@tractorpull.bsky.social
Just waiting for the Phillies to join Bluesky so I can scream into the void again
Update: dream realized 1/29/25
Update: dream realized 1/29/25
Reposted
Lesson one: Yes, you can do a lot of things if you break the law.
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
December 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Lesson one: Yes, you can do a lot of things if you break the law.
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
Reposted
Someone should write a Moynihan report on our elite class, explaining that their problems are not socioeconomic but the product of a pathological ghetto culture.
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Someone should write a Moynihan report on our elite class, explaining that their problems are not socioeconomic but the product of a pathological ghetto culture.
Reposted
Tonight's real lesson for everyone on the internet is that if only the Democrats nominated your preferred candidate every time, they will always win. This is true left, liberal, and centrist.
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Tonight's real lesson for everyone on the internet is that if only the Democrats nominated your preferred candidate every time, they will always win. This is true left, liberal, and centrist.
Reposted
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
September 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
Reposted
Political violence is bad because civil conflict is absolutely fucking terrible for everyone. It empowers the worst people within a society and feeds into endless cycles of escalating violence that get harder and harder to stop.
September 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Political violence is bad because civil conflict is absolutely fucking terrible for everyone. It empowers the worst people within a society and feeds into endless cycles of escalating violence that get harder and harder to stop.
Reposted
a bunch of you really believe that trump is the unstoppable god king who can do whatever he declares and it is dumb as hell
August 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
a bunch of you really believe that trump is the unstoppable god king who can do whatever he declares and it is dumb as hell
Reposted
The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug.
They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
Kristi Noem: "I do know that LA wouldn't be standing today if President Trump hadn't taken action."
August 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug.
They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
Reposted
i want the phrase “a bunch of dumb fucks” said on cnbc at some point this week and directed toward the maga finance guys who thought hed be good for the economy bc he has a gold toilet
August 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
i want the phrase “a bunch of dumb fucks” said on cnbc at some point this week and directed toward the maga finance guys who thought hed be good for the economy bc he has a gold toilet
Reposted
My takeaway from former Fox News heads and commentators now in government is that they are lazy as shit and have no idea that normal people work for many consecutive hours in a day
Jeanine Pirro: First of all, I miss Fox. I love everybody.
Government is hard. I work at least 12 hours a day. You have to pay for water. Let me tell you, they waste millions.
She’s been U.S. Attorney for D.C. for 4 days.
Government is hard. I work at least 12 hours a day. You have to pay for water. Let me tell you, they waste millions.
She’s been U.S. Attorney for D.C. for 4 days.
August 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
My takeaway from former Fox News heads and commentators now in government is that they are lazy as shit and have no idea that normal people work for many consecutive hours in a day
Reposted
This is also why I think all the people saying men need their own spaces to solve the young men skewering Republican are wrong. They need more exposure to women, lot less. Too few of them think you can have platonic female friends and that by itself is demeaning to women
I think the most intractable form of bigotry might be misogyny solely because we have a lot do studies that suggest that when dominant populations (read: straight white males) are heavily exposed to people who are different from them they become less biased — with one exception
I would say this is a Streisand Effect thing except that it IS A BIG DEAL that the President is a rapist (proven by a court but weirdly media run mostly by male leadership seems to treat like a sideshow) but this also seems like evidence that he’s a PEDOPHILE is being withheld
July 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is also why I think all the people saying men need their own spaces to solve the young men skewering Republican are wrong. They need more exposure to women, lot less. Too few of them think you can have platonic female friends and that by itself is demeaning to women
Tom McCarthy is the Punxsutawney Phil of knowing when balls will leave the yard
July 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Tom McCarthy is the Punxsutawney Phil of knowing when balls will leave the yard
Reposted
one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.
The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion."
But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."
But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."
in addition to his "shylocks" comment, i can't imagine the media backlash if Biden said anything like from this screenshot - that he "hates Republicans" - and i'm also tired of having this "IMAGINE IF BIDEN!" thought experiment but it's just a constant reminder of the double standards
July 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.
Block the couch fucker
June 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Block the couch fucker
Lol I think they took this down already
June 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Lol I think they took this down already
Reposted
Trump and Miller going more insane than usual means the protests are working. They thought the public would cower in fear of morons wearing camo in the middle of a city and instead they got flipped off and shown asses
June 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Trump and Miller going more insane than usual means the protests are working. They thought the public would cower in fear of morons wearing camo in the middle of a city and instead they got flipped off and shown asses
Reposted
I really really needed to see that people hadn't given up and accepted this shit as inevitable, or (even worse) embraced it.
And today showed us that beautifully.
No one wanted in on his tank show, but people WERE HUNGRY to tell him to go fuck himself.
And today showed us that beautifully.
No one wanted in on his tank show, but people WERE HUNGRY to tell him to go fuck himself.
June 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I really really needed to see that people hadn't given up and accepted this shit as inevitable, or (even worse) embraced it.
And today showed us that beautifully.
No one wanted in on his tank show, but people WERE HUNGRY to tell him to go fuck himself.
And today showed us that beautifully.
No one wanted in on his tank show, but people WERE HUNGRY to tell him to go fuck himself.
Reposted
It’s not about agreement, it’s about assessing arguments on the evidence. A huge percentage of ‘debates’ in American politics are between people who are roughly aligned with reality and people who are not. Journalists shouldn’t shy away from pointing out when this is the case.
June 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
It’s not about agreement, it’s about assessing arguments on the evidence. A huge percentage of ‘debates’ in American politics are between people who are roughly aligned with reality and people who are not. Journalists shouldn’t shy away from pointing out when this is the case.
Women are too emotional to run the country
June 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Women are too emotional to run the country
Reposted
This is a good example of how framing is a choice. The author, Jeremy Peters, frames the story around the protagonist, rather than the university employees he spammed with DOGE-style questions about what they did, and who he recommended should be fired based on crappy AI.
June 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is a good example of how framing is a choice. The author, Jeremy Peters, frames the story around the protagonist, rather than the university employees he spammed with DOGE-style questions about what they did, and who he recommended should be fired based on crappy AI.
Reposted
Nothing lasts or develops or evolves in an organic way. It's invented, exploited, & "over" in the space of weeks, days, even hours. The endless production of shallow novelty becomes, in itself, tired & familiar. It starts to seem impossible for anything to be genuinely different, new, *meaningful*.
May 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Nothing lasts or develops or evolves in an organic way. It's invented, exploited, & "over" in the space of weeks, days, even hours. The endless production of shallow novelty becomes, in itself, tired & familiar. It starts to seem impossible for anything to be genuinely different, new, *meaningful*.
Reposted
Today's action is the single largest mass-illegalization event in US history.
350,000 people woke up this morning with legal status, living and working here with official permission. They'll go to bed as undocumented immigrants facing deportation.
350,000 people woke up this morning with legal status, living and working here with official permission. They'll go to bed as undocumented immigrants facing deportation.
BREAKING: SCOTUS allows DHS to reinstate Sec. Kristi Noem's order ending Temporary Protected Status for many Venezuelans, but notes the decision does not address challenges to actions "purport[ing] to invalidate" related legal status, work authorization documents, etc., previously granted under TPS.
May 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Today's action is the single largest mass-illegalization event in US history.
350,000 people woke up this morning with legal status, living and working here with official permission. They'll go to bed as undocumented immigrants facing deportation.
350,000 people woke up this morning with legal status, living and working here with official permission. They'll go to bed as undocumented immigrants facing deportation.
Reposted
Calls Grow For Biden To Leave Race After Strange ‘Bowling Ball’ Comment Raises Questions About His Fitness
FT: Trump “has puzzled trade negotiators in Tokyo after complaining about a test where he claims a bowling ball is dropped on a car ..
“.. Japan does not carry out such tests ..”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/b545...
“.. Japan does not carry out such tests ..”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/b545...
April 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Calls Grow For Biden To Leave Race After Strange ‘Bowling Ball’ Comment Raises Questions About His Fitness
Reposted
All this, just to pay for Trump's tax cuts for wealthier Americans.
It is weird as a health policy researcher to try to understand the high-level health policy goals of the moment and not being able to come up with anything other than "tax cuts for the wealthy."
It is weird as a health policy researcher to try to understand the high-level health policy goals of the moment and not being able to come up with anything other than "tax cuts for the wealthy."
“We’re gonna cut Medicaid, but no one will lose Medicaid as long as states spend more to make up for our cuts - so it’s not really a cut” appears to be the new GOP line.
It’s ofc bullshit - but also some states have automatic rollbacks of their Medicaid expansion if the federal match decreases.
It’s ofc bullshit - but also some states have automatic rollbacks of their Medicaid expansion if the federal match decreases.
Austin Scott previews how House Rs plan to cut Medicaid: "The federal govt is paying 90% of the Medicaid expansion. What we've talked about is moving that 90% level of the expansion back... nobody would be kicked off Medicaid as long as governors decided they wanted to continue to fund the program"
April 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
All this, just to pay for Trump's tax cuts for wealthier Americans.
It is weird as a health policy researcher to try to understand the high-level health policy goals of the moment and not being able to come up with anything other than "tax cuts for the wealthy."
It is weird as a health policy researcher to try to understand the high-level health policy goals of the moment and not being able to come up with anything other than "tax cuts for the wealthy."