Jake Wobig

Doesn’t matter what your message is if no one hears it

Definitely not someone who should be allowed to carry around a gun, much less a badge.

why are these guys sending so many fucking emails

Fun fact: When the Department of Defense got its name in 1947, the U.S. was led by people who actually knew war, and how to win them, firsthand. Now...

X Post by Michael Adams, Kentucky Secretary of State: "We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry."

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?

This.

This is what you get.

This is great, thank you for sharing. I'm teaching about this on Monday and this is very helpful.

They're calling him the most French man in history

This seems right

A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it. A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE? A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

Honestly, you can’t make this shit up.

Poll showing that ReformUK has a 20 point lead among voters who believe they would be sent to Hell (if it exists) when they die

Fascinated by the philosophical and theological implications of this

These ICE agents, USBP/CBP agents, and any LEO enforcing these laws and doing so illegally, unethically need to be removed from service and never allowed to return to law enforcement

They have betrayed the public’s trust and made America less safe because of and through their actions; simple

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

Low-income Americans slash spending, a worrying sign for the economy The U.S. economy faces challenges as consumer spending weakens, with lower-income Americans hit hardest by rising prices and economic pressures.

I did not know how lop-sided consumer spending is in the USA. "The top 10 percent of earners - making $250,000 or more annually - accounted for 49.2 percent of spending in the second quarter.... That's up from 45.8 percent during the same period two years ago." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Attacking civilians to make a point is categorically evil, no matter what that point may be

I've been a Supreme Court institutionalist, but it's clear that it's been thoroughly corrupted and has to be rebuilt from scratch. Expanding the Court is the only reasonable start to a Constitutional system built on law instead of naked politics (and we really need to amend to Art III)

the supreme court says you can never use race to help people but you can always use race to hurt people

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.

The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

That moment when you're filling out a university survey and realize you now qualify for the 'been here forever' category.

In my experience this summer, Claude Opus 4.1 is significantly closer at this to having PhD capabilities than ChatGPT 5, though I think ChatGPT is better for working through tricking coding problems

My Chemical Situationship

Slightly diminish a band:

Guns and Daffodils
Stone Temple Passengers
A Tribe Called Errand

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

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As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away - occupied Palestinian territory News and Press Release in English on occupied Palestinian territory about Food and Nutrition and Protection and Human Rights; published on 23 Jul 2025 by ACPP, ACT Alliance and 49ount other organizati...

Today's joint NGO report on Gaza published on ReliefWeb is incredibly, incredibly tough but also necessary reading reliefweb.int/report/occup...

All of which is to say, the folks longing for the return of old birth-hierarchies are both morally damaged - slavery and the society it sustained were bad - but also grown-ass adults basically running into the public square shouting, "I want to be a pretty pink prince/princess!"

Sure you do.

This clip aged like fine wine.