ScottTheHoople
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"Don't you hate these clever people
And all these clever people parties?"
And all these clever people parties?"
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Pretty insightful stuff here from Bret Stephens, who admits he's literally as out of touch as possible with every New Yorker alive right now. Zohran is the most popular politician in the country, Dem leadership is historically unpopular, and he's just... the opposite. And he works for the NY Times.
September 17, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Pretty insightful stuff here from Bret Stephens, who admits he's literally as out of touch as possible with every New Yorker alive right now. Zohran is the most popular politician in the country, Dem leadership is historically unpopular, and he's just... the opposite. And he works for the NY Times.
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Will genuinely venmo a reporter $50 to ask Mitch mcconnell “what day is it”
September 17, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Will genuinely venmo a reporter $50 to ask Mitch mcconnell “what day is it”
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I aspire to being this high someday
Mitch McConnell leaves the Senate after not having a clue what he voted for or where he is.
September 17, 2026 at 1:57 PM
I aspire to being this high someday
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I don’t want to go hard and I don’t want to go home. Is there even a place for me in today’s world?
September 17, 2026 at 1:53 PM
I don’t want to go hard and I don’t want to go home. Is there even a place for me in today’s world?
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Hayley Williams' Forest Hills pre-show playlist featured all the acts who quit Ed Sheeran's tour
Hayley Williams Playlist Features Acts Who Left Ed Sheeran Tour
A week ago, it might’ve been surprising to go see Hayley Williams and to hear Macklemore and Lukas Graham on the pre-show playlist. Now, it looks like a righteous statement of solidarity. Late last we...
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September 17, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Hayley Williams' Forest Hills pre-show playlist featured all the acts who quit Ed Sheeran's tour
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it was funny that nobody in the tech press last week thought to ask this 27-year-old anthropic doomsday "whistleblower" if he voted for the corrupt authoritarian sociopath that cheerfully destroyed U.S. regulatory autonomy (including numerous essential cybersecurity programs)
As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed".
Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.
Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.
September 17, 2026 at 1:34 PM
it was funny that nobody in the tech press last week thought to ask this 27-year-old anthropic doomsday "whistleblower" if he voted for the corrupt authoritarian sociopath that cheerfully destroyed U.S. regulatory autonomy (including numerous essential cybersecurity programs)
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Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
September 17, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
September 17, 2026 at 12:15 PM
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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September 15, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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I’ve been arguing for years that he doesn’t know what a tariff is, but I’ve got to be honest, I thought the basic concept of trade was obvious enough that he would grasp it
September 17, 2026 at 2:45 AM
I’ve been arguing for years that he doesn’t know what a tariff is, but I’ve got to be honest, I thought the basic concept of trade was obvious enough that he would grasp it
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"why does the left distrust AI" certainly has plenty to do with the technology itself but at its core I think it is about the fact that everyone building it is a wannabe fascist oligarch and nobody trusts them on a god damn thing
way to go, you fucking morons. I hope you're happy with how things are going
September 16, 2026 at 6:22 PM
"why does the left distrust AI" certainly has plenty to do with the technology itself but at its core I think it is about the fact that everyone building it is a wannabe fascist oligarch and nobody trusts them on a god damn thing
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Is alcohol addictive? We asked a guy we found vomiting between swigs of Rumplemintz at a bus stop at 1pm on a weekday.
Can social media be addictive?
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social says no.
“You wanting to communicate and chat with your friends every day is not an addiction,” says Lorenz. “And to frame it that way is incredibly harmful and anti-science.”
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social says no.
“You wanting to communicate and chat with your friends every day is not an addiction,” says Lorenz. “And to frame it that way is incredibly harmful and anti-science.”
September 16, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Is alcohol addictive? We asked a guy we found vomiting between swigs of Rumplemintz at a bus stop at 1pm on a weekday.
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New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
www.thehandbasket.co
September 16, 2026 at 11:26 PM
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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The president is just such a stupid asshole. I know we try to ascribe motives to this guy but he’s at the end of the day, when the story is written, just a dumdum idiot with a tiny brain that don’t work so good.
September 17, 2026 at 2:43 AM
The president is just such a stupid asshole. I know we try to ascribe motives to this guy but he’s at the end of the day, when the story is written, just a dumdum idiot with a tiny brain that don’t work so good.
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"You'll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn't real, the Tooth Fairy is imaginary, and there's no such thing as the 'invisible hand of the market.'"
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Son, You’re Old Enough to Know the Truth, There is No Such Thing as the “Invisible Hand of the Market”
“You’ll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn’t real, the Tooth Fairy is imagin...
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September 17, 2026 at 1:20 AM
"You'll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn't real, the Tooth Fairy is imaginary, and there's no such thing as the 'invisible hand of the market.'"
buff.ly/KM3opmg
buff.ly/KM3opmg
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This is infuriating: $2,500/month to throw at the lying machine, but no money to pay professors for supervision or research. University administrators have been utterly captured by CorporateBrainBorg.
Oh. That's a heck of a subsidy.
September 17, 2026 at 2:22 AM
This is infuriating: $2,500/month to throw at the lying machine, but no money to pay professors for supervision or research. University administrators have been utterly captured by CorporateBrainBorg.
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Somehow the media only asks “how will you pay for it” when Democrats propose programs that help the poor and middle class
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
September 16, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Somehow the media only asks “how will you pay for it” when Democrats propose programs that help the poor and middle class
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This is how ass backwards this administration is. There is bacteria in the soap.
September 16, 2026 at 2:52 PM
This is how ass backwards this administration is. There is bacteria in the soap.
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Al Green forced a vote to impeach Trump today.
Jeffries, Clark, Aguilar, Hoyer and Pelosi voted present. Not yes. Not no. Nothing.
18 more Democrats crossed over and voted with Republicans to kill it.
Final: 232-147.
That is not resistance. That is cover.
Jeffries, Clark, Aguilar, Hoyer and Pelosi voted present. Not yes. Not no. Nothing.
18 more Democrats crossed over and voted with Republicans to kill it.
Final: 232-147.
That is not resistance. That is cover.
September 16, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Al Green forced a vote to impeach Trump today.
Jeffries, Clark, Aguilar, Hoyer and Pelosi voted present. Not yes. Not no. Nothing.
18 more Democrats crossed over and voted with Republicans to kill it.
Final: 232-147.
That is not resistance. That is cover.
Jeffries, Clark, Aguilar, Hoyer and Pelosi voted present. Not yes. Not no. Nothing.
18 more Democrats crossed over and voted with Republicans to kill it.
Final: 232-147.
That is not resistance. That is cover.
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Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
September 16, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
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I first read this as Ed Sheeran doing the donation. 😭
New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him.
Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going.
"Their risk is of a far different order than mine."
Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going.
"Their risk is of a far different order than mine."
September 16, 2026 at 8:57 PM
I first read this as Ed Sheeran doing the donation. 😭
Weasels and cowards. But you already knew that.
Rather than force Republicans to take a hard vote on Pete Hegseth, Speaker Mike Johnson has sent the entire lower chamber home until after the midterms.
Mike Johnson Finds Crazed Way to Avoid Hegseth Impeachment Vote
Rather than force Republicans to take a hard vote on Pete Hegseth, Speaker Mike Johnson has sent the entire lower chamber home until after the midterms.
www.thedailybeast.com
September 16, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Weasels and cowards. But you already knew that.
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My kids have measles, I can't afford gas or steak, I can't get a mortgage, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite that the CDC no longer monitors. But at least now there are signs outside the Smithsonian accusing the curators of political bias.
September 16, 2026 at 4:54 PM
My kids have measles, I can't afford gas or steak, I can't get a mortgage, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite that the CDC no longer monitors. But at least now there are signs outside the Smithsonian accusing the curators of political bias.
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Friendly reminder that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social said if we win the house we're not gonna worry about impeachment and punishment, we're just gonna work across the aisle on affordability.
If Jeffries doesn't understand that it is a moral imperative to save this country from Nazis, then QUIT
If Jeffries doesn't understand that it is a moral imperative to save this country from Nazis, then QUIT
“And when one of them told an ICE agent that he was a US citizen, one of them allegedly said, ‘I don’t care, your parents can’t help you now.’”
Susan Collins stole our tax dollars to fund this terrorism across our communities.
Susan Collins stole our tax dollars to fund this terrorism across our communities.
September 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Friendly reminder that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social said if we win the house we're not gonna worry about impeachment and punishment, we're just gonna work across the aisle on affordability.
If Jeffries doesn't understand that it is a moral imperative to save this country from Nazis, then QUIT
If Jeffries doesn't understand that it is a moral imperative to save this country from Nazis, then QUIT