Captain Obvious
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Trust the Process, only to have your heart broken
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Passionate about learning over token collection
Trust the Process, only to have your heart broken
Fan of seeing the world through evidence
Educator
Passionate about learning over token collection
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Banner 24 hours for the press and they circled the wagons around Nuzzi, let the president call another reporter Piggy, and now sit there why the same President suggest that another colleague got what was coming to him why he was dismembered. But the important thing is to yell at people on BlueSky.
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Banner 24 hours for the press and they circled the wagons around Nuzzi, let the president call another reporter Piggy, and now sit there why the same President suggest that another colleague got what was coming to him why he was dismembered. But the important thing is to yell at people on BlueSky.
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The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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I just have to say that in addition to being morally reprehensible and spectacular arrogant Larry Summers is really bad at economic policy.
November 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I just have to say that in addition to being morally reprehensible and spectacular arrogant Larry Summers is really bad at economic policy.
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Society will remain broken until we deal with this
Extreme wealth allows people to live in such a way that they only ever have to interact with others who cater to them.
That kind of king-of-my-castle existence breeds a sense of entitlement that quickly turns to hostility when wealthy people face even the slightest of pushback.
That kind of king-of-my-castle existence breeds a sense of entitlement that quickly turns to hostility when wealthy people face even the slightest of pushback.
"When an off-camera female reporter... began to ask if there was anything 'incriminating' in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger in her face. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,' he said menacingly."
Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?
people.com/donald-trump...
Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?
people.com/donald-trump...
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Society will remain broken until we deal with this
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Simon's mother is Emily Bazelon, the NYT journalist and his father is Paul Sabin, a Yale professor. Simon was a legacy student nepo baby at Yale who graduated this year and was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and yet he thinks he knows best for the Dem party.
this is just a wild thing to tweet a week after democrats won a statewide in Georgia by 20 points. completely divorced from the current electoral environment
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Simon's mother is Emily Bazelon, the NYT journalist and his father is Paul Sabin, a Yale professor. Simon was a legacy student nepo baby at Yale who graduated this year and was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and yet he thinks he knows best for the Dem party.
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Can we please agree that “famous powerful man is so irreplaceable that any conduct can be excused in service of expedience” is the whole problem here
It kind of depends what classes he's teaching. If it's an intro class absolutely easy enough to sub someone in. If it's something more idiosyncratic, maybe less so.
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Can we please agree that “famous powerful man is so irreplaceable that any conduct can be excused in service of expedience” is the whole problem here
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you mean only in that our current debt system digs you in deep with fake promises and a huge handout to banks, and that itself should be viewed as crazy but isn’t, and a 50-year mortgage shows the true absurdity of it all?
nope. ivy league economists think 30-yr fixed mortgages=too generous
nope. ivy league economists think 30-yr fixed mortgages=too generous
Last week, the internet piled on President Trump's proposal for a 50-year mortgage. But maybe it's not as crazy as it sounds. n.pr/48gBWSR
Is a 50-year mortgage really that much crazier than a 30-year one?
Last week, the internet piled on President Trump's proposal for a 50-year mortgage. But maybe it's not as crazy as it sounds.
n.pr
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
you mean only in that our current debt system digs you in deep with fake promises and a huge handout to banks, and that itself should be viewed as crazy but isn’t, and a 50-year mortgage shows the true absurdity of it all?
nope. ivy league economists think 30-yr fixed mortgages=too generous
nope. ivy league economists think 30-yr fixed mortgages=too generous
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Yes.
"If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein's sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot… teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else." - @warren.senate.gov
www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/p...
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Yes.
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The Landman-style "fossil fuels are for real men, renewables are for sissies" thing is at once the stupidest conceivable way to approach this issue ... and, I would bet money, the single most common sentiment among Fox viewers. They get it on that side: dumb works.
November 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Landman-style "fossil fuels are for real men, renewables are for sissies" thing is at once the stupidest conceivable way to approach this issue ... and, I would bet money, the single most common sentiment among Fox viewers. They get it on that side: dumb works.
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There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
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Love that the same people who insist we don't need a childcare safety net because Grandparents can help out then come at Mayor-elect Wilson because her kid's Grandparents help out.
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Love that the same people who insist we don't need a childcare safety net because Grandparents can help out then come at Mayor-elect Wilson because her kid's Grandparents help out.
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Child marriage is heinous, but one thing I never see brought up in those discussions is that if you are under 18, you cannot file for divorce. If you are under 18 and married to an adult, they are your legal guardian and make decisions for you. That is not a partnership.
Most Minors Who Are Married Can't File for Divorce — Even if They Want To
The final installment of Wedlocked, our series about child marriage in the U.S., explores divorce.
www.teenvogue.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Child marriage is heinous, but one thing I never see brought up in those discussions is that if you are under 18, you cannot file for divorce. If you are under 18 and married to an adult, they are your legal guardian and make decisions for you. That is not a partnership.
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Jeff Bezos received a quarter of a million from his parents in 1995 to start his online bookstore idea.
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Jeff Bezos received a quarter of a million from his parents in 1995 to start his online bookstore idea.
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women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
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Thinking about how Summers and Epstein both frequently manipulated the media into giving or withholding coverage when they wanted and how the same media mysteriously decided to wage a scorched earth jihad against Harvard's President Claudine Gay. It's a strange coincidence to ponder!
Faculty discipline committees should really normalize de-tenuring/dismissal investigations for the sort of behavior described in the Summers case
A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Thinking about how Summers and Epstein both frequently manipulated the media into giving or withholding coverage when they wanted and how the same media mysteriously decided to wage a scorched earth jihad against Harvard's President Claudine Gay. It's a strange coincidence to ponder!
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This is the kind of coverage you want voters to see when they’re in line at the grocery checkout. 🤡
@peoplemag.bsky.social
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov @jamespmanley.bsky.social
people.com/ghislaine-ma...
@peoplemag.bsky.social
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov @jamespmanley.bsky.social
people.com/ghislaine-ma...
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is the kind of coverage you want voters to see when they’re in line at the grocery checkout. 🤡
@peoplemag.bsky.social
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov @jamespmanley.bsky.social
people.com/ghislaine-ma...
@peoplemag.bsky.social
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov @jamespmanley.bsky.social
people.com/ghislaine-ma...
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I’m familiar, by the way, with the argument that we just aren’t appreciating the NYT’s subtlety here; that it’s actually a searing indictment of this group of elites, just in a “show me, don’t tell me” kind of way. That take relies on ignoring that it’s in the New York Times.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I’m familiar, by the way, with the argument that we just aren’t appreciating the NYT’s subtlety here; that it’s actually a searing indictment of this group of elites, just in a “show me, don’t tell me” kind of way. That take relies on ignoring that it’s in the New York Times.
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somebody brought this up once in the context of Florida voters in 2000 and it fucked me up so much
just the cascading effects on our whole society from losing such a tidal wave of queer people
just the cascading effects on our whole society from losing such a tidal wave of queer people
A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
somebody brought this up once in the context of Florida voters in 2000 and it fucked me up so much
just the cascading effects on our whole society from losing such a tidal wave of queer people
just the cascading effects on our whole society from losing such a tidal wave of queer people
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A federal program that deported 400,000 immigrants from 2008-2014 increased new-construction home prices by 16%, or $50k. This is net of reduced demand effects.
2023 paper
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2023 paper
haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...
November 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A federal program that deported 400,000 immigrants from 2008-2014 increased new-construction home prices by 16%, or $50k. This is net of reduced demand effects.
2023 paper
haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...
2023 paper
haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...
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Sick to my stomach that the President being mixed up with a horrifying global network of pedophiles is considered a 'voter issue' and not something the whole world needs to know about and people need to be prosecuted for.
Only reason anyone would want people to ignore Epstein is if you're involved
Only reason anyone would want people to ignore Epstein is if you're involved
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
Force A Referendum On The Epstein Coverup
It divides Republicans much more than "affordability" or any other economic issue.
www.offmessage.net
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Sick to my stomach that the President being mixed up with a horrifying global network of pedophiles is considered a 'voter issue' and not something the whole world needs to know about and people need to be prosecuted for.
Only reason anyone would want people to ignore Epstein is if you're involved
Only reason anyone would want people to ignore Epstein is if you're involved
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I'm not interested in cracking down on bar bets and office pools. In fact I'd really like to get this done before that becomes necessary because the deeper the industry gets its hooks into every day life the more likely that will have to happen.
November 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I'm not interested in cracking down on bar bets and office pools. In fact I'd really like to get this done before that becomes necessary because the deeper the industry gets its hooks into every day life the more likely that will have to happen.
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These people always pitch themselves as savvy Real America Whisperers but constantly talking about how Republicans are right and Democrats are annoying is abysmal electoral strategy.
Talk about how minorities aren't a threat, billionaires are!
Talk about how minorities aren't a threat, billionaires are!
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
These people always pitch themselves as savvy Real America Whisperers but constantly talking about how Republicans are right and Democrats are annoying is abysmal electoral strategy.
Talk about how minorities aren't a threat, billionaires are!
Talk about how minorities aren't a threat, billionaires are!
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Democratic elites don’t understand why they lost and want to keep losing.
He is a misogynistic creep who hates working people. A Democratic Party that cares about its constituencies would not be elevating Summers.
He is a misogynistic creep who hates working people. A Democratic Party that cares about its constituencies would not be elevating Summers.
NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
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Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
prospect.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Democratic elites don’t understand why they lost and want to keep losing.
He is a misogynistic creep who hates working people. A Democratic Party that cares about its constituencies would not be elevating Summers.
He is a misogynistic creep who hates working people. A Democratic Party that cares about its constituencies would not be elevating Summers.
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This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.