Reconstructionist
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alt history, legislative politics, american studies, and reconstruction | lots of typos | he/him | views my own, normal disclaimers | Double Victory (DVTL) is my book / worldbuilding project | opinions my own, etc normal disclaimers
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What is Double Victory
Welcome to an Alternative Future and a Changed Past
www.victoryvignettes.com
So what is (DVTL) Double Victory?
It is my world-building and alternative history project, intended to culminate in a series of full-length novels!
TLDR: The Final Countdown with zoomers, crank to 11, and mix in heaping doses of Matterhorn, Red Storm Rising, and the Death of Stalin.
It is my world-building and alternative history project, intended to culminate in a series of full-length novels!
TLDR: The Final Countdown with zoomers, crank to 11, and mix in heaping doses of Matterhorn, Red Storm Rising, and the Death of Stalin.
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before i left was talking to a coworker directly managed by a GOOG VP about the Issues and she told me that it was like being managed by a Dark Souls boss: couldn't get anything out of him other than incoherent and mournful sentence fragments about why he was obliged to do something plainly evil.
December 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
before i left was talking to a coworker directly managed by a GOOG VP about the Issues and she told me that it was like being managed by a Dark Souls boss: couldn't get anything out of him other than incoherent and mournful sentence fragments about why he was obliged to do something plainly evil.
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Extremely excited to bring everyone the revised edition of The Business of Risk, complete with new art, revised chapters, corrections and some great news bonus content!
The first time Peter Toussaint saw a D7 Battlecruiser was in December 2257, when it tried to kill him.
The Remastered edition of The Edge of Midnight Book 1: The Business of Risk. Coming soon to @tranquilitypress.bsky.social
The Remastered edition of The Edge of Midnight Book 1: The Business of Risk. Coming soon to @tranquilitypress.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Extremely excited to bring everyone the revised edition of The Business of Risk, complete with new art, revised chapters, corrections and some great news bonus content!
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Wait, it was EMIL BOVE who was told about the Tom Homan investigation during the transition?!?!?
www.ms.now/news/border-...
www.ms.now/news/border-...
December 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Wait, it was EMIL BOVE who was told about the Tom Homan investigation during the transition?!?!?
www.ms.now/news/border-...
www.ms.now/news/border-...
You don't hear much about a wide stance anymore
December 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
You don't hear much about a wide stance anymore
QUINCY
December 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
QUINCY
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One of the best to ever do it
December 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
One of the best to ever do it
oh my god i forgot they actually used the finger chili lady as an example of a democrat who turned on the party and would be voting for trump
i think about how the NYT is so committed to loading the deck for republicans in their interviews of "normal" people that they quoted the lady who lied about finding a severed finger her in wendy's chili as an anti-harris voice
They did include people who opposed Trump FWIW, including a Trump 2024 voter, but 6 of the 11 people featured outright supported or defended Trump.
I certainly don’t recall any samples of the sort when Biden was an unpopular president!
I certainly don’t recall any samples of the sort when Biden was an unpopular president!
December 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
oh my god i forgot they actually used the finger chili lady as an example of a democrat who turned on the party and would be voting for trump
i think about how the NYT is so committed to loading the deck for republicans in their interviews of "normal" people that they quoted the lady who lied about finding a severed finger her in wendy's chili as an anti-harris voice
They did include people who opposed Trump FWIW, including a Trump 2024 voter, but 6 of the 11 people featured outright supported or defended Trump.
I certainly don’t recall any samples of the sort when Biden was an unpopular president!
I certainly don’t recall any samples of the sort when Biden was an unpopular president!
December 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
i think about how the NYT is so committed to loading the deck for republicans in their interviews of "normal" people that they quoted the lady who lied about finding a severed finger her in wendy's chili as an anti-harris voice
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They did include people who opposed Trump FWIW, including a Trump 2024 voter, but 6 of the 11 people featured outright supported or defended Trump.
I certainly don’t recall any samples of the sort when Biden was an unpopular president!
I certainly don’t recall any samples of the sort when Biden was an unpopular president!
December 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
They did include people who opposed Trump FWIW, including a Trump 2024 voter, but 6 of the 11 people featured outright supported or defended Trump.
I certainly don’t recall any samples of the sort when Biden was an unpopular president!
I certainly don’t recall any samples of the sort when Biden was an unpopular president!
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Trump’s approval is under 40% so naturally the New York Times found a whole bunch of people that support or defend what he’s doing, including a Kamala 2024 voter who regrets his vote lmao
December 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Trump’s approval is under 40% so naturally the New York Times found a whole bunch of people that support or defend what he’s doing, including a Kamala 2024 voter who regrets his vote lmao
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Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"
Border czar Tom Homan didn't receive a normal background check for his role while his bribery probe was still ongoing:
Justice officials felt sure Homan would not be able to obtain a security clearance based on the evidence gathered. It remains unclear how Homan was eventually granted clearance.
Justice officials felt sure Homan would not be able to obtain a security clearance based on the evidence gathered. It remains unclear how Homan was eventually granted clearance.
Border czar Tom Homan didn’t receive normal background check during bribery probe
President-elect Trump initially balked at submitting names of likely nominees to the FBI for background checks, a basic step intended to flag possible financial conflicts or ethical problems.
www.ms.now
December 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"
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i think part of it is the commentariat refusing to see the Resisters as a political movement at all--"just another reactive mass protest movement"
and there are reasons for this--the lack of a central organizing party, the still-developing positive agenda--
and there are reasons for this--the lack of a central organizing party, the still-developing positive agenda--
December 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
i think part of it is the commentariat refusing to see the Resisters as a political movement at all--"just another reactive mass protest movement"
and there are reasons for this--the lack of a central organizing party, the still-developing positive agenda--
and there are reasons for this--the lack of a central organizing party, the still-developing positive agenda--
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apparently i made this for some reason?
December 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
apparently i made this for some reason?
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Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on liberals for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmfao
December 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on liberals for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmfao
man what the fuck is this administration
probably not a great sign that Trump's assistant AG for civil rights uses a slur for people with disabilities
December 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
man what the fuck is this administration
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The fact that this year’s DOD Somalia strikes approaches or exceeds the number of CIA strikes in Pakistan in 2010—but hardly anyone cares or talks about the Somalia ones—makes me wonder if there wasn’t a bit of Streisand effect at work with the CIA’s Pakistan drone program, where the high…
Not planning to do an overall year wrap up but do want to share some work on US strikes in Somalia over the year.
By our tracking (not yet updated for holiday strikes), it is the peak of the campaign and may surpass the peak of strikes in Pakistan.
1/7
www.newamerica.org/future-secur...
By our tracking (not yet updated for holiday strikes), it is the peak of the campaign and may surpass the peak of strikes in Pakistan.
1/7
www.newamerica.org/future-secur...
December 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The fact that this year’s DOD Somalia strikes approaches or exceeds the number of CIA strikes in Pakistan in 2010—but hardly anyone cares or talks about the Somalia ones—makes me wonder if there wasn’t a bit of Streisand effect at work with the CIA’s Pakistan drone program, where the high…
god its just so fuckin good
Menace - Official Cinematic Trailer
YouTube video by IGN
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December 30, 2025 at 6:52 AM
god its just so fuckin good
the bingham v butler v stevens beef was legendary and hilarious
This brought on by reading about pre civil war abolitionists. These people were unambiguously right in the most pressing moral struggle of their time. You’d also probably fucking kill yourself if ever stranded on a desert island with half of them.
December 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM
the bingham v butler v stevens beef was legendary and hilarious
Seems to be a lot of intercepted ephedrine at Australian airports
December 30, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Seems to be a lot of intercepted ephedrine at Australian airports
If the defiant was a modified tanker or container ship with a shit ton of cells and an aesthetic super structure, I wouldn't even hate it that much
Honestly infinitely more viable than the Trump battleship
December 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
If the defiant was a modified tanker or container ship with a shit ton of cells and an aesthetic super structure, I wouldn't even hate it that much
Honestly infinitely more viable than the Trump battleship
December 30, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Honestly infinitely more viable than the Trump battleship