Michael Kohlhaas Syndrom
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Cold War baby, raised by Cold War babies
Pinned
Three cheers for deliverism, popular sovereignty and the public good
"Fight the Villains, Defend the Dream, Anti-Woke is Broke"
February 6, 2026 at 2:50 PM
"Fight the Villains, Defend the Dream, Anti-Woke is Broke"
just a passing thought related to Marco Rubio lingering past his sell by date at US National Archives then illegally designating an ineligible successor
there seems to be a predilection for doing things contrary to the law and the US constitution in general in Trump 2.0
there seems to be a predilection for doing things contrary to the law and the US constitution in general in Trump 2.0
February 6, 2026 at 12:42 AM
just a passing thought related to Marco Rubio lingering past his sell by date at US National Archives then illegally designating an ineligible successor
there seems to be a predilection for doing things contrary to the law and the US constitution in general in Trump 2.0
there seems to be a predilection for doing things contrary to the law and the US constitution in general in Trump 2.0
banger Michael Harriot history thread
On Sept. 13, 1834 Lane Seminary in Oberlin, OH held an abolitionist debate
Students & locals came. ALL the abolitionists showed up. Abolitionst preacher Owen Brown, who built Western Reserve U came. Lane's president, who supported sending freed slaves back to Africa, even brought his young daughter
Students & locals came. ALL the abolitionists showed up. Abolitionst preacher Owen Brown, who built Western Reserve U came. Lane's president, who supported sending freed slaves back to Africa, even brought his young daughter
February 4, 2026 at 5:34 AM
banger Michael Harriot history thread
A private executive kitty
And today the Treasury Department told me it wouldn't expedite processing of a FOIA for the agreement allowing Qatar to hold the money because it couldn't identify an immediate public interest.
To help out Treasury: It rhymes with corruption. It's also spelled the same as corruption.
To help out Treasury: It rhymes with corruption. It's also spelled the same as corruption.
SHAHEEN: It's been reported that the oil sold for $500 million and $300 million went to Venezuelan government. What happened to the other $200 million?
RUBIO: It's still sitting in the account is my understanding
SHAHEEN: The account in Qatar?
RUBIO: Yes
RUBIO: It's still sitting in the account is my understanding
SHAHEEN: The account in Qatar?
RUBIO: Yes
February 3, 2026 at 1:41 AM
A private executive kitty
Trumpism as neo-Confederacy is thematic
Rolling back civil rights, rolling back the reconstruction amendments, promoting a racial caste system
It ain't the Abe Lincoln patriotism anymore
Rolling back civil rights, rolling back the reconstruction amendments, promoting a racial caste system
It ain't the Abe Lincoln patriotism anymore
i think semi-regularly about how the Old Miss Riot had the Deputy AG and like 500 USMS, BOP, and BP trapped in a college building under a siege of molotovs and bullets. 27 were shot and in all half got wounded! The Lieutenant Governor had to stop the state police from joining the rioters
I can never take the mask thing seriously because:
February 2, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Trumpism as neo-Confederacy is thematic
Rolling back civil rights, rolling back the reconstruction amendments, promoting a racial caste system
It ain't the Abe Lincoln patriotism anymore
Rolling back civil rights, rolling back the reconstruction amendments, promoting a racial caste system
It ain't the Abe Lincoln patriotism anymore
lol
Musk is back to hyping the idea that your car will work as a robotaxi when you aren't using it, and repeats his wild-ass claim that these cars might be able to earn more than they cost to lease, making them economic perpetual motion machines that Tesla chooses not to profit from itself
January 29, 2026 at 12:05 AM
lol
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There will be no excuses. Preserve the Union. Protect the Constitution. Execute the Laws.
January 28, 2026 at 3:11 PM
There will be no excuses. Preserve the Union. Protect the Constitution. Execute the Laws.
1.) The proximate solution is Republicans voted out in November, but it can't stop there. A Project 2025-like programme needs to start happening on day one.
Beyond that, an ideology to defeat racism and paternalistic force on the scale intended below is needed to reconstruct democratic pluralism.
Beyond that, an ideology to defeat racism and paternalistic force on the scale intended below is needed to reconstruct democratic pluralism.
ICE now gets over $30B a year with the surge from Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill.
That puts a domestic enforcement agency in the same spending range as major national militaries.
This is an out-of-control, bloated agency getting a blank check from Congress while basic accountability is ignored.
That puts a domestic enforcement agency in the same spending range as major national militaries.
This is an out-of-control, bloated agency getting a blank check from Congress while basic accountability is ignored.
January 27, 2026 at 11:59 PM
1.) The proximate solution is Republicans voted out in November, but it can't stop there. A Project 2025-like programme needs to start happening on day one.
Beyond that, an ideology to defeat racism and paternalistic force on the scale intended below is needed to reconstruct democratic pluralism.
Beyond that, an ideology to defeat racism and paternalistic force on the scale intended below is needed to reconstruct democratic pluralism.
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TRUMP: Trump Nobel Peace Prize. Practical Trump world award
NORWEGIAN PM: No, Trump. We can't give you a Nobel Peace Prize.
TRUMP: Good prize good Trump give terrific Trump deserve president
NORWEGIAN PM: Trump, we simply can’t award you a Nobel Peace Prize. We have no role in it.
TRUMP: jealousy PM
NORWEGIAN PM: No, Trump. We can't give you a Nobel Peace Prize.
TRUMP: Good prize good Trump give terrific Trump deserve president
NORWEGIAN PM: Trump, we simply can’t award you a Nobel Peace Prize. We have no role in it.
TRUMP: jealousy PM
January 19, 2026 at 1:18 AM
TRUMP: Trump Nobel Peace Prize. Practical Trump world award
NORWEGIAN PM: No, Trump. We can't give you a Nobel Peace Prize.
TRUMP: Good prize good Trump give terrific Trump deserve president
NORWEGIAN PM: Trump, we simply can’t award you a Nobel Peace Prize. We have no role in it.
TRUMP: jealousy PM
NORWEGIAN PM: No, Trump. We can't give you a Nobel Peace Prize.
TRUMP: Good prize good Trump give terrific Trump deserve president
NORWEGIAN PM: Trump, we simply can’t award you a Nobel Peace Prize. We have no role in it.
TRUMP: jealousy PM
"In this context, the phrase 'mock-beggars hall' refers to a manor hall where a beggar could expect to call at the back door and receive a handout of food, but which is now closed during the Winter, and the Christmas-tide"
www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Ca...
www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Ca...
Mock Beggers Hall Rox 3 218-219
www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:36 AM
"In this context, the phrase 'mock-beggars hall' refers to a manor hall where a beggar could expect to call at the back door and receive a handout of food, but which is now closed during the Winter, and the Christmas-tide"
www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Ca...
www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Ca...
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Being required to present proof of citizenship to someone not required to present proof they're actually law enforcement is one hell of a dichotomy
January 17, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Being required to present proof of citizenship to someone not required to present proof they're actually law enforcement is one hell of a dichotomy
Boltsmag with the deep dive on the prosecution of American Samoans in Whittier, Alaska for illegal voting
American Somoa falls under the rulings in the Insular Cases
Americans Samoans have Social Security cards and US passports, but are not US citizens and cannot vote or run for office
American Somoa falls under the rulings in the Insular Cases
Americans Samoans have Social Security cards and US passports, but are not US citizens and cannot vote or run for office
Alaska officials gave false info to American Samoans, telling them they can vote. (They can’t, due to a unique status.)
Now, the state is threatening them with years in prison, part of GOP’s voting fraud panic.
@burness.bsky.social spent months reporting the story; spend some of your w-e with it.
Now, the state is threatening them with years in prison, part of GOP’s voting fraud panic.
@burness.bsky.social spent months reporting the story; spend some of your w-e with it.
Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It - Bolts
In a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. They live in a limbo, created by colonial expansion, that now confuses even public official...
boltsmag.org
January 10, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Boltsmag with the deep dive on the prosecution of American Samoans in Whittier, Alaska for illegal voting
American Somoa falls under the rulings in the Insular Cases
Americans Samoans have Social Security cards and US passports, but are not US citizens and cannot vote or run for office
American Somoa falls under the rulings in the Insular Cases
Americans Samoans have Social Security cards and US passports, but are not US citizens and cannot vote or run for office
I've received no feedback left or right for this take, though I think it straightforwardly correct.
The Trump super dole, guaranteed UI and non-recourse PPP business loans -- plus the first in line, Warp Speed mRNA vaccines -- hastened the unparalleled US economic recovery
The Trump super dole, guaranteed UI and non-recourse PPP business loans -- plus the first in line, Warp Speed mRNA vaccines -- hastened the unparalleled US economic recovery
In a way, Trump 2.0 can be read as Trump's revenge for being forced against his dishonest will to save the USA in 2020.
January 10, 2026 at 5:52 AM
I've received no feedback left or right for this take, though I think it straightforwardly correct.
The Trump super dole, guaranteed UI and non-recourse PPP business loans -- plus the first in line, Warp Speed mRNA vaccines -- hastened the unparalleled US economic recovery
The Trump super dole, guaranteed UI and non-recourse PPP business loans -- plus the first in line, Warp Speed mRNA vaccines -- hastened the unparalleled US economic recovery
Not content to win the presidency twice, Trump plotted his revenge on the American people for not loving him enough the first time and commenced his tour of retribution immediately
He just admitted he's at war with America
Trump on sending the troops into American cities: "It's sort of like war. I hate to tell you."
January 10, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Not content to win the presidency twice, Trump plotted his revenge on the American people for not loving him enough the first time and commenced his tour of retribution immediately
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Yes
Spiceknot - "If You Wanna Breathe My Sulfur"
YouTube video by Bill McClintock
youtu.be
January 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Yes
Texas A&M University just banned Plato's Symposium.
Ostensibly to protect college students in loco parentis from the pernicious influence of "gender ideology."
Erstwhile free-speech Republicans are instituting restrictive speech codes with alacrity.
bsky.app/profile/tamu...
Ostensibly to protect college students in loco parentis from the pernicious influence of "gender ideology."
Erstwhile free-speech Republicans are instituting restrictive speech codes with alacrity.
bsky.app/profile/tamu...
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 7, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Texas A&M University just banned Plato's Symposium.
Ostensibly to protect college students in loco parentis from the pernicious influence of "gender ideology."
Erstwhile free-speech Republicans are instituting restrictive speech codes with alacrity.
bsky.app/profile/tamu...
Ostensibly to protect college students in loco parentis from the pernicious influence of "gender ideology."
Erstwhile free-speech Republicans are instituting restrictive speech codes with alacrity.
bsky.app/profile/tamu...
MAGA's war on women and women's freedom struts apace
The pattern of denying funding to blue states is starting to grate, I wonder when blue states will start withholding their federal payments, since appropriations in turn can be withheld by a capricious executive
The pattern of denying funding to blue states is starting to grate, I wonder when blue states will start withholding their federal payments, since appropriations in turn can be withheld by a capricious executive
After the Trump administration shut off all childcare funding to Minnesota, over 200,000 children will lose access to care. Centers say they'll have to close. minnesotareformer.com/2025/12/31/m...
Minnesota child care providers say Trump’s funding freeze will shut down their businesses • Minnesota Reformer
Child care center owners and Minnesota Democratic leaders decried on Wednesday the Trump administration’s freeze on federal funding to the state, which they said would cripple an already fragile indus...
minnesotareformer.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:20 AM
MAGA's war on women and women's freedom struts apace
The pattern of denying funding to blue states is starting to grate, I wonder when blue states will start withholding their federal payments, since appropriations in turn can be withheld by a capricious executive
The pattern of denying funding to blue states is starting to grate, I wonder when blue states will start withholding their federal payments, since appropriations in turn can be withheld by a capricious executive
Marco Rubio heads four US agencies and is the current viceroy of Venezuela, ergo, the probable fall guy for the multiyear strategic quagmire
The phrase "reverse domino theory" keeps surfacing, the direct threat to Cuba has not been concealed whatsoever
The phrase "reverse domino theory" keeps surfacing, the direct threat to Cuba has not been concealed whatsoever
If you are thinking this is a debacle in the making, you are probably right.
BRENNAN: You're describing the regime as still in place. I'm confused why the Trump admin only arrested Maduro. The chief thug who controls the police & has $25m price on his head is still in place
RUBIO: You're confused?
B: They are still in power
R: You're gonna go in & suck up 5 more people?
RUBIO: You're confused?
B: They are still in power
R: You're gonna go in & suck up 5 more people?
January 4, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Marco Rubio heads four US agencies and is the current viceroy of Venezuela, ergo, the probable fall guy for the multiyear strategic quagmire
The phrase "reverse domino theory" keeps surfacing, the direct threat to Cuba has not been concealed whatsoever
The phrase "reverse domino theory" keeps surfacing, the direct threat to Cuba has not been concealed whatsoever
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Conservatives lost the wars for civilization and culture, so they're determined to rubbish them
They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?!
Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
December 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Conservatives lost the wars for civilization and culture, so they're determined to rubbish them
while it is true that journalists skew liberal, the media ecosystem overall has a right-wing bias
A Media Matters analysis this year found that 9 out of the 10 top online shows that it assessed (podcasts, streams and other long-form audio and video) are right-leaning. These types of media are increasingly important in influencing voters. 3/10 🧵
The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces
As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this conte...
www.mediamatters.org
December 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
while it is true that journalists skew liberal, the media ecosystem overall has a right-wing bias
Techdirt is pretty great
Supporting Techdirt will make our most relentless troll sad.
December 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Techdirt is pretty great
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The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"
December 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"
That this story touched my mind with an icky finger and is still stirring it isn't J. David McSwane's fault, he wrote a very fine article.
The "slow code" detail suggests some of the nurses collaborated in hastening the demise of St. Peter's patients.
Dangerous prescription of opioids stood out
The "slow code" detail suggests some of the nurses collaborated in hastening the demise of St. Peter's patients.
Dangerous prescription of opioids stood out
Big news out of Montana: Dr. Thomas Weiner has lost his license and will never practice medicine there again as the medical board finally responds to reports that he hurt and mistreated people. They noted Scott Warwick, who got 10 years of chemo etc, died from it, but never had cancer. Context 👇
Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵
December 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
That this story touched my mind with an icky finger and is still stirring it isn't J. David McSwane's fault, he wrote a very fine article.
The "slow code" detail suggests some of the nurses collaborated in hastening the demise of St. Peter's patients.
Dangerous prescription of opioids stood out
The "slow code" detail suggests some of the nurses collaborated in hastening the demise of St. Peter's patients.
Dangerous prescription of opioids stood out
it's not just "culture war bullshit attached to a must-pass defense bill" people are being erased
from public accommodations
from employment
from legal and public visibility, except as defined criminals
from public accommodations
from employment
from legal and public visibility, except as defined criminals
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 5:31 AM
it's not just "culture war bullshit attached to a must-pass defense bill" people are being erased
from public accommodations
from employment
from legal and public visibility, except as defined criminals
from public accommodations
from employment
from legal and public visibility, except as defined criminals