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Blake105 🇨🇦🇫🇮🇺🇦 🇲🇽 @blake105.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Just got back from Norway. 98% electric. Drivers pull up to electric “pumps” like we pull up to gas pumps. We are so freaking behind!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If this is a life threatening medical emergency, please hang up and dial 911. If you are seeking routine care from a competent medical professional, please stay on the line, although, tbh, you’re in for a long frustrating day.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So are the requirements for being an NBC baseball announcer having no interest in the actual game right in front of you and a generalized diarrhea of the mouth?

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Attempting to repost here to see if this seems at all reasonable to you: bsky.app/profile/pete...

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Agree absolutely. I don’t know what Josh’s analysis of micropayments was, but I’m damn sure the proliferation of paywalls leads inevitably to balkanization of the information commons and ultimately serves no one especially smaller publishers.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Denmark is trolling Trump.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

the Court “cannot expect the public to have faith in our judicial system if, without clear explanation, we are consistently greenlighting harmful acts” i continue to think putting KBJ on the Court may be Biden's best decision, no other justice is doin it like her www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...

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Justice Jackson Calls Emergency Docket ‘Potentially Corrosive’

Hours after fielding the Trump administration’s latest emergency application, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave a speech urging the Supreme Court to rethink such requests.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In terms of my personal politics I agree with most of this, but there is a greater malaise in Dem politics that is not getting enough attention. The question isn’t how do we manage to line up 51% of the electorate to eke out a win in the next election, it’s more a matter of who are we and what 1/

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am not reflexively tech phobic (well, perhaps a little. Forty years in the business will do that to a fella), but there are a couple of things about ai that bother me immensely. The size of the bets being placed are extraordinary given that no one has any real grasp on how this will 1/

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I saw odds the next batter would reach base during the broadcast of a game. Also, the post urged haste getting your ‘trade’ down before the AB started. I don’t think this is what Adam Smith had in mind when he described the beneficial influence of the invisible hand. Free market my ass.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

TIL That Ayn Rand accused Milton Friedman of being a “red” economist and thought of Hayek as a socialist. lol.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The constitution makes it clear that Congress is the superior power wrt to SCOTUS. SCOTUS is not necessarily the last word. The judicial power may be vested “in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time establish” and the appellate jurisdiction of SCOTUS is subject to …

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It seems like the Fed is making noises again about using interest rates to counteract the effect of Trump’s tariffs and insane foreign policy. Could somebody please do some root cause analysis on this situation and see if we could come up with a better solution? Try looking around 1600 Penn Ave.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Not a legal opinion here, but I think they got it slightly wrong. It’s not that prediction markets shouldn’t be subject to gambling regs because they’re pretending to be financial instruments, but that there’s a whole lot of what passes for financial markets that should be regulated as gambling.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Make a band name bigger Brontosaurus Springfield

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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

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The pundits have completely lost the plot

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

To be fair to the folks out on the point of attack, it’s also language problem. Our public dialogue takes place through semaphores. The percentage of the population engaged in long-form debate is minuscule.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

@hilzoy.bsky.social While reading Zuckerberg’s essay (about.fb.com/news/2026/08... )and wincing along with every wrong assumption on which he premised his argument, I couldn’t stop thinking about you and the idea that he might have been, but unfortunately was not, one of your students.

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The Future is for Everyone

A letter from Mark Zuckerberg on the path to a positive AI future.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I just read this to my wife and her response sums it up pretty well: “Just shoot me now!”

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Last night, the GOP members of the Senate approved Trump’s effort to destroy the rule of law in the US, wreck the Justice Dept., enable rampant corruption, defend pedophiles, and attack the president’s enemies. And they know they did those things. An egregious violation of their oaths of office.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If you think of it not so much as a validation of Todd Blanche’s corruption and low character, but rather as a defensive move to keep Laura Loomer out of the AG’s office, it makes more sense, but just barely.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

So this is how this works. Mitch, when I stick this pin in your leg, flinch once for yes, twice for no. Here we go. I think that was one twitch. You all saw that right?

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hello, my name is Donald Trump, and I’m here to make the case for a new Constitution.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I’d be very interested in hearing from someone with expertise in this matter, but as I understand it, none of the Nuremberg defendants were prosecuted based on German law. Given the scale, shamelessness and comprehensiveness of Trump admin criming seems we might need to redefine due process.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I agree with you about the lack of political imagination, but not the messianic vision part. Messianic vision seems better suited to authoritarian projects than to democratic liberation. The latter requires more thoughtful reflection so anything that advances that gets my vote. 1/

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There’s scant evidence that the president ever thinks at all about anything. His brain stem seems to be wired directly to his mouth.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

David just bought a new product called “Hey, I need to market some shitty AI front end. Can you help?”

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We shouldn’t overlook the enshitification of the customer support function. It nets out that regular folks spend an inordinate amount of time working for free for companies that don’t properly staff, train and compensate their support workers.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It seems just as likely to me that we’ll keep generating new layers of stupidity faster than we can peel them back. I used to work on ozone meters and the meters needed to be calibrated using known gas samples which had to go through some certification process. 1/

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The soft underbelly of modern civilization is pretty much everywhere. It was a peace dividend of the last 80 years and it is wholly at risk due to the stupidity of our betters.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

You’re both right. However this hypothetical plays out, it’s pretty well documented that even well educated people are poorly equipped to make relative numerical judgments, but the idea we’re all striving for some well defined maximal economic outcome is intrinsically absurd. 1/

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Perhaps all high school students should be required to take a course in right wing grifting for fun, evil and personal enrichment.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

One thing not talked about enough is the macro effects of the tariffs. Reed is probably correct that in some cases the importers are reducing margins to protect consumers and maintain markets, but what is undeniable is that tariffs are draining economic potential from the private sector.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

No doubt my perspective is skewed somewhat by living in a rural area. I fully support any plan that expands coverage, but we also need to recognize that how healthcare is funded is really a small part of the problem. The fact that healthcare delivery is a massive profit center not just for …

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Is it possible to disbar the entire DOJ or perhaps do a mass disbarment of everyone who works there? Has the DOJ ever been forced into a consent decree?

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I’d rather imagine a woman president completely out of fucks to give about the press and purveyors of conventional wisdom who just steps out every day making long overdue changes that make the world a better place. Now hiring. Inquire within.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“There are other ways to tell if an investment is sustainable than if it makes money for a rich person.” Whether it makes money for a rich person should be the last thing we consider unless, of course, we ignore it altogether. I’ve long suspected that the primary purpose ...

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Trying to get to yes? Reminds of the FBI Kavanaugh fig leaf investigation that ran over a weekend where they invited people with information to call in to a bit bucket.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Boldness counts. Send the State Police to find and evaluate him. Or just declare the seat vacant and start the replacement process. Put the burden of proof onto his handlers.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Maybe it’s just me, but with the pending confirmation of Blanche as AG, the GOP senate seems to be laying down a marker that there is no limit to the level of corruption they will tolerate. I think they would put Jeffery Dahmer on the Supreme Court if Trump asked them to.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

No knock on Sculer or on unions generally, but if our aspirations don’t rise above getting a sustainable spot on the treadmill, we’re selling ourselves short. Full citizenship is so much more. The bankers should be trembling in their boots when they see us coming.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

ICE’s brutal authoritarian behavior is the real deal for the prols. The wealthy elites enabling it are under pressure too, but it’s different. These are people who already have a fuck-ton of money that are giving in so they can keep getting more money than they’ll ever need.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

You’ll have better luck building a new governing vision if you get honest about what is wrong with the one we have. It’s not a matter of convincing people you see them. You need to clearly articulate what good governing vision looks like and it’s way different than the current model.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s one of those moments where a person can’t help but miss Hunter Thompson, but whatever. Perhaps the best way to remember Lindsey is, “Who?”.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

They say lightening never strikes in the same place twice, but there are lots of available targets.

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