Davedette
@davedette.bsky.social
It's obviously about class. Only poor people take the bus, and the worst thing in the world is that people think your kid is poor, because that means you're poor
December 17, 2025 at 4:52 AM
It's obviously about class. Only poor people take the bus, and the worst thing in the world is that people think your kid is poor, because that means you're poor
I find it really offensive that these people are making so much money off their writing while being such horrendous writers
December 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I find it really offensive that these people are making so much money off their writing while being such horrendous writers
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
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This is going to get really old
December 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This is going to get really old
Idk, a) Romney wasn't necessarily a bad candidate, he lost to a generational political talent running an extremely good campaign, and b) I'm not sure what their vibe has in common besides being generically good-looking white guys in the finance bro genre of looks. Their affect is quite different
Gavin Newsom is Mitt Romney for the Democrats, a department store mannequin who will lose in a general election
December 17, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Idk, a) Romney wasn't necessarily a bad candidate, he lost to a generational political talent running an extremely good campaign, and b) I'm not sure what their vibe has in common besides being generically good-looking white guys in the finance bro genre of looks. Their affect is quite different
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On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
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Naval blockades are old school but they are acts of war by definition.
December 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Naval blockades are old school but they are acts of war by definition.
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Really, really, really do not like how many of us leftist Jews now have to seemingly prove to other antizionists that we are Actually A Good Jew
December 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Really, really, really do not like how many of us leftist Jews now have to seemingly prove to other antizionists that we are Actually A Good Jew
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His cozying up to Epstein is not nearly as bad as his cozying up to Pol Pot.
people crying over chomsky on this website are repulsive frankly. he was quite plainly a piece of shit long before anything related to epstein came out
fuck right off with this too please.
Chomsky has been quite clear that he doesn’t think his relationship with Epstein is anyone else’s business and we can and should draw adverse inferences from that.
sorry he wrote some things you liked; bold thinkers can be monsters too.
Chomsky has been quite clear that he doesn’t think his relationship with Epstein is anyone else’s business and we can and should draw adverse inferences from that.
sorry he wrote some things you liked; bold thinkers can be monsters too.
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
His cozying up to Epstein is not nearly as bad as his cozying up to Pol Pot.
It's really funny, in a cosmic sense, that as soon as the "elections are won or lost on persuasion, not turnout" guys were put in charge, we lost an election on turnout
December 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
It's really funny, in a cosmic sense, that as soon as the "elections are won or lost on persuasion, not turnout" guys were put in charge, we lost an election on turnout
Stanford needs to do an experiment where it sees how bigoted it can turn the average substack guy by manipulating the contents of their Twitter feed, but idk if the institution responsible for the eponymous Prison Experiment would countenance so profound a breach of professional ethics
December 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Stanford needs to do an experiment where it sees how bigoted it can turn the average substack guy by manipulating the contents of their Twitter feed, but idk if the institution responsible for the eponymous Prison Experiment would countenance so profound a breach of professional ethics
"In this house we believe [blank tablet screen hooked up to Grok]"
The reasons these guys so often dunk on the “in this house we believe” signs is that they really don’t want to have to believe in anything.
Just say women. This is taking forever.
December 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"In this house we believe [blank tablet screen hooked up to Grok]"
Outrunning Beshear is *crazy* - what are the demographics shifts there looking like?
lmao that's D+10 over Beshear and *D+40* over Harris
Should be most of the vote in now for Kentucky's #SD35 (Harris+5) special election:
Gary Clemons (D)- 72.6%
Calvin Leach (R)- 25.1%
Wendy Higdon (Libertarian)- 2.3%
It's an over 40 point overperformance from 2024 for the Democrats!
Gary Clemons (D)- 72.6%
Calvin Leach (R)- 25.1%
Wendy Higdon (Libertarian)- 2.3%
It's an over 40 point overperformance from 2024 for the Democrats!
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Outrunning Beshear is *crazy* - what are the demographics shifts there looking like?
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I wrote about Yglesias “defending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism.
"Yglesias claims to think “rights are good,” but would have us ignore how neutral rules can be used to deny people their rights. Earlier this month, the Trump Department of Justice issued a memo that follows from Yglesias’s reasoning" www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...
A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory
Like so many of critical race theory's detractors, Matthew Yglesias fails to engage with the actual scholarship.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I wrote about Yglesias “defending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism.
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This is either the prelude to the biggest US military mistake since Iraq, or Tuesday. I’m not trying to be glib. He’s not being strategically unpredictable. It’s just rantings that may harm untold numbers of innocent people. It’s deadly serious, which his posts are not.
POTUS announces a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers in an apparent attempt to extort Venezuela.
Real gunboat diplomacy.
Real gunboat diplomacy.
December 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This is either the prelude to the biggest US military mistake since Iraq, or Tuesday. I’m not trying to be glib. He’s not being strategically unpredictable. It’s just rantings that may harm untold numbers of innocent people. It’s deadly serious, which his posts are not.
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Mr President don't listen to the naysayers. Your political program, "Crash the economy and bring back ancient diseases" just needs more time to work
December 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Mr President don't listen to the naysayers. Your political program, "Crash the economy and bring back ancient diseases" just needs more time to work
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The reasons these guys so often dunk on the “in this house we believe” signs is that they really don’t want to have to believe in anything.
December 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The reasons these guys so often dunk on the “in this house we believe” signs is that they really don’t want to have to believe in anything.
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Gotta levy a substantial excise tax on AI data centers to subsidize rapid renewables deployment.
Illinois is running out of power. The news is a blow to Gov. JB Pritzker’s climate change-fighting goals too, as demand from AI data centers soars while wind and solar development stalls.
Illinois running low on power as AI data centers spike electricity demand
chicago.suntimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Gotta levy a substantial excise tax on AI data centers to subsidize rapid renewables deployment.
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if capital can't justify the operating costs of a newspaper in every city over a few hundred thousand people (even though this worked profitably for decades) i think it's up to the federal government to fund them and if red states don't like a bunch of big city libs reporting on them, all the better
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
if capital can't justify the operating costs of a newspaper in every city over a few hundred thousand people (even though this worked profitably for decades) i think it's up to the federal government to fund them and if red states don't like a bunch of big city libs reporting on them, all the better
The chicago area really needs municipal consolidation, because a lot of these villages basically operate as HOAs with delusions of grandeur
December 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The chicago area really needs municipal consolidation, because a lot of these villages basically operate as HOAs with delusions of grandeur
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one of the funnier aspects to the AI backlash is the fact that they're negatively polarizing much of the tech enthusiast demographic against them by making hobbyist PC building functionally unaffordable
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
one of the funnier aspects to the AI backlash is the fact that they're negatively polarizing much of the tech enthusiast demographic against them by making hobbyist PC building functionally unaffordable
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it drives me crazy that the preferred solution for these guys to ostensibly avoid war is to return to the world order and social structures that gave us 100% of prior World Wars
December 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
it drives me crazy that the preferred solution for these guys to ostensibly avoid war is to return to the world order and social structures that gave us 100% of prior World Wars
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Still have not recovered from this by the way
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.
(Published July 2024)
(Published July 2024)
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Still have not recovered from this by the way
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huh, the rob Reiner post has even some of the most brain melted going 'yeah that's not a good look'. I think it's because it's personally humiliating for them because the party line was 'you'll NEVER see US reveling in someone's death'
December 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
huh, the rob Reiner post has even some of the most brain melted going 'yeah that's not a good look'. I think it's because it's personally humiliating for them because the party line was 'you'll NEVER see US reveling in someone's death'