Joe Flaherty

the mainstream taking betting and gambling companies as seriously as journalism is one of the greatest evils of modern society

"Do you have a better suggestion?" reminds me of...

an x post from kitty that days RIP charlie kirk i wish you were alove to see your wife move on immediately

*snort*

Dick Cheney should've been prosecuted for the invasion of Iraq and it's a stain on the soul of humanity that he got to live out his life in comfort without ever being held to account for his crimes, I'll never not be angry that war criminals responsible for so much death never see justice.

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

I hadn’t considered this particular flavor of AI hell and now I’m mad all over again

The president who hosted Nick Fuentes for dinner

“Fuck man, we’re about to win. There must be something we can do to stop this.”

it's insane how often this has happened with broadband specifically and they KEEP DOING IT.

if you're gonna work with corps to fulfill public needs, you need to have a metaphorical gun pointed at their head the whole time while doing so! or they'll just fuck with you! bsky.app/profile/hexm...

you'd have to wait like 5-15 minutes for these to load before you could actually watch them but it was so worth it, I remember watching the third one like it was yesterday in the computer lab in grade, I think, 5 or something?? you never forget where you were hahah

just....enjoy this

this is such a great encapsulation of why this race feels existential even to people outside NYC. Cuomo as the final boss of everything wrong with the current Democratic Party, Mamdani happily grabbing the third rails everyone’s told are too dangerous to touch (trans people, Muslims, socialism)

Made the friend apologize for putting his face in between the gun and the birds he was shooting

Cheney was younger when he became VP than Harris was last year during the election and I guarantee if you put photos of the two side by side not a single person would correctly identify that.

I think a distinction is impt here. Mamdanis actual policies are not particularly coded as 'radical' & not seen by many voters here that way. *Mamdani himself* is coded as radical by the MAGA fever swamp feedback loop & it has next to nothing to do w his actual policies. Its a reverse engineering.

Absolutely right. As we noted in FAULT LINES, Watergate is key to understanding Cheney’s politics

This is something that cannot be stressed enough. The reason it might sometimes look like the political left is rife with disagreement is specifically because it allows for diversity and disagreement to exist. There isn't a one-size-fits-all. Ongoing discussion is part of the package, it's healthy.

It’s disheartening to see Teen Vogue dissolved into Vogue and its political team let go. For years, it was one of the few mainstream spaces that made room for honest, radical commentary on justice, inequality & the world we actually live in. I’m grateful it gave me a home for so many of my op-eds

sure glad dick cheney lived just long enough to endorse kamala harris and get one more republican presidency rolling

It is also worth saying that everyone who mocks some supposedly fake discipline like “gender studies“ or “Africana studies“ is also really excited about degree programs in things like “AI prompt engineering.”

Nothing wrong with a “fake” discipline if it flatters your world view and bank account!

The Dems have won the popular vote in presidential elections six times since 1992 by roughly 5.5%(1992), 8.5%,(1996) .5%(2000), 7.3%(2008), 4%(2012), 2%(2016),and 4.5%(2020).
In that period the GOP presidential candidate has won the popular vote twice: 2.5%(2004) and 1.5%(2024).

It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)

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bomb threats to dem leaning polling locations on election day have somehow become normalized

This is a classic form of voter intimidation—making people feel like it’s not safe to go to the polls. It moments like this where we need to summon our courage & vote anyhow. Vote in the tradition of the people who marched in Selma to secure the right to vote.

Holy shit

Trump saw a segment on Fox News. Within an hour, he was laser-focused on Christians' treatment in Nigeria | CNN Politics President Donald Trump was heading to Florida on Friday, watching Fox News, when he saw the network run a story on how Christians were being targeted by Islamic groups in Nigeria, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

President Donald Trump was heading to Florida on Friday, watching Fox News, when he saw the network run a story on how Christians were being targeted by Islamic groups in Nigeria, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Wow shocked 2 learn Tariffs Not Only Impose Immense Economic Costs but Also Fail to Achieve Their Primary Policy Aims and Foster Political Dysfunction Along the Way

hey do you want to buy a rusty tricycle that you can use to tow around the broken bicycle we sold you yesterday

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.