there was gossip and space aliens. but less fascism!

oh, yes, not you!

pathetic.

billionaires are pathetic.

and fascism! from @ryanlcooper.com prospect.org/power/2025-0...

“The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which, um, advises the government on Medicare payments, estimates that last year Medicare Advantage cost taxpayers $83 billion (!) more than those enrolled would have cost under traditional Medicare.”

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“A sensible politics needs to ask: how can we create constituencies of countervailing power to the regressive rich?” @chrisdillow.bsky.social stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...

au contraire checks and balances are stronger than they have ever been in American government. Elon writes checks, and they flow into balances.

“prioritize dense, mixed-use, and car-light ecodistricts… a number of wonderful examples [are] in planning throughout the world… the most visionary are so far removed from our status quo in the US—we lack the ability to even comprehend how much higher quality of life in these neighborhoods could be”

on the one hand they are the same, transfer implies surrender. but on another level they are not. transfer connotes flow, things that are transferred are often transferred again. surrender suggests the possibility of a more permanent submission. Lee surrendered at Appomattox.

peaceful transfer of power vs peaceful surrender of power

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we are very glad you are still with us.

i’m always trying to make sure it “inserts” at the bottom.

you get angry at a group of people, then you get incurious about what they say and write, then you have a blind spot.

why is “leftist” used as a term of derision more than “rightist”?

on twitter the main character was someone who outraged you. on bluesky the main character is someone who annoyed you.

there must be a fairy tale about a person cursed never to do anything right or well but blessed that for everything he does wrong or poorly he will be generously, extravagantly rewarded.

they are heightening the contradictions.