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this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

Definitely, though it's spooking some of the more sheep-minded ones. I'll never get why those law firms folded.

But then, I imagine you don't get to the top by taking risks, you get there by taking credit when others take the risks.

The thing I don't get is that most of the time, they could shrug off that pressure and wait out his failing heart. CBS was a special case (Redstone wanted out) and I think all sides are using that to invent things.

This is the song of my people

Due credit to having object permanence, sir.

What we know, final edition of the night:
[Now in 3 parts]

—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

This is not cute or heartwarming, electorates only do that when they're very distressed.

everybody gets twenty-four hours to lib out with impunity, tonight is the cringe purge

One of the more amusing Epstein associates.

Feel like "2, vs. 4, 5, 6" is a tic like "in about two weeks"

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

i'm not used to good news LOL holy shit

No, just checking if I got the right one.

Here for a good* time, not a long time.

*enjoyable in a curmudgeonly way

‪skeet by ‪@daveon.bsky.social‬ : And stop quote attaching like that to piss take. Make coherent arguments and defend your positions and stop playing silly games. This is a uniquely dangerous time you really do not seem to take seriously a lot of the time. Then you claim you do but everybody else is hysterical.

This one?

we have gone horribly wrong ever since

The AI people are pricing us out of the GPUs we need to do ML with.

I always check out Taniel's posts during elections, and this run down does not disappoint. WA state is the second post in the thread!

Smirking dick Cheney

Happy Election Day. Some people really meant it when they said they were gonna leave if Mamdani won.

As a NYer, ”real” “small town” America now looks like a sexual freak zoo run by genital-obsessive xenophobes who make women into living dolls and shoot each other. Mamdani’s NYC (and mine) is a safe, wholesome place where neighbors help each other, do scavenger hunts, ride bikes, and birdwatch.

Now I know how geezers like me sound to leftist kids when we talk about voting Harris.

I just turn the knob to 30M and get tahdig rice in a half hour.

YouTube video by LucindaWilliams Lucinda Williams “The World’s Gone Wrong” (Performance Video)

youtu.be/IPmHs8hDOvI?...

Lucinda is here

Ugh yes: "I remain convinced that the American journalism industry as it stands has already run itself off the cliff, and is now falling through the air and toward the bottom."

By trying to fund more courts and judges?

Dammit Chuck, you schmuck.

Look, it's impossible to get just how stupid this is into a single headline, but I tried, okay?

mRNA vaccines are probably the biggest medical breakthrough since Penicillin, but people are easily confused and that pisses them off

That’s a good line