Josh S. Pumpkins

Ok cool man I’m glad I wasted my timing hoping you had a point

I guess you can quibble with “embrace” but largely supported.

I guess I’m hoping you can expand on that argument? Cuomo was endorsed by all three major papers, backed by major unions, and the majority of the city’s financial players. Also famously not explicitly endorsed but not endorsed against by a lot of powerful folks.

What do you mean?

The man’s name? @jgee.bsky.social

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

“China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, analysis reveals, adding evidence to the hope that the world’s biggest polluter has managed to hit its target of peak CO2 emissions well ahead of schedule.” [theguardian.com]

Which I think made it all the more stark when they largely embraced him when he ran.

Young Tatsuya Nakadai in Yojimbo smiling as a building goes up in flames behind him

Old Tatsuya Nakadai in Ran, fearful and confused as a building goes up in flames behind him

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai / get you an actor who can do both

What if – windows that kept sound out?

Chow Yun Fat in the John Woo movie The Killer (1989). He’s wearing a suit sitting in a church that is shot in such a way as to appear to be absolutely full of lit candles. Also there’s a white dove just hanging out.

John Woo: ‘Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my film is dying.’

Mamdani the Party Builder Partyism in action

I wrote about what I see as the real lesson of Mamdani's victory: not that Democrats needs to move left (or right, for that matter), but that they should try to build real-world relationships with normal voters. publiccomment.blog/p/mamdani-th...

Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

A chart showing a 20 year price change between sectors.

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.

If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

do you love SLEEP and hate HAVING COLDS ALL THE TIME
then BEING PARENT OF PRESCHOOLER may not be for you

Over 99% electrification of Indian Railways network complete Indian Railways Electrification: The Indian Railways has completed over 99% electrification of its broad-gauge network, with a significant push towards renewable energy, including rooftop solar panels...

Meanwhile, '3rd world' India has almost electrified all of its vast network in record time. infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/railway...

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”

its cool how two of the biggest tech companies are also the global leader in enabling scams (Meta) and the global leader in fencing stolen goods and selling counterfeit ones (Amazon)

Screenshot of a post from Ms Rachel’s Instagram Real Question from The NY Times As you know, a group has suggested, albeit without evidence, that you are accepting money in order to further Hamas's agenda. Is that true? This accusation is not only absurd, it's patently false.

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas

This is what's so aggravating — yes, it was not working in extracting a policy concession but it was working in *driving down trump's numbers and provoking GOP infighting* which is what's important if you take Dem rhetoric about the perils of MAGA remotely seriously.

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

“There were no good options” is both a defense of caving and a defense of sticking it out.

Opinion | Democrats Were on a Roll. Why Stop Now?

good Klein piece on the contradictions of the Democratic shutdown position that fed into yesterday's idiotic cave

the "shutdown for ACA credits" was a chimera position that served to unify the conference (good!) but wasn't the actual position of either libs or mods www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

Beginning concussion protocol after slapping my forehead so hard. bsky.app/profile/atru...

weirdly honest messaging from the breakaway mod/institutionalist leaders who blew up the party strategy

they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message

"Democratic capitulators whose seats would be filled by Democratic governors in the event of vacancy (Durbin, Fetterman, Kaine, King) should be under immense pressure to resign mid-session. Now, even. Or in Kaine’s case, after Abigail Spanberger is sworn in. If your senator fits that bill, get loud"

@schumer.senate.gov so what’s the punishment for this defection?