Pardesi
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Shoulda brought a blanket to The Cool Zone.
"You know, it's not helpful, but he is his own person."
December 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"You know, it's not helpful, but he is his own person."
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Just remembered when Paul Graham got a ton of (rightfully) angry replies from the Nigerian Twitter community for saying that he dismisses emails with the word “delve” in them as written by ChatGPT, because the word is often used in Nigerian English
December 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Just remembered when Paul Graham got a ton of (rightfully) angry replies from the Nigerian Twitter community for saying that he dismisses emails with the word “delve” in them as written by ChatGPT, because the word is often used in Nigerian English
As someone who survived a dysfunctional household, I cannot imagine what the fuck is going on behind closed doors that telling an interviewer "Oh yeah my boss, the President, has the personality of an alcoholic" was not a *big* red flag.
This is probably one of the unhealthiest paragraphs I’ve read in a long time. We might need to start a gofundme to get her therapy.
December 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
As someone who survived a dysfunctional household, I cannot imagine what the fuck is going on behind closed doors that telling an interviewer "Oh yeah my boss, the President, has the personality of an alcoholic" was not a *big* red flag.
I really love the part where Susie Wiles just says "I am an enabler" in the Times write-up of the Vanity Fair story.
As the child of alcoholics, this tracks!
As the child of alcoholics, this tracks!
December 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I really love the part where Susie Wiles just says "I am an enabler" in the Times write-up of the Vanity Fair story.
As the child of alcoholics, this tracks!
As the child of alcoholics, this tracks!
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Uphold Speedy Gonzalo Thought
December 16, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Uphold Speedy Gonzalo Thought
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something I've always found funny about the neoreactionaries is that they think liberal democracy is unstable and their proposed solution is to return to a system (monarchism) that was so comprehensively displaced by liberal democracy its only remaining adherents are US client states
December 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
something I've always found funny about the neoreactionaries is that they think liberal democracy is unstable and their proposed solution is to return to a system (monarchism) that was so comprehensively displaced by liberal democracy its only remaining adherents are US client states
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He had like 90 percent approval when he said this
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
He had like 90 percent approval when he said this
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The usual suspects are trying to drag the Overton Window to permit “deport all Muslims” as acceptable rhetoric.
Consider what should be done to those people, and then drag the Overton Window to encourage that.
Consider what should be done to those people, and then drag the Overton Window to encourage that.
A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
December 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The usual suspects are trying to drag the Overton Window to permit “deport all Muslims” as acceptable rhetoric.
Consider what should be done to those people, and then drag the Overton Window to encourage that.
Consider what should be done to those people, and then drag the Overton Window to encourage that.
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it would be bad for america but it would make incredible content
I’d love to see the DoD try to undo Goldwater-Nichols via executive fiat. Should go great.
you're missing out on the best part
December 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
it would be bad for america but it would make incredible content
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A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
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Richest man in the world continues to be a surreal parable about having one’s mind and soul corrupted by unlimited wealth
December 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Richest man in the world continues to be a surreal parable about having one’s mind and soul corrupted by unlimited wealth
Ah, good old Based Osho.
December 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Ah, good old Based Osho.
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sort of—conservatives think it's a tragedy about a brave and honorable Marine Corps colonel getting unjustly canceled by lawyers in the employ of Big Woke
December 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
sort of—conservatives think it's a tragedy about a brave and honorable Marine Corps colonel getting unjustly canceled by lawyers in the employ of Big Woke
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it’s interesting to see so many MAGA folks acting shocked at Trump’s statement, which is basically the same as every Trump statement I’ve ever seen
December 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
it’s interesting to see so many MAGA folks acting shocked at Trump’s statement, which is basically the same as every Trump statement I’ve ever seen
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I’m not making free content for a website owned by a guy who thinks my family existing is a form of genocide against white people, which is why I’m not going back to that place.
December 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I’m not making free content for a website owned by a guy who thinks my family existing is a form of genocide against white people, which is why I’m not going back to that place.
It's cool and great that he is not going to be 25th'd.
Trump doubles down on his Rob Reiner attack: "I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person... He became like a deranged person, Trump Derangement Syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country."
December 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It's cool and great that he is not going to be 25th'd.
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(Unknown Armies' mid-1990s postulate that one of the defining archetypes of the 21st century would be "The Woman Everyone Can Have But You" was really unfortunately correct.)
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
(Unknown Armies' mid-1990s postulate that one of the defining archetypes of the 21st century would be "The Woman Everyone Can Have But You" was really unfortunately correct.)
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the most banal blood and soil nazism imaginable, an entirely family soaked herrenvolk fox news to the point they’re too stupid to see the blood on their hands
![Inspired by their dad's quarter-century of service, the siblings landed at ICE after other careers. John spent six years in the Air Force, including one overseas deployment. James, the younger brother by five minutes, worked for the Bureau of Prisons. Danielle, the eldest,
was first a schoolteacher, then worked for U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services.
[image of the twins handling an unnamed man detained in an unmarked van, caption: From left, ICE officers James and John, who are twins, transport a Mexican undocumented migrant to a processing facility after moving him from a county jail for deportation in Kansas City, Missouri, on Nov. 19, 2025. The migrant had been in the United States since he was two years old and was arrested by local law enforcement on drug charges. Omar
Ornelas/USA Today Network]
Robert was nearing the end of his career just
as his kids were joining the force](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dsbpb3w7glnyddtbewg73g74/bafkreigd7aegs3qedzwrm7hymmnruixapv2ewk2lkknhwt5zlpss2r2jli@jpeg)
December 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
the most banal blood and soil nazism imaginable, an entirely family soaked herrenvolk fox news to the point they’re too stupid to see the blood on their hands
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It will happen either way. Better when they are weak than when they are strong.
December 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It will happen either way. Better when they are weak than when they are strong.
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i feel like this is why the midterms are the most likely time for a Yoon Suk-Yeol moment with dementia characteristics, primarily because no one will take the rhetoric seriously until they do
Trump’s magical skill is that he’s so incoherent almost anyone can believe he agrees with them
a lot of MAGA people have basically an imagined vision of Trump and i think the Reiner post is a good example of them encountering reality for the first time
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
i feel like this is why the midterms are the most likely time for a Yoon Suk-Yeol moment with dementia characteristics, primarily because no one will take the rhetoric seriously until they do
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Well, fuck.
I’m starting to suspect that our ability to catch spree killers who leave the scene is extremely dependent on a functioning FBI…which we 100% do not have right now.
I’m starting to suspect that our ability to catch spree killers who leave the scene is extremely dependent on a functioning FBI…which we 100% do not have right now.
BREAKING: Person of interest in Brown University shooting being released by police, mayor says. Gunman is still at large
December 15, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Well, fuck.
I’m starting to suspect that our ability to catch spree killers who leave the scene is extremely dependent on a functioning FBI…which we 100% do not have right now.
I’m starting to suspect that our ability to catch spree killers who leave the scene is extremely dependent on a functioning FBI…which we 100% do not have right now.
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CBP in particular cannot be reformed. The culture there is and always has been a nightmare.
He hits mandatory retirement age before 2029 so he's called his shot on this (much like dort), but yeah, this didn't come out of the ether in the last 9 months so any civil service institution which inculcates such rank partisanship has to be destroyed, not reformed
one thing that i don't think people remark enough on is Bovino is not a political appointee
December 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
CBP in particular cannot be reformed. The culture there is and always has been a nightmare.
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This is a textbook case of political asylum.
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This is a textbook case of political asylum.
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