martin george
@martingeorge.bsky.social
I read the news today, oh boy...
She coulda been uh contenduh. A somebody. But now she's a bum.
Wow—Stefanik ends bid for NY governor. I never understand the logic of it, or her whole journey from moderate to MAGA, as I wrote last month. But I'm glad she's stopped letting herself get "yanked around," as I put it, by the MAGA men. www.thebulwark.com/p/elise-stef...
December 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
She coulda been uh contenduh. A somebody. But now she's a bum.
Years ago there was a meme called "pedobear."
December 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Years ago there was a meme called "pedobear."
Insurance companies are death panels.
UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongful death claims
Three nursing home residents died because employees of the American healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group helped delay or deny them critical hospital care.
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Three nursing home residents died because employees of the American healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group helped delay or deny them critical hospital care.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Insurance companies are death panels.
The late David Halberstam wrote a famous book titled "The Best and The Brightest," about how some very smart people got the U.S. enmeshed in Vietnam. I can confidently say that the only fitting title for a book about the Trump administration is "The Least and The Dimmest."
December 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The late David Halberstam wrote a famous book titled "The Best and The Brightest," about how some very smart people got the U.S. enmeshed in Vietnam. I can confidently say that the only fitting title for a book about the Trump administration is "The Least and The Dimmest."
The right wing now would love more than anything for Trump to just disappear. He gave them their tax cuts, he's persecuted the scapegoats, but now he's a massive drag, like a bad hangover after a wild party. If he goes away, they can get on with what they like best: sneering at liberals, when, /1
December 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The right wing now would love more than anything for Trump to just disappear. He gave them their tax cuts, he's persecuted the scapegoats, but now he's a massive drag, like a bad hangover after a wild party. If he goes away, they can get on with what they like best: sneering at liberals, when, /1
Television is show business.” -- Former CNN journalist Jim Clancy
December 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Television is show business.” -- Former CNN journalist Jim Clancy
There are all sorts of disconnects between "I like Trump because he says what's on his mind, unlike other politicians," and "I didn't vote for this."
December 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
There are all sorts of disconnects between "I like Trump because he says what's on his mind, unlike other politicians," and "I didn't vote for this."
Authoritarianism: words mean what The Leader says they mean. In this case, those words are "national security." The only thing standing between The Leader and dictatorship is the court system insisting that words cannot be redefined -- especially by the semi-literate.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security
The Trump administration says in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for unexplained national security reasons.
apnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Authoritarianism: words mean what The Leader says they mean. In this case, those words are "national security." The only thing standing between The Leader and dictatorship is the court system insisting that words cannot be redefined -- especially by the semi-literate.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Countries with more gun deaths per capita than the U.S.: Jamaica; Ecuador; Honduras; Belize; and Mexico. That's it.
I suspect the fact those countries are so close to the largest gun manufacturer in the world has something to do with their high rates. People get guns. People use guns.
I suspect the fact those countries are so close to the largest gun manufacturer in the world has something to do with their high rates. People get guns. People use guns.
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Countries with more gun deaths per capita than the U.S.: Jamaica; Ecuador; Honduras; Belize; and Mexico. That's it.
I suspect the fact those countries are so close to the largest gun manufacturer in the world has something to do with their high rates. People get guns. People use guns.
I suspect the fact those countries are so close to the largest gun manufacturer in the world has something to do with their high rates. People get guns. People use guns.
I do not think people on the left understand how popular this kind of thing is among working class white people. I vividly recall a woman I was seeing around the time of the Iraq invasion saying "We need to go in there and get that oil" with a greedy look on her face. Nobody said a word against it.
NYT gift article: Oil is the real reason behind tRump's "narco terrorism attacks."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Venezuela’s Oil Is a Focus of Trump’s Campaign Against Maduro
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I do not think people on the left understand how popular this kind of thing is among working class white people. I vividly recall a woman I was seeing around the time of the Iraq invasion saying "We need to go in there and get that oil" with a greedy look on her face. Nobody said a word against it.
After 9+ years of hateful, aberrant behavior, large numbers of people are finally acknowledging Trump isn't someone who says and does vile things, but that he IS a vile human being. Of all things, the tragedy of Rob Reiner's death is what did it?
December 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
After 9+ years of hateful, aberrant behavior, large numbers of people are finally acknowledging Trump isn't someone who says and does vile things, but that he IS a vile human being. Of all things, the tragedy of Rob Reiner's death is what did it?
The angry bigots who cheer the starving of children and stripping healthcare from millions live in a world where they have the moral high ground. Insanity literally rules the land.
I see that Jack Posobiec's record for always having stupid takes remains unblemished.
December 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The angry bigots who cheer the starving of children and stripping healthcare from millions live in a world where they have the moral high ground. Insanity literally rules the land.
On balance, the people ICE deport were doing more for America than ICE. They were doing hard, physical jobs that BUILD and DO tangible things, and for low pay, while ICE is getting rid of workers and consumers, all while being paid a fortune. It's insanity.
December 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
On balance, the people ICE deport were doing more for America than ICE. They were doing hard, physical jobs that BUILD and DO tangible things, and for low pay, while ICE is getting rid of workers and consumers, all while being paid a fortune. It's insanity.
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
There are no Russians in the top 10 chess players in the world, and only 10 in the top 100. Once upon a time, they dominated the world rankings. Part of it is not having the Soviet machine force feeding talented players into chess careers when they'd have probably done something else given the 1/
December 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
There are no Russians in the top 10 chess players in the world, and only 10 in the top 100. Once upon a time, they dominated the world rankings. Part of it is not having the Soviet machine force feeding talented players into chess careers when they'd have probably done something else given the 1/
Losing Rob Reiner, who was still doing good work, reminds me of losing his father, the unsung great Carl Reiner, who was still doing good work. At least Carl got to live out his whole life -- which he used, right up to the end, trying to make the world just a little bit a better place.
December 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Losing Rob Reiner, who was still doing good work, reminds me of losing his father, the unsung great Carl Reiner, who was still doing good work. At least Carl got to live out his whole life -- which he used, right up to the end, trying to make the world just a little bit a better place.
The Bills tight ends have names that sound like Confederate generals. Jackson Hawes. Dalton Kincaid. Dawson Knox.
December 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The Bills tight ends have names that sound like Confederate generals. Jackson Hawes. Dalton Kincaid. Dawson Knox.
A reminder that the one thing all mass shootings have in common, regardless of who did it or why, is guns. Everything else is a distraction.
December 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
A reminder that the one thing all mass shootings have in common, regardless of who did it or why, is guns. Everything else is a distraction.
RFK Jr: improving the country's gene pool, one idiot at a time.
December 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
RFK Jr: improving the country's gene pool, one idiot at a time.
Silver is, I think, setting up his post -Trump "I didn't leave the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party left me" move.
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
what the fuck are you talking about man
December 14, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Silver is, I think, setting up his post -Trump "I didn't leave the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party left me" move.
As an Amazon Prime member, you are already paying them money. But then they want you to pay them even MORE money if you don't want to be assaulted by the ads they jam into your face to watch the content YOU'VE ALREADY PAID FOR. In this model, they are heavily incented to shove ads down your 1/
December 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
As an Amazon Prime member, you are already paying them money. But then they want you to pay them even MORE money if you don't want to be assaulted by the ads they jam into your face to watch the content YOU'VE ALREADY PAID FOR. In this model, they are heavily incented to shove ads down your 1/
Imagine being the kind of person who looks back on as a high point the day they went to a NASCAR race and joined a bunch of other people just like them chanting "Fuck Joe Biden."
December 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Imagine being the kind of person who looks back on as a high point the day they went to a NASCAR race and joined a bunch of other people just like them chanting "Fuck Joe Biden."
Nicholle Wallace: "He (Trump) is giving us all our material to criticize him."
In fact, he's always given them their material; they just chose not to use it because they didn't need it -- there was enough spectacle already. Now that his utility is coming to an end, they use it.
In fact, he's always given them their material; they just chose not to use it because they didn't need it -- there was enough spectacle already. Now that his utility is coming to an end, they use it.
December 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Nicholle Wallace: "He (Trump) is giving us all our material to criticize him."
In fact, he's always given them their material; they just chose not to use it because they didn't need it -- there was enough spectacle already. Now that his utility is coming to an end, they use it.
In fact, he's always given them their material; they just chose not to use it because they didn't need it -- there was enough spectacle already. Now that his utility is coming to an end, they use it.
If you do a google search for a product and click on a sponsored link, you are simply taking money from one tech oligarch and putting it in the pocket of another. Years ago, Bush the Lesser had a focus-grouped term he used to disguise the regressive nature of his governance: "Ownership society." /1
December 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If you do a google search for a product and click on a sponsored link, you are simply taking money from one tech oligarch and putting it in the pocket of another. Years ago, Bush the Lesser had a focus-grouped term he used to disguise the regressive nature of his governance: "Ownership society." /1
I’m Russian. Here’s How Corruption Really Works.
YouTube video by Silent East
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December 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM