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kkavanagh.bsky.social
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I told you we’d be back

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Just when I've become 99% convinced that the internet was a mistake, something like this comes over the transom and I have to readjust my thinking on the issue.

Talked to Tim Walz as he campaigned in Wisconsin. Thought his answer to one Q I'd had for Dems - if you come back in 2028, do you rebuild everything DOGE broke? - was interesting. "I think it's an opportunity." www.semafor.com/article/03/1...

He wants to release his tax returns!

1. Short thread. When I started writing this piece - crookedtimber.org/2025/02/02/t... - , I wasn't aware that the musician Grimes was talking about how alienated she felt from the antiwoke crowd that she used to hang with. Nor that people on Bluesky would start banging on about "wallet inspectors."

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

I just realized that it's a near certainty that someone at the White House has, in the past 36 hours, asked someone else if air traffic control couldn't be done by AI.

Los Angeles January 2025

Could Donald Trump be a moderating influence on an Elon Musk presidency?

If I get 25 million followers here by Monday, I'll tell you all about our efforts in New Jersey.

"Democrats need to organize their future politics around the simple reality that the establishment media is structural hostile to the Democratic party."

YES. @aoc.bsky.social telling the truth about these scumbags. The folks who fund churches full of child predators want to be able to look in your kid's pants, and they deserve to be destroyed for it.

"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

Here is information on the "Ride For Your Life 2024" event in Washington D.C. for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims which is this Sunday, November 17th, 2024. waba.org/event/ride-f...

New, from me: I've spent the last four years thinking about what happens to the federal government if Trump returns. So I am offering a few predictions about what happens next. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

www.popehat.com/p/and-yet-it...

I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM