Hank
@hankify.bsky.social
Living in Indy and Chapel Hill. '80s: bond sales in London and NYC. '90s: journalism in Budapest. 2000s: Quizlab, Blogads, Twiangulate, Pullquote, Racery, and AdBiblio. (Formally @hc on X.)
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If you’re interested in how the racist immigration regime was overturned, Jia Lynn Yang wrote a great & accessible history—>
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide
Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize<br />Shortlisted for the Arthur Ross Book Award<br />Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence<br />A <em>New York Times</em> Book Review Editors’ C...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If you’re interested in how the racist immigration regime was overturned, Jia Lynn Yang wrote a great & accessible history—>
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ICYMI, I hijacked the discourse to make one of my long-standing favorite points. The screen-shoot is from a WSJ op-ed by the Treasury Secretary doing before your very eyes EXACTLY (and with his customary insouciance) exactly what I complain about.
Please stop blaming on trade the things (or putative things like the $140k number) that are pretty much entirely the fault of America’s terrible nontradeable sectors. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
ICYMI, I hijacked the discourse to make one of my long-standing favorite points. The screen-shoot is from a WSJ op-ed by the Treasury Secretary doing before your very eyes EXACTLY (and with his customary insouciance) exactly what I complain about.
Twut??
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Twut??
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Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.
“Within the White House, Trump and his lieutenants aren’t planning on letting up…Trump has told some advisers that he wants RICO prosecutions and conspiracy charges leveled against the six Democrats, a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells Zeteo…
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November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.
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The super cool AI use case for a middle aged trillionaire is you could take a pic of a fellow party guest and Grok will spew clever vulgar insults about the person's appearance? Jfc what a sad stunted man he is.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The super cool AI use case for a middle aged trillionaire is you could take a pic of a fellow party guest and Grok will spew clever vulgar insults about the person's appearance? Jfc what a sad stunted man he is.
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Kimchi Rewires Human Immune Cells
A bowl of fermented cabbage sounds unremarkable until you watch immune cells shift their posture after weeks of eating it. In a 12 week clinical trial in Korea, researchers used single cell RNA sequencing to track how kimchi changes human antigen presenting cells…
A bowl of fermented cabbage sounds unremarkable until you watch immune cells shift their posture after weeks of eating it. In a 12 week clinical trial in Korea, researchers used single cell RNA sequencing to track how kimchi changes human antigen presenting cells…
Kimchi Rewires Human Immune Cells
A bowl of fermented cabbage sounds unremarkable until you watch immune cells shift their posture after weeks of eating it. In a 12 week clinical trial in Korea, researchers used single cell RNA sequencing to track how kimchi changes human antigen presenting cells and gently steers CD4 T cells toward balanced defensive and regulatory roles. The work, published in npj Science of Food, offers the most detailed look yet at how a traditional fermented food can tune the immune system without setting off alarm bells.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Kimchi Rewires Human Immune Cells
A bowl of fermented cabbage sounds unremarkable until you watch immune cells shift their posture after weeks of eating it. In a 12 week clinical trial in Korea, researchers used single cell RNA sequencing to track how kimchi changes human antigen presenting cells…
A bowl of fermented cabbage sounds unremarkable until you watch immune cells shift their posture after weeks of eating it. In a 12 week clinical trial in Korea, researchers used single cell RNA sequencing to track how kimchi changes human antigen presenting cells…
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A very easy solution is to make a lovely punch. Put a bottle of rum on the side for people who want it alcoholic.
Same with eggnog.
I mean have other stuff too but a lot of classic holiday beverages are really easy to just do non-alcoholic as the default.
Same with eggnog.
I mean have other stuff too but a lot of classic holiday beverages are really easy to just do non-alcoholic as the default.
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
A very easy solution is to make a lovely punch. Put a bottle of rum on the side for people who want it alcoholic.
Same with eggnog.
I mean have other stuff too but a lot of classic holiday beverages are really easy to just do non-alcoholic as the default.
Same with eggnog.
I mean have other stuff too but a lot of classic holiday beverages are really easy to just do non-alcoholic as the default.
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can't believe rfk jr wants to stop me from eating red M&Ms but he'll eat *** out of an ****
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
can't believe rfk jr wants to stop me from eating red M&Ms but he'll eat *** out of an ****
Look, people who start a statement with "look" are asserting as fact something that is, at best, emotionally appealing supposition.
November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Look, people who start a statement with "look" are asserting as fact something that is, at best, emotionally appealing supposition.
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Trump on Jerome Powell: "I'd love to fire his ass. He should be fired. The only thing Scott [Bessent] is blowing it on is the Fed. The rates are too high, Scott. And if you don't get it fixed fast, I'm going to fire your ass."
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Trump on Jerome Powell: "I'd love to fire his ass. He should be fired. The only thing Scott [Bessent] is blowing it on is the Fed. The rates are too high, Scott. And if you don't get it fixed fast, I'm going to fire your ass."
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The problem with relying on pithy observations like “history tends to repeats itself or rhymes” is that history is long and has many stanzas. It’s impossible to know in advance with any certainty whether tomorrow is going to rhyme with 2008, 1929, or the fall of the Roman Empire.
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The problem with relying on pithy observations like “history tends to repeats itself or rhymes” is that history is long and has many stanzas. It’s impossible to know in advance with any certainty whether tomorrow is going to rhyme with 2008, 1929, or the fall of the Roman Empire.
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Every time I see an excerpt from this Nuzzi production I think of Mencken's lines re: Harding's writing: "It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash."
November 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Every time I see an excerpt from this Nuzzi production I think of Mencken's lines re: Harding's writing: "It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash."
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it's like the Galbraith line about the French Revolution, except the surrender here was about 1 percent of what Jacques Necker asked of the French nobility bsky.app/profile/ryan...
"People of privilege will almost always risk total destruction rather than surrender any part of their privilege." youtu.be/KGSID_Uyw7w...
The Age of Uncertainty Episode 1 - The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism
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November 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
it's like the Galbraith line about the French Revolution, except the surrender here was about 1 percent of what Jacques Necker asked of the French nobility bsky.app/profile/ryan...
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#OtD 15 Nov 1987 1000s of factory workers in Brasov, Romania walked off the job in protest at the Ceausescu government's debt reduction plan which aimed to cut wages, food and energy consumption and eliminate 15,000 jobs in the city stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8725...
November 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#OtD 15 Nov 1987 1000s of factory workers in Brasov, Romania walked off the job in protest at the Ceausescu government's debt reduction plan which aimed to cut wages, food and energy consumption and eliminate 15,000 jobs in the city stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8725...
Crazy talk, black is white
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 9:15 PM
Crazy talk, black is white
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Good work by COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social
One of many examples of the new journalistic models evolving to fill existing-journalism voids.
One of many examples of the new journalistic models evolving to fill existing-journalism voids.
This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
couriernewsroom.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Good work by COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social
One of many examples of the new journalistic models evolving to fill existing-journalism voids.
One of many examples of the new journalistic models evolving to fill existing-journalism voids.
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The Trump Administration is saying its $20 billion bailout for Argentina is classified.
Give me a break. Trump just wants to hide the receipts.
Americans deserve to know where their money went.
Give me a break. Trump just wants to hide the receipts.
Americans deserve to know where their money went.
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The Trump Administration is saying its $20 billion bailout for Argentina is classified.
Give me a break. Trump just wants to hide the receipts.
Americans deserve to know where their money went.
Give me a break. Trump just wants to hide the receipts.
Americans deserve to know where their money went.
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When you do an oopsie and accidentally declared war on your own intra-military Nazis
Hegseth: "We don't need to be a military of beardos anymore. Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan? No, suddenly it's become this real fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon where troops came to be Nordic Pagan so they can grow a beard and nobody challenges them on it."
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
When you do an oopsie and accidentally declared war on your own intra-military Nazis
Proof that 90% of the wisdom in the world is possessed by women.
"I observed that half the IQ In world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent of population" — Larry Summers to Jeff Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Proof that 90% of the wisdom in the world is possessed by women.
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I love using the my pin to load my saved password to trigger 2 factor-authentication to do like the most basic, harmless stuff in existence. Feel like I'm incrasingly spending more of my time just logging on to things rather than doing anything.
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I love using the my pin to load my saved password to trigger 2 factor-authentication to do like the most basic, harmless stuff in existence. Feel like I'm incrasingly spending more of my time just logging on to things rather than doing anything.
"We" won the war against Germany in WWI and WWII. Meanwhile, "they," the Trumps, hid their German heritage by pretending to be Swedish.
Trump: "We have officially renamed the Dept of Defense back to the original name, Dept of War. And remember we won World War 1, we won World War 2, we won everything in between. We won everything that came before. And then we brilliantly decided to change the name. We became politically correct"
November 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"We" won the war against Germany in WWI and WWII. Meanwhile, "they," the Trumps, hid their German heritage by pretending to be Swedish.
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From 1875 to 1975, 6000 ships were lost on the Great Lakes.
Since November 10, 1975, zero ships have been lost.
Much of this is owed to technological advances, not just in shipbuilding and navigation, but also, crucially, in weather forecasting.
Since November 10, 1975, zero ships have been lost.
Much of this is owed to technological advances, not just in shipbuilding and navigation, but also, crucially, in weather forecasting.
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
From 1875 to 1975, 6000 ships were lost on the Great Lakes.
Since November 10, 1975, zero ships have been lost.
Much of this is owed to technological advances, not just in shipbuilding and navigation, but also, crucially, in weather forecasting.
Since November 10, 1975, zero ships have been lost.
Much of this is owed to technological advances, not just in shipbuilding and navigation, but also, crucially, in weather forecasting.
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If I were an American I would save money by simply buying lottery tickets with winning numbers and not those with losing numbers.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If I were an American I would save money by simply buying lottery tickets with winning numbers and not those with losing numbers.
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a lot of the problem with the Nates and Matts is that they didn't go to grad school. I don't think going ensures you aren't a blowhard knowitall, but it does make you understand that people have been working on shit for a long time and you can't just brush up in 3 hours because you are a special boy
As someone who spent ten years in grad school (and did defend + graduate) I’m always so weirded out by people who think being smart about one thing makes them smart about everything when what being highly educated did to me was saddle me with the crushing certainty that I’m not smart about anything
the pandemic really fucked him up. he had no expertise in public health, but felt like being a quant guy should make him an expert by default, and people not agreeing with him on that point just sent him into a bizarre radicalizing ego spiral.
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
a lot of the problem with the Nates and Matts is that they didn't go to grad school. I don't think going ensures you aren't a blowhard knowitall, but it does make you understand that people have been working on shit for a long time and you can't just brush up in 3 hours because you are a special boy