Carl Holmberg

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You’re on the side of the angels, mate. Good work!

@barackobama.bsky.social Finally, the strapping African Muslim Socialist we were promised. 😎

The DOE's climate report is a sham, with hand-picked contrarian experts and cherry-picked data that ignores 99% of the scientific literature. by @andrewdessler.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/09/03/t...

Just out of the #DavidSpade 6/19/2025 Tucson show, where he fired on all cylinders…. unlike his 4/30/2010 show at the Maui Theater, Lahaina. Bomb’s happen, and he was so out of gas, the venue was the only building on Front Street that didn’t burn down, unwilling to die until the horror is erased.

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social, re the June 8th episode of Fast Politics podcast, it seemed you suggested California might withhold Federal taxes if Trump axes Federal funds for state projects. How could that work? The relationship between taxpayers and the IRS is direct. The states aren't middlemen.

(2/2) …which is a bit of a struggle, when you have a history of - for instance - equating extraordinarily high US health prices with medical advances, despite the fact that most medical advances are funded through the NIH, NSF, et al, or were until Spring ‘25.

(1/2) Megan is a right-leaning libertarian, which as a practical matter is a redundant phrase, given that the natural end game of a libertarian system is oligarchy. Libertarians are currently non-entities in the GOP. So she needs an audience to the left of the MAGA base…

I’ve read the (apparently partial) transcript of the interview. Bannon knows Trump is flying by the seat of his pants, but insists that it’s 4D chess. I’m not in favor of platforming a propagandist, but in the text he appears not to have steamrolled you. TG it wasn’t Leavitt, have been too much.

I think that Slotkin, Gallego, etc, think they’ve unlocked some cheat code for speaking to voters (winning while trump won the states) when it was entirely up to a bunch of random low-info voters that walked into the polling place, checked the box for trump, and left

Elon Musk wants more access to cheap H-1(b) visa holders to staff his companies in the US, so don’t dump on that unless you want to get shadowbanned out of existence on Twitter, as Maria Loupis, Laura Loomer, and Owen Shroyer found out. “Free speech for me… period.”

When you realize you’ve just done some illegal shit to a college that 40% of the judges in the district graduated from. 40% of the Circuit court judges graduated from Harvard, too. Oh, and 4 of the 9 SCOTUS justices including Roberts went there.

Half of the decrease in the US birthrate is because teenage girls have almost stopped getting pregnant (typically by adult men), this while the abortion rate has also dropped. God help us if pro-natalists decide we need to go old skool.
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Ah, you’re dealing with the Dipshit Paradox (again)? Between that, Brandolini’s Law, and sealioning, I’ve gotten a lot more comfortable just posting and ignoring the comments, but nobody bothers to lie about my positions.

Perhaps it’s a bit much to hope the NYC diner won’t have been to the Greater Los Angeles Area lately - say since March, 2020 - and can thus suspend their disbelief of the ambiance long enough to transport themselves one bite at a time.

At the risk of repeating one of the 300+ other replies, yeah Breunig is just talking about - if I’m generous - OECD babies, but is likely visualizing white babies.

When Harris said it would be $4,000, the “fact-checkers” tut-tutted and claimed what she said was only “half true” because there were some lower estimates. The “fact-checkers” lied; Harris was telling the truth.

The right wing portion of my high school cohort (class of ‘78-ish) have been downplaying and gaslighting themselves over this incident.

After giving away 20% of Ukraine because “they speak Russian there”, real estate developer/Trump envoy Steve Witkoff begins negotiations on adjusting the US/MX border.

How an Elon minion used one keyboard to halt all Federal payments, the sort of thing that ought to earn Marko Elez some time in a Federal pen to think about his life choices.

Photo of Verizon headquarters building.

No oligarch can avoid the appearance of conflict of interest, given all the pots they have a finger in. That said, if enough Fortune 100 firms think Trump/Musk are screwing them out of contracts and opportunities, some knees will start straightening out. www.reuters.com/business/med...

For the radical-right-dog-whistle-impaired, Musk is referring to the white nationalist “14 Words”: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourtee...

If Trump can disregard process to give Musk’s employees quick access to the Treasury payment system, he can just as easily give them access to the IRS and Census. If that doesn’t bother you, you’re part of the problem.

Excellent post

JUST IN: Judge MEHTA has barred Stewart Rhodes and other Oath Keepers whose sentences were *commuted* from going into Washinton or the U.S. Capitol without permission from the court.

Most open source researchers rely on search engines to do reverse image searches. However, there are also niche tools like RootAbout: It lets you upload a picture and checks it against Internet Archive collections. @anisashabir.bsky.social tested it: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

It’s going to be a bit nippy, so Trump’s taking his Inaugural indoors. 2021 wasn’t exactly picture perfect, but Joe did it outside anyway, because he’s not a t-word.

A tale of two PRC corporations:
Kunlun Tech divested Grindr for $490m profit.
Bytedance would rather take a $16b loss to close US TikTok business than sell?
Perhaps Congress was onto something.