Michael Patrick Tracy
@conservativela.bsky.social
Mistakes were made.
ARCADIA the new album from Alison Krauss & Union Station is available now twitter.com/AlisonKrauss...
March 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
ARCADIA the new album from Alison Krauss & Union Station is available now twitter.com/AlisonKrauss...
To paraphrase Tom Waits:
Musk's away
Musk's away
Musk's away
On business
Business
Musk's away
Musk's away
Musk's away
On business
Business
March 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
To paraphrase Tom Waits:
Musk's away
Musk's away
Musk's away
On business
Business
Musk's away
Musk's away
Musk's away
On business
Business
The Art of the Deal? More like The Art of the Steal.
March 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Art of the Deal? More like The Art of the Steal.
"But men who have the souls of serfs are never satisfied until they have a means of expressing their serfdom." thedispatch.com/newsletter/w...
The Souls of Serfs and Subjects
Justice Amy Coney Barrett and ‘loyalty.’
thedispatch.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"But men who have the souls of serfs are never satisfied until they have a means of expressing their serfdom." thedispatch.com/newsletter/w...
Maybe Elon Musk might want to take time from his busy schedule, destroying the federal government, to unfuck xTwitter.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
March 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Maybe Elon Musk might want to take time from his busy schedule, destroying the federal government, to unfuck xTwitter.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
xTwitter has gone out of skew, apparently, on the treadle. www.digitaltrends.com/computing/x-...
Live X outage: Twitter is down for the third time today
X (Twitter) was down his morning, but the service has now been restored for the majority of users.
www.digitaltrends.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
xTwitter has gone out of skew, apparently, on the treadle. www.digitaltrends.com/computing/x-...
Twitter and Bluesky are both having issues? How odd.
February 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Twitter and Bluesky are both having issues? How odd.
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Donald Trump has achieved something remarkable: He has united Canada, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, in patriotic solidarity.
February 2, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Donald Trump has achieved something remarkable: He has united Canada, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, in patriotic solidarity.
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“Dry January”
Never stood a chance
Never stood a chance
January 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“Dry January”
Never stood a chance
Never stood a chance
"Reducing the election to a false choice between expensive eggs and the Constitution is a form of cope that lets believers in American exceptionalism avoid confronting the fact that their country turned out not to be as exceptional as they thought." thedispatch.com/newsletter/b...
Character Is Destiny
Never Trump nevermore?
thedispatch.com
January 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"Reducing the election to a false choice between expensive eggs and the Constitution is a form of cope that lets believers in American exceptionalism avoid confronting the fact that their country turned out not to be as exceptional as they thought." thedispatch.com/newsletter/b...
I've never met a stoner as addled as Former and Future Dear Leader.
In addition to annexing Canada, reclaiming the Panama Canal, and invading Mexico, Trump still wants Greenland.
Make Territorial Conquest Great Again!
Make Territorial Conquest Great Again!
December 23, 2024 at 8:50 AM
I've never met a stoner as addled as Former and Future Dear Leader.
The Cruelty Is the Point
open.substack.com/pub/yaschamo...
open.substack.com/pub/yaschamo...
The Cruelty Is the Point
A blowup on Bluesky reveals what drives those who are most keen to say that they stand for the oppressed.
open.substack.com
December 21, 2024 at 11:22 AM
The Cruelty Is the Point
open.substack.com/pub/yaschamo...
open.substack.com/pub/yaschamo...
Well worth your time: Once They Were My Captors. Now They Rule Syria www.persuasion.community/p/now-theyre...
Once They Were My Captors. Now They Rule Syria
A personal essay on regime change in Syria.
www.persuasion.community
December 10, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Well worth your time: Once They Were My Captors. Now They Rule Syria www.persuasion.community/p/now-theyre...
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Snowden didn’t just whistle-blow. That might well be forgivable, or even commendable. He took a giant stash of completely unrelated intel with him and shared it with our enemies. He likely got good people killed.
Trump advisers urging a pardon for Edward Snowden www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump advisers renew push for pardon of ex-spy Edward Snowden
Advocates for clemency for Snowden, including several of Trump’s picks for top Cabinet posts, are hopeful that the president-elect is now closer to pardoning the former spy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Snowden didn’t just whistle-blow. That might well be forgivable, or even commendable. He took a giant stash of completely unrelated intel with him and shared it with our enemies. He likely got good people killed.
Ramesh Ponnuru over at xTwitter:
"Reporters at putatively neutral outlets should avoid obvious propaganda terms."
(The quote was in re the uncritical use of the term "gender-affirming care" by Axios.)
Clear, concise, zero artifice.
"Reporters at putatively neutral outlets should avoid obvious propaganda terms."
(The quote was in re the uncritical use of the term "gender-affirming care" by Axios.)
Clear, concise, zero artifice.
December 4, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Ramesh Ponnuru over at xTwitter:
"Reporters at putatively neutral outlets should avoid obvious propaganda terms."
(The quote was in re the uncritical use of the term "gender-affirming care" by Axios.)
Clear, concise, zero artifice.
"Reporters at putatively neutral outlets should avoid obvious propaganda terms."
(The quote was in re the uncritical use of the term "gender-affirming care" by Axios.)
Clear, concise, zero artifice.
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Trump's immigration crackdown could reduce caregiving workforce. This not just about deporting people here illegally, but taking away legal status/work authorization for other immigration currently allowed to be here (e.g., those on TPS, DACA) www.axios.com/2024/12/04/t...
Trump's immigration crackdown could reduce caregiving workforce
Promised immigration crackdowns, including planned mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, could ripple across America's already stretched caregiver workforce.
www.axios.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Trump's immigration crackdown could reduce caregiving workforce. This not just about deporting people here illegally, but taking away legal status/work authorization for other immigration currently allowed to be here (e.g., those on TPS, DACA) www.axios.com/2024/12/04/t...
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Not a lot of detail, in what would seem to be a rather important story.
December 3, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Not a lot of detail, in what would seem to be a rather important story.
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South Korean president declares emergency martial law
South Korean president declares emergency martial law
Yoon Suk Yeol vows to ‘eradicate pro-North Korean forces’ and protect order during televised briefing
South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has declared an “emergency martial law”, accusing the opposition of controlling the parliament, sympathising…
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:32 PM
South Korean president declares emergency martial law
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Which raises the very Roman question, why do we even need Senators?
December 3, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Which raises the very Roman question, why do we even need Senators?
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Squirrel voyeur. 🐿️
December 1, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Squirrel voyeur. 🐿️
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Oh nothing, just a person deeply integrated into the incoming administration’s center of power calling for the execution of one of his critics.
November 27, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Oh nothing, just a person deeply integrated into the incoming administration’s center of power calling for the execution of one of his critics.
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So Mexico agrees to do the thing it's already been doing, and Trump claims victory. Sounds about right
November 28, 2024 at 3:14 AM
So Mexico agrees to do the thing it's already been doing, and Trump claims victory. Sounds about right