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cafenitz.bsky.social
@cafenitz.bsky.social
Art is life.
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Psst.

Hey, come closer.

No, closer.

I have a New Year’s secret for you.

It’s this:

If you care about people you don’t even know, and try to live your life that way, you are absolutely beautiful no matter what you look like.
January 1, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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Democracies cannot function like this. The President is a public servant of the people, not a diety who doles out government services based on perceived personal slights.
December 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.
December 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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I’m always stunned to read passages like this. The human cost of not extending Obamacare subsidies becomes meaningful to a Congressperson only when she learns that “her two adult daughters“ will be affected.
December 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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>1 million Americans died in a traumatic viral pandemic, and America responded in the most American way, which was to make it more likely people would die of diseases we’d already contained by tearing up the social contract in the name of “freedom” while disregarding the actual concept of freedom.
December 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein
December 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It

A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier.
newrepublic.com/article/2026...
Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It
A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier.
newrepublic.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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December 31, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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What. No.

Don't use their language, @newyorker.com that is not even a real word. What the hell is wrong with "flee" or like. "Flee this godforsaken country"
December 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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that fucking newspaper
Incredible lol
December 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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As others have pointed out, many of these people are frequent participants in NYT focus groups lol

Genuinely don’t know if this is a common journalistic practice but it just feels remarkably lazy at best when trying to do a “here’s what the average voter thinks” piece.
December 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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It's quite an experiment to have a government run by the dumbest people on the planet.
Over on Xitter the Attorney General is pointing to a study that only goes through last year to claim she's fixed the fentanyl crisis.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...
December 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"
Border czar Tom Homan didn't receive a normal background check for his role while his bribery probe was still ongoing:

Justice officials felt sure Homan would not be able to obtain a security clearance based on the evidence gathered. It remains unclear how Homan was eventually granted clearance.
Border czar Tom Homan didn’t receive normal background check during bribery probe
President-elect Trump initially balked at submitting names of likely nominees to the FBI for background checks, a basic step intended to flag possible financial conflicts or ethical problems.
www.ms.now
December 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I love this tree
December 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Ignorance is a tribal sorting mechanism. If you are willing to accept and recite a shared mythology no matter how at odds it may be with reality, you have shown yourself to be a committed partisan. You can be trusted—not to faithfully recite facts but to toe the line.
December 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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You're not the audience for the MTG glow up happening because you (as an individual) would never be in an actual position to make common cause with her or to reject her in some nebulous "coalitional" political way. This is the elite speaking to other elites to shape elite opinion.
December 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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This really shows how much one of the intended effects of a cathedral was to make it look like a forest
Classic Gothic Gloucester Cathedral, South West England
Groundbreaking in 1089, it was completed in 1482, 393 years later!
December 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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This year produced the single largest mass mobilizations in the country's history. Its entire history. I think that there are people who would say that this isn't true EVEN AS THEY ARE LIVING THROUGH THOSE MOBILIZATIONS. It's something to see.
December 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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A warning from the lawyer representing the unjustly fired Oklahoma TA! Beware of GFM scams: her client is NOT crowdfunding at this time.
Please be aware of possible scams! My client, Mel Curth, is not seeking any donations at this time. She is grateful for your support and instead requests folks that want to help to donate to the local organizations of your choice!
December 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Republicans want to kill the post office and the media is there for it, which is why you have never seen a news story about how the police department has never turned a profit and is a waste
December 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!
December 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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something i learned when a fact checker hired by @swordsjew.bsky.social called me is that books only have fact checkers if the author insists on it or even hires one themselves. you can put anything in a book. that was the only fact checker i’ve ever talked to but i’ve been quoted in other books
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:

My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.

Huh? When did I say that?!
December 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM