Dave Strock
@davestrock.bsky.social
Oof, what if we did good things for people instead?
Read a book.
Read a book.
My 7th grader just presented a project this week on punishment and torture, where I learned that this is, in fact, called a pillory, not stocks. Kids these days 🤷♂️
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
My 7th grader just presented a project this week on punishment and torture, where I learned that this is, in fact, called a pillory, not stocks. Kids these days 🤷♂️
Just clicked for me that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social could adopt The New Breed moniker of the early Mets.
"Freeze The Rent" scrawled on bed sheets, mixing with cheers of "Fuck the Yankees and Dodgers" sounds like a lot of fun.
#MetsSky
"Freeze The Rent" scrawled on bed sheets, mixing with cheers of "Fuck the Yankees and Dodgers" sounds like a lot of fun.
#MetsSky
![From the Dickson Baseball Dictionary
A Definition of the term The New Breed
The name used by New York Daily News sportswriter Dick Young to describe the rabid, anti-authoritarian New York Mets fans during the franchise's early years (1960s). Roger Angell (The Summer Game, 1972, p.110) noted that their "perverse loyalty" was in part "engendered by a hatred for the kind of cold-blooded success typified by Mr. [Walter] O'Malley [of the Los Angeles Dodegrs] and by the owners of the New York Yankees."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nekza65kc7vtize5l3ugcek7/bafkreicu3cmrjpzhdgczuhhlubdp4rntys7izpv5mj37sdrj3csutemuba@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Just clicked for me that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social could adopt The New Breed moniker of the early Mets.
"Freeze The Rent" scrawled on bed sheets, mixing with cheers of "Fuck the Yankees and Dodgers" sounds like a lot of fun.
#MetsSky
"Freeze The Rent" scrawled on bed sheets, mixing with cheers of "Fuck the Yankees and Dodgers" sounds like a lot of fun.
#MetsSky
BORTAC - tacking the difficult terrain your grandpa's semi-urban streets
October 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
BORTAC - tacking the difficult terrain your grandpa's semi-urban streets
Especially true given the historical trend of productivity vs wages
October 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Especially true given the historical trend of productivity vs wages
This paragraph, by Spencer Roberts, has been stuck in my head for weeks.
October 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This paragraph, by Spencer Roberts, has been stuck in my head for weeks.
Is it subconscious selection, or simply the return of days we thought we learned enough to avoid, that I keep finding myself, in revisiting so-called great works, reading things that could have been written yesterday, yet would have been criticized as over-the-top if published even 10 years ago?
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Is it subconscious selection, or simply the return of days we thought we learned enough to avoid, that I keep finding myself, in revisiting so-called great works, reading things that could have been written yesterday, yet would have been criticized as over-the-top if published even 10 years ago?
Live look at the contractor's web site. Wonder why they think they need to hide.
October 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Live look at the contractor's web site. Wonder why they think they need to hide.
The contractor currently demolishing the East Wing of the White House doesn't even have a web site 🙄
October 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The contractor currently demolishing the East Wing of the White House doesn't even have a web site 🙄
2/ I have a decade long series of half-baked notes titled "It started in the 70s" that lists the various major changes that happened in the 70s, of which we are seeing the fruit today.
The two main impetuses were the Powell memo, and this graph.
The two main impetuses were the Powell memo, and this graph.
October 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
2/ I have a decade long series of half-baked notes titled "It started in the 70s" that lists the various major changes that happened in the 70s, of which we are seeing the fruit today.
The two main impetuses were the Powell memo, and this graph.
The two main impetuses were the Powell memo, and this graph.
1/ So much ink is wasted pretending that these guys are not simply the victims (and thus the victors) of their own media illiteracy.
National Conservatism's main unifying mark may well be the inability to understand meaning.
National Conservatism's main unifying mark may well be the inability to understand meaning.
October 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
1/ So much ink is wasted pretending that these guys are not simply the victims (and thus the victors) of their own media illiteracy.
National Conservatism's main unifying mark may well be the inability to understand meaning.
National Conservatism's main unifying mark may well be the inability to understand meaning.
3/ Abstract of above paper
October 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
3/ Abstract of above paper
This guy gets it.
September 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This guy gets it.
The tv guy, turned Secretary of War, thinks grooming standards underpin the "warrior ethos" 🙄
Truly the dumbest timeline.
Truly the dumbest timeline.
September 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The tv guy, turned Secretary of War, thinks grooming standards underpin the "warrior ethos" 🙄
Truly the dumbest timeline.
Truly the dumbest timeline.
September 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It's cute how the last paragraph tries to provide cover for himself via disavowing Rufo and trying to cover over the fact that this entire piece is providing cover *for* Rufo's project.
September 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It's cute how the last paragraph tries to provide cover for himself via disavowing Rufo and trying to cover over the fact that this entire piece is providing cover *for* Rufo's project.
September 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Time Magazine, 1957
time.com/archive/6869...
time.com/archive/6869...
![Quote of Jean-Paul Sartre as a character witness in the trial of Ben Saddock, an Algerian that killed Ali Chekkal in Paris for joining the French delegation to the UN, attempting to shorten the war in Algeria:
"One has to distinguish between political crime and terrorism. Terrorism, practiced to inspire fear, despises human life. The political killer demonstrates his respect for human life when he seeks, by killing, to avoid vast slaughter. Remember Charlotte Corday [who stabbed Marat in his bath]. All the French are proud of what she did.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nekza65kc7vtize5l3ugcek7/bafkreif4duryv65hwwgvtbdp5tsrfb7hcuynoxj6xng7za2zzjhigqkuyq@jpeg)
April 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Time Magazine, 1957
time.com/archive/6869...
time.com/archive/6869...
Yeah, it's always been like this 🙄
April 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Yeah, it's always been like this 🙄
According to this congressional rule, it hasn't "been less than a week"
Time has not moved forward since it was enacted.
Precisely to avoid the law that gives the executive 3 days of emergency tariff powers before reverting back to congress.
Time has not moved forward since it was enacted.
Precisely to avoid the law that gives the executive 3 days of emergency tariff powers before reverting back to congress.
April 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
According to this congressional rule, it hasn't "been less than a week"
Time has not moved forward since it was enacted.
Precisely to avoid the law that gives the executive 3 days of emergency tariff powers before reverting back to congress.
Time has not moved forward since it was enacted.
Precisely to avoid the law that gives the executive 3 days of emergency tariff powers before reverting back to congress.
Or they just rescind this rule change that literally warps time.
April 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Or they just rescind this rule change that literally warps time.
Congress already has the power they are pretending they don't have.
They just passed a rule that literally stops time so that power doesn't kick in in 3 days like it's supposed to.
They just passed a rule that literally stops time so that power doesn't kick in in 3 days like it's supposed to.
April 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Congress already has the power they are pretending they don't have.
They just passed a rule that literally stops time so that power doesn't kick in in 3 days like it's supposed to.
They just passed a rule that literally stops time so that power doesn't kick in in 3 days like it's supposed to.