Mason Vettericks
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Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
This is the crux and people need to just get over it and realize having children is more gooder than not lol. It's a large sacrifice you take on most directly for the benefit of another's life (your kid) and less directly for the benefit of your whole community.
We can argue up and down about why schools are different or path dependency or the practical effects of incentive structures or the rest but if you spend enough time doing this it becomes obvious none of that matters. It's just about status. They don't want parents to be deemed more gooder than not.
October 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is the crux and people need to just get over it and realize having children is more gooder than not lol. It's a large sacrifice you take on most directly for the benefit of another's life (your kid) and less directly for the benefit of your whole community.
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It's great that Trump's approval on stuff like immigration and crime is now underwater, but I also see a lot of over-optimism about this stuff that doesn't take the comparative polling into account.
October 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
It's great that Trump's approval on stuff like immigration and crime is now underwater, but I also see a lot of over-optimism about this stuff that doesn't take the comparative polling into account.
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at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition
Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."
Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?
Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?
October 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition
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I don’t trust people who befriend people less attractive than them. Desperate to be “the hot friend”. Enjoy parading yourself around with your pet hog.
October 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I don’t trust people who befriend people less attractive than them. Desperate to be “the hot friend”. Enjoy parading yourself around with your pet hog.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...
Incredibly infuriating article. A bunch of over educated morons who were too erudite and sophisticated to see obvious truths staring them in the face.
Incredibly infuriating article. A bunch of over educated morons who were too erudite and sophisticated to see obvious truths staring them in the face.
‘Bow to the Emperor’: We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...
Incredibly infuriating article. A bunch of over educated morons who were too erudite and sophisticated to see obvious truths staring them in the face.
Incredibly infuriating article. A bunch of over educated morons who were too erudite and sophisticated to see obvious truths staring them in the face.
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This version of Pete Buttigieg is as real as The Onion’s version of Diamond Joe Biden.
Donald Trump is invading blue states; this does not seem like a good time to write dystopian fanfiction about an imagined version of the Democratic Party.
October 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This version of Pete Buttigieg is as real as The Onion’s version of Diamond Joe Biden.
The question is, why would Democrats bail Republicans out of their own mess like this?
I'd be shocked if GOP didn't give in on the ACA subsidies.
Easiest political move imaginable for them, and my guess is they've planned on "caving" on this for months but wanted the Dems to at least push them to a shut down to do it.
Easiest political move imaginable for them, and my guess is they've planned on "caving" on this for months but wanted the Dems to at least push them to a shut down to do it.
Trump: We would make a deal on Affordable Care Act subsidies.
October 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The question is, why would Democrats bail Republicans out of their own mess like this?
ChatGPT's email is clearly better 😭
If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!
October 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
ChatGPT's email is clearly better 😭
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After sort of a base level of financial security,
If you are lucky enough to get that, the really important things are time and health.
If you are lucky enough to get that, the really important things are time and health.
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
After sort of a base level of financial security,
If you are lucky enough to get that, the really important things are time and health.
If you are lucky enough to get that, the really important things are time and health.
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It's inspiring that a person can start a Substack and with nothing more than strong ideas, hard work, and the support of a few billionaires plus a corrupt FCC merger review process achieve a lucrative exit plus power over a television network.
October 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
It's inspiring that a person can start a Substack and with nothing more than strong ideas, hard work, and the support of a few billionaires plus a corrupt FCC merger review process achieve a lucrative exit plus power over a television network.
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Guys, I am NERDING out right now.
WE TOOK THIS PHOTO by holding up my little old iPhone 16 to the eyepiece of our telescope tonight. We were also able to see Saturn’s rings, which looked like a line through the middle of a small bright dot.
IN AWE.
WE TOOK THIS PHOTO by holding up my little old iPhone 16 to the eyepiece of our telescope tonight. We were also able to see Saturn’s rings, which looked like a line through the middle of a small bright dot.
IN AWE.
October 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Guys, I am NERDING out right now.
WE TOOK THIS PHOTO by holding up my little old iPhone 16 to the eyepiece of our telescope tonight. We were also able to see Saturn’s rings, which looked like a line through the middle of a small bright dot.
IN AWE.
WE TOOK THIS PHOTO by holding up my little old iPhone 16 to the eyepiece of our telescope tonight. We were also able to see Saturn’s rings, which looked like a line through the middle of a small bright dot.
IN AWE.
What the fuck are these guys doing lol
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
What the fuck are these guys doing lol
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what the fuck is going on
October 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
what the fuck is going on
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A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I don't buy this. Russian civil society in 1905 was approximately one billion times weaker than the US today. The reason is that we are too rich and comfortable and the political/economic situation simply isn't impactful enough for people to take the risk of disrupting their lives to this extent.
Why doesn't the US have a general strike? Well you can point to culture or whatever but I think structure is of not immediate use here: does the US have organizations and institutions it can use to network, organize and mobilize a general strike? No.
October 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I don't buy this. Russian civil society in 1905 was approximately one billion times weaker than the US today. The reason is that we are too rich and comfortable and the political/economic situation simply isn't impactful enough for people to take the risk of disrupting their lives to this extent.
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If OpenAI lights $1 trillion on fire and achieves nothing of technical consequence whatsoever except for the destruction of existing US copyright and IP laws it would likely be the most effective pro-growth intervention in decades and more than easily justify spending that money.
October 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If OpenAI lights $1 trillion on fire and achieves nothing of technical consequence whatsoever except for the destruction of existing US copyright and IP laws it would likely be the most effective pro-growth intervention in decades and more than easily justify spending that money.
Yeah what the fuck. Kimmel was factually wrong but you hear conspiracy theories 100x more deranged on Fox every week
I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’
The decision follows conservative backlash to a comment the late-night host made about Charlie Kirk.
www.vulture.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Yeah what the fuck. Kimmel was factually wrong but you hear conspiracy theories 100x more deranged on Fox every week
The international system cannot possibly exist if the US claims it can unilaterally kill other countries nationals with no judicial or diplomatic process.
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed.
There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.
Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.
Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
September 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The international system cannot possibly exist if the US claims it can unilaterally kill other countries nationals with no judicial or diplomatic process.
I think AI will largely make internet based communication completely free of language barriers eventually. It's really good at translating things and also really good at imitating voices. Seems like it might be a big deal long term.
September 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I think AI will largely make internet based communication completely free of language barriers eventually. It's really good at translating things and also really good at imitating voices. Seems like it might be a big deal long term.
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I'm sure this will be popular. www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-have-to...
The case for staying on Twitter
Against a politics of hygiene
www.theargumentmag.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I'm sure this will be popular. www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-have-to...
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-A historic capex boom can’t lift 1H real GDP growth ex-noise beyond the 1%’s
-A modest housing recession hasn’t dragged the overall economy into recession
Both are true/are related.
-A modest housing recession hasn’t dragged the overall economy into recession
Both are true/are related.
July 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
-A historic capex boom can’t lift 1H real GDP growth ex-noise beyond the 1%’s
-A modest housing recession hasn’t dragged the overall economy into recession
Both are true/are related.
-A modest housing recession hasn’t dragged the overall economy into recession
Both are true/are related.
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sorry, sorry, i'm trying to delete
July 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
sorry, sorry, i'm trying to delete
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folks On Here are not going to want to hear this but the data is suggesting that the outlook is shifting towards significant economic strengthening despite uncertainty/tariff cost burdens, I think there's a real risk the Fed doesn't cut at all this year (for mostly "good" i.e. positive reasons)
July 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
folks On Here are not going to want to hear this but the data is suggesting that the outlook is shifting towards significant economic strengthening despite uncertainty/tariff cost burdens, I think there's a real risk the Fed doesn't cut at all this year (for mostly "good" i.e. positive reasons)