Tom ‘Beardo’ Hilliard

I want to be sympathetic, but I just don't understand what Julie Le is trying to accomplish.

I'm long gone from the nabe. But honestly, if you have a bunch of affluent people living on the Gowanus, they will eventually force solutions, because they don't want to live next to a Superfund site. Totally appreciate your anger, but change brings its own remedies.

Man, I remember wanting to buy a condo off the Gowanus in the early 90s and not being able to afford it. Trashing the Gowanus as a poisonous slum is just building an archetype, like insisting that the Cuyahoga River is still on fire somehow.

The cancellation of Kaos was also an object lesson in the distance between art and Netflix. Every day, Netflix tells you what the number one show is, and for a month Kaos was either #1 or in the top 5. Then Netflix killed it. they have opaque metrics we’re not allowed to know, like gods on Olympus.

I mean, I was more worked up about the bees that were Zeus’s lovers.

Kaos. I am so salty about its cancellation. Jeff goldblum as Zeus, totally drove me mad with anticipation. And now I’ll never know.

Kaos. I am so salty about its cancellation.

I’m sure that’s true as a matter of bill drafting. But you have to sit in a room with people you hate and listen to them criticize your legislation. And while the chair hand-picks conferees, it still distributes power away from the chair.

Not an insider, but what I’ve heard is that conferences give the minority party a say, and that’s intolerable to Republicans (and not appealing to Dems either when they’re in the majority).

A coalition of states are suing to stop the ACTS data collection. ag.ny.gov/sites/defaul...

We should form a support group. “My name is Tom. I follow people on Bluesky because I find them interesting or insightful, but the only time I boost their accounts is when I feel the need to quote-dunk them.”

This is a startling interview. The architect of the Trump administration’s AI policy turns on Trump and Hegseth, accusing them of conducting a political assassination of Anthropic.

In theory, the NY courts don’t need to appeal to a higher judicial body. Congress passed a law creating the current structure and the SC violated it.

Aren’t the New York courts obligated to treat the SC ruling as advisory and ignore it? To do otherwise would implicate them in violating federal law.

Nice catch.

I don’t think it’s new, but certainly an evergreen.

This could be a really good opportunity for Seth Bodnar.

Mamdani won 57% in the general. But in the primary, he won only 31% of the black vote, down 26 points from Cuomo. So it’s hardly fair to accuse Garcia of ignoring black voters. Like Mamdani, Talarico is likely to do very well with black voters in the general.

Worth noting that Noem insists on personally approving DHS expenses over $100k, a policy which “left hundreds of FEMA projects in limbo…”
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This @lauramille.bsky.social review is as smart as the tv show it reviews is (I’m gathering) moronic. slate.com/culture/2026...

This is right on. We need more thoughtful and granular analysis of AI, not rage-takes.

So the Trump admin never considered the elected President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, as a successor. Huh, that’s interesting.

Donald Trump has a tendency to blurt out facts that he should be keeping confidential. In this case, Trump reveals that the administration was looking for a malleable successor to Khamenei - and that they never considered the elected president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, for that role.

Came here to say this. Also, I am struck by how much more effective Schumer seemed during Trump I.

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I don't live in Maine, so my opinion doesn't really matter. But here it is: I think Platner's explanation for inadvertently getting a totenkopf tattoo is plausible, but being blissfully unaware of its nature for 18 years is not. Platner's not a secret nazi, but has yet to fully level with voters.

That’s not what Morris is saying. He’s making the case that there’s no actual penalty for taking progressive positions. Moderating on allegedly unpopular issues like civil rights for transgender people has worsened Dems’ real problem, which is the perception of weakness and ineffectiveness.

What’s wrong with paying in installments? I don’t get why that’s a problem.

Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admits he got Nazi-linked tattoo while ‘very inebriated’ “I am not a secret Nazi,” the Bernie Sanders-backed candidate insisted, claiming he was unaware the tattoo had potentially sickening connections to Nazism.

Sorry, I meant Nazi skull tattoo. This article has a picture of the tattoo, which I personally would not have recognized as Nazi-coded. www.aol.com/articles/dem...

Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admits he got Nazi-linked tattoo while ‘very inebriated’ “I am not a secret Nazi,” the Bernie Sanders-backed candidate insisted, claiming he was unaware the tattoo had potentially sickening connections to Nazism.

That's really not his claim. Platner says he didn't know that the skull tattoo had anything to do with nazis - he thought it was just a cool-looking skull. Honestly, when I saw the skull, I didn't associate it with Nazis either. www.aol.com/articles/dem...

I think that's a fair question. Not here to defend Platner's life choices, just the notion that he's some kind of secret Trump acolyte.