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if you let me write a star wars movie it would be an adaptation of the rogue squadron/wraith squadron books. post-jedi, early new republic. captains wedge antilles and tycho celchu must assemble a team of pilot/commandos to take out a gathering of high-ranking officers among the imperial remnant
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
if you let me write a star wars movie it would be an adaptation of the rogue squadron/wraith squadron books. post-jedi, early new republic. captains wedge antilles and tycho celchu must assemble a team of pilot/commandos to take out a gathering of high-ranking officers among the imperial remnant
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So we have the final breakdown of the Virginia legislature:
Democrats won 64 seats, a gain of 13.
Republicans won 36.
In historical perspective:
Democrats won 64 seats, a gain of 13.
Republicans won 36.
In historical perspective:
Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats:
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
So we have the final breakdown of the Virginia legislature:
Democrats won 64 seats, a gain of 13.
Republicans won 36.
In historical perspective:
Democrats won 64 seats, a gain of 13.
Republicans won 36.
In historical perspective:
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Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle.
Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger.
Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.
Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger.
Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle.
Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger.
Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.
Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger.
Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.
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Confirmed: Katie Wilson will be mayor of Seattle, ousting the incumbent from his left.
And Erika Evans will be the new city attorney, ousting the GOP city attorney after promising to take the office in a more progressive direction.
What do progressives' win mean for law enforcement? NEW IN BOLTS:
And Erika Evans will be the new city attorney, ousting the GOP city attorney after promising to take the office in a more progressive direction.
What do progressives' win mean for law enforcement? NEW IN BOLTS:
Progressives Win in Seattle, Changing Directions on Public Safety - Bolts
Voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.
boltsmag.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Confirmed: Katie Wilson will be mayor of Seattle, ousting the incumbent from his left.
And Erika Evans will be the new city attorney, ousting the GOP city attorney after promising to take the office in a more progressive direction.
What do progressives' win mean for law enforcement? NEW IN BOLTS:
And Erika Evans will be the new city attorney, ousting the GOP city attorney after promising to take the office in a more progressive direction.
What do progressives' win mean for law enforcement? NEW IN BOLTS:
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
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typically excellent analysis from @interfluidity.com drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/11/12/r...
Real purchasing power over time is not economic welfare over time
drafts @ interfluidity
drafts.interfluidity.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
typically excellent analysis from @interfluidity.com drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/11/12/r...
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Remember the last time a candidate for New York City Mayor proposed eliminating fares on city buses? Yes, I am talking about Michael Bloomberg in 2009. archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blo...
Bloomberg Calls for Free Crosstown Buses
The mayor appeared to be trying to assert a greater role for the city in mass transit as he seeks a third term in the November election, but he faces hurdles.
archive.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Remember the last time a candidate for New York City Mayor proposed eliminating fares on city buses? Yes, I am talking about Michael Bloomberg in 2009. archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blo...
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the inevitable Tesla collapse is going to just ruin millions of retail dipshits www.barrons.com/articles/tes...
Tesla Stock Drops. Retail Investors Keep Buying.
Tesla remains a popular stock with smaller investors.
www.barrons.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
the inevitable Tesla collapse is going to just ruin millions of retail dipshits www.barrons.com/articles/tes...
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"the first step to winning an election is making it about what you can win on. Strategic campaigns begin with the question: How do I force the issues and conversations that most benefit my side to the fore?" www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
www.weekendreading.net
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"the first step to winning an election is making it about what you can win on. Strategic campaigns begin with the question: How do I force the issues and conversations that most benefit my side to the fore?" www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
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What we know about legislative races:
VIRGINIA: currently 51-49 Dem
—Dems won 64
—GOP won 35 for sure
—one uncalled: a GOP-held seat that likely stay red but waiting for provisionals
NEW JERSEY: currently 52-28 Dem
—Dems have won 53
... and lead in 4 more
—GOP have won 19
... and lead in 4 more
VIRGINIA: currently 51-49 Dem
—Dems won 64
—GOP won 35 for sure
—one uncalled: a GOP-held seat that likely stay red but waiting for provisionals
NEW JERSEY: currently 52-28 Dem
—Dems have won 53
... and lead in 4 more
—GOP have won 19
... and lead in 4 more
November 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
What we know about legislative races:
VIRGINIA: currently 51-49 Dem
—Dems won 64
—GOP won 35 for sure
—one uncalled: a GOP-held seat that likely stay red but waiting for provisionals
NEW JERSEY: currently 52-28 Dem
—Dems have won 53
... and lead in 4 more
—GOP have won 19
... and lead in 4 more
VIRGINIA: currently 51-49 Dem
—Dems won 64
—GOP won 35 for sure
—one uncalled: a GOP-held seat that likely stay red but waiting for provisionals
NEW JERSEY: currently 52-28 Dem
—Dems have won 53
... and lead in 4 more
—GOP have won 19
... and lead in 4 more
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Buddy if this goes into 2026 there isn’t gonna be a federal government left to reopen.
GOP SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It may be 2026 when we'll come out of the shutdown.
REPORTERS: 😳
KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
REPORTERS: 😳
KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
November 8, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Buddy if this goes into 2026 there isn’t gonna be a federal government left to reopen.
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criterion 50% off sale at barnes and noble btw
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
criterion 50% off sale at barnes and noble btw
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So to cap their horrible week, Senate Republicans refused a deal to reopen the government in exchange for just helping people with health insurance and now the president wants the Supreme Court to say he doesn’t have to obey the law and feed the hungry.
Amazing.
Amazing.
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
So to cap their horrible week, Senate Republicans refused a deal to reopen the government in exchange for just helping people with health insurance and now the president wants the Supreme Court to say he doesn’t have to obey the law and feed the hungry.
Amazing.
Amazing.
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They really stuck the landing on this one.
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
They really stuck the landing on this one.
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I have a book to recommend.
- DC/PR/USVI statehood
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
👇🎯💯
Again, the needs to be & all the committees & commissions that want to Do A Popularism & focus on Kitchen Table Issues are engaged in a category mistake about What Democrats Must Do the next time they ever have power.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Again, the
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
November 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I have a book to recommend.
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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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So A House of Dynamite has sent me down a leeeetle bit of a nuclear war movie rabbit hole, and I just watched one that I not only had never seen but had never even heard of: an early HBO original movie called "Countdown to Looking Glass" (1984)
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
So A House of Dynamite has sent me down a leeeetle bit of a nuclear war movie rabbit hole, and I just watched one that I not only had never seen but had never even heard of: an early HBO original movie called "Countdown to Looking Glass" (1984)
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Welcome back phrenology bsky.app/profile/econ...
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Welcome back phrenology bsky.app/profile/econ...
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Here is my review of @attackerman.bsky.social's Reign of Terror from when it came out; no book connects these dots better newrepublic.com/article/1631...
How the War on Terror Undermined American Democracy
Spencer Ackerman’s new book argues that the forever wars created the conditions for Trump’s rise.
newrepublic.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Here is my review of @attackerman.bsky.social's Reign of Terror from when it came out; no book connects these dots better newrepublic.com/article/1631...
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What we know, final edition of the night:
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
What we know, final edition of the night:
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
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somehow they managed to do the free press but worse
behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol
October 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
somehow they managed to do the free press but worse
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US conservatives under Obama would sometimes wistfully post training footage of Russian special forces, like "look at what the real manly countries are doing instead of our woke baby military" and then all those VDV guys got annihilated within the first 3 days of the Ukraine invasion
And the cult of SOF is a real problem given that, if we've seen one thing in Ukraine, it is that in a near-peer conflict, highly-trained, ultra-elite infantry cost a lot to form and field but get shredded by firepower at exactly the same rate, if not faster than, regular infantry.
And this all starts right out of the academies or ROTC, are the top of the class going into arty or armor or logistics, no they’re all going to the 173rd airborne or ranger school, so you can see how the army has become so light infantry/SOF centric
October 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
US conservatives under Obama would sometimes wistfully post training footage of Russian special forces, like "look at what the real manly countries are doing instead of our woke baby military" and then all those VDV guys got annihilated within the first 3 days of the Ukraine invasion
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wrote this line yesterday:
"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."
"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."
October 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
wrote this line yesterday:
"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."
"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."