Jacob Weindling
@jakeweindling.bsky.social
Editor at Large @splinternews.bsky.social
Rabid Colorado sports partisan.
Mildly rabid lefty partisan.
Reluctant finance guy
Accidental UFO reporter-ish.
Signal: JacobWeindling.16
Rabid Colorado sports partisan.
Mildly rabid lefty partisan.
Reluctant finance guy
Accidental UFO reporter-ish.
Signal: JacobWeindling.16
Pinned
Some news: I was let go as EIC of Splinter as it's getting downsized and rolled into Jezebel. I'll still write there a couple times a week as Editor at Large.
Sure the day it happens to Trump will be great and all, but the real great day it happens is when it's Stephen Miller's turn
November 28, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Sure the day it happens to Trump will be great and all, but the real great day it happens is when it's Stephen Miller's turn
If you are a journalist in that room and you don't push back on this you are simply just admitting that Trump is right about all of you
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
If you are a journalist in that room and you don't push back on this you are simply just admitting that Trump is right about all of you
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It’s underrated how of lot of countries in the global north are basically becoming heavily armed retirement homes.
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It’s underrated how of lot of countries in the global north are basically becoming heavily armed retirement homes.
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Wrote about that viral blog which claimed that the poverty line for a family of 4 is $140,000, a ridiculous number buttressed by a lot of good arguments. www.jezebel.com/consumer-sen...
The True Poverty Line Is not $140,000, But It’s Still Shockingly High
A semi-viral post claiming the poverty line is $140,000 may be BS, but the precariousness Americans feel in everyday life is very real.
www.jezebel.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Wrote about that viral blog which claimed that the poverty line for a family of 4 is $140,000, a ridiculous number buttressed by a lot of good arguments. www.jezebel.com/consumer-sen...
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Wrote about that viral blog which claimed that the poverty line for a family of 4 is $140,000, a ridiculous number buttressed by a lot of good arguments. www.jezebel.com/consumer-sen...
The True Poverty Line Is not $140,000, But It’s Still Shockingly High
A semi-viral post claiming the poverty line is $140,000 may be BS, but the precariousness Americans feel in everyday life is very real.
www.jezebel.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Wrote about that viral blog which claimed that the poverty line for a family of 4 is $140,000, a ridiculous number buttressed by a lot of good arguments. www.jezebel.com/consumer-sen...
I played poker for a living for almost a year after graduating college
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I played poker for a living for almost a year after graduating college
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Bear in mind: it has ever been thus!
There's no golden age when information was immaculate & the people devoted to imbibing it all. The midcentury US, with its major newspapers & three networks, was where the basic survey research demonstrating how little citizens know about politics was conducted
There's no golden age when information was immaculate & the people devoted to imbibing it all. The midcentury US, with its major newspapers & three networks, was where the basic survey research demonstrating how little citizens know about politics was conducted
You cannot rationally govern an electorate guided by hallucinations
Yep. If voters aren't making choices based in actual reality then democracy cannot function
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Bear in mind: it has ever been thus!
There's no golden age when information was immaculate & the people devoted to imbibing it all. The midcentury US, with its major newspapers & three networks, was where the basic survey research demonstrating how little citizens know about politics was conducted
There's no golden age when information was immaculate & the people devoted to imbibing it all. The midcentury US, with its major newspapers & three networks, was where the basic survey research demonstrating how little citizens know about politics was conducted
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Conference Board Consumer Confidence misses as expectations collapse.
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Conference Board Consumer Confidence misses as expectations collapse.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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the credit default swaps continue to move up and to the right
CRWV ORCL
CRWV ORCL
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
the credit default swaps continue to move up and to the right
CRWV ORCL
CRWV ORCL
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One of my favorite takes on this website by the Ball Knowers was that the year plus of cracking down on anti-genocide youth movements in this country, on campuses and otherwise, had no effects whatsoever on turnouts come November nor in general for mobilization etc. Goldfish levels of myopia.
I think @brendannyhan.bsky.social is exactly right in this piece, but I’d go one step further here. Elites very explicitly told young people to sit down and shut up. Society punished them for standing up for their beliefs, and targeted and vilified the organizers. Now we need need them.
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
One of my favorite takes on this website by the Ball Knowers was that the year plus of cracking down on anti-genocide youth movements in this country, on campuses and otherwise, had no effects whatsoever on turnouts come November nor in general for mobilization etc. Goldfish levels of myopia.
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I've seen this image enough now that I feel like I should point out it's fake.
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I've seen this image enough now that I feel like I should point out it's fake.
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Don't agree with everything here but good discussion about how poverty in the US is much, much higher than outdated measures suggest. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Don't agree with everything here but good discussion about how poverty in the US is much, much higher than outdated measures suggest. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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coughing baby vs. nuclear bomb
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
coughing baby vs. nuclear bomb
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unfortunately this is funny as fuck
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
unfortunately this is funny as fuck
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It’s very clear that this was done to make this a longer part series to get people to subscribe but it also shows that a lot of writers are terrible without editors because 10/10 editors would read this and go “you can’t say this without evidence where is your evidence”
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It’s very clear that this was done to make this a longer part series to get people to subscribe but it also shows that a lot of writers are terrible without editors because 10/10 editors would read this and go “you can’t say this without evidence where is your evidence”
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Some news: I was let go as EIC of Splinter as it's getting downsized and rolled into Jezebel. I'll still write there a couple times a week as Editor at Large.
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Some news: I was let go as EIC of Splinter as it's getting downsized and rolled into Jezebel. I'll still write there a couple times a week as Editor at Large.
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I’m really surprised this isn’t bigger news. Just under 10 million people live in Tehran. Where can they go? Where else in Iran will have enough water? This will undoubtedly strain the country’s and the region’s politics, finances and governance capacity.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I’m really surprised this isn’t bigger news. Just under 10 million people live in Tehran. Where can they go? Where else in Iran will have enough water? This will undoubtedly strain the country’s and the region’s politics, finances and governance capacity.
The proud grandpa vibes are just billowing off this clip
November 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The proud grandpa vibes are just billowing off this clip
Perhaps Trump's most consistent quality is recognizing what winners look like and grabbing on to their coat tails.
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Perhaps Trump's most consistent quality is recognizing what winners look like and grabbing on to their coat tails.
Alright let's see what all the hype is about
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Alright let's see what all the hype is about
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The current period in history is defined by people with power seeing a system as it exists, asking no questions about how it got that way, and assuming they can change everything about it with no impact to how it operates
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The current period in history is defined by people with power seeing a system as it exists, asking no questions about how it got that way, and assuming they can change everything about it with no impact to how it operates
Peter Tuchman, a trader on the NYSE floor, said yesterday "there is a bit of a crypto trade, a massive margin trade that's causing everybody to liquidate crypto."
Starting on the left of the chart on 10/10 when Trump nuked the market, the BTC price looks like someone(s) very big is in big trouble
Starting on the left of the chart on 10/10 when Trump nuked the market, the BTC price looks like someone(s) very big is in big trouble
November 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Peter Tuchman, a trader on the NYSE floor, said yesterday "there is a bit of a crypto trade, a massive margin trade that's causing everybody to liquidate crypto."
Starting on the left of the chart on 10/10 when Trump nuked the market, the BTC price looks like someone(s) very big is in big trouble
Starting on the left of the chart on 10/10 when Trump nuked the market, the BTC price looks like someone(s) very big is in big trouble