@noa-narnold.bsky.social
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among other things a trip to costco is an easy way to keep two little kids occupied for a chunk of an afternoon
November 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
among other things a trip to costco is an easy way to keep two little kids occupied for a chunk of an afternoon
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Revealing piece from Bruce Bartlett explaining how even back in the 1980s, the Heritage Foundation understood how to play the news media in ways other think tanks didn't:
brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...
brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...
![Heritage also understood that time-pressed reporters were already adopting the horrid he-said/she-said style that plagues journalism today. If we got wind that some world-class Brookings scholar was due to release a book on, say, national health insurance that made an original contribution to knowledge in the field, someone at Heritage would quickly draft a short paper rehashing the same old talking points attacking national health insurance that had been around forever and release it the same day as the Brookings study. More often than not, we would get a story in the Washington Post the next day saying little more than this: “Today the Brookings Institution published a book, 3 tears in the making, advocating national health insurance, and the Heritage Foundation released a report on the same subject saying it would bankrupt the nation and lead to a deterioration in health quality.” Reporters never distinguished between the quality of one study and the shallowness of the other; they both got conflated and prevented the other side from getting traction on an issue.[vi] This method still works today.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qlnirjwff4ibiw3wchmleszo/bafkreiabn6zsn47fjy7fdtsz56sqyl22sg6werwfjmgi3f7tbemrfyucna@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Revealing piece from Bruce Bartlett explaining how even back in the 1980s, the Heritage Foundation understood how to play the news media in ways other think tanks didn't:
brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...
brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...
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me, being honked at: look pal, it's not a perfect system. there's gonna be mistakes
me, honking: you motherfucker you dumb motherfucker how can anyone be this fucking stupid you stupid piece of shit fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you
me, honking: you motherfucker you dumb motherfucker how can anyone be this fucking stupid you stupid piece of shit fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
me, being honked at: look pal, it's not a perfect system. there's gonna be mistakes
me, honking: you motherfucker you dumb motherfucker how can anyone be this fucking stupid you stupid piece of shit fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you
me, honking: you motherfucker you dumb motherfucker how can anyone be this fucking stupid you stupid piece of shit fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you
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“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One"
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One"
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This is brilliant
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This is brilliant
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😭😭😭😭😭
It's so dusty in my living room
It's so dusty in my living room
The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)
October 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
😭😭😭😭😭
It's so dusty in my living room
It's so dusty in my living room
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wow, which common vaccine was it?
October 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
wow, which common vaccine was it?
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Back in Portland and I can’t stress enough how urgently we need car-free streets, alternative housing models that move homes from the private market to some form of public ownership for better affordability, more street vending, and short transit headways.
September 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Back in Portland and I can’t stress enough how urgently we need car-free streets, alternative housing models that move homes from the private market to some form of public ownership for better affordability, more street vending, and short transit headways.
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Behold, the best 9/11 humor of all time: The Onion's TV listings (my favorite row is MTV)
September 11, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Behold, the best 9/11 humor of all time: The Onion's TV listings (my favorite row is MTV)
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Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.
September 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.
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The last 100 years of US politics
September 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The last 100 years of US politics
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“Having a guy” for a task is the number one most important thing you can do as you get older. We need to cultivate your guys, and the greatest honor is to be someone else’s “guy.”
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
August 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“Having a guy” for a task is the number one most important thing you can do as you get older. We need to cultivate your guys, and the greatest honor is to be someone else’s “guy.”
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my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
August 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
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Trump's splotchy hand and swollen ankles raise new questions about Joe Biden's health.
August 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Trump's splotchy hand and swollen ankles raise new questions about Joe Biden's health.
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What drives me insane is that the richest people in this country are the biggest freeloaders. They rake in subsidies, hide behind loopholes, and still hoard more wealth than they could ever spend. And yet they’ve got the audacity to complain?
We're sick of y'all! 🙄
We're sick of y'all! 🙄
August 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
What drives me insane is that the richest people in this country are the biggest freeloaders. They rake in subsidies, hide behind loopholes, and still hoard more wealth than they could ever spend. And yet they’ve got the audacity to complain?
We're sick of y'all! 🙄
We're sick of y'all! 🙄
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I'm a birthing person.
I'm a lover.
I'm an incarcerated person.
I'm your mother.
I'm unhoused.
I'm a saint.
I'm chest feeding all my babes.
I'm centering.
I'm Latinx.
I'm nothing in between.
You know you wouldn't want it any other way.
I'm a lover.
I'm an incarcerated person.
I'm your mother.
I'm unhoused.
I'm a saint.
I'm chest feeding all my babes.
I'm centering.
I'm Latinx.
I'm nothing in between.
You know you wouldn't want it any other way.
Don't say "birthing person."
Don't say "incarcerated person."
Don't say "the unhoused."
Don't say "chest feeding."
Don't say "centering.
Don't say "Latinx."
When voters hear this, they think Democrats are out of touch crazy people. Just talk normal. Be normal.
Don't say "incarcerated person."
Don't say "the unhoused."
Don't say "chest feeding."
Don't say "centering.
Don't say "Latinx."
When voters hear this, they think Democrats are out of touch crazy people. Just talk normal. Be normal.
August 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I'm a birthing person.
I'm a lover.
I'm an incarcerated person.
I'm your mother.
I'm unhoused.
I'm a saint.
I'm chest feeding all my babes.
I'm centering.
I'm Latinx.
I'm nothing in between.
You know you wouldn't want it any other way.
I'm a lover.
I'm an incarcerated person.
I'm your mother.
I'm unhoused.
I'm a saint.
I'm chest feeding all my babes.
I'm centering.
I'm Latinx.
I'm nothing in between.
You know you wouldn't want it any other way.
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"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
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I wrote about why the vibes feel so weird for knowledge workers right now. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-catast...
The catastrophe of knowledge work waits to be beautiful again, and interesting, and modern
From "Mad Men" to the AI era, the problems of underconsumption.
mattdpearce.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I wrote about why the vibes feel so weird for knowledge workers right now. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-catast...
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The soundtrack is haunting. youtu.be/fAXO7SXK0Pc
B.O.B. (Birds Over Big Bird)
YouTube video by Bell Brothers
youtu.be
July 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The soundtrack is haunting. youtu.be/fAXO7SXK0Pc
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this is such a good representation of American Christianity
June 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
this is such a good representation of American Christianity
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Ah, but you see, covering Biden means you can play act at being a hard nosed journalist without taking any risks or having to reflect on the morality of your own profession!
May 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Ah, but you see, covering Biden means you can play act at being a hard nosed journalist without taking any risks or having to reflect on the morality of your own profession!
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Seems pretty clear that DOGE wasn’t ever designed to increase efficiency, but to destroy regulators in Musk’s way and gobble up the data of the American public and its government so as to provide Musk market advantage in AI race.
May 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Seems pretty clear that DOGE wasn’t ever designed to increase efficiency, but to destroy regulators in Musk’s way and gobble up the data of the American public and its government so as to provide Musk market advantage in AI race.
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Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
NEWS:
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.