𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜
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The hardest years, the darkest years, the roarin' years, the fallen years
These should not be forgotten years
The hardest years, the wildest years, the desperate and divided years
We will remember
These should not be forgotten years
These should not be forgotten years
The hardest years, the wildest years, the desperate and divided years
We will remember
These should not be forgotten years
Polling has been quite destructive to representative self-government. This is a positive development. We need more like this.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Polling has been quite destructive to representative self-government. This is a positive development. We need more like this.
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No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
February 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
Attended a great @chihumanities event last night with @petersagal.bsky.social and George Saunders.
Their preroll video says that the humanities "aren't just an academic subject."
And what, exactly, would be wrong with being just an academic subject?
Was it intellectuals who ruined the world?
Their preroll video says that the humanities "aren't just an academic subject."
And what, exactly, would be wrong with being just an academic subject?
Was it intellectuals who ruined the world?
February 11, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Attended a great @chihumanities event last night with @petersagal.bsky.social and George Saunders.
Their preroll video says that the humanities "aren't just an academic subject."
And what, exactly, would be wrong with being just an academic subject?
Was it intellectuals who ruined the world?
Their preroll video says that the humanities "aren't just an academic subject."
And what, exactly, would be wrong with being just an academic subject?
Was it intellectuals who ruined the world?
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CALL FOR CHAPTERS!
Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...
Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...
February 10, 2026 at 7:38 PM
CALL FOR CHAPTERS!
Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...
Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...
In a very specific way I have some sympathy for this guy beccause os the last thing he says here.
I've been to Nanticoke, known people from there. I recognize a lot of where I grew up—the ethnic mix, Catholicism, and mostly the hard blue collar bent. Trump has exploited how neoliberalism left...
I've been to Nanticoke, known people from there. I recognize a lot of where I grew up—the ethnic mix, Catholicism, and mostly the hard blue collar bent. Trump has exploited how neoliberalism left...
February 10, 2026 at 1:46 PM
In a very specific way I have some sympathy for this guy beccause os the last thing he says here.
I've been to Nanticoke, known people from there. I recognize a lot of where I grew up—the ethnic mix, Catholicism, and mostly the hard blue collar bent. Trump has exploited how neoliberalism left...
I've been to Nanticoke, known people from there. I recognize a lot of where I grew up—the ethnic mix, Catholicism, and mostly the hard blue collar bent. Trump has exploited how neoliberalism left...
Call-ins to CSPAN open forum on D and R lines are preoccupied by Epstein acctability. Something is shifting.
But also.
The Epstein stuff is intersecting 50yrs of antigovt rhetoric, paranoia, conspiracism.
Institutions already are suffering. I wonder what mere anarchy awaits us after Epstein.
But also.
The Epstein stuff is intersecting 50yrs of antigovt rhetoric, paranoia, conspiracism.
Institutions already are suffering. I wonder what mere anarchy awaits us after Epstein.
February 10, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Call-ins to CSPAN open forum on D and R lines are preoccupied by Epstein acctability. Something is shifting.
But also.
The Epstein stuff is intersecting 50yrs of antigovt rhetoric, paranoia, conspiracism.
Institutions already are suffering. I wonder what mere anarchy awaits us after Epstein.
But also.
The Epstein stuff is intersecting 50yrs of antigovt rhetoric, paranoia, conspiracism.
Institutions already are suffering. I wonder what mere anarchy awaits us after Epstein.
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They’re rushing to rehabilitate themselves because they’re afraid the thousand year Trumpreich won’t happen after all and they need people to take them seriously when they complain President Inoffensive Normielib is Stalin after he says they have to pay taxes to fund the Mild Healthcare Reform Act.
When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.
Weird. I tried to warn libertarians about Trump
February 9, 2026 at 2:46 PM
They’re rushing to rehabilitate themselves because they’re afraid the thousand year Trumpreich won’t happen after all and they need people to take them seriously when they complain President Inoffensive Normielib is Stalin after he says they have to pay taxes to fund the Mild Healthcare Reform Act.
That consuming a Superbowl halftime show can seem like an act of effective resistance is powerful evidence of how much distorted by entertainment and consumerism our political sense has become.
February 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
That consuming a Superbowl halftime show can seem like an act of effective resistance is powerful evidence of how much distorted by entertainment and consumerism our political sense has become.
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The application window for this tenure-track position in moral theology will close in one week.
Please share widely. Thank you.
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The application window for this tenure-track position in moral theology will close in one week.
Please share widely. Thank you.
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February 9, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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Please share widely. Thank you.
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The application window for this tenure-track position in moral theology will close in one week.
Please share widely. Thank you.
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The Superbowl is bad for America.
February 8, 2026 at 11:41 PM
The Superbowl is bad for America.
If so, it will seem as if Leo cleared his throat yesterday in NYC just to end the Chaput-Aquila era in Denver today.
Timing, as they say, is everything.
Timing, as they say, is everything.
NEW: Archdiocese of Denver has called a Saturday AM news conference. Won't say if it's re: the resignation of Archbishop Aquila (sent to the Vatican on his 75th birthday last year).
Pope Leo's choice could end 40 years of staunchly conservative leadership of Colorado's Catholics
Pope Leo's choice could end 40 years of staunchly conservative leadership of Colorado's Catholics
February 7, 2026 at 1:03 PM
If so, it will seem as if Leo cleared his throat yesterday in NYC just to end the Chaput-Aquila era in Denver today.
Timing, as they say, is everything.
Timing, as they say, is everything.
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VA Senate president responds to Ted crying about VA’s redistricting, which should add 4 new Dem seats.
February 7, 2026 at 12:17 PM
VA Senate president responds to Ted crying about VA’s redistricting, which should add 4 new Dem seats.
Dreamed last night there was an ICE facility in NYC where, as detainees were led one by one to busses for deportation, they all began singing "New York, New York" until the last one was led out, then silence, like the end of Dialogue of the Carmelites.
Interpret as you will.
Interpret as you will.
February 7, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Dreamed last night there was an ICE facility in NYC where, as detainees were led one by one to busses for deportation, they all began singing "New York, New York" until the last one was led out, then silence, like the end of Dialogue of the Carmelites.
Interpret as you will.
Interpret as you will.
Things that would've consumed the news cycle and ended a presidency just ten years ago now pass like barely a blip.
www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news...
www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news...
Trump slammed after sharing 'disgusting' video of Obamas as apes
WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: US President Donald Trump has been slammed after appearing to share a video of Obamas being portrayed as apes on his Truth Social account
www.dailystar.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Things that would've consumed the news cycle and ended a presidency just ten years ago now pass like barely a blip.
www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news...
www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news...
I am late to Severence whose tone, pace, and quirks compare not just to Twin Peaks but Lynch's work overall.
This choreography and merriment though reminds me of the helter skelter wildness of The Prisoner's "Fall Out."
And Tramell Tillman is from another planet. Wow.
youtu.be/u1tYw6DmC0k?...
This choreography and merriment though reminds me of the helter skelter wildness of The Prisoner's "Fall Out."
And Tramell Tillman is from another planet. Wow.
youtu.be/u1tYw6DmC0k?...
Severance | Choreography and Merriment Scene
YouTube video by NonLinearBoi
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February 5, 2026 at 1:40 PM
I am late to Severence whose tone, pace, and quirks compare not just to Twin Peaks but Lynch's work overall.
This choreography and merriment though reminds me of the helter skelter wildness of The Prisoner's "Fall Out."
And Tramell Tillman is from another planet. Wow.
youtu.be/u1tYw6DmC0k?...
This choreography and merriment though reminds me of the helter skelter wildness of The Prisoner's "Fall Out."
And Tramell Tillman is from another planet. Wow.
youtu.be/u1tYw6DmC0k?...
Their view of the arts and artists correlates directly to their politics. Politics was born in the amphitheater where an audience of strangers became a community. To see our communal life as something other than power and the strong over the weak demands an appreciation for ars gratia artis.
“While I also don’t look to many (. . .) artists to be experts or guideposts in fields like politics and economics, I also do not have any reason to view Michael Knowles, Megyn Kelly, or Jesse Kelly as any more insightful(. . .). That’s because they are not. They are entertainers themselves.”
None More Wonderful Than Man: Art, Artists, and MAGA’s Hollow View of Humanity
MAGA sees art as nothing more than a tool of self-aggrandizement, and artists as less than human.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Their view of the arts and artists correlates directly to their politics. Politics was born in the amphitheater where an audience of strangers became a community. To see our communal life as something other than power and the strong over the weak demands an appreciation for ars gratia artis.
“Plato describes how great wealth, in fact, makes it virtually impossible to become a good person…. Thomas Hobbes was concerned that the very wealthy develop a sense of ‘impunity’ — that they seek to stand above both the moral and legal laws that govern society.”
“Smith was deeply concerned not simply with how money is earned. He was concerned about that money’s effect on the character of the rich, on social relations, and the tendency of the rich to dominate the political agenda.” www.liberalcurrents.com/is-it-all-ju...
February 5, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
February 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
February 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
The best bon mot I'll hear from anybody for a while is—
"Is the Roman Catholic Church a non-prophet organization?"
—and I definitely cannot attribute it. But I wish it was mine.
"Is the Roman Catholic Church a non-prophet organization?"
—and I definitely cannot attribute it. But I wish it was mine.
February 4, 2026 at 8:37 PM
The best bon mot I'll hear from anybody for a while is—
"Is the Roman Catholic Church a non-prophet organization?"
—and I definitely cannot attribute it. But I wish it was mine.
"Is the Roman Catholic Church a non-prophet organization?"
—and I definitely cannot attribute it. But I wish it was mine.
2026
The year free speech-advocating plutocrats killed the people's right to be informed because they could. Because it was profitable. Because what they want is ologarchy.
The year free speech-advocating plutocrats killed the people's right to be informed because they could. Because it was profitable. Because what they want is ologarchy.
BREAKING: @ajc.com on Tuesday evening said it will lay off approximately 50 staffers, about 15% of its headcount, as it seeks to cut costs and marshal resources to invest in its growth.
The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.
The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.
The AJC to cut staff as it continues digital transformation
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said Tuesday it will lay off staffers in the newsroom and other segments of the business.
www.ajc.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:02 PM
2026
The year free speech-advocating plutocrats killed the people's right to be informed because they could. Because it was profitable. Because what they want is ologarchy.
The year free speech-advocating plutocrats killed the people's right to be informed because they could. Because it was profitable. Because what they want is ologarchy.
The world's 4th richest person, worth more than a quarter trillion dollars, cannot afford @washingtonpost.com because capitalist reasons. Oh well.
apnews.com/article/wash...
apnews.com/article/wash...
Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments is being laid off
The Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
apnews.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:56 PM
The world's 4th richest person, worth more than a quarter trillion dollars, cannot afford @washingtonpost.com because capitalist reasons. Oh well.
apnews.com/article/wash...
apnews.com/article/wash...
"We are all responsible."
Spread widely. This is important.
Spread widely. This is important.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 1:31 PM
"We are all responsible."
Spread widely. This is important.
Spread widely. This is important.
I'm delighted now to be a regular contributor to @flashesinsight.bsky.social.
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The world needs more than just common sense – Flashes of Insight
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February 3, 2026 at 11:33 AM
I'm delighted now to be a regular contributor to @flashesinsight.bsky.social.
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It's unnerving to see someone unfamiliar at your home.
This person was peaceful and exercising a 1A right.
Imagine how unnerving when it is a masked gang claiming to be law enforcement and lacking a warrant.
This person was peaceful and exercising a 1A right.
Imagine how unnerving when it is a masked gang claiming to be law enforcement and lacking a warrant.
Barbara Wien, a retired peace studies professor, says she was confronting a threat to her community with her protest of Stephen Miller.
Police accused her of harassing the architect of Trump’s immigration agenda.
Police accused her of harassing the architect of Trump’s immigration agenda.
She protested at Stephen Miller’s home. Now police are investigating.
Barbara Wien, a retired peace studies professor, believes she was confronting a threat to her community with her protest of Stephen Miller. Some say she’s the danger.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:36 AM
It's unnerving to see someone unfamiliar at your home.
This person was peaceful and exercising a 1A right.
Imagine how unnerving when it is a masked gang claiming to be law enforcement and lacking a warrant.
This person was peaceful and exercising a 1A right.
Imagine how unnerving when it is a masked gang claiming to be law enforcement and lacking a warrant.