We got βliberatedβ, alright β from jobs that make stuff. π€‘
@justinwolfers.bsky.social #NFP
@morganhaye.bsky.social
Former startup executive. Husband. Father. Home automation enthusiast. Programmatic macro investor. Web design nerd. Proud liberal.
We got βliberatedβ, alright β from jobs that make stuff. π€‘
@justinwolfers.bsky.social #NFP
WAPO: β.. Since 2000, political giving by the wealthiest 100 Americans to federal elections has gone up almost 140 times ..β
@washingtonpost.com #GildedAge π₯
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The AI buildout takes your water, electricity and jobs β but you DO get this. π€‘
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"Americans with four-year college degrees now comprise a record 25% of total unemployment" - @boes.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
21.11.2025 16:47 β π 14 π 8 π¬ 3 π 3"Donald Trump is about to order the government to pay him 'damages' for the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago mansion and for special prosecutor Jack Smithβs two investigations of him...Heβs going to pay himself $230 million."
21.11.2025 16:49 β π 202 π 82 π¬ 5 π 9Moral relativism is the enemy of the good
21.11.2025 16:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
Because the celebration of fascism is a wonderful thing, and threatening to lynch Blacks is a great thing, too. If you do those things, then Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem want to hire you. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
20.11.2025 18:52 β π 23 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0β.. an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against ..β
@washingtonpost.com
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things are going well!
20.11.2025 18:47 β π 255 π 34 π¬ 12 π 0Maybe conservatives will understand why Democratic voters didn't give a shit about the Jay Jones' text messages now. Lol jk that would require some self-reflection
20.11.2025 17:34 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Military ethicist here. I used to be Associate Chair of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at USNA. We consistently taught our midshipmen that they should refuse to obey illegal orders. The Uniform Code of Military Justice makes this obligation clear. βI was just following ordersβ is not an excuse, period.
20.11.2025 17:32 β π 213 π 71 π¬ 6 π 4An executive order to ban state AI laws WOULD BE *FLAGRANTLY* UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Can we please please PLEASE lead w THAT!
Stop just laundering patently illegal and unconstitutional moves as if theyβre just normal policy moves.
Itβs not hard to frame this correctly!
Political violence must be condemned. Whereβs the chorus of all those folks who appropriately condemned Charlie Kirkβs assassination
20.11.2025 17:23 β π 94 π 39 π¬ 3 π 1ESQUIRE: βICE is hiring literally anybody, and itβs terrifyingβ¦ people who flunk the exam, criminal recordsβ¦ yet theyβre allowed to tear children from their beds at night.β
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Aside from the arrogant drama of attempting to blow up the decentralized federalist structure that is at the heart of our entire system of government, going to the mat *to prevent regulation of AI,* of all things β AI! Really??!! β is a supremely WEIRD and seemingly *nefarious* thing to do.
20.11.2025 00:30 β π 24 π 11 π¬ 3 π 0The Trump administration is breaking the law by transferring critical work to federal agencies that lack the expertise to lead education policy.
Congress must immediately intervene to stop this illegal restructuring and protect our students' right to an education.
Marjorie Tsylor Greene was hated by the left for years and never had to fear for her life. She is hated by the right for two days and hires a security detail. What does that tell you?
19.11.2025 02:15 β π 780 π 188 π¬ 28 π 21Thereβs one person squarely to blame for Trumpβs corruption, authoritarianism & assault on democracy: John Roberts. Heβs enabled so much of Trumpβs lawlessness while somehow escaping accountability for it
New cover story from @pemalevy.bsky.social & me
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Itβs funny how all of the free speech scolds, from the editorial staff of The Atlantic to the New York Times, Jonathan Haidt and FIRE to Robbie Soave, are utterly silent on a wave of mass firings over speech β the very thing they claimed to care about. Zero to say about discipline and censorship.
19.11.2025 14:46 β π 238 π 85 π¬ 10 π 3I will never forget having to edit Jamalβs final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
If the President can impose his own taxes and use the proceeds to spend on his own projects, all without Congress, we have a dictatorship not a constitutional republic.
19.11.2025 02:46 β π 5047 π 1294 π¬ 62 π 32Also, if Senate Democrats don't already have articles of impeachment against Bove drafted and ready to drop the day they take the Senate back, I am going to become a reactionary ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
18.11.2025 22:28 β π 212 π 27 π¬ 6 π 0"You voted for this!" FAFOism is a powerful force. Easy to get swept away in it. But the fact is that guys like this were lied to, and your anger is better spent on the liars than the lied to. We can welcome guys like this in. We need to build a better country, and we can't do it without them.
18.11.2025 19:53 β π 228 π 30 π¬ 8 π 4Tim Cook, the head of Apple, is having a nice dinner with MBS, who regularly orders executions, including for tweets.
Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."
God this is so utterly despicable. Trump is βhe was no angelβ- ing a journalist who was murdered and dismembered with a bone saw by agents of an authoritarian regime.
19.11.2025 01:24 β π 994 π 229 π¬ 52 π 5Trump is hemorrhaging support. This is a failed administration.
19.11.2025 01:30 β π 86 π 14 π¬ 5 π 1The βOops!β defense to murder remains wildly unpopular in criminal courts.
18.11.2025 19:20 β π 784 π 153 π¬ 68 π 8This doesn't even make sense. How do you get health care with "NOTHING GOING TO THE BIG, FAT, RICH INSURANCE COMPANIES"?
18.11.2025 14:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Lmao the 15 year plan to replace Obamacare culminates in βweβll send you a check for much less than insurance costs and you figure it outβ
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