Billy Shakes
@exeuntpursuedby.bsky.social
That’s a New Jersey fist.
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Dems really need to become the anti nepo baby party. Seriously way too many people in positions because they have a famous family member.
Honestly this dude is the embodiment of centrist consultancy brain rot, particularly because he absolutely owes his position to the fact that his mom has a wikipedia page
December 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Dems really need to become the anti nepo baby party. Seriously way too many people in positions because they have a famous family member.
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can't say what I think about this as it would get me banned from this website permanently
December 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
can't say what I think about this as it would get me banned from this website permanently
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the best distillation I’ve ever seen of my biggest problem with issue polling. A lot of positions are softly held and downstream of other principles/preferences! If you try to match the positions instead of what motivates the positions, you lose ppl who disagree but don’t win those who agree!
part of that is listening in a deep way — in a way that you won’t capture with issue polling. you have to ask yourself what is the underlying concern? is it that voters have a firm view of, say, the deficit? or does the deficit represent a set of larger worries. if the latter, you speak to *that*.
December 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
the best distillation I’ve ever seen of my biggest problem with issue polling. A lot of positions are softly held and downstream of other principles/preferences! If you try to match the positions instead of what motivates the positions, you lose ppl who disagree but don’t win those who agree!
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these people are so dumb.
there will be investigations. and this goes beyond trump and hegseth. everyone involved in decisions to use force unlawfully will be subject to justice, whether by ICC or national courts.
their crimes will follow them forever.
there will be investigations. and this goes beyond trump and hegseth. everyone involved in decisions to use force unlawfully will be subject to justice, whether by ICC or national courts.
their crimes will follow them forever.
"There is growing concern ... that in 2029 the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them."
I believe this is referred to as consciousness of guilt.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
I believe this is referred to as consciousness of guilt.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
these people are so dumb.
there will be investigations. and this goes beyond trump and hegseth. everyone involved in decisions to use force unlawfully will be subject to justice, whether by ICC or national courts.
their crimes will follow them forever.
there will be investigations. and this goes beyond trump and hegseth. everyone involved in decisions to use force unlawfully will be subject to justice, whether by ICC or national courts.
their crimes will follow them forever.
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Counterpoint: Nobody is ‘old enough’ to handle social media. The adults are the ones with the most cooked brains due to it. Using online should be like having a heavy machinery licence.
December 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Counterpoint: Nobody is ‘old enough’ to handle social media. The adults are the ones with the most cooked brains due to it. Using online should be like having a heavy machinery licence.
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since using Calbiri (easier for visually impaired people) rather than TNR costs literally nothing, this is just ableism for its own sake. these are the kind of people who resent seeing a wheelchair ramp.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
since using Calbiri (easier for visually impaired people) rather than TNR costs literally nothing, this is just ableism for its own sake. these are the kind of people who resent seeing a wheelchair ramp.
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Lander isn’t as left as I prefer but he would be a massive upgrade over Goldman and this is how you do politics: People help you and you help them.
You don’t have to love it but the left building coalitions and making center-left friends is unironically how we win.
These people love to lose.
You don’t have to love it but the left building coalitions and making center-left friends is unironically how we win.
These people love to lose.
December 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Lander isn’t as left as I prefer but he would be a massive upgrade over Goldman and this is how you do politics: People help you and you help them.
You don’t have to love it but the left building coalitions and making center-left friends is unironically how we win.
These people love to lose.
You don’t have to love it but the left building coalitions and making center-left friends is unironically how we win.
These people love to lose.
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Now it’s important that we do not extrapolate this because Florida is an evil state.
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Now it’s important that we do not extrapolate this because Florida is an evil state.
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The lawyers still working at places like DoD OGC know exactly what they're doing and need to be disbarred after this
NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The lawyers still working at places like DoD OGC know exactly what they're doing and need to be disbarred after this
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If repealing the 19th gains any political traction at all in the GOP we're going to see thermostatic public opinion become thermonuclear public opinion
December 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If repealing the 19th gains any political traction at all in the GOP we're going to see thermostatic public opinion become thermonuclear public opinion
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America is blowing up its near century-old position as strategic hegemon in the western hemisphere because Trump has a personal affinity with Eastern European autocrats, Stephen Miller hates immigrants, and Elon Musk thinks being asked to follow local laws is unacceptable.
December 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
America is blowing up its near century-old position as strategic hegemon in the western hemisphere because Trump has a personal affinity with Eastern European autocrats, Stephen Miller hates immigrants, and Elon Musk thinks being asked to follow local laws is unacceptable.
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A lot of American hysteria over Europe's civilisational condition is in effect projection of profound anxieties in US politics and culture over what could become an irreversible spiral of American geopolitical decline
Pushing policy to new and never-before-seen boundaries of craziness. London is a great city! Not as good as Manchester, sure, but you can't have it all. That some Americans have convinced themselves that it is a dangerous hellscape is bizarre.
The US president also singles out London, saying it is now a ‘different place’ and refers to the mayor Sadiq Khan as ‘disgusting’ ⬇️
December 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A lot of American hysteria over Europe's civilisational condition is in effect projection of profound anxieties in US politics and culture over what could become an irreversible spiral of American geopolitical decline
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The 'London is dangerous' meme is a useful reminder that the dividing line in our society is increasingly 'Can you perceive reality, at all?'
saw a certain recently-arrived-in-Washington journalist gushing about how safe it feels compared to London, the murder rate there is 32 per 100,000! London's is somewhere around 1! Be real!
December 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The 'London is dangerous' meme is a useful reminder that the dividing line in our society is increasingly 'Can you perceive reality, at all?'
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My moderate compromise standpoint is that everyone who has ever said or done Hitlerite things as a "joke" should be a) barred from all jobs and b) barred from all welfare benefits, with no support from the state in facing the ensuing consequences.
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
My moderate compromise standpoint is that everyone who has ever said or done Hitlerite things as a "joke" should be a) barred from all jobs and b) barred from all welfare benefits, with no support from the state in facing the ensuing consequences.
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This “warrior” bullshit has to stop man i cant take it
Pete Hegseth: "The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI."
He says the military has launched a new platform that "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."
He says the military has launched a new platform that "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."
December 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This “warrior” bullshit has to stop man i cant take it
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anyways just more evidence for my own bugbear that we're entering a new era of global ideological struggle, with the conflict lines running within nations as much as between them
December 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
anyways just more evidence for my own bugbear that we're entering a new era of global ideological struggle, with the conflict lines running within nations as much as between them
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the obsession with "sovereignty!!" as against liberal international institutions is an old paleoconservative bugbear, but here is revealed as a smokescreen. this isn't a document of peace and isolationism--it's a declaration of commitment to the international cause of white supremacy
December 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
the obsession with "sovereignty!!" as against liberal international institutions is an old paleoconservative bugbear, but here is revealed as a smokescreen. this isn't a document of peace and isolationism--it's a declaration of commitment to the international cause of white supremacy
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Abolish all British private schools seems like a good policy
December 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Abolish all British private schools seems like a good policy
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yeah I think in a perfect world education would be free and relatively broad until 21 (though not compulsory after 18) and then you would pay for masters' degrees in specialist topics.
Basically, college has become high school's second act, but with the added fact that students are paying for the classes.
but we've tried to make the undergraduate degree be far, far too many things at once, including basically 'you must be this tall to ride' for a range of jobs that your actual classes have almost nothing to do with.
December 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
yeah I think in a perfect world education would be free and relatively broad until 21 (though not compulsory after 18) and then you would pay for masters' degrees in specialist topics.
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honestly the strongest evidence I can think of is that you're considerably less likely to vote Republican if you went to college in the modern United States.
December 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
honestly the strongest evidence I can think of is that you're considerably less likely to vote Republican if you went to college in the modern United States.
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I demand no fewer than five goals on these assholes
December 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I demand no fewer than five goals on these assholes
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tbh i think more charts could use this kind of clear labeling
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
December 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
tbh i think more charts could use this kind of clear labeling
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There's no evidence Trump has ever driven a damn car.
He has never mowed a lawn.
He has never shoveled a walk.
He has never changed a lightbulb.
He has never washed dishes.
He has said he never ever changed a diaper and he has four children.
He has never mowed a lawn.
He has never shoveled a walk.
He has never changed a lightbulb.
He has never washed dishes.
He has said he never ever changed a diaper and he has four children.
something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
December 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
There's no evidence Trump has ever driven a damn car.
He has never mowed a lawn.
He has never shoveled a walk.
He has never changed a lightbulb.
He has never washed dishes.
He has said he never ever changed a diaper and he has four children.
He has never mowed a lawn.
He has never shoveled a walk.
He has never changed a lightbulb.
He has never washed dishes.
He has said he never ever changed a diaper and he has four children.
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something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us