Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Does anyone have a good analysis of the shift needed to flip a trifecta in the Texas legislature? Wild ass possibilities if Ds can do a gerrymander of their own (and if feeling wild add on Maine/Nebraska allocation for electors). 010
Reposted by Peter HurleyGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 01/10/2026This is a good thread and for some reason it unlocked something that's been brewing in the back of my head for a while. 1363895
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is broadly correct. "Bribed/in the pocket of X" stuff is only true for small potatoes things nobody hears about. Susan Collins helping direct $ to a random defense contractor? Totally plausible bribe. But any big public stance on a major issue? They are who they say they are. 010
Reposted by Peter HurleyUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“No they really believe it” is a way better heuristic for understanding political actors than “they are on the take” 9 times out of 10. Sometimes beliefs are downstream of materialism and political economy. But these relationships are more complicated than “bribes” 1575989
Reposted by Peter HurleyIan R @iragsdale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Not Robuchon but my wife and I got to enjoy a six course potato focused meal earlier this year! 41698
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I want to believe. I don't know if I can believe, but I want to believe. If I'm going full hopium, it's a midterm where turnout differential is a much bigger factor, and pollsters have been so burned on D oversampling that they're cranking a ton of stuff to favor Rs and... maybe too much? 000
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026So this is by far not the biggest deal here but what the actual fuck is point (4) in the cert grant? Whatever question one party wants resolved? Truly special birthday boy bullshit. 000
Reposted by Peter HurleyRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"The desire not to be subjected to the (democratic) political power of black people" is basically the core of American reactionary thought, always has been, and what do you know that turns out to make you fascist before long 39215
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's basically the opposite of inclusive design. Intentionally exclusive design ends up hurting more people than you intended to exclude, which is one of several reasons it's bad. 020
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I'll admit it took me an embarrassingly long time to get the joke. Truly top tier trolling. 030
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Also worth remembering that allied leadership did not take Hitler's entreaties about 1918 and the vows to never surrender seriously. In late 1944 they widely expected some form of negotiated German surrender as the walls obviously closed in. 120
Reposted by Peter HurleyBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026real friendships involve the other person pushing back against you, having needs, being busy, not being able to devote themselves to you. we know from the experience of the powerful that having somebody at your literal beck and call is a factor in driving people mad. 61270169
Reposted by Peter HurleyPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries. 5151711314
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Samuel Johnson really encapsulated it. “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?” 020
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think this relates to more than just disease. There's a conspiratorial mindset where bad things can't simply be randomness or large scale social phenomena. 9/11 trutherism, Qanon, election denialism, etc. 030
Reposted by Peter HurleyDa Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026People don’t want to hear diseases just happen. It scares them to death. They need it to be because of malign actors or because they didn’t take the right thing. The fact that it could happen to anyone, anytime, just because is terrifying because you can’t control it. Whether autism/covid it’s fear. 1168667
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The next administration should declare these counterfeit and demonetized as they were never lawful to mint. 020
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The philosopher AJ Ayer once stopped Mike Tyson from forcing himself on Naomi Campbell at a party in London through clever wordsmithing. 041
Reposted by Peter HurleyDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/09/2026Just gonna toss out there that one of the central facts of US politics--all politics, really--is that the general populace knows very little about who holds power, how gov't works, what policies do & don't exist, the balance of economic forces, or really much of anything outside their lifeworlds. 29792106
Reposted by Peter HurleyZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/09/2026ICE and CBP invading voting places is a great way to tie everything together in the most illegitimate way possible. Ppl already have gotten sick of these guys, and now they come to take *your* vote away? 1345
Reposted by Peter Hurleymtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Celebrating and elevating members of our community who sacrificed their lives to fight for our freedom in a medium that members of our community relate to (goofy state fair ag art) is good. Not cringe! Pretty straightforwardly effective radicalization propaganda. 1341647
Reposted by Peter HurleyAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:data4democracy.substack.comThe Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ SideThis is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so. 642206764
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026A Democratic candidate could do a lot worse than Wrecking Ball for their 2028 campaign song. 031
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026My whole thing is that *even if* an LLM was giving near perfect legal advice the fact that it is not privileged is so destructive as to make it worse than useless in many cases. Every single question and answer is subject to discovery! One subpoena to Claude and your case is ruined. 081
Reposted by Peter HurleyZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 17/08/2026They already had Trump over a barrel and agreeing to everything they wanted and it all fell apart because the Israelis made clear from the moment that piece of paper was signed in Versailles that they would not comply under any circumstances. 2172
Reposted by Peter HurleyZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Until Iran either has a credible plan to pressure Israel into submitting to Iranian hegemony (no such plan exists, and at this stage of the war, no credible plan could exist, because Israel desperately wants to fight!) or is willing to drop that demand *to the US and Gulf States*, this is stupid. 3151
Reposted by Peter HurleyMicah @rincewind.run · 12/08/2026this is easily a bigger result than whoever wins WI-GOV, Craig would have been a significantly below average Dem senator and Flanagan will be in the top tier phenomenal news 1059926
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I think that to the extent this isn't retroactive, it is constitutional as to consular employees. It's settled law that anyone with diplomatic immunity doesn't get citizenship for their kids. Trump does have the power to grant diplomatic immunity to broad categories of foreign consular employees. 310
Reposted by Peter Hurleymike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026this man should get combat pay bc he was FIGHTING here 3970661409
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I think there are issues where you have deeds that haven't been recorded. The Berenson thing is with his mom (who's a NYC resident) living in an apt "owned" by his (deceased) dad. If they never recorded it switching to her, the city sees a $$$ property owned by a nonresident. 010
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The problem with this is that there is no way short of fundamental constitutional reform to abolish the two-party system. As long as the President is fully in charge of the executive and is an independently elected individual person, you will have exactly two parties. 000
Reposted by Peter HurleySky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 01/08/2026As I’ve said before, the fundamental thing to understand about Trump is he is a Florida retiree. He does not want to work, he wants to golf and post boomerslop on Facebook.  1154765
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 31/07/2026To add to this: conspiracism is often about feeling like the world is controllable, and that bad things are the result of malicious bad actors who can be identified and rooted out/punished. It's the mindset that has people yearning for a strongman who will get the bums out and leave utopia. 000
Reposted by Peter HurleyDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/07/2026Today on Volts: in lithium-ion batteries, the cathode has been evolving for 30 years, but the anode has remained stubbornly graphite. Now silicon anodes, which promise 5X the energy density & charging speeds, are finally reaching commercial viability. I talk with a silicon-anode pioneer.volts.wtfSilicon anodes for batteries unlock greater energy density and faster charging timesA conversation with Rick Costantino of Group14. 620555
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 31/07/2026How much you wanna bet this asshole lied to his lawyers and was planning to lie to the court? 000
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This OTOH is a silly concern. Selling fresh food safely is a very well solved problem and the city-run stores aren't going to be stocking past-date stuff or not paying for refrigeration repairs. I am very confident that food bought there would be perfectly safe. 020
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I think a lot about my time volunteering with Daily Table (Boston area nonprofit grocery chain) before they went under. A thread 1201
Reposted by Peter Hurleyellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 26/07/2026a pride parade is a deeply organized, planned, and role-based event; it just offers spaces for roles like "person who is queer and/or doing kink in public". it is *not* a spontaneous thing and it does not simply emerge from the erotic impulses of the people, people have to make it happen 2738
Reposted by Peter HurleyCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/07/2026“.. the Trump administration decided to remove four service members killed this past weekend from the list .. because their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/u... 30124681230
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Also worth keeping in mind there will not be an element of surprise, at least for the general fact of an invasion coming. You can't move a hundred thousand plus soldiers and their support infrastructure without people noticing. 010
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Like, can you do really well in the trades? Sure. But it requires a ton of work and (one way or another) education. You both need to learn your trade, and if you want to make the big $, how to run a business. 020
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Oh, pit crew!static.klipy.comRuPaul in Drag Applying Makeup with Opera GlassesAlt: RuPaul looking through Opera Glasses 000
Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Yeah the durability of new cars is wild honestly. You can be driving around in a 10+ year old car and it's perfectly normal and generally reliable. That was not at all the case in the 80s. 010
