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Queer nerd dad, co-founder @mysilio.com, music and dancing enthusiast.

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travis @tvontheinter.net · 15/10/2026
Bold message going into the midterms: “yes $10 diesel is our fault but it’s because we’re very brave”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2026
will try to answer these in a piece next week but for now i will say that part of the *point* of court expansion, in my mind, is to create a disequilibrium — a potential race to the bottom — that will force a truce.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/10/2026
as a card carrying nerd I don’t think there is any single individual who makes me want to say “shut up, nerd” more often than palmer luckey
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think Ds have largely avoided big discussions of Musk because the other messages they're concentrating on our landing so well and you can only concentrate on a few things. But it's worth saying clearly that the GOP is the tool of maintaining Musk's power over American society.
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Christine Loriol @christineloriol.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The NYT in 2024: Defending democracy a partisan act (and they won't do it). I never got over it. presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-...
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New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it | Press Watch
Joe Kahn, after two years in charge of the New York Times newsroom, has learned nothing.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Musk has funneled more than $276 million into Republican groups and his PAC since July, building a huge turnout operation for the midterms. “The staggering amount of money makes Mr. Musk, the richest person in the world, by far the largest known donor in the midterms” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans
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.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/10/2026
Weird to come out in favor of Elon Musk’s Child Sexual Abuse Material Emporium in public like this, but OK John
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
odyssey of the mind -> bluesky pipeline undefeated
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021–2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an “exodus” of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times, 2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners’ firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners’ savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms. Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
Way too many people are responding to this saying that it would involve paying musk money, when the option of seizing all his assets after prosecuting him for fraud and election interference and his many many other alleged and sometimes almost seemingly admitted crimes is like… right there.
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travis @tvontheinter.net · 10/10/2026
Ok and, very very funny how mad he is.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The thing about Michael Tracey is that if you've seen him before, you go into this video knowing he's gonna look greasy, but he still manages to shock you with the level of greasiness.
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travis @tvontheinter.net · 08/10/2026
Newsom’s really always had the soul of a Trump failson
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happy brickentimes day @bigblocks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
no bro you have to live for spite and become even more furious than you ever imagined possible
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
you can do three things: 1) basic "where's the bathroom" familiarity with agents 2) fundamental concepts (may or may not be relevant in three months) 3) broad critical reasoning skills the road is long but it leads back to liberal arts, basically
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
getartcraft.com
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At this point I actually don’t really care if they do impeachments that won’t remove him anymore but why would you frontload an “ethics reform package” when the option to launch hundreds of aggressive investigations that at minimum gum up the works and slow down a violent fascist White House is…
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
there is a deep moral and social rot in rural and red state america and people pointing it out are not the cause of it
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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K @kate10010.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s really crazy that the President of the United States might be in the top 5 worst people to ever live Just an absolute monster with not one redeeming quality
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You really didn't need a study 👇
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travis @tvontheinter.net · 06/10/2026
Fucking sociopath Jesus fucking Christ
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/10/2026
It should be illegal for the President to openly try to bribe people for votes, imo
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
this taxpayer-funded agitprop just aired on Newsmax reminder as you watch this that the Trump administration's line is these are "public service announcements," not propaganda
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travis @tvontheinter.net · 05/10/2026
Hell yes they will. I hope the fear consumes him for the rest of his days!
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teddyfan.bsky.social @teddyfan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🤯 Not sure how “abstract” an unintended pregnancy or a botched back alley abortion is. Another sociopath.
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Jennifer Diascro @jenniferdiascro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He’s the perfect evidence for term limit arguments. Completely disconnected from reality as he sits on his lofty perch, high on his own supply. Not a single sign of empathy. Just remarkable.
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travis @tvontheinter.net · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito is not a serious person.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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travis @tvontheinter.net · 05/10/2026
Hey that’s cool I’m happy to do this if Sam is willing to accept some bad things happening to him for the benefit of the rest of us!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
what an asshole
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/10/2026
You Can See Everything review – Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes doc is a modern masterpiece of deceit
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You Can See Everything review – Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes doc is a modern masterpiece of deceit
No spoilers here – TV’s grand illusionist meets his match when he moves in with Theranos founder and her family
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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ruthkub.bsky.social @ruthkub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People used to think Elon was a tech genius. Now we know he's an evil little slime whose only real talent is using Daddy's money to buy cool tech companies out from under their founders.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think one of the undercurrents of our fractured political reality is that basically everyone has come to realize that the people who rule the world do not possess any particularly impressive level of intelligence or capability
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
yes, i think this is a big factor in our current weirdness burst
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The fact that we've gotten to the point where this man feels comfortable speaking his mind in public is such an indictment of the 21st century as a whole
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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travis @tvontheinter.net · 26/09/2026
And THIS big galute’s an antisocial moron child but he’s gonna see consequences soon so we’ll just leave him to it.
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travis @tvontheinter.net · 26/09/2026
See this lady, not evil, just a miserable idiot.
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