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NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 1h

It's kind of like a mash-up of the death of Rasputin and the seemingly endless deathwatch over Franco.

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NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 2h

Sometimes I suspect the only reason we still resist metric is because we're generationally invested in the faces kids make when we explain it to them over however long it takes them to accept the magnificent arbitrariness of the math that binds our beloved Ye Olde U.S. Customary Units.

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Thinking back on how the media twisted a scandal that was about drugging and raping a secretary who was basically targeted because she had a sex life into one about hypocritical hanky-panky with a sexy secretary wink wink and peculation of payoff money is even more sickening than the scandal.

If I could be sure this would happen, I'd have less concern about taking on new pets, TBH.

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I am just a layman, but believe that is a widely known sign of frontotemporal dementia. Has anyone informed nationally recognized journalistic experts in geriatric neuropsychology Jake Tapper and Alex Thomson?

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First day, my ass. No impeachment resolution will even get out of Rules until they already have the case boxed up and ready to present. The Judiciary hearings along will take at least three weeks; and the less likely we are to get 67 votes in the Senate, the longer the hearings will go.

Thank you for the meticulous separation of what we actually know from the things we say we "know" that are actually just strong and reasonable inferences from history and historical patterns that could be wrong.

NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 7h

Because living amid rubble is not a thing a leader with Narcissistic Personality Disorder can tolerate, especially if they're to blame. It's why Hitler spent so much time in close study of Speer's "Germania" model and plans as Berlin was being bombed back into construction fill.

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The majoritarian victimhood mythos, like sadism, is integral to all forms of authoritarianism.

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The idea that bad billionaires are bad because they're uniquely evil individuals rather than because maybe 0.5% of humans can come into 11-13 digit wealth without turning into a completely different person is just a weird form of the "it couldn't happen to me" othering people do to accident victims.

Yeah, sure. Liberals are the ones who have been in an electoral alliance with Republicans these last 25 years. Yes, you are very smart and have clearly read many books. How can I possibly deny it when you have a propaganda poster and everything?

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He's just consciencious that way.

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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The great Dennis Hastert has died. I hope the dirty snitches are happy. by Jim Jordan

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NCSteve @ncsteve.bsky.social · 23h

Actually, I blame you. Personally. It's your fault. You and every other fucker in the country who still refuses to take responsibility for the foreseeable consequences of the only vote they control in a general election with elaborate explanations why it's everyone's fault but yours. Now fuck off.

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I can't put Texas in the same class as those others in terms of expectations. If this isn't the year we flip Texas, I would question what we can flip.

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Oh. The lab accident where a woman died of pneumonic plague after breaking a test tube that Russia is having Soviet NBC protocol spasms over occurred at an *anti-plague* research facility. In Irkutsk. Well. That's all just fine then.

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The Shadow 🇺🇦 @the-shadow-5.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I never saw anyone so utterly broken by being paid thirty million bucks to leave.

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Has anyone else noticed that plagues break out when donald trump is president?

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Sherrod Brown. Back in the Senate. In this election at this time, riding a wave election. Yes, that would be most satisfactory, thank you.

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Key word is "says." The press now seems to believe that if it replaces "will" with "says" it has adequately discharged it's duty to alert the public to the near certainty he's lying.

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If the Ukrainians hadn't destroyed a number of Russia's equally irreplicable equivalents of B-1 bombers on the ground with drones (which, as it happens, are an Iranian specialty), I might agree.

Yari no Yūsha ⚛️ @speerheld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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John Wayne Gacy, beloved clown at children’s parties and department manager for the Nunn-Bush Shoe company, has passed away.

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Dude. He didn't say "may block." It's just a headline writer thing.

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The thing I hate most about having a Cluster B president is constantly being smacked by events that I narratively process as pathos but don't feel because emotionally I experience his searing narcissistic injury as justice or, increasingly just with numb indifference.

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Someday, centuries from now, our descendants will be asking their Busters of Myths whether the superstition of glaring and shushing at those who say things like "what's the worst that could happen?" and "how much worse could it get?" dates from the early 21st Century.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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I emailed top USA Today editors on Friday, in the hopes that there was some misunderstanding. No response. Unilaterally feeding entire interviews into an AI slop machine is not OK. It has to stop.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, spare me the bullshit redemption tour. Everyone knew what this was going to be. “Thom Tillis calls his vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth his “biggest regret” and says Hegseth should resign.” apnews.com/article/thom...

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Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”

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It sounds bad, admittedly. But nowhere near as terrible as that time Joe Biden refused to give the Times an exclusive interview. Man, the constitution trembled on its foundations over that one.

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That's what the big giant neck is for. I always just hope they don't get itches on the top of their head after the doe impressing gear emerges.

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Heartache Kits @hsticka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The media would be still calling for a Democrat who did this to resign today. Wait, I think I may have discovered the problem...

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I just heard @npr.org say "no one knows how to fairly divvy up the bill" regarding the increase in utility costs due to data centers. Easy. Data centers pay. The infrastructure, increase, their own bills. If I walk into a store and fuck up everything in there, I have to pay for it. Why don't they?

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Also a member of a long American tradition of Captains of Industry who were empathy-impaired technology innovators who were raging assholes like Carnegie, Edison, Ford, and, now Musk. Except any endowed foundation created by Musk's will is sure to be as pernicious as Musk is in life.

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My suspicion is that Trump is already significantly less popular than Hoover was in 1930. No one will be naming any major public works after Trump after he's gone or remember him years later him as well-intentioned but ideologically blinkered by Red Scare fear of new-fangled economic ideas.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026

It all goes back to the failure to publicly stomp the absolute living shit out of the Gamergate culture.

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I'm proud Public Notice has become a bastion of sanity amidst an ocean of sanewashing, a place left-of-center readers can reliably turn to for deep understanding of what’s happening in the American right. Here's to the next five years!

publicnotice.co

Reflecting on 5 years of Public Notice

And a look forward to what’s next.

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And, as with the 1973 oil-price shock, America's auto-industry didn't just assume gas was cheap forever and dedicate all of it's production capacity to hulking behemoths. It had new designs ready and had worked for years to speed retooling. Oh, wait, nope. They were as stupid as they were in 1971.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Times people remember, all the news that's fit to print, full text of the treaty on p.A7, stodgy, careful politics beat, is gone. Only the puzzles and nostalgia keep people believing a paper that's worked so hard for three decades to be worse is merely misguided.

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The NY Times uses words like “fierce,” “steely,” “nimble” and “homegrown star of the Trump White House” to describe Karoline Leavitt, who just got a Fox News gig. Not a single mention of her relentless lying to the American public. Reporter Michael M. Grynbaum and his editors suck.

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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News (Gift Article)

A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.

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So sad. If only they'd had a warning. Some sign. If only they'd been warned that ripping off all their clothes and diving the middle of a seething, stinking orgy of stupidity and evil would end badly. If only they'd had religious or multi-millennial literary traditions warning them of those perils.

Wow. I'm sorry, but I just think that prospect is far too horrific to make jokes about.

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The mark of her talent is that I can watch her in a performance and see the character and the art and not the artist I personally loathe for the harm she's done or even her mockery of those who called her out. Much as I do with Jon Voight, except Voight never had her influence. Ever.

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The fact that teevee "news" show bookers regularly still call up Rahm Emmanuel when they need to pretend to present the Democratic position is clearly mockery of some kind, but I can't figure out if they're mocking Democrats or their management.

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