Taylor Fleet
@leaflottery.bsky.social
Former copyeditor fond of semicolons.
“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”
—Wallace Stevens
“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”
—Wallace Stevens
Pinned
Taylor Fleet
@leaflottery.bsky.social
· Jul 5
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” —Hannah Arendt
Thank you, Anders Vistisen.
January 20, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Thank you, Anders Vistisen.
“Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality…. Years of careful diplomacy, billions of dollars in trade, are now at risk because senators and representatives who know better have refused to use the powers they have to block him. Now is the time.”
Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw
Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?
www.theatlantic.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:07 PM
“Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality…. Years of careful diplomacy, billions of dollars in trade, are now at risk because senators and representatives who know better have refused to use the powers they have to block him. Now is the time.”
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We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
January 19, 2026 at 10:59 PM
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
Kyrsten Sinema, spirit guide.
January 18, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Kyrsten Sinema, spirit guide.
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Hey, a man can dream, can’t he?
December 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Hey, a man can dream, can’t he?
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Again I say into the void: stop saying the ICE officer had no time to think. Time doesn’t start when the drama starts. They drove up. They walked up. They engaged. Stop saying there is only reflex, no thought. If so, stop arming ambulatory startle reflexes & calling them cops
January 10, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Again I say into the void: stop saying the ICE officer had no time to think. Time doesn’t start when the drama starts. They drove up. They walked up. They engaged. Stop saying there is only reflex, no thought. If so, stop arming ambulatory startle reflexes & calling them cops
“All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience.”
Opinion | By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:36 PM
“All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience.”
Utter clowns running the U.S.
Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US
U.S. officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States, according to four sources famil...
www.reuters.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Utter clowns running the U.S.
More power to you, @rokhanna.bsky.social.
Imagine having a billion dollars—a thousand million!—and complaining about contributing more to the common wealth.
Peter Thiel should be mocked: he has a Roth IRA worth (as of 2019) $5 billion—all tax free. Cry more, Mr. Thiel.
Imagine having a billion dollars—a thousand million!—and complaining about contributing more to the common wealth.
Peter Thiel should be mocked: he has a Roth IRA worth (as of 2019) $5 billion—all tax free. Cry more, Mr. Thiel.
Silicon Valley Plots Against Ro Khanna After His Support for a Wealth Tax
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:11 PM
More power to you, @rokhanna.bsky.social.
Imagine having a billion dollars—a thousand million!—and complaining about contributing more to the common wealth.
Peter Thiel should be mocked: he has a Roth IRA worth (as of 2019) $5 billion—all tax free. Cry more, Mr. Thiel.
Imagine having a billion dollars—a thousand million!—and complaining about contributing more to the common wealth.
Peter Thiel should be mocked: he has a Roth IRA worth (as of 2019) $5 billion—all tax free. Cry more, Mr. Thiel.
"There are many ways to diagnose the state of the nation, but if there is a sickness eating away at American democracy, it is our culture of elite impunity.”
Opinion | There Is a Sickness Eating Away at American Democracy
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:17 AM
"There are many ways to diagnose the state of the nation, but if there is a sickness eating away at American democracy, it is our culture of elite impunity.”
Leadership.
Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Leadership.
Wrong question, @nytimes.com.
Rather, Why do a relative handful of people with dubious philosophical beliefs insist the rest of us must use their technology, and how is that technology likely to change culture?
Rather, Why do a relative handful of people with dubious philosophical beliefs insist the rest of us must use their technology, and how is that technology likely to change culture?
January 2, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Wrong question, @nytimes.com.
Rather, Why do a relative handful of people with dubious philosophical beliefs insist the rest of us must use their technology, and how is that technology likely to change culture?
Rather, Why do a relative handful of people with dubious philosophical beliefs insist the rest of us must use their technology, and how is that technology likely to change culture?
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There is a culture of immediate gratification that isn't satisfied by rigorous fact-gathering and editing. The internet runs fast and shallow.
December 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
There is a culture of immediate gratification that isn't satisfied by rigorous fact-gathering and editing. The internet runs fast and shallow.
Still applies.
“The fact that the gun is a reverenced god can be seen in its manifold and apparently resistless powers. How do we worship it? Let us count the ways….”
“The fact that the gun is a reverenced god can be seen in its manifold and apparently resistless powers. How do we worship it? Let us count the ways….”
Our Moloch | Garry Wills
The gun is our Moloch. We sacrifice children to him daily—sometimes, as at Sandy Hook, by directly throwing them into the fire-hose of bullets from our protected private killing machines, sometimes by...
www.nybooks.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Still applies.
“The fact that the gun is a reverenced god can be seen in its manifold and apparently resistless powers. How do we worship it? Let us count the ways….”
“The fact that the gun is a reverenced god can be seen in its manifold and apparently resistless powers. How do we worship it? Let us count the ways….”
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“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising.”
(Congrats to the CBS advertising department)
(Congrats to the CBS advertising department)
December 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising.”
(Congrats to the CBS advertising department)
(Congrats to the CBS advertising department)
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Guillotines. For all of them.
December 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Guillotines. For all of them.
Hey, a man can dream, can’t he?
December 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Hey, a man can dream, can’t he?
Stupidity and greed alone are not enough to account for this. The malice it must take to endanger public health like this is truly breathtaking.
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Stupidity and greed alone are not enough to account for this. The malice it must take to endanger public health like this is truly breathtaking.
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Trump’s America is just a giant reichstag in search of a fire.
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Trump’s America is just a giant reichstag in search of a fire.
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
