The past 24 hours have really been something; I think I’ve posted more snark on Bluesky than I have in any previous day. I’ve collected the posts here, to establish a baseline.
Why do I even bother doing theory when we’re going to be hip-deep in ICE, and there’s probably going to be a global recession that will make 2008 look like a picnic?
Everyone brace!
“In my view, a full-on global recession is more likely than not if the Strait remains closed for, say, another three months, which seems all too possible.”–Krugman
I think the invisible hand is holding a hammer.
If, as seems likely, Trump and Netanyahu’s Iran war leads to a recession, it will be based on a real shortage of a physical resource, unlike the 2008 recession, which was entirely the result of financial machinations. It is therefore going to be much harder to end.
If there is one mistake the Biden administration made, it was trusting the judges of the federal judiciary, and especially the Six Oathbreakers, to be willing to punish criminality without partisanship.
Bluesky isn’t the echo chamber; X is.
Platner is one candidate from a small state; the Republican President and its entire congressional delegation have gone off the deep end. Never forget that Collins defends the rapist Donald Trump and voted for the court that ended Roe v Wade, voted for the genocidal end of USAID.
(Not my snark, but it seems to fit here)
I’m probably only going to say this sentence once in my lifetime: I think Texas might need more ivermectin.—Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs
What we will now hear is that the party of rape and forced birth is no worse for women than the party that has fielded two women as presidential candidates. And some of the white suburban women who voted for Trump will believe it. Sisterhood is not powerful enough, and not all skinfolk are kinfolk.
She’s a partisan hack, not a bold truth teller, and everything she says or publishes has to be checked. She’s now complaining that the New York Times didn’t run some of her strongest claims and I suspect this is because without corroboration they would be libel.
Collins has supported a rapist president and all his horrific policies, which have harmed many. Platner, for all his faults, does not seem likely to do the amount of harm Collins has done.
What’s scary is that he may get support because of the reported problems.
I can’t read most “AI” output. I get a sentence or two or paragraph or two in and I go “What is all this blither?” One of the most distinctive things about “AI” output is how it endlessly hints at meaning something and never actually means anything. Get to the point, already!
Republicans rammed through their $70 billion bill to fund President Trump’s immigration crackdown through the remainder of his term after beating back bipartisan efforts to add language killing his plan to create a payout fund.—The NYT
We’re not getting out of this without a lot more violence.
Rubio says Trump administration is planning for Gaza to be governed by an “autocratic entity."
Drop fucking dead. That’s flat-out colonialism, and no-one has a right to do that.
This is being used to enforce a particular standard of femininity that a lot of women do not in fact fit. The targets ultimately are not primarily trans women, who are a small minority, but cis women.
The Blight. They’ve invented the Blight. (Reference is to Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep.)
They’re pumping public sentiment before an IPO, same as their claim of profitability by an unknown accounting method.
Or Platner might become a senator despite, or even because of, the allegations.
Useful white idiots? I could believe that.
Talk about blowback. Wow. But it makes sense. If you fail to control plagues in other countries, they will inevitably come to your country.
Because all humans are from Africa, where they evolved, but it wouldn’t do to say that.
Of course the oil and gas plants poison the people around them and are altering the climate.
Fk the Six Oathbreakers.
One of the ongoing problems in discussing international relations is that Americans badly want to see a good guy and a bad guy and all too often there are only bad guys. If there are only good guys they’re usually isn’t a problem.
The EU [and Canada] really ought to declare this lot persona non grata.
And, the final word goes to Effin’ Birds.
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