Blake Elder
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Older in Switzerland
My first life crisis came when I turned twenty-eight. Approaching thirty, I had to finally face up that I would never again be nineteen. After several years of weekly therapy I got past it, mostly,
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November 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Think of all the free time you’ll get back once you no longer have to spend an hour every night watching comedians criticize the regime!
A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing
That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!
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September 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Think of all the free time you’ll get back once you no longer have to spend an hour every night watching comedians criticize the regime!
It's not really a celebratory holiday this year.
U.S. Army First Division Memorial, Omaha Beach.
We saved them, but it doesn't seem we can save ourselves.
U.S. Army First Division Memorial, Omaha Beach.
We saved them, but it doesn't seem we can save ourselves.
July 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It's not really a celebratory holiday this year.
U.S. Army First Division Memorial, Omaha Beach.
We saved them, but it doesn't seem we can save ourselves.
U.S. Army First Division Memorial, Omaha Beach.
We saved them, but it doesn't seem we can save ourselves.
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DOGE stole our personal financial data.
Palantir is tracking Americans using private financial, health and travel data, social media posts and political donations.
ICE is denying due process, abducting people, and putting them in concentration camps.
Happy “Independence” Day!
Palantir is tracking Americans using private financial, health and travel data, social media posts and political donations.
ICE is denying due process, abducting people, and putting them in concentration camps.
Happy “Independence” Day!
July 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
DOGE stole our personal financial data.
Palantir is tracking Americans using private financial, health and travel data, social media posts and political donations.
ICE is denying due process, abducting people, and putting them in concentration camps.
Happy “Independence” Day!
Palantir is tracking Americans using private financial, health and travel data, social media posts and political donations.
ICE is denying due process, abducting people, and putting them in concentration camps.
Happy “Independence” Day!
Irony. From the DOI...last of several
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses;
For ... altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses;
For ... altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
July 4, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Irony. From the DOI...last of several
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses;
For ... altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses;
For ... altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
Irony. From the DOI...3 of several
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
For protecting them from punishment...
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
For protecting them from punishment...
July 4, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Irony. From the DOI...3 of several
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
For protecting them from punishment...
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
For protecting them from punishment...
Irony. From the DOI....2 of several
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
July 4, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Irony. From the DOI....2 of several
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
Irony. From the DOI...1 of several
He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained....
He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained....
July 4, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Irony. From the DOI...1 of several
He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained....
He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained....
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🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️
June 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️
When there are no adults in the room. A bit of Silicon Valley / San Francisco fiction...
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Romper Room
As she waited on Brannan Street, Lindsey Munro noticed a group of elementary school children, thirty strong, coming down the street. They were all talking, yelling, pushing each other, laughing.
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June 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
When there are no adults in the room. A bit of Silicon Valley / San Francisco fiction...
#siliconvalley #sanfrancisco #fiction
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Hard to believe but 18 years ago, I sent the great Alfonso Cuaron an advance copy of The Shock Doctrine and asked if he might be willing to write a blurb.
He made a short film instead. This is it. Still chills me.
Share with whoever you think it might help.
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He made a short film instead. This is it. Still chills me.
Share with whoever you think it might help.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7fW...
January 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Hard to believe but 18 years ago, I sent the great Alfonso Cuaron an advance copy of The Shock Doctrine and asked if he might be willing to write a blurb.
He made a short film instead. This is it. Still chills me.
Share with whoever you think it might help.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7fW...
He made a short film instead. This is it. Still chills me.
Share with whoever you think it might help.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7fW...
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January 20, 1961. It was 20 °F (−7 °C) the day before. Robert Frost was 86 years old.
January 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
January 20, 1961. It was 20 °F (−7 °C) the day before. Robert Frost was 86 years old.
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January 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Gene Lyons, the great Arkansas columnist, calls it quits. Why? Donald Trump.
"I just don’t want to spend the rest of my life thinking and writing about him."
https://www.nationalmemo.com/trump-2670718685
"I just don’t want to spend the rest of my life thinking and writing about him."
https://www.nationalmemo.com/trump-2670718685
Good-Bye And Good Luck: Why I Won't Be Writing Any More Newspaper Columns
After giving the matter some thought, I have decided that I’ve become unsuited to the low art of writing newspaper columns any longer. My deficiencies to participate in the current conversation are many. For one thing, I have never listened to a podcast. I prefer reading things, a more efficient way...
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January 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Gene Lyons, the great Arkansas columnist, calls it quits. Why? Donald Trump.
"I just don’t want to spend the rest of my life thinking and writing about him."
https://www.nationalmemo.com/trump-2670718685
"I just don’t want to spend the rest of my life thinking and writing about him."
https://www.nationalmemo.com/trump-2670718685
The latest: travels in hillbilly parts of North America and also dulls, safe, prosperous Switzerland:
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A Tale of Two Places: Hillbillies and Helvetians
In April, my daughter Catherine and I went to the United States (Hagerstown, Floyd, Annapolis). For the first time in forever, there was no business to be done: no moving, no paperwork, no nothing;
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December 29, 2024 at 7:04 PM
The latest: travels in hillbilly parts of North America and also dulls, safe, prosperous Switzerland:
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