Patrick Rogers
@patrickrogers.bsky.social
He/Him, 80s kid, stats nerd, amateur stand up, weekend hiker. All about Star Trek, LGBTQ community and bad Rock 'n Roll covers. Happy #readinthebathtubday!
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Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
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Yup, pretty much sums it up
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Yup, pretty much sums it up
I think Senate Democrats just killed the last chance to achieve political reform while avoiding significant violence in this country.
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I think Senate Democrats just killed the last chance to achieve political reform while avoiding significant violence in this country.
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Imagine coming off an incredible Election Day mandate from coast to coast and going 'you know what voters want? to be completely sold out by a bunch of craven cowards too pathetic to hold the line against a bunch of fucking weirdos'
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Imagine coming off an incredible Election Day mandate from coast to coast and going 'you know what voters want? to be completely sold out by a bunch of craven cowards too pathetic to hold the line against a bunch of fucking weirdos'
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A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
I kind of like this framing. I think it explains at least one dimension of the current political re-alignment that's been unfolding for the past 15-20 years.
Key to understanding contemporary American politics is that the Republican Party's defining characteristic is that it's a welcoming home for unlikeable people. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m52ndshej22l
The “Likable”/“Unlikable” Political Realignment - Aaron Ross Powell's Blog
American conservatism is a home for unlikeable people who’ve turned their unlinkability into a political project.
www.aaronrosspowell.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I kind of like this framing. I think it explains at least one dimension of the current political re-alignment that's been unfolding for the past 15-20 years.
If the Project 2029 doesn't include gibbets and guillotines, I'm not interested. I want trials, I want a 100% wealth tax and a declaration that tax havens are akin to financial blockades and constitute acts of war.
SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide.
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer.
A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.
newrepublic.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If the Project 2029 doesn't include gibbets and guillotines, I'm not interested. I want trials, I want a 100% wealth tax and a declaration that tax havens are akin to financial blockades and constitute acts of war.
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REGISTRATION IS OPEN for "Easy Invasions For Any Occasion" Workshop!
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📅 When: Sunday, November 30, 2025 10:30am-2:00pm ET
🔷 Level: 20 Kyu to ~2-3 Dan
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October 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Empower your Go with Invasions!
REGISTRATION IS OPEN for "Easy Invasions For Any Occasion" Workshop!
👉 ko-fi.com/c/30f281071b
📅 When: Sunday, November 30, 2025 10:30am-2:00pm ET
🔷 Level: 20 Kyu to ~2-3 Dan
Event + study pack + edited recording.
🐦 EARLY BIRD price until Nov 5
#go #weiqi #baduk
REGISTRATION IS OPEN for "Easy Invasions For Any Occasion" Workshop!
👉 ko-fi.com/c/30f281071b
📅 When: Sunday, November 30, 2025 10:30am-2:00pm ET
🔷 Level: 20 Kyu to ~2-3 Dan
Event + study pack + edited recording.
🐦 EARLY BIRD price until Nov 5
#go #weiqi #baduk
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Example of media self-censorship:
"Earlier this year, the chief content officer for our parent company, e.Republic, stated in a meeting that we should not run articles that could draw the attention of the Trump White House and have them try to shut us down."
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
"Earlier this year, the chief content officer for our parent company, e.Republic, stated in a meeting that we should not run articles that could draw the attention of the Trump White House and have them try to shut us down."
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Opinion | My Bosses Were Afraid of Crossing Trump. So, I Quit.
A veteran journalist opens up on the censorship that he says led to his resignation.
www.politico.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Example of media self-censorship:
"Earlier this year, the chief content officer for our parent company, e.Republic, stated in a meeting that we should not run articles that could draw the attention of the Trump White House and have them try to shut us down."
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
"Earlier this year, the chief content officer for our parent company, e.Republic, stated in a meeting that we should not run articles that could draw the attention of the Trump White House and have them try to shut us down."
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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So this is what's above the fold in today's NYT, while the protests get two photos below the fold and a piece on A23. I know I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but damn.
October 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
So this is what's above the fold in today's NYT, while the protests get two photos below the fold and a piece on A23. I know I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but damn.
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...(which they very well might given increasing bans on gender-affirming care & public recognition; see link for more on this), they will also take that as a sign that trans people are not "real". they've essentially created a lose-lose situation for us
juliaserano.medium.com/all-the-evid...
juliaserano.medium.com/all-the-evid...
All the Evidence Against Transgender Social Contagion
Plus Thoughts on Why People Continue to Embrace This Zombie Theory
juliaserano.medium.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
...(which they very well might given increasing bans on gender-affirming care & public recognition; see link for more on this), they will also take that as a sign that trans people are not "real". they've essentially created a lose-lose situation for us
juliaserano.medium.com/all-the-evid...
juliaserano.medium.com/all-the-evid...
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Judge: And DOJ argues there's no standing, also no reparable harm. Your response?
Oregon: Harm for CA to sovereign rights and police powers, also morale and reputation, also limits ability of NG to respond to CA natural disasters.
Oregon: Harm for CA to sovereign rights and police powers, also morale and reputation, also limits ability of NG to respond to CA natural disasters.
October 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Judge: And DOJ argues there's no standing, also no reparable harm. Your response?
Oregon: Harm for CA to sovereign rights and police powers, also morale and reputation, also limits ability of NG to respond to CA natural disasters.
Oregon: Harm for CA to sovereign rights and police powers, also morale and reputation, also limits ability of NG to respond to CA natural disasters.
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As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.
It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.
It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.
September 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.
It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.
It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.
Jeffrey Dahmer crossed a dietary line
September 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Jeffrey Dahmer crossed a dietary line
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This is Hollywood's McCarthy Moment.
This is the litmus test.
Learn from history.
Who will step up and fight?
Who will bend the knee and be complicit?
History will remember.
This is the litmus test.
Learn from history.
Who will step up and fight?
Who will bend the knee and be complicit?
History will remember.
September 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This is Hollywood's McCarthy Moment.
This is the litmus test.
Learn from history.
Who will step up and fight?
Who will bend the knee and be complicit?
History will remember.
This is the litmus test.
Learn from history.
Who will step up and fight?
Who will bend the knee and be complicit?
History will remember.
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“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”
It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious.
@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...
@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...
September 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”
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It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right
September 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right
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To me this is the difference between decorum and civility. You cannot be civil while promoting the ideas that people like Kirk do, because they are uncivil by nature.
I like to say, "we can't let decorum get in the way of civility."
I like to say, "we can't let decorum get in the way of civility."
September 12, 2025 at 5:47 AM
To me this is the difference between decorum and civility. You cannot be civil while promoting the ideas that people like Kirk do, because they are uncivil by nature.
I like to say, "we can't let decorum get in the way of civility."
I like to say, "we can't let decorum get in the way of civility."
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I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist
September 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist
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Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of US political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest reut.rs/41PWH4l
Nation on edge: Experts warn of “vicious spiral" in political violence after Kirk killing
The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.
reut.rs
September 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
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You can't communicate your way out of a censorship problem.
There's a massive rally in DC. How is CNN covering it? Find me a single article on the rally on CNN's main website.
Then read this CNN piece on the ICE raid in Georgia:
There's a massive rally in DC. How is CNN covering it? Find me a single article on the rally on CNN's main website.
Then read this CNN piece on the ICE raid in Georgia:
Inside the raid: How a monthslong federal immigration operation lead to 475 arrests at a Hyundai plant in Georgia | CNN
A sprawling Hyundai manufacturing plant in a quiet southeast Georgia community became ground zero on Thursday for one of the most extensive immigration raids in recent US history. The operation, month...
www.cnn.com
September 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
You can't communicate your way out of a censorship problem.
There's a massive rally in DC. How is CNN covering it? Find me a single article on the rally on CNN's main website.
Then read this CNN piece on the ICE raid in Georgia:
There's a massive rally in DC. How is CNN covering it? Find me a single article on the rally on CNN's main website.
Then read this CNN piece on the ICE raid in Georgia: