Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Tim
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That look on your face, don’t let it go to waste
I’m old enough to remember the 2004 election and the Karl Rovian approach of turning strengths into liabilities. It seems like Trump on immigration is an ideal avenue for this kind of attack.
there are pundits who will say that immigration is trump's strongest issue and that picking fights around immigration helps him on the margins. but i think this misunderstands the way public opinion works, as evidenced by trump's declining fortunes on his handling of immigration.
December 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I’m old enough to remember the 2004 election and the Karl Rovian approach of turning strengths into liabilities. It seems like Trump on immigration is an ideal avenue for this kind of attack.
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Don’t read this if you haven’t watched the new Knives Out movie but I wrote about how the series only works because Blanc doesn’t treat the mysteries like a game but is always protecting the most vulnerable individual in the case
open.substack.com/pub/somethin...
open.substack.com/pub/somethin...
Benoit Blanc’s road to Damascus
There’s several tensions at work in the new Knives Out movie, Wake Up Dead Man — religious belief vs nonbelief / atheism, innocence vs guilt, love vs hate, what a community looks like, what is the tru...
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Don’t read this if you haven’t watched the new Knives Out movie but I wrote about how the series only works because Blanc doesn’t treat the mysteries like a game but is always protecting the most vulnerable individual in the case
open.substack.com/pub/somethin...
open.substack.com/pub/somethin...
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Oof. He was truly a master, from Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern to Arcadia to Leopoldstadt—just a lifetime of tremendous, thought-provoking, hilarious work. RIP. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Oof. He was truly a master, from Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern to Arcadia to Leopoldstadt—just a lifetime of tremendous, thought-provoking, hilarious work. RIP. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Remember someone raising the number of jobs brought into rural communities by prisons as if universities don’t produce better jobs and outcomes for everyone involved.
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Remember someone raising the number of jobs brought into rural communities by prisons as if universities don’t produce better jobs and outcomes for everyone involved.
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to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
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New game: First Large Language Model/Deep Learning/Generative "AI"/"Machine Learning" firm w/ only renewable energy sources, an open source & radical consent model for the collection & use of training data, & an output correction process that's not just "don't talk about prejudicial bias, ever" wins
November 13, 2023 at 4:58 AM
New game: First Large Language Model/Deep Learning/Generative "AI"/"Machine Learning" firm w/ only renewable energy sources, an open source & radical consent model for the collection & use of training data, & an output correction process that's not just "don't talk about prejudicial bias, ever" wins
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NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.
November 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.
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Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]
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this is our cracker barrel moment
October 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
this is our cracker barrel moment
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"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you
"Cancel culture" = when you criticize me
"Cancel culture" = when you criticize me
September 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you
"Cancel culture" = when you criticize me
"Cancel culture" = when you criticize me
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Trying to take courage from Bolsonaro's sentencing today. Nothing is inevitable, and fighting for the right thing always matters.
September 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Trying to take courage from Bolsonaro's sentencing today. Nothing is inevitable, and fighting for the right thing always matters.
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And those same idiots will say that only 'white' immigration is good but pick any immigrant group, white or non-white, recent or distant and it is trivially easy to demonstrate the great contributions, large and small, its members have made for our country.
September 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
And those same idiots will say that only 'white' immigration is good but pick any immigrant group, white or non-white, recent or distant and it is trivially easy to demonstrate the great contributions, large and small, its members have made for our country.
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It is a testament to white nationalist/"nat. con." stupidity to insist, when there is one 'immigration nation' on earth and it is also the richest and most powerful country to have ever existed, that immigration and diversity makes us weaker.
Like asking "what makes Usain Bolt so slow?"
Like asking "what makes Usain Bolt so slow?"
September 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It is a testament to white nationalist/"nat. con." stupidity to insist, when there is one 'immigration nation' on earth and it is also the richest and most powerful country to have ever existed, that immigration and diversity makes us weaker.
Like asking "what makes Usain Bolt so slow?"
Like asking "what makes Usain Bolt so slow?"
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The last 100 years of US politics
September 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The last 100 years of US politics
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i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
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Me: I try really hard to not be too parasocial about any celebrities, that is a very important boundary to me
Also me: [crying IRL about my close personal friend Taylor Swift getting engaged]
Also me: [crying IRL about my close personal friend Taylor Swift getting engaged]
August 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Me: I try really hard to not be too parasocial about any celebrities, that is a very important boundary to me
Also me: [crying IRL about my close personal friend Taylor Swift getting engaged]
Also me: [crying IRL about my close personal friend Taylor Swift getting engaged]
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Must be because the humanities department of Moderna took unpopular stances on issues of gender and race with voters, which is the *only* reason why STEM funding is being cut
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast.
Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’
A close associate of the HHS secretary claims the U.S. government will soon pull COVID-19 mRNA jabs from the market.
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August 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Must be because the humanities department of Moderna took unpopular stances on issues of gender and race with voters, which is the *only* reason why STEM funding is being cut
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thank you for your commitment to entertainment, Iowa State secondary
August 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
thank you for your commitment to entertainment, Iowa State secondary
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It’s actually kinda amazing how dogshit trump looks, moves, and sounds these days, Biden on his worst day didn’t even come close to this lol
August 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It’s actually kinda amazing how dogshit trump looks, moves, and sounds these days, Biden on his worst day didn’t even come close to this lol
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Obsessed with this photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos guy.
July 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Obsessed with this photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos guy.