Scott Best

"That [billionaire] don’t need it. He just doesn’t want you to have it."

Curious if this is a known comorbidity of his chronic decency insufficiency?

"News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity." -- Bill Moyers

The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇

Next time: dishes in the shower. :-) Hope you feel better soon!

<sprinkles ketamine onto my popcorn>

It's the least sexy threesome imaginable, all f*cking each other over.

I've cooked up a large batch of my F*CK BOTH OF THEM popcorn and am ready for the show.

I guess I admire the consistency ... the promise of heaven was originally invented to distract the poor from wealth inequity.

Reminds me of that Al Smith quote: "The cure to the ills of democracy is more democracy." Not less.

Somewhere, Justice Beerbrett Kavanaugh is smiling in approval.

"Yay, Jesus! Wait ... not *that* Jesus."

I didn't say "middle of the road" though. The NYT "sane-washed" him as nothing more than a bombastic iconoclast. They refused to identify him as >dangerous< to our country and institutions when he was explicitly promising to be exactly that. They also sidelined editorialists who dared say as much.

Think of it this way: my interest in your degree of entertainment is on par with the degree of "criticism" you inexplicitly detected in the original article:

"legal experts have called [Mr. Trump’s lawsuit against CBS] far-fetched."

Ouch! Some real hard-hitting journalistic critique there.

You said you "honestly don't get it" why people hate on the paper. I'm offering an explanation. Feel free to ignore it.

No, MAGAs don't read the paper. But the NYC "capital class" does. And Lordy, do they *want* to believe that Trump is a traditional Republican (low taxes, weak FTC, minimal regulation) with a nothing but a rough exterior. Those readers will find exactly that permission in the Gray Lady pages.

Easter! Brought to you by ... Crown of Thorns, Inc.

This week's master class on economics...

A reminder that Trump and the GOP Congress do not expect the tariffs to actually be successful. They need exist only to *claim* they are successful. That trillions of dollars were collected, and now the wealthy can have budget-neutral tax cuts.

What didn't he know, and when didn't he know it?

Or ... the Lucy Football Kicking Club is never going to stop being enthusiastic. They'll be told it's all field goals and extra points, that their team is winning, and they will all believe.

Yes, thank you, came here to point that out. Signal is as good as it gets for end-to-end secure messaging on janky commercial smartphones.

If the government won’t force women to be nicer to me, I’m going to become an even bigger libertarian.

“I don’t get cute with this shit.”

There is a vacancy for leadership in the Democratic Party.

It's a brand new ball game. Forget the old rules and customs. No one "deserves" anything due to age and seniority and donors.

It's up for grabs, Democrats. Time to step up. Whoever is a fighter will be rewarded.

I hate that this intra-party conflict is necessary, but I very much appreciate that it needs to happen.

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.

Do not let anyone play games with you.

I find this behavior reprehensible and the antisemitism intolerable. He should be shunned until he makes a full apology and honest amends, but ... not deported.

I'd be surprised if it hasn't been considered from the White House ... an EO that the stock market can only go up under this Administration.