Chungus Khan @tedlassostan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I actually think it’s less that they were geniuses and more that they were willing to say, ‘Well fuck, this isn’t working, let’s try something else’ whereas all the southerners from Fancy Lad School insisted on Doing Their Bullshit over and over again even when it wasn’t working 000
Reposted by Chungus KhanMaterialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026at scale, all problems are math problems 11317
Reposted by Chungus KhanChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 12/11/2023At a certain point you're not so much arguing with someone as you are arguing with their anxiety & depression, & that's when it's time to check out 515533
Reposted by Chungus KhanJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This piece was fascinating, getting at a point I'd never considered: bin-Laden's entire concept about what 9/11 would do to America was just... wrong. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... 1352353429
Chungus Khan @tedlassostan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is basically my grand unifying theory at the moment 010
Reposted by Chungus KhanDoctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Moving from a world of expensive things and cheap people to one of expensive people and cheap things happened only 250 years ago and humanity hasn't really adapted to the change yet. 953373
Reposted by Chungus Khan"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Ok, this chart is wild - essentially the 'vibessession' visualized. Like, the 'own finances' number is not insensitive to economic change - it was higher pre-pandemic, popped up with pandemic cash, is lower now. But mostly everyone is like, "thinks are terrible ::gestures:: over there, somewhere" 2139456
Reposted by Chungus KhanSean Skunk-Cabbage (Chou-Puant) ⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I've got buddies who are rangers in the whites and "west coast guys who dont understand prominence or our particularly shitty weather" are a particularly common rescue profile 31416
Chungus Khan @tedlassostan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026My favorite sadistic activity is taking smug westerners, who are used to gentle switchbacks that are all but paved to go over 14'ers, on an East Coast death march straight up a boulderfield on a trail designed by a 19th century New Englander hopped up on laudanum 030
Reposted by Chungus Khanmeadia.bsky.social @meadia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I’ve seen a lot of stories on Trump having the greatest political comeback of all time but we need more stories on the greatest political fumble of all time aka Trump and the affordability crisis All he had to do was repeat 2017 and not f with the economy but he did the opposite 141
Reposted by Chungus KhanCitizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Massachusettes "Millionaires Tax", which was targeted to fund transportation and education, has been a resounding success. It has funded FREE school lunch for ALL students, FREE buses in lowest income communities (people can get to work, etc.), and FREE community college. And "exodus" was minimal.boston.comMillionaires tax surges past expectations, once againThe voter-approved surtax has sailed past its $2 billion estimate for another year in a row. 192422808
Chungus Khan @tedlassostan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Taxing rich folks more is the closest thing to a "free lunch" we have in public policy right now 000
Reposted by Chungus KhanWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/11/2024If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. This doesn’t mean that these people wouldn’t be fucking morons. 412503343
Chungus Khan @tedlassostan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Yes as everyone knows, good ads are important, and can overcome a negative political environment. Just ask Senator Amy McGrath 000
Reposted by Chungus KhanWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I don't worry at all about terminator stuff, I worry quite a lot about Augmented authoritarianism, and I worry the most of all about a gigantic metastasizing perpetually low-trust neomedieval pile of shit that AI greatly exacerbates and possibly locks in for good. 23918123
Chungus Khan @tedlassostan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026There's more credible evidence of fraud in search of unlimited breadsticks than there is of voter fraud 000
Reposted by Chungus KhanAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I cross-referenced my database of candidates against credible voter fraud cases. GOP politicians are implicated at 50x–38,000x the general public's rate. Yet even if every American voted with the integrity of a GOP candidate, it still wouldn't come close to justifying making voting one iota harder. 10702340
Reposted by Chungus KhanKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 21/07/2026Okay, [oil and natural gas] can work sometimes, but what do you do when the [weird orange wannabe dictator's erratic mood] doesn't shine or the [Strait of Hormuz tanker traffic] doesn't blow? 1179
Chungus Khan @tedlassostan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The internet. Vaccines. Space travel. Antibiotics. Roads. Bridges. Canals. Common defense. Public land conservation. Universal rights. The list goes on. 000
Chungus Khan @tedlassostan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026It Green Mile Shining Skeleton Crew Different Seasons 000
Reposted by Chungus KhanAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026"Within the US itself it might be difficult to sense just how quickly the world is changing ... A carbon energy superpower, the US looks increasingly like an energy island" www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...phenomenalworld.orgDawn of the Electric World Order | The PolycrisisGlobal shockwaves from the war on Iran 34211
Reposted by Chungus KhanG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/05/2025The key to winning at both politics and elections is realizing that future opinions — "latent opinion" — is different from what we can measure about public opinion using polls _today_. Future opinion is downstream of both what leaders do *and* don't do today. The future is not exogenous 1932056
Reposted by Chungus Khanceej @ceej.online · 16/06/2026REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Democrats want you to believe that sending FIVE MILLION DOLLARS of YOUR tax money to MEXICO to “manage” the “Dick Exploding Spider” population is “normal” SAME SENATOR SIX MONTHS LATER: (walking like a saddle-sore cowboy) This is the greatest public health crisis of our lives, 2578361846
Reposted by Chungus KhanJames Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026NYU's Aswath Damodaran "said seeing SpaceX’s addressable market of $28.5 trillion made him think the prospectus was written by Grok, the Elon Musk-owned artificial intelligence assistant, rather than a banker. 'This is a hallucination....I would be embarrassed to even put that number out.'"cnbc.comSpaceX set to open around $162 per share, down from initial indication of $175: Live updatesFollow SpaceX IPO live updates on price, ticker, broker access, valuation and what investors need to know before shares trade. 152
Reposted by Chungus KhanAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/06/2026“Court packing is never ever something you should do” is not a tenable position. It’s trivial to imagine a court so extremely anti-constitutional (and yet 34 senators won’t convict) where court packing would be the necessary lesser evil. The only question is if the Roberts Court is that bad. (it is) 532396451
Reposted by Chungus KhanT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 10/06/2026It's like there's a reason Chesterton's Fence exists 🤯 bsky.app/profile/matt... 210015
Reposted by Chungus KhanT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Someone at work shared this today. Amazingly, the tweet is still live. Not sure any human alive is responsible for more death and destruction on a per-capita basis than Elon Musk... 🤔 31874195
Reposted by Chungus KhanKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 10/06/2026A good thread on screwworms. Talking to an entomologist last year, he also added that the pandemic was the first domino. Scientists couldn’t get to the facilities, couldn’t get out into the field to check outbreak reports. 181935682
Reposted by Chungus Khanlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13/11/2024one day you're going to see elon posting "we just cut 200 million dollars going to bull weevil outbreak prevention 😂😂" and then a couple months later the entire midwest will be decimated by the first mass bull weevil outbreak since 1884 23874401400
Reposted by Chungus KhanBrittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social · 09/06/2026There really is a tweet for everything 362944843
Reposted by Chungus Khan21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I do get emotional at this speech every time I read it 251544349
Chungus Khan @tedlassostan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Hunter Biden is like if Podrick Payne and Bronn were somehow the same guy 000
Reposted by Chungus KhanReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 03/06/2026It's also hard to express, on a really selfish personal level, how awful it is to see my twinned loves of Reconstruction constitutionalism and the New Deal-Atlanticist administrative state get ripped apart 1049945
Reposted by Chungus KhanTom Pelissero @tompelissero.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Finally! The Eagles have agreed to trade three-time Pro Bowl WR A.J. Brown to the Patriots, who will send a 2028 1st-round pick and 2027 5th-round pick to Philadelphia, sources tell The Insiders. After months of speculation, it’s about to be official: A.J. Brown is a Patriot. 1112229
Reposted by Chungus Khanlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 01/06/2026a small part of the problem with AI is that even if you see good use cases for the technology, focusing on them is a little like saying radiotherapy is going to be great for treating cancer while stores still have radium toothpaste on the shelves www.404media.co/hackers-simp...404media.coHackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It WorkedThe exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI. 211279251
Reposted by Chungus KhanBobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Do we have a spending problem? I argue no. Short 🧵 Here's a graph of all program spending EXCEPT Social Security and Medicare from 1950-present (with projections through 2056). It's already way below average, moving towards historic lows. So clearly that part of the govt isn't a "problem." 10298102
Reposted by Chungus KhanDan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 13/05/2026[IMHO, the 6th American Republic has ended: 1. Articles of Confederation, 2. Philadelphian System, 3. Reconstruction, 4. Redemption/Lochner, 5. New Deal, 6. Second Reconstruction. But YYMV. My main demand is that people include the Articles in their numbering] 1418
Chungus Khan @tedlassostan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026FAA/DOD has indefinitely suspended all review, let alone approval, of *any* energy project - this includes height permits for not only wind turbines but also transmission lines, natgas plants, anything above 120ft. Just heard it a couple hrs ago from our FAA consultant. 100
Reposted by Chungus KhanJordi Schröder Bosch @jordischroeder.bsky.social · 21/04/2026New report: wind and solar are driving down wholesale electricity prices across Europe. On average, prices were ~24% lower in 2023–2025 than if gas had set the price at all times. Thread below👇 25536
Reposted by Chungus KhanG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 09/04/2026Nice post from Arin. Raising the minimum wage in Florida, Arizona, Nebraska and Missouri led to higher wages for workers and had no measurable effect on employment arindube.substack.com/p/these-repu... 529386
Reposted by Chungus KhanPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance. 262151483545
