Readyrunnerreader
@readyrunnerreader.bsky.social
Just a guy, traveling lightly and running modestly. NYC liberal. Believer in nature, the NYTimes and The New Yorker. 💙🏳️🌈✊🏽♉️
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Fun with AI
February 6, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Fun with AI
A random TikToker finally convinced me to contribute to the James Talarico Senate campaign. Probably not what she was intending but it worked.
February 5, 2026 at 5:58 PM
A random TikToker finally convinced me to contribute to the James Talarico Senate campaign. Probably not what she was intending but it worked.
Consider: Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon, destroyer of so many bookstores, is also the owner of the Washington Post. And today they close their books section and lay off 300 journalists. Careless. Moving fast. Breaking things.
February 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Consider: Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon, destroyer of so many bookstores, is also the owner of the Washington Post. And today they close their books section and lay off 300 journalists. Careless. Moving fast. Breaking things.
Membership in a union seems to be what turned Taylor Rehmet into a Democrat. Go figure.
February 2, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Membership in a union seems to be what turned Taylor Rehmet into a Democrat. Go figure.
Start the countdown. Of all the mistakes you can make in the Trump administration, admitting you could have been wrong is the worst. apple.news/AnZ7xtG_-SPu...
Noem says her response to Pretti shooting may have been wrong — POLITICO
The DHS chief dodged questions about her oversight of the agency following the killing of a Minneapolis man by immigration agents.
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January 31, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Start the countdown. Of all the mistakes you can make in the Trump administration, admitting you could have been wrong is the worst. apple.news/AnZ7xtG_-SPu...
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No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.
January 30, 2026 at 1:44 PM
No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.
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Fear and Loathing in Davos
January 21, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Fear and Loathing in Davos
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Today is the most humiliating day in the history of the United States of America.
At least until tomorrow.
At least until tomorrow.
January 21, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Today is the most humiliating day in the history of the United States of America.
At least until tomorrow.
At least until tomorrow.
Shorter timeline but still a TACO trade day.
January 21, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Shorter timeline but still a TACO trade day.
Apparently in his speech today demanding Greenland, he kept calling it Iceland. You just know that one day he’s going to order a Diet Coke and that’s the way the world will end.
January 21, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Apparently in his speech today demanding Greenland, he kept calling it Iceland. You just know that one day he’s going to order a Diet Coke and that’s the way the world will end.
Cubans in Florida are shocked, shocked that they’re now being deported from Florida. Shocked I tell you.
January 20, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Cubans in Florida are shocked, shocked that they’re now being deported from Florida. Shocked I tell you.
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🚨🚨 Attention: ICE 🚨🚨
January 17, 2026 at 1:23 PM
🚨🚨 Attention: ICE 🚨🚨
As the Voice of America, NPR, the CPB, CBS News, the Washington Post and other news organizations or broadcast organizations and news organizations diminish and die, fewer young people become journalists and fewer young people study and know what news and objective reporting is. Truth begins to die.
January 17, 2026 at 2:34 AM
As the Voice of America, NPR, the CPB, CBS News, the Washington Post and other news organizations or broadcast organizations and news organizations diminish and die, fewer young people become journalists and fewer young people study and know what news and objective reporting is. Truth begins to die.
Scott Bessent should have beat Bill Pulte up when he had a chance.
January 14, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Scott Bessent should have beat Bill Pulte up when he had a chance.
Each day one new outrage pushes the next off the page. As if we are a nation of amnesiacs.
January 13, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Each day one new outrage pushes the next off the page. As if we are a nation of amnesiacs.
Dammit! I didn’t have the Secretary of Labor inter-office affair on my bingo card.
January 13, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Dammit! I didn’t have the Secretary of Labor inter-office affair on my bingo card.
Gold and silver are the smart bets these days; if you’re not predicting more chaos, you’re playing to lose.
January 12, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Gold and silver are the smart bets these days; if you’re not predicting more chaos, you’re playing to lose.
If Trump will target childcare TANF funds for Democratic states because he claims they are fraudulent, what makes us think he won’t say the same about election results from those same states in 2026 or 2028?
January 12, 2026 at 12:50 AM
If Trump will target childcare TANF funds for Democratic states because he claims they are fraudulent, what makes us think he won’t say the same about election results from those same states in 2026 or 2028?
The failure of Republicans and the right to show the tiniest shred of empathy or understanding for the left in its moments of collective grief concerns me deeply on a human, non-partisan level. The left is not going to forget this week. The 2020s may be seen as the decade when it all came apart.
January 11, 2026 at 3:07 PM
The failure of Republicans and the right to show the tiniest shred of empathy or understanding for the left in its moments of collective grief concerns me deeply on a human, non-partisan level. The left is not going to forget this week. The 2020s may be seen as the decade when it all came apart.
Silence in the face of injustice is a very loud political position.
January 8, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Silence in the face of injustice is a very loud political position.