Will Hardy
@willhardy.bsky.social
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Will Hardy
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· Aug 1
I’m worried a lot of democrats view this as a risky political stance for the midterms and not an urgent deterrent that could save lives before then
51% of Americans believe ICE is making cities less safe, now is the time for Democrats to go out and tell people that they're right and here's how we'll eliminate ICE as a threat to you
New CNN polling:
Most Americans see an immigration officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good as an inappropriate use of force. Roughly half view it as a sign of broader issues with the way ICE is operating, w/under 1/3 saying that ICE operations have made cities safer.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/14/p...
Most Americans see an immigration officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good as an inappropriate use of force. Roughly half view it as a sign of broader issues with the way ICE is operating, w/under 1/3 saying that ICE operations have made cities safer.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/14/p...
January 14, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I’m worried a lot of democrats view this as a risky political stance for the midterms and not an urgent deterrent that could save lives before then
Literally doing the “family guy skin color chart” meme for wokeness
This person analyzes american politics for a living
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January 11, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Literally doing the “family guy skin color chart” meme for wokeness
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every day on this website
January 10, 2026 at 7:24 PM
every day on this website
I’m far from the first to make this point but it really seems like everyone in this administration has pickled their souls in far right cruelty to such an extent that their basic perception of human decency has been profoundly distorted, which is leading to huge misreads of the public at large.
Seems to me this was likely provided to Alpha News as exculpatory evidence, but it seems to be having the opposite effect.
SHOCK CELL PHONE VIDEO: Renee Good's final words to her murderer: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.”
ICE agent Jonathan Ross after shooting and killing her seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.”
Via Alpha News
ICE agent Jonathan Ross after shooting and killing her seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.”
Via Alpha News
January 9, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I’m far from the first to make this point but it really seems like everyone in this administration has pickled their souls in far right cruelty to such an extent that their basic perception of human decency has been profoundly distorted, which is leading to huge misreads of the public at large.
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The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
January 9, 2026 at 1:19 PM
The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.
The regime‘s line about this guy having been injured on duty before actually really undermines their defense imo. the prior incident of being dragged by a car- which sounds quite traumatic- makes it pretty plausible to me that this guy just panicked and shot a woman in the face without thinking
his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
www.startribune.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:33 PM
The regime‘s line about this guy having been injured on duty before actually really undermines their defense imo. the prior incident of being dragged by a car- which sounds quite traumatic- makes it pretty plausible to me that this guy just panicked and shot a woman in the face without thinking
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For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...
January 7, 2026 at 11:46 PM
For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...
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the high five was invented in the 70s which is sorta crazy to me. cause i bet you could go to any era of human history and get almost everyone on board with high fives overnight. you see one of these bad boys really connect and you want in. so basically nobody even did any by accident for millennia
January 4, 2026 at 5:02 AM
the high five was invented in the 70s which is sorta crazy to me. cause i bet you could go to any era of human history and get almost everyone on board with high fives overnight. you see one of these bad boys really connect and you want in. so basically nobody even did any by accident for millennia
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But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?
January 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?
By rejecting a nice mormon guy who only wanted to make sure people could again be denied health insurance due to preexisting conditions, America demonstrated it deserved Trump as president
“it was rude and unfair of Obama to run an actual campaign, so we had to respond by nominating the worst person alive” is truly one of the all time post genres
what does it look like inside these people’s heads
what does it look like inside these people’s heads
if people on the other site think Obama was mean, i don't think they're ready for Reconstruction 2
December 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
By rejecting a nice mormon guy who only wanted to make sure people could again be denied health insurance due to preexisting conditions, America demonstrated it deserved Trump as president
“Bad Romance” intensifies
Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
December 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
“Bad Romance” intensifies
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
December 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
when you ask, what is AI for, exactly?- this is what AI is for
"America’s wealthiest tech billionaires added more than $550bn to their combined net worth this year, as they benefit from an investor frenzy around leading artificial intelligence companies."
AI boom adds $500bn to net worth of US tech billionaires in 2025
Elon Musk stays on top as Nvidia’s Jensen Huang powers up the rankings on an AI-fuelled surge in fortunes
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December 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
when you ask, what is AI for, exactly?- this is what AI is for
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PARSON BROWN WAS A SHAM. YOU WERE MARRIED BY A SNOWMAN. YOUR MARRIAGE ISN'T LEGAL. YOUR CHILDREN ARE BASTARDS.
December 2, 2023 at 12:14 PM
PARSON BROWN WAS A SHAM. YOU WERE MARRIED BY A SNOWMAN. YOUR MARRIAGE ISN'T LEGAL. YOUR CHILDREN ARE BASTARDS.
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you want to do away with the bludgeoning passersby industry? ok. so i guess you can provide new jobs for all the unemployed bludgeoners, bludgeon manufacturers AND a skyrocketing number of passersby?? dream on
December 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
you want to do away with the bludgeoning passersby industry? ok. so i guess you can provide new jobs for all the unemployed bludgeoners, bludgeon manufacturers AND a skyrocketing number of passersby?? dream on
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Hey Now
You're a Boxcar
Full of Children
Solve Crimes
You're a Boxcar
Full of Children
Solve Crimes
December 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Hey Now
You're a Boxcar
Full of Children
Solve Crimes
You're a Boxcar
Full of Children
Solve Crimes
Real students read the abstract and conclusion and bullshit something off of that, not read literally none of it and go on a tangent about what they learned in Sunday school
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Real students read the abstract and conclusion and bullshit something off of that, not read literally none of it and go on a tangent about what they learned in Sunday school
Calling it now: Half the ads during the Super Bowl are going to be about how AI is the future and the other half will be about how humanity is irreplaceable and true brands™️ are too classy for slop
"this could have been slop, but it's not" is rapidly becoming a surefire signifier of premium-ness
Porsche reportedly created their new ad without using any AI.
December 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Calling it now: Half the ads during the Super Bowl are going to be about how AI is the future and the other half will be about how humanity is irreplaceable and true brands™️ are too classy for slop
In 30 years everyone is going to think that we were living like Emily in Paris
not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
December 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
In 30 years everyone is going to think that we were living like Emily in Paris
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I feel like something frequently missing from these discussions about AI is there's usually more to an image than "this is what this looks like."
December 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I feel like something frequently missing from these discussions about AI is there's usually more to an image than "this is what this looks like."
This is but one example of the cost of electing someone so fundamentally amoral and dishonest. Because this is true! These files should be handled with care and sensitivity to the victims’s privacy. But no one can trust that that is what is going on here because of how little credibility they have.
Blanche on Epstein files: "Today is the 30 days. I expect we're going to release several hundred thousand documents today, including photographs...now, the most important thing is we protect victims. We are looking at every single piece of paper making sure that every victim is completely protected"
December 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is but one example of the cost of electing someone so fundamentally amoral and dishonest. Because this is true! These files should be handled with care and sensitivity to the victims’s privacy. But no one can trust that that is what is going on here because of how little credibility they have.
Imo what really killed Twitter was not the changing of content moderation or the boosting of right wingers (although this didn’t help) - it’s that the changing of the blue check system really deteriorated the user experience and thus the discourse in a way that it just has never come back from
I don’t really believe this, but it’s a closer call than user numbers would suggest. The other thing is, persuasion and influence happens when people INTERACT, and Twitter now is largely like TikTok: a streaming of algorithmic posts designed to make you smash the like button. Zero discourse.
December 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Imo what really killed Twitter was not the changing of content moderation or the boosting of right wingers (although this didn’t help) - it’s that the changing of the blue check system really deteriorated the user experience and thus the discourse in a way that it just has never come back from
I keep hearing “merry Christmas, merry Christmas”— how come we never hear “JOSEPH Christmas” ‘mirite fellas??
December 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I keep hearing “merry Christmas, merry Christmas”— how come we never hear “JOSEPH Christmas” ‘mirite fellas??
My theory about the post pandemic economy is that it turbo charged Temu-style commerce, social media conspicuous consumption, and so honed surveillance capitalism that everyone is feeling a basically constant pressure to buy shit they don’t need all the time and that is driving affordability woes
The fact that the public *overwhelmingly* wants the actual price level to fall, and for prices to go down across the board is important info about public opinion, but also more than a little tricky to try to implement!
December 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My theory about the post pandemic economy is that it turbo charged Temu-style commerce, social media conspicuous consumption, and so honed surveillance capitalism that everyone is feeling a basically constant pressure to buy shit they don’t need all the time and that is driving affordability woes