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I like to post and see posts. Director of Research at The States Project, the views expressed here are my own.
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I am not kidding, the protestors should should show up with sleeping bags and pillows for these guys.

submitted 35 minutes ago • 15 comments

RIP to Sly Stone, one of the best to ever do it www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqWQ...

submitted 33 minutes ago • 3 comments

Farewell to Sly Stone, one of the true musical giants of the 20th Century. variety.com/2025/music/n...

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submitted 4 hours ago • 68 comments

david zaslav looks like one of those dead bodies from five thousand years ago that they found perfectly preserved due to some weird circumstance. except alive

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

Did you know that if you post on Bluesky you don't see any Republican talking points when you're not on the website?

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

It’s also…incredibly ineffective messaging? Like when a political answers a question by saying “what we SHOULD be talking about is eggs” or whatever they just sound politician-like in a way that completely subsumes whatever they’re saying.

submitted 2 hours ago • 35 comments

It makes sense when it's an obvious fake story that the right is using to shift the conversation (like the migrant caravans). But when it's the thing that everyone is talking about that's your chance to get an argument in front of people.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

One of the core problems right now is that we are in a Don’t Care era. My pet example, also from sports, is the production of MLB streaming audio, which handles its ad breaks in ways that would have embarrassed me when I was a 16-year-old working at a small-town AM station. But they don’t care.

submitted 4 hours ago • 18 comments

Love seeing this come from someone that McArdle thinks she's in the same league as (she is not).

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

megan mcardle is just mad because she was given her fake republican job back when you still needed to get good grades

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

The World for Sale by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy makes a credible case that commodities traders are the Illuminati. An incredibly revealing book. Odd Lots Discord book recs continue their winning streak for me.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

He listened to this album and it changed his life forever

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

A slightly different definition of "fix" the city www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/09/c...

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

"To give a sense of the scale of the inefficiency, analysis we did in the Biden administration gave an example of Walmart’s blockchain usage that was up to 50 million times (not a typo) less efficient, in terms of compute, than a traditional database configuration."

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

the reframing of bluesky as some sort of bubble for one viewpoint conveniently ignores the fact many of us left X because our work was obviously being censored for its viewpoints. i wrote about tesla and climate and trans people and was significantly throttled. that’s why i left!

submitted 15 hours ago • 52 comments

I am ranking Zohran but this is a seriously misguided take. Brannan opposes congestion pricing. He forced City of Yes to include a special carve out preventing ADUs from being built in his neighborhood. Meanwhile, Mark Levine has been steadfastly supportive of congestion pricing and pro-housing.

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

Honest question, did BLM protest imagery make it into Trump ads in 2024?

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

For your non-Bluesky friends defector.com/andrew-cuomo...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

The city is moving incredibly fast to crack down on e-bikes and no one is doing anything about recidivist speeders even after a woman with dozens of camera-issued speed tickets wiped out a family in Brooklyn nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/06/08/b...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

New York's violent crime rate was 23.0% lower than the national average, and New York's property crime rate was 27.6% lower than the national average. Andrew Cuomo can eat shit. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the...

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

Community bankers are like beer wholesalers, you don't think about them but if they get mad about any potential legislation your congressman will never hear the end of it.

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

it really says something that this is the worst era of Politico Playbook by a considerable margin

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Look, protesters can wave whatever they want, but as someone who's written about protests like this, I'd politely suggest if you're trying to dispel racist claims that you're an army from a foreign country, maybe *don't* wave a foreign country's flag as you square off against US troops?

submitted 6 hours ago • 673 comments

20% of the US construction workforce is made up of undocumented immigrants. The US construction workforce increases at an avg rate of about 3%/year. If we were to lose those undocumented workers, it would take about 6-7 years to replace them, if ever. Could set back construction almost a decade.

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

this is a reply to mcmegan’s undoubtedly terrible bluesky column in the post and it’s my experience as well you can be a moderate or centrist and get on just fine here, but people aren’t going to tolerate you being an asshole and will push back at dumb takes

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

Wow. Full Bulworth.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

This has improved significantly since I got here 2 years ago. If Harris had won it'd probably be even more predominant.

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

Hot Milk by Deborah Levy is the perfect book for Bluesky posters looking to get back into reading because it's a brisk read about austerity, chronic illness and bisexuality

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

I wanted to be a spy, so maybe I am

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

More reorganization'll fix the thing *WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY TO SEPARATE INTO TWO MEDIA COMPANIES *WARNER BROS. SAYS ZASLAV TO LEAD STREAMING & STUDIOS COMPANY

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

Progressive activists no longer have a considerable amount of influence on Twitter because the site has been reengineered to promote paying users and people who agree with Elon Musk. This has been reported on extensively and is obvious to users left of center.

submitted 10 hours ago • 33 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 19 hours ago • 823 comments

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

submitted 15 hours ago • 338 comments

Showing solidarity with LA by having 3 beers and rewatching Repo Man

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

LA is America they invented fast food and mass produced video pornography we are nothing as a culture without these things

submitted 18 hours ago • 21 comments

I never thought there'd be a worse freshman-year assignment than me being required to read a Thomas Friedman book for an international relations class but this is it

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

Richard Jefferson in the booth with Mike Breen and Doris Burke

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

The Department of Homeland Security is asking every NBA Finals home fan if they'd be willing to be part of an occupying force.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment