Andy Funk
@andyfunk42.bsky.social
Democracy 🗽 equality 🏳️🌈 science 🖖
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No shit…
September 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
No shit…
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"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
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Acceptable Losses
Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?
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September 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
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Im rewatching the first Captain America movie because dammit sometimes you need a story about heroes. In it, the scientist Erskine says, "So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own."
I mean, dang. That's good writing in any case, but right now? It hits hard.
I mean, dang. That's good writing in any case, but right now? It hits hard.
September 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Im rewatching the first Captain America movie because dammit sometimes you need a story about heroes. In it, the scientist Erskine says, "So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own."
I mean, dang. That's good writing in any case, but right now? It hits hard.
I mean, dang. That's good writing in any case, but right now? It hits hard.
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Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, and education instead of lining the pockets of the military industrial complex?
In the 20 years following 9/11, the U.S. spent over $21 trillion on militarization.
Yesterday, the House passed an NDAA bringing us closer to a $1 trillion Pentagon budget.
For too long, hawks have used the tragedy of 9/11 to supercharge militarism at the cost of our needs and safety.
Enough.
Yesterday, the House passed an NDAA bringing us closer to a $1 trillion Pentagon budget.
For too long, hawks have used the tragedy of 9/11 to supercharge militarism at the cost of our needs and safety.
Enough.
September 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, and education instead of lining the pockets of the military industrial complex?
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I wrote about the Third Way memo and its list of forbidden words. Comparing the alleged desire for simple persuasive talk and the way those who want it never seem to arrive at the simplest most persuasive "talk" there is: principled action.
www.the-reframe.com/simple-talk-2/
www.the-reframe.com/simple-talk-2/
Simple Talk
Want to move people? Focus on principles, not tactics. An essay about finding a real third way, using the simplest and most persuasive talk there is.
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September 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I wrote about the Third Way memo and its list of forbidden words. Comparing the alleged desire for simple persuasive talk and the way those who want it never seem to arrive at the simplest most persuasive "talk" there is: principled action.
www.the-reframe.com/simple-talk-2/
www.the-reframe.com/simple-talk-2/
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Print these words out, post them up where you and everyone else can see them, read them daily, and fight the good fight.
September 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Print these words out, post them up where you and everyone else can see them, read them daily, and fight the good fight.
I'd like to see a sketch of Republican politicians cracking each other up over the increasingly ridiculous bullshit they've claimed in public, and how their gullible voters keep eating it up.
SNL has a chance to recreate the glory of the sketch where Ronald Reagan is actually the tireless mastermind coordinator behind Iran Contra
Noted do-gooder, secret-keeper and humble, crime-averse person Donald Trump. Yes, of course I believe he was an FBI informant of good character who never blew his cover. It makes *perfect* sense.
September 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I'd like to see a sketch of Republican politicians cracking each other up over the increasingly ridiculous bullshit they've claimed in public, and how their gullible voters keep eating it up.
Gorn Baby Gorn
Gorn in 60 Seconds
The Gorn Identity
September 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Gorn Baby Gorn
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Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
September 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
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I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
Your Ignorance Doesn't Make You An Expert
Let's go chasing waterfalls.
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August 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
I'm reluctant to cut anyone out of my life. But I won't hesitate to point out all the ways Republicans are embracing fascism. If any of my family and friends don't want to hear it, I figure they'll cut themselves off. Self-deport, if you will.
A Trump voter imprisons your neighbor it’s law and order. Kicks their gay kid out its religious conviction. Shoots you dead it’s self defense. Kidnaps you, it’s border security. Invades your town, it’s fighting crime.
Tell them you don’t like them anymore, it was all just “political views.”
Tell them you don’t like them anymore, it was all just “political views.”
August 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I'm reluctant to cut anyone out of my life. But I won't hesitate to point out all the ways Republicans are embracing fascism. If any of my family and friends don't want to hear it, I figure they'll cut themselves off. Self-deport, if you will.
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Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward.
Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
There Is No Trolley Problem
We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..
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August 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward.
Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
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holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
August 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
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Trump's DOJ requested that Maine turn over its entire state voting roll, voting records, and verification procedures.
Here's how Secretary of State Shenna Bellows responded:
"Go jump in the Gulf of Maine."
Here's how Secretary of State Shenna Bellows responded:
"Go jump in the Gulf of Maine."
'Go jump in the Gulf of Maine': Maine denies DOJ's request for list of state voters
Maine’s Secretary of State is fighting back against the federal government.
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July 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Trump's DOJ requested that Maine turn over its entire state voting roll, voting records, and verification procedures.
Here's how Secretary of State Shenna Bellows responded:
"Go jump in the Gulf of Maine."
Here's how Secretary of State Shenna Bellows responded:
"Go jump in the Gulf of Maine."
Unironically this is my new motto.
"Even a shallowly ignorant earnest belief in progress and improvement will accomplish more than a lazy cynical belief that progress and improvement are unattainable."
"Even a shallowly ignorant earnest belief in progress and improvement will accomplish more than a lazy cynical belief that progress and improvement are unattainable."
Continued thoughts about being a person of privilege in a supremacist society while trying to oppose supremacy, and the some ideas on how best to avoid becoming an obstacle to that struggle by resisting the supremacist urge to center darkness.
www.the-reframe.com/total-eclips...
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Total Eclipses
Make light, reflect light, don't block light. Advice to fellow people of privilege on not being an obstacle. Part 2 of 2.
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July 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Unironically this is my new motto.
"Even a shallowly ignorant earnest belief in progress and improvement will accomplish more than a lazy cynical belief that progress and improvement are unattainable."
"Even a shallowly ignorant earnest belief in progress and improvement will accomplish more than a lazy cynical belief that progress and improvement are unattainable."
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It's important to note that people--a lot of people--were saying this at the time, and predicting exactly what is happening now, and were called anti-American lovers of terrorism for holding that position, mostly by people who are still given platforms today to tell us we're overreacting.
I'm more convinced than ever that the country lost its soul at Guantanamo.
It's where state sanctioned torture & permanent detention without due proces we're normalized.
It's patient zero for the bipartisan disregard for international norms and the rule of law that defines our moment.
It's where state sanctioned torture & permanent detention without due proces we're normalized.
It's patient zero for the bipartisan disregard for international norms and the rule of law that defines our moment.
July 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It's important to note that people--a lot of people--were saying this at the time, and predicting exactly what is happening now, and were called anti-American lovers of terrorism for holding that position, mostly by people who are still given platforms today to tell us we're overreacting.
"While polls find deep disapproval among those who have heard of the law, many Americans surveyed, particularly the low-information voters that fueled Trump’s return to the presidency, still know very little if anything about it."
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Trump's Megabill Screws Over His Own Voters—And Democrats Are Already Making Republicans Pay
The backlash against Republicans for voting for Trump's big ugly bill is already underway
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July 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"While polls find deep disapproval among those who have heard of the law, many Americans surveyed, particularly the low-information voters that fueled Trump’s return to the presidency, still know very little if anything about it."
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“The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office … had significant vacancies ….
“That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
“That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas (Gift Article)
Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
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July 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office … had significant vacancies ….
“That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
“That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
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"Fidelity, bravery, and integrity, forever"
A senior FBI officer resigns
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
A senior FBI officer resigns
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
Goodbye to All That
My resignation from the FBI.
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July 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Fidelity, bravery, and integrity, forever"
A senior FBI officer resigns
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
A senior FBI officer resigns
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
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As part of my commitment to fighting antisemitism, I am warning college students not to say anything that's critical of shylocks and their dual loyalty to Israel.
by Donald Trump
by Donald Trump
July 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
As part of my commitment to fighting antisemitism, I am warning college students not to say anything that's critical of shylocks and their dual loyalty to Israel.
by Donald Trump
by Donald Trump
"You can understand how people in different cultures independently came up with the idea of vampires, of things that look like humans but exist only to consume them in order to extend their unnatural lives."
On my country's 249th birthday, I wrote about the problem of sharing a nation with millions of evil people, and how to live a human life in the face of overwhelming inhumanity.
Oh and the Beastie Boys make an appearance.
www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-...
Oh and the Beastie Boys make an appearance.
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So Shines A Good Deed In A Weary World
Dark isn't the opposite of light, it's the absence of light.
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July 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"You can understand how people in different cultures independently came up with the idea of vampires, of things that look like humans but exist only to consume them in order to extend their unnatural lives."
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The Black Death wiped out 40% of the population of Europe, but it also led to significantly higher wages within a generation. Could Trump's megabill have the same effect here in America?
July 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The Black Death wiped out 40% of the population of Europe, but it also led to significantly higher wages within a generation. Could Trump's megabill have the same effect here in America?