Bryan Nichmann
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On a daily basis, I marvel at how many people in putative positions of power are willing to help obliterate American democracy. The US has faced a series of very easy moral tests in the past decade and it’s staggering how often people in once-respected positions have failed.
March 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
On a daily basis, I marvel at how many people in putative positions of power are willing to help obliterate American democracy. The US has faced a series of very easy moral tests in the past decade and it’s staggering how often people in once-respected positions have failed.
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The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
benefit.me
March 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
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Many people (me) have been saying that a radical expansion of California's UCs and CSUs would be good for democracy
we should make college free
March 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Many people (me) have been saying that a radical expansion of California's UCs and CSUs would be good for democracy
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"Trumpism is the Cultural Revolution for men" appears to be completely spot on
March 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"Trumpism is the Cultural Revolution for men" appears to be completely spot on
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Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
February 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
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So I tried this last year and it didn’t take off, but since a particular defense policy website is imploding I’d like to once again point out that Breaking Beijing takes submissions and guess authors:
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
Grab Your Kit: Breaking Beijing is Expanding
A Call for Submissions and Guest Authors
open.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
So I tried this last year and it didn’t take off, but since a particular defense policy website is imploding I’d like to once again point out that Breaking Beijing takes submissions and guess authors:
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
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It's equal parts nauseating and funny to see these guys talking about "strength" and "courage" and "standing up" while engaging in the kind of pathetic, servile, "yes-my-baron" ritual groveling rarely seen by men not wearing literal gimp suits.
February 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It's equal parts nauseating and funny to see these guys talking about "strength" and "courage" and "standing up" while engaging in the kind of pathetic, servile, "yes-my-baron" ritual groveling rarely seen by men not wearing literal gimp suits.
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"I didn't want to invade Canada until they got upset about us threatening to invade them" is going to be a widespread opinion.
February 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"I didn't want to invade Canada until they got upset about us threatening to invade them" is going to be a widespread opinion.
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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this is an immediate global depression button if they touch it, you cannot simply decide not to honor some treasuries without the total collapse of the financial system
I’d like to think even they aren’t that stupid, but…
I’d like to think even they aren’t that stupid, but…
February 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
this is an immediate global depression button if they touch it, you cannot simply decide not to honor some treasuries without the total collapse of the financial system
I’d like to think even they aren’t that stupid, but…
I’d like to think even they aren’t that stupid, but…
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i think it is worth pointing out that nothing, to the average americans, is happening. musk's little termites are boring in the walls but they haven't even gotten particularly far
The American people are roughly as clued into current events as a sea cucumber and it’s been less than a month.
And of course Trump burning down the country and attacking everyone who isn’t a white cis man is popular with his core base of idiot bigots.
And of course Trump burning down the country and attacking everyone who isn’t a white cis man is popular with his core base of idiot bigots.
This post will generate angry responses, insults. etc. But important info here. Outside the coasts/Beltway, it appears that SOME of what Trump is doing is generating support, is popular with his base. Politically complicates situation for Dems too. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...
February 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
i think it is worth pointing out that nothing, to the average americans, is happening. musk's little termites are boring in the walls but they haven't even gotten particularly far
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"the high cost of free parking" is a book that legit rewired my brain. RIP to a great scholar
I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.
February 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
"the high cost of free parking" is a book that legit rewired my brain. RIP to a great scholar
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the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone
New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
February 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone
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let me put this plainly: if NCMEC is shut down, then Donald Trump has effectively legalized child pornography
Just because I’m no longer on their board doesn’t mean I don’t still have friends there. I am told that the Trump DOJ has advised NCMEC that if they don’t scrub their website for any public-facing references to TQIA+ kids this week, they are at risk of losing their funding.
February 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
let me put this plainly: if NCMEC is shut down, then Donald Trump has effectively legalized child pornography
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for those unfamiliar BAP's thing is jerking off to ancient greek statues and lynching you for being gay if you point this out
February 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
for those unfamiliar BAP's thing is jerking off to ancient greek statues and lynching you for being gay if you point this out
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February 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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As we’ve seen this all unfold, the take that has been floating around in my head is “I’m voting for trump because most of all in government, I want competence”
February 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
As we’ve seen this all unfold, the take that has been floating around in my head is “I’m voting for trump because most of all in government, I want competence”
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you obviously want to propagandize the losses, but then people get a completely insane idea about how dangerous resistance is even in a consolidated authoritarian state.
February 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
you obviously want to propagandize the losses, but then people get a completely insane idea about how dangerous resistance is even in a consolidated authoritarian state.
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the media has now more or less uniformly adopted the theory that the president is allowed to violate the law and constitution however much he wants to so long as he says he is going to do it in advance
January 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
the media has now more or less uniformly adopted the theory that the president is allowed to violate the law and constitution however much he wants to so long as he says he is going to do it in advance
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One weakness of the modern media is that there's no room for journalists to make value judgements. It's pure postmodernism. As long as you maintain you're in the right there's nothing they can do.
For a while people apologized when they did wrong but eventually people caught on.
For a while people apologized when they did wrong but eventually people caught on.
the media has now more or less uniformly adopted the theory that the president is allowed to violate the law and constitution however much he wants to so long as he says he is going to do it in advance
February 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
One weakness of the modern media is that there's no room for journalists to make value judgements. It's pure postmodernism. As long as you maintain you're in the right there's nothing they can do.
For a while people apologized when they did wrong but eventually people caught on.
For a while people apologized when they did wrong but eventually people caught on.
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I feel like Covid was the last gasp of the functional US public health system, they swiftly used the powers and state capacity to limit the damage and fast-track a lifesaving vaccine, but they had to inflict so much social pain that it ensured the public would never again tolerate such measures.
It was a near run thing, but in the end these emergency measures kept the health system from collapsing even as NYC had to dig mass graves on Hart Island to bury the bodies destined for the Potter's field.
February 1, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I feel like Covid was the last gasp of the functional US public health system, they swiftly used the powers and state capacity to limit the damage and fast-track a lifesaving vaccine, but they had to inflict so much social pain that it ensured the public would never again tolerate such measures.
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This. The Administration's conduct up to now, plus the sorts of people that currently surround the President (e.g., Vought), should move your prior probability on the likelihood of the Insurrection Act being invoked at some point to greater than 50%
this is also what russ vought types want
Strongly beginning to suspect that Trump is waiting for large-scale demonstrations in U.S. cities, whereupon he will invoke the Insurrection Act
That's when we'll find out if the military will honor their oath to support and defend the Constitution
That's when we'll find out if the military will honor their oath to support and defend the Constitution
January 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This. The Administration's conduct up to now, plus the sorts of people that currently surround the President (e.g., Vought), should move your prior probability on the likelihood of the Insurrection Act being invoked at some point to greater than 50%
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hey question, is this bad?
January 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
hey question, is this bad?
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO