Alex Zobel
@alex-zobel.bsky.social
Smol business owner at Armistice Brewing Company | PhD UCLA 2016 in Literature (Environmental Humanities) | Effective Dunning-Krugerist
Let them eat tariffs
May 20, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Let them eat tariffs
He'll always be Pope Bob to me.
May 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
He'll always be Pope Bob to me.
So without due process Trump sent hundreds of people to a Salvadoran gulag in exchange for releasing actual high-ranking MS-13 gang members to El Salvador so Bukele could stay in good graces with MS-13? Oh and we paid millions of dollars, too? Art of the Deal. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...
Behind Trump’s Deal to Deport Venezuelans to El Salvador’s Most Feared Prison (Gift Article)
New details deepen questions about the deportations, showing that El Salvador’s president pressed for assurances that the migrants were really members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
So without due process Trump sent hundreds of people to a Salvadoran gulag in exchange for releasing actual high-ranking MS-13 gang members to El Salvador so Bukele could stay in good graces with MS-13? Oh and we paid millions of dollars, too? Art of the Deal. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...
Ross Douthat arguing that internal anxiety about the Spanish "New World" project seeded the abolition movement is just a wild way to paint out the Reformation and the puritan spirit that animated Anglo-American colonialism, which (however hypocritically) soothed itself with Black Legend propaganda.
April 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Ross Douthat arguing that internal anxiety about the Spanish "New World" project seeded the abolition movement is just a wild way to paint out the Reformation and the puritan spirit that animated Anglo-American colonialism, which (however hypocritically) soothed itself with Black Legend propaganda.
Coming to terms with the fact that many of the het men in my life think incels are pathetic because they can't get a woman to have sex with them, while many of the women in my life think incels are pathetic because they think they're entitled to have sex with women.
April 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Coming to terms with the fact that many of the het men in my life think incels are pathetic because they can't get a woman to have sex with them, while many of the women in my life think incels are pathetic because they think they're entitled to have sex with women.
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🚗⚡️The Daily Dose via @latimes.com 🚗⚡️
As of 2024, California now has more EV charging ports than gas nozzles!
In total there are 178,500 EV ports compared to around 120,000 estimated gas nozzles, according to the California Energy Commission.
As of 2024, California now has more EV charging ports than gas nozzles!
In total there are 178,500 EV ports compared to around 120,000 estimated gas nozzles, according to the California Energy Commission.
April 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🚗⚡️The Daily Dose via @latimes.com 🚗⚡️
As of 2024, California now has more EV charging ports than gas nozzles!
In total there are 178,500 EV ports compared to around 120,000 estimated gas nozzles, according to the California Energy Commission.
As of 2024, California now has more EV charging ports than gas nozzles!
In total there are 178,500 EV ports compared to around 120,000 estimated gas nozzles, according to the California Energy Commission.
I don’t want your Meyer lemons!!
April 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I don’t want your Meyer lemons!!
When I hear handwringing comparisons to the 2008 financial collapse, I calmly remind myself that the Obama administration navigated us (competently but not perfectly) through it. And then I remember that we have 3.72 years of these idiots at the helm and my hands my god my hands won't stop wringing
April 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
When I hear handwringing comparisons to the 2008 financial collapse, I calmly remind myself that the Obama administration navigated us (competently but not perfectly) through it. And then I remember that we have 3.72 years of these idiots at the helm and my hands my god my hands won't stop wringing
What maketh the gulag?
April 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
What maketh the gulag?
I love that these chicken shits waited until after the close of markets to announce all these tariffs.
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I love that these chicken shits waited until after the close of markets to announce all these tariffs.
This war chat catastrophe reads like a preface to the second edition of The Fifth Risk.
March 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This war chat catastrophe reads like a preface to the second edition of The Fifth Risk.
People shit-posting about Abundance should have to indicate whether or not they're read the damn book.
March 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
People shit-posting about Abundance should have to indicate whether or not they're read the damn book.
Just finished Abundance by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social. Let’s fucking build! #LFB
March 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Just finished Abundance by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social. Let’s fucking build! #LFB
Canada & Mexico did not create the fentanyl crisis. To the extent you want to indulge that fantasy of a scapegoat, I’d suggest the Sacklers, who manufactured the opioid crisis in the first place and who have avoided any criminal liability while retaining their billions in personal wealth.
March 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Canada & Mexico did not create the fentanyl crisis. To the extent you want to indulge that fantasy of a scapegoat, I’d suggest the Sacklers, who manufactured the opioid crisis in the first place and who have avoided any criminal liability while retaining their billions in personal wealth.
These on-again-off-again tariffs are not encouraging my brewery to invest in the kegs and cans we use. I can’t imagine they would make a bigger business want to build a keg or can factory in America, especially when the math swings so hard one day to the next.
March 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
These on-again-off-again tariffs are not encouraging my brewery to invest in the kegs and cans we use. I can’t imagine they would make a bigger business want to build a keg or can factory in America, especially when the math swings so hard one day to the next.
Happy Valentine's Day! The sexualized photo really undercuts the message it accompanies: the DV discourse, with it's focus on het/romantic relationships, often misses survivors who fall outside that paradigm. shorturl.at/7uwug
Beyond Valentine’s Day: The Love We Celebrate and the Abuse We Ignore – Women's eNews
Expanding the definition of domestic violence is not about diluting its meaning; it’s about making it more accurate.
shorturl.at
February 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Happy Valentine's Day! The sexualized photo really undercuts the message it accompanies: the DV discourse, with it's focus on het/romantic relationships, often misses survivors who fall outside that paradigm. shorturl.at/7uwug
I know errbody is pitching The Fifth Risk (Michael Lewis) rn because it's obviously illuminating and relevant. Here's mine: it's short, it's easy, and it makes a great audiobook. I listened to it on one heinous commute day and finished it folding laundry. You can do it!
January 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I know errbody is pitching The Fifth Risk (Michael Lewis) rn because it's obviously illuminating and relevant. Here's mine: it's short, it's easy, and it makes a great audiobook. I listened to it on one heinous commute day and finished it folding laundry. You can do it!
This guy really seems focused on lowering the cost of living for all of us.
January 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This guy really seems focused on lowering the cost of living for all of us.
Allow insurance companies to rationally price climate risk at the property level so we're not subsidizing wealthy homeowners in disaster zones. Socializing their risk raises all of our costs (premiums, rent, taxes, bonds, etx), and incentivizes unsustainable development that's expensive to defend.
“Many people settle in places like Texas because housing is generally more affordable. But that affordability is a mirage: Their mortgage and insurance risks are being subsidized by everyone else,” write the finance professors Parinitha R. Sastry and Ishita Sen.
Opinion | Our Insurance System Subsidizes Moves to Disaster Zones
Our policies encourage Americans to flock to areas particularly prone to climate-related disasters.
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Allow insurance companies to rationally price climate risk at the property level so we're not subsidizing wealthy homeowners in disaster zones. Socializing their risk raises all of our costs (premiums, rent, taxes, bonds, etx), and incentivizes unsustainable development that's expensive to defend.
The old man's still got it!
Biden Commutes 37 Death Sentences Ahead of Trump’s Plan to Resume Federal Executions
Those affected by the president’s action on Monday are still subject to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Three men will remain on federal death row.
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2024 at 3:33 PM
The old man's still got it!