Jonathan
@jbeck.bsky.social
It's plain to me to see
You have bought yourself a boat
PDX, USA
You have bought yourself a boat
PDX, USA
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hey, did we ever get an update on how this turned out
December 5, 2023 at 2:36 PM
hey, did we ever get an update on how this turned out
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Sail on
Todd Snider - Can't Complain Live at Farm Aid 2014
YouTube video by Farm Aid
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Sail on
Don't want to accidentally do something stupid
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Don't want to accidentally do something stupid
Truly refreshing/reassuring to see proof that the majority of people really are Sick of This Shit
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Truly refreshing/reassuring to see proof that the majority of people really are Sick of This Shit
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I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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at this point it's nearly impossible to figure out who is actually stupid vs who is pretending to be stupid vs who used to be pretending to be stupid but did it for so long they became actually stupid
October 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
at this point it's nearly impossible to figure out who is actually stupid vs who is pretending to be stupid vs who used to be pretending to be stupid but did it for so long they became actually stupid
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They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office
After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects
Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs
Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs
October 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office
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you know you have good and popular ideas when you have to buy up all the old and new media companies and staff them with soulless hacks and sycophants dedicated to blowing smoke up your ass
Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
you know you have good and popular ideas when you have to buy up all the old and new media companies and staff them with soulless hacks and sycophants dedicated to blowing smoke up your ass
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if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live
September 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live
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can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?
September 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?
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Really interesting tidbits in this latest NYT focus group
September 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Really interesting tidbits in this latest NYT focus group
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one of the starkest differences between the first trump administration and this one is that this time around, trump hired people who actually *believe* the genuinely fucking bonkers and insane conspiracy theories rather than hiring people who understand that the show is for the rubes
September 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
one of the starkest differences between the first trump administration and this one is that this time around, trump hired people who actually *believe* the genuinely fucking bonkers and insane conspiracy theories rather than hiring people who understand that the show is for the rubes
LOL.
Embarrassing. Unserious people.
Embarrassing. Unserious people.
Kash Patel: "To my friend Charlie Kirk. Rest now, brother. We have the watch. And I'll see you at Valhalla"
September 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
LOL.
Embarrassing. Unserious people.
Embarrassing. Unserious people.
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Everyone is an expert until you need to do the hard stuff
Kash Patel fired the 'legendary' special agent in charge of Utah's FBI divison just a month before she would have led the ongoing manhunt for Charlie Kirk's assassin.
Kash Patel questions grow as he gutted Utah FBI before Kirk shooting
Kash Patel fired the 'legendary' FBI special agent in charge in Salt Lake City, Mehtab Syed, just a month before she would have led the ongoing manhunt for Charlie Kirk's assassin.
www.dailymail.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Everyone is an expert until you need to do the hard stuff
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Historically speaking, leaders who have declared war on their own people have either been torn limb-from-limb by them, killed by liberating opponents, or deposed and imprisoned. Those who died before any of that could happen are historically repudiated and disgraced. So pick one I guess.
September 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Historically speaking, leaders who have declared war on their own people have either been torn limb-from-limb by them, killed by liberating opponents, or deposed and imprisoned. Those who died before any of that could happen are historically repudiated and disgraced. So pick one I guess.
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As long as I live, I’ll never understand how “it should be easier for multi-billion dollar corporations to poison the water my family drinks and the air we breathe” became a politically popular position with half of my country.
New, from me: The EPA is breaking.
*About 1 in 4 employees out
*Core research unit closed down
*Employees suspended and fired for writing letter for dissent
*Trump judicial appointees OK'd cancelling of $20 billion climate change program
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...
*About 1 in 4 employees out
*Core research unit closed down
*Employees suspended and fired for writing letter for dissent
*Trump judicial appointees OK'd cancelling of $20 billion climate change program
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...
Your government is breaking: EPA edition
Scientists purged, imaginary gold bars for the rubes
donmoynihan.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
As long as I live, I’ll never understand how “it should be easier for multi-billion dollar corporations to poison the water my family drinks and the air we breathe” became a politically popular position with half of my country.
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At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
August 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
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Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me.
Dem govs must step up and fill the void.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Dem govs must step up and fill the void.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Illinois’s J.B. Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.
newrepublic.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
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If I had a time machine I'd change the course of history by visiting the set of News Radio, killing Andy Dick, and then framing Joe Rogan for the murder.
August 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
If I had a time machine I'd change the course of history by visiting the set of News Radio, killing Andy Dick, and then framing Joe Rogan for the murder.
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It’s bad enough to flatter the boss as a requirement for employment. But it’s even worse to sell out your fellow Oregonians along the way.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "In Oregon, we are expecting a crackdown. Thank you for what you're doing with your agents on ICE. I hope you will come to Portland, Oregon and crackdown."
August 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It’s bad enough to flatter the boss as a requirement for employment. But it’s even worse to sell out your fellow Oregonians along the way.
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It is unclear what this will actually achieve.
Regulations are not stopping AI from doing stuff. They have all the money in the world, AI startups are allowed to run inefficiently and unprofitably, data center development is unimpeded by the government, funding is unimpeded...what do they even want?
Regulations are not stopping AI from doing stuff. They have all the money in the world, AI startups are allowed to run inefficiently and unprofitably, data center development is unimpeded by the government, funding is unimpeded...what do they even want?
Silicon Valley power players want a Congress that's pro-AI. They're spending $100 million to try to get it.
Our story today on Leading the Future, the new AI-focused Super PAC modeled on the success of the cryptocurrency lobby: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... w/ @nitasha.bsky.social
Our story today on Leading the Future, the new AI-focused Super PAC modeled on the success of the cryptocurrency lobby: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... w/ @nitasha.bsky.social
Super PAC aims to drown out AI critics in midterms, with $100M and counting
Leading the Future, backed by tech moguls, launched this month to boost midterm candidates who favor few regulations on the AI industry.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It is unclear what this will actually achieve.
Regulations are not stopping AI from doing stuff. They have all the money in the world, AI startups are allowed to run inefficiently and unprofitably, data center development is unimpeded by the government, funding is unimpeded...what do they even want?
Regulations are not stopping AI from doing stuff. They have all the money in the world, AI startups are allowed to run inefficiently and unprofitably, data center development is unimpeded by the government, funding is unimpeded...what do they even want?
No joy in Mudville @picklesbaseball.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
No joy in Mudville @picklesbaseball.bsky.social
Steely Dan history tour
August 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Steely Dan history tour
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This is plainly gross and horrifying, but it's also just good business. You can buy the most powerful man in the world for like $5,000. Why wouldn't you? When you remove ethics and your own moral compass from the equation, decision making gets incredibly simple.
Tim Cook pathetically kisses Trump's ass by pretending him with a "24 karat gold" gift
August 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This is plainly gross and horrifying, but it's also just good business. You can buy the most powerful man in the world for like $5,000. Why wouldn't you? When you remove ethics and your own moral compass from the equation, decision making gets incredibly simple.