loafsta.bsky.social
Dad, husband, recovering NYC lawyer, Gen-X, born in Midwest, raised in Mid-South, humanist ✡ #Dystonia #CripTheVote #ProgressiveDem #BidenHarris2024 #lgm #GoBlue #HTTC
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I feel like I’ve been involuntarily red-pilled. 🤯
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People did that! If you belonged to AAA you could send off an order by mail for a personalized route guide for an upcoming trip. I know my wife’s family sometimes did that for long road trips. You’d get a pack of maps with the route clearly labeled and info about AAA motels and repair shops.
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But she’s also empathizing with people who think the US “deserved it” in the next line - gives a strong impression she at least think’s it’s a reasonable take that the US “deserved” 9/11. I really feel like Covid pushed her off the cliff. She’s been adrift for years now.
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I guess I misread the intent of this post?
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I agree we should insist that Harvard act consistently with concepts of academic freedom it claims to defend. But the actions of a private institution, no matter how antithetical to its mission, are qualitatively different from the President using state power to suppress speech and academic freedom.
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Literally worse trade impacts than a global pandemic.
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I’m happy you guys survived the purge. I worried the new administration would usher in an era of USCPSC posting as stoic scold/industry shill. Relieved you’re sticking with irreverently/earnestly informative.
Also not sure you did survive the purge and sorry if you didn’t.
Yikes. That got dark.
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Have to wonder how Trump reacts to a top lieutenant emasculated in MAGA world. I’d love to see Miller’s influence diminish. I’m keeping an eye what happens with some of the Musk/DOGE priorities - might give a sense of how much power either of them still have to move the administration.
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ngl, I prefer to imagine Miller in despair. I suspect Musk spends most of his time in despair anyway, especially if the rumors of ketamine dependency are true.
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I know this is what passes for financial journalism these days, but it wasn’t the right thing. It wasn’t going to tell us anything we didn’t already know. If CNBC asked directly about tariff policy/market manipulation, at least his stupid answer wouldn’t be excused as a response to goading.
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Even if Ogles actually believes the lie that ICE is only rounding up foreign criminals, Bukele didn’t “clean up” El Salvador by arresting and deporting foreign criminals. He used paramilitary violence to terrorize and imprison thousands of Salvadorans for life without a hint of due process.
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The question is whether he’ll vote against it if that contempt provision is still in the bill when it comes out of conference.
Spoiler alert: if Trump wants Rep. Flood to vote for it, he will.
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It was an irrelevant question that drew a predictable response that didn’t tell us anything about Trump or his awful policies, but might get Trump to double down on them to all of our detriment.
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Definitely a lot of racism. And Bibi is happy to use it. Like Meir Kahane, he’s harnessing Mizrahi communities’ anti-Arab racism and distrust of Ashkenazi secular elites to secure power. The difference is that Kahane was probably sincere in his vile beliefs, while Bibi is mostly a vile opportunist.
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Well, the thing about White Supremacists is that most hate Jews at least as much as other ethnicities. The depressing thing is that some Jews (including those currently running Israel) still think it’s fine to embrace racialized hatred and direct it toward other groups to serve their own purposes.
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Ashkenazi shooter, Mizrahi victims - a perfect encapsulation of Israeli social dynamics. Right-wing descendants of European Jews see MENA Jews as Arab-lite ethnic inferiors, while right-wing MENA Jews insist that no, actually just Arabs are inferior. And violent bigotry flowers in the desert.
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Definitely the face of a guy who used the sewers to escape from a life sentence at Sing Sing.
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Guess we have an answer:
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Does the order actually release her or simply require ICE not to detain/re-arrest on immigration grounds if she’s released on bail in the criminal proceeding next week?
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At that point I’m demanding that they dunk the plane in a giant tank of water to find the pigeonhole like you would for a leaky tire.
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Strawman BS. No one is campaigning to convince the public he’s sharp. They’re campaigning to convince the public he was incapable of being president WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT. He wasn’t “sundowning,” doddering offstage. He’s old, but no evidence indicates he was scandalously incapacitated.
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“Everyone agrees” has entered the chat. 🤦♂️
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Kewl. You’ve already agreed above that Biden didn’t “wander off” on the debate stage. So where did he “wander off many times”? The point is that you don’t seem to understand the distinction between aging and dementia or, in the case of Biden’s “wandering”, fact and fiction.
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You’re basically admitting that you fell for those TikTok videos. . .
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And the supposed “efficiencies” of decentralized transactions is severely undercut by the reality that most people can only access crypto through sketchy, poorly regulated crypto exchanges.
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So CNN Pentagon beat gets solidarity and the AP WH correspondent gets the cold shoulder. Mainstream media’s choices remain baffling, but it seems pretty clear that the WH press corps is deeply rotten.
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It’s 2025 and big centrist pundits still argue that leaders should chase the popular narrative instead of trying to control it. Trump’s success is taking marginally popular ideas and twisting them into monstrous policy that shifts opinion through propaganda. We should not chase his narratives.
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Totally agree - the least they can do is try. If the GOP stymies those efforts, at least we can point to another way the GOP is destroying the norms that hold our institutions together.
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As used in the US vernacular, the term “antisemitism” clearly means discrimination against Jews, not other people of Semitic origin. Pretending it means something else is just playing semantic games - unhelpful at best.
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There is no standoff over “antisemitism policies.” Antisemitism is a pretext used by the deeply antisemitic Trump administration to scapegoat Jews for its efforts to cripple our elite institutions of higher education. @nbcnews.com needs to stop repeating the administration’s lies.
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I understood MSFT, AMZN and NVDA are the big-tech AI leaders due to MSFT’s longer relationship with OpenAI, AMZN’s leverage of AWS and NVIDIA’s hardware. I suspect unrealistic AI hype of Meta and X/TSLA and the public descent of Zuck/Musk into Trumpworld bro culture are to blame for reputation hits.
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Let’s just be careful about setting expectations. Democrats can’t put a hold on nominees if the GOP doesn’t let them - holds are honored by tradition, not rule. And Senate rules have permitted a majority vote to override a filibuster on judicial nominees for a decade - no 60 vote threshold here.
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If banning books at libraries and locking women up for having a miscarriage that someone thought was suspicious didn’t do it, I’m skeptical marijuana bans will.
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“Better than nothing” is weak sauce for the paper of record. The problem remains that their excellent long-form analysis and investigative reporting was overwhelmed by daily horse-race business-as-usual coverage by political/campaign beat reporters who couldn’t be bothered to provide context.
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After almost a century of revolution, warfare and terror under successive French monarchies and empires, it took Bismarck and the unification of Germany (under another emperor) to finally end French monarchy and there’s a straight line from that through WWI to the Nazis. I’d rather find another way.
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Also vacuum tubes . . .
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Everything is pretext. The same way they try to use allegations of antisemitism as a cudgel to burrow their way into the administration and admissions policies.
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I don’t know if it was decisive, but AIPAC certainly aggressively worked to unseat Jamaal Bowman in my district (NY16). TBF, he ran a lousy race and others Super PACs also supported his opponent, but AFAIK AIPAC kicked off the flood and spent the most.
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Ngl I was not familiar with the “longevity peach cake.”