Louis Deux (IYKYK)
@oletheros.bsky.social
“The car’s on fire and there’s no driver at the wheel.”
Don’t bother following me hoping I’ll follow back. I don’t play that game.
Don’t bother following me hoping I’ll follow back. I don’t play that game.
Pinned
A lot of people with huge follower counts have been following me lately, so I feel compelled to say this.
Hi. I'm not going to follow you back, especially if I don't recognize you. I doubt you're really here to watch me talk about packing up my books so I can move house, but you never know.
Hi. I'm not going to follow you back, especially if I don't recognize you. I doubt you're really here to watch me talk about packing up my books so I can move house, but you never know.
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Republicans control literally every lever of federal power right now.
JD Vance: "If you miss Charlie Kirk…do you promise to take the country back from the people who took his life?"
December 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Republicans control literally every lever of federal power right now.
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Files release illuminates Maxwell’s tactics to lure teens into Epstein’s orbit
Documents allege Epstein’s accomplice and ex-girlfriend ‘normalized’ his grooming and ‘directed’ girls on what to do
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Documents allege Epstein’s accomplice and ex-girlfriend ‘normalized’ his grooming and ‘directed’ girls on what to do
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Files release illuminates Maxwell’s tactics to lure teens into Epstein’s orbit
Documents allege Epstein’s accomplice and ex-girlfriend ‘normalized’ his grooming and ‘directed’ girls on what to do
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Files release illuminates Maxwell’s tactics to lure teens into Epstein’s orbit
Documents allege Epstein’s accomplice and ex-girlfriend ‘normalized’ his grooming and ‘directed’ girls on what to do
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Documents allege Epstein’s accomplice and ex-girlfriend ‘normalized’ his grooming and ‘directed’ girls on what to do
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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When a major media outlet openly capitulates to the political agenda of the executive branch, they are no longer part of the fourth estate.
They are state-run media.
Add Bari Weiss and CBS to the list of those who have betrayed our Republic.
They are state-run media.
Add Bari Weiss and CBS to the list of those who have betrayed our Republic.
December 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
When a major media outlet openly capitulates to the political agenda of the executive branch, they are no longer part of the fourth estate.
They are state-run media.
Add Bari Weiss and CBS to the list of those who have betrayed our Republic.
They are state-run media.
Add Bari Weiss and CBS to the list of those who have betrayed our Republic.
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when the second tape came out, right-wing Fox types spoke derisively of DNC operatives spending hundreds of hours poring over old CSPAN tapes and, nope, it was just a guy with a blog and one of his readers, who happened to have saved the tape because he couldn't believe what he heard
fun fact: lott resigned after a second tape emerged of him repeating his remark that america would have been better off if strom thurmond had been elected president. A reader of my old blog was the one who came up with that tape, which became public after I alerted a journo I knew.
December 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
when the second tape came out, right-wing Fox types spoke derisively of DNC operatives spending hundreds of hours poring over old CSPAN tapes and, nope, it was just a guy with a blog and one of his readers, who happened to have saved the tape because he couldn't believe what he heard
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"Unable to perceive anything that has not already been perceived" is a fucking Greek God level curse, honestly.
all of generative AI is a project of hoping that some humans are still big enough suckers to keep producing feedstock for it
even if you consider it equivalent to a human, it's a human in a sealed box with only an Internet connection, unable to perceive anything that has not already been perceived
even if you consider it equivalent to a human, it's a human in a sealed box with only an Internet connection, unable to perceive anything that has not already been perceived
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"Unable to perceive anything that has not already been perceived" is a fucking Greek God level curse, honestly.
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CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
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Alina Habba shows off her defunct US Attorney challenge coin which shows a handgun being pulled from a Birkin bag
December 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Alina Habba shows off her defunct US Attorney challenge coin which shows a handgun being pulled from a Birkin bag
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What a mess! Wyoming has some of the least competitive ACA markets in the country. In places like Teton County, there has often been only one ACA insurer (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming). That lack of competition drives prices way up. This is ridiculous.
December 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
What a mess! Wyoming has some of the least competitive ACA markets in the country. In places like Teton County, there has often been only one ACA insurer (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming). That lack of competition drives prices way up. This is ridiculous.
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I think not valuing the system *is* intentionally harming the system, though. I think they see the system as over engineered, too cautious, too expensive, too onerous on industry, and too much tilted on the cost/benefit side. They don't value the outcome of safe food.
December 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I think not valuing the system *is* intentionally harming the system, though. I think they see the system as over engineered, too cautious, too expensive, too onerous on industry, and too much tilted on the cost/benefit side. They don't value the outcome of safe food.
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NEW: Statement from some Epstein survivors:
"It is alarming that the United States Department of Justice, the very agency tasked with upholding the law, has violated the law, both by withholding massive quantities of documents, and by failing to redact survivor identities.."
"It is alarming that the United States Department of Justice, the very agency tasked with upholding the law, has violated the law, both by withholding massive quantities of documents, and by failing to redact survivor identities.."
December 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
NEW: Statement from some Epstein survivors:
"It is alarming that the United States Department of Justice, the very agency tasked with upholding the law, has violated the law, both by withholding massive quantities of documents, and by failing to redact survivor identities.."
"It is alarming that the United States Department of Justice, the very agency tasked with upholding the law, has violated the law, both by withholding massive quantities of documents, and by failing to redact survivor identities.."
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I keep having exactly this conversation with AI proponents:
“I need it to be accurate.”
“How accurate?”
“100%”
“Uh. How about 85%? Good enough?”
“No, 100%.”
“Well, we can’t do that because [reason of the week].”
“Okay, talk to me when you can, then.”
“I need it to be accurate.”
“How accurate?”
“100%”
“Uh. How about 85%? Good enough?”
“No, 100%.”
“Well, we can’t do that because [reason of the week].”
“Okay, talk to me when you can, then.”
If a key part of your job is getting information right and ferreting out falsehoods and untrustworthy sources, and the tool that’s supposed to help you do that keeps throwing you obvious errors, than yeah, you’re probably not going to *trust* it and may end up deciding it’s not all that useful.
December 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I keep having exactly this conversation with AI proponents:
“I need it to be accurate.”
“How accurate?”
“100%”
“Uh. How about 85%? Good enough?”
“No, 100%.”
“Well, we can’t do that because [reason of the week].”
“Okay, talk to me when you can, then.”
“I need it to be accurate.”
“How accurate?”
“100%”
“Uh. How about 85%? Good enough?”
“No, 100%.”
“Well, we can’t do that because [reason of the week].”
“Okay, talk to me when you can, then.”
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Yeah, it’s almost as if “virtue signaling” was a good way to publicly reinforce the values and behaviors that society should find virtuous, and therefore was never a bad thing to do.
“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
Perry: The return of the r-word
"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Yeah, it’s almost as if “virtue signaling” was a good way to publicly reinforce the values and behaviors that society should find virtuous, and therefore was never a bad thing to do.
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How bad is it for Russia on the frontlines? They launched an attack on Dobropillia today, led by men on horseback, followed by motorbikes and quads. Ukraine’s 1st Azov Corps wiped them all out in 2 hours with artillery and drones, as well as a bunch of armoured vehicles.
It’s the horses I feel for.
It’s the horses I feel for.
December 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
How bad is it for Russia on the frontlines? They launched an attack on Dobropillia today, led by men on horseback, followed by motorbikes and quads. Ukraine’s 1st Azov Corps wiped them all out in 2 hours with artillery and drones, as well as a bunch of armoured vehicles.
It’s the horses I feel for.
It’s the horses I feel for.
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i've been thinking recently about why i have a reflexive dislike of the 'comedy needs balance' line, and i think it's because political comedy is the act of saying "hey, you're not mad, the world really does look like THIS", and that doesn't need "balancing" because *the rest of society* does that
December 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
i've been thinking recently about why i have a reflexive dislike of the 'comedy needs balance' line, and i think it's because political comedy is the act of saying "hey, you're not mad, the world really does look like THIS", and that doesn't need "balancing" because *the rest of society* does that
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CBD reporters should post the package or hand it off to another network.
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 5:13 AM
CBD reporters should post the package or hand it off to another network.
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Bari Weiss isn’t a journalist, obviously. She will, however have entire chapters of history books dedicated to the immense damage to journalism, democracy and the world she is purposely causing and her utter failure as a human being, and she’ll live to see her name become a slur.
December 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Bari Weiss isn’t a journalist, obviously. She will, however have entire chapters of history books dedicated to the immense damage to journalism, democracy and the world she is purposely causing and her utter failure as a human being, and she’ll live to see her name become a slur.
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There is no neutral reason to own this much media. Billionaires do not buy news outlets out of civic duty. They buy them to shape what gets seen, softened or buried. When stories on 60 minutes that are critical of trump vanish, stop pretending it’s coincidence. Power protects power. #Resist
December 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
There is no neutral reason to own this much media. Billionaires do not buy news outlets out of civic duty. They buy them to shape what gets seen, softened or buried. When stories on 60 minutes that are critical of trump vanish, stop pretending it’s coincidence. Power protects power. #Resist
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My main takeaway is not so much how it demonstrates that they know they're full of shit, because we already know that.
My main takeaway is how easy it is to catch them with the simplest follow-up, and how obvious this makes it that they're not used to being asked basic journalistic questions.
My main takeaway is how easy it is to catch them with the simplest follow-up, and how obvious this makes it that they're not used to being asked basic journalistic questions.
HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
December 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My main takeaway is not so much how it demonstrates that they know they're full of shit, because we already know that.
My main takeaway is how easy it is to catch them with the simplest follow-up, and how obvious this makes it that they're not used to being asked basic journalistic questions.
My main takeaway is how easy it is to catch them with the simplest follow-up, and how obvious this makes it that they're not used to being asked basic journalistic questions.
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Bari’s standard for “and do so with respect” appears to be ‘Sharyn Alfonsi should have not emailed her colleagues about me refusing to meet with her after I spiked her story that had already been cleared by the actual editors and standards’
During today's editorial call, Bari Weiss doubled down on pulling the CECOT segment while lashing out at Sharyn Alfonsi:
"The only newsroom that I'm interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest and editorial matters, and do so with respect."
"The only newsroom that I'm interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest and editorial matters, and do so with respect."
December 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Bari’s standard for “and do so with respect” appears to be ‘Sharyn Alfonsi should have not emailed her colleagues about me refusing to meet with her after I spiked her story that had already been cleared by the actual editors and standards’
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The entire Trump project is to cut off all avenues of freedom to steer your life into only being able to use Trump and Trump allied companies to do anything. The Lord must have his tithe.
Just as he did with tariffs, Trump is abusing “national security” justifications to raise prices for the American people — in this case electricity prices.
Burgum: "Today we're sending notifications to the 5 large offshore wind projects that are under construction that their leases will be suspended due to national security concerns ... the Dept of War has come back conclusively that these large offshore wind programs create radar interference"
December 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The entire Trump project is to cut off all avenues of freedom to steer your life into only being able to use Trump and Trump allied companies to do anything. The Lord must have his tithe.
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
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I think it might be a little bit from column A and a bit from column B, but she's always struck me as someone whose mental model of how things work has never developed beyond the performativity of high school speech and debate as the model for how things work in the world.
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I think it might be a little bit from column A and a bit from column B, but she's always struck me as someone whose mental model of how things work has never developed beyond the performativity of high school speech and debate as the model for how things work in the world.
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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
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Tell me again how schools are biased against boys?
"Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled"
apnews.com/article/scho...
"Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled"
apnews.com/article/scho...
Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled
A 13-year-old girl at a Louisiana middle school got into a fight with classmates who were sharing AI-generated nude images of her.
apnews.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Tell me again how schools are biased against boys?
"Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled"
apnews.com/article/scho...
"Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled"
apnews.com/article/scho...
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Empathy is generally considered a good thing. Why, then, is there now a large movement of people on the right arguing that empathy is bad? @nberlat.bsky.social investigates.
What We Can Learn from the Right’s Attack On “Toxic Empathy” — The Revealer
Why are prominent right-wing figures and conservative Christians claiming empathy is bad?
therevealer.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Empathy is generally considered a good thing. Why, then, is there now a large movement of people on the right arguing that empathy is bad? @nberlat.bsky.social investigates.