Richard W.
@cheekyamriki.bsky.social
I'm getting too old for this split
Maybe too much transparency but it's really got me in tears at my desk at work. What a weird fucking time
February 9, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Maybe too much transparency but it's really got me in tears at my desk at work. What a weird fucking time
I was admittedly moved by the halftime show and was shocked I couldn't find anything interesting written about it. In desperation, I opened this app and immediately saw this. This helped. Thanks!
February 9, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I was admittedly moved by the halftime show and was shocked I couldn't find anything interesting written about it. In desperation, I opened this app and immediately saw this. This helped. Thanks!
I think voting for the least bad option in flawed/failed democracies leads to legitimate moral injury. Telling someone they are a bad person for not voting for your guy doesn't work if they already think they are bad person for voting for them.
January 29, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I think voting for the least bad option in flawed/failed democracies leads to legitimate moral injury. Telling someone they are a bad person for not voting for your guy doesn't work if they already think they are bad person for voting for them.
"But they are in public handing out snacks!" That's literally what they were doing in Iraq too?? Two sides of the same—somewhere some OSINT dude is writing a report that COIN is working superbly on US liberals and efforts should be redoubled
January 27, 2026 at 9:47 PM
"But they are in public handing out snacks!" That's literally what they were doing in Iraq too?? Two sides of the same—somewhere some OSINT dude is writing a report that COIN is working superbly on US liberals and efforts should be redoubled
Surely the qualitative data on public trust will be helpful . . . Oh no
January 27, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Surely the qualitative data on public trust will be helpful . . . Oh no
We probably do need a better plan than abolish/debaathification for ICE. If you like them now, you're going to love them when they're unemployed, alienated, with a shared sense of identity and grievance
January 27, 2026 at 12:27 AM
We probably do need a better plan than abolish/debaathification for ICE. If you like them now, you're going to love them when they're unemployed, alienated, with a shared sense of identity and grievance
The end logic of this argument is that ICE should have access to attack helicopters with hellfires, fighters with GBUs, and indirect fire and that will make them less likely to execute blonde women from close range (and thus be less scary people)
January 12, 2026 at 4:51 AM
The end logic of this argument is that ICE should have access to attack helicopters with hellfires, fighters with GBUs, and indirect fire and that will make them less likely to execute blonde women from close range (and thus be less scary people)
If you think it's easy for a vet with ICE velcro'd to their plate carrier to kill a mouthy blonde liberal in Minnesota, then you should see what they do with a brown skinned foreigner who doesn't immediately acquiesse to their murderous authority in a lawless foreign land
January 12, 2026 at 4:37 AM
If you think it's easy for a vet with ICE velcro'd to their plate carrier to kill a mouthy blonde liberal in Minnesota, then you should see what they do with a brown skinned foreigner who doesn't immediately acquiesse to their murderous authority in a lawless foreign land
If you think it's easy for a vet with ICE velcro'd to their plate carrier to kill a mouthy blonde liberal in Minnesota, then you should see what they do with a brown skinned foreigner who doesn't immediately acquiesse to their murderous authority in a lawless foreign land
January 12, 2026 at 4:37 AM
If you think it's easy for a vet with ICE velcro'd to their plate carrier to kill a mouthy blonde liberal in Minnesota, then you should see what they do with a brown skinned foreigner who doesn't immediately acquiesse to their murderous authority in a lawless foreign land
For more on "reasonable fear," "cop talk," and the legal paradoxes of life and death that you are party to by merely interacting with a badged armed agent of the state, this piece by @patblanchfield.bsky.social stays current newrepublic.com/article/1568...
Policing and the English Language
The poisonous contradictions of coptalk
newrepublic.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:21 PM
For more on "reasonable fear," "cop talk," and the legal paradoxes of life and death that you are party to by merely interacting with a badged armed agent of the state, this piece by @patblanchfield.bsky.social stays current newrepublic.com/article/1568...
I feel some empathy for the people who have made it their life's work to write and speak about the "smart use of power" who woke up to Trump not only doing it, but successfully. There's going to be a lot of tricky identity, disavowal, cognitive dissonance, and splitting at various natsec roundtables
January 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM
I feel some empathy for the people who have made it their life's work to write and speak about the "smart use of power" who woke up to Trump not only doing it, but successfully. There's going to be a lot of tricky identity, disavowal, cognitive dissonance, and splitting at various natsec roundtables