantage to defy Trump in ways it was not before. Trump once seemed invincible; now being associated with him seems like a one-way ticket to electoral Siberia."
"Whatever her motivation, it's clear MTG believes it's to her advantage to defy Trump in ways it was not before. Trump once seemed invincible; now being associated with him seems like a one-way ticket to electoral Siberia."
Marjorie Taylor Greene flees Trump's sinking ship
Even hardcore MAGAs are eyeing the emergency exits.
www.publicnotice.co
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
well one thing about her recent flirtation with reality is it has gotten her a lot of media attention
an inspired guess
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November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
an inspired guess
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Part of me thinks “yeah, primary every last one of these fuckers!!!”
And the other part of me thinks “eh, fuck it. We’re gonna need wholesale constitutional reform anyway. Just abolish the damn Senate.”
And the other part of me thinks “eh, fuck it. We’re gonna need wholesale constitutional reform anyway. Just abolish the damn Senate.”
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Part of me thinks “yeah, primary every last one of these fuckers!!!”
And the other part of me thinks “eh, fuck it. We’re gonna need wholesale constitutional reform anyway. Just abolish the damn Senate.”
And the other part of me thinks “eh, fuck it. We’re gonna need wholesale constitutional reform anyway. Just abolish the damn Senate.”
"No, no, no, I said EAT the rich, not FEED the rich."
“Treasury has clearly been enacting unlegislated tax cuts”.
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"No, no, no, I said EAT the rich, not FEED the rich."
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Every educated adult in the U.S. knows this but the senate shouldn't exist. There is no justification for North Dakota and South Dakota to have four senators between them when the combined population of both states is smaller than that of Chicago.
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Every educated adult in the U.S. knows this but the senate shouldn't exist. There is no justification for North Dakota and South Dakota to have four senators between them when the combined population of both states is smaller than that of Chicago.
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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 12:50 PM
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
yeah
do you all ever think about how howard dean got knocked out of a primary for being a lil too excited and now we have All This and people who will defend it because politics are sports to some people
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
yeah
no bones about it, this is genius
though a tad bare-bones in execution, I'd say
though a tad bare-bones in execution, I'd say
Sometimes you have an idea so dumb that you HAVE to do it (I didn’t get this up in time for Halloween though)
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
no bones about it, this is genius
though a tad bare-bones in execution, I'd say
though a tad bare-bones in execution, I'd say
"The pardons of former Trump aides, which would only apply in federal court, are largely symbolic and cannot shield them from ongoing state-level prosecutions."
Still it's a shitty thing to do, given to shitty people, by the shittiest person, to incentivize electoral misbehavior.
Still it's a shitty thing to do, given to shitty people, by the shittiest person, to incentivize electoral misbehavior.
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"The pardons of former Trump aides, which would only apply in federal court, are largely symbolic and cannot shield them from ongoing state-level prosecutions."
Still it's a shitty thing to do, given to shitty people, by the shittiest person, to incentivize electoral misbehavior.
Still it's a shitty thing to do, given to shitty people, by the shittiest person, to incentivize electoral misbehavior.
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um, extend the subsidies and then take the deserved victory lap to keep them on the table
as a bonus, some people get to have insurance
as a bonus, some people get to have insurance
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
um, extend the subsidies and then take the deserved victory lap to keep them on the table
as a bonus, some people get to have insurance
as a bonus, some people get to have insurance
this article should cheer me up
President Trump is pursuing a policy of climate-change acceleration. His actions are fueling global warming—and may leave places in the United States uninhabitable by mid-century, Vann R. Newkirk II writes.
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
this article should cheer me up