Kristian
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Renee Good and Alex Pretti represent the Idea of America where ordinary people stand up for each other and provide sanctuary for vulnerable people.
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America Is Adrift
Letters on Money and Financial Autonomy, No. 3: "In God We Trust"
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America is adrift on a sea of incoherent ideas. Ideas that are damaging to national security, our communities and our finances. The burden of incoherent ideology and policies is disproportionally falling on women.
English is my 2nd language but that does not explain why I just said this sentence to my wife; "Gpa has termites".
February 18, 2026 at 10:51 PM
English is my 2nd language but that does not explain why I just said this sentence to my wife; "Gpa has termites".
Citing Jeannette Rankin and Elizabeth Blackwell as evidence that women "could" have careers before second-wave feminism is genuinely bizarre reasoning. By this logic, Frederick Douglass proves that enslaved people "could" become internationally famous intellectuals — it was just uncommon.
February 18, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Citing Jeannette Rankin and Elizabeth Blackwell as evidence that women "could" have careers before second-wave feminism is genuinely bizarre reasoning. By this logic, Frederick Douglass proves that enslaved people "could" become internationally famous intellectuals — it was just uncommon.
The Right-Wing obsession with borders, walls, exclusion, intolerance and control is no accident
And here is the key to understanding why the reductionist ideology of Right-Wing Conservatism prevents clear thinking: it impairs the brain's ability to generate novel associations, and — **at the social level — inter-group connectivity that exchanges ideas across boundaries.** 2/2
February 18, 2026 at 4:27 PM
The Right-Wing obsession with borders, walls, exclusion, intolerance and control is no accident
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i simply do not see anything in what randy fine represents that i recognize as my own, as reflective of any community of which i am - or want to be - a member. judaism is too old and rich a tradition to be reduced to this kind of brain-dead barbarism. fuck that.
February 18, 2026 at 12:08 AM
i simply do not see anything in what randy fine represents that i recognize as my own, as reflective of any community of which i am - or want to be - a member. judaism is too old and rich a tradition to be reduced to this kind of brain-dead barbarism. fuck that.
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It's so weird that "K shaped economy" started as a prediction of what the economy would do in the *absence* of pandemic income supports, we did *tons* of income supports to *avoid it, but the meme that the economy was "K shaped" just kept chugging along.
WILL STANCIL: You could not live with your own failure. And where did that bring you? Back to me.
February 17, 2026 at 3:13 PM
It's so weird that "K shaped economy" started as a prediction of what the economy would do in the *absence* of pandemic income supports, we did *tons* of income supports to *avoid it, but the meme that the economy was "K shaped" just kept chugging along.
Superb dissection of the most bizarre speech by an American Secretary of State in history. A speech that will go down in history as untethered from reality, history and science.
I just posted an essay on Marco Rubio’s speech this morning at the Munich Security Conference 2026. It is an extraordinary historical fabulation about Western civilization and needs to be dissected to get the full import of these Hegelian times. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...
Marco Rubio’s Munich Putsch
Raising "Western Civilization" from the Ashes
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February 15, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Superb dissection of the most bizarre speech by an American Secretary of State in history. A speech that will go down in history as untethered from reality, history and science.
America is adrift on a sea of incoherent ideas. Ideas that are damaging to national security, our communities and our finances. The burden of incoherent ideology and policies is disproportionally falling on women.
America Is Adrift
Letters on Money and Financial Autonomy, No. 3: "In God We Trust"
open.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:58 PM
America is adrift on a sea of incoherent ideas. Ideas that are damaging to national security, our communities and our finances. The burden of incoherent ideology and policies is disproportionally falling on women.
The Nordic Model and Evolutionary Biology have answers; minimize demand, and thus profit opportunities, for antisocial goods and services by providing universal access to world class public options.
A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.
February 13, 2026 at 11:41 PM
The Nordic Model and Evolutionary Biology have answers; minimize demand, and thus profit opportunities, for antisocial goods and services by providing universal access to world class public options.
The typical "Swing voter" believes, for example, that borders make a nation more secure and that undocumented immigrants must be deported; they are incoherent. A functional political party does not cater to such voters. The Democratic Party is led by deeply misguided do-gooders. We need new leaders!
February 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM
The typical "Swing voter" believes, for example, that borders make a nation more secure and that undocumented immigrants must be deported; they are incoherent. A functional political party does not cater to such voters. The Democratic Party is led by deeply misguided do-gooders. We need new leaders!
The consulting-industrial complex that runs Democratic campaigns has a material interest in the swing voter myth. If elections are decided by persuading confused people, then you need persuasion professionals. 1/2
February 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM
The consulting-industrial complex that runs Democratic campaigns has a material interest in the swing voter myth. If elections are decided by persuading confused people, then you need persuasion professionals. 1/2
The concept of swing voters is the dumbest concept in political science
February 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
The concept of swing voters is the dumbest concept in political science
Mellon funds examination of human experience with scholarly rigor. That the results frequently challenge patriarchal, racial, and economic hierarchies says more about those hierarchies than about Mellon. 1/2
February 13, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Mellon funds examination of human experience with scholarly rigor. That the results frequently challenge patriarchal, racial, and economic hierarchies says more about those hierarchies than about Mellon. 1/2
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My Scottish ancestors did not gut all those English invaders with pikes just to be lumped into "Anglo culture." Fuck offffff with this shit.
February 12, 2026 at 9:43 PM
My Scottish ancestors did not gut all those English invaders with pikes just to be lumped into "Anglo culture." Fuck offffff with this shit.
The sheer ignorance of the belief that there is such a thing as a "White" (or Black) race and culture on full display. These people need to be marginalized by everyone with a functional brain.
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 12, 2026 at 10:51 PM
The sheer ignorance of the belief that there is such a thing as a "White" (or Black) race and culture on full display. These people need to be marginalized by everyone with a functional brain.
Borders do not reduce crime or any other antisocial behaviors or improve the economy. The only reason that people believe otherwise is because they have been indoctrinated by political propaganda.
The Democratic Party should stand on a platform of facts and knowledge, not ideological fantasies.
The Democratic Party should stand on a platform of facts and knowledge, not ideological fantasies.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Federal authorities announce end to Minnesota immigration crackdown that led to mass detentions, protests and two deaths.
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February 12, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Borders do not reduce crime or any other antisocial behaviors or improve the economy. The only reason that people believe otherwise is because they have been indoctrinated by political propaganda.
The Democratic Party should stand on a platform of facts and knowledge, not ideological fantasies.
The Democratic Party should stand on a platform of facts and knowledge, not ideological fantasies.
If you do not understand that the only reasonable thing to do when dealing with an antisocial political party, is to be unreasonable, you do not belong in politics.
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 11, 2026 at 9:34 PM
If you do not understand that the only reasonable thing to do when dealing with an antisocial political party, is to be unreasonable, you do not belong in politics.
Visit by a West Coast Lady
February 10, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Visit by a West Coast Lady
What is patriotism?
Bakaj: Intelligence was gathered that captured activity being conducted by someone close to the president. Gabbard was given a heads-up.
She went to Susie Wiles and discussed it.
When she returned to the DNI’s office, she directed that the intelligence not be distributed any further…
She went to Susie Wiles and discussed it.
When she returned to the DNI’s office, she directed that the intelligence not be distributed any further…
February 9, 2026 at 11:05 PM
What is patriotism?
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Yes and great art is many things
February 9, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Yes and great art is many things
Ancient saying of, not just today, but every day since 1859; self-deception is the mother of all hypocrisy."
Having successfully completed his mission of turning the Washington Post into a conservative opinion-first megaphone for Jeff Bezos, Will Lewis is moving on.
Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):
February 8, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Ancient saying of, not just today, but every day since 1859; self-deception is the mother of all hypocrisy."
In my experience of 4+ decades, the American financial industry is full of massively overconfident but profoundly ignorant misogynist bigots. So, I don't know why anyone is surprised.
"That's just not true, as you well know" -- Sen. Chris Coons is a bit taken aback after CNBC's Joe Kernen pushes the great replacement theory during an interview
February 6, 2026 at 2:49 PM
In my experience of 4+ decades, the American financial industry is full of massively overconfident but profoundly ignorant misogynist bigots. So, I don't know why anyone is surprised.
Name them, shame them and build a functional institutional structure after 250 years of pretending that patriarchy and justice are compatible.
February 6, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Name them, shame them and build a functional institutional structure after 250 years of pretending that patriarchy and justice are compatible.
Americans that refuse to see what Donald Trump and his administration is, will be marginalized for the rest of their lives by a nation united in righteous fury.
Donald Trump prompts fury after posting racist video about Barack and Michelle Obama – US politics live
The US president posted a racist video on Truth Social that included disproven allegations about ballot-counting
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February 6, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Americans that refuse to see what Donald Trump and his administration is, will be marginalized for the rest of their lives by a nation united in righteous fury.
This is what we are doing all across the country and all over the world; speaking to the people of vision. We are not speaking to the professional depressives that peddle defeatism and negativity. We are attracting the people of vision. Together we are changing what is possible.
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM
This is what we are doing all across the country and all over the world; speaking to the people of vision. We are not speaking to the professional depressives that peddle defeatism and negativity. We are attracting the people of vision. Together we are changing what is possible.
Nothing new here. The absence of repercussions is the institution working as designed. Anglo-patriarchal hierarchy has operated on the same principle since William the Conqueror replaced distributed Anglo-Saxon governance with centralized imperial power: proximity to the top grants immunity.
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the idea of epstein files as a moral panic is absurd but i do think the fact that all this is getting aired out and yet there seems to be little in the way of reprocussions for these folks...that's probably not good!
February 5, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Nothing new here. The absence of repercussions is the institution working as designed. Anglo-patriarchal hierarchy has operated on the same principle since William the Conqueror replaced distributed Anglo-Saxon governance with centralized imperial power: proximity to the top grants immunity.
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