Irate Historian
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Preferred pronouns? Buddy I got no idea. Buddhist, lover not a fighter, perpetually tired, historian in training, and professional nerd. Loves birds, science fiction, religious studies and poetry!
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Marx himself predicted this problem when he wrote that the "tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living"
February 16, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Marx himself predicted this problem when he wrote that the "tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living"
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What is Lent to an oppressed people?
What is penitence to the displaced, tortured, and crucified?
What is penitence to the displaced, tortured, and crucified?
February 15, 2026 at 9:55 PM
What is Lent to an oppressed people?
What is penitence to the displaced, tortured, and crucified?
What is penitence to the displaced, tortured, and crucified?
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I have been thinking for a long time about the uses and more commonly abuses of the term “Western” in this broad civilizational sense, and a major conclusion I have reached is that it is paraphyletic. That is to say, it groups things together that are farther apart than things it excludes.
February 15, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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The fact that this is the response from the Conference of Presidents shows that they really do not understand what is coming in the next generation: www.jpost.com/diaspora/art...
Senior Jewish leader urges right to confrontTucker Tucker Carlson | The Jerusalem Post
Daroff described what he called a deepened bond between Israel and the United States since the October 7 attacks
www.jpost.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:58 PM
The fact that this is the response from the Conference of Presidents shows that they really do not understand what is coming in the next generation: www.jpost.com/diaspora/art...
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this exact phenomenon is currently crippling the Trump administration for those inclined to disagree
Really underrated how much of the Biden years flopping was about communications failures that stemmed from having a principal who was no longer an above average or even average political communicator. :/
February 15, 2026 at 8:53 PM
this exact phenomenon is currently crippling the Trump administration for those inclined to disagree
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Yeah this also isn't exactly what it sounds like. The vast majority of deportations done under Clinton and Obama were catching people at the border. It wasn't storming into churches and deporting grandma's who have been here for 30 years with no record.
Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."
February 15, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Yeah this also isn't exactly what it sounds like. The vast majority of deportations done under Clinton and Obama were catching people at the border. It wasn't storming into churches and deporting grandma's who have been here for 30 years with no record.
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jfc
February 15, 2026 at 5:01 PM
jfc
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“English-Scots-Irish” was the Confederacy and they lost a war 160 years ago to an army full of Irish Catholics, Germans, and African-Americans. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 6:54 PM
“English-Scots-Irish” was the Confederacy and they lost a war 160 years ago to an army full of Irish Catholics, Germans, and African-Americans. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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That use is explicitly disclaimed and they deserve what they’re going to get
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 12:44 AM
That use is explicitly disclaimed and they deserve what they’re going to get
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This stuff offends me on, like, a cellular level
NEW: David Greene was the voice of NPR's "Morning Edition." Is he also secretly the voice of Google's popular AI podcast tool, NotebookLM?
Google says no. Greene thinks they're lying. My story today breaks the news of his lawsuit and compares the two voices. Listen for yourself: wapo.st/3ZHRvho
Google says no. Greene thinks they're lying. My story today breaks the news of his lawsuit and compares the two voices. Listen for yourself: wapo.st/3ZHRvho
He spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it.
NPR’s David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he’s suing over it.
wapo.st
February 15, 2026 at 6:24 PM
This stuff offends me on, like, a cellular level
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Miami in the 2020s seems like a city made entirely out of people I'd have fun suing
Classic Miami experience. Cut off in traffic by a Cybertruck. Google the website on the license plate to find a private-jet brokering business owned by a guy with a lifetime FINRA bar after being convicted of securities fraud.
February 15, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Miami in the 2020s seems like a city made entirely out of people I'd have fun suing
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The biggest political divide on here is not between left and liberal but between "politics is real and involves real outcomes for real people" and "no it doesn't fuck you"
February 13, 2026 at 6:28 PM
The biggest political divide on here is not between left and liberal but between "politics is real and involves real outcomes for real people" and "no it doesn't fuck you"
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Yeah okay sure Tom
February 15, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Yeah okay sure Tom
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they’d rather an empty plot of land, over a housing development, and a concentration camp over an empty warehouse. the priorities are clear to anyone willing to look
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:36 PM
they’d rather an empty plot of land, over a housing development, and a concentration camp over an empty warehouse. the priorities are clear to anyone willing to look
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It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 3:19 PM
It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.
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Jeffries is also eyeing Colorado, Washington, and Pennsylvania as states to gerrymander in 2028
February 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Jeffries is also eyeing Colorado, Washington, and Pennsylvania as states to gerrymander in 2028
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I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.
This Is What It Looks Like When Nothing Matters
Welcome to the internet’s nihilism crisis.
www.theatlantic.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.
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When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress’ worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
This week at Democracy Docket: The worst voter suppression bill ever passed, and an FBI raid built on conspiracy theories
When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress' worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one.
www.democracydocket.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:53 PM
When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress’ worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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I have so much contempt for people like this. Your entire remit was to find out whether children were being pressured into drugs and surgeries. Your own findings indicate tiny numbers, long assessments & high satisfaction.
So what do you do? You go to the press & pretend it's still an open debate
So what do you do? You go to the press & pretend it's still an open debate
February 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I have so much contempt for people like this. Your entire remit was to find out whether children were being pressured into drugs and surgeries. Your own findings indicate tiny numbers, long assessments & high satisfaction.
So what do you do? You go to the press & pretend it's still an open debate
So what do you do? You go to the press & pretend it's still an open debate
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Elon doesn't think of food as part of culture because he's long accustomed to servants. To enjoy a cook's food is not to accept them as part of our republic. One does not parade the help on stage. If anything distinguishes American culture it is a violent allergy to this line of thinking.
Living in San Francisco and not appreciating garlic noodles, a Vietnamese immigrant's take on Italian pasta dishes (for reasons other than dietary restrictions).
Imagine living in San Francisco & Austin & thinking English/Scots-Irish "culture" is what defined those places. Lazy, putrid thoughts from a broken man.
February 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Elon doesn't think of food as part of culture because he's long accustomed to servants. To enjoy a cook's food is not to accept them as part of our republic. One does not parade the help on stage. If anything distinguishes American culture it is a violent allergy to this line of thinking.
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The one reason I'm somewhat worried about an AOC presidential run is that the levels of Gender that would result are possibly cataclysmic.
“AOC needs to publicly commit to hard military action in Taiwan and the fact she has refused to do so shows she’s fundamentally unserious” that’s crazy man anyway quick question what is the policy of strategic uncertainty again and who else is guilty of it
February 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
The one reason I'm somewhat worried about an AOC presidential run is that the levels of Gender that would result are possibly cataclysmic.
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SCOTUS effectively OK’ed third-country removals as the Trump admin is using them on the shadow docket, staying lower court orders reining them in. Further, the specific questions raised here — about refoulement — have come up before, like in this case: www.lawdork.com/p/ghana-refo...
NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections
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February 15, 2026 at 4:04 AM
SCOTUS effectively OK’ed third-country removals as the Trump admin is using them on the shadow docket, staying lower court orders reining them in. Further, the specific questions raised here — about refoulement — have come up before, like in this case: www.lawdork.com/p/ghana-refo...
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When the MAGA standard is “I don’t care if the numbers aren’t precisely right,” you’re telling every future strongman that all they have to do is lie with a smile. This is how a party becomes a personality cult and how authoritarianism takes over.
Like a true Trump cultist, Fox Business News' Larry Kudlow opens by saying they don't care if Trump lies about the economic numbers, as long as he's optimistic.
"I don’t care if the numbers aren’t precisely right. The optimism is precisely right."
"I don’t care if the numbers aren’t precisely right. The optimism is precisely right."
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 PM
When the MAGA standard is “I don’t care if the numbers aren’t precisely right,” you’re telling every future strongman that all they have to do is lie with a smile. This is how a party becomes a personality cult and how authoritarianism takes over.
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Drew Pavlou is claiming he got detained by DHS for 30 hours at LAX because he wanted to stalk Billie Eilish
www.news.com.au
February 15, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Drew Pavlou is claiming he got detained by DHS for 30 hours at LAX because he wanted to stalk Billie Eilish