Reposted by Jan!James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 10hSomehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9147121917
Reposted by Jan!Belinda Archibong @belindaarch.bsky.social · 9hHappy Nigeria Freedom Day to all who celebrate 🇳🇬 072
Reposted by Jan!Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843281186
Reposted by Jan!Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...londondaily.comBanksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London DailyExclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities 396392563
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The mainstream anti-vax movement is what genuinely made me realize I do not know how people work 010
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026💯 Elites think there should be no consequences for killing black people, assaulting women or hiring only cis, white, boys The law got too close to binding the in group and protecting the out group. (it was not very close!) 020
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A liberal arts education is learning to read critically and write effectively, it is contained in the written word. Very grateful for my education 020
Reposted by Jan!cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go 124145112812
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026When has the country scale specific thesis of "our actual tough guys who dont care about values only power will beat you soft liberals who dont have the stomach for a fight" actually worked? 2588
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This has to be question number one at the next news conference if people can remember six weeks 000
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I mean yeah more pay for amazon workers but grocery and banking benefits along with AMZN owning OneMedical sounds like going down the road of being paid in company scrip 010
Reposted by Jan!William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I’m no expert but those sardines look pretty fuckin dead to me. 3579
Reposted by Jan!I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026The Republican Party is chock full of open race scientists and Hitler apologists, so naturally our political press is laser focused on reckoning with “wokeness” and trans kids playing sports. 262570561
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026awesome the front page of the times has trump way down and just says he is tired of politics. Poor guy 001
Reposted by Jan!Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026The gay marriage analogy fails b/c it would be as if it were already legal nationwide and Dems were campaigning to end it. This is how thoroughly the right has captured the narrative. Liberals can't even see the biggest rollback of civil rights for a minority group in modern history for what it is. 61180163
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Mt Sinai refusing safe and effective care to children. Come protest with us next week! 010
Reposted by Jan!John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Whenever I see a poll like this I always like to remind people that approval for interracial marriage in the US did not cross the 50% mark until 1994, when I was already in my twenties. 332271683
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Its so coo-coo bananas that two months on The Odyssey in 70mm imax is sold out 4 screenings a day, 2 weeks in advance 000
Reposted by Jan!Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 29/08/2026If your state is controlled by Democrats, there is no reason that they shouldn't pass legislation allowing direct-to-consumer vehicle sales to put a significant source of Republican donations out of business for good. 221727307
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026great article on how the strategic petroleum reserve works and why we are vague about how much we can take out substack.com/inbox/post/2...substack.comHow the Strategic Petroleum Reserve WorksThe US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is the largest crude oil storage facility in the world. 000
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026In 1995 a fed governor told me that people would not tolerate corporate profits this high for long 010
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026They should make teams 3 & 4 play the week before the superbowl 000
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026You can just live your life so people remember you as generous, openhearted and kind and someone they were lucky to know. You can just choose it 000
Reposted by Jan!Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/08/2026So being pro-labor, pro-education for the poorest, pro-vaccine, and pro-LGBTQIA is a “neutral” position🤔 391463271
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026We can just regulate AI and social media to be less destructive and dont need to merely nibble at the corners! Lets stop running america for the benefit of the worlds largest corporations 000
Reposted by Jan!Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I’ll make a properly big deal about this next week, but… preorder wherever fine books are sold. bookshop.org/p/books/vapo...bookshop.orgVaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the PresentFor thirty years, Silicon Valley leaders have promised dramatic technological innovation as long as we--the public, journalists, regulators, and policymakers--keep out of the way. The results have bee... 59826
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Join me in meeting anti trans hate with spectacular trans joy! This Saturday 8/22!! 031
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Here is another gorgeous pdf a 1000 page report commissioned by the Utah State legislature showing that there is no scientific controversy: gender affirming care is safe and effective for teens with virtually no bad side effects le.utah.gov/AgencyRP/rep...le.utah.govReport Requirements 110
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026There is an amtrak residency i believe. NY department of sanitation has one too 020
Reposted by Jan!Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 17/08/2026Opinion from Alphaville: Only seven of these top 25 trading losses are from funds: most are either banks and normie companies who mishedged. ft.trib.al/dwgmBm1 69215
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Rich white cis man thinks that the system works fine, thanks, and nothing has gotten worse for him 020
Jan! @econ-babe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Musk does one service to humanity: he proves that money, power, sex and fame will not make you happy 000
Reposted by Jan!Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 14/08/2026Absolutely enormous respect to whoever understood that the necessary follow-up to “what if Reacher faced a larger man” is “what if Reacher held a tiny kitten” 492942467
Reposted by Jan!Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/07/2026An under-remarked point — not here on the intelligentsia's finest website, but elsewhere in the discourse — is that in the scenario where Dems get to clean up after (*gestures around*), they're going to have no money. 1523895
Reposted by Jan!Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Buddhism in the wild (photo by Jerry Feldman, Target Honolulu) 3565181345
