Classics & Virtues
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You heard it from Mike Johnson himself: Georgia is a blue state!
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
You heard it from Mike Johnson himself: Georgia is a blue state!
Some algorithm copium over on X’s “Today’s News” tab, followed by “related” tweets that are just people dunking on Michael Rapaport lol
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Some algorithm copium over on X’s “Today’s News” tab, followed by “related” tweets that are just people dunking on Michael Rapaport lol
"He helped Mamdani win by a big margin over a sex pest. He was a brave Italian vigilante. And in this house, Curtis Sliwa is a hero. End of story."
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"He helped Mamdani win by a big margin over a sex pest. He was a brave Italian vigilante. And in this house, Curtis Sliwa is a hero. End of story."
“So they should be cruising to victory, right?”
Oof…
Yes popularism is dumb but so is Ryan Grim
Oof…
Yes popularism is dumb but so is Ryan Grim
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
“So they should be cruising to victory, right?”
Oof…
Yes popularism is dumb but so is Ryan Grim
Oof…
Yes popularism is dumb but so is Ryan Grim
Smoking on that Scott Presler pack!!
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Smoking on that Scott Presler pack!!
Real democracy-enjoyer hours right now! Here’s to flipping a couple of seats against corporate power tonight!
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Real democracy-enjoyer hours right now! Here’s to flipping a couple of seats against corporate power tonight!
On Halloween, I watched The Wicker Man for the first time. I wasn’t expecting it to be so politically relevant. If you’re looking for a parable about fascism, I highly recommend!
There are no jump scares, as the echoes of the real world one notices in SummerIsle are frightening enough.
There are no jump scares, as the echoes of the real world one notices in SummerIsle are frightening enough.
November 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
On Halloween, I watched The Wicker Man for the first time. I wasn’t expecting it to be so politically relevant. If you’re looking for a parable about fascism, I highly recommend!
There are no jump scares, as the echoes of the real world one notices in SummerIsle are frightening enough.
There are no jump scares, as the echoes of the real world one notices in SummerIsle are frightening enough.
We’ve reached out to the press secretary:
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
We’ve reached out to the press secretary:
How do you even come up with this idea as a Halloween costume?
Maybe geniuses do walk among us
Maybe geniuses do walk among us
November 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
How do you even come up with this idea as a Halloween costume?
Maybe geniuses do walk among us
Maybe geniuses do walk among us
People freaking out about taqiyya (often misunderstood and then used as a Islamophobic bludgeon) but the Catholic philosopher-king in the White House is doing this:
October 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
People freaking out about taqiyya (often misunderstood and then used as a Islamophobic bludgeon) but the Catholic philosopher-king in the White House is doing this:
lol not surprised he’s going all in on this
And if by being loyal to “America always” means being always loyal to the State (which in context is what Roberts means by it), the first loyalty “Christ first” will at times contradict the second so every believer would argue with that
And if by being loyal to “America always” means being always loyal to the State (which in context is what Roberts means by it), the first loyalty “Christ first” will at times contradict the second so every believer would argue with that
October 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
lol not surprised he’s going all in on this
And if by being loyal to “America always” means being always loyal to the State (which in context is what Roberts means by it), the first loyalty “Christ first” will at times contradict the second so every believer would argue with that
And if by being loyal to “America always” means being always loyal to the State (which in context is what Roberts means by it), the first loyalty “Christ first” will at times contradict the second so every believer would argue with that
Same writer (Fred Bauer)
Shot (Sept. ‘24)/Chaser (Oct. ‘25):
Shot (Sept. ‘24)/Chaser (Oct. ‘25):
October 31, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Same writer (Fred Bauer)
Shot (Sept. ‘24)/Chaser (Oct. ‘25):
Shot (Sept. ‘24)/Chaser (Oct. ‘25):
Ahh Dave Weigel who also just told us how good he thinks Leavitt is as Press Secretary mere days after her “your mom did” text
October 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Ahh Dave Weigel who also just told us how good he thinks Leavitt is as Press Secretary mere days after her “your mom did” text
Mamandi dropped from 90 to 87 on a prediction market and Polymarket is calling it a “collapse”.
A little MDS (Mamandi Derangement Syndrome) added to the swindle
A little MDS (Mamandi Derangement Syndrome) added to the swindle
October 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Mamandi dropped from 90 to 87 on a prediction market and Polymarket is calling it a “collapse”.
A little MDS (Mamandi Derangement Syndrome) added to the swindle
A little MDS (Mamandi Derangement Syndrome) added to the swindle
I know a guy that Dave Roberts can call in to pitch:
October 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I know a guy that Dave Roberts can call in to pitch:
His mother was born in India. His father was Afro-Puerto Rican and French. And he immigrated from Puerto Rico to Canada in the 70s.
And he’s writing stuff like:
And he’s writing stuff like:
October 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
His mother was born in India. His father was Afro-Puerto Rican and French. And he immigrated from Puerto Rico to Canada in the 70s.
And he’s writing stuff like:
And he’s writing stuff like:
MAGA Christians (whose application of scripture never ceases to surprise) when someone criticizes the illegal payment of the troops by a private donor:
October 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
MAGA Christians (whose application of scripture never ceases to surprise) when someone criticizes the illegal payment of the troops by a private donor:
Thanks to Hannah Arendt for sharing this pick-me-up from Baudelaire in my weekend reading:
![The world is drawing to an end. Only for one reason can it last longer: just because it happens to exist. ... Suppose it should continue materially, would that be an existence worthy of its name and the historical dictionary? I do not say that the world will be reduced to expedients and the buffoonish disorder of the republics of South America, that perhaps even we shall return to a savage state, and that we will go, through the grassy ruins of our civilization, to seek our grazing ground, rifle in hand.
.. No: because such adventures would still suppose a certain vital energy, echo of first ages. We shall furnish a new example of the inexorability of the spiritual and moral laws, and shall be their victims: we shall perish by the very thing by which we fancy that we live. Technocracy will Americanize us; progress will starve our spirituality so far that nothing of the bloodthirsty, sacrilegious, or unnatural dreams of the utopists will be comparable to such positive results. ...
Universal ruin will manifest itself not solely or particularly in political institutions or general progress or whatever else might be a proper name for it; it will be seen, above all, in the baseness of hearts.
- Charles Baudelaire, Fusées [Rockets] (1867)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ke6zfjsauxvduo5pmsfdn5fx/bafkreicqah7qqkmwagqcjayfflbi46gxq6zlzer3fxcr356ihhzbxliv3a@jpeg)
October 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Thanks to Hannah Arendt for sharing this pick-me-up from Baudelaire in my weekend reading:
Still working on that time-machine:
October 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Still working on that time-machine:
[Walter Benjamin noises]
These things can look cool? Really? Hmm.. It’s almost like fascism sees its salvation in giving the masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves.
WAS FÜR EIN TROTTEL!
These things can look cool? Really? Hmm.. It’s almost like fascism sees its salvation in giving the masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves.
WAS FÜR EIN TROTTEL!
October 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
[Walter Benjamin noises]
These things can look cool? Really? Hmm.. It’s almost like fascism sees its salvation in giving the masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves.
WAS FÜR EIN TROTTEL!
These things can look cool? Really? Hmm.. It’s almost like fascism sees its salvation in giving the masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves.
WAS FÜR EIN TROTTEL!
“A good Bronze Age Pervert tweet..”-Ross Douthat, NYT’s resident intellectual conservative
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
“A good Bronze Age Pervert tweet..”-Ross Douthat, NYT’s resident intellectual conservative
GOP politicians/talking heads running PR for the administration: “Trump is not a king. Protesting against kings is nonsense.
Far right influencers and Trump himself: “No, we actually believe Trump should be king.”
Hillsdale politics professor and Claremont: “Red Caesar Now!”
Far right influencers and Trump himself: “No, we actually believe Trump should be king.”
Hillsdale politics professor and Claremont: “Red Caesar Now!”
October 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
GOP politicians/talking heads running PR for the administration: “Trump is not a king. Protesting against kings is nonsense.
Far right influencers and Trump himself: “No, we actually believe Trump should be king.”
Hillsdale politics professor and Claremont: “Red Caesar Now!”
Far right influencers and Trump himself: “No, we actually believe Trump should be king.”
Hillsdale politics professor and Claremont: “Red Caesar Now!”
That would be crazy if that happened!!
Anyways here’s a blurb from the current VP and 2028 GOP Presidential nominee favorite on a book that valorizes Franco:
Anyways here’s a blurb from the current VP and 2028 GOP Presidential nominee favorite on a book that valorizes Franco:
October 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
That would be crazy if that happened!!
Anyways here’s a blurb from the current VP and 2028 GOP Presidential nominee favorite on a book that valorizes Franco:
Anyways here’s a blurb from the current VP and 2028 GOP Presidential nominee favorite on a book that valorizes Franco:
Talking points went out around noon apparently, and they offer a rebuttal that would be laughed out of a middle school debate club
October 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Talking points went out around noon apparently, and they offer a rebuttal that would be laughed out of a middle school debate club