Justin
@justinreese.com
Software developer, refugee advocate, recently Coloradan. Coloradian. Of Colorado.
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
Four flights at US airports over the past two weeks were extra nerve-wracking thinking about the unpaid ATCs being jerked around and insulted by the President and Duffy.
Sean Duffy threatens "action" against air traffic controllers who didn't come to work during the shutdown: "I'm concerned about their patriotism."
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Four flights at US airports over the past two weeks were extra nerve-wracking thinking about the unpaid ATCs being jerked around and insulted by the President and Duffy.
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"Patriotism" as a condition of employment is problematic enough, but pretending that "not missing work due to illness" equals "patriotism" is the tell that this is nonsense.
Sean Duffy threatens "action" against air traffic controllers who didn't come to work during the shutdown: "I'm concerned about their patriotism."
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"Patriotism" as a condition of employment is problematic enough, but pretending that "not missing work due to illness" equals "patriotism" is the tell that this is nonsense.
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Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
Personally, I will be trying to avoid the notice of Joyce Carol Oates and Kendrick Lamar for the rest of my natural life
I need Joyce Carol Oates to be mean to me online so I can get my life together
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
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where's the lie
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
where's the lie
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The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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“You can sit in a basement with weird people and say weird things. It’s a free country.”
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“You can sit in a basement with weird people and say weird things. It’s a free country.”
As someone who is scheduled to fly back to the US from Spain on Monday, ah…
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
As someone who is scheduled to fly back to the US from Spain on Monday, ah…
Matt Walsh is so weird. Mamdani is an American. Period.
Walsh et al pretend that they welcome immigrants who "play by the rules", but they actually only consider immigration legitimate that plays by the secret extra rules of subservience to white supremacy.
They want an underclass, not neighbors.
Walsh et al pretend that they welcome immigrants who "play by the rules", but they actually only consider immigration legitimate that plays by the secret extra rules of subservience to white supremacy.
They want an underclass, not neighbors.
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Matt Walsh is so weird. Mamdani is an American. Period.
Walsh et al pretend that they welcome immigrants who "play by the rules", but they actually only consider immigration legitimate that plays by the secret extra rules of subservience to white supremacy.
They want an underclass, not neighbors.
Walsh et al pretend that they welcome immigrants who "play by the rules", but they actually only consider immigration legitimate that plays by the secret extra rules of subservience to white supremacy.
They want an underclass, not neighbors.
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.
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Lots of folks are talking about this speech, and they should: among other things, it's an example of generational transition — there are clear Obama-esque inflections and references in here, but it serves as a foundation for newly ascendant political visions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOQT...
FULL SPEECH: Zohran Mamdani's victory speech following historic NYC mayoral win
YouTube video by ABC News
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Lots of folks are talking about this speech, and they should: among other things, it's an example of generational transition — there are clear Obama-esque inflections and references in here, but it serves as a foundation for newly ascendant political visions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOQT...
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Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.
November 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.
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It's important that politicians take their job seriously, but what Mamdani's campaign has really illuminated for me is how much I want candidates who are visibly full of joy and have a palpable love for their constituents, no matter how different they may be. Zohran's smile is infectious.
. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social dropped in on many online microfandoms to conquer the fragmented media problem, including a personal favorite of mine, the streamer who walks around New York making beats for strangers to freestyle to @ariathome.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It's important that politicians take their job seriously, but what Mamdani's campaign has really illuminated for me is how much I want candidates who are visibly full of joy and have a palpable love for their constituents, no matter how different they may be. Zohran's smile is infectious.
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What warlords do.
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
What warlords do.
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Getting hit in the chest from point blank range with a footlong sub and an enormous Peckinpah-style squib of sweet onion teriyaki sauce explodes from my chest.
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Getting hit in the chest from point blank range with a footlong sub and an enormous Peckinpah-style squib of sweet onion teriyaki sauce explodes from my chest.
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
This is true and also prefaces what happens when a group that measures reality in klout comes up short electorally: they can only conceive of the dissonance as fraud and claim conspiracy, amplifying their tendency toward violence.
My gut says that there’s a real chance the groyper right wins their internet war with the last remnants of the old-school GOP and completely seizes the comm apparatuses, and there’s a decent chance that takes them out electorally because that stuff does NOT play well with the general public.
Ben Shapiro was just ratioed by Nick Fuentes on X after Shapiro called out Tucker Carlson and Fuentes for their antisemitism.
The neo nazi right is fully taking over the republican party.
The neo nazi right is fully taking over the republican party.
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This is true and also prefaces what happens when a group that measures reality in klout comes up short electorally: they can only conceive of the dissonance as fraud and claim conspiracy, amplifying their tendency toward violence.
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Extraordinary how many establishment Democrats really wish they didn't have a talented rising new star who connects to people by talking to them and understanding what their interests are, then speaking to those interests. Like a job where the new guy makes everyone look bad simply by doing the job.
November 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Extraordinary how many establishment Democrats really wish they didn't have a talented rising new star who connects to people by talking to them and understanding what their interests are, then speaking to those interests. Like a job where the new guy makes everyone look bad simply by doing the job.
Genuinely curious which country’s House of Representatives Johnson thinks he is speaker of, given his glacial ignorance of the goings-on of this one.
Does the Speaker of the House know what's going on in the country?
It's not clear that he does, as Mike Johnson's communication strategy seems to rely heavily on being unaware.
When faced with questions he should be able to answer, he has a reliable response: "I don't know."
It's not clear that he does, as Mike Johnson's communication strategy seems to rely heavily on being unaware.
When faced with questions he should be able to answer, he has a reliable response: "I don't know."
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Genuinely curious which country’s House of Representatives Johnson thinks he is speaker of, given his glacial ignorance of the goings-on of this one.
Gee, why wouldn't a single mom on SNAP want to seek this guy's "help" and "accountability", it's a mystery.
November 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Gee, why wouldn't a single mom on SNAP want to seek this guy's "help" and "accountability", it's a mystery.
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they all write/talk like this now and it feels like a new genre: hate smut; manic, agitated vitriol that reads like it was written while feverishly masturbating to revenge fantasies
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
they all write/talk like this now and it feels like a new genre: hate smut; manic, agitated vitriol that reads like it was written while feverishly masturbating to revenge fantasies
opening and closing my mouth like a beached goldfish gasping for air while in a pitch only dogs can hear emerge the words “autopen” and “hunter biden” and “jimmy carter’s peanut farm”
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 1:29 AM
opening and closing my mouth like a beached goldfish gasping for air while in a pitch only dogs can hear emerge the words “autopen” and “hunter biden” and “jimmy carter’s peanut farm”