Max Drickey
@max-drickey.bsky.social
Milwaukee policy analyst. Curious, but not THAT curious.
I'm devastated to report that House of Dynamite (2025) is entirely unrealistic because Chicago declared itself a Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone in 1986. Sad that the filmmakers didn't catch this.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I'm devastated to report that House of Dynamite (2025) is entirely unrealistic because Chicago declared itself a Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone in 1986. Sad that the filmmakers didn't catch this.
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And when you account for the massive increase in construction costs during the pandemic, the story looks even worse. We estimate that there was no consequential increase in spending on bridges, rail transit, or transit in general. Even spending on highway pavement has barely increased.
November 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
And when you account for the massive increase in construction costs during the pandemic, the story looks even worse. We estimate that there was no consequential increase in spending on bridges, rail transit, or transit in general. Even spending on highway pavement has barely increased.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
A lot of people on this site are mad about A House of Dynamite for bad reasons. It’s good and you should watch it!
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A ★★★★ review of A House of Dynamite (2025)
Truly there is no monster scarier than rational people making totally insane choices because those are the only choices left to them. This movie is competence porn but the competence is in executing a...
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November 1, 2025 at 5:57 AM
A lot of people on this site are mad about A House of Dynamite for bad reasons. It’s good and you should watch it!
boxd.it/bySY53
boxd.it/bySY53
God forbid we moderate on a position that, perhaps more than anything, has given us the second Trump administration
i think it's fascinating how Matty Y went from one billion americans to "ending birthright citizenship would probably be acceptable"
October 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
God forbid we moderate on a position that, perhaps more than anything, has given us the second Trump administration
I mean this chart is the whole damn ballgame.
October 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I mean this chart is the whole damn ballgame.
I’d never really thought about social media as a new form of Yellow Journalism, but that is indeed what it sounds like
This was an excellent read, and this bit stands out as what's made me most worried over the last few years. The whole information environment is geared to making people angry, afraid or depressed, and before we get to anything as advanced as politics, that's terrible for our brains.
October 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I’d never really thought about social media as a new form of Yellow Journalism, but that is indeed what it sounds like
No Kings in Janesville, WI — population 60,000.
October 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
No Kings in Janesville, WI — population 60,000.
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An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
October 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
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October 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
BREAKING: we've gentrified the post-it
People differentiating between totalizing, dehumanizing language from expressing moral outrage challenge (impossible)
Moral outrage in response to gleeful atrocity is correct, actually.
October 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
People differentiating between totalizing, dehumanizing language from expressing moral outrage challenge (impossible)
this is bad, why do so few people seem to care that this is bad, actually??
look i was recently talking to a septuagenarian life long dem (who shall remain nameless) and generic lib, and she was like “i just think there should be firing squads and they should sell tickets.”
October 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
this is bad, why do so few people seem to care that this is bad, actually??
more evidence the Lib Dems are the sensible party
Toxic Tommy Robinson is not good public diplomacy for Israel
October 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
more evidence the Lib Dems are the sensible party
The White House has spent 8 months hunting for a Desert Storm "In and out, 30 minutes tops" military conflict so that Trump stops looking like a pussy when he shares a stage with Putin, Xi, etc.
At last, the war with Venezuela that everyone has been asking for.
September 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The White House has spent 8 months hunting for a Desert Storm "In and out, 30 minutes tops" military conflict so that Trump stops looking like a pussy when he shares a stage with Putin, Xi, etc.
We need a politics of earnestness, not arrogance
September 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We need a politics of earnestness, not arrogance
Ah yes, what will help the left take power is by jettisoning their mainstream allies. Of course!
agree; the don't-fight-numbers-fuckstein types like ezra [probably] know that they're about to get jettisoned in the blue tea party and are desperately trying to negotiate away their pending irrelevance
September 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Ah yes, what will help the left take power is by jettisoning their mainstream allies. Of course!
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He in fact very explicitly got out of the game of day to day or week to week political commentary in order to have space to articulate his big ideas across a range of formats and genres
And I think that’s great, but too many people want to have it both ways.
And I think that’s great, but too many people want to have it both ways.
September 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
He in fact very explicitly got out of the game of day to day or week to week political commentary in order to have space to articulate his big ideas across a range of formats and genres
And I think that’s great, but too many people want to have it both ways.
And I think that’s great, but too many people want to have it both ways.
My brain shut down when reading this. This is such a cowardly cop-out answer. As a public intellectual, it *is* your job, actually, to try to persuade people who do not share your values to at least see the value of your contributions. Otherwise you’re just jerking yourself off. We are so fucked.
Throughout, Klein pushes Coates on how to persuade the ~35% of America who believe in hate.
Coates said, essentially, that’s not my job.
It’s a *great* answer on his own terms. He’s a writer not a strategist. If he were to argue in strategic terms, that would be inauthentic.
It’s a great answer.
Coates said, essentially, that’s not my job.
It’s a *great* answer on his own terms. He’s a writer not a strategist. If he were to argue in strategic terms, that would be inauthentic.
It’s a great answer.
September 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My brain shut down when reading this. This is such a cowardly cop-out answer. As a public intellectual, it *is* your job, actually, to try to persuade people who do not share your values to at least see the value of your contributions. Otherwise you’re just jerking yourself off. We are so fucked.
Why don't dems do this? are they stupid??
If it were me, I would simply only do good things backed up by the right rock and win forever, but that’s just me
September 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Why don't dems do this? are they stupid??
Liberal values are increasingly right-coded because there's a whole generation of people on the left who have given up on the foundations of free societies. Extremely sad!
SHOULD liberalism be saved? The definition of "liberal" seems to drift farther right with every year and every "compromise."
Many modern self-identified liberals are to the right of Ronald Reagan.
Many modern self-identified liberals are to the right of Ronald Reagan.
September 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Liberal values are increasingly right-coded because there's a whole generation of people on the left who have given up on the foundations of free societies. Extremely sad!
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so much of this shit "should you register for protests", "is it good to have the US flag at them" is just people wanting to be given some kind of deference as Protest Elders\Veterans in a little subculture of people who enjoy doing this shit, and for the most part..no. Can't gatekeep mass politics
September 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
so much of this shit "should you register for protests", "is it good to have the US flag at them" is just people wanting to be given some kind of deference as Protest Elders\Veterans in a little subculture of people who enjoy doing this shit, and for the most part..no. Can't gatekeep mass politics
US vaccine researchers be like
September 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
US vaccine researchers be like
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I think this is really key. The right doesn't think it's being hypocritical -- they think "you already did it, now it's our turn"
September 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I think this is really key. The right doesn't think it's being hypocritical -- they think "you already did it, now it's our turn"
Can *anyone* recommend any good, Bluesky-approved progressive news outlets or media that are genuinely trying to grow the movement?
Ned, real question: can you recommend any good, Bluesky-approved progressive news outlets or media enterprises that are genuinely trying to grow the movement?
September 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Can *anyone* recommend any good, Bluesky-approved progressive news outlets or media that are genuinely trying to grow the movement?
The Trump admin & allies are gleefully pulling out the ballpeen hammer and bonesaw to pulp and then dismember the first amendement and this is what we're talking about
Ezra Klein’s most recent column gives the game away: he talks about how horrified he was by Kirk’s assassination because he identifies with Kirk. Kirk, like Klein, talked for a living. So even if they had different policy positions, to some degree, Klein sees himself in Kirk.
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September 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The Trump admin & allies are gleefully pulling out the ballpeen hammer and bonesaw to pulp and then dismember the first amendement and this is what we're talking about