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Eric the Red 🌹✝️
@eric13red.bsky.social
· Mar 25
“In the course of human events, it becomes necessary to reiterate the historical reality that empires rise and empires fall.”
Today’s essay is by Eric Sommers.
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/the-ea...
Today’s essay is by Eric Sommers.
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/the-ea...
THE EARTHLY CITY ON A HILL — Earth and Altar
In the course of human events, it becomes necessary to reiterate the historical reality that empires rise and empires fall. All great nations go through the entropy of history. We are not immune to th...
earthandaltarmag.com
My latest on reflecting like Augustine on our current Imperial collapse, discussing Christian nationalism, bad theology, and our Lenten journey towards making and building a better world on Earth as it is in Heaven.
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clicktatorship
New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance.
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
Life Under a Clicktatorship
What happens to government when everything is content?
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:17 PM
clicktatorship
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keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense
After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
capitalbnews.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense
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Welcome back neoconservatism
Rick Scott: "This is the start of changing Venezuela, then we're gonna fix Cuba, Nicaragua will get fixed, next year we'll get a new president in Colombia. Democracy is coming back to this hemisphere."
January 7, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Welcome back neoconservatism
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Trump chasing imaginary oil supplies, Big Tech chasing an imaginary AI deity, and wannabe Fed chairs chasing an imaginary productivity boom. My new year's resolution of not getting angry about bullshit narratives is not going to last long
January 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Trump chasing imaginary oil supplies, Big Tech chasing an imaginary AI deity, and wannabe Fed chairs chasing an imaginary productivity boom. My new year's resolution of not getting angry about bullshit narratives is not going to last long
I seem to remember a film that had an alien show up to dethrone the US military as the dominant PREDATOR force in the Western Hemisphere
Ogles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark - that needs to end. We've spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"
January 7, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I seem to remember a film that had an alien show up to dethrone the US military as the dominant PREDATOR force in the Western Hemisphere
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“dominant predator force” is certainly a choice of words a person can make
Ogles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark - that needs to end. We've spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"
January 7, 2026 at 2:23 PM
“dominant predator force” is certainly a choice of words a person can make
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January 7, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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If pro is the opposite of con, is Congress the opposite of progress?
Asking for a very tired nation.
Asking for a very tired nation.
January 7, 2026 at 4:52 AM
If pro is the opposite of con, is Congress the opposite of progress?
Asking for a very tired nation.
Asking for a very tired nation.
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Friendly reminder: Greenland is actually Indigenous territory, not "other white people".
Well, now that he going to invade other white people, are the #ffffff going to step up and stop being performative? Your kin on the chopping block now.
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
Trump discussing how to acquire Greenland; US military always an option, White House says
U.S. President Donald Trump and his team are discussing options for acquiring Greenland and the use of the U.S. military in furtherance of the goal is "always an option," the White House said on Tuesd...
www.reuters.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Friendly reminder: Greenland is actually Indigenous territory, not "other white people".
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the venezuelan opposition desperately wants to be the aristocracy of a US-backed junta. absolute frauds
Marina Corina Machado was just on Hannity's show effusively kissing up to Trump, including offering to share the Nobel Prize with him
January 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM
the venezuelan opposition desperately wants to be the aristocracy of a US-backed junta. absolute frauds
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looking forward to your feast day, dude
January 7, 2026 at 4:59 AM
looking forward to your feast day, dude
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Thomas Paine in Common Sense: "Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance."
January 7, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Thomas Paine in Common Sense: "Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance."
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THUCYDIDES: In my book I invented the Melian Dialogue as a cautionary tale
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
The Melian Dialogue has a similar role to the Clausewitz quote about “politics by other means” - it exists to give a bit of frisson and even sexual pleasure to morons who have never read those quotes in context but who are still desperate to sound smart.
People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
January 7, 2026 at 4:12 AM
THUCYDIDES: In my book I invented the Melian Dialogue as a cautionary tale
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
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*meek and weary smile*
I hope this is true. I have nothing else but hope.
*sighs, closes eyes, and nods*
Yes, I believe.
I hope this is true. I have nothing else but hope.
*sighs, closes eyes, and nods*
Yes, I believe.
Arise, shine, for your light has come,
January 7, 2026 at 3:41 AM
*meek and weary smile*
I hope this is true. I have nothing else but hope.
*sighs, closes eyes, and nods*
Yes, I believe.
I hope this is true. I have nothing else but hope.
*sighs, closes eyes, and nods*
Yes, I believe.
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Funny thing about WWI: people were writing NYT editorials about how it might cure Men These Days of turning into women if the US got in on that, and what we got was a massive extension of women's participation in warfare leveraged into them getting the vote.
Gender really do be like that sometimes.
Gender really do be like that sometimes.
honestly i think it's just gender. military history is boy-coded for some godforsaken reason along with military strategy and it leads to some very stupid takes
Is it the culture?
As a military brat, I always associated a fascination with the military as being right wing coded, and therefore never engaged with it.
It wasn’t until following you that I’ve come to understand the importance of military politics/theory.
As a military brat, I always associated a fascination with the military as being right wing coded, and therefore never engaged with it.
It wasn’t until following you that I’ve come to understand the importance of military politics/theory.
January 7, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Funny thing about WWI: people were writing NYT editorials about how it might cure Men These Days of turning into women if the US got in on that, and what we got was a massive extension of women's participation in warfare leveraged into them getting the vote.
Gender really do be like that sometimes.
Gender really do be like that sometimes.
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Even if this were not explicitly prohibited by the United States Constitution, it means we kidnapped Venezuela's President and are now extorting money with the threat of future harm.
January 7, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Even if this were not explicitly prohibited by the United States Constitution, it means we kidnapped Venezuela's President and are now extorting money with the threat of future harm.
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Mobilize this Saturday, January 10th to fight Trump's war against Venezuela!
Keep an eye on this page in the coming days to find an event near you: dsausa.us/vz-day-of-action
Keep an eye on this page in the coming days to find an event near you: dsausa.us/vz-day-of-action
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) -
Working towards a better future for all.
https://dsausa.us/vz-day-of-action"
January 7, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Mobilize this Saturday, January 10th to fight Trump's war against Venezuela!
Keep an eye on this page in the coming days to find an event near you: dsausa.us/vz-day-of-action
Keep an eye on this page in the coming days to find an event near you: dsausa.us/vz-day-of-action
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These are nakedly imperialist acts to install a US puppet government that will give Venezuela’s oil resources over to US corporations and to force US hegemony over Latin America—the new “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine.
January 7, 2026 at 2:47 AM
These are nakedly imperialist acts to install a US puppet government that will give Venezuela’s oil resources over to US corporations and to force US hegemony over Latin America—the new “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine.
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People are skeptical about the decline in numbers of people who read books in the U.S. but you only need to talk with high schoolers to see that it's not overblown. It's part of the reason that the revival of zines is important IMO because they make reading and writing less daunting.
January 6, 2026 at 11:33 PM
People are skeptical about the decline in numbers of people who read books in the U.S. but you only need to talk with high schoolers to see that it's not overblown. It's part of the reason that the revival of zines is important IMO because they make reading and writing less daunting.
This is turning into a literal international "he said, she said"
President Donald Trump said Venezuela will turn over 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States, to be sold at market value and with the proceeds controlled by the US. https://cnn.it/4sqWQqm
January 7, 2026 at 1:22 AM
This is turning into a literal international "he said, she said"
Donald Trump has been taking what he wants for the last 30+ years, because that's the point of being a capitalist.
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: Trump “will try to take what he wants—that's true whether it's in a department store dressing room, or a majority of the American electorate telling him no, or the head of a sovereign foreign state telling him no, or our NATO allies, or the courts, or the Constitution.”
January 7, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Donald Trump has been taking what he wants for the last 30+ years, because that's the point of being a capitalist.