Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 15hA lot of people who really ought to know better¹ seem to be taking "omg, the British benefit system gives you a car for having gluten intolerance" at face value. ¹ for example anyone who works for the wall street journal 610918
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialLinda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 18hI realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something. 825229944
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19hI think for obvious reasons it is not correct to conflate public executions carried out by the state as spectacle with videos of murders by law enforcement that have been recorded often at considerable risk by observers. These are two different bad things done for different reasons 454661
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16hBreaking news: A 39-year-old woman from Franklin County, Pennsylvania, who had been diagnosed with measles has died, according to the local coroner’s office, marking the sixth such death reported since the state’s outbreak began this year.washingtonpost.comSixth person who had measles has died in Pennsylvania, local coroner saysThe state is experiencing the nation’s worst ongoing measles outbreak, the first in the U.S. to top more than 1,000 cases since 1991. 189654
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 16hHeavy rain from Post-Tropical Storm Rachel flooded parts of the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday. Learn more about the storm: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/w... 26267116
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16hThey're also both incredibly clumsy and obvious. Don Segretti, the Nixon operative who coined the term ratfucking, would be embarrassed to see how half-assed this all is. 381729333
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialNBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 17hMore than 400 trees were cut down in D.C.'s East Potomac Park this weekend. A furious federal judge said the government failed to give proper notice of the work amid an ongoing lawsuit.trib.alFurious judge orders freeze after 400 trees are cut down in East Potomac ParkThe Trump administration says the tree removal has nothing to do with the president’s plan to renovate the park into a championship-level golf course. 45396174
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16hZelensky on bombing the Russian data centers: “It’s pretty clear where the bots were coming from.” 462173624608
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 18hThis will be broadly unpopular with the electorate but I don’t think involuntary denaturalization should ever occur in a liberal society. Once you take your oath of citizenship you should forever be a citizen. 321039132
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 17hWithout defending the farmer at all, this one is on Emily Marris first and above all others. 838721
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty. 11377811586
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17hGrocery shopping in 2026 21593116
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17hThis is simply not generating either the volume or tone of scandal coverage that effectively ended Joe Biden's presidency when he was unable to produce a surgically-clean implementation of Donald Trump's totally unplanned & poorly timed withdrawal from Afghanistan: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 22814268
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialKarthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 19hAn EU-CN agreement is good and further strengthening of the RMB against USD would also be good, but FX geeks know EURCNY is down a fair bit over the last 15 months 0113
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 19hThere is a certain irony in spending $276 million on political “free speech”. 3306
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialTom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 19hBecause we are in upside down world the guy who took a $50,000 bribe ordered a a government raid of a Congresswoman over 40 year old paperwork filed by her father. Our republic is broken. 49922
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialzatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 19hFormer UK cabinet minister divorces, immediately falls in love with Véronique Pulpeuse, 26y old. Your publisher would fire you on the spot for proposing this premise to your spy script (again, I repeat: not making fun of the serious allegations). 4161
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 19hRoss's thesis seems to be that if fiction were more masculine in its themes, men would read more. But there's plenty of masculine fiction available and men don't read more of it. They just don't read as much as women--across the board. 1751634
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 19hBut also, the public data suggests otherwise. Women don't avoid books by men, but men are more reluctant to read books by women. (And sure, not all men, but we're talking about directional trends re: who buys and reads books.) 1753529
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19h"buy my product or I'll talk shit about you in between my regular attempts to whip up violent pogroms against immigrants" 1884
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialRuo Shui @ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social · 20hthe American electorate hated a soft landing 0112
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialIvan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 20hIf you've fallen for this bullshit, please leave the premises. 3457
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20hLiberals spend forever wondering if these people believe what they are saying and it doesn’t matter. Their audiences 10000% believe it and they vote accordingly. 24719101
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialTom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 20hMiller Lite stat o’ the day $366 million Elon Musk’s political spending so far this cycle. 5/20/25 Musk to step back from political spending: ‘I think I’ve done enough’” Enough said. 75113
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 20hThese are weak men executing bullshit orders on a pretext so flimsy it drifted away on a whisper. You don’t have to give them the presumption of strength or inevitability. 212315
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialRuo Shui @ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social · 20hHock saying this while setting up lending facilities for Anthropic is a good bit 192
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialBen Glasner @benglasner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It remains shocking to me that we have seen a full scale reversal of the post-COVID trend in wage growth. Since March 2025, real wages are down across the distribution. Only the 25th is up (+1%). let’s look at how odd this is in the context of the last 40+ years. @innovateeconomy.bsky.social 1145
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialLuke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026We set a record on Friday! Most weeks in one calendar year where the Nasdaq 100 posts a gain despite the SOX (semiconductor) Index slumping 4% or more. 1122
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 09/10/2026If you praise the Confederacy, everyone knows what you're doing. If you praise Rhodesia, though, you still get that little frisson of naughtiness, the little tingle of rebelliousness that can power you through the drudgery of your eight-hour shift at your dad's car dealership.motherjones.comHow a defunct white supremacist state became a cult favorite on the RightFrom battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can't stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia. 431443358
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialMsBellaF @msbellaf.bsky.social · 20hExcellent idea for an ETF finance.yahoo.com/markets/opti...finance.yahoo.comThis ETF firm is giving investors a way to avoid Elon MuskSubversive ETFs filed to launch new "Ex-Elon" funds excluding Elon Musk's companies, Tesla and SpaceX. 3729
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 21hTo extend an old metaphor: Bluesky is a record store. Gruber wants us all to know that X is an ENTIRE mall. With, like, mall Santas and a food court and a build-a-bear workshop. And sure, the security guards harass people and the owner traffics in CSAM. But, you guys, MALL SANTAS! 51099
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialTom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 22hHappy Indigenous Peoples Day to those who celebrate 2577
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22hNYC COMPTROLLER LEVINE: “.. One more possible sign that AI is already impacting employment in NYC: .. For the first time in decades, NYers ages 22–27 with a college degree have a higher unemployment rate than those without one.” 20483190
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 22hWe also got a story today about how people who worked on DOGE are making money off the data they stole. It's a self-reinforcing corruption machine they got going www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...nytimes.comInside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history. 5291110
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 22hWow, amazing 341510193
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialIvan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 21hSemiconductors downgraded to quarterconductors. 1233
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialRobin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 21hOil volumes out of the Persian Gulf are around 13 mb/d compared to a high of 16.5 mb/d a few weeks ago. This is still way better than the height of the war in March and April, but oil prices are back to their highs. Way too much risk premium is priced... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/denouement... 251
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialWarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 21hLavrov stated that they would continue to pursue the goals of the "special military operation" without making excuses to anyone. 1613628
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialEd Bradford @fullcarry.net · 21hFrom "return-free risk" to serious curve risk. As Jim Grant once warned, US Treasuries used to offer no yield for plenty of danger. Today, soaring term premiums show investors are finally demanding real compensation for locking up cash in an uncertain world. 3202
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 22hA half-a-million dollar share of a Nobel might seem like a nice surprise on its face but actually Hall has had it in his budget forever. 3608
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 08/10/2026It’s (probably) not at an “I will I get fired if I put ‘artificial intelligence’ in an email” level but the WH is making clear that the expectation is to use Trump’s politically correct terminology in public communication 2247136
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 12/10/2026(staring directly at the camera, unblinking) like i said. bsky.app/profile/mich... 5816
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialPaladinForGood 🇺🇦 @sema4paladin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This and so fucking much this 0183
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialBaltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 12/10/2026Another reminder that much of ‘realist’ political theory is absolute junk pseudo-intellectual nonsense because the reality is that everyone has agency and smaller states can defend rules-based principles. 0301
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/10/2026There is, writes @davidfrum.bsky.social, an "implicit quid pro quo in these lucrative deals offered to Trump’s family and friends: If you compel Ukraine to surrender, we will enrich you beyond reckoning" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...theatlantic.comTrump Is an Easy Mark for PutinThe president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans. 761616704
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Congrats again to the Harvard economists & co. who told us that Scott Bessent was a "credible Treasury Secretary" bc he went to the right schools & cocktail parties & bc it is a Big Club. It might be nice for Furman & company to speak up now & correct the record. The silence really is deafening. 1631882
Reposted by @traiandoc.bsky.socialRobert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The poor guy really can't take the pressure that comes with his job 1310515