Brother Manns From The 5th Floor
@kmanns.blacksky.app
Part time freedom fighter/dad. Tech, Retro Tech, social justice, transit revolution (give me more trains), Black on both sides
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Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
American Brexit, in the sense that a lot of conservatives will regret these choices, assuming the Dems make it clear whose fault it is
271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.
December 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
American Brexit, in the sense that a lot of conservatives will regret these choices, assuming the Dems make it clear whose fault it is
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These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
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For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.
December 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.
The culture tells us if we listen. One of my fav movies, Dead Presidents, is about a Black vet in the 70’s who comes home from Vietnam only to find a recession. To make ends meet, he and some like minded brothers/sisters decide to rob a bank to get their payday
not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
December 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The culture tells us if we listen. One of my fav movies, Dead Presidents, is about a Black vet in the 70’s who comes home from Vietnam only to find a recession. To make ends meet, he and some like minded brothers/sisters decide to rob a bank to get their payday
My grandfather has passed away. Like that one Prez wrote, “the light has gone out of my life.”
December 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
My grandfather has passed away. Like that one Prez wrote, “the light has gone out of my life.”
Third quarter 2027 is gonna be litty baby
December 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Third quarter 2027 is gonna be litty baby
I know nothing about 40k but people talk about it all the time. I’d be interested in playing a Total War version
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 will launch with four factions: Space Marines; Orks; Astra Militarum; and the Aeldari. But based on comments from developer Creative Assembly, it will eventually come to in... https://bit.ly/3MMoVbo
December 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I know nothing about 40k but people talk about it all the time. I’d be interested in playing a Total War version
“We are the hottest country, anywhere, in the world”
I’m going to tell my children that when times get tough.
I’m going to tell my children that when times get tough.
December 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“We are the hottest country, anywhere, in the world”
I’m going to tell my children that when times get tough.
I’m going to tell my children that when times get tough.
I believe this. When white folks, who were in the wrong btw, having their cows graze on lands that didn’t belong to them, quite literally had a standoff with the feds and the feds were like, “You right, you right” and left, I knew we were in trouble
The Bundy occupation at Malheur in early 2016 (and the lack of consequences they faced for it) was a sign of what was to come. Right wing white anti-government vigilantes cast as “patriots.”
NEW: Tina Peters is rejecting a J6er's call to storm a Colorado prison and free her.
Peters is distancing herself from the jailbreak scheme and violent actions after allies and her attorney talked about using force or violence to free her and punish those keeping her in prison.
Peters is distancing herself from the jailbreak scheme and violent actions after allies and her attorney talked about using force or violence to free her and punish those keeping her in prison.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I believe this. When white folks, who were in the wrong btw, having their cows graze on lands that didn’t belong to them, quite literally had a standoff with the feds and the feds were like, “You right, you right” and left, I knew we were in trouble
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Seconds to Chaos in Chicago: Car door ripped open and phone smashed to the ground as Citizen Records ICE in public.
When "rights" aren't respected on the street, your safety is the priority. Watch your back, friends.
When "rights" aren't respected on the street, your safety is the priority. Watch your back, friends.
December 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Seconds to Chaos in Chicago: Car door ripped open and phone smashed to the ground as Citizen Records ICE in public.
When "rights" aren't respected on the street, your safety is the priority. Watch your back, friends.
When "rights" aren't respected on the street, your safety is the priority. Watch your back, friends.
Me, anti-monopolist:
December 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Me, anti-monopolist:
The “failed to get into the military/LE” villain story and “failed to get into tech” villain story are the same story.
This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
December 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The “failed to get into the military/LE” villain story and “failed to get into tech” villain story are the same story.
Interesting take. All facts tho
I think a lot of people don't fully appreciate that this administration and all of the people backing it are in it to make content as content creators
I’m sorry but why is the head of cbs news on tv herself
December 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Interesting take. All facts tho
Any Pennsylvania politician that OVERfunds SEPTA, the Regional Rail, and builds a train line from Philly to Pittsburgh (or at least Centre County/State College) will politically reign for decades
the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
Amtrak reports Mardi Gras service among most successful ever https://mynbc15.com/news/local/amtrak-provides-boost-to-mobile-businesses
December 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Any Pennsylvania politician that OVERfunds SEPTA, the Regional Rail, and builds a train line from Philly to Pittsburgh (or at least Centre County/State College) will politically reign for decades
lol do they remade it with the campiness of the first? That’s actually funny
December 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
lol do they remade it with the campiness of the first? That’s actually funny
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A classic of the genre
December 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A classic of the genre
Bingo.
the balance hasn't remained constant, but people have long wrongly seen the NYT as a liberal publication that feels the need to bend over backwards for conservatives to fight bias charges, when in fact it's a conservative publication aimed at convincing liberals. they're more open about that now
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Bingo.
Yeah…
it is so funny we’re back at square one with the streaming services. brief moment of low cost/high budget tv was just the product of another VC cash pit.
A basic cable package being $83 a month through YouTube is fucking insane
December 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Yeah…
Ehh…I think there’s a little “what else you got” coming from the youth. The screens can only add so many more pixels, and can only get so thin.
I think the retro movement will stay, if only because price gouging via streaming won’t stop.
I think the retro movement will stay, if only because price gouging via streaming won’t stop.
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Ehh…I think there’s a little “what else you got” coming from the youth. The screens can only add so many more pixels, and can only get so thin.
I think the retro movement will stay, if only because price gouging via streaming won’t stop.
I think the retro movement will stay, if only because price gouging via streaming won’t stop.
All facts in this thread
re ryan grim and the various iterations of glenn greenwaldism...
the way this works isn't so much that they get seduced by the right as that they were already dreaming of a realignment of left and right populism against an imagined bland/evil center. 1
the way this works isn't so much that they get seduced by the right as that they were already dreaming of a realignment of left and right populism against an imagined bland/evil center. 1
December 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
All facts in this thread
Rolling the r’s can be tough
Pros And Cons Of War With Venezuela https://theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-war-with-venezuela/
December 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Rolling the r’s can be tough
Let’s also note that the Centrists in the Dem party endorsed him over a Progressive, and he’s also one of the few Pro Life Dems (I’m sure that won’t matter in close votes), oh, and he was also pocketing money from Corpos.
I was wondering if DJT would pardon any Democrats though
I was wondering if DJT would pardon any Democrats though
1. BREAKING
President Trump says he is granting a pardon to Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife Imelda.
Federal prosecutors said they accepted around $600,000 from an oil-and-gas company wholly owned and controlled by the government of Azerbaijan and a bank in Mexico.
President Trump says he is granting a pardon to Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife Imelda.
Federal prosecutors said they accepted around $600,000 from an oil-and-gas company wholly owned and controlled by the government of Azerbaijan and a bank in Mexico.
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Let’s also note that the Centrists in the Dem party endorsed him over a Progressive, and he’s also one of the few Pro Life Dems (I’m sure that won’t matter in close votes), oh, and he was also pocketing money from Corpos.
I was wondering if DJT would pardon any Democrats though
I was wondering if DJT would pardon any Democrats though
Played the first Metroid Prime in…late high school/early college? Can’t remember. But I hated the isolated, all alone feel. I wanted more of a Zelda-here’s some hubs and side characters, then when ready you go off on your own.
Don’t realize that hardcore Metroid fans like the isolation
Don’t realize that hardcore Metroid fans like the isolation
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is an excellent, if relatively uneven, revival that reaches heights worthy of the Metroid name in its best moments.
Our review: https://bit.ly/4pJizrB
Our review: https://bit.ly/4pJizrB
December 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Played the first Metroid Prime in…late high school/early college? Can’t remember. But I hated the isolated, all alone feel. I wanted more of a Zelda-here’s some hubs and side characters, then when ready you go off on your own.
Don’t realize that hardcore Metroid fans like the isolation
Don’t realize that hardcore Metroid fans like the isolation
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These Confederate war crimes, Gen. Hunter threatened, "shall be followed by the immediate execution of the Rebel of highest rank in my possession; man for man, these executions will certainly take place, for every [Black soldier] murdered, or sold into a slavery worse than death."
Commander of the Department of the South to the Confederate President, April 23, 1863
www.freedmen.umd.edu
December 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
These Confederate war crimes, Gen. Hunter threatened, "shall be followed by the immediate execution of the Rebel of highest rank in my possession; man for man, these executions will certainly take place, for every [Black soldier] murdered, or sold into a slavery worse than death."