Excelsior
@eljeasel.bsky.social
Richmond, VA
I'm into video games, comics, sports, cooking, and even some politics.
Trying desperately not to be Johnny Silverhand.
I'm into video games, comics, sports, cooking, and even some politics.
Trying desperately not to be Johnny Silverhand.
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Excelsior
@eljeasel.bsky.social
· Jan 22
None of this is acceptable and I refuse to lose my outrage.
Fact free religious psychopathy
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
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February 16, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Fact free religious psychopathy
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Lots of motherfuckers out there who think that information warfare only hit folks on the right.
Pop quiz (no looking up answers):
1) Who did Biden put in charge of the Treasury?
2) What did they get up to in 2021?
3) Why does this matter?
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Pop quiz (no looking up answers):
1) Who did Biden put in charge of the Treasury?
2) What did they get up to in 2021?
3) Why does this matter?
(scroll down for answers)
What pundits think a broken information environment means: dumb yokels in Ohio spend all day on TikTok and believe in Jewish space lasers
What a broken information environment actually means: dumb pundits in NYC and DC spend all day on X and believe Harris ran on trans sports & late term abortions
What a broken information environment actually means: dumb pundits in NYC and DC spend all day on X and believe Harris ran on trans sports & late term abortions
February 15, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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It’s extraordinarily dangerous twice over: we convince ourselves that we can be popular by enacting the exact policies that just failed to make us popular, AND we alienate people who gambled on our policies by refusing to acknowledge they enacted them
February 15, 2026 at 11:06 PM
It’s extraordinarily dangerous twice over: we convince ourselves that we can be popular by enacting the exact policies that just failed to make us popular, AND we alienate people who gambled on our policies by refusing to acknowledge they enacted them
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Biden was the most economically progressive president since LBJ at least, he pursued a full-employment economy at huge political risk, it worked spectacularly.
And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular
And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular
Are the progressive economic policies in the room with us right now?
February 15, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Biden was the most economically progressive president since LBJ at least, he pursued a full-employment economy at huge political risk, it worked spectacularly.
And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular
And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular
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I know people hate it when will says this, but it's accurate.
I do think that the fear that this dynamic will kneecap future progressive economic efforts seems maybe overblown? like...the bottomless awfulness of trump has just kind of reset everything. 1
I do think that the fear that this dynamic will kneecap future progressive economic efforts seems maybe overblown? like...the bottomless awfulness of trump has just kind of reset everything. 1
Biden was the most economically progressive president since LBJ at least, he pursued a full-employment economy at huge political risk, it worked spectacularly.
And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular
And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular
Are the progressive economic policies in the room with us right now?
February 16, 2026 at 5:13 AM
I know people hate it when will says this, but it's accurate.
I do think that the fear that this dynamic will kneecap future progressive economic efforts seems maybe overblown? like...the bottomless awfulness of trump has just kind of reset everything. 1
I do think that the fear that this dynamic will kneecap future progressive economic efforts seems maybe overblown? like...the bottomless awfulness of trump has just kind of reset everything. 1
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NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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Funny story, the 2024 election had more disinformation riddling it than any other in history. Here's what that looks like in practice
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Funny story, the 2024 election had more disinformation riddling it than any other in history. Here's what that looks like in practice
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Wild that a sitting member of Congress, a Republican no less, feels compelled to post this.
February 13, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Wild that a sitting member of Congress, a Republican no less, feels compelled to post this.
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Look, guys! The folks that hate being called Nazis keep hiring Nazis because it's clear that they're Nazis that love them some Nazis.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 13, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Look, guys! The folks that hate being called Nazis keep hiring Nazis because it's clear that they're Nazis that love them some Nazis.
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Destroy the ability of public equity firms to destroy companies and communities. This seems like a good start: www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Warren, Lawmakers Renew Legislative Push to Stop Private Equity Looting | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
www.warren.senate.gov
February 13, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Destroy the ability of public equity firms to destroy companies and communities. This seems like a good start: www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
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When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism.
A few suggestions...
A few suggestions...
February 13, 2026 at 1:38 AM
When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism.
A few suggestions...
A few suggestions...
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this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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end qualified immunity and make cops carry personal liability insurance
"'She is dead,'" Officer Auderer told Officer Solan, before bursting out laughing.
"'No, it’s a regular person,' Officer Auderer said, adding: 'Yeah, just write a check — $11,000. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value.'"
"'No, it’s a regular person,' Officer Auderer said, adding: 'Yeah, just write a check — $11,000. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value.'"
Seattle to Pay $29 Million to Family of Woman Fatally Struck by Police S.U.V.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
end qualified immunity and make cops carry personal liability insurance
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Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
February 13, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
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If you want to call getting protested so hard that you could barely find hotels to sleep in, restaurants to eat in, getting chased out of nearly every place you've been to & leaving with your asses handed to you success? Aight.
This is Wimp Lo's "face to foot style" from Kung Pow: Enter The Fist.
This is Wimp Lo's "face to foot style" from Kung Pow: Enter The Fist.
Leavitt: "Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota has been a resounding success"
February 13, 2026 at 2:38 PM
If you want to call getting protested so hard that you could barely find hotels to sleep in, restaurants to eat in, getting chased out of nearly every place you've been to & leaving with your asses handed to you success? Aight.
This is Wimp Lo's "face to foot style" from Kung Pow: Enter The Fist.
This is Wimp Lo's "face to foot style" from Kung Pow: Enter The Fist.
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Right now, CNN is doing a whole segment about how the Goldman Sachs’ general counsel just resigned due to the Epstein Files.
A random lawyer—a woman at that—but not the president of the United States and all of his cabinet. Got it.
A random lawyer—a woman at that—but not the president of the United States and all of his cabinet. Got it.
February 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Right now, CNN is doing a whole segment about how the Goldman Sachs’ general counsel just resigned due to the Epstein Files.
A random lawyer—a woman at that—but not the president of the United States and all of his cabinet. Got it.
A random lawyer—a woman at that—but not the president of the United States and all of his cabinet. Got it.
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There needs to be a class action suit against RFK, Jr., NIH, and Donald Trump for endangering the lives of Americans with their kooky, unscientific negligence.
February 13, 2026 at 3:01 AM
There needs to be a class action suit against RFK, Jr., NIH, and Donald Trump for endangering the lives of Americans with their kooky, unscientific negligence.
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It’s really incredible that white progressive men don’t seem to understand that Graham Platner’s campaign was grown in a lab to play on their insecurities
February 13, 2026 at 1:02 PM
It’s really incredible that white progressive men don’t seem to understand that Graham Platner’s campaign was grown in a lab to play on their insecurities
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Check today if ICE is purchasing offices or warehouses near you (they’re moving quickly
to acquire properties in 100s of towns and cities).
bsky.app/profile/knib...
to acquire properties in 100s of towns and cities).
bsky.app/profile/knib...
SCOOP from @leahfeiger.bsky.social— a look at where exactly ICE is expanding: www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Check today if ICE is purchasing offices or warehouses near you (they’re moving quickly
to acquire properties in 100s of towns and cities).
bsky.app/profile/knib...
to acquire properties in 100s of towns and cities).
bsky.app/profile/knib...
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In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
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a perennial issue is that people just refuse to believe that the republican party is as far gone as it is.
February 12, 2026 at 5:43 PM
a perennial issue is that people just refuse to believe that the republican party is as far gone as it is.
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Seems like a lot of evidence against a “the failure was democratic messaging” story of 2024. What’s happening, that people disapprove of, is exactly what prominent democrats said would happen (and often was written down in Project 2025).
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Seems like a lot of evidence against a “the failure was democratic messaging” story of 2024. What’s happening, that people disapprove of, is exactly what prominent democrats said would happen (and often was written down in Project 2025).
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I keep thinking about this. Liberals were right about everything yet were the ones told we gotta reach out.
Seems like a lot of evidence against a “the failure was democratic messaging” story of 2024. What’s happening, that people disapprove of, is exactly what prominent democrats said would happen (and often was written down in Project 2025).
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
February 13, 2026 at 12:34 AM
I keep thinking about this. Liberals were right about everything yet were the ones told we gotta reach out.
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Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Flock off
buff.ly
February 13, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.
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imagine losing 300k over $3.
On two occasions a Dollar General worker drank a $1.69 orange juice to stave off diabetic shock. She later paid for each drink.
Dollar General fired her anyway.
Now a jury has awarded her $277,565.
www.cnn.com/2016/09/30/u...
Dollar General fired her anyway.
Now a jury has awarded her $277,565.
www.cnn.com/2016/09/30/u...
Dollar General facing $250K bill over 2 bottles of juice | CNN
Federal court has awarded more than $277,000 to a diabetic former Dollar General employee after she was fired her for drinking orange juice without first paying.
www.cnn.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:45 PM
imagine losing 300k over $3.