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charles01.bsky.social
Chicago walking tour guide, econ student, and most importantly: poaster
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ok but this is literally just murder of civilians

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

My friends, it's not just happening in a galaxy far, far away.

submitted 8 days ago • 284 comments

A "liberal" intelligentsia that sees @liberalcurrents.com as too dangerously radical is simply not going to make it, in any sense.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

i don't live in NYC so take it for what it's worth but my sense is that cuomo's covid briefings (which won an emmy!) were very effective for him as a politician and there are probably things to learn from that

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

anyways so like. i have been critical of the democratic party, and liberals more broadly. i am critical because i want us to do better! if we can't take a hard look in the mirror *now*, when can we possibly do so? and yet--

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Billy, this is a Georgist land tax. It targets economic rent from land. It’s Pareto-efficient and non-distortionary. Its defect is that it is political suicide.

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

terrifying proposition. business and economics need to be kept so separate

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.

submitted 31 days ago • 214 comments

what are we doing bro

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

"Preventing youths from accessing gender-affirming care is child maltreatment, medical interventions are still quite hard to get, and conversion therapy practices remain prevalent despite being denounced by professional bodies." www.liberalcurrents.com/showing-thei...

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

is abundance based? Is mastercard a queer ally? Is this TV show my friend?

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

david hogg will be proved right every moment of every day for the next forever

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

'But that's fascism!' 'Not exactly.' 'This is impoundment!' 'Not exactly.' 'Those are emoluments!' 'Not exactly.' 'It's corruption!' 'Not exactly.' 'That's a bill of attainder!' 'Not exactly.' 'These are secret police!' 'Not exactly.'

submitted 39 days ago • 28 comments

bad things aren't happening until it is exactly as obvious as i personally require it to be. and also, that level of obvious is always just beyond wherever we're at now

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

he's doing the tweet lmao

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

"ducks are waterfowl in the anatidae family. if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, that has nothing to do with whether it's a duck. regardless of what social media wants"

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

"Woke Marxist Pope" (Malört Negroni): Malört, Campari, Punt e Mes, and a few dashes of orange bitters, on a big cube. The red color symbolizes the sacrificial nature of the office (and the left), the bitterness of the cocktail the suffering of the cross. To Leo XIV. Make America proud.

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

Introducing a new cocktail in honor of Pope Leo at my bar: the Prevost, which is half malort and half inka kola. Apparently it's "the worst thing I've ever seen" and "tastes like sweage"

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

“he is one divine man who exists as three distinct persons” the pope, explaining tamale guy

submitted 43 days ago • 7 comments

The body and blood of Christ

submitted 43 days ago • 57 comments

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

another nomad for the steppes. the khan rides on

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

okay unrelated but have other folks been getting this problem with bsky handles slowly migrating up and out of view like that if they have Arabic characters?

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

this should be setting off screaming alarm bells for urban and blue state democrats

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

business world is surprised that the 2016 Tariff Guy who spent his entire first term being a Tariff Enjoyer is implementing tariffs in his second term

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

one of the very clear rules in Judaism is that you can break any rule to save a life *except murder, idolatry, and sexual rules.* Sexual rules are in there because the rabbinical authorities understood very well that otherwise men would claim this *all the time*.

submitted 46 days ago • 4 comments