Reposted by ChrisJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/03/2025I've spent a lot of time debunking claims that way overstate the migration impacts of wealth taxes. But fear not - if we put our minds to it, I do believe we can design a wealth tax high enough to get Elon to flee the country 431693361
Reposted by ChrisRob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I don’t know all the facts of this case. He doesn’t either. But we all knew whose side he would automatically take. 173
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My autistic cat befriends other animals. He led an opossum, a skunk, and several rabbits to our home and tried to invite them in for dinner. Seriously he’s the best cat ever. Our other cats don’t like him though 010
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My neighbor John. Or Jack. Or Frank, or something. Idk, pretty sure it’s a one syllable name 100
Reposted by ChrisAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026One side of this war has an elected legislature but it doesn't really have any power compared to the supreme leader and the council of guardian jurists, and the other is Iran. 7523131
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026No I’m pretty sure one of my four cats odds autistic he’s great 110
Reposted by ChrisSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 10/09/2026oh so the charlie kirk pez dispenser is over the line huh 10895
Reposted by ChrisJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We need at some point to talk about American Evangelicalism as a heretical movement. We should not indulge the delusion of a bunch or nuts who cherry-pick the Bible to rationalize otherwise indefensible 21st century bigotries that they are representatives of a global faith. 4347411001
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 22/08/2026A huge portion of my dare class discovered weed and then mushrooms, and when meth came along we were like, “how bad could it possibly be?” I was only saved by seeing some friends who got to meth ahead of me fleeing the shadow people at 4 am 2120
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026My grandfather rode a horse to a steam ship to come to America in the late 1800s, and died shortly after watching a man walk on the moon on his television 1150
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026It’s Alexander Stephen’s Cornerstone speech, but with all immigrants in place of the slaves 010
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 14/08/2026You can eat glonzo, but you can’t have sex with him as he can’t legally consent 041
Reposted by Chris𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026After 17yrs in China, this is largely the you’d-never-guess-it-but-it’s-the-truth assessment I also came away with 611018
Reposted by ChrisBryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 07/08/2026I saw someone refer to homeschooling as “trickle down stupidity.” Immediate addition to my lexicon. 464130802269
Reposted by ChrisRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Grant would genuinely be proud 382975360
Reposted by Chrisellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 04/08/2026Which, incidentally, really puts the lie to “our parents and grandparents lived in a wonderful world without the existential fears that people today have” 1011215
Reposted by ChrisLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 04/08/2026Two turntables *and* a microphone? In this economy? 1368
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I accidentally purchased several of them in my haste, so it’s bound to happen… 110
Reposted by Christomcarlin.bsky.social @tomcarlin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026A free market? In this economy? 1361
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I have known many Christians who believed this, though I’m not sure I’ve ever heard it from a Catholic 220
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I had no idea the history of economics could be so exciting! 020
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I’m 160 pages into Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations and it’s absolutely fantastic. Thanks for bringing it up! 100
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 02/08/2026 Hang on my guy. I see several novels with that title by different authors, but by Barnard I see A scandal in Belgravia and a murder in Mayfair. I assume I’m looking for the former? 270
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I came back to bsky to thank someone for a book recommendation, and immediately met another! Thanks James 130
Reposted by ChrisStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This is an extremely common human failing and, for example, a good part of why lobbying works. 11414
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Ugly sweaters are the best sweaters so congratulations if you get one 000
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 29/07/2026static.klipy.comDie Hard Yippe Ki Yay MotherfuckerAlt: Die Hard Yippe Ki Yay Motherfucker 000
Reposted by ChrisDie Hard (1988) @diehard1988.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I read about them in Time magazine. 011
Reposted by ChrisZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I think this is a great decision. Douthat has a face made for radio and a voice made for blogging. His ideas are increasingly bizarre in ways toxic to normal ppl. If anyone can help Bari put another nail in CBS’s coffin, he can. Best the network collapses fast rather than die a lingering death. 610815
Reposted by ChrisDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 28/07/2026so one thing i find extremely striking is that in REPUBLIC plato basically endorses the idea that qualified women should have the same rights as men--the same ability to be philosopher-kings. this is an *ancient* idea. the hard question of history is why it took so long to be even partially realized 12577116
Reposted by ChrisOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026imo it's almost certainly false that people did not have critiques and concerns with sexual violence, slavery etc that at the very least substantively overlap with modern ones. whether or not they got to write epics revered and remembered by the leaders of the slave societies of the day es otra cosa 171120103
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I will not stand for bubbe erasurestatic.klipy.comDie Hard Hans Bubbe I'm Your White Knight QuoteAlt: Die Hard Hans Bubbe I'm Your White Knight Quote 010
Reposted by Chrisellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 25/07/2026Something that online discourse has taught me is that there are a lot of people who believe that adopting political and social views because everyone around you believes them is not just acceptable but morally preferable, and that failing to conform in this way is a sign of mental deviance 3538
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Bluesky would rather disagree with math than be forced to agree with Will on even one thing 000
Reposted by ChrisWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/07/2026There are good financial decisions and bad financial decisions. There are entire predatory industries built around exploiting people’s tendency to consistently make certain bad financial decisions. Fixing this, and regulating those industries, requires admitting that these bad decisions exist. 1014613
Reposted by ChrisLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 24/07/2026It’s really funny to me how threatening the DSA is to people because as annoying as I find them they a) have produced some of the most popular politicians in the nation and b) have a platform that is largely made up of popular stances like “we should improve society somewhat” 246872
Reposted by ChrisSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 23/07/2026Off the top of my head there are more Republican ex-legislators in prison right now for child sexual abuse then there are trans girls playing high school sports 91424378
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 21/07/2026It’s only politics on the internet and off the internet 010
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 21/07/2026How can unemployment be low when I personally am unemployed Etc 080
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I would have liked at you like you’re a crazy person. How is this real? Was I hit by a truck and now I’m in a coma having morphine dreams? 020
