Mark Jaggers
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Maybe one day immigration policies that foster integration, lower the national debt, and build a healthy amount of diversity in broad ranges of characteristics will come to be appreciated by voting populations and politicians.
When you put it all together, this is what the fiscal flows for immigrants have looked like for the last 30 years. Immigrants have reduced the deficit every year for 3 decades.
February 8, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Maybe one day immigration policies that foster integration, lower the national debt, and build a healthy amount of diversity in broad ranges of characteristics will come to be appreciated by voting populations and politicians.
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Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.
January 9, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.
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Merry Christmas, everyone.
![[a detail of one of those Flemish or some such winterscape paintings, modishly filtered]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gthl7kdyryv5lylos55da747/bafkreic6lpwaj76hupu4vdjmrxofflw6ojqxoqhzfjxl7gbttyb3x5onsy@jpeg)
December 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Great post and important to remember what’s happened before
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Great post and important to remember what’s happened before
If I find out @radiofreetom.bsky.social is on the payroll of Boston, I’m gonna be so so mad
I still get some residual checks from Succession!
So Tom- does the gig pay well?!!!(sarcasm)
I frequently disagree with your opinions, but I don’t believe for a moment your opinions are based on who pays you to express them.
I frequently disagree with your opinions, but I don’t believe for a moment your opinions are based on who pays you to express them.
November 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
If I find out @radiofreetom.bsky.social is on the payroll of Boston, I’m gonna be so so mad
The dog was obviously just lying there.
Yeah right. An accident?
So they just took the dog's word for it?
So they just took the dog's word for it?
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The dog was obviously just lying there.
Or maybe just post hog fallacy
egregious example of post hog justification
AWS is down, post hog
October 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Or maybe just post hog fallacy
The frogs are out in Amsterdam #NoKings #NoTryants
October 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The frogs are out in Amsterdam #NoKings #NoTryants
There’s several issues detailed here that make me think Starlink ain’t gonna scale well. Thoughts @profgalloway.com ?
Starlink's connection speeds drop below the federal definition of "broadband" at a density of ~7 customers per square mile, according to recent research. The more the customers in an area, the slower everybody's connections get. Data shows that 83% of US Starlink customers get sub-broadband speeds.
thexlab.org
July 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
There’s several issues detailed here that make me think Starlink ain’t gonna scale well. Thoughts @profgalloway.com ?
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"Despite what our opponents say, as a Muslim and a Jew you know we won't put pork in our budget!"
June 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Despite what our opponents say, as a Muslim and a Jew you know we won't put pork in our budget!"
Don’t the question beg an answer
Don’t the song beg a dancer
I know it’s a song, but I’m wondering what the good Dr @bcdreyer.social would say about the usage of beg not as a question.
www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Marc-...
Don’t the song beg a dancer
I know it’s a song, but I’m wondering what the good Dr @bcdreyer.social would say about the usage of beg not as a question.
www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Marc-...
Musixmatch - The world's largest lyrics catalog
www.musixmatch.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Don’t the question beg an answer
Don’t the song beg a dancer
I know it’s a song, but I’m wondering what the good Dr @bcdreyer.social would say about the usage of beg not as a question.
www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Marc-...
Don’t the song beg a dancer
I know it’s a song, but I’m wondering what the good Dr @bcdreyer.social would say about the usage of beg not as a question.
www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Marc-...
I would not have thought Rubio was a @npr.org @marketplace.org listener - 🤷♂️ - right @kairyssdal.bsky.social ?
Rubio: “I don’t think it’s fair to say economies are crashing. Markets are crashing.”
Oh ok what a relief
Oh ok what a relief
April 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I would not have thought Rubio was a @npr.org @marketplace.org listener - 🤷♂️ - right @kairyssdal.bsky.social ?
I remember @booker.senate.gov when he came out to shovel the snow in Newark. Good to see him leading from the front again. youtu.be/vDA2QJax5GQ?...
Mayor Cory Booker digs Newark out of the snow
YouTube video by NJ.com
youtu.be
April 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I remember @booker.senate.gov when he came out to shovel the snow in Newark. Good to see him leading from the front again. youtu.be/vDA2QJax5GQ?...
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Ezra Klein and Jon Stewart over-simplify and caricature the restrictions on this $42.5 billion broadband grant program to falsely paint the whole thing as an irredeemable waste.
But they fail to mention a lot of important stuff because they didn't actually understand what they were talking about...
But they fail to mention a lot of important stuff because they didn't actually understand what they were talking about...
‘Oh My F**king God!’ Jon Stewart Left ‘Speechless’ As Ezra Klein Breaks Down Biden Era Red Tape
Jon Stewart was thrown into a state of shock as he listened to Ezra Klein break down the red tape involved in Biden's Build Back Better Act.
www.mediaite.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Ezra Klein and Jon Stewart over-simplify and caricature the restrictions on this $42.5 billion broadband grant program to falsely paint the whole thing as an irredeemable waste.
But they fail to mention a lot of important stuff because they didn't actually understand what they were talking about...
But they fail to mention a lot of important stuff because they didn't actually understand what they were talking about...
Oh… tariffs are smurf
Peter Navarro goes full Orwell on Fox News Sunday: "The message is that tariffs are tax cuts."
March 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Oh… tariffs are smurf
It’s almost as if calling people names doesn’t actually refute their arguments or positions
They don’t! Trump and his people call people communists and I would argue. It has no real meaning outside of that ideological bubble.
But because there are no longer any real communists to deal with it kind of doesn’t matter
But because there are no longer any real communists to deal with it kind of doesn’t matter
If I agree with Tom’s point, I wonder if he would also agree that GOP “overusing” Marxist/Communist/Radical may have led us to a similar problem in that these words have no meaning a la politics and ze English language
March 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
It’s almost as if calling people names doesn’t actually refute their arguments or positions
In retrospect - President Jar-Jar doesn’t sound like a horrible idea
If it's not fully setting in how ominous this is, try reading it this way:
March 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
In retrospect - President Jar-Jar doesn’t sound like a horrible idea
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There were a lot of hilarious signs at today's Philly protest (because Philly has A+ protest sign game), but this was my favorite from an "I want that as a tattoo" perspective.
February 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
There were a lot of hilarious signs at today's Philly protest (because Philly has A+ protest sign game), but this was my favorite from an "I want that as a tattoo" perspective.
There’s seemingly a lot of people that want to throw some shade at @karaswisher.bsky.social for some comments that got published today.
I’d just like to say - good job talking about what you know.
Anyone interpreting that in other ways is probably being just argumentative for no reason.
I’d just like to say - good job talking about what you know.
Anyone interpreting that in other ways is probably being just argumentative for no reason.
"You can't disassociate. There's no disassociation allowed... It's the long fucking run with these people. You gotta stick in there."
@karaswisher.bsky.social has some important advice amid all the Trump and Elon chaos.
@karaswisher.bsky.social has some important advice amid all the Trump and Elon chaos.
February 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
There’s seemingly a lot of people that want to throw some shade at @karaswisher.bsky.social for some comments that got published today.
I’d just like to say - good job talking about what you know.
Anyone interpreting that in other ways is probably being just argumentative for no reason.
I’d just like to say - good job talking about what you know.
Anyone interpreting that in other ways is probably being just argumentative for no reason.
February 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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I'm going to try to summarize this piece in case you don't want to slog through 3,000 words: DeepSeek isn't about AI. It's about China. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-ai-war...
January 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm going to try to summarize this piece in case you don't want to slog through 3,000 words: DeepSeek isn't about AI. It's about China. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-ai-war...
Nazikeule im Dritten Reich | Browser Ballett
YouTube video by Browser Ballett
youtu.be
January 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I support this plan
the plan? build a social media following by tweeting about pants and then, when the moment is right, put out anti-walkability tweets until people sell their homes in walkable neighborhoods, allowing me, a non-rich person, to buy a home in a walkable neighborhood for $300k
Describing a 10 min walk this way is the most American thing I've ever read
January 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I support this plan
Brando has what plants crave - It has electrolytes
This is how misinformation works—inflammatory headline, mundane details in the text.
The story is that there's no story here, a pre-trial magistrate with no connection to UHC at all.
But you can see in the replies how few people clicked through—just see who uses male pronouns (judge is a woman):
The story is that there's no story here, a pre-trial magistrate with no connection to UHC at all.
But you can see in the replies how few people clicked through—just see who uses male pronouns (judge is a woman):
Luigi Mangione Judge Married to Former Healthcare Executive
December 24, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Brando has what plants crave - It has electrolytes