Haydon
@haydonmp.bsky.social
Dad, husband, double hoo.
Previously - firefighter, medic, stroke clinical research, public and foreign policy.
Opinions my own, especially when they're wrong. Reposts are not endorsements unless it’s woodworking.
Profile picture is Butter the Beagle.
Previously - firefighter, medic, stroke clinical research, public and foreign policy.
Opinions my own, especially when they're wrong. Reposts are not endorsements unless it’s woodworking.
Profile picture is Butter the Beagle.
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Venn Diagram of "Harvard Center for the Restoration of the American Tradition" and "Epstein email contacts" is a single, overlapping circle.
February 1, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Venn Diagram of "Harvard Center for the Restoration of the American Tradition" and "Epstein email contacts" is a single, overlapping circle.
In my dilettante opinion it’s probably not a good idea to assume a 30 point swing at the midterms but the directionality of the shift and the way R’s are going to have to spend money means a lot of Really Interesting tail scenarios start to appear.
Totally agree. My takeaways here are that turnout won’t be that bad for R’s in November, but the demographic shifts (at least directionally) portend Badness for them.
That and having to invest money where they otherwise wouldn’t. That’s what opens up the “weird but bad for republicans” to me.
That and having to invest money where they otherwise wouldn’t. That’s what opens up the “weird but bad for republicans” to me.
February 1, 2026 at 2:04 PM
In my dilettante opinion it’s probably not a good idea to assume a 30 point swing at the midterms but the directionality of the shift and the way R’s are going to have to spend money means a lot of Really Interesting tail scenarios start to appear.
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this JSOU monograph actually addresses the core mistake activists make
jsouapplicationstorage.blob.core.windows.net/press/258/12...
when a social movement, broadly speaking, is in its offensive phase it has to focus on expansion at the cost of security. when it is hunkering down it
jsouapplicationstorage.blob.core.windows.net/press/258/12...
when a social movement, broadly speaking, is in its offensive phase it has to focus on expansion at the cost of security. when it is hunkering down it
jsouapplicationstorage.blob.core.windows.net
February 1, 2026 at 1:42 PM
this JSOU monograph actually addresses the core mistake activists make
jsouapplicationstorage.blob.core.windows.net/press/258/12...
when a social movement, broadly speaking, is in its offensive phase it has to focus on expansion at the cost of security. when it is hunkering down it
jsouapplicationstorage.blob.core.windows.net/press/258/12...
when a social movement, broadly speaking, is in its offensive phase it has to focus on expansion at the cost of security. when it is hunkering down it
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one of the key motions of protest is that it places the adversary in zugzwang: either they abide the protest, and look weak, or attack the protest, and look cruel
February 1, 2026 at 5:49 AM
one of the key motions of protest is that it places the adversary in zugzwang: either they abide the protest, and look weak, or attack the protest, and look cruel
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A noteworthy takeaway from tonight's Texas result is that the Republicans spent a metric truckload of money on this race. They spent millions more than the Democrats. The loss itself aside, this is a gigantic, flashing warning sign for the GOP's finances.
February 1, 2026 at 6:54 AM
A noteworthy takeaway from tonight's Texas result is that the Republicans spent a metric truckload of money on this race. They spent millions more than the Democrats. The loss itself aside, this is a gigantic, flashing warning sign for the GOP's finances.
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Pope Leo at Angelus: “Those who expect the arrogant to always rule the earth are surprised by the Lord’s words. Those who are accustomed to thinking that happiness belongs to the rich may believe that Jesus is deluded.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
February 1, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Pope Leo at Angelus: “Those who expect the arrogant to always rule the earth are surprised by the Lord’s words. Those who are accustomed to thinking that happiness belongs to the rich may believe that Jesus is deluded.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Broke my toe yesterday in a very dumb way. I was unloading some flooring tile out of my truck onto a dolly and wasn’t paying attention to the weight distribution and it flipped up and slammed onto my foot.
My big toe is purple and I’m gonna have to take the nail off today I think.
My big toe is purple and I’m gonna have to take the nail off today I think.
February 1, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Broke my toe yesterday in a very dumb way. I was unloading some flooring tile out of my truck onto a dolly and wasn’t paying attention to the weight distribution and it flipped up and slammed onto my foot.
My big toe is purple and I’m gonna have to take the nail off today I think.
My big toe is purple and I’m gonna have to take the nail off today I think.
There are still people doing this? In the year of our lord 2026?
DEMANDING people support your candidate while offering them NOTHING and then emotionally blackmailing the same people and gaslighting them into believing its their fault their lives are so bad is fascist shit idc how many co-exist stickers you have on your fucking volvo
February 1, 2026 at 12:10 PM
There are still people doing this? In the year of our lord 2026?
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BREAKING: Federal judge orders Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R., released.
"The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED."
"Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."
"The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED."
"Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."
![Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to
their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more
orderly and humane policy than currently in place.
Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February [sic], 2026.
Fred Biery
FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
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January 31, 2026 at 8:44 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge orders Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R., released.
"The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED."
"Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."
"The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED."
"Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."
The regime chooses to oppress the faithful expression of grief by those that care for our veterans.
Gift link here, in case anyone gets blocked: www.masslive.com/westernmass/...
VA chaplains in Mass. told no public prayers mentioning nurses, Alex Pretti
The Washington Post has reported that VA officials in Washington also initially blocked Minneapolis hospital employees from holding a memorial for Pretti, though that decision was later reversed.
www.masslive.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:24 PM
The regime chooses to oppress the faithful expression of grief by those that care for our veterans.
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The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 31, 2026 at 5:59 PM
The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
My word.
Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
January 31, 2026 at 10:45 PM
My word.
“Man who corresponds with Jeff Epstein asking for women’s contact information and later has said communications released also runs the Center for Advanced Hindsight” is killing me.
January 31, 2026 at 1:15 PM
“Man who corresponds with Jeff Epstein asking for women’s contact information and later has said communications released also runs the Center for Advanced Hindsight” is killing me.
So Ariely is still a faculty at Duke?
I wonder… I wonder what his lab is called.
www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/dan-...
I wonder… I wonder what his lab is called.
www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/dan-...
January 31, 2026 at 1:09 PM
So Ariely is still a faculty at Duke?
I wonder… I wonder what his lab is called.
www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/dan-...
I wonder… I wonder what his lab is called.
www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/dan-...
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My ideal retirement is not to wither away on some beach, but rather to live in a college town and audit classes until they cart me out of the lecture hall feet first
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. History of Science from Galileo to Newton
2. Kant's First Critique
3. Game Theory and Politics
4. Tolkien and Modern English Culture
5. Theological Hermeneutics
1. History of Science from Galileo to Newton
2. Kant's First Critique
3. Game Theory and Politics
4. Tolkien and Modern English Culture
5. Theological Hermeneutics
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
January 31, 2026 at 12:58 PM
My ideal retirement is not to wither away on some beach, but rather to live in a college town and audit classes until they cart me out of the lecture hall feet first
New CBS News Hire, Eh?
January 31, 2026 at 12:46 PM
New CBS News Hire, Eh?
Y’all need to go to church (broadly defined as: organization dedicated to mission separate from the state and larger than you personally) and deal with the Very Good people there that are Extremely Annoying.
people don't know how to handle a mostly virtuous person who is also massively annoying
January 31, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Y’all need to go to church (broadly defined as: organization dedicated to mission separate from the state and larger than you personally) and deal with the Very Good people there that are Extremely Annoying.
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See, this is the sort of stuff society forgets when they stop going to church.
people don't know how to handle a mostly virtuous person who is also massively annoying
January 31, 2026 at 12:05 AM
See, this is the sort of stuff society forgets when they stop going to church.
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Qanon existed as a kind of cognitive dissonance movement for child abusers and guys who mainline csam to not think of themselves as monsters
Qanon was never about taking down actual pedophiles and pursuing justice for victims. It was about smearing any and all prominent liberal figures while protecting and empowering actual pedophiles. Qanon was a movement of pedophiles, protecting pedophiles.
January 31, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Qanon existed as a kind of cognitive dissonance movement for child abusers and guys who mainline csam to not think of themselves as monsters
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"We don't talk to journalists except for the cool ones, one of which is me" is functionally indistinguishable from an exclusivity deal that prevents Bloodborne from being released on PC
January 31, 2026 at 6:39 AM
"We don't talk to journalists except for the cool ones, one of which is me" is functionally indistinguishable from an exclusivity deal that prevents Bloodborne from being released on PC
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Arguably the whole concept of men declaring themselves "feminists" and/or "allies" got de-legitimized by how many predatory creeps convincingly acted the part only to later get busted for [long string of heinous behavior].
Like it's minor, but over on old miltwitter, the biggest sex pests were the accounts that publicly posted about helping women all the time.
One of the bigger creeps wrote a whole "guide to not being a creep online!"
One of the bigger creeps wrote a whole "guide to not being a creep online!"
January 31, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Arguably the whole concept of men declaring themselves "feminists" and/or "allies" got de-legitimized by how many predatory creeps convincingly acted the part only to later get busted for [long string of heinous behavior].
That borderline illiterate dipshit you were arguing with on 4chan in 2011?
May have been Jeffrey Epstein.
May have been Jeffrey Epstein.
January 31, 2026 at 10:56 AM
That borderline illiterate dipshit you were arguing with on 4chan in 2011?
May have been Jeffrey Epstein.
May have been Jeffrey Epstein.
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Chomsky's prominence despite his lack of seriousness to put it lightly said a lot how movements that indulged him preferred narrative simplism over confronting injustice wherever it comes from in a complex world
East Europeans getting troves of validation for hating on Chomsky and US people who blindly venerated him, despite genocide denial.
January 31, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Chomsky's prominence despite his lack of seriousness to put it lightly said a lot how movements that indulged him preferred narrative simplism over confronting injustice wherever it comes from in a complex world
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did jeffrey epstein specifically request the creation of /pol/
he also appears to have met moot the same day /pol/ was (re)launched (not my image)
January 31, 2026 at 4:28 AM
did jeffrey epstein specifically request the creation of /pol/