Ross McPhee 🌍🗿
@arestlessnative.bsky.social
He tries jokes, sadly for me these days. It's mostly just other people's patience. (He/Him) Formerly @arestlessnative on #ElonChan 😏 Or, save time remove all previous, and replace with TWAT!
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Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles’ https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles’ https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/
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They rounded a bunch of random Venezuelans with tats and pretended they were in tren de aragua, then started blowing up random Venezuelan boats they claim “carried drugs,” in order to slowly groom their base into supporting a full ground war on Venezuela that was always about oil
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
They rounded a bunch of random Venezuelans with tats and pretended they were in tren de aragua, then started blowing up random Venezuelan boats they claim “carried drugs,” in order to slowly groom their base into supporting a full ground war on Venezuela that was always about oil
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I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me.
I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.
I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me.
I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.
I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.
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in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
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The Trump administration has asked the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals to stay District Judge Sara Ellis’ preliminary injunction restricting the use of force against protesters and journalists in Chicago.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The Trump administration has asked the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals to stay District Judge Sara Ellis’ preliminary injunction restricting the use of force against protesters and journalists in Chicago.
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Amid a teen social media ban standoff, Google is using the most visited page by Aussies — Google search — to promote the YouTube's benefits for kids.
The company wouldn't say if it's the mystery group who has engaged a top constitutional law expert for advice on the ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
The company wouldn't say if it's the mystery group who has engaged a top constitutional law expert for advice on the ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Amid a teen social media ban standoff, Google is using the most visited page by Aussies — Google search — to promote the YouTube's benefits for kids.
The company wouldn't say if it's the mystery group who has engaged a top constitutional law expert for advice on the ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
The company wouldn't say if it's the mystery group who has engaged a top constitutional law expert for advice on the ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
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"The best thing about Mondays is new Did Nothing Wrong episodes, change my mind."
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"The best thing about Mondays is new Did Nothing Wrong episodes, change my mind."
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This might be the stupidest "investigative" report I've ever seen.
GAIT ANALYSIS! They are basing it on AI "analyzing" the way a former Capitol Police officer walked in videos.
www.theblaze.com/news/former-...
GAIT ANALYSIS! They are basing it on AI "analyzing" the way a former Capitol Police officer walked in videos.
www.theblaze.com/news/former-...
Former Capitol Police officer a forensic match for Jan. 6 pipe bomber, sources say | Blaze Media
A computer program that compared the bomb suspect’s gait to that of Shauni Kerkhoff produced a 94% match.
www.theblaze.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This might be the stupidest "investigative" report I've ever seen.
GAIT ANALYSIS! They are basing it on AI "analyzing" the way a former Capitol Police officer walked in videos.
www.theblaze.com/news/former-...
GAIT ANALYSIS! They are basing it on AI "analyzing" the way a former Capitol Police officer walked in videos.
www.theblaze.com/news/former-...
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
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I saw people speculating about whether this is Trump falling for disinfo or having a senior moment, and my opinion is it's more participatory make-believe: acting as-if something is real because it tickles the desires, with no further thoughts about veracity one way or the other.
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I saw people speculating about whether this is Trump falling for disinfo or having a senior moment, and my opinion is it's more participatory make-believe: acting as-if something is real because it tickles the desires, with no further thoughts about veracity one way or the other.
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I hope no one lets any elected official to pretend to forget about this. They want people to starve.
Breaking News: The Trump administration told states to undo any steps to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, threatening financial penalties if the states do not comply. It was unclear how that would affect the program.
Trump Live Updates: Airport and SNAP Benefit Disruptions Amid Shutdown
nyti.ms
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I hope no one lets any elected official to pretend to forget about this. They want people to starve.
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every sunday, from pulpits in megachurches across america, white evangelicals cry out about some imaginary persecution of christianity. but i can’t stop thinking about the pile of rosaries collected by a janitor at a border crossing or the priest turned away at the gates of the detention camp.
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
every sunday, from pulpits in megachurches across america, white evangelicals cry out about some imaginary persecution of christianity. but i can’t stop thinking about the pile of rosaries collected by a janitor at a border crossing or the priest turned away at the gates of the detention camp.
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Pass the sick bag!🤢🤮
SHAMELESS & UNSTABLE SYCHOPHANT: "There will never be another like him."
SANE AMERICANS: "Promise???"
SANE AMERICANS: "Promise???"
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Pass the sick bag!🤢🤮
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So funny thing, Barack Obama specifically endorsed this during his administration when anti-trans racist Kris Kobach (now Kansas AG) was leading Crosscheck. Happy that Dems are against it now.
www.newsbreak.com/golden-gate-...
www.newsbreak.com/golden-gate-...
Padilla, Durbin Condemn DOJ Over Efforts to Obtain State Voter Data, Target California, Other States - NewsBreak
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) are calling out the U.S. Department of Justice for what they describe as
www.newsbreak.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
So funny thing, Barack Obama specifically endorsed this during his administration when anti-trans racist Kris Kobach (now Kansas AG) was leading Crosscheck. Happy that Dems are against it now.
www.newsbreak.com/golden-gate-...
www.newsbreak.com/golden-gate-...
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There’s a cult of ignorance in the US and always has been.
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
- Isaac Asimov
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
- Isaac Asimov
November 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
There’s a cult of ignorance in the US and always has been.
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
- Isaac Asimov
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
- Isaac Asimov
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"geopolitics"
incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
November 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"geopolitics"
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Don’t let the station door hit you in the ass on your way out
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Don’t let the station door hit you in the ass on your way out
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1960s "Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee invented a revolutionary type of nuclear reactor that could run on thorium instead of uranium" <more of it, cheaper, safer, no water>
And then the program was axed in 1969
2011 Chinese scientists used the plans, experiment
They just made it work ⚡
And then the program was axed in 1969
2011 Chinese scientists used the plans, experiment
They just made it work ⚡
It's nice to have some good news. This feels pretty big. Very happy to see a successful conversion of thorium into uranium in a molten salt reactor.
China found in U.S. archives an energy source that could power its future for 20,000 years - and made it work
I’m not exaggerating.
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
1960s "Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee invented a revolutionary type of nuclear reactor that could run on thorium instead of uranium" <more of it, cheaper, safer, no water>
And then the program was axed in 1969
2011 Chinese scientists used the plans, experiment
They just made it work ⚡
And then the program was axed in 1969
2011 Chinese scientists used the plans, experiment
They just made it work ⚡
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This NYT piece generating all the controversy is also a masterclass in clickbait headlining. Can’t say I’m a fan, but I get it. Link sans paywall archive.is/pKdfM
archive.is
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This NYT piece generating all the controversy is also a masterclass in clickbait headlining. Can’t say I’m a fan, but I get it. Link sans paywall archive.is/pKdfM
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Important read 👇
My new article, in Res Publica.
"While most scholarship treats populism and post-truth politics as separate phenomena, we argue that their convergence creates a distinct and more corrosive force - one that combines epistemic distortion with political exclusion."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"While most scholarship treats populism and post-truth politics as separate phenomena, we argue that their convergence creates a distinct and more corrosive force - one that combines epistemic distortion with political exclusion."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Mutual Reinforcement of Populism and Post-Truth in Undermining Deliberative Democracy - Res Publica
This paper examines the compounded threat that post-truth populism poses to the foundations of deliberative democracy. While most scholarship treats populism and post-truth politics as separate phenom...
link.springer.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Important read 👇
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This is why Rogan is so insidious. He will occasionally pull something like this to maintain the illusion that he's genuinely independent of mind and impartial, etc, instead of what he actually is: an incurious, reactionary grifter with no integrity, a sycophantic bootlicker.
ROGAN: “What makes Mamdani a swindler?”
MUSK: “uhhhhhhhh….”
MUSK: “uhhhhhhhh….”
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This is why Rogan is so insidious. He will occasionally pull something like this to maintain the illusion that he's genuinely independent of mind and impartial, etc, instead of what he actually is: an incurious, reactionary grifter with no integrity, a sycophantic bootlicker.
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My daughter's friend was among the striking British Library workers and was hugely buoyed up by Zack's support.
Where was the "Labour" Party?
Where was the "Labour" Party?
Solidarity with @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library.
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
My daughter's friend was among the striking British Library workers and was hugely buoyed up by Zack's support.
Where was the "Labour" Party?
Where was the "Labour" Party?
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* Muslims wear the poppy = no right to wear the poppy
* Muslims get elected in Parliament = no right to sit in parliament
* Muslims born in the UK = go home
What other community is facing this level of hate and racism in our society currently?
* Muslims get elected in Parliament = no right to sit in parliament
* Muslims born in the UK = go home
What other community is facing this level of hate and racism in our society currently?
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
* Muslims wear the poppy = no right to wear the poppy
* Muslims get elected in Parliament = no right to sit in parliament
* Muslims born in the UK = go home
What other community is facing this level of hate and racism in our society currently?
* Muslims get elected in Parliament = no right to sit in parliament
* Muslims born in the UK = go home
What other community is facing this level of hate and racism in our society currently?
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