Peter Werle
@thewerle.bsky.social
No longer worried about stars/bellies
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I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
ICE poised to ramp up raids in Baltimore by Thanksgiving
The Trump administration has rush-ordered infrastructure to conduct raids, abduct residents, and detain people for months.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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I made a joke about the metaphors being heavy-handed yesterday, but this somehow encapsulates everything. The president is wrecking a structure he does not understand and does not appreciate and does not value to build something ugly and self-serving in its place.
BREAKING: The entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished “within days,” according to two Trump administration officials, a significant expansion of President Trump's original stated plan.
Trump administration demolishing entire East Wing of the White House to add new ballroom
Trump said in July that the $250 million project “won’t interfere with the current building.”
nbcnews.to
October 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I made a joke about the metaphors being heavy-handed yesterday, but this somehow encapsulates everything. The president is wrecking a structure he does not understand and does not appreciate and does not value to build something ugly and self-serving in its place.
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Jewish Studies people: Do not sleep on this story. This is a truly dangerous sign for the future of our academic field. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
Jewish Studies director replacement ‘unprecedented,’ students and faculty say
Dean Rick Van Kooten later held a nomination process one faculty member called “symbolic.”
www.idsnews.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Jewish Studies people: Do not sleep on this story. This is a truly dangerous sign for the future of our academic field. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
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Having a folder labeled "THIRST" was a lot different in 1993.
October 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Having a folder labeled "THIRST" was a lot different in 1993.
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J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
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Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece following her deportation from Israel,
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment.
Trust me, but that is not the story.”
#Athens airport
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment.
Trust me, but that is not the story.”
#Athens airport
October 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece following her deportation from Israel,
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment.
Trust me, but that is not the story.”
#Athens airport
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment.
Trust me, but that is not the story.”
#Athens airport
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if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting
October 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting
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this is basically portland's version of a haka
Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.
October 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
this is basically portland's version of a haka
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This is TNC, and this is the foundational difference between his politics and Kleins’s. At a basic level you either believe in the biologically deterministic myths that historically and currently animate hate and exclusion and oppression, or you fight them with everything you have.
September 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This is TNC, and this is the foundational difference between his politics and Kleins’s. At a basic level you either believe in the biologically deterministic myths that historically and currently animate hate and exclusion and oppression, or you fight them with everything you have.
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![On September 6, 2024, Laura Loomer posts a video, where she eats dog food. She writes on Twitter: "I just ate dog food. It's human grade. Which means you and your dog can share a taste, nutrient dense treat together. Order yours today at [link]"
I post a screenshot of this tweet and write: "i setup a fake dog food company last month, bought purina at the pet store, and paid laura loomer $100 for this post."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreihsmjuml7n6odhpqrf553ysc6v7k23lrbxcwlgoylnxalahojrmgy@jpeg)
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reposting with alt text because I think the choice to include homophobia and transphobia in particular here is actually very much worth drawing attention to. nuns emphatically stating that those “do not reflect the qualities of a saint” is a very clear callout of Cardinal Dolan
September 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM
reposting with alt text because I think the choice to include homophobia and transphobia in particular here is actually very much worth drawing attention to. nuns emphatically stating that those “do not reflect the qualities of a saint” is a very clear callout of Cardinal Dolan
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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The biggest reason I believe the groyper war hypothesis over the left-wing assassination hypothesis is that I don't actually believe most people on the left had a clear sense of Charlie Kirk as a distinct person from Ben Shapiro.
September 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The biggest reason I believe the groyper war hypothesis over the left-wing assassination hypothesis is that I don't actually believe most people on the left had a clear sense of Charlie Kirk as a distinct person from Ben Shapiro.
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I imagine that it gave Charlie Kirk great pleasure to die as a martyr to the god of death he worshipped. I wish instead he could have died another way: of old age, peacefully, in a country where all his work had come to nothing, and he himself completely forgotten.
September 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I imagine that it gave Charlie Kirk great pleasure to die as a martyr to the god of death he worshipped. I wish instead he could have died another way: of old age, peacefully, in a country where all his work had come to nothing, and he himself completely forgotten.
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It is possible to hold both of these things true at the same time:
1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society
2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth
1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society
2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth
September 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It is possible to hold both of these things true at the same time:
1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society
2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth
1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society
2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth
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Let's be clear what this image represents.
Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders.
THAT is the reference here.
Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders.
THAT is the reference here.
September 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Let's be clear what this image represents.
Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders.
THAT is the reference here.
Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders.
THAT is the reference here.
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The Speaker of the House has learned that the President worked for decades behind the scenes on a secret strike force to take down the world's most notorious pedophile.
He planned the announcement for maximum impact: responding to a guy yelling at him in a hallway with at 5:30 p.m. on a Friday.
He planned the announcement for maximum impact: responding to a guy yelling at him in a hallway with at 5:30 p.m. on a Friday.
Yeah this is real. Mike Johnson said Trump was an FBI informant in the Epstein case.
September 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The Speaker of the House has learned that the President worked for decades behind the scenes on a secret strike force to take down the world's most notorious pedophile.
He planned the announcement for maximum impact: responding to a guy yelling at him in a hallway with at 5:30 p.m. on a Friday.
He planned the announcement for maximum impact: responding to a guy yelling at him in a hallway with at 5:30 p.m. on a Friday.
@kavehtaherian.bsky.social just listened to your #JJGO. I'M shocked that you just now have a lead mic stand, that metal poisoning would have been clutch for you liking musicals!
September 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
@kavehtaherian.bsky.social just listened to your #JJGO. I'M shocked that you just now have a lead mic stand, that metal poisoning would have been clutch for you liking musicals!
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So, for the last few years I've been in touch with a cast member from STAR TREK: TOS about getting access to original copies of scripts, production materials, even souvenirs from early conventions. They're aging, they don't need this stuff cluttering up their home. 🧵
September 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
So, for the last few years I've been in touch with a cast member from STAR TREK: TOS about getting access to original copies of scripts, production materials, even souvenirs from early conventions. They're aging, they don't need this stuff cluttering up their home. 🧵
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Just 6 years ago anti-vaxxers were a laughable fringe group. Now their victory is so total they're setting government policy. This is like if schools started teaching Flat Earth. A complete failure of education and science comms. Kids will die because we couldn't convince their parents of the truth.
Florida is set to end all state vaccine mandates, the state surgeon general announced today
DeSantis and Ladapo to ‘end all vaccine mandates in Florida law’
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced the move in Hillsborough County on Wednesday.
www.miamiherald.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Just 6 years ago anti-vaxxers were a laughable fringe group. Now their victory is so total they're setting government policy. This is like if schools started teaching Flat Earth. A complete failure of education and science comms. Kids will die because we couldn't convince their parents of the truth.
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Witnessing the AI artist get kicked out of the DragonCon artist alley was satisfying.
September 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Witnessing the AI artist get kicked out of the DragonCon artist alley was satisfying.
Another magical #dragoncon puppet slam. Thank you @dc-puppetry-track.bsky.social for the joy and inspiration you bring every year
September 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Another magical #dragoncon puppet slam. Thank you @dc-puppetry-track.bsky.social for the joy and inspiration you bring every year