@jamestalley.bsky.social
Kansan. Disappointed.
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While the world is nuts, our little DSA chapter continues to bird-dog the local sheriff, because nobody remains in media here who can or will. I may be just a janitor, but that means I’m accustomed to sniffing out crap.
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Report (On) Your Local Sheriff
Coverage of 287(g) agreement swallows Soldan's shaky story whole
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December 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
While the world is nuts, our little DSA chapter continues to bird-dog the local sheriff, because nobody remains in media here who can or will. I may be just a janitor, but that means I’m accustomed to sniffing out crap.
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New post! In red states, the ICE dramas are about how 287(g) agreements are taking the complicity and collaboration out of the spotlight. But no one can get their stories straight.
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ICE Stories
Can we separate fact from fiction?
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November 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
New post! In red states, the ICE dramas are about how 287(g) agreements are taking the complicity and collaboration out of the spotlight. But no one can get their stories straight.
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Inside small-town politics: faux-populism, Christian Nationalism, neoliberal establishment do-little incumbents, normalized insurrection supporters, and a contest for the soul of a small city.
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Cooper and Keller and Rempp, Oh My!
City Commission race as a barometer for local Christo-fascism
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October 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Inside small-town politics: faux-populism, Christian Nationalism, neoliberal establishment do-little incumbents, normalized insurrection supporters, and a contest for the soul of a small city.
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Okay, I'm as caught up as I'm ever gonna be on Peter Thiel's lectures on the antichrist, and whew:
Never was there a guy more in need of a lot of therapy and a lot of poverty.
Never was there a guy more in need of a lot of therapy and a lot of poverty.
October 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Okay, I'm as caught up as I'm ever gonna be on Peter Thiel's lectures on the antichrist, and whew:
Never was there a guy more in need of a lot of therapy and a lot of poverty.
Never was there a guy more in need of a lot of therapy and a lot of poverty.
Hey, you've already read a bajillion Charlie Kirk pieces. What's one more?
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Mistah Kirk--He dead
Searching for clarity in a shitstorm
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September 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hey, you've already read a bajillion Charlie Kirk pieces. What's one more?
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JVL does a semi-weird swerve on “courage” featuring Bolton and his Bulwark crew. If we have memories, and a better vision for post-authoritarianism, we ought to be cautious.
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On Courage, Allies and Solidarity
The Cases of John Bolton, Never Trumpers, and Gavin Newsom
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August 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
JVL does a semi-weird swerve on “courage” featuring Bolton and his Bulwark crew. If we have memories, and a better vision for post-authoritarianism, we ought to be cautious.
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I've probably shared more pieces from The Bulwark's Jonathan V. Last than almost anybody. But I've long sensed a blindspot (?) in him, and it has to do with the essence of political conservatism.
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Three Days in August
JVL tiptoes toward grasping what "conservatism" has always been
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August 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I've probably shared more pieces from The Bulwark's Jonathan V. Last than almost anybody. But I've long sensed a blindspot (?) in him, and it has to do with the essence of political conservatism.
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Oh, please, please, PLEASE!
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July 11, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Oh, please, please, PLEASE!
Your rights as a parent only count if you religiously hate difference, not if you want to keep your kids alive.
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More SCOTUS Wishcasting
Trans kids, parental rights, and Mahmoud v. Taylor
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July 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Your rights as a parent only count if you religiously hate difference, not if you want to keep your kids alive.
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Analogies suck, but how else to translate abstruse legal bullshit to unplugged, regular folks?
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Trump v. CASA, Inc.
This post is about universal injunctions
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July 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Analogies suck, but how else to translate abstruse legal bullshit to unplugged, regular folks?
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Much of this has been said by others, I grant, but Chase Strangio is right—we ALL need to be saying it, ourselves, in our own way, in our own spaces, as loudly and proudly as we can.
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Skrmetti Shows Why The Courts Won't Save Us
I appreciate the fight they're mounting, but...
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June 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Much of this has been said by others, I grant, but Chase Strangio is right—we ALL need to be saying it, ourselves, in our own way, in our own spaces, as loudly and proudly as we can.
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I've never asked for money. Doing so now on behalf of tornado victims in the middle of the Kansas nowhere. Please read, give, and share. Thank you kindly.
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I'm Shamelessly Begging for Money
On behalf of a town you never heard of. Please chip in.
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May 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I've never asked for money. Doing so now on behalf of tornado victims in the middle of the Kansas nowhere. Please read, give, and share. Thank you kindly.
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New from me: Defending empathy from Vance, Rigney, Wilson, Yoram Hazony’s National Conservatism, MAGA…and Damon Linker
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To See a World in a Grain of Sand
On Universalism, Particularism, & the war on empathy: Christian Nationalism, ordo amoris & National Conservatism
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May 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New from me: Defending empathy from Vance, Rigney, Wilson, Yoram Hazony’s National Conservatism, MAGA…and Damon Linker
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Who says a FB can't give rise to a deeper dive?
Yeah, we gotta unite, but never forget how we got here.
On “laws of Nature and Nature’s God,” Claremont, conservative redemption arcs, and the rush to make things bygones as we band together to fight tyranny.
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Yeah, we gotta unite, but never forget how we got here.
On “laws of Nature and Nature’s God,” Claremont, conservative redemption arcs, and the rush to make things bygones as we band together to fight tyranny.
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Welcome Allies, but Remember
A tale of "Mark" and "Tim"
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April 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Who says a FB can't give rise to a deeper dive?
Yeah, we gotta unite, but never forget how we got here.
On “laws of Nature and Nature’s God,” Claremont, conservative redemption arcs, and the rush to make things bygones as we band together to fight tyranny.
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Yeah, we gotta unite, but never forget how we got here.
On “laws of Nature and Nature’s God,” Claremont, conservative redemption arcs, and the rush to make things bygones as we band together to fight tyranny.
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There’s no grand strategist or strategy, just Trump’s Id calling for domination at all costs and those who’ve gathered to dance to the same music.
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It's Just Domination
Forget 4-D chess and conspiracies; even if true, they just overcomplicate things
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April 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
There’s no grand strategist or strategy, just Trump’s Id calling for domination at all costs and those who’ve gathered to dance to the same music.
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Thanks to @loudlightks.bsky.social for a Reel that helped me clarify some thoughts on the MAGA mindset as expressed by wannabe KS Sec. of State Pat Proctor.
My Latest:
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Stealing It Fair and Square
Let's deconstruct a MAGA mindset
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April 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Thanks to @loudlightks.bsky.social for a Reel that helped me clarify some thoughts on the MAGA mindset as expressed by wannabe KS Sec. of State Pat Proctor.
My Latest:
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My Latest:
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Unicorns Live in My Shoes
What was the Satanic Grotto event, anyway?
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April 2, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Heather Cox Richardson Gets a Gratis Graphic
Why the courts can't save us--alone
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March 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
So glad I broke it off with Steven Howe. Guys like him are toxic. Witness Idaho...
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Anti-DEI/CRT Hits Peak Stupidity (So Far)
From Kansas Universities to Idaho Middle Schools, it's just Wolves and Sheep
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March 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
So glad I broke it off with Steven Howe. Guys like him are toxic. Witness Idaho...
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I regret to inform y'all that my attempted Bromance with Representative Steven Howe is concluded. He's not the man I hoped he was. I know you were rooting for us, but it takes two to make a relationship work, and the values have to line up, you know?
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Farewell, Steven
In which I wrap up my correspondence with Representative Steven Howe
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March 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I regret to inform y'all that my attempted Bromance with Representative Steven Howe is concluded. He's not the man I hoped he was. I know you were rooting for us, but it takes two to make a relationship work, and the values have to line up, you know?
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What I hope is a thorough puncturing of the early days of Roger Marshall's career and why a consistent third of his constituents have never bought his schtick. Context for non-Kansans and a walk down Amnesia Lane.
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Some of us "real" Kansans have always seen through Sen. Roger Marshall
Backstory on the Man Who Scampered Away from Oakley, Kansas
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March 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
What I hope is a thorough puncturing of the early days of Roger Marshall's career and why a consistent third of his constituents have never bought his schtick. Context for non-Kansans and a walk down Amnesia Lane.
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Reposted
The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.
February 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.
This thread
We are the help that is coming.
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February 28, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Knock me over w/a feather: Steven Howe replied!
Not surprising: He dodged the thrust of my criticism, how a man who claims to be decent, principled & caring can target & oppress harmless children & their supportive families, teachers & health care providers
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Not surprising: He dodged the thrust of my criticism, how a man who claims to be decent, principled & caring can target & oppress harmless children & their supportive families, teachers & health care providers
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Steven Writes Back
Cynic grudgingly explores if it's possible to morally lobby an elected
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February 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Knock me over w/a feather: Steven Howe replied!
Not surprising: He dodged the thrust of my criticism, how a man who claims to be decent, principled & caring can target & oppress harmless children & their supportive families, teachers & health care providers
jamestalley.substack.com/p/steven-wri...
Not surprising: He dodged the thrust of my criticism, how a man who claims to be decent, principled & caring can target & oppress harmless children & their supportive families, teachers & health care providers
jamestalley.substack.com/p/steven-wri...