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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

these are self-inflicted wounds. i'm not petty or vindictive. that said: why would i tell my representatives to support a bill that aids a constituency that hasn't just acted against its own interests, but tends as a bloc to support a malign actor who is intent on harming me + people i care about?

But the fate of the farm bill remains uncertain, along with the future of its programs and funding that are essential to the agricultural industry, as farmers are squeezed financially by tariffs, higher input prices — including major cost increases for diesel and fertilizer prices — and extreme weather and drought.

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

young mc, milli vanilli, et al ain't gonna play sun city

CBS News: “Some artists who were announced as performers for what’s being billed as a Great American State Fair amid President Trump’s push for a major American birthday bash this summer in Washington, D.C., dropped out of their appearances shortly after an initial lineup was released.”

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

msm always game for having a kick at lucy's football

Lame-Duck Republicans Who Don’t Owe Trump Anything
May 27, 2026 at 10:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments

Washington Post: “One by one, Trump is putting an end to the political careers of lawmakers in his party that he deems, for reasons more personal than policy-oriented, to be apostates. But in doing so, he may also be liberating them as they serve out their remaining seven months in Congress. They now have nothing to lose if they stand up against him.”

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

thinking about how this hed + dek would read if the conflict involved joe biden, barack obama, bill clinton ... basically any dem executive. suggestions? the times is irredeemable.

nyt hed and dek: With Big Decisions Ahead, the Supreme Court Collides With a Testy Trump
President Trump has alternated between bullying the justices and cozying up to them as the court prepares to announce major decisions that will determine the fate of the key aspects of his agenda.

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

t'would be a shame if people at scale exploited this for prompt injection + custom code generation. imagine how much money this would cost google!

prompt instructing gemini to generate a custom python script after jailbreaking google's ai search results.

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

at this point, just identifying as republican should disqualify a person from proximity to money or children.

Alleged Embezzler Runs GOP Lawmaker’s Defense Fund
May 14, 2026 at 1:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 46 Comments

The manager for Rep. Andy Ogles’ (R-TN) legal defense fund continues to oversee the fund despite facing federal charges that he embezzled money from a Maryland politician’s campaign account and a community organization to refinance a yacht, NOTUS reports.

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

@politicalwire.com i'd put my money on a scratching, biting, kicking 8-year-old girl. she'd be hella motivated too.

More Republicans Think Trump Would Beat Them in a Fight
May 7, 2026 at 7:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 138 Comments

A new YouGov poll finds 39% of Republicans think that 79-year old Donald Trump could beat them in a fight, while just 33% think they could beat him.

Meanwhile, 54% of Democrats think an eight-year-old boy could beat Trump in a fight.

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

might one say he's planning for an Attack that is Massive or a ... @olchefdan.bsky.social?

Graham Says Trump Is Planning ‘Overwhelming’ Attack
April 4, 2026 at 3:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 464 Comments

After a phone call with President Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Iran will be facing “overwhelming military force” if they do not give in to U.S. demands.

Said Graham: “I am completely convinced that he will use overwhelming military force against the regime if they continue to impede the Strait of Hormuz and refuse a diplomatic solution to achieve our military objectives. If it’s not clear to Iran and others by now that President Trump means what he says then I don’t know when it will ever be.”

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

why don't they challenge the doofus-in-chief like this

Speaker Mike Johnson took questions from reporters:

REPORTER: Why isn’t Trump involved in trying to end the government shutdown?

JOHNSON: I think he is involved.

REPORTER: He shot down the plan yesterday.

JOHNSON: Well, that’s what’s been reported.

REPORTER: He said it in the Oval Office.

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

if only democratic leadership were capable of saying this

"Our first and last word has always been, is, and will be this: someone like us will never come to terms with someone like you — not now, not ever.”

— Iran’s military command, quoted by the Financial Times, in a video message to President Trump rejecting a ceasefire.

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

elite media's autopsy might start with this excerpt. biden is said to be "sullen" + to mispronounce alex pretti's name. (trump would be described as "defiant.") plus elite media routinely sanewashes (/ignores) the torrent of gibberish + malapropisms that cascades from the cloaca trump calls a mouth.

Biden grew sullen as he spoke of the surge of immigration agents in Minnesota that resulted in the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

“My friends, I can’t sugarcoat this,” Biden said. “These are dark days.”

And he hit Trump for ignoring those violent events in Minnesota during the State of the Union.

“He doesn’t mention Renee Good, Alex Pretti, who were killed by Minnesota ICE — in Minnesota by ICE — offer even a word of solace to their families,” Biden said, appearing to mispronounce Pretti’s last name. “He doesn’t offer a word of support, even recognition to Epstein’s victims sitting in front of him. During the entire time he never acknowledged them.”

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

likely the first time mcLaughlin has ever used the term "inequities;" possibly coincides with her discovery of the concept.

The Secret Service will soon offer each agent who graduates from protective detail training two tailored suits, according to sources familiar with the matter and a public contract solicitation. The initiative to have the Secret Service purchase suits happened because Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem disliked how a protective detail was dressed in the suits they bought for themselves, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.”

“DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin denied that account, telling CNN, ‘This does not have to do with optics’ but aims to fix inequities for the ‘men and woman who are just starting their career.’

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

it used to be that 'lynchpin' was a kind of backdoored spelling of 'linchpin.' a corrupted variant that (b/c of its frequent occurrence) got legitimized as a secondary spelling. i feel as if this arrangement is now inverted--as if modern editors seem okay with this? the example is from @slate.com

My friend recently told me a story over drinks that I haven’t been able to get out of my head. Her two friends, let’s call them Alice and Bob, were something of a lynchpin couple in her friend group. They’d been dating for a few years and moved in together almost immediately. Everyone knew them as an item that did pretty much everything together. Alice and Bob were more like AliceandBob, really.

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

pasting this apropos of nothing whatsoever

“The consequences are notorious, but they deserve emphasis: between 1918 and 1922, assassinations traced to left-wing elements numbered twenty-two; of these, seventeen were rigorously punished, ten with the death penalty. Right-wing extremists, on the other hand, found the courts sympathetic: of the 354 murders committed by them, only one was rigorously punished, and not even that by the death penalty. The average prison sentences handed out to these political murderers reflect the same bias: fifteen years for the left, four months for the right. Right-wing putschists like Kapp, who had tried to overthrow the Republic by force and violence—his associates committed several revolting murders—were acquitted, freed on a technicality, or allowed to escape abroad. After the Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch of November 1923 failed, the trial of the putschists was degraded into a political farce; the court permitted the accused and their lawyers to insult the government in the most offensive and incendiary language and finally convicted Hitler to five years of Festungshaft, a comfortable form of detention of which, in any event, he served less than a year. The Feme murders committed by members of illegal "defense organizations," paramilitary vigilante groups, belong to the most atrocious crimes in a century filled with atrocities.” – Peter Gay, Weimar Culture, p. 20

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

is richman -- whom the article identifies as a professor at columbia -- an "other fbi official"? does @politico.com still have editors? wouldn't even a junior editor have asked the author to clarify this? wtaf?

The two-count indictment against Comey claims that he lied to Congress when he testified that he never authorized other FBI officials to leak information to the press, despite allegedly directing a Columbia University professor to pass information to a New York Times reporter. Comey pleaded not guilty to the charges and denies ever authorizing anyone at the FBI to leak information on his behalf.

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

i didn't know that i could do this. i look forward to asserting this privilege when i am questioned by the government in my company's upcoming antitrust trial.

Lemons finally told the court that he did seek to find out if a declination memo existed, but said he was under instruction from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's office not to disclose the answer.
"What is it that the office of the deputy attorney general told you you cannot say?" Nachmanoff asked, to which Lemons only said he was aware of various draft memos.

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

conservative scotus justices to this spokesperson for the department of homeland security: hold my beer.

"Maybe I wasn't clear yesterday; that wasn't a suggestion," [Judge Sara Ellis] told lawyers for the Trump administration. "I am modifying the temporary restraining order to include body-worn cameras."

"It's not up for debate," she added.

Federal agents at large wear body cameras but federal agents in Chicago have not been.

"This was not a suggestion," Ellis said in court. "It wasn't a hint. It wasn't a topic of discussion or conversation. It was an order. So, I will enter it today and then I will expect that it will be followed."

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security called the ruling an "extreme act of judicial activism."

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

rocked a tee from this tour back in the day

Pat Boone's in a metal mood No More Mr Nice Guy album atrocity from the 1990s

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

i dunno. feels like they'd be on pretty solid ground phrasing this as "his lies about positive economic developments." but then i'm not a journamalist.

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The bad economic data could hang over Trump’s meeting with more than two dozen business leaders at the White House later Wednesday.

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And his blame-casting in response to the reports could trip up his recent efforts to take credit for what he asserts are a slew of positive economic developments.

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For example, in a speech Tuesday evening celebrating the 100th day of his second presidential term, Trump boasted that “prices are coming way down,” claiming, “that’s what I’ve done.”

In fact, the latest GDP report showed the personal consumption expenditures price index, the Fed’s preferred inflation measure, sharply increasing by 3.6% in Q1, up from the 2.4% rise in the prior quarter.

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

both of these heds are written as if in disregard of priors we've known this about maga all along; both lithwick and stern know that this is who john roberts is. (in fairness, neither likely cribbed this hed.)

MOLLY OLMSTEAD
We Learned Almost Nothing This Hellish Week—Except That MAGA Can Spin Almost Anything

ALSO
Trump’s Tariffs Are Already Blowing Up in His Face in One Big Way

DAHLIA LITHWICK AND MARK JOSEPH STERN
Why Did John Roberts Just Give Trump Such a Huge Supreme Court Win?

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

i feel as if the writer who cribbed this hed lacks a basic understanding of cause and effect or maybe they're just afraid to write it the way it should be written a suggestion: "How performative cruelty as a policy led to a Maryland dad being illegally remanded to an offshore gulag"

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

i was naïve enough to have seen this as a textbook example of newspeak

The Wall Street Journal's editorial board writes: 'We’ve long thought Mr. Trump’s “reciprocal” line is mainly political spin intended to mollify Republicans and businesses....'

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

when llms grok what 49% of the american electorate steadfastly refuses to see, i again find myself asking: are these things less apt at pantomiming a capacity for reasoning than the average human being? i.e., does the average _american_ human being do much more than pantomime at reasoning?

chatgpt 4.0 correctly identifies donald trump as the rapist based on an obscure metaphorical description of what an unnamed abomination of a political actor is doing to our republic.

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

how much if at all do you dig transitional records like this one

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

if i want it solved i'd probably pick this fella!

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

You’ve been murdered, who do you want on the case?

Inspector Clouseau asking if the (not so) blind accordian player's minky is licensed.

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

other examples? the original mfsl _low spark of high heeled boys_ and _shoot out at the fantasy factory_ feature alternate versions of both the title track of _low spark_ and "roll right stones", among others. again, not the original two-track masters. but both remasters sound great.

traffic's shoot out at the fantasy factory album cover (mfsl edition)

traffic's the low spark of high heeled boys album cover (mfsl edition)

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

returning to an old favorite: elton's "where to now st. peter?" from my favoritest of his records. is there a more touching, moving, beautiful pop song, a beauty distinguished more by its gestalt than by its lyrical content? (taupin's lyrics are pretty + evocative, john's music is otherwordly.)

elton john tumbleweed connection album cover

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

yes it did! and remember when you posted last month re: post a still image from a movie with a song as accompaniment?

sammy baker davis jr. and jake ryan celebrating her 16th birthday. unknown if she is wearing panties at the time.

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

was it 16 years ago today, on a saturday no less, that we lost freddie hubbard?

the cover of feddie hubbard's open sesame lp

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

this trump voter has regrets but i'm curious as to what they thought they were voting for if not this? not the plain language of what this doofus said (ad nauseam) during the campaign? ffs the first page of their feed is enough to induce CTE by means of repetitive face-palming. and so it goes

a trump voter sez: this is not what i thought i was voting for when i cast my ballot for trump. their feed since thurs-fri night is exasperation-inducing. what *did* they think they were voting for if not this?

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

similar story, altho involving my sister. her favorite was mark gubicza. i wonder if her wife lisa knows about this? 🤪

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stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

but that was just locker-room talk, right, @politicalwire.com ? it isn't fair to judge him on locker-room talk.

the president-elect / doofus promised during his campaign not just to bring prices down, but that prices would come down quickly, almost immediately. he's now backtracking from that promise, saying there's only so much he can do.

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