Thoreau Away
@thoreauaway.bsky.social
Christian, American, liberal, geoist. Big fan of compassion and taxing rents. Not a fan of oathbreakers or NIMBYs.
Everything in politics is now secondary to preserving our Constitution.
Everything in politics is now secondary to preserving our Constitution.
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Why do people keep acting like being a Pats fan is MAGA coded
Have any of them ever looked at an election map of New England
Have any of them ever looked at an election map of New England
February 9, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Why do people keep acting like being a Pats fan is MAGA coded
Have any of them ever looked at an election map of New England
Have any of them ever looked at an election map of New England
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My not-actually-brother-in-Christ, you have described a parliamentary democracy, which you are not! What is Keir Starmer but Charles III’s “advisor”, chosen by the will of the people?
Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.
Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.
February 5, 2026 at 10:23 PM
My not-actually-brother-in-Christ, you have described a parliamentary democracy, which you are not! What is Keir Starmer but Charles III’s “advisor”, chosen by the will of the people?
Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.
Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.
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I asked them how their economy would get by if clean energy made oil obsolete, and the speaker basically talked around the question.
My friend went for the jugular, and asked why they’re not a democracy. The speaker confabulated some nonsense about the king’s advisors listening to the people.
My friend went for the jugular, and asked why they’re not a democracy. The speaker confabulated some nonsense about the king’s advisors listening to the people.
February 5, 2026 at 10:21 PM
I asked them how their economy would get by if clean energy made oil obsolete, and the speaker basically talked around the question.
My friend went for the jugular, and asked why they’re not a democracy. The speaker confabulated some nonsense about the king’s advisors listening to the people.
My friend went for the jugular, and asked why they’re not a democracy. The speaker confabulated some nonsense about the king’s advisors listening to the people.
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In high school, I took a weeklong field trip to DC, and one of the events was a visit to the Saudi embassy, where we had a Q&A with a high ranking diplomat. Little trolls that we were, my friend and I decided to ask them highly embarrassing questions.
February 5, 2026 at 10:20 PM
In high school, I took a weeklong field trip to DC, and one of the events was a visit to the Saudi embassy, where we had a Q&A with a high ranking diplomat. Little trolls that we were, my friend and I decided to ask them highly embarrassing questions.
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my hot take is that all of the founding fathers would be less shocked by black people and women getting to vote than they would be by a majority-Catholic SCOTUS that regularly determines national policy. they would think we had been conquered by Spain
February 4, 2026 at 6:11 PM
my hot take is that all of the founding fathers would be less shocked by black people and women getting to vote than they would be by a majority-Catholic SCOTUS that regularly determines national policy. they would think we had been conquered by Spain
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Karoline Leavitt is the female version of the worst person you ever met at college.
Source: my sister-in-law’s best friend was her RA in college. She literally was that.
Source: my sister-in-law’s best friend was her RA in college. She literally was that.
February 4, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Karoline Leavitt is the female version of the worst person you ever met at college.
Source: my sister-in-law’s best friend was her RA in college. She literally was that.
Source: my sister-in-law’s best friend was her RA in college. She literally was that.
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the question of the levant is very....complicated
February 3, 2026 at 8:25 PM
the question of the levant is very....complicated
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As a Christian and a left-of-center liberal, I have a dual sense for “you are using in-group jargon, nobody normal talks like this”
February 3, 2026 at 11:38 PM
As a Christian and a left-of-center liberal, I have a dual sense for “you are using in-group jargon, nobody normal talks like this”
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Saying “you look like a Zionist” is just calling someone a Jew, as an insult
February 2, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Saying “you look like a Zionist” is just calling someone a Jew, as an insult
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I never understood the idolization of Malcolm X. What did he actually achieve? He spent most of his career saying white people were literally the devil, and as soon as he reneged on that, his own former coreligionists branded him an apostate and murdered him.
February 2, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I never understood the idolization of Malcolm X. What did he actually achieve? He spent most of his career saying white people were literally the devil, and as soon as he reneged on that, his own former coreligionists branded him an apostate and murdered him.
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Markey is a doddering old fool.
I met him on a high school field trip in March 2017, when Republicans were gearing up to repeal Obamacare. I asked him why he opposed Paul Ryan’s American Healthcare Act. He didn’t recognize the name of the bill.
I met him on a high school field trip in March 2017, when Republicans were gearing up to repeal Obamacare. I asked him why he opposed Paul Ryan’s American Healthcare Act. He didn’t recognize the name of the bill.
January 29, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Markey is a doddering old fool.
I met him on a high school field trip in March 2017, when Republicans were gearing up to repeal Obamacare. I asked him why he opposed Paul Ryan’s American Healthcare Act. He didn’t recognize the name of the bill.
I met him on a high school field trip in March 2017, when Republicans were gearing up to repeal Obamacare. I asked him why he opposed Paul Ryan’s American Healthcare Act. He didn’t recognize the name of the bill.
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Please please please let Trump polarize boomer libs against NIMBYism like he polarized anti-corporate types against protectionism
January 29, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Please please please let Trump polarize boomer libs against NIMBYism like he polarized anti-corporate types against protectionism
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Worth noting here that two of the Senators who caved on the ACA shutdown - Kaine and King - explicitly cited fears that Republicans would nuke the filibuster as part of their reasoning for caving. Not clear at all that Republicans can get to 50+1 on that with most of the government functioning.
January 27, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Worth noting here that two of the Senators who caved on the ACA shutdown - Kaine and King - explicitly cited fears that Republicans would nuke the filibuster as part of their reasoning for caving. Not clear at all that Republicans can get to 50+1 on that with most of the government functioning.
The judgement of God upon latter day Sodom?
A house of cards monarchy, shiny toys, and rampant slavery, what’s not for them to love
January 23, 2026 at 8:11 AM
The judgement of God upon latter day Sodom?
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I don't actually know how Congress works
January 22, 2026 at 11:22 PM
I don't actually know how Congress works
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the Baileys are apparently on your side
January 20, 2026 at 11:25 PM
the Baileys are apparently on your side
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Pretty much the best conceivable scenario for Democrats in 2029 is a smaller Senate majority than Obama had for half of his Presidency.
January 19, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Pretty much the best conceivable scenario for Democrats in 2029 is a smaller Senate majority than Obama had for half of his Presidency.
Is this the most openly racist administration since Andrew Johnson, and the most openly racist administration capable of implementing its policies since Buchanan? Cleveland allowed Jim Crow to form and Wilson segregated the federal government, but generally the hate and the violence came from below.
and it’s what the redeemers would have done had they been in charge of the federal government
January 16, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Is this the most openly racist administration since Andrew Johnson, and the most openly racist administration capable of implementing its policies since Buchanan? Cleveland allowed Jim Crow to form and Wilson segregated the federal government, but generally the hate and the violence came from below.
Did the good numbers even buy interest rates dinner first
???
*TRUMP:IN THE OLD DAYS, INTEREST RATES WENT DOWN ON GOOD NUMBERS
*TRUMP:IN THE OLD DAYS, INTEREST RATES WENT DOWN ON GOOD NUMBERS
January 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Did the good numbers even buy interest rates dinner first
Speech and debate clause undefeated
if anyone in the fucking senate was briefed on this they have a moral obligation to immediately reveal it
January 11, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Speech and debate clause undefeated
To prevent riots or to arrest federal officers?
Walz calling out the National Guard seems like a real on ramp to the Cool Zone (Warmer)
January 7, 2026 at 8:54 PM
To prevent riots or to arrest federal officers?
Greece and Turkey are rooting for us to annex Greenland so that they won’t “win” the “first NATO-on-NATO war” award
January 6, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Greece and Turkey are rooting for us to annex Greenland so that they won’t “win” the “first NATO-on-NATO war” award
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I don't have a broader point here but it's just kind of surreal, it's like reality is glitching
January 6, 2026 at 2:18 AM
I don't have a broader point here but it's just kind of surreal, it's like reality is glitching
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Maduro is not a Putin or a Chavez. (Or a Trump, for that matter.) He's not some machiavellian genius or charismatic autocrat at the center of a personalistic regime. He's a former bus driver who inherited a consolidated autocracy built by Chavez. He's a front man for a mafia state.
January 3, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Maduro is not a Putin or a Chavez. (Or a Trump, for that matter.) He's not some machiavellian genius or charismatic autocrat at the center of a personalistic regime. He's a former bus driver who inherited a consolidated autocracy built by Chavez. He's a front man for a mafia state.
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The year is 2035. Massachusetts is the only livable state in America, but home prices in the Murdersville neighborhood of Fall River have increased to one William dollars. The legislature passes a law to allow five new homes to be built. They are January 6thed by every senior in the state.
December 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The year is 2035. Massachusetts is the only livable state in America, but home prices in the Murdersville neighborhood of Fall River have increased to one William dollars. The legislature passes a law to allow five new homes to be built. They are January 6thed by every senior in the state.