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Grant
@grantmeaname.bsky.social
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Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
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adambonica.bsky.social
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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yrfatfriend.bsky.social
So many people I know in the US are emotionally dysregulated (politically, how could you not be?) and their relationships are paying the price.

It’s tough to watch so many of us take it out on each other, whether with friends, family, neighbors, coworkers, public figures, comment sections.
July 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
The Expulsion of the Money-Changers, Master of the Kress Epiphany, 15th c, 📸 by @acbphoto
July 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
grantmeaname.bsky.social
Get up, it's gameday!!

Pulling for the Guelfi to win their second title - get rekt, Dolphins!
44th Italian Bowl, website screenshot. June 28, 2025, Toledo OH 3pm .
June 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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vaporlight.bsky.social
ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go
TYPES OF CIVIL WAR OFFICER 1. Autism's strongest soldier. Has a personality disorder but lives in an era where psychiatric medicine consists largely of laudanum and different temperatures of bath. Famously effective, enduringly divisive. Postwar career: promoted far beyond the level of their incompetence or skeletized remains in a ditch somewhere (Grant, Jackson, Longstreet) 2. Messy bitch who loves drama. Actively worse leadership than pointing anyone who shows up with a gun in a direction and telling them to go nuts. All things being equal, every commissioned officer rank will be occupied by these guys in peacetime and arguably a large part of the gradual snowballing success of the Union consisted of more vigorous sectional politics weeding them out faster. Postwar career: photographed in uniform and maybe a very tedious statue and biography or two (McClellan, Lee, Rosecrans) 2a. Messy bitch who loves drama prestige class unlocked after Antietam: messy bitch who loves drama and also loves posing for photographs and has become good at it. Would be very good at dying gallantly in a meaningless charge into a fortified German trench, but is tragically too early for it. Postwar career: universal admiration followed by complete historical oblivion a generation after their death (Burnside, Bragg, Hood) 2b. Messy bitch who loves drama prestige class unlocked after Chancellorsville: submissive and breedable partyboy inexplicably wearing stars. Each army gets exactly one; reporters love them, nobody exactly hates them, but when the red mist dies down historians unanimously agree they were a liability. Postwar career: who cares (Custer, Beauregard) 3. Ideologue. The higher the ideologue gets in the chain of command, the less interesting they are as officers qua officers. The ideology is usually just racism, but there were also a few extremely weird German communists exiled to the Midwest who imprinted on the Union like a lost baby bird. Every Confederate officer you've never heard of but have seen statues of is this guy; they treat war as posting by other means. Postwar career: forum avatar (Early, Sherman) 4. Fighting Joe. For whatever reason, the officer's contemporaries have decided a fine thing to call him going forward is "Fighting Joe", and now here we are. You are watching Fighting Joe, the worst general officer in the American civil war. Postwar career: being Fighting Joe (Hooker, Wheeler) 5. Steppe warlord junior varsity. A late development, largely on the Confederate side; these officers, like a dog fed on human flesh, have decided they're done with civilization and, after a failed attempt to inaugurate iron-fisted strongman rule over a random scrap of the deep South, keep wandering off into places they consider uncivilized and being just about as useless there as they were in Arkansas or wherever. Postwar career: incarceration in a Turkish prison (Kirby Smith, Sibley, Norris) 6. Dark triad sicko. Perfectly functional within an organization if properly contained, but if left to their own devices will absolutely start rounding up civilians and doing Saw shit, and you just gotta account for that when having a civil war. Postwar career: bedwetting and starting fires (Forrest, Butler)
May 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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amandamull.bsky.social
The ability to have the best of everything is wasted on people who are ideologically opposed to understanding how anything works
May 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
grantmeaname.bsky.social
$189 plus fees - one buck for every pound of Archie Griffin. Wild how football players used to be lil guys.
@vagrantmind.bsky.social
Charitibundi bowl donation thank you with the beautiful visage of @edsbs
April 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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janecoaston.bsky.social
Remember: these people absolutely hate it if you laugh at their stupidity, they have the self belief of a canned ham
January 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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mollyak.bsky.social
I think it’s time to bring my most viral tweet over from the bad place.
A tweet: Every time you see the word “smart” user to describe a device, replace it with “surveillance.” Surveillance watch. Surveillance streetlights. Surveillance oven. Dated 11:17am, 2/5/22
January 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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I recently saw an amazing Navajo rug at the National Gallery of Art. It looks abstract at first, but it is a detailed representation of the Intel Pentium processor. Called "Replica of a Chip", it was created in 1994 by Marilou Schultz, a Navajo/Diné weaver and math teacher. 1/n
A Navajo rug with a complex pattern with muted reds, pinks and blues. The pattern consists of various vertical and horizontal rectangles with stripes. Around the border are small alternating black and colored rectangles. The weaving is mounted in a wooden frame and hanging on the museum wall.
November 25, 2024 at 4:29 PM
grantmeaname.bsky.social
Great interview.
Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engin...
www.wired.com
August 28, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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@actioncookbook.bsky.social @professorbutts.bsky.social what hath god wrought
Flyer for the test of "Skyline Breakfast" including the Breakfast Cheese Coney, Breakfast Way, and Breakfast Chilito
May 7, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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bonniehonig.bsky.social
Con law prof Kreis
“Supreme Court justices who see forgiving student loans, mandating vaccines, and regulating climate change as a slippery slope toward tyranny were not clear-eyed on questions of whether a president could execute citizens or stage a coup without being prosecuted”
HCR Ltrs to an Am
April 26, 2024 at 10:12 AM
grantmeaname.bsky.social
All speedrunners are impressive but speedrunning geoguessr is on a whole other level
youtu.be/fxBcdmExUyc?...
April 12, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
Bad Dog, by Richard Jackson, 2013, 📸 by Reed Jones
November 24, 2023 at 1:17 AM
grantmeaname.bsky.social
Can't wait to get to the front of the library hold queue for this. If it's even half as good as Open Borders it will be well worth the time.
A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams
Let’s not send a few thousand people to Mars as a big experiment in survival.
arstechnica.com
November 21, 2023 at 1:48 PM