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Joel Barciauskas

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Engineering leader. Watch women's sports and build more houses.

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This is true but I think "go with the charismatic candidate and worry less about policy" is a durable insight

03.10.2025 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Does it matter if the President is unwell? Not if there's a single unwell person who identifies as a Democrat, I guess?! Only one person is President!

02.10.2025 08:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

October is the best month of the year and the best ppl are born this month. This is science.

01.10.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 145    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 12
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Trump Threatens NYC Funding Over Mamdani After Adams Drops Out Donald Trump said he would seek to deny federal funds to New York City if mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was elected, in the president’s latest bid to rally voters against the Democratic nominee a d...

I presume at some point New Yorkers will be allowed to just skip out on federal income tax if we're going to go from only getting a fraction of our dollars back to none of our dollars back? -- www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

29.09.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

That's right

28.09.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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79. American citizen.

28.09.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 24027    πŸ” 11786    πŸ’¬ 2006    πŸ“Œ 1373
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Washington Spirit games have become a massive bastion of protest against Trump's military takeover of DC. Thousands of people chant "free DC" at the 51st minute of every game now.

28.09.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 569    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7

Also GenZ kind of has experienced an increase in crime in their conscious lifetime

27.09.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd also say that GenX + boomers are still 40+% of the population, they experienced an actual increase in violent crime, particularly in cities, and never adjusted their priors. Also the rate of crime shown on TV is ~ the same, even setting social media aside.

27.09.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Worth saying, it is probably not as big an issue as the discourse could make it seem even in America. The overall costs picture is bleak as well!

27.09.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the loserest loser shit I've ever heard. Great work just showing those guys exactly who you are my man.

26.09.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's sad to consider that even with all this, Yusuf Salaam is infinitely better than his predecessor!

26.09.2025 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also a reminder that no one took the tariff stuff seriously! I don't even know when he started talking about it?

25.09.2025 08:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I legit thought Bethune was about to call out the defenders for not marking Sarr, but she was just talking about supporting your teammates πŸ€—

24.09.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It only makes sense through the lens of "the cruelty is the point". And so the cruelty will continue until they are stopped.

18.09.2025 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These people lack any understanding of what actually has made America great. Manufacturing isn't being re-shored. The indiscriminate immigration crackdown is kneecapping growth, both now and in the future, by making America unattractive to the top talent in the world.

18.09.2025 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is plainly true, and you can tell because the policy is completely incoherent otherwise. They have no other concrete aims that would lead to a coherent, even if extremely wrong or misguided, outcome.

18.09.2025 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Republicans are honoring Charlie Kirk’s memory by declaring war on the First Amendment Where’s all that free speech absolutism now?

Republicans are honoring Charlie Kirk’s memory by declaring war on the First Amendment

17.09.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 116    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

An awesome second entry in this series! Sanchez is funny, and stick around for the discussion of shooting technique and the feeling of knowing a ball is going in

17.09.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The thing where Biden and Twitter was accused of doing privately what Higgins is doing openly, except, with principles and not shredding civil liberties in defense of a hatemonger.

17.09.2025 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm old enough to remember the Twitter Files!

17.09.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Because I love a good caper, The Sting and Sneakers top the list for me (but I haven't watched a lot of his other work)

16.09.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Literally "mere rhetoric"

16.09.2025 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I miss #energy though

16.09.2025 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I stopped posting recently because I couldn't keep myself out of the elections channel. TBH I probably need to cleanse my timeline here to get less political content.

16.09.2025 08:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Shaw's debut is the headline for good reason but what a couple of games for Howell huh #nwsl #gothamfc

13.09.2025 07:34 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Elder millennials the only good generation

13.09.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There is data on this bsky.app/profile/jayv...

10.09.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Suitsupply has some of the best quality custom shirts and suits

10.09.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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