Nanami Kiryuu
@charontwo.bsky.social
Anime character (Shoujo Kakumei Utena)
Retired elderly chemical engineer, experience mostly oil and petrochemical stuff. I mostly go by "Charon" in blog comment threads.
Retired elderly chemical engineer, experience mostly oil and petrochemical stuff. I mostly go by "Charon" in blog comment threads.
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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
--- Hannah Arendt
#politics #history #HigherEd #science
--- Hannah Arendt
#politics #history #HigherEd #science
October 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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CNN details that Trump's approval rating among independents is "the worst on record at this point" and has cratered since January
July 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
CNN details that Trump's approval rating among independents is "the worst on record at this point" and has cratered since January
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New in PN: Medicaid 'gamers' are the new 'welfare queens'
"Ever since Reagan’s smear took hold, Republicans have consistently presented poverty as a moral failing, but now they’ve extended it to physical health. Medicaid recipients are somehow simultaneously too lazy and/or sick to deserve care."
"Ever since Reagan’s smear took hold, Republicans have consistently presented poverty as a moral failing, but now they’ve extended it to physical health. Medicaid recipients are somehow simultaneously too lazy and/or sick to deserve care."
Medicaid 'gamers' are the new 'welfare queens'
Republicans are taking strawman arguments to absurd extremes.
www.publicnotice.co
July 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
New in PN: Medicaid 'gamers' are the new 'welfare queens'
"Ever since Reagan’s smear took hold, Republicans have consistently presented poverty as a moral failing, but now they’ve extended it to physical health. Medicaid recipients are somehow simultaneously too lazy and/or sick to deserve care."
"Ever since Reagan’s smear took hold, Republicans have consistently presented poverty as a moral failing, but now they’ve extended it to physical health. Medicaid recipients are somehow simultaneously too lazy and/or sick to deserve care."
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Miss Teen USA, run by Trump for many years, had an age range of 14-19. Most of those ages are minors.
Trump bragged on Howard Stern's show that he would intentionally walk into the dressing room to see the (underaged) girls naked.
Trump and Epstein are sexual predators
Trump bragged on Howard Stern's show that he would intentionally walk into the dressing room to see the (underaged) girls naked.
Trump and Epstein are sexual predators
July 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Miss Teen USA, run by Trump for many years, had an age range of 14-19. Most of those ages are minors.
Trump bragged on Howard Stern's show that he would intentionally walk into the dressing room to see the (underaged) girls naked.
Trump and Epstein are sexual predators
Trump bragged on Howard Stern's show that he would intentionally walk into the dressing room to see the (underaged) girls naked.
Trump and Epstein are sexual predators
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The Guardian's investigation into this event is a must-read:
Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year
In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it
www.theguardian.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The Guardian's investigation into this event is a must-read:
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The person all the way on the right in this infamous 1989 photo of Trump and Epstein is John Casablancas, the founder of Elite Model Management, who organized this competition.
July 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The person all the way on the right in this infamous 1989 photo of Trump and Epstein is John Casablancas, the founder of Elite Model Management, who organized this competition.
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UNEARTHED: Donald Trump judges the 1991 Look of the Year modeling competition organized by Elite Model Management, featuring participants as young at 14-years-old.
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July 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
UNEARTHED: Donald Trump judges the 1991 Look of the Year modeling competition organized by Elite Model Management, featuring participants as young at 14-years-old.
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Busting the top 5 myths about the Big Bang
There are lots of arguments against the Big Bang, and many proclamations that it's already been disproven.
But those are mostly based on an incorrect depiction of what the Big Bang even is.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro #physics #bigbang
There are lots of arguments against the Big Bang, and many proclamations that it's already been disproven.
But those are mostly based on an incorrect depiction of what the Big Bang even is.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro #physics #bigbang
Busting the top 5 myths about the Big Bang
For over 50 years, it’s been the scientifically accepted theory describing the origin of the Universe. It’s time we all learned its truths.
bigthink.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Busting the top 5 myths about the Big Bang
There are lots of arguments against the Big Bang, and many proclamations that it's already been disproven.
But those are mostly based on an incorrect depiction of what the Big Bang even is.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro #physics #bigbang
There are lots of arguments against the Big Bang, and many proclamations that it's already been disproven.
But those are mostly based on an incorrect depiction of what the Big Bang even is.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro #physics #bigbang
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Trump's performance at the NATO Summit press conference yesterday was profoundly embarrassing to the US, a disgrace. And those within the world of NATO I've spoken to confirm, he is a laughingstock among the leaders. They did what they had to to placate him and keep him from doing real damage.
June 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Trump's performance at the NATO Summit press conference yesterday was profoundly embarrassing to the US, a disgrace. And those within the world of NATO I've spoken to confirm, he is a laughingstock among the leaders. They did what they had to to placate him and keep him from doing real damage.
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The “normal” Republicans who have been leaving politics to wait to take over (Romney) won’t find party members waiting in the shadows to re-emerge. Those conservative voters either checked out of politics, went with the cult (so will become Independents) or are mixing into the other party. 3/
June 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The “normal” Republicans who have been leaving politics to wait to take over (Romney) won’t find party members waiting in the shadows to re-emerge. Those conservative voters either checked out of politics, went with the cult (so will become Independents) or are mixing into the other party. 3/
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That parasite will die; the husk will stop moving. Its followers aren’t a party; they are a cult of the parasite, which is sucking out animating substances (money!) for its own use. When the parasite dies, the cult members will no longer be an organized political force. They’ll be independents. 2/
June 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
That parasite will die; the husk will stop moving. Its followers aren’t a party; they are a cult of the parasite, which is sucking out animating substances (money!) for its own use. When the parasite dies, the cult members will no longer be an organized political force. They’ll be independents. 2/
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So the interesting thing here from my perspective is people who don’t take long term history seriously can’t imagine either of our two parties just… collapsing. But that’s US history. I think the Republican Party already collapsed and what we have is a parasite walking around a dead body. 1/
The Democratic Party is already dead. They’re the 1850s Whigs but just don’t know it yet
June 23, 2025 at 3:15 AM
So the interesting thing here from my perspective is people who don’t take long term history seriously can’t imagine either of our two parties just… collapsing. But that’s US history. I think the Republican Party already collapsed and what we have is a parasite walking around a dead body. 1/
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I mean this is what it would sound like if you asked a fourth grader to imagine what a ceasefire would be like. and yet our entire political class is committed to never mentioning that the man is an imbecile
June 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I mean this is what it would sound like if you asked a fourth grader to imagine what a ceasefire would be like. and yet our entire political class is committed to never mentioning that the man is an imbecile
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the hair and makeup in this clip are making my brain short circuit
The war porn is getting very explicit on Fox right now.
"I think it can never be overstated the intensity and elite caliber of the collaboration and constellation of perfection required to pull this operation off... those beautiful B-2 bombers had a support squad - the superheroes of the century!"
"I think it can never be overstated the intensity and elite caliber of the collaboration and constellation of perfection required to pull this operation off... those beautiful B-2 bombers had a support squad - the superheroes of the century!"
June 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
the hair and makeup in this clip are making my brain short circuit
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Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it
June 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it
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Qatar just closed their airspace. Buckle up. Image via @michaelh992 (Michael Horowitz), Twitter.
June 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Qatar just closed their airspace. Buckle up. Image via @michaelh992 (Michael Horowitz), Twitter.
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Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
June 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
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Trump is struggling to read his teleprompter
June 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Trump is struggling to read his teleprompter
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Zelenskyy: We have evidence Russians are preparing military operations in Europe.
June 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Zelenskyy: We have evidence Russians are preparing military operations in Europe.