alex
@chudmeridian.bsky.social
my name is elon musk, king of kings: look on my works, ye mighty, and despair
Have followed Bookmarks review aggregator for a while and never seen this batting average before
December 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Have followed Bookmarks review aggregator for a while and never seen this batting average before
I think this was supposed to make me feel bad but I used to be annoyed I couldn’t hedge my bets on China surpassing the US in the TSP, so I guess that’s good
Opinion | How My Retirement Savings Are Betraying America
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I think this was supposed to make me feel bad but I used to be annoyed I couldn’t hedge my bets on China surpassing the US in the TSP, so I guess that’s good
I actually do want this
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I actually do want this
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if i worked at CMS i would eat every cookie just to spite him
Dr. Oz Tells His Federal Employees to Eat Less
“You don’t have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers.
www.wired.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
if i worked at CMS i would eat every cookie just to spite him
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this is among the mouthbreathiest things I've ever heard a public official say. bro sounds like he's reading from his felching texts to Olivia Nuzzi
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
this is among the mouthbreathiest things I've ever heard a public official say. bro sounds like he's reading from his felching texts to Olivia Nuzzi
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<prepares to make standard point about black unemployment being noisier such that we shouldn't misinterpret month-to-month variance>
<looks at the actual data>
Wait...what?
<looks at the actual data>
Wait...what?
December 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
<prepares to make standard point about black unemployment being noisier such that we shouldn't misinterpret month-to-month variance>
<looks at the actual data>
Wait...what?
<looks at the actual data>
Wait...what?
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I find the "atheism = reactionary" crowd infuriating, or in general the insistence that leftism must involve active endorsement of spiritualistic or counter-enlightenment modes of thought. It's a place where sexy murder poet ressentiment cloaks itself in a political garb and leads to nothing good.
Going to work and deleting the thread- I find it more and more exhausting to not be able to call myself an atheist as a Marxist without people taking it as an attack or insinuating I am a reactionary for doing so. Have fun arguing amongst yourselves
December 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I find the "atheism = reactionary" crowd infuriating, or in general the insistence that leftism must involve active endorsement of spiritualistic or counter-enlightenment modes of thought. It's a place where sexy murder poet ressentiment cloaks itself in a political garb and leads to nothing good.
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The fact Bovino is a career civil servant and not a political appointee really shows CBP needs to be abolished root and branch. Let the IRS do customs (seriously).
December 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The fact Bovino is a career civil servant and not a political appointee really shows CBP needs to be abolished root and branch. Let the IRS do customs (seriously).
Kinda tired of farmer socialism tbh
1) Impose massive tariffs on China
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump to Unveil $12 Billion Bailout for Farmers
The financial aid comes as the agriculture sector grapples with the fallout from the president’s tariffs.
www.wsj.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Kinda tired of farmer socialism tbh
The gop targeting small business owners and early retirees on this is just crazy to watch
Obamacare Users Face Higher Deductibles, Higher Premiums
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The gop targeting small business owners and early retirees on this is just crazy to watch
Guy freaking out about the birth rate who wants to get rid of roughly 8% of all US births because their parents aren’t citizens (the guy is our federal government)
December 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Guy freaking out about the birth rate who wants to get rid of roughly 8% of all US births because their parents aren’t citizens (the guy is our federal government)
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NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
He’s an open racist, yes he deserves a ban
December 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
He’s an open racist, yes he deserves a ban
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fun to see JD Vance in here crying that democrats raised all the prices and it's unreasonable to expect them to fix it quickly when this asshole expressly promised lower grocery prices "day one"
December 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
fun to see JD Vance in here crying that democrats raised all the prices and it's unreasonable to expect them to fix it quickly when this asshole expressly promised lower grocery prices "day one"
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Another entry in "nazis are good, except liberal nazis, who are bad"
He’s having a proper meltdown because the EU sees what a fucking toxic propaganda tool “X” is-
December 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Another entry in "nazis are good, except liberal nazis, who are bad"
There’s virtually no benefit to reading fiction other than seeing that every decade produces a book with this thesis
It’s become conventional wisdom that America’s young men are in crisis. The reality is more complicated than that. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-did-men-do-to-deserve-this?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=null
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:35 AM
There’s virtually no benefit to reading fiction other than seeing that every decade produces a book with this thesis
It’s funny they’re running the “chart boys tell you how you actually feel” pitch to the American voter but with fake charts
Trump makes these baloney investment claims all the time (with help from collaborator corporations and authoritarian countries) but they don't work, even with media outlets readily repeating them. Polling on Trump and the economy continues to crater, net approval currently -25ish.
“.. Federal data shows corporate investment levels are roughly in line with last year, with companies on track to invest over $5 trillion in 2025. The $20 trillion surge Mr. Trump has claimed does not appear in the available data.”
@cbsnews.com
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-2...
@cbsnews.com
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-2...
December 7, 2025 at 4:28 AM
It’s funny they’re running the “chart boys tell you how you actually feel” pitch to the American voter but with fake charts
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FWIW part of the reason governors, police and state militia should actively block ICE / Border Patrol is that Americans will absolutely not support bloody civil conflict.
Even in the middle of J6 there was only one chud who was willing to die for him. Support is not that deep.
Even in the middle of J6 there was only one chud who was willing to die for him. Support is not that deep.
This makes me think about the picnickers who showed up from DC to watch the first battle of Bull Run, expecting a swift, entertaining defeat of the Confederacy. Nobody cheering for civil war has any idea how terrible it would be.
December 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
FWIW part of the reason governors, police and state militia should actively block ICE / Border Patrol is that Americans will absolutely not support bloody civil conflict.
Even in the middle of J6 there was only one chud who was willing to die for him. Support is not that deep.
Even in the middle of J6 there was only one chud who was willing to die for him. Support is not that deep.
Who do betting markets have as the favorite for the next FIFA peace prize?
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Who do betting markets have as the favorite for the next FIFA peace prize?
I don’t think we had assigned novels until high school. You did have to read so many books per quarter and pass tests out of a bank starting in 6th grade. Latter system was much better.
As a parent of a now middle-schooler, I'm really hoping and expecting that by the time she hits 8th grade she's reading novels in school. But that's not happening everywhere in D.C., as I learned from this informative op-ed in @51st.news: 51st.news/opinion-dcps...
Opinion: DCPS middle-schoolers should be reading novels
Many parents like myself were shocked by a recent change to the English curriculum at Alice Deal Middle School.
51st.news
December 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I don’t think we had assigned novels until high school. You did have to read so many books per quarter and pass tests out of a bank starting in 6th grade. Latter system was much better.
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Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
I simply gotta assume the wave was signaling other drug runners to complete the mission
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I simply gotta assume the wave was signaling other drug runners to complete the mission
It’s a shame they didn’t know about her affair with RFK while she was reporting him until now
Breaking: Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agreed to part ways after new revelations and allegations about an affair with RFK Jr. and her behavior while reporting on him.
Exclusive | Vanity Fair to Part Ways With Journalist Olivia Nuzzi
Nuzzi’s contract with Vanity Fair expires at year-end, following new allegations and revelations about her conduct while she reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
on.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It’s a shame they didn’t know about her affair with RFK while she was reporting him until now
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So, let's play make-believe and pretend that Prasad has rock solid proof the vaccine killed 10 kids.
He is now sitting on it, refusing to give doctors on the ground the information they need to inform their patients.
The opposite of radical transparency.
endpoints.news/fda-says-it-...
He is now sitting on it, refusing to give doctors on the ground the information they need to inform their patients.
The opposite of radical transparency.
endpoints.news/fda-says-it-...
FDA says it won't release details of claimed Covid vaccine deaths in 'near term'
Details from an investigation by CBER Director Vinay Prasad into 10 alleged child deaths related to Covid-19 vaccines won't be coming soon, an FDA spokesperson told Endpoints News on Wednesday.
endpoints.news
December 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
So, let's play make-believe and pretend that Prasad has rock solid proof the vaccine killed 10 kids.
He is now sitting on it, refusing to give doctors on the ground the information they need to inform their patients.
The opposite of radical transparency.
endpoints.news/fda-says-it-...
He is now sitting on it, refusing to give doctors on the ground the information they need to inform their patients.
The opposite of radical transparency.
endpoints.news/fda-says-it-...
Bill Ackman has been banging the drum on this one, great that we have billionaire money going to bringing back preventable deaths
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Bill Ackman has been banging the drum on this one, great that we have billionaire money going to bringing back preventable deaths