Palate cleanser: Olivia Rodrigo playing "Just Like Heaven" with Robert Smith.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDTl...

One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months.

I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.

A progressive millennial takes the reins. Can he turn things around in time for 2026?

look at these headlines. we live in a dictatorship. it's not looming, it's not threatening, it's here.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.

Pleasantly surprised that most of my go-to data folks are also on bluesky. Was really the only reason I was holding onto that other account.

tiktok ceo making a video praising and thanking trump…. like we all knew it was coming but damn trump is really about to control every single mainstream social media platform

OK, I’m starting to experiment with YouTube shorts with TikTok‘s future uncertain. But why is YouTube shorts so, so bad?

It’ll start with one person I follow - and then devolves to utter nonsense that even my 12-year-old self would’ve hated.

So, this is what happens when CNN hires data bros for elections and they need something to do with them for the rest of the year.

Is anyone else spooked that holiday shopping at this stage is already being called “last minute” according to the retailers that want us to panic.

Elon Musk says Americans must suffer the "hardship" of $2 trillion in cuts to public spending, while he still gets tax cuts, government contracts, and corporate welfare.

No wonder I got a little angry talking about it. youtu.be/KXzkNKVLy9g?...

I will never understand how a billionaire, the richest man on Earth, spent millions to buy an election for ANOTHER billionaire, and told us that his policies would cause all of us non-billionaires “temporary hardship...”

...and the public didn't tell BOTH OF THEM to fuck off.

We need to bring back Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy. That should be the prerequisite for whoever is going to lead the DNC next. He is someone who I actually would like to hear from right now.

So many postmortems are calling for Dems to find an anti-establishment candidate. Maybe. But they’re not taking into account that after 4 years of Trump, ppl might be begging for establishment, for “normal.” Isn’t that why Biden won? There is only so much drinking bleach that people can take.

So, is there something to this strategy of running the same person over and over?

Holy shit. I’m tapped into Cato’s network and somehow missed this.

Can’t say what effect more coverage would have had, given that truth doesn’t seem to matter.

But it’s stunning. Trump did precisely what he accused Biden of doing. He released dangerous people for a political advantage.

23 mostly dismal thoughts on the election, worth exactly what you pay for them. (My blog is free.) www.jacobgrier.com/blog/2024/11...