this is what repeal and replace looks like.

it’s easy to be cynical about the US’s capacity to manage an orderly “regime change”, but rendering one mafia state subsidiary of another may be assisted by a kind of natural compatibility.

obvsly this is a bit silly in context, but in the ordinary course of things, if a person is indicted, wouldn’t it be a court rather than the executive that schedules a hearing then orders enforcement following a failure to appear? did Maduro have some court date he missed? a Fedexed summons ignored?

new frontiers in product placement.

noriega minus rock and roll.

what the founders failed to foresee was election of a class of men who would commit only low crimes and misdemeanors.

and to think, people mocked FIFA.

another industry we’ve offshored.

trump should give a big speech about taking back what was taken from the united fruit company.

look, i’m not really dead, the operation in which i was detonated was like 8th time as farce.

we’re all thin-skinned, but it isn’t about our pride or our takes or careers. when we forget that we’ll find we have less to be proud of and that our takes in fact grow stupider.

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I want to see a lot of public sector LLMs. In fact, I think most of what contemporary tech platforms do should be migrated to the public sector.

it’s weird how the current view from the right is most of us are lazy leaches and moochers but we’re not making enough of us.

“The value of future rent inflation is capitalized in home prices and counted as an asset for homeowners. But the cost of future rents is undetermined for any family at any given time…so…not counted as a liability.” @kevinerdmann.bsky.social www.mercatus.org/research/res... ht @steveroth.bsky.social

we should rename this site The Donald J. Trump Bluesky Microblogging Platform, just to fuck with everybody.

a lot of the controversy is over whether the best antifascism is working to revert to the democracy—crippled and captured but broadly liberal—that we enjoyed 15 years ago, or else to leave that in the past and work towards some more substantive social democracy.

the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft a-gley. but failing to plan at all is worse.

you know trumpism’s days are numbered when the supreme court suddenly stands boldly athwart a trump or vance administration, erring on the side of forbidding rather than tolerating its putative excesses. they’ll disown their own life’s work to save their legacies and perhaps their skins.

Good riddance old year.