Brian Edwards-Tiekert
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Jeff Bezos received a quarter of a million from his parents in 1995 to start his online bookstore idea.
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Jeff Bezos received a quarter of a million from his parents in 1995 to start his online bookstore idea.
They're expressing dismay that she got four-figure childcare checks from her parents, because their norm is candidates for major public office getting six-figure checks from oligarchs. share.google/bR4zeWdiE0no...
How is national media reacting to Katie Wilson’s win in Seattle?
Seattle voters followed the contentious race for months. Now, the rest of the U.S. is watching, too.
share.google
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
They're expressing dismay that she got four-figure childcare checks from her parents, because their norm is candidates for major public office getting six-figure checks from oligarchs. share.google/bR4zeWdiE0no...
Seems like a notable that present-day sewer socialists are not just winning major cities, but now *unseating* incumbents.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Katie Wilson, a Political Newcomer, Is Elected Mayor in Seattle
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Seems like a notable that present-day sewer socialists are not just winning major cities, but now *unseating* incumbents.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Wow. He's going to go into the mid-terms with 21st-century Hoovervilles spreading across the country.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Trump Administration Expected to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Wow. He's going to go into the mid-terms with 21st-century Hoovervilles spreading across the country.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
We got one of the Ava e-bike vouchers and brought home a fun e-bike but the charger fine print is giving me pause. You can only charge indoors, on concrete/brick, while you're present to keep an eye on things?
So don't get an e-bike unless you have a garage and enjoy spending time in it?
So don't get an e-bike unless you have a garage and enjoy spending time in it?
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
We got one of the Ava e-bike vouchers and brought home a fun e-bike but the charger fine print is giving me pause. You can only charge indoors, on concrete/brick, while you're present to keep an eye on things?
So don't get an e-bike unless you have a garage and enjoy spending time in it?
So don't get an e-bike unless you have a garage and enjoy spending time in it?
At this point if Subway doesn't roll out a "Point Blank BLT" or "Felony Footlong" it's not serious about making money.
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
At this point if Subway doesn't roll out a "Point Blank BLT" or "Felony Footlong" it's not serious about making money.
Ahhhh the administration is pivoting to climate action www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. to Cut Air Traffic at 40 Airports Over Government Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Ahhhh the administration is pivoting to climate action www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
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Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
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the sort of headline we're seeing all over: www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
the sort of headline we're seeing all over: www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...
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When you stop using X then open it back up after a while, you realize how obviously it’s designed to elevate vicious jerks who share Musk and Trump’s cruelest, dumbest beliefs. Harder to see when you’re addicted to it; blazingly apparent from the outside looking in.
Journalists: It’s bad for you!
Journalists: It’s bad for you!
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
When you stop using X then open it back up after a while, you realize how obviously it’s designed to elevate vicious jerks who share Musk and Trump’s cruelest, dumbest beliefs. Harder to see when you’re addicted to it; blazingly apparent from the outside looking in.
Journalists: It’s bad for you!
Journalists: It’s bad for you!
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
How it started / how it's going
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
How it started / how it's going
IMPROBABLY, VOTERS ELECT CANDIDATE WITH CHARISMA, LOOKS, POPULAR POLICIES, SUPERIOR CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION, AND CONSPICUOUS LACK OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
IMPROBABLY, VOTERS ELECT CANDIDATE WITH CHARISMA, LOOKS, POPULAR POLICIES, SUPERIOR CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION, AND CONSPICUOUS LACK OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS
Andrew Cuomo kicking himself for not running for Staten Island Borough President instead
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Andrew Cuomo kicking himself for not running for Staten Island Borough President instead
He's not mayor yet, and he's already broken Red America's brains:
November 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
He's not mayor yet, and he's already broken Red America's brains:
Just terribly shoddy police work to not collect the weapon and enter it into evidence.
Defense is now questioning Lairmore on cross-examination. They show a video still of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground, post-throw.
"Do you recognize that sandwich?" the attorney asks.
Lairmore won't confirm.
"I did not go back to collect it," he says.
"Do you recognize that sandwich?" the attorney asks.
Lairmore won't confirm.
"I did not go back to collect it," he says.
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Just terribly shoddy police work to not collect the weapon and enter it into evidence.
Just called the utility to shut off our gas service. Hard to overstate what a *upgrade* it's been to de-fossilize. Everything we've installed is just objectively better than the thing it replaced (and everything's going to pay for itself!)
November 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Just called the utility to shut off our gas service. Hard to overstate what a *upgrade* it's been to de-fossilize. Everything we've installed is just objectively better than the thing it replaced (and everything's going to pay for itself!)
Imagine if our political system had the same level of accountability as this
hereditary monarchy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
hereditary monarchy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
October 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Imagine if our political system had the same level of accountability as this
hereditary monarchy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
hereditary monarchy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
omg surely the former press secretary for the *white house* knows what it means to grant an interview request from Isaac Chotiner? www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
October 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
omg surely the former press secretary for the *white house* knows what it means to grant an interview request from Isaac Chotiner? www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
As an aside: the armed guy on foot is not wearing a gas mask, and that cannister was deployed *upwind* of him and the car he's escorting. It doesn't look like these feds have had any *training* on responding to crowds.
Federal agents tear gassing the Lake View neighborhood.
October 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
As an aside: the armed guy on foot is not wearing a gas mask, and that cannister was deployed *upwind* of him and the car he's escorting. It doesn't look like these feds have had any *training* on responding to crowds.
Fascinating
oaklandside.org/2025/10/23/t...
oaklandside.org/2025/10/23/t...
October 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Fascinating
oaklandside.org/2025/10/23/t...
oaklandside.org/2025/10/23/t...
Very curious what the Cuomo campaign thinks they get out of publicizing support from an incumbent with an approval rate of 20%.
October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Very curious what the Cuomo campaign thinks they get out of publicizing support from an incumbent with an approval rate of 20%.
CALL THE NEW YORK TIMES, WE'RE DOING COVERT OPS
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
CALL THE NEW YORK TIMES, WE'RE DOING COVERT OPS
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Does this mean the the hotel stops paying property taxes to the county and occupancy fees to the city? www.siliconvalley.com/2025/10/14/b...
UC investment unit buys East Bay hotel for more than $170 million
The University of California’s investment arm has bought an East Bay hotel for well under its appraised value.
www.siliconvalley.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Does this mean the the hotel stops paying property taxes to the county and occupancy fees to the city? www.siliconvalley.com/2025/10/14/b...
Good morning.
My 75-year-old father, who had a triple bypass in February, is 400 miles into walking the Camino de Santiago.
He is presently bombarding me with photos of collards.
My 75-year-old father, who had a triple bypass in February, is 400 miles into walking the Camino de Santiago.
He is presently bombarding me with photos of collards.
October 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Good morning.
My 75-year-old father, who had a triple bypass in February, is 400 miles into walking the Camino de Santiago.
He is presently bombarding me with photos of collards.
My 75-year-old father, who had a triple bypass in February, is 400 miles into walking the Camino de Santiago.
He is presently bombarding me with photos of collards.