with money, like any other thing, the dose is the poison.

her public performance of womanhood demands our chivalry.

on deportation, on tariffs, all the world is holding its breath, “does he really mean the extremity of what he proposes? or is the point to pocket some victory and negotiate back to moderation?” it wouldn’t be effective tool for negotiation if you could tell it was a bluff. you can’t.

i like to think of myself as an unsynced hero.

i feel like i’ve been made President.

bsky.app/profile/seth...

now that you mention it, i have some more!

who do we have to tariff to stop the flow of ketamine?

people who have learned nothing are now going to run everything.

a good pairing: bsky.app/profile/cris... bsky.app/profile/whst... (ht @sjshancoxli.bsky.social for the latter)

how do you distinguish between writers who may often be mistaken from writers who are disingenuous and perhaps not worth bothering with?

i’ve never tried it, but i was intrigued. Elon Musk has really ruined ketamine for me.

i think it very plausible.

who woulda thunk? (“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.” ~Louis Brandeis)

it is your patriotic duty to freak out.

my mastodon feed has a lot of commentary suggesting the Trumpists will square the circle of detain-the-illegals, don’t-tank-the-economy by compelling and farming out the labor of detained migrants, making antebellum plantations of private prisons. sfba.social/@drahardja/1...

“orthopraxy is bad actually” seems delightfully self annihilating. you must not do what you must do. i too profess my belief in the most holy Nigerian prince. fortunately i am forbidden from actually helping transfer his funds.

expensive bible for people convertible to a particularly ugly paganism…