@brianpcf.bsky.social
California YIMBY
Former USMC
USNA Grad
St. John’s College Grad
Pod host: Combat & Classics
Former USMC
USNA Grad
St. John’s College Grad
Pod host: Combat & Classics
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For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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I’m at the Epstein Files
I’m at the Russiagate
I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate
I’m at the Russiagate
I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I’m at the Epstein Files
I’m at the Russiagate
I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate
I’m at the Russiagate
I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate
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Think reeeeeaaallll hard about why this same thing, an insane drop in housing production, happened in every city in America immediately after the Civil Rights movement
amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Think reeeeeaaallll hard about why this same thing, an insane drop in housing production, happened in every city in America immediately after the Civil Rights movement
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Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something
Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.
www.the-reframe.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Saw the Zohran campaign sign generator on Instagram and had to get this out of my head. Ok goodbye again.
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Saw the Zohran campaign sign generator on Instagram and had to get this out of my head. Ok goodbye again.
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Said resistance was often a bit more emphatic than chucking some bread at a fed, too.
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Said resistance was often a bit more emphatic than chucking some bread at a fed, too.
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I should also say that some of the questions are coming as Francis says he doesn't know the answer and councilmembers are literally sitting there googling the answers and finding them.
This is a thing that is happening.
This is a thing that is happening.
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I should also say that some of the questions are coming as Francis says he doesn't know the answer and councilmembers are literally sitting there googling the answers and finding them.
This is a thing that is happening.
This is a thing that is happening.
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Oh, Dort. GWOT vet here. The kick in the nuts was a President attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order, not citizens freely casting votes for their preferred candidate, regardless of my desired outcome. Might want to dust off that oath you claim to live by.
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Oh, Dort. GWOT vet here. The kick in the nuts was a President attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order, not citizens freely casting votes for their preferred candidate, regardless of my desired outcome. Might want to dust off that oath you claim to live by.
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One of these jobs is for a large-headed brainless muppet to engage in pointless spectacle for the entertainment of drunk, braying, red-hatted fans and its masters in Washington, and one of these jobs is Racing President.
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
One of these jobs is for a large-headed brainless muppet to engage in pointless spectacle for the entertainment of drunk, braying, red-hatted fans and its masters in Washington, and one of these jobs is Racing President.
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1. There are three very important constraints on tonight's Mamdani victory you have to keep in mind when we're looking at what he's going to be able to do in office (taking him in good faith as someone who wants to make life better for people and discounting Trump).
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
1. There are three very important constraints on tonight's Mamdani victory you have to keep in mind when we're looking at what he's going to be able to do in office (taking him in good faith as someone who wants to make life better for people and discounting Trump).
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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The USMC museum is putting up a “In This House” lawnsign
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The USMC museum is putting up a “In This House” lawnsign
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Support the arts in Dallas. Ethan Rutherford's North Sun is an amazing novel up for this year's National Book Award. It's published by Dallas-based nonprofit @deepvellum.bsky.social. They're the smallest publisher nominated and need help. Would be huge for the local scene! t.e2ma.net/message/nwkh...
November 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Support the arts in Dallas. Ethan Rutherford's North Sun is an amazing novel up for this year's National Book Award. It's published by Dallas-based nonprofit @deepvellum.bsky.social. They're the smallest publisher nominated and need help. Would be huge for the local scene! t.e2ma.net/message/nwkh...
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Shohei’s bookies just released his dog
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Shohei’s bookies just released his dog
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“this mindset was also strongly associated with authoritarian attitudes, including beliefs that some groups should dominate others and support for autocratic government. These links help explain why strongman leaders often use misinformation symbolically to impress and control a population.”
Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength
Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.
theconversation.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
“this mindset was also strongly associated with authoritarian attitudes, including beliefs that some groups should dominate others and support for autocratic government. These links help explain why strongman leaders often use misinformation symbolically to impress and control a population.”
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They should bring Isaac Chotiner in to pitch
October 28, 2025 at 5:54 AM
They should bring Isaac Chotiner in to pitch
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"And we head to the 15th inning"
October 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
"And we head to the 15th inning"
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10 years ago tonight
October 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
10 years ago tonight
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I haven’t seen a Vladimir make an elaborate quick-witted play like that since Nabokov’s “Pale Fire”
October 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I haven’t seen a Vladimir make an elaborate quick-witted play like that since Nabokov’s “Pale Fire”
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Or just give him an entire magazine again. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...
What Is Code? If You Don't Know, You Need to Read This
The world belongs to people who code. Those who don’t understand will be left behind.
www.bloomberg.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Or just give him an entire magazine again. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...