AzAnsel
@azansel.bsky.social
History interested, Magic Adjacent, project management capable.
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Hmmm….
Do you remember during the election, when it was “pet-eating” Haitians who were “destroying middle America”?
And now the blame has suddenly shifted to “daycare-defrauding” Somalis?
What could Haitians and Somalis possibly have in common that might lead Republicans to target them, I wonder
And now the blame has suddenly shifted to “daycare-defrauding” Somalis?
What could Haitians and Somalis possibly have in common that might lead Republicans to target them, I wonder
Homeland Security said Tuesday that it launched what it described as the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out, tied to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents in Minnesota. n.pr/4aOMJp5
January 7, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Hmmm….
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i just don't think you get to say "America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. But these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never, that will never ever happen" in your election speech and then say stuff like this
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney clarifies position on the United States using military force to annex Greenland:
"We stand with Denmark, we stand with Greenland, our closest partnership is with the United States, and we'll work with everybody to make sure we move forward together"
"We stand with Denmark, we stand with Greenland, our closest partnership is with the United States, and we'll work with everybody to make sure we move forward together"
January 7, 2026 at 2:08 AM
i just don't think you get to say "America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. But these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never, that will never ever happen" in your election speech and then say stuff like this
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For #Epiphany, a detail of a 6th-century AD mosaic in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna (Italy) depicting the Three Magi, Gaspar (or Caspar), Melchior, and Balthasar, offering gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the newborn King. 👑
January 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
For #Epiphany, a detail of a 6th-century AD mosaic in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna (Italy) depicting the Three Magi, Gaspar (or Caspar), Melchior, and Balthasar, offering gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the newborn King. 👑
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I'm just some guy, but my one of my most deeply held beliefs about Rome is that both the republic and the empire and then empire that wasn't as big and spoke green collapsed because the people with all resources used them to get out paying taxes.
But I also think James Tan has done a good job of explaining how Roman tributum (the land tax in Italy) shifts money around in a way that gets more households able to provide a heavy infantryman and Roman colonization in Italy is basically terraforming Italy into an infantry-generation-machine.
January 5, 2026 at 9:19 PM
I'm just some guy, but my one of my most deeply held beliefs about Rome is that both the republic and the empire and then empire that wasn't as big and spoke green collapsed because the people with all resources used them to get out paying taxes.
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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If you follow this argument through to its logical conclusion there should be a UK Government channel on pornhub.
Cabinet Office Minister Baroness Anderson tells the Lords the Government will keep on using X.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
January 5, 2026 at 4:07 PM
If you follow this argument through to its logical conclusion there should be a UK Government channel on pornhub.
They won't but the press should be calling this shit out on a personal, individual level. Some has to suggest to Johnson or Rubio or whoever that "If you know so little about what's happening, perhaps you should step a side in favour of some one who does?"
RUBIO: Maduro was indicted. Nobody ever did anything about it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hernandez was convicted by a jury
RUBIO: The pardon authority is something I'm not involved in
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support it?
RUBIO: I wasn't involved in those deliberations. I haven't looked at the case file.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hernandez was convicted by a jury
RUBIO: The pardon authority is something I'm not involved in
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support it?
RUBIO: I wasn't involved in those deliberations. I haven't looked at the case file.
January 4, 2026 at 5:18 PM
They won't but the press should be calling this shit out on a personal, individual level. Some has to suggest to Johnson or Rubio or whoever that "If you know so little about what's happening, perhaps you should step a side in favour of some one who does?"
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I TOLD YOU BRO. I FUCKIN WARNED YOU DAWG
January 4, 2026 at 7:45 AM
I TOLD YOU BRO. I FUCKIN WARNED YOU DAWG
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AREN’T YOU PEOPLE AFRAID YOU’RE GONNA GO TO HELL
NEW: Plans for secret U.S. raid to capture Maduro leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times before it happened, but both decided not to publish to protect U.S. troops - Semafor
January 4, 2026 at 4:28 AM
AREN’T YOU PEOPLE AFRAID YOU’RE GONNA GO TO HELL
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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
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We can simultaneously believe Maduro was a terrible leader and needed to go and that the US had NO RIGHT to remove him unilaterally.
We have no right to be invading any country, but if we don't stand up against this attack on Venezuela, it won't be the last by our government.
We have no right to be invading any country, but if we don't stand up against this attack on Venezuela, it won't be the last by our government.
Why should Trump stop at Venezuela? They’re champing at the bit for territorial expansion. Katie Miller, Stephen Miller‘s wife, posted a map of Greenland marked as a US territory with the words „SOON“.
January 4, 2026 at 1:02 AM
We can simultaneously believe Maduro was a terrible leader and needed to go and that the US had NO RIGHT to remove him unilaterally.
We have no right to be invading any country, but if we don't stand up against this attack on Venezuela, it won't be the last by our government.
We have no right to be invading any country, but if we don't stand up against this attack on Venezuela, it won't be the last by our government.
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Want to see what MAGA is thinking right now?
January 4, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Want to see what MAGA is thinking right now?
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What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things
January 3, 2026 at 8:03 PM
What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things
If @rentouljohn.bsky.social is still wondering here is a classic example of using the "good grammar of civility" to "mask agendas or cruelty."
My full statement on the Trump Administration’s military actions in Venezuela:
January 3, 2026 at 7:10 PM
If @rentouljohn.bsky.social is still wondering here is a classic example of using the "good grammar of civility" to "mask agendas or cruelty."
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you simply do not have to preface your statements about this with “but Maduro sucks”
whether or not Maduro sucks is entirely beside the point - we invaded another country and grabbed their leader with no justification other than “we wanted to”
don’t give them cover on it
whether or not Maduro sucks is entirely beside the point - we invaded another country and grabbed their leader with no justification other than “we wanted to”
don’t give them cover on it
January 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM
you simply do not have to preface your statements about this with “but Maduro sucks”
whether or not Maduro sucks is entirely beside the point - we invaded another country and grabbed their leader with no justification other than “we wanted to”
don’t give them cover on it
whether or not Maduro sucks is entirely beside the point - we invaded another country and grabbed their leader with no justification other than “we wanted to”
don’t give them cover on it
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if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
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Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
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helped to have an actual national tragedy to serve as a pretext for the aimless muscularity of the postures that followed. here it's all show, all memes, all pullups in front of cameras. no one even really knows who the intended audience is anymore, save maybe those running the bot farms on twitter
January 3, 2026 at 3:13 PM
helped to have an actual national tragedy to serve as a pretext for the aimless muscularity of the postures that followed. here it's all show, all memes, all pullups in front of cameras. no one even really knows who the intended audience is anymore, save maybe those running the bot farms on twitter
Look, I know every one has their own motivations and moral compass, but I just think when the LLM that called itself Mecha-Hitler starts posting CSAM, its time to get off the app.
January 3, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Look, I know every one has their own motivations and moral compass, but I just think when the LLM that called itself Mecha-Hitler starts posting CSAM, its time to get off the app.
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Sure, we don’t know 100% if Musk et al specifically intended to use Grok as as a blame absorption fire shield - but it is nevertheless DOING that right now, and with some success.
Whether intended or no, Grok remains a man-made artifact that is producing a RESULT of deflecting blame from humans.
Whether intended or no, Grok remains a man-made artifact that is producing a RESULT of deflecting blame from humans.
January 2, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Sure, we don’t know 100% if Musk et al specifically intended to use Grok as as a blame absorption fire shield - but it is nevertheless DOING that right now, and with some success.
Whether intended or no, Grok remains a man-made artifact that is producing a RESULT of deflecting blame from humans.
Whether intended or no, Grok remains a man-made artifact that is producing a RESULT of deflecting blame from humans.
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When Grok takes the blame for generating CSAM while Musk and X refuse to do so, Grok is still very much “acting” as a man-made artifact doing something it was imbued by a human with the capacity to do
January 2, 2026 at 6:06 PM
When Grok takes the blame for generating CSAM while Musk and X refuse to do so, Grok is still very much “acting” as a man-made artifact doing something it was imbued by a human with the capacity to do