James Hupp
@jameshupp.bsky.social
Feel like dancin' on my own, to a record that I do not own, in a place I've never seen before
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"While it may seem to be a smart money move, it can result in a costly productivity and innovation lag for the economy."
Good thing I don't work for the economy, huh?
Good thing I don't work for the economy, huh?
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
"While it may seem to be a smart money move, it can result in a costly productivity and innovation lag for the economy."
Good thing I don't work for the economy, huh?
Good thing I don't work for the economy, huh?
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heavy is the head that clings to its happiness crown
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
heavy is the head that clings to its happiness crown
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Ms. Fletcher, Tulsa, and America always deserved so much more
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Ms. Fletcher, Tulsa, and America always deserved so much more
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November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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This is exactly why this piece is so important. The national conversation has largely flattened the effects of the VRA -- and it's potential demise -- to which party controls Congress. There's so much more to the VRA than that, and so much more on the line
I, for one, have only really thought about the VRA through the prism of federal elections, not local elections.
But this well-reported piece reminds us that ending the VRA will have an impact on ALL levels of representative government.
Via @pascalsabino.bsky.social.
boltsmag.org/voting-right...
But this well-reported piece reminds us that ending the VRA will have an impact on ALL levels of representative government.
Via @pascalsabino.bsky.social.
boltsmag.org/voting-right...
Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS. - Bolts
The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.
boltsmag.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is exactly why this piece is so important. The national conversation has largely flattened the effects of the VRA -- and it's potential demise -- to which party controls Congress. There's so much more to the VRA than that, and so much more on the line
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This is all true but I have a hard time calling something that actively pursued harm to life, flourishing, American soft power, and government effectiveness a failure. In the same way I wouldn’t call throwing a Molotov cocktail through a window a failure if the whole neighborhood burns down.
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is all true but I have a hard time calling something that actively pursued harm to life, flourishing, American soft power, and government effectiveness a failure. In the same way I wouldn’t call throwing a Molotov cocktail through a window a failure if the whole neighborhood burns down.
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This is right and the other thing here, especially because Lizza doesn’t present evidence, is that “catch and kill” means something specific—putting a source into a contractual obligation so that they don’t have the option of taking a story elsewhere and then not running it.
something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
November 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is right and the other thing here, especially because Lizza doesn’t present evidence, is that “catch and kill” means something specific—putting a source into a contractual obligation so that they don’t have the option of taking a story elsewhere and then not running it.
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Injuries are increasing near last-mile warehouses and advocates want to change the model for more accountability.
Report: Traffic Injuries Increase Near Amazon Last-Mile Warehouses - Streetsblog New York City
Injuries are increasing near last-mile warehouses and advocates want to change the model for more accountability.
buff.ly
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Injuries are increasing near last-mile warehouses and advocates want to change the model for more accountability.
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I think I'm also coming to believe that anyone whose work requires maintaining a public, personal brand should have to take ~a week off every month from either writing from that perspective or thinking about themselves privately in those terms, for sanity reasons
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I think I'm also coming to believe that anyone whose work requires maintaining a public, personal brand should have to take ~a week off every month from either writing from that perspective or thinking about themselves privately in those terms, for sanity reasons
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This is, indeed, the only relevant piece of new information in the Ryan Lizza substack post
And it is relevant!!! I have a lot of questions for my former employers at NYMag!!!!!!!
And it is relevant!!! I have a lot of questions for my former employers at NYMag!!!!!!!
okay so here’s the actual bad part of the article
“oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit
and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions
ghouls, the lot of them
“oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit
and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions
ghouls, the lot of them
November 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is, indeed, the only relevant piece of new information in the Ryan Lizza substack post
And it is relevant!!! I have a lot of questions for my former employers at NYMag!!!!!!!
And it is relevant!!! I have a lot of questions for my former employers at NYMag!!!!!!!
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MTG retiring the day her congressional pension vests gets a hearty little chuckle from me. My tax dollars at work.
November 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
MTG retiring the day her congressional pension vests gets a hearty little chuckle from me. My tax dollars at work.
The Big Chill is largely a ridiculous movie (not that I don’t like it) but the good vibes of the soundtrack are unimpeachable. Gotta hand it to the boomers for mid tempo 60s R&B/soul music, they nailed that one.
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The Big Chill is largely a ridiculous movie (not that I don’t like it) but the good vibes of the soundtrack are unimpeachable. Gotta hand it to the boomers for mid tempo 60s R&B/soul music, they nailed that one.
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They're so fucking stupid and don't realize it. The only reason many white students can afford graduate degrees is because foreign students pay for the programs and allow them to be economically efficient. Without foreign students, many programs will now simply collapse. Genius.
The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
They're so fucking stupid and don't realize it. The only reason many white students can afford graduate degrees is because foreign students pay for the programs and allow them to be economically efficient. Without foreign students, many programs will now simply collapse. Genius.
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I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
Need to print this up on a fancy flier and stick it under every windshield wiper in my neighborhood nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
Society broke down and all, but you really still need to stop at red lights
I can't believe we need to explain this one, but it seems that we really do
nygroove.nyc
November 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Need to print this up on a fancy flier and stick it under every windshield wiper in my neighborhood nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
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We need to give editors arrest powers.
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
We need to give editors arrest powers.
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uhhh yes please come for the dangerous and uneccesary 0-60mph times
China has banned calling your car self-driving when it isn't, a ban on slick door handles that don't work in emergencies is in the works, and now it's coming for rapid 0-60 times, as it seeks to destroy every last one of Tesla's "innovations."
carnewschina.com/2025/11/13/c...
carnewschina.com/2025/11/13/c...
China proposes 5-second 0-100 km/h acceleration limit on vehicles to enhance road safety
China moves to curb "too fast" cars with new 5-second acceleration requirement.
carnewschina.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
uhhh yes please come for the dangerous and uneccesary 0-60mph times
My watch home screen tells me when sunset is. So all day long I have 4:37 staring me in the face.
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The so...
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
My watch home screen tells me when sunset is. So all day long I have 4:37 staring me in the face.
Glad I wasn't with other people when I watched 28 Years Later, didn't expect to cry *like that* watching a zombie movie. Jesus. Every zombie movie is about something a bit deeper than zombies; turns out this one is, above all else, about how we process grief.
November 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Glad I wasn't with other people when I watched 28 Years Later, didn't expect to cry *like that* watching a zombie movie. Jesus. Every zombie movie is about something a bit deeper than zombies; turns out this one is, above all else, about how we process grief.
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Trump is the nadir of our kakistocracy but it's truly been rule-by-mediocrity all the way down for years.
There's something bleakly comforting about that, that these people aren't better than me, that me and my community truly, objectively deserve more than them.
There's something bleakly comforting about that, that these people aren't better than me, that me and my community truly, objectively deserve more than them.
November 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Trump is the nadir of our kakistocracy but it's truly been rule-by-mediocrity all the way down for years.
There's something bleakly comforting about that, that these people aren't better than me, that me and my community truly, objectively deserve more than them.
There's something bleakly comforting about that, that these people aren't better than me, that me and my community truly, objectively deserve more than them.
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One of the most infuriating--and liberating--things about all this is seeing how utterly pathetic our rulers are. A man as powerful as Summers, this empty and sad, with the kind of petty misogyny that he runs crying to *Jeffrey Epstein* about...
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
One of the most infuriating--and liberating--things about all this is seeing how utterly pathetic our rulers are. A man as powerful as Summers, this empty and sad, with the kind of petty misogyny that he runs crying to *Jeffrey Epstein* about...
Skeptical of the take that agreeing a deal may have been good for Dems. 1) Hunch: people disapprove of shutdowns; approval on a detail-less question seems like baseline. 2) Even then: it's positive b/c of big GOP approval, still underwater among Dems & indies. Is that good electorally for Dems?
Polls shows Americans approve of the deal to re-open the government by a wide margin
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
One way the shutdown deal might actually help Democrats
A plurality of voters approve of the deal to end the government shutdown. Democrats have an opportunity to claim they saved SNAP & other government programs, which could help repair the party's image
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Skeptical of the take that agreeing a deal may have been good for Dems. 1) Hunch: people disapprove of shutdowns; approval on a detail-less question seems like baseline. 2) Even then: it's positive b/c of big GOP approval, still underwater among Dems & indies. Is that good electorally for Dems?