@banjessesingal.bsky.social
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years from now, should we make it to the other side of the long emergency with democracy intact, people will discover the industrial- and economic policy of 2021-22 as a hidden gem, like unearthing a preindustrial steam engine or a bureaucratic trick from the Arthur admin. Nothing besides remains.
December 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
years from now, should we make it to the other side of the long emergency with democracy intact, people will discover the industrial- and economic policy of 2021-22 as a hidden gem, like unearthing a preindustrial steam engine or a bureaucratic trick from the Arthur admin. Nothing besides remains.
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The tragedy of the Biden administration is it did not have to be a blip and interregnum in the Long Trump Era, but thanks to choices made, largely his own, it will at best be remembered as an attempt to govern without doing politics, a failure compounded by his disastrous support for genocide abroad
December 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The tragedy of the Biden administration is it did not have to be a blip and interregnum in the Long Trump Era, but thanks to choices made, largely his own, it will at best be remembered as an attempt to govern without doing politics, a failure compounded by his disastrous support for genocide abroad
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Oh no, where will they keep the records of all his accomplishments, like denying Trump a second term [tapping earpiece] ah okay well maybe foreign policy? no no you're right how could I forget. Well then his court reforms were. Uh. Okay but at least he put the party name on a big infrastructure bill
Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Oh no, where will they keep the records of all his accomplishments, like denying Trump a second term [tapping earpiece] ah okay well maybe foreign policy? no no you're right how could I forget. Well then his court reforms were. Uh. Okay but at least he put the party name on a big infrastructure bill
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Theyre essentially magical; can do and have access to undefined qualities no ordinary mortal can dream of acquiring normally.
You cant just fall ass backwards into becoming a billionaire buying some scam crypto token before a hype bubble hits, or inherit a business from your rich parents.
You cant just fall ass backwards into becoming a billionaire buying some scam crypto token before a hype bubble hits, or inherit a business from your rich parents.
December 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Theyre essentially magical; can do and have access to undefined qualities no ordinary mortal can dream of acquiring normally.
You cant just fall ass backwards into becoming a billionaire buying some scam crypto token before a hype bubble hits, or inherit a business from your rich parents.
You cant just fall ass backwards into becoming a billionaire buying some scam crypto token before a hype bubble hits, or inherit a business from your rich parents.
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Proof that people today view billionaires like 15th century serfs viewed conmen religious elites who claimed to have the rag Jesus used to wipe his ass with
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Proof that people today view billionaires like 15th century serfs viewed conmen religious elites who claimed to have the rag Jesus used to wipe his ass with
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"I served in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations and would like to believe conservatism wasn't always thus" no ❌
"Were we always secretly like this but were pretending we weren't?" very, very yes ☑️
"Were we always secretly like this but were pretending we weren't?" very, very yes ☑️
December 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"I served in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations and would like to believe conservatism wasn't always thus" no ❌
"Were we always secretly like this but were pretending we weren't?" very, very yes ☑️
"Were we always secretly like this but were pretending we weren't?" very, very yes ☑️
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Hahahahaha it's sincere!!
December 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Hahahahaha it's sincere!!
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FT will put on random marxists because they're good at analyzing the global economy. So it's obvious that the papers that have a reader base that expects results know where to find em. but the NYT and The Atlantic are stumbling around like Mr. Magoo until they find Da Anti-Woke Communist
December 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
FT will put on random marxists because they're good at analyzing the global economy. So it's obvious that the papers that have a reader base that expects results know where to find em. but the NYT and The Atlantic are stumbling around like Mr. Magoo until they find Da Anti-Woke Communist
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like what do you MEAN you found an adult catholic convert anti-abortion socialist? where did that come from? was that thing grown in a lab? how do you even FIND someone like that?
December 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
like what do you MEAN you found an adult catholic convert anti-abortion socialist? where did that come from? was that thing grown in a lab? how do you even FIND someone like that?
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you ever notice how every time a "leftist" gets a spot in a rag like this it's always one with incredibly strange beliefs well outside of the norm of the left
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
you ever notice how every time a "leftist" gets a spot in a rag like this it's always one with incredibly strange beliefs well outside of the norm of the left
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fwiw I’m on vacation through the end of the year but if you’re an nyt crossword constructor/puzzles editor with evidence of intentional eneasyfication of the puzzle in recent years do let me know, signal in bio
my most middle agèd crank opinion is that the NYT crossword has gotten too easy and not enough people are talking about it
December 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
fwiw I’m on vacation through the end of the year but if you’re an nyt crossword constructor/puzzles editor with evidence of intentional eneasyfication of the puzzle in recent years do let me know, signal in bio
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Honestly did not expect sports cheating/gambling scandals to come for IR
Appears the allegations were true
December 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Honestly did not expect sports cheating/gambling scandals to come for IR
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Hi Senator. Glad you're posting to Bluesky. But kinda weird that you're trying to kill Section 230 at the same time which would make it very difficult for Bluesky to exist. Maybe think through that a bit more carefully?
What possible use could there be to adding these two bozos to that conversation? More gangster gong show? Just what Ukraine needs, right? So shaming for U.S.
s2.washingtonpost.com/461627e/693c...
s2.washingtonpost.com/461627e/693c...
Secret meetings between FBI and Ukraine negotiator spark concern
FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, have met with Ukraine’s top delegate amid a U.S. pressure campaign on Kyiv to trade land for peace.
s2.washingtonpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Hi Senator. Glad you're posting to Bluesky. But kinda weird that you're trying to kill Section 230 at the same time which would make it very difficult for Bluesky to exist. Maybe think through that a bit more carefully?
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Here's a thread from a couple weeks ago on academic freedom and grading: bsky.app/profile/char...
A quick thread on the academic freedom angle to the OU situation:
First, grading is part of academic freedom b/c it involves instructors applying their disciplinary expertise - both when they set assignments, and when they grade student work
First, grading is part of academic freedom b/c it involves instructors applying their disciplinary expertise - both when they set assignments, and when they grade student work
December 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Here's a thread from a couple weeks ago on academic freedom and grading: bsky.app/profile/char...
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So: did the school treat the instructor especially harshly b/c of her gender, or b/c it favored the student's religious viewpoint? These are questions that could be raised in an employment discrimination case.
December 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
So: did the school treat the instructor especially harshly b/c of her gender, or b/c it favored the student's religious viewpoint? These are questions that could be raised in an employment discrimination case.
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Anyway, this suggests to me that the administration did not have such a policy in place when it suspended a trans instructor in response to a religious discrimination complaint.
December 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Anyway, this suggests to me that the administration did not have such a policy in place when it suspended a trans instructor in response to a religious discrimination complaint.
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This is a *fantastic* look for the administration: telling the student paper that if they want to know the new grade appeal policy, they can file an open records request
December 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This is a *fantastic* look for the administration: telling the student paper that if they want to know the new grade appeal policy, they can file an open records request
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From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
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Obviously the problems we’re facing today all predate the pandemic but that really was a formative moment for my personal disillusionment with American society. It was the confluence of insane conspiracies, lack of concern for the general welfare of others, attacks on empiricism and so on.
December 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Obviously the problems we’re facing today all predate the pandemic but that really was a formative moment for my personal disillusionment with American society. It was the confluence of insane conspiracies, lack of concern for the general welfare of others, attacks on empiricism and so on.
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Man, I just knew something bad was brewing when anti vax shit started going mainstream during COVID
December 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Man, I just knew something bad was brewing when anti vax shit started going mainstream during COVID
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Taking a pardon means admitting you committed the crime. Legal requirement.
And the Democrats still gave him back the committee, because this is who they are. If they don't come out loudly against this and denounce him, then they gotta go. This is ridiculous.
And the Democrats still gave him back the committee, because this is who they are. If they don't come out loudly against this and denounce him, then they gotta go. This is ridiculous.
December 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Taking a pardon means admitting you committed the crime. Legal requirement.
And the Democrats still gave him back the committee, because this is who they are. If they don't come out loudly against this and denounce him, then they gotta go. This is ridiculous.
And the Democrats still gave him back the committee, because this is who they are. If they don't come out loudly against this and denounce him, then they gotta go. This is ridiculous.
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making this a sex panic about weird art and dildos is an abdication of our collective responsibility to the victims to work to abolish the power relations that make industrial scale sexual abuse and assault possible. it actively diverts our anger from power to sex panic. stop being reactionaries.
December 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
making this a sex panic about weird art and dildos is an abdication of our collective responsibility to the victims to work to abolish the power relations that make industrial scale sexual abuse and assault possible. it actively diverts our anger from power to sex panic. stop being reactionaries.
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like how fucking dare you all make this about owning pornography and being kinky—you probably do and are, too—and not about the industrial-scale abuse of women and girls by and in front of the noses of hundreds of the world’s most powerful people
December 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
like how fucking dare you all make this about owning pornography and being kinky—you probably do and are, too—and not about the industrial-scale abuse of women and girls by and in front of the noses of hundreds of the world’s most powerful people
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profoundly damning of american discourse that these epstein photos are causing people to say “omg he had sex toys and shibari equipment ew” and not “the systemic abuse of women and girls is a banal fact of elite american life”
December 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
profoundly damning of american discourse that these epstein photos are causing people to say “omg he had sex toys and shibari equipment ew” and not “the systemic abuse of women and girls is a banal fact of elite american life”
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i know the american social contract has been effectively dead for a long time but this entire saga really puts a stake through its heart, and might even graze the neoliberal order as a whole.
with what sounds like such a fantastical conspiracy being deep and true... what authority of truth remains?
with what sounds like such a fantastical conspiracy being deep and true... what authority of truth remains?
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
i know the american social contract has been effectively dead for a long time but this entire saga really puts a stake through its heart, and might even graze the neoliberal order as a whole.
with what sounds like such a fantastical conspiracy being deep and true... what authority of truth remains?
with what sounds like such a fantastical conspiracy being deep and true... what authority of truth remains?