DanTroy.bsky.social
@dantroy.bsky.social
North American. I like books, music, politics, ed policy, econ, baseball, GAA hurling, macarons, and the Criterion Channel. Who doesn't?
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This is the sort of brazen lie you tell when you’re trying to demonstrate your power by showing you can say shit that everyone knows is a lie, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
Last month he was a soybean farmer, this month he’s an expert on intercontinental cattle drives.
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This is the sort of brazen lie you tell when you’re trying to demonstrate your power by showing you can say shit that everyone knows is a lie, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
Who could have guessed?
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Who could have guessed?
Fantastic!
November 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Fantastic!
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Wife: It is interesting that the biggest papers and networks burned decades of hard work by others who built up their brands to bend over immediately for Donald Trump because they thought he would be a successful dictator and 10 months in he's flailing. Those people have the worst business instincts
November 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Wife: It is interesting that the biggest papers and networks burned decades of hard work by others who built up their brands to bend over immediately for Donald Trump because they thought he would be a successful dictator and 10 months in he's flailing. Those people have the worst business instincts
Redd Kross - It's the little things (Sonny Bono cover)
YouTube video by Clark
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November 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold.
Where are my Originalists at?
Where are my Originalists at?
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold.
Where are my Originalists at?
Where are my Originalists at?
Both racism and deflation are bad.
Fed Governor Stephen Miran: "Cutting down net migration to 0, potentially even negative because of the deportations that have been occurring, I think is very deflationary."
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Both racism and deflation are bad.
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Cristiano Ronaldo was sent off as Portugal lost to Republic of Ireland.
Troy Parrott's double keeps his team's chances of second place alive.
Portugal need to better Hungary's result on Sunday to qualify for next summer's tournament.
Troy Parrott's double keeps his team's chances of second place alive.
Portugal need to better Hungary's result on Sunday to qualify for next summer's tournament.
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Cristiano Ronaldo was sent off as Portugal lost to Republic of Ireland.
Troy Parrott's double keeps his team's chances of second place alive.
Portugal need to better Hungary's result on Sunday to qualify for next summer's tournament.
Troy Parrott's double keeps his team's chances of second place alive.
Portugal need to better Hungary's result on Sunday to qualify for next summer's tournament.
TV news removes information from your brain.
as someone who was paid to do it for over a decade, i dont know how people can stand to watch cable news for free. it doesnt inform you about anything. they repeat either conventional wisdom or newswire reporting you could scan in 5 minutes. it is a net negative for humanity.
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
TV news removes information from your brain.
Typical hedging headline from the NYT, aside, there's no other option but to demand the resignation of the President, Speaker Johnson, and all complicit in the coverup of these horrific actions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Typical hedging headline from the NYT, aside, there's no other option but to demand the resignation of the President, Speaker Johnson, and all complicit in the coverup of these horrific actions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
Maybe the Senate Dems are trying to collect.on Polymarket bets?
Thoughts on Dems throwing a game they were winning. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
16 Thoughts On The Dem Shutdown Cave
Another disgrace, and a new path forward.
www.offmessage.net
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Maybe the Senate Dems are trying to collect.on Polymarket bets?
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The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
This is not the first time Trump has revealed complete ignorance about how insurance works and why it is necessary. It's astounding how many low-information voters believe he must know something since he's rich.
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is not the first time Trump has revealed complete ignorance about how insurance works and why it is necessary. It's astounding how many low-information voters believe he must know something since he's rich.
@seidler.bsky.social Here's an interesting dilemma: Yesavage or McLean? I'm trying to decide which to protect in an offseaon scoresheet draft. I will almost certainly lose the one I don't protect.
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
@seidler.bsky.social Here's an interesting dilemma: Yesavage or McLean? I'm trying to decide which to protect in an offseaon scoresheet draft. I will almost certainly lose the one I don't protect.
It's a work.
Greene: "I will praise Nancy Pelosi. She had an incredible career for her party. I served under her speakership in my first term in Congress and I'm very impressed at her ability to get things done. I wish we could get things done for our party like Nancy Pelosi was able to deliver for her party."
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It's a work.
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Breaking: The IRS will end a government-run option for filing your taxes for free in favor of boosting options offered by private tax preparation software companies, the Treasury Department told Congress in a long-expected report. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...
IRS Should Boost Tax Software Programs, Treasury Tells Congress
Treasury directed the IRS to redirect its efforts to strengthen public-private partnerships with tax preparation companies as Republicans look to wind down the Biden-era Direct File program, the…
news.bloombergtax.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
How much did Hogan Gidley pay for Dennis Kucinich's toupee?
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
How much did Hogan Gidley pay for Dennis Kucinich's toupee?
He is a very stupid and dangerous man.
Beyond its utter depravity, this is an extremely dangerous narrative that can ignite political violence against immigrant communities.
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
November 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
He is a very stupid and dangerous man.
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I think this is the truest baseball tweet for me
October 6, 2024 at 2:24 AM
I think this is the truest baseball tweet for me
It's not even news at this point.
November 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It's not even news at this point.
The cat is not pleased to be stuck inside on Halloween night.
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The cat is not pleased to be stuck inside on Halloween night.