ryan cooper

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus episode, we have @philipchristman.bsky.social on to talk about his book Why Christians Should Be Leftists www.patreon.com/posts/139047...

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

"The U.S. agricultural workforce fell by 155,000 — about 7 percent — between March and July, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That tracks with Pew Research Center data that shows total immigrant labor fell by 750,000 from January through July."

almost hard to remember when the center and right were having a years-long meltdown about free speech on campus because students protested Milo Yiannopoulos speeches

"The result has been worse coverage and skyrocketing spending that inflated up a huge industry of ruthless corporate parasites. Now those same companies have dragon hoards of government cash to spend on advertising to trick trusting retirees and lobby Congress." prospect.org/2022/04/29/m...

I just picked up a copy of the print book, I greatly enjoy the first TMW archive I bought some years ago

underrated aspect of the whole "we must chase polls" discussion is that such people, almost by definition, will be cringing and timid

interesting argument that a huge chunk of Google's ad revenue is based on essentially fraud www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfNI...

we've got a new analytics platform, yesterday Bluesky sent ~6x the traffic that Vichy Twitter did

Apartheid Defense League

the worst chickenshit in American history www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

good piece by @xpostfactoid.bsky.social digging into some misleading claims from CMS re: ACA premiums going up xpostfactoid.substack.com/p/trumps-cms...

what follows is his actions and statements did not have a direct relationship to how people voted because there was no clear transmission system by which people heard about or understood them

no petitioning the government for a redress of grievances under Donny Trump's rule