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September 7, 2025
‘WOKE MATH’ IS TO MATH AS ‘SOCIAL JUSTICE’ IS TO JUSTICE: Billionaire Zohran Mamdani donor bankrolling national ‘woke math’ movement.
It leaves kids delusional and unable to count their own fingers.
OH, THE FIRM DID BUSINESS WITH THE BIDEN FAMILY? NOTHING QUESTIONABLE ABOUT THAT: Disgraced FBI Official Let Chinese Energy Firm Know That They Were Under Federal Investigation.
ALLOWING THEM TO JUST WALK IN ISN’T COMPASSION: This is the woman who called ICE on Hyundai. She’s a national hero. (Be warned it’s a video!)
And for the x-less.
MILLIONS SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO JUST WALTZ IN: Mandatory detention for illegal immigrants.
I CAN’T EVEN EXPLAIN THE DEPTH OF HOW BAD THIS IS: Biden Autopen Scandal Widens: Family Pardons, DOJ Objections.
THAT PLACE HAS BEEN A NEST OF QUISLINGS AND TRAITORS SINCE AT LEAST WALTER DURANTY: Shady Lady’s Latest.
IT’S THE WEEKEND, SO: Dances With memes.
September 6, 2025
LOL:
Looking for black people in this video. Not finding them.
See, in DC the worst crime is in predominantly black neighborhoods. 41% of the DC population is black.
So where are all the black people in this "protest"?
I'll tell you why there are so few: DC's black population is… https://t.co/xo1waaFtpA
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) September 6, 2025
🚨 BREAKING: Anti-Trump "free DC" protestors were just spotted loading INTO BUSES to travel out of the city because they don't live there.
The left said these "mass protests" were "sporadic," but they were PAID and mass-transported in.
WHO'S FUNDING IT? They aren't DC… pic.twitter.com/TUCnrvxVZ1
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 6, 2025
Related:
Why did blueskyism become so common on the academic left? A lot of educated people live in a perpetual state of weary, smug, humorless neuroticism the primary aim of which is apparently to create the smallest but most morally self-assured political coalition. https://t.co/ZtcCBCB6TR pic.twitter.com/GpDNLyQIw2
— Brandon Warmke (@BrandonWarmke) September 6, 2025
OPEN THREAD: It’s Saturday night, everybody’s having fun. I’m in the comment thread, tryin’ to get some comments done. Watching the blog go round, watching the blog go round.
FULLY OPERATIONAL? BAD NEWS FOR LEGO ALDERAAN: This fully operational 9,000-piece Lego Star Wars Death Star is the most expensive Lego set so far.
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Using your phone on the toilet raises your risk of hemorrhoids, study suggests.
PEOPLE HAVE HAD ENOUGH:
The biggest issue with Phillies Karen is how strongly the issue resonates across America.
My theory as to why that is has to do with teachers' unions and HR departments.
Most Americans are tired of being heckled by middle aged Democrat women with authority demanding that we all… pic.twitter.com/CmQOv5v9xA
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) September 6, 2025
IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Scientists Discover Mysterious Freshwater Reservoir Beneath the Ocean Floor. How Did It Get There?
KEEP YOUR NAILS TRIMMED: Ergonomic Long Handle Toenail Clippers with Catcher. #CommissionEarned
YOU’D THINK HE’D KNOW BETTER. MAYBE HE DOES. John Roberts Invites Leftist Bullying Campaigns Against SCOTUS By Playing Politics On The Bench.
Related:
"Democratic presidents can let a million illegals stay in the country forever but Republican presidents can't do anything to remove them" is how you get Article III erased from the constitutional order. We're going to find out if John Roberts is okay with that outcome. https://t.co/ZLQFI5LVd6
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) September 5, 2025
HOW MANY PEOPLE BUY THOSE? 2026 Toyota Highlander Base FWD Models Dropped.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: R8 Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. #CommissionEarned
DISPATCHES FROM VICHY FRANCE: Europe Bans Michael Shellenberger’s Public Substack Because It Revealed French President Macron’s Illegal Efforts to Suppress Speech That Undermines His Lies.
Related: Macron’s meeting with American Jewry ‘won’t happen’ amid Palestinian recognition drive, surge in antisemitism. “‘The guy has a 15% popularity rating in France. It’s not our job to help him out,’ a source tells i24NEWS.”
FIRST LOOK: Taurus 66 Combat Revolver: Seven shots of .357 Magnum and optics-ready.
I’m always afraid of a .357 carry gun for fear of permanent hearing damage.
FIX UP YOUR SPACE: 6×9 Area Rugs for Living Room, Bedroom. #CommissionEarned
QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: Nate Silver: What is Blueskyism?
Why this failure to achieve escape velocity? Well, as I’ve written about before, it might be Twitter itself was the outlier, created by tech nerds and for tech nerds at a time when the Internet was less tribal. Not only is anything else unlikely to supplant Twitter, but Twitter itself would probably fail to realize the same prominence if it were launched today, even if there were no dominant Twitter-like platform competing with it.
Founder effects are powerful in predicting network growth: if you go to a new club and everyone there has very peculiar tastes, it’s unlikely to become the hot new thing in town. Especially if everyone there is annoying and doesn’t seem to want you at their party in the first place.
Bluesky was initially popular with Twitter refugees who disliked Musk’s takeover of the platform, some of whom proclaimed that Elon had unleashed the “gates of hell” by restoring banned accounts or predicted that the platform would implode due to a shortage of engineering talent. I suppose I have no problem with this; ironically, the first post in Silver Bulletin history is entitled “In case Twitter goes to zero”. (I wanted a hedge in case it did, although if we’re being honest, I also had one eye out the door as ABC News was beginning to dismantle FiveThirtyEight.3) However, this also self-selected for a certain type of user, adherents of an attitude that I call “Blueskyism”.
Blueskyism should not be mistaken for general left-of-center political views. Google search traffic for Bluesky over the past year is highly correlated with Kamala Harris’s vote share, but has some other skews: controlling for the Harris vote, it’s (statistically) significantly higher in states with a large white population and where the percentage of people with advanced degrees is higher. Bluesky is disproportionately popular in D.C., but also in crunchy white states like Vermont and Oregon. Search traffic for Twitter/X over the same period shows the same bias toward highly educated states, but less toward Harris voters4 and actually an inverse correlation with the white population share. (X gets more search traffic in more diverse states.)
After quoting several paragraphs on Bluesky from “economist and former Bloomberg Opinion columnist Noah Smith” on Wednesday, Jim Geraghty concluded:
Rush Limbaugh used to joke that after the final victory of conservatism, the right should keep some liberals around to ensure no one forgot what they believed and how harmful their ideas were. “So you will never forget what these people were like . . . keep one Marxist and two liberals on the staff of every university so you can show your children . . . living fossils. Living fossils.”
If the goal is to keep progressives walled off from the rest of society, minimally influential among those who don’t already agree with them, and arguing amongst themselves about who’s the purest, Bluesky is a masterpiece.
Progressives, including advocates for athletes born male participating in women’s sports, could attempt to convince the broader public, if they wanted to, but they would have to engage with those who disagree with respect, and attempt to persuade, not shame, demonize, mock, or sneer. And even before the question of whether they could do that . . . how many progressives actually want to do that?
Flashback: Glenn on “Our caveman politics.”
TROLL LEVEL: POTUS DJT. President Trump warns that Chicago is ‘about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR’ in incendiary Truth Social post:
President Donald Trump threatened Illinois‘s biggest city with a ‘Chipocalypse’ ahead of expected Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.
Trump, 79, took to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Saturday to post a meme about himself, where he wrote: ‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning.
‘Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.’
Trump rebranded the Pentagon to the Department of War this week.
His threat comes as ICE readies a raid on the Windy City after Trump said he selected it for the next federal military takeover.
The Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon to have access to Naval Station Great Lakes – the largest military base in Illinois – to base the operation, The Washington Post reported.
It’s quite a striking image:
A decade ago, Spike Lee made a film in which he dubbed the Second City “Chi-Raq.” As CNN reported at the time:
Violence in this great American city matures so notoriously that film director Spike Lee now purportedly seeks a new nickname for the Windy City: Chiraq.
The name merges Chi-town with Iraq – as if Chicago sinks like the godforsaken Iraq, a hopeless war zone to the world.
The label signals a long fall for Chicago, whose official motto is the elegant “Urbs in Horto,” or “City in a Garden.” Once upon a time, Chicago even inspired poetry when Carl Sandburg declared it the “City of the Big Shoulders.”
But “Chiraq” is another story altogether for America’s third-largest city.
Naturally, Trump has leftists pivoting on a dime to defend the crime-ridden hellscape. In late August, CNN reported: Pritzker tells Trump to stay out of Chicago: ‘You are neither wanted here nor needed here.’
To be fair, I hope the soldiers of the newly minted Department of War are as tough as the denizens of Chiraq:
(If you know, you know.)