Asher Desai
@asherdesai.bsky.social
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These are the people the mainstream media is constantly telling us to understand and sympathize with.
December 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
These are the people the mainstream media is constantly telling us to understand and sympathize with.
Zohran actually had the binders full of women
December 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Zohran actually had the binders full of women
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I just want Republicans, and the right generally, to be treated as real adults with agency instead of forces of nature that must be appeased or managed. Is that too much to ask?
December 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I just want Republicans, and the right generally, to be treated as real adults with agency instead of forces of nature that must be appeased or managed. Is that too much to ask?
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It was transparent what was happening. Just not to you.
December 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It was transparent what was happening. Just not to you.
Cooking isn’t easy to start with, but this is precisely the kind of helplessness cope that makes people dependent on burrito taxi and consequently unable to distinguish between necessities and luxuries.
December 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Cooking isn’t easy to start with, but this is precisely the kind of helplessness cope that makes people dependent on burrito taxi and consequently unable to distinguish between necessities and luxuries.
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
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trump has basically been robbing a bank in broad daylight, apparently hoping that the brazenness of the act will scare everyone away from sounding the alarm. but if anyone ever says "hey, wait a second!" - well, now he's suddenly just a guy robbing a bank in broad daylight. good luck with that, bozo
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
trump has basically been robbing a bank in broad daylight, apparently hoping that the brazenness of the act will scare everyone away from sounding the alarm. but if anyone ever says "hey, wait a second!" - well, now he's suddenly just a guy robbing a bank in broad daylight. good luck with that, bozo
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Writing about all this AI bubble stuff, I cannot help thinking about one of my favorite financial fictions, Émile Zola’s Money, and its brilliant deconstruction of the psychology and mechanics of an investment boom.
advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-dance-...
advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-dance-...
The dance of millions
Making sense of the big bubble.
advaitcore.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Writing about all this AI bubble stuff, I cannot help thinking about one of my favorite financial fictions, Émile Zola’s Money, and its brilliant deconstruction of the psychology and mechanics of an investment boom.
advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-dance-...
advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-dance-...
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you don’t solve the issue by eliminating the immigrants, you solve it by eliminating the racists
Once again; you can't moderate your way to neutralizing an issue like immigration.
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
you don’t solve the issue by eliminating the immigrants, you solve it by eliminating the racists
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Not kidding when I say they should fund the free buses by actually enforcing driving and parking rules. Walk around any neighborhood of NYC for an hour and you will witness ~30 ticketable offenses. Everyone will get around faster if people follow the rules. Iron-fist it. Cameras on every stoplight.
Hochul has said she would neither support a plan that would deprive the MTA of a key revenue stream — fares — nor would she raise taxes to make up for the missing swipes.
Gov. Hochul Vague on Free Bus Plans As Her Open Budget Salvo Nears - Streetsblog New York City
Hochul has said she would neither support a plan that would deprive the MTA of a key revenue stream — fares — nor would she raise taxes to make up for the missing swipes.
buff.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Not kidding when I say they should fund the free buses by actually enforcing driving and parking rules. Walk around any neighborhood of NYC for an hour and you will witness ~30 ticketable offenses. Everyone will get around faster if people follow the rules. Iron-fist it. Cameras on every stoplight.
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i’m just a humble “woke” lib but it seems to me that this is a conclusion you could have picked up by skimming a quick history of 20th century american politics
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
i’m just a humble “woke” lib but it seems to me that this is a conclusion you could have picked up by skimming a quick history of 20th century american politics
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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not to sound like a goldwaterite, but voters want a choice and not an echo.
November 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
not to sound like a goldwaterite, but voters want a choice and not an echo.
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This take suffers from the same thing as all discourse about Trump voters: an inability to distinguish swing voters from Trump’s base. You should welcome the swing voters, people who were worried about inflation or whatever, but the chuds? The best you can do is bullying them into staying home.
November 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This take suffers from the same thing as all discourse about Trump voters: an inability to distinguish swing voters from Trump’s base. You should welcome the swing voters, people who were worried about inflation or whatever, but the chuds? The best you can do is bullying them into staying home.
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pictured: the most advanced levels of Republican economic theory
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
pictured: the most advanced levels of Republican economic theory
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democrats love all their moderate, progressive, and top-of-the-distribution leaders <3
they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3
they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
democrats love all their moderate, progressive, and top-of-the-distribution leaders <3
they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3
they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3
Maybe I just didn’t see, but did the FTC only just now update the website that the microeconomics conference is cancelled? Seems a bit late given that it’s tomorrow!
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Maybe I just didn’t see, but did the FTC only just now update the website that the microeconomics conference is cancelled? Seems a bit late given that it’s tomorrow!
Paul Begala (quoted here) represents the biggest dumbass line I’ve seen about this election. “Mamdani barely broke 50% and Spanberger won by more, therefore Mamdani sucks”
He was running against another Democrat! Cuomo was the conservative in the race, but ultimately he is a Dem!
He was running against another Democrat! Cuomo was the conservative in the race, but ultimately he is a Dem!
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Paul Begala (quoted here) represents the biggest dumbass line I’ve seen about this election. “Mamdani barely broke 50% and Spanberger won by more, therefore Mamdani sucks”
He was running against another Democrat! Cuomo was the conservative in the race, but ultimately he is a Dem!
He was running against another Democrat! Cuomo was the conservative in the race, but ultimately he is a Dem!
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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I did warn you the Takes™️ were coming
Now, after months of incredible parochialism about how the NYC mayoral race tells us about The National Democrats, Mamdani tells us nothing & winning is bad for the left
The Narrative™️ cannot fail. It can only be failed.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Now, after months of incredible parochialism about how the NYC mayoral race tells us
The Narrative™️ cannot fail. It can only be failed.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Damn, I hate it when things that happen mean nothing :-(
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I did warn you the Takes™️ were coming
Now, after months of incredible parochialism about how the NYC mayoral race tells us about The National Democrats, Mamdani tells us nothing & winning is bad for the left
The Narrative™️ cannot fail. It can only be failed.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Now, after months of incredible parochialism about how the NYC mayoral race tells us
The Narrative™️ cannot fail. It can only be failed.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
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the most obvious way for Zohran to tie his climate and affordability promises together is to get New York to build hundreds of thousands of transit-oriented apartments
An absolute must-read from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social dissecting Mamdani's past work on climate, his campaign pivot to affordability, and the challenge ahead to thread them together heatmap.news/politics/zoh...
Zohran Mamdani’s Muted Climate Politics
The self-described “ecosocialist” ran an ultra-disciplined campaign for New York City mayor. Once he’s in office, the climate issue could become unavoidable.
heatmap.news
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
the most obvious way for Zohran to tie his climate and affordability promises together is to get New York to build hundreds of thousands of transit-oriented apartments
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Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
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one of the things i think is that policies answer the question of “what will you do” but they don’t answer the question of “why should i vote for you” and i think there is a tendency in this broad conversation to equate the two
October 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
one of the things i think is that policies answer the question of “what will you do” but they don’t answer the question of “why should i vote for you” and i think there is a tendency in this broad conversation to equate the two