Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/20264) and IF that is the case, the solution isn’t to go on TV and decry the program, but quietly do the detective work to catch these companies at their game, and send their managers and owners to prison. 557849
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/20263) the only logical argument here is if insurance companies are signing up fake customers and then taking the government subsidies for that coverage, while paying out no claims. IF that is happening, it would be business/corporate fraud, not consumer fraud. 1269875
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/20262) insurance fraud, from a consumer point of view, consists of filing fake or excessive claims, not paying premiums and then making no claims. Where’s the payout? 767565
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A couple quick observations here, which should be obvious. 1) insurance “risk pools” work by requiring younger/healthier people who make few or no claims to sign up and pay premiums alongside older/less healthy people who do, essentially covering their costs. 1262050493
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialChris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”houstonchronicle.comTexas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable. 352250767
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We should try having some group of people who get to vote on approving agency heads like OMB director. 571119153
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"He wants the election to be a referendum on how you feel about trans issues while trying to make your local community louder, more polluted, and more expensive with nothing in return." 218886
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Straight up confessing to war crimes now. 381422369
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Mike Johnson sending the House home to avoid a vote on Pete Hegseth’s impeachment is a cowardly disgrace…and another reminder why these anti-democratic, pro-war, pro-Trump, Epstein file coverup enablers and Republican failures need to be sent home permanently. 832743839
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It's difficult to overstate how quickly and thoroughly the U.S. economy would tank if he were to do this, and it's terrifying to imagine that no one in his circle has the guts to explain that to him. 57908168
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialDaniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it. 14120793352
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026i hate this thing they do where they pretend like they are fulfilling some long and pent up demand. just own that you’re engaged in naked idolatry 1664600701
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialRichard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction. 1162959672
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Just expel him, Canada. 34763131043
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 20/08/2026One of the many things the pearl-clutchers don’t understand is that saying these things out loud forces vultures like Wolff — who was definitely sitting on this until his next book — to start vomiting up what they know. 835339971
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The president's authority as "commander in chief" refers to the military only. The president cannot use executive orders to expand the definition of who is eligible for birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. The president's aide saying these things is a virulent white nationalist. 36666992061
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026the commander in chief of the military has no authority (none!) over who is "eligible for birthright citizenship" so this who nasty little charade is as fake as the chintzy gold leaf these two cut-rate nazis surround themselves with in a sweaty bid to distract themselves from their own smallness 517259
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialJohn Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 06/08/2026As I was saying the other day, Warsh's biggest challenge from a credibility perspective is demonstrating he's independent of Trump. The communications strategy stuff is important but secondary. 914031
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialHunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026In Bari Weiss' Free Press, Olivia Reingold reported from El-Sayed's watch party that "there were keffiyehs as far as the eye could see ... keffiyehs on heads, keffiyehs as belts, keffiyeh-printed phone cases." Not a single one made it into images from Reuters, a local ABC station, or Detroit News. 1323189658
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test. 254376913
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas? 10995482184
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialJason Fry @jasoncfry.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Those of you eager to serve wealthy MLB owners as volunteer Pinkertons won’t like to read this, but as usual Joe Sheehan nails the real problem: 691415405
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialJoe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026There is no baseball contract that can have any kind of material effect on the life of the owner of a team, or that owner's loved ones, or that owner's descendants. Even the worst ones are just paper losses. Every owner can afford to pay the best players in baseball. Stop believing otherwise. 1577
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialJoe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I still don't know what "can't afford" means. If an investment in an expensive baseball player goes sideways, how does that impact the owner of a baseball team or his family? Do people just not get the gap between "a baseball player's salary" and "the wealth involved in owning a sports franchise"? 98213
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph. 416159833946
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Schatz has the same pathology as Newsom: a need to show "I'm just like you" to awful people with bad values. It's not even cynicism; it yields no additional votes. Destroying USAID was an illegal act by white nationalists with genocidal intent and it has killed people. That's more than just "bad." 401622315
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026This should be a lightbulb moment for Democrats: You are free to run on this platform because Republicans are going to accuse you of it whether you do or not! 15860621239
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The report “calls for the government to invest in young researchers, without noting that the administration fired scores of young scientists and terminated hundreds of grants to early career researchers.” 6296113
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 23/07/2026This young man was valedictorian of his high school. He came to the U.S. when he was three. ICE held him for a month. Then they shipped him to El Salvador. www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...dallasnews.comTexas Christian University student deported to El SalvadorLuis Andrade Garcia came to the United States from El Salvador around age 3. ICE deported him this week following an arrest in Arlington. 30930507
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 11/07/2026History knows what they did and history will remember why DOJ did this. 392085677
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialBruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Aw man. I unironically send Huey the power of love 6545
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/07/2026we are one day away from the funniest VAR offsides graphic ever 7966741338
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2026This is the most purely anti-American thing I've ever heard a politician say, but the media is too obsessed with 3 DSA candidates winning local elections in NY to pay any attention I guess. 612980615
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialTamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them 765259747161
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialKeep The Republic 🏳️🌈 @keeptherepublic.bsky.social · 03/07/2026At least they're not hiding their corruption. Go big or go home. 224118464292
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialThe God of Cities @thegodofcities.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Nothing says "Happy Birthday USA!" like imprisoning a Team USA Olympic athlete on a literal Trumped-up charge! 1124288
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/07/2026it's pretty funny that the World Cup has sensors that detect the ball's rotation, acceleration, and location every .002 seconds (not exaggerating, the actual tech specs of the sensor) but also the game gets to the end and the ref says "ok I think 9 more minutes ... maybe more if I feel like it" 542514240
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialJason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving. 8883365612535
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialKMJeezy @kmjeezy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Any girl who excels at sports period will be challenged by the parent of some mediocre loser who shouldn’t be in the game at all. 9826118
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 01/07/2026These are not “far left” positions. These are incredibly popular positions. 402296428
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026You might disagree with Kavanaugh about the constitutionality of high school athlete genital inspections, but you can't deny he's always been very consistent in his support for nonconsensually groping teen girls. 1055201292
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 01/07/2026TIL the world's new favorite himbo once bought a 13th century copy of one of the Norse Sagas for $150,000, then donated it to the library because "I'm not much of a reader." 734486749
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Democratic socialists are still partying in New York City… 🎉 Wait — *checks notes* — sorry this is Colorado. Apologies! We got confused since we were told this only happens in NYC 😬 @melatkirosco.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DaO9NqR... 451176093706
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialLuca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else? 767261617378
