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Pierogi Nazi. Glonzo did nothing wrong. Not really Giancarlo Esposito.
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There is like 10 different red flags here but "Michael Tracey, credible journalist" was a chuckle.
“The Epstein Foundation had a long record of supporting various academic interests,” Hubbard told the Texan in an email statement. “I was not then and am not now aware of any evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was a ‘pedophile’ in the technical sense; his sexual preference appears to have been for young women aged 16-22, which would at most reflect partial ephebophilia. Although most of the women who were involved with him at that age retrospectively regret it, I am unaware of any evidence that the contacts were non-consensual at the time. Some were self-conscious sex workers who recruited others into his orbit and are now making cynical claims of victimization to cash in on his estate and business partners, as reported by Michael Tracey and other credible journalists.”
February 11, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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Why? Because the media sanitized it for consumption and buried the quotes 10 paragraphs down inside a bland context.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nyt-thinking-sanitizing-trump-eugenics-162845350.html
February 10, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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This cracks me up. So the Fascist Grand Council fires Mussolini and he goes to the office the next day like George Costanza
Even then, instead of retrenching, Mussolini sent Italian troops to the Russian front, again ignoring his generals’ counsel. By then, those commanders were shielding him from some of the worst news, knowing he did not want to hear things that contradicted his propaganda. When the Allies landed in Sicily and the Fascist Grand Council voted in July 1943 to remove him from power, judging him incompetent to govern, Mussolini went to work the next day as though nothing had happened.
February 4, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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That's a pretty cool twist of fate! Just since we are talking about it, West Point in its early years was run by the Corps of Engineers.
https://www.westpoint.edu/about/history-of-west-point/brief-history-of-west-point The Early Academy In the 1790s, several distinguished Americans, including President Washington and most of his cabinet, desired to establish an institution devoted to the art and science of warfare to train and develop officers and engineers for the Army. However, the proposal met opposition, especially from Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who objected to the concept based on his opposition to professional armies and the officer class so prominent in Europe. Later, as president, Jefferson realized the importance of defending the new republic against possible invasion. Additionally, the nation’s expansion west with new territory would require an armed force for protection and defense. President Jefferson signed legislation that established the United States Military Academy (USMA) on March 16, 1802. The academy fell under the auspices of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and all the superintendents through 1866 were engineer officers.
February 4, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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Sounds like what he described on the campaign trail
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association Convention in Indianapolis on April 14 Trump says he'll ban homeless camping, create "tent cities" Trump proposed banning "urban camping," arresting those who violate the ban and offering them space in government-run tent cities staffed with doctors and social workers. Infrastructure: Contractors are tasked with providing “soft-sided” tent cities capable of housing up to 10,000 people each.
February 4, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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Amazon called
Our marquee made them mad
All Melania shows canceled
Show your support at Whole Foods instead :(

what a bunch of thin skinned bazillionaire crybabies
Amazon called Our marquee made them mad All Melania shows canceled Show your support at Whole Foods instead :( https://portlandtribune.com/2026/02/02/lake-oswego-theater-cancels-melania-screenings-after-marquee-jokes/
February 3, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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What the hell is in that complaint?

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
WASHINGTON—A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter.
February 2, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Me trying to do some performative reading.
Alexander offering Diogenes anything he wants. Diogenes tells Alexander to stop blocking the sunlight.
January 31, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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Diogenes tells Alexander to stop blocking the sun in a performative display
January 31, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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Lord have mercy on my soul for posting this
A cartoon from a failure of a human being
January 29, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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Biden lost the most important election of my lifetime to support a person who wouldn't have pissed on him if his head was on fire.

Times of Israel. www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-is...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted Tuesday that some Israeli soldiers lost their lives in the war against Hamas because of what he called an “embargo,” that allegedly caused Israel to run out of ammunition. He did not specify how many soldiers lost their lives for this reason, or precisely when it ostensibly happened. The premier did not directly name the Biden administration, but said that the “embargo” ended as soon as US President Donald Trump took office. Netanyahu has repeatedly accused the Biden administration of instituting an embargo on arms supplies to Israel, notably in June 2024. Biden has denied withholding arms from Israel, apart from a batch of 2,000-pound “bunker buster” bombs amid concerns about how they would be used in the southern Gaza city of Rafah at that time. Speaking at the very end of a lengthy press conference, in remarks that were not prompted by a question, Netanyahu said Israel paid “very heavy prices” in the war in terms of the loss of soldiers’ lives. While “part of that is what happens in war,” he said, part of it stemmed from the fact that “at a certain stage, we didn’t have enough ammunition.”
January 28, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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The perfect excommunication.
January 27, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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Re: Blackhawk Down - it's a good movie. Love the late Rachid Taha's music in it. I also read The Zanzibar Chest where Reuters war reporter writes about his time in Somalia when it all went down plus Rwanda. Would recommend if you like that type of memoir.
January 27, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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Here we see Stalin and his staff visiting their favorite Vikings broadcaster.
Stalin and Yezhov photo
January 27, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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Individual incentives can encourage radicalization. This description from Robert Paxton in The Anatomy of Fascism nails the dynamics of Trump's cabinets.
We saw in the previous chapter how the self-indulgently bohemian Hitler spent as little time as possible on the labors of government, at least until the war. He proclaimed his visions and hatreds in speeches and ceremonies, and allowed his ambitious underlings to search for the most radical way to fulfill them in a Darwinian competition for attention and reward. His lieutenants, fully aware of his fanatical views, “worked toward the Führer,”26 who needed mainly to arbitrate among them. Mussolini, quite unlike Hitler in his commitment to the drudgery of government, refused to delegate and remained suspicious of competent associates—a governing style that produced more inertia than radicalization.
January 26, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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Mussolini's political career started in the early 1900s. I'll date his political career back to 1903. Meaning probably 35 years to achieve dictatorial authority
January 26, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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This is my flag
JOIN, or DIE
January 25, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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I may be getting as soaked as everyone else, but at least I am not perplexed.
“There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.” ― Tsunetomo Yamamoto, The Hagakure: A code to the way of samurai
January 22, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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Vaclav Havel has never felt as relevant in the west as he does now. Glad to see someone making the connection.
Carney then pivots to something clever: Václav Havel’s greengrocer. Every morning, the greengrocer places a sign in his window: Workers of the world, unite! He doesn’t believe it; no one does. But he places the sign anyway to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along, etc. And because every shopkeeper on the street does the same, the system trudges on. Not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false. Carney’s argument is that for decades, middle powers like Canada have played the greengrocer. They placed the “rules-based international order” sign in the window. They knew the story was partially false, that in many places the liberal order was not liberal or even orderly. That the strongest exempted themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, that international law applied with varying rigor depending on the identity of the accused. But it was a useful fiction so long as American hegemony provided public goods: open sea lanes, stable finance, global trade, collective security, frameworks for resolving disputes. It provided a sense of stability or at least acquiescence to weaker states. Not every time, but enough that they would keep the sign in the window. “This bargain no longer works,” Carney said. “We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.”
January 21, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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It was foretold
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1870634358169555455
January 21, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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This is standard operating procedure. When Trump ranted that about Haitians having "bad genes" their headline was "Donald Trump invoked his long-held fascination with genes and genetics.”

They rewrote it slightly after intense criticism, but in general they are happy to repeat his vile claims.
New York Times: Trump’s Long Fascination With Genes and Bloodlines Gets New Scrutiny
January 21, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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Footnote 72 points out that Maurras was a monarchist.

Anyway the "it feels true and that's what matters" reminded me of JD Vance admitting he was fabricating stories about immigrants. And he thought it was a good thing he was doing it.
72. Ernst Nolte considers the Action Française the “first face” in his The Three Faces of Fascism (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1966). Supporting his case are the nationalism, anti-Semitism, antiparliamentarism, and occasional anticapitalism of the movement, together with its cults of youth and action. Weakening the case for fascism is Maurras’s advocacy of a restored monarchy and Catholic Church as the solution to French “decline.”
January 19, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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Found this little snippet about nationalist Charles Maurras. He got conned by a counterfeit during the Dreyfus affair and rather than admit his error decided it was good the evidence was fake.

Not sure if he was a fascist but this sort of thinking seems to be everywhere now.
Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism Similar ingredients mingled in the popular emotions aroused in France after 1896 against Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish staff officer wrongly accused of spying for Germany. The case convulsed France until 1906. The anti-Dreyfus camp enlisted in defense of the authority of the state and the honor of the army both conservatives and some Leftists influenced by traditional anticapitalist anti-Semitism and Jacobin forms of nationalism. The pro-Dreyfus camp, mostly from Left and center, defended a universal standard of the rights of man. The nation took precedence over any universal value, proclaimed the anti-Dreyfusard Charles Maurras, whose Action Française movement is sometimes considered the first authentic fascism.^72 When a document used to incriminate Dreyfus turned out to have been faked, Maurras was undaunted. It was, he said, a “patriotic forgery,” a faux patriotique.
January 19, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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Who runs this account with 4M followers? They were promoting the conquest of Greenland and Canada before Trump took office.
January 19, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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The ideal male body. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like.
Older Minnesotan man standing in an icy yard in his bathrobe filming ICE (not shown)
January 19, 2026 at 5:21 AM