Reposted by pantsless timStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 2h"End employer experience rating" 3333
Reposted by pantsless timKate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 5h"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 401483515
Reposted by pantsless timKelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 4hShe was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable. 272225383
Reposted by pantsless timSam @samd.bsky.social · 3hthe dumbest scumbags on the left are now attacking zohran for *combatting antisemitism* Zohran derangement syndrome is real and applies to the alt-left just as much as the alt right 1517213
Reposted by pantsless timProPublica @propublica.org · 3hThe DOJ indicted “Bitcoin Jesus” Roger Ver in one of the largest-ever crypto tax fraud cases. Those familiar with the case said the evidence was “rock solid” and that prosecutors were confident of a conviction. Then Donald Trump won a second term. (Published January)propublica.orgHow “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks to One of the “Friends of Trump”Billionaire fugitive Roger Ver was facing federal criminal charges until he sought the services of a select club of President Donald Trump’s former personal attorneys who have easy access to top Justi... 7349148
Reposted by pantsless timHenry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 8hit is wild to have Biden out and about doing events, giving speeches, and meeting random members of the public on planes and trains and taking pictures and what not, 2 years after leaving office, and yet there are *still* people who will breathlessly scream about how he clearly had dementia 413722
Reposted by pantsless timSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 4hIf Trump gets to use a 1.5 pt popular vote margin as legitimacy for the American gestapo, I think anything D+8 or above means we get to do public hangings 37513
Reposted by pantsless timGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 8hTo quote a @chrislhayes.bsky.social jape at the Roberts Court: "They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one." 327275
Reposted by pantsless timBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 9h“30% of people in the US and Canada can’t or don’t drive.” — @nondriver.bsky.social. #WeekWithoutDriving Including me now, because of vision issues. But I didn’t need it to happen to me in order to care about mobility that works better for EVERYONE. 16123
Reposted by pantsless timNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 5h"His slam dunk was a brick." classic tab lede from an old school tab rewriteman www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...nbcnews.comGOP senator airballs perjury claim against Jack Smith over apparent Hawks/Hawkeyes mix-upThe Missouri senator’s shot at a gotcha moment against the former special counsel wound up being a very public miss. 2111
pantsless tim @pantslesstim.bsky.social · 4hI had the remote and was trying to put the baseball game on, but I guess it's not on TV. 100
Reposted by pantsless timAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14hJack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." 634253658783
Reposted by pantsless timWonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social · 7hWe Found The Voter Fraud — It Was In The Moms For Liberty All Along www.wonkette.com/p/we-found-t... By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.socialwonkette.comWe Found The Voter Fraud — It Was In The Moms For Liberty All AlongFormer Republican mayoral candidate Gaea Powell found guilty on eight counts related to voter fraud. 724182
Reposted by pantsless timJim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 8hIf you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway 2243480936
Reposted by pantsless timThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 6hThis seems extreme but the fact is people mostly know when they’ve cultivated a following that will do this for them and when they are using that following in that way. I don’t know how you systematize it, but this is the fundamental dynamic that needs to be broken. 7464
Reposted by pantsless timmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7hit is important to realize that many reporters for mainstream outlets are enthusiastic cogs in this elite-coordinated propaganda machine. don't print lies in the newspaper 18961177
Reposted by pantsless timSam @samd.bsky.social · 6hthe fact that SCOTUS is allowing Trump to do lawless shit 24/7 but some random judge in Staten Island can block the mayor and governor of New York from taxing decamillionaires’ second homes really reveals how utterly absurd our judicial system is 119018
Reposted by pantsless timMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 7hRight - like what is interesting about the video (for our conversation) is that she is very mad but also the stated reasons for being very mad are nonsense. 1142
Reposted by pantsless timMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 7hWhich is *supportive* of Will's initial point, not a rebuttal of it. bsky.app/profile/whst... 1132
Reposted by pantsless timNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 9hLeft-NIMBYs love to pit welfare state expansion against land use reform, but the latter can 1) can achieve significant poverty reductions 2) without means testing or administrative burdens, and 3) at a net gain for the public budget, which can then be used to expand the welfare state. 116130
Reposted by pantsless timMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 8hThe underlying theory Senate Republicans are going with is that Joe Biden secretly ordered DOJ to investigate Trump, something they have produced no evidence to support and also they're all fine with Trump publicly ordering DOJ to investigate his enemies. 25559159
Reposted by pantsless timCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 10hspeaking of closing tax loopholes, if the IRS was able to collect all taxes owed since 2000 it could mean today's national debt would be $8 trillion lighter some new fiscal analysis from yours truly, link below 535497
Reposted by pantsless timSam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 8hReal lives are being destroyed and snuffed out every day that this policy is allowed to continue and the people who devised it are not in jail. I know we all know this, but I feel like it's important to say it from time to time. 316748
Reposted by pantsless timAmrk @amrk.bsky.social · 9hAgain, different circumstances! No one knows if it’s replicable. But for American libs there is a grumpy extremely online xennial in Hungary living your wildest dreams, I’d send a fact finding mission or something 119313
Reposted by pantsless timAmrk @amrk.bsky.social · 9hPeter Magyar is currently enacting a Liberal Currents fantasy where he amends the constitution to ban anyone associated with the old regime from ever holding office again and is somehow polling at 68% (he won with 53%) and I’m not saying that’s possible anywhere else but Dems should like, ask him 10585108
Reposted by pantsless timPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 9hI talk about this a lot in "Lost Worlds" - the world didn't begin with people alive today, and it won't end with people today. Apocalypticism is a wonderful way of making it so you don't have to think about the real long-term consequences of your actions. If it's all going to end, why think further? 621439
Reposted by pantsless timE.J. Fagan @ejfagan.com · 10hDems need to win PA by around 9 points to flip its Senate (~D+11 nationally). In that situation, they likely also take the state legislatures of WI, MI, AZ and NV Gov. Dems would have the votes to push the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact over the line and eliminate the Electoral College. 1322835
Reposted by pantsless timMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 10hBut what happens when you extend this graph to the present? 111086
Reposted by pantsless timMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 12hPresident Donald Trump’s extreme unpopularity has the Republican Party seemingly on course for a midterm elections drubbing. For Fox News, that means it's migrant caravan time. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox... 917328
Reposted by pantsless timMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 12hIn October 2018, Fox hosts began warning viewers that a migrant caravan was moving through Central America with plans to “storm our border” — and urged Trump to make that “caravan” a central issue for that year’s midterm elections. It's happening again. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...mediamatters.orgFox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again 1518135
Reposted by pantsless timAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14hJack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power" 319114404225
Reposted by pantsless timWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12hSeriously, there’s a problem on this site where if you say some nonsense that happens to atmospherically resonate with the total political monoculture, everyone will just share it willy-nilly, and a lot of smart people’s brains are getting absolutely COOKED as a result 0346
Reposted by pantsless timSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 12hI think in cases like Michael Tracey, they view it as an existential threat because they used to behave like a rapist 2311
Reposted by pantsless timSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 12h"If you can go to jail just for having sex with a blackout drunk woman, I'd be in jail 10x over! And obviously that would be unfair to me, a good person." <-- I believe this is the reasoning. 2202
Reposted by pantsless timMika Salonoja 🚲🇫🇮♥️🇺🇦🚲 @mikasalonoja.bsky.social · 20hSame government also promised to improve economics for all and stop the national debt growth. Now, after 3,5 years we now have record debt and highest unemployment in Europe. But no worries since the richest 2% are happy. I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere 🤕 1113
Reposted by pantsless timMika Salonoja 🚲🇫🇮♥️🇺🇦🚲 @mikasalonoja.bsky.social · 20hSo true. The fact that our current conservative right-wing government has wornesed the situation so much so quickly, just shows how these policies work. And who we elect does matter. 171
Reposted by pantsless timBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.thebetter.newsFinland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.meIn Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness. 8359148
Reposted by pantsless timStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 13hThis is the problem with the urban left: they base housing policy on how they "feel" about developers' "pain." This is not about feelings, it's about building housing! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/24/b... 3575
Reposted by pantsless timBen Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 13hThat rules out electing Republicans 011
Reposted by pantsless timjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13hif the GOP runs a vance/schmitt ticket then they should just give up the pretense and make the party’s slogan the fourteen words www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...axios.comSen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy. 1242117308
Reposted by pantsless timGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 13hJail time comin'wsj.comExclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television AdsWhite House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law. 1415221
Reposted by pantsless timjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026i don’t care how much fancy math you can do, if you take open racism as a sign that someone is epistemologically sound then you are a fucking idiot 773972
Reposted by pantsless timCentral NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 16hThis is a low-key moral dilemma for me, and probably lots of other Democrats, because I would like Talarico to win, but I also don't want 10-15 emails per day from Democrats asking me for money. Since AI came along, the amount of pollution in my inbox has already grown substantially. 3141
Reposted by pantsless timAlon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 17hRussia is not my enemy. After Moscow is properly occupied by the EU/NATO/Ukraine and after the Russian state is de-Putinized and democratized, I can see Russia thrive inside the EU, even if some former officers who served in Ukraine participate in it, even if it's led by annoying Navalnyites. 4192
Reposted by pantsless timDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 15h"E-bike adopters reduced travel costs by 12% and increased physical activity by 14%." doi.org/10.1016/j.ur... 213041
Reposted by pantsless timKathleen Cottontail 🏳️⚧️♿️🖖🏻🐰 @kathleengmaz.bsky.social · 16hA song for Trek Tuesday. 🖖 2206
Reposted by pantsless timStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 15hIt's because 5% of the population has learned from me (an official economist) that social security is not going to go bankrupt and that the demographic shift was already accounted for in 1983. I am doing the lords work. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/23/w...cnbc.comSocial Security has 'no bankruptcy or collapse in the cards,' economist says — but benefits may changeWhile surveys show Americans worry Social Security will run out of money, benefits will continue, one economist says. 2234
Reposted by pantsless timCentral NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 15hOnce again we see that zoning codes are very much not about "separating incompatible uses", but about protecting the views of ornery local residents, and giving local governments tools to extract more money from people who are trying to build stuff that people want to buy. 182
![Steve Vladeck, a professor a Georgetown Law, writes up breaking developments from the Supreme Court. The last post in the three-post thread is the kicker, for our purpose here.
"#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
"Link: [URL of a supremecourt.gov PDF]
"By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v35s7l2l3nyjyxvqf427r5av/bafkreicppbo3jr5ugrdiyipnhxdav3aojviofdvoq22qulqh3bxlru2pii)
