Daniel Farina
@danfarina.bsky.social
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Heating fuels in the USA. Bizarrely, liberal states in the NE USA prefer the most polluting choice, fuel oil, which also emits the most carbon dioxide.
December 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Heating fuels in the USA. Bizarrely, liberal states in the NE USA prefer the most polluting choice, fuel oil, which also emits the most carbon dioxide.
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Elon Musk and Marco Rubio still exponentially killing more people than Hegseth and RFK Jr combined btw
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Elon Musk and Marco Rubio still exponentially killing more people than Hegseth and RFK Jr combined btw
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Sen. Andy Kim’s fight against a bill seeking to remove most of the authority of New Jersey's comptroller’s watchdog represents an increasingly rare example of a US senator taking a stand against the power structure of his own party.
Andy Kim battles his own party in fight against corruption
The US senator says a recent hearing was an example of the state’s rigged system.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Sen. Andy Kim’s fight against a bill seeking to remove most of the authority of New Jersey's comptroller’s watchdog represents an increasingly rare example of a US senator taking a stand against the power structure of his own party.
People have been talking about those outrageously cheap BYD electric vehicles in comparison to American engineering and factories for quite while, but I haven’t seen theory for why they’re so much cheaper than what the Korean firms produce…they are not slouches by any means.
December 4, 2025 at 3:11 AM
People have been talking about those outrageously cheap BYD electric vehicles in comparison to American engineering and factories for quite while, but I haven’t seen theory for why they’re so much cheaper than what the Korean firms produce…they are not slouches by any means.
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So much of this shit is gambling! Robinhood is fucking gambling! Crypto is gambling! Videogame business models are gambling! It's all fucking gambling! Laws need to really catch up to the fact that the brain can be hacked by this shit.
This is gambling, and we've essentially decided that it's okay to let it go on entirely unregulated for ??? Reasons.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
So much of this shit is gambling! Robinhood is fucking gambling! Crypto is gambling! Videogame business models are gambling! It's all fucking gambling! Laws need to really catch up to the fact that the brain can be hacked by this shit.
Claude was such a memorable animal. I will always associate him with a chapter of trips with my young children, now closed. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Claude, San Francisco’s beloved albino alligator, dies at 30
Claude, the California Academy of Sciences’ rare albino alligator and one of San Francisco’s most recognizable residents, has died at age 30.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Claude was such a memorable animal. I will always associate him with a chapter of trips with my young children, now closed. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
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Bad news for Hegseth, it turns out the Pentagon is a big bureaucracy filled with people who got there because they know how to fight bureaucratic battles and they will wait for you to lie about something then leak details about it. Who knew?
A most important question on the Sept. 2 double-tap strike is who had "target engagement authority" (TEA).
Wall Street Journal:
"A Defense Department official ... said Hegseth was the 'target engagement authority,' the key figure who authorized the strike."
www.wsj.com/politics/whi...
Wall Street Journal:
"A Defense Department official ... said Hegseth was the 'target engagement authority,' the key figure who authorized the strike."
www.wsj.com/politics/whi...
December 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Bad news for Hegseth, it turns out the Pentagon is a big bureaucracy filled with people who got there because they know how to fight bureaucratic battles and they will wait for you to lie about something then leak details about it. Who knew?
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On this giving Tuesday, consider giving to a publication that will not hand it to Trump for his reasonable concerns gofund.me/a2ccdd485
December 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
On this giving Tuesday, consider giving to a publication that will not hand it to Trump for his reasonable concerns gofund.me/a2ccdd485
Was reading up on trifluoroacetate — among the shortest PFAS/flurocarbon, and sometimes a byproduct of these pesticides the EPA just approved — and it really looks like a contaminant from chemical engineering hell: highly soluble in water and with virtually nil degradation.
December 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Was reading up on trifluoroacetate — among the shortest PFAS/flurocarbon, and sometimes a byproduct of these pesticides the EPA just approved — and it really looks like a contaminant from chemical engineering hell: highly soluble in water and with virtually nil degradation.
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So about Admiral Bradley….military personnel can’t very well be expected not to follow illegal orders if the most senior officers do. No, because Pete Hegseth said to is not a valid excuse. By @taracopp.bsky.social & Noah Robertson [gift link]. wapo.st/4oyWISF
Hegseth, with White House help, tries to distance himself from boat strike fallout
As Congress vows accountability, the Trump administration emphasized it was a top military commander — not the defense secretary — who directed the engagement.
wapo.st
December 2, 2025 at 2:21 AM
So about Admiral Bradley….military personnel can’t very well be expected not to follow illegal orders if the most senior officers do. No, because Pete Hegseth said to is not a valid excuse. By @taracopp.bsky.social & Noah Robertson [gift link]. wapo.st/4oyWISF
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@shoe.bsky.social Costco delivers for the faithful once more!
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
@shoe.bsky.social Costco delivers for the faithful once more!
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The Krugman blog today on affordability gets at exactly what I think is happening, and what's missed in the vibecession debates
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/affordabil...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/affordabil...
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Krugman blog today on affordability gets at exactly what I think is happening, and what's missed in the vibecession debates
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/affordabil...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/affordabil...
Re, Jeffries, “no ceiling:” it feels like last generation’s pitch, about fears of resentful wreckers that would bring the cultural revolution to the United States. I think the professional class is ready for a new idea: leaving these billionaires around is like leaving out a loaded gun.
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Re, Jeffries, “no ceiling:” it feels like last generation’s pitch, about fears of resentful wreckers that would bring the cultural revolution to the United States. I think the professional class is ready for a new idea: leaving these billionaires around is like leaving out a loaded gun.
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The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.
With children I prefer to clear the airport via BART: given booster seats, the fast loading requirements are stressful. But BART doesn’t get me all the way home and costs as much as an uber. I’m not sure what the policy design is there, but it’s not good.
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
With children I prefer to clear the airport via BART: given booster seats, the fast loading requirements are stressful. But BART doesn’t get me all the way home and costs as much as an uber. I’m not sure what the policy design is there, but it’s not good.
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Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Not dissimilar to ‘Russia invading Ukraine makes no sense!’
What ‘makes sense’ depends a great deal on the baseline bellicosity of your population and how they view their neighbors
What ‘makes sense’ depends a great deal on the baseline bellicosity of your population and how they view their neighbors
People who say Israel's posture towards Syria makes no sense are stupid and just refuse to accept what Israel's logic is
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Not dissimilar to ‘Russia invading Ukraine makes no sense!’
What ‘makes sense’ depends a great deal on the baseline bellicosity of your population and how they view their neighbors
What ‘makes sense’ depends a great deal on the baseline bellicosity of your population and how they view their neighbors
Was just listening to a @lawfaremedia.org episode that was discussing the Ukrainian domestic politics about this guy: it seems a good thing he’s left the government.
Top Zelenskyy aide quits amid corruption probe on.ft.com/3XjxFbb
Top Zelenskyy aide quits amid corruption probe
Andriy Yermak’s resignation adds to trouble for beleaguered Ukrainian president
on.ft.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Was just listening to a @lawfaremedia.org episode that was discussing the Ukrainian domestic politics about this guy: it seems a good thing he’s left the government.
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
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i have never been nostalgic for the past before i was born and reading history only reinforces this. running water is good. not losing children to preventable diseases is good. human beings not being property is good.
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
i have never been nostalgic for the past before i was born and reading history only reinforces this. running water is good. not losing children to preventable diseases is good. human beings not being property is good.
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Thread. As the Trump administration seems intent on betraying Ukraine, it is end also to be moving toward war with Venezuela. @joshtpm.bsky.social tries, with limited success, to work out what the Trumpers want to do and why.
I’ve not had much success with this myself. But here’s my guess….
I’ve not had much success with this myself. But here’s my guess….
I do wonder if this is it. WTF is Donald Trump doing w Venezuela? Like we've had US presidents do crazy things. I mean we invaded Iraq and toppled its government more or less for no reason. But as someone who covered that story very closely they DID have reasons. They were bad ...
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Thread. As the Trump administration seems intent on betraying Ukraine, it is end also to be moving toward war with Venezuela. @joshtpm.bsky.social tries, with limited success, to work out what the Trumpers want to do and why.
I’ve not had much success with this myself. But here’s my guess….
I’ve not had much success with this myself. But here’s my guess….
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The (obvious in advance) limits of the government's strategy since it took office: a budget in which the majority of individual items poll well, yet people think it is the most unfair budget since YouGov started polling on this question.
% who say each 2025 Budget policy was the 'right thing to do' (1/3)
Increase gambling taxes: 82%
Freeze rail fares: 82%
Reducing energy bills by £150 a year by reducing green levies: 75%
Increasing minimum wage: 71%
Mansion tax: 67%
Decreasing biz rates for retail/hospitality/leisure: 64%
Increase gambling taxes: 82%
Freeze rail fares: 82%
Reducing energy bills by £150 a year by reducing green levies: 75%
Increasing minimum wage: 71%
Mansion tax: 67%
Decreasing biz rates for retail/hospitality/leisure: 64%
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The (obvious in advance) limits of the government's strategy since it took office: a budget in which the majority of individual items poll well, yet people think it is the most unfair budget since YouGov started polling on this question.
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
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China closed off Japanese seafood imports after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan declared strong support for Taiwan.
Suddenly, sushi is everywhere on Taiwanese social media.
Suddenly, sushi is everywhere on Taiwanese social media.
Warmed by Japan’s Support, Taiwan Takes Up Sushi Diplomacy
China closed off Japanese seafood imports after Japan’s new leader declared strong support for Taiwan. Suddenly, sushi is everywhere on Taiwanese social media.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
China closed off Japanese seafood imports after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan declared strong support for Taiwan.
Suddenly, sushi is everywhere on Taiwanese social media.
Suddenly, sushi is everywhere on Taiwanese social media.
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Shooting incident near the White House today, via @joshuajfriedman.com. Neither the President or the Vice President are in Washington today.
NEW: DC's Metropolitan Police Dept says it has one suspect in custody after a shooting at 17th and I, near the White House.
AP reports that two members of the National Guard were shot, which DHS sec Kristi Noem confirms in a tweet.
Jeff Mason of Reuters reports that the White House is on lockdown.
AP reports that two members of the National Guard were shot, which DHS sec Kristi Noem confirms in a tweet.
Jeff Mason of Reuters reports that the White House is on lockdown.
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Shooting incident near the White House today, via @joshuajfriedman.com. Neither the President or the Vice President are in Washington today.