Reposted by ryan cooperwe have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2hlmao this story is so fucking funny 631072
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2hman I remember growing up with Governor Bill Owens and GW Bush winning in 2004. started losing and decided to double down all the way to political psychosis 060
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2hor adults! a lot of these mfs are riding the equivalent of a hypermotard except even faster acceleration and no helmet, gloves, or boots. it gives me the willies to just see it 120
Reposted by ryan cooperStephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 3hIt is absolutely insane and a sign that Anthropic is not taking the things they say seriously that they have not actively and urgently reached out to maintainers of every even somewhat-critical open source project. 2569
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3hit's quite the situation. liberals and socialists are largely in happy stable marriages with kids while conservatives are more often drug-addled perverts going to sex parties 170
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3hthey've done it constantly for decades. when it's too egregious they have to play dumb with pieces like this one 000
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3hoh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...nytimes.comStudents at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case. 9925200
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3hPresident AOC is going to deport you to back to Orania. Amandla! 011
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4hso he's hiding his gut, right? leaning forward so it doesn't stick out? 18554
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4hI went to the DSA convention in 2017 and I strongly remember a speaker on one panel cautiously suggesting that if you lived in a swing state you should probably vote HRC only for some lady to come completely unglued at him and storm out 1531
Reposted by ryan cooperRichard Jensen (No AI.) @theragingcelt.bsky.social · 20h[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you've never met anyone from the David E. Kelly Series THE PRACTICE? [JACK SMITH]: Correct [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Dylan McDermott! [SMITH]: That is Dermot Mulroney, sir. 525239
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4hoh yeah they're just like car dealership guys that way. probably end up losing as much money through refused sales as they gain by egregious ripoffs 110
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4hyeah it ain't that hard! especially with the newer DIY friendly brands. I am just so time crunched I decided to outsource it, and I immediately regretted it. they fixed the worst wire problem but it is still bare romex going outside I am going to have to fix when I redo the porch 020
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4hyeah it's not great. though apparently it looks worse than it is 000
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5h"The president’s net approval sits 25 points underwater with registered voters and 26 points underwater with likely voters. These numbers make for an extraordinarily ugly contrast with 2018, when his net approval was “just” -9" www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-least-...theargumentmag.comThe least popular war since VietnamTrump’s war on Iran is dragging the whole Republican Party down 4574
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5hwell at least you get high quality work when you pay a high price, bsky.app/profile/ryan... 260
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5hwell that just wouldn't get clicks. nobody likes salacious gossip in this country, you see bsky.app/profile/nycs... 2462
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5hor the company that wanted $2k *just to install* a water heater. I did it myself, took about 3 hours and that was with a lot of faffing about. $1,000-$1,500 an hour is not reasonable 5120
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5hyeah, I mean I've worked in that space too, it is a lot of work, insurance is expensive etc. I'm talking about stuff like "the traditional AC is $8k all in but the heat pump that wholesales for the same price and is installed the same way is $14k" 280
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5hif they're being fired by Whiskey Pete, it's a safe bet they mostly are! 021
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5hwell well well! www.ms.now/news/kristi-...ms.nowKristi Noem files for divorce from Bryon NoemThe announcement of the separation comes six months after a bombshell tabloid photo leak of her husband, Bryon Noem. 9965
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5hany disgruntled generals or colonels, reach out, got an idea you might be interested in www.ft.com/content/1199...ft.comPete Hegseth to slash top US military officer roles by 20%Generals’ and admirals’ positions will be cut as part of the defence secretary’s wide-ranging overhaul of the armed services 59620
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5hit doesn't get more Alpha Male than that, folks bsky.app/profile/ordi... 01221
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5hI mean they see you, think "ah yes, some stupid lib" and pad their quote by 50 percent. not saying it's every trades guy but it's ~half of them 2140
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5halways strikes me that if a woman genuinely believes in this tradwife bullshit, what you obviously want is a lib husband with some cushy emails job www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/s...nytimes.comHer Brand Was Tradwife. Now She’s Divorced.What happens when a trad influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — and still needs to make a living online? 1128617
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5hoh good, yeah it's not too long but *excellent*. really nails how the 1970s left semi accidentally set up the neoliberal turn 010
Reposted by ryan cooper#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 6hI unfortunately can not help but recall how much vitriol and bile Uncommitted received and note how little of the same is being dished out for those who clearly want Abdul El Sayed to lose— including this Democratic state representativejewishinsider.comRising Jewish Democrat in Michigan won’t endorse El-SayedNoah Arbit, a rising Jewish Democrat in Michigan’s state Legislature, has been a vocal critic of Abdul El-Sayed, a fellow Democrat whose Senate campaign in the key battleground state has exposed deep ... 15774159
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h'Dorks on Reddit put their money into Tesla and SpaceX precisely because it’s Elon Musk’s personal plaything, and Wall Street learns that you “don’t bet against Elon.”' prospect.org/2026/09/30/h...prospect.orgHere’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania - The American Prospect‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market. 04610
Reposted by ryan cooperDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 6hOne way tech oligarchs retain power is through dual-class shares, allowing them to cash in on public stock markets without giving up power over their companies. @ryanlcooper.com thinks this needs to end: Dual-class shares should be banned, or taxed in proportion to founder control over the company.prospect.orgHere’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania - The American Prospect‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market. 114143
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h"With that established reality, the Daily Wire is given no choice but to push hard on the message that Muslims are doing a long con as sleeper agents, ready to establish a caliphate at a Virginia college, of all places." defector.com/finally-a-sh...defector.comFinally, A Shitty Movie Where Muslims Are The Bad Guys | DefectorI can’t think of a time in my life when the idea of a Muslim terrorist was not the most acceptable societal enemy. As someone who came of age in the wake of 9/11 and the invasions of both Iraq and Afg... 2847
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6hnot an original of mine to be clear, not sure who came up with it. so steal away! 020
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6hyeah I think the most promising use I've seen is with highly technical and specialized tasks and data sets. this consumer grade stuff I think is net negative by a huge margin 120
Reposted by ryan cooperDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 6hICE's own reviews of cases of immigrant deaths in custody show a pattern of neglect: confiscation and refusal to provide routine medication, lack of follow-up care, even incompetence in reading tests or supplying medication. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social has this report. prospect.org/2026/09/30/i...prospect.orgDisturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American ProspectThe federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect. 19152
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h"here's who I am, what I stand for, and what I think should happen" vs "whatever you people tell pollsters you like, that's what I'll pretend to believe. unless of course you tell a different pollster a different answer" 4742
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6han enormous problem with poll-sniffing "popularism" is it explicitly advocates either lying about your beliefs, or having no beliefs at all. it rules out being principled or having deep moral conviction, which can be very appealing! newrepublic.com/article/2160...newrepublic.comIn Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s FaultThanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state. 715513
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6hit's good at that, translating, copyediting, and writing one-off custom software programs. also hacking, fraud, and extortion 230
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h"Dual-class shares should be banned outright, or even better, heavily taxed in proportion to their control over the company." prospect.org/2026/09/30/h...prospect.orgHere’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania - The American Prospect‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market. 28930
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h"The AI rollout has been the ne plus ultra of Silicon Valley arrogance." prospect.org/2026/08/31/d...prospect.orgBig Tech Crashes Headlong Into American Democracy - The American ProspectThe AI oligarchs thought they could stuff data centers down the throats of the American people. They thought wrong. 1262
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h"Only 28 percent of Americans believe that AI technology should move full speed ahead. Everyone else wants it slowed down or stopped, temporarily or permanently." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/one-more-r...paulkrugman.substack.comOne More Reason Americans Hate AI: It Does Nothing for ThemTrillions of dollars in spending, higher interest rates, hardly any jobs 59123
Reposted by ryan cooperBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 13hThis is a good reminder not to run Shapiro if you don’t want to answer ads about Ellen Greenberg 325627
Reposted by ryan cooperColin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 18hthis is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement. 92836538
Reposted by ryan cooperParis Marx @parismarx.com · 21hfunny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on. 322683334
Reposted by ryan coopermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21hits worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see 262286327