SpiritFoxMY
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I'm just here for the doomscrolling
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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OPINION: Western Fatigue, Not Ukrainian Fatigue
What is exhausted is not Ukrainian society. What is exhausted is Western political will – the will to name aggression clearly and to endure the consequences of its own principles.
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/66267
What is exhausted is not Ukrainian society. What is exhausted is Western political will – the will to name aggression clearly and to endure the consequences of its own principles.
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/66267
December 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
OPINION: Western Fatigue, Not Ukrainian Fatigue
What is exhausted is not Ukrainian society. What is exhausted is Western political will – the will to name aggression clearly and to endure the consequences of its own principles.
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/66267
What is exhausted is not Ukrainian society. What is exhausted is Western political will – the will to name aggression clearly and to endure the consequences of its own principles.
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/66267
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Armed Parkland police officers ran away
Armed Uvalde police officers refused to act
Unarmed Arab Muslim Ahmed el Ahmed took 2 bullets to protect Jewish neighbors & stopped the mass shooter with his bare hands
Never forget: A good guy w/o a gun had more courage than 100s of cops with unlimited guns
Armed Uvalde police officers refused to act
Unarmed Arab Muslim Ahmed el Ahmed took 2 bullets to protect Jewish neighbors & stopped the mass shooter with his bare hands
Never forget: A good guy w/o a gun had more courage than 100s of cops with unlimited guns
December 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Armed Parkland police officers ran away
Armed Uvalde police officers refused to act
Unarmed Arab Muslim Ahmed el Ahmed took 2 bullets to protect Jewish neighbors & stopped the mass shooter with his bare hands
Never forget: A good guy w/o a gun had more courage than 100s of cops with unlimited guns
Armed Uvalde police officers refused to act
Unarmed Arab Muslim Ahmed el Ahmed took 2 bullets to protect Jewish neighbors & stopped the mass shooter with his bare hands
Never forget: A good guy w/o a gun had more courage than 100s of cops with unlimited guns
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ICE shipped my kids to CECOT and I’m going to die because I followed the CDC recommendation to treat my pneumonia with ivermectin. But at least now there won’t be any black mermaids in the next Disney movie.
December 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
ICE shipped my kids to CECOT and I’m going to die because I followed the CDC recommendation to treat my pneumonia with ivermectin. But at least now there won’t be any black mermaids in the next Disney movie.
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Trump's arch
(cartoon from the archives)
(cartoon from the archives)
December 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Trump's arch
(cartoon from the archives)
(cartoon from the archives)
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"House Democrats on Thursday voted to return Rep. Henry Cuellar to his leadership role on the House Appropriations Committee following his presidential pardon on federal corruption charges."
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
Democrats Return Henry Cuellar to Powerful Spending Post After Trump Pardon
“We got ratified,” Cuellar told reporters after the vote.
www.notus.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"House Democrats on Thursday voted to return Rep. Henry Cuellar to his leadership role on the House Appropriations Committee following his presidential pardon on federal corruption charges."
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
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Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
I think about this, also in terms of vaccines, and really struggle with how you have a free society that doesn’t fall into this trap in one way or another. solved problems become invisible and the solutions become the source of conspiracy theories.
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
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As a longtime Chomsky hater, this is how it feels
December 13, 2025 at 3:36 AM
As a longtime Chomsky hater, this is how it feels
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60,000 is the *low end* estimate.
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
60,000 is the *low end* estimate.
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Birthright citizenship under the common law, a thread:
I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:
I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Birthright citizenship under the common law, a thread:
I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:
I have done this many times on social media, in print, and in media interviews, but not to be accused of taking others’ not seriously enough, by plainly stating the law and history of birthright citizenship, I’m taking the time here:
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AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022.
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
December 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022.
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
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They like Trump and want to help him. They have pre-written "THE COMEBACK KID" narratives ready to break out of he crosses back over 40% approval for a couple polls, not to report a narrative but to try and change it
AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022.
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
They like Trump and want to help him. They have pre-written "THE COMEBACK KID" narratives ready to break out of he crosses back over 40% approval for a couple polls, not to report a narrative but to try and change it
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No, this is wrong, stop reposting this absurd and miscalculated meme.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
No, this is wrong, stop reposting this absurd and miscalculated meme.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
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This was so bad on its own merits, but it also revealed that the pure popularists have no red lines. If you can't stand up for men being disappeared to a foreign torture prison without due process, then what's the point of you?
December 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This was so bad on its own merits, but it also revealed that the pure popularists have no red lines. If you can't stand up for men being disappeared to a foreign torture prison without due process, then what's the point of you?
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Literally every single bad decision this country has made over the past half-century can be attributed to “a lot of voters are panicky racist morons” but left, center, and right all have a vested interest in denying that and keep tying themselves in more ornate knots to avoid confronting it
December 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Literally every single bad decision this country has made over the past half-century can be attributed to “a lot of voters are panicky racist morons” but left, center, and right all have a vested interest in denying that and keep tying themselves in more ornate knots to avoid confronting it
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The last part is especially and obviously true if you think about it for two seconds - “Tiny Tim lived better than we do today” would, if it were true, be an incredible indictment of the welfare state and endorsement of laissez faire capitalism
This sort of absurd, ultra-bleak reading of the remarkable prosperity of modern societies is not only embarrassingly wrong - and I saw a historian retweet this sincerely (!!) - but also helps fuel not materialist, left-wing politics, but rather reactionary right-wing politics ('RETVRN-ism').
December 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
The last part is especially and obviously true if you think about it for two seconds - “Tiny Tim lived better than we do today” would, if it were true, be an incredible indictment of the welfare state and endorsement of laissez faire capitalism
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It's that time of year again
December 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It's that time of year again
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notes 📝
December 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
notes 📝
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The United Nations voiced alarm Tuesday at reports that Hong Kong's "draconian" national security laws were being used against people seeking a transparent inquiry into the Chinese city's worst fire in decades. In full: buff.ly/86nydG1
UN troubled by Hong Kong clampdown after deadly Tai Po fire
The United Nations voiced alarm Tuesday at reports that Hong Kong's "draconian" national security laws were being used against people seeking a transparent inquiry into the Chinese city's worst fire in...
buff.ly
December 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
The United Nations voiced alarm Tuesday at reports that Hong Kong's "draconian" national security laws were being used against people seeking a transparent inquiry into the Chinese city's worst fire in decades. In full: buff.ly/86nydG1
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ICE puts a U.S. citizen in a chokehold, forcing him to his knees in the snow.
When he offers his ID, agents ignore him.
When he offers his ID, agents ignore him.
December 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
ICE puts a U.S. citizen in a chokehold, forcing him to his knees in the snow.
When he offers his ID, agents ignore him.
When he offers his ID, agents ignore him.
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December 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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It’s true there’s now more variation in pro-Beijing parties’ views. But we’re talking about them believing in stuff like ‘gay people should not exist’ at one end and ‘gay people can exist, but have no rights’ at the other. The whole spectrum is cursed, it’s not progress, we must not accept any of it
December 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM
It’s true there’s now more variation in pro-Beijing parties’ views. But we’re talking about them believing in stuff like ‘gay people should not exist’ at one end and ‘gay people can exist, but have no rights’ at the other. The whole spectrum is cursed, it’s not progress, we must not accept any of it