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It was just block after block of people coming from Malcolm X Park headed downtown. Lots of energy despite the heat, and cheers from passersby, as well as church bells ringing in support.
September 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It was just block after block of people coming from Malcolm X Park headed downtown. Lots of energy despite the heat, and cheers from passersby, as well as church bells ringing in support.
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VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off?
ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off.
They do not log off.
ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off.
They do not log off.
November 4, 2024 at 12:48 PM
VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off?
ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off.
They do not log off.
ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off.
They do not log off.
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forgive me if this is stating the obvious but the reason they quote Rufo so much is bc they agree with him
here are the results:
since january 1, 2021, rufo has appeared in the WSJ 32 times.
in the same period, he appeared in NYT 167 times.
since january 1, 2021, rufo has appeared in the WSJ 32 times.
in the same period, he appeared in NYT 167 times.
July 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
forgive me if this is stating the obvious but the reason they quote Rufo so much is bc they agree with him
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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NEW from me: A deep dive into OMB Director Russell Vought — specifically, how his plan to reshape the government is rooted in a specific ideology: Christian nationalism.
Also, his favorite religious quote from an early president may be, uh…not true. religionnews.com/2025/06/23/r...
Also, his favorite religious quote from an early president may be, uh…not true. religionnews.com/2025/06/23/r...
OMB's Russell Vought, the Christian 'nation-ist' driving Project 2025 and DOGE
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The director of the US budget has declared that Christians should be 'stewards of a blessing that has been God-given: to live in this land, this particular land.'
religionnews.com
June 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
NEW from me: A deep dive into OMB Director Russell Vought — specifically, how his plan to reshape the government is rooted in a specific ideology: Christian nationalism.
Also, his favorite religious quote from an early president may be, uh…not true. religionnews.com/2025/06/23/r...
Also, his favorite religious quote from an early president may be, uh…not true. religionnews.com/2025/06/23/r...
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They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
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"Former 18F director Lindsay Young ... is concerned that Doge’s cuts will have long-lasting effects on government functions. 'In government, it’s just so much easier to tear things down than it is to build things up,' Young said." @not-young.bsky.social
The chaos Elon Musk and Doge are leaving behind in Washington
Though Musk promised modernization and efficiency, what’s left is a trail of uncertainty and reduced functionality
www.theguardian.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"Former 18F director Lindsay Young ... is concerned that Doge’s cuts will have long-lasting effects on government functions. 'In government, it’s just so much easier to tear things down than it is to build things up,' Young said." @not-young.bsky.social
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yes. they literally blame higher education for a social order that doesn’t give unquestioned deference to people like themselves
I do not think people are actually seriously calibrated for how rabidly anti-university the MAGA right is and how core that is to their policy goals. It is probably the #2 issue after immigration for them, and for some of them it’s higher.
May 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
yes. they literally blame higher education for a social order that doesn’t give unquestioned deference to people like themselves
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yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone
Stephen Lynch, aiming to be top Dem on the Oversight Cmte, blew up at a constituent who asked him to oppose the GOP.
"I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"
"I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"
April 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone
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the reason why these people believe in “the woke mind virus” and think of others as “NPCs” is because they have literally fried their brains in private group chats with people who share the same half dozen opinions
April 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
the reason why these people believe in “the woke mind virus” and think of others as “NPCs” is because they have literally fried their brains in private group chats with people who share the same half dozen opinions
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Imagine hating Black people so much you don't want clean milk or healthy kids.
April 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Imagine hating Black people so much you don't want clean milk or healthy kids.
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This is a bold-faced lie. Direct File exceeded expectations & their report from last year (link below) has the receipts.
Users reported filing took them about an hour, and some only 30min.
www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/...
Users reported filing took them about an hour, and some only 30min.
www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/...
April 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is a bold-faced lie. Direct File exceeded expectations & their report from last year (link below) has the receipts.
Users reported filing took them about an hour, and some only 30min.
www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/...
Users reported filing took them about an hour, and some only 30min.
www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/...
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these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism
April 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism
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about 90% of culture war grievances is literally just people with nothing happening in their lives getting mad that other people are not as unhappy as they are
the pronoun thing is so incredibly stupid at so many levels, imagine knowing that you live a life so devoid of anything interesting that you have time to sit around steaming at what someone else put in their bio, like why would you ever confess this in public
If I were an editor at a prestigious national publication I would simply ask writers to define what they mean by words like "forced"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
April 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
about 90% of culture war grievances is literally just people with nothing happening in their lives getting mad that other people are not as unhappy as they are
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If you are actively culling your library to keep books like "The Bell Curve" while removing criticisms of the book, you are building a white supremacist library.
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If you are actively culling your library to keep books like "The Bell Curve" while removing criticisms of the book, you are building a white supremacist library.
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A Black man won the presidency and they decided to burn the entire country to the ground so it won’t be something worth winning anymore.
April 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
A Black man won the presidency and they decided to burn the entire country to the ground so it won’t be something worth winning anymore.
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i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record
April 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record
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i may be unserious, hysterical and woke, but my strategy of “taking trump seriously no matter how insane he sounds” has paid more analytical dividends than the alternatives
Think part of the problem with describing Trump seriously is that no one actually seems to actually ever take his entire ideological outlook seriously, so absurdist means tend be be more effective at evoking political affect
April 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
i may be unserious, hysterical and woke, but my strategy of “taking trump seriously no matter how insane he sounds” has paid more analytical dividends than the alternatives
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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
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You can probably trace this back to the Nixon pardon, the post-2008 "Too big to jail" decline in white collar prosecutions, and of course more recently the half hearted Trump prosecution. These are fundamentally political, not legal problems
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
March 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
You can probably trace this back to the Nixon pardon, the post-2008 "Too big to jail" decline in white collar prosecutions, and of course more recently the half hearted Trump prosecution. These are fundamentally political, not legal problems
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1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has *in many ways* been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.
March 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has *in many ways* been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.
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wrote about how hayao miyazaki would hate you fucking losers slate.com/life/2025/03...
Hayao Miyazaki Would Hate You Losers
The famed animator is the last person who would approve of your little Ghibli-fied waste of pixels.
slate.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
wrote about how hayao miyazaki would hate you fucking losers slate.com/life/2025/03...
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It’s really strange how Trump figured out that Executive Orders are basically “longer tweets that drive giant media attention” and the media hasn’t figured it’s being played each time they report on these as if it’s Moses coming down the Mount with stone tablets.
DC is uniquely vulnerable and we really need all of you with State representation to join us in pushing back against what promises to be a ton of cruel and unnecessary actions: www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Works to Make Our Nation’s Capital Safe and Beautiful
MAKING WASHINGTON THE GREATEST CAPITAL CITY IN THE WORLD: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to make Washington, D.C. what it
www.whitehouse.gov
March 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
It’s really strange how Trump figured out that Executive Orders are basically “longer tweets that drive giant media attention” and the media hasn’t figured it’s being played each time they report on these as if it’s Moses coming down the Mount with stone tablets.
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I don't want an AI that renders images that vaguely resemble Ghibli films. I want an AI - or just a regular I - that informs everyone the man's name was Yoshifumi Kondo, he's the guy who designed the characters you think of when you think of "Ghibli", and he died in 1998 at age 47 from overwork
March 27, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I don't want an AI that renders images that vaguely resemble Ghibli films. I want an AI - or just a regular I - that informs everyone the man's name was Yoshifumi Kondo, he's the guy who designed the characters you think of when you think of "Ghibli", and he died in 1998 at age 47 from overwork