townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ten dollars for one lousy apple?! Thanks Biden. 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Maybe jobs are a euphemism for the dividend checks. 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Every state has standing because the merger will reduce consumer choice in each state. You don't need to show proportionate harm to get to trial. And trial is about the illegal conduct of the defendants. Dayen has lionized Weiser for his antitrust leanings -- let's see where the beef is? 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It's not just Bonta -- it's also Weiser (CO) & James (NY). Perhaps they got sour advice from outside council and trying to maximize deal before 10/1, when Paramount starts paying $7m/day to Warner. Potential loss of leverage seems minimal. Nor are the states in any way risking liability. Bad advice 180
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I remember Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson on the 700 Club days after 9/11 blaming "the gays, abortionists, the ACLU, etc." And our members of Congress voting in absolute, craven fear (not unity). 001
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Do you remember how Al Gore became a "serial prevaricator" -- against George W. Bush of all people? Oh and how John Kerry was somehow guilty of "stolen valor" -- after Bush dressed up in a flight suit? This was the script from the NYT editorial board on down. 010
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026If the executive order has no effect, then why challenge it? Isn't that what Roberts said? 110
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026That's one way to get your boss's attention. 020
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026DHS IG can expect a midnight all-caps tweet, a pink slip, and a defamation lawsuit. 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026If you have trouble locating your deck, try asking your Ouija board. 010
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026So, not so much a debate as a concern that certain concerned individuals are expressing? Interesting. Aside from the premise that there are no competitors in a food desert, most commentary I have seen asserts that it will be impossible for the city to beat market prices in this low-margin industry. 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Can you show me someone who has adopted the "pro" position on the question in quotation marks? Or is it just a straw man? 100
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I thought the point of city grocery stores was to address food deserts where the market is not providing access. Are we now just debating whether Mamdani can undercut market prices? 121
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Fauci has expert counsel who undoubtedly told him what Josh says. I assume that Fauci was trying to create an impression of a witchhunt, but that he in fact made a potentially false statement in prior testimony. 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Why I turned off my phone's biometric unlock during an international flight home last week. 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Rarely is the question asked: Is our justices learning? 020
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The first Muslim member of Congress swore in on Jefferson's Quran. The rep from Charlottesville said that was a threat to traditional values, and that if Americans didn't "wake up" and restrict immigration we would be inundated with Muslim elected officials wanting to swear in on the Quran. 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 26/06/20261. This happens all the time. Especially to poor people. 2. I would never consent to be separated from my kids or to have them questioned by police like this without a court order. 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 26/06/2026As I recall there were two years with zero percent guidelines increases under di Blasio. 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Mamdani effect is good. But in this race, he took on and defeated the working-class, non-white grassroots that came before him. That's not a victory 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Cabo Verde has asked the world to do the same thing. Has FIFA obliged? 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Seems likely they get medical care at Langone? 010
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Going on the attack isn't the right phrase for the normal mode of MAGA debate. I think it's gaslighting. Feign offense at the notion, complete denial, repeat party line, and deflect onto others (Biden? Woke professors?). 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026How about a cannon? Blue smoke means the administration won, pink they lost. Other cases go to the dot matrix printer 031
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026This is on appeal at the Second Circuit. States have a good argument but that's not enough in 2026. We'll see. 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act has a private cause of action for forced labor. In addition to the Fair Labor Standards Act and state equivalents. 011
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Hope there's no shortage like there was in 2020. It has real, on label uses for serious illness (lupus) 020
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Mamdani is bringing in a lot of gentrifiers into politics, which could have been a good thing -- but instead of building a bridge to community organizing politics, he decided to push them aside. 100
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Reynoso has been building community power with working class NYers for almost 20 years, including leading the effort to topple the real Brooklyn machine. Suggesting that he's a top down politician is false. This is a power play for the DSA, which has not had much working class credibility. 120
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I'll defer to the scientific method. I don't see why I would defer to a "tech entrepreneur" and corporate consultant who asserts vague condescension rather than actually engaging the merits. 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026That's some heavy duty gatekeeping (even worse when I click through). It's not like the system we have is working. Telling people to defer to self-appointed experts rather than proposing and discussing policy solutions is pretty much how we got to where we are today. 100
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 09/06/2026If counties with remaining votes matched current tallies, Steyer would be an additional 80k behind. He needs the remainder to cut 17% or so better than it has so far. 031
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 14/05/2026What exactly is wrong with Matt Stoller? Genuine question. I read his book Goliath and it is excellent and important. He sounds pretty catty in his podcast, though. I don't do much social media so I'm probably missing something. 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I have never met anyone obsessed with John Rawls who is not an academic or professional blogger. Maybe political philosophy can describe or suggest but it's at best tangentially connected to politics. Liberalism wasn't grown in a lab like libertarianism. 040
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 22/04/2026And it's usually chosen for one particular reason. 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 22/04/2026During Trump I ("the Resistance") the ACLU hoovered up a massive amount of funds and transformed into something unrecognizable overnight. Today they are doing top notch litigation that CBOs can't do. But their "policy" arm is taking up too much space and should be eliminated in favor of grassroots. 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 20/04/202620 years ago, conservatives wrote constantly about "judicial supremacy." Of course, we knew it was phony because it only applied to abortion and gay rights, but the theory was compelling politics. Is "juristocracy" any different, in theory? 000
townhell.bsky.social @townhell.bsky.social · 20/04/2026He will dismiss before discovery. This was meant to beat the news cycle. 000
