gojithecat.bsky.social

Just for fun, I ran an analysis on the most recent filing of the PACs named as "spam PACs" in an older Bonica article. Here's the (Claude generated, very fast) chart using reported definitions of outlay. There's some clear outliers, but nowhere near ~65% average spend on fundraising. More like ~25%.

If only we had a ... science, that studied...politics -- maybe it could tell us why House candidates raise money!

Visiting the Marina is wild. There’s a whole heterosexual version of the Castro out here.

1000% you do can get away with this exactly once

I will again ask @esksf.bsky.social and @missionlocal.org to do an all-in-one-place explainer of wtf Calle 24 is and why anyone at City Hall and SFMTA care what they think

Can I enter into a futures contract about kalshi on kalshi

Bologna Centrale

witkoff is the most corrupt member of the admin and it's not really close

Boston

But Black Dynamite, I buy drugs with crypto

extremely dumb on like 12 different levels, honestly pretty fucking offensive too. I don’t like ChatGPT either but people are getting shot in the street.

one thing that i think is bad about the left wing media ecosystem is people paying mmfa to crap all over democrats

oh there absolutely is. richard hanania is amero-girkin.

How does one distinguish "good" conservative media firestorms from "bad" ones? It did not seem great for mainstream outlets to let James O'Keefe and his fellow travelers lead them around by the nose (up to and including the NYT partnering with someone to stovepipe agitprop)

Skocpol's piece on indivisible is one of the best pieces of political writing in the past few years - a battle between DC staffers who wanted to enforce priorities on grassroots activists prospect.org/2021/02/04/r...

i really think we should just mine the international date line at this point

We have never been so fucking back

Scott Wiener is done waiting on Nancy Pelosi. He’s running in 2026, sources say San Francisco’s state senator previously said he would wait for Pelosi to retire from Congress, but polling and a progressive challenger changed the game. sfstandard.com/2025/10/16/s...

Don’t dedicate your life to frying people’s brains with hacking human weakness for compulsive behaviors. www.slowboring.com/p/capitalism...

All politics posting should take place on the only good and actively pro-social social media platform: Strava.

McDonnell v. United States isn't the only factor that led to this, but it's a major one, and it's in the Top 10 SCOTUS precedents that must be reversed. I don't care that it was unanimous.

I read the sf chronicle. Not always the best paper or the most worldly, but at least I don’t get six Charlie Kirk articles in a row days after the fact.

It really does feel like the stock market is a graph of rich people feelings lately. (I don't think it was quite so true in the past, even if some grain of truth to it)

@sodrock.bsky.social civ mil relations?

announcing my new think tank, the "people hate inflation, that's like 90% of why harris lost" institute

California should just dissolve all of its city governments. Nothing is gained by keeping them around.

This sucks ass!!

Stuff like this is where the whole Abundance concept (much of which strikes me as obviously correct and worthwhile) flies off the rails into faffing about that shouldn’t be taken seriously.

I am curious in what sense "pro Israel" and "anti establishment" go together

Zuck has to be one of the worst allocators of capital in history right? Who else is even in that conversation?

Perplexity is doing something around $100mm of revenue. They're valued at $18bn in their latest raise. But they've got private credit commitments to make a $34.5bn acquisition. I don't see how you get financial conditions looser than whatever the hell this is.