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September 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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I think there’s a big difference between “all hope is lost” and “I have lost hope” and in climate it is really important to distinguish between the two. My personal feelings, your personal feelings are not the limits of our collective politics.
August 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I think there’s a big difference between “all hope is lost” and “I have lost hope” and in climate it is really important to distinguish between the two. My personal feelings, your personal feelings are not the limits of our collective politics.
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I think one of the reasons there’s so much cognitive dissonance on the right about Epstein, child sex trafficking, and their own heroes is that they don’t think of the victims as real people. They view the abuse as an intangible evil but when real victims come forward they ignore and deny them
July 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I think one of the reasons there’s so much cognitive dissonance on the right about Epstein, child sex trafficking, and their own heroes is that they don’t think of the victims as real people. They view the abuse as an intangible evil but when real victims come forward they ignore and deny them
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I’m a K-5 art teacher, and I’m constantly emphasizing to my kiddos how important and true and beautiful it is to see brush strokes and dents and mistakes because it shows that a human being made this thing. They’ve taken to calling out all kinds of human things as showing “the hand of the artist.”
July 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I’m a K-5 art teacher, and I’m constantly emphasizing to my kiddos how important and true and beautiful it is to see brush strokes and dents and mistakes because it shows that a human being made this thing. They’ve taken to calling out all kinds of human things as showing “the hand of the artist.”
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"The Stranger's Case," William Shakespeare Sir Thomas Moore: Act II Scene 4
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Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,
Plodding to the ports and costs for transportation ...
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Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,
Plodding to the ports and costs for transportation ...
April 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
"The Stranger's Case," William Shakespeare Sir Thomas Moore: Act II Scene 4
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Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,
Plodding to the ports and costs for transportation ...
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Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,
Plodding to the ports and costs for transportation ...
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i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery
Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador
Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.
www.rollingstone.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery
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Portraiture "it is an investigation... of how the features + the nature of the subject connect. What she comes up with here is a rendering of Trump as a soft piece of fabric pulled around a cushy pillow. This is hardly a sensitive portrayal of a man who has in 2mo dismantled 🇺🇸 civil society..."
The Daily Heller: 'Damn It, They Can See the Pictures' – PRINT Magazine
Four artists react to Sarah A. Boardman’s Trump portrait debacle in Colorado.
www.printmag.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Portraiture "it is an investigation... of how the features + the nature of the subject connect. What she comes up with here is a rendering of Trump as a soft piece of fabric pulled around a cushy pillow. This is hardly a sensitive portrayal of a man who has in 2mo dismantled 🇺🇸 civil society..."
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About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
March 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
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I will again point out that like "state's rights", "parent's rights" are not a thing.
Parents have authorities, not rights, when it comes to their children (and those authorities can be revoked).
Children have rights. Not parents.
Parents have authorities, not rights, when it comes to their children (and those authorities can be revoked).
Children have rights. Not parents.
This is as bad as one might expect.
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Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
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January 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I will again point out that like "state's rights", "parent's rights" are not a thing.
Parents have authorities, not rights, when it comes to their children (and those authorities can be revoked).
Children have rights. Not parents.
Parents have authorities, not rights, when it comes to their children (and those authorities can be revoked).
Children have rights. Not parents.
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Per @aoc.bsky.social and co., I'm here to celebrate echo chambers and preaching to the choir. Which sings back, beautifully. "The primary assumption behind the idea that we shouldn’t preach to the choir is that one’s proper audience is one’s enemies, not one’s allies." harpers.org/archive/2017...
Preaching to The Choir, by Rebecca Solnit
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November 24, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Per @aoc.bsky.social and co., I'm here to celebrate echo chambers and preaching to the choir. Which sings back, beautifully. "The primary assumption behind the idea that we shouldn’t preach to the choir is that one’s proper audience is one’s enemies, not one’s allies." harpers.org/archive/2017...
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Instead, voting is closer to a marker, an exchange of power that can be called in or revoked based on the conduct of the recipient. A vote is consent, and as consent can be renegotiated or denied at any time — if you pay attention between elections! But the consumption model wrecks this.
September 30, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Instead, voting is closer to a marker, an exchange of power that can be called in or revoked based on the conduct of the recipient. A vote is consent, and as consent can be renegotiated or denied at any time — if you pay attention between elections! But the consumption model wrecks this.
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The attacks you’re seeing on the Harris and Walz families from the online right are reflective of a different ideological orientation towards family as mere objects that are meant to reflect the greatness of the husband and father, not people with their own lives and emotions.
August 22, 2024 at 5:41 PM
The attacks you’re seeing on the Harris and Walz families from the online right are reflective of a different ideological orientation towards family as mere objects that are meant to reflect the greatness of the husband and father, not people with their own lives and emotions.
Beautiful and true
TODAY: A very beautiful read from Ben Ehrenreich about running through a bucolic English park while considering riots, crusades, and violence around the world and throughout history flaminghydra.com/issue-141/#a...
Riot and ruin
Today: Ben Ehrenreich, author of Desert Notebooks and The Way to the Spring.
Issue No. 141
A Run In Mousehold Heath
Ben Ehrenreich
A Run In Mousehold Heath
by Ben Ehrenreich
Nature is a small...
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August 19, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Beautiful and true
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My latest features five biblical women, Audre Lorde & Gerda Lerner, asking: To what extent might institutional change be possible?
Can the master's tools can dismantle the master's house-- and if not, what do we need in order to build something new together?
Full essay: Read and share: ❤️🌱
Can the master's tools can dismantle the master's house-- and if not, what do we need in order to build something new together?
Full essay: Read and share: ❤️🌱
Tzlofchad's Daughters and the Master's Tools
Can we make true institutional change?
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
June 24, 2024 at 1:12 PM
My latest features five biblical women, Audre Lorde & Gerda Lerner, asking: To what extent might institutional change be possible?
Can the master's tools can dismantle the master's house-- and if not, what do we need in order to build something new together?
Full essay: Read and share: ❤️🌱
Can the master's tools can dismantle the master's house-- and if not, what do we need in order to build something new together?
Full essay: Read and share: ❤️🌱
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spend your friday thinking about the political economy of the south
Opinion | Here’s Something Southern Republican Governors Are Afraid Of
Where an earlier generation complained of C.I.O. “communism,” this one warns of U.A.W. socialism.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2024 at 11:37 AM
spend your friday thinking about the political economy of the south
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Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. Why not a dictator who will get things done?
My latest Substack: "The Strongman Fantasy: And Dictatorship in Real Life"
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
My latest Substack: "The Strongman Fantasy: And Dictatorship in Real Life"
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Strongman Fantasy
And Dictatorship in Real Life
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March 17, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. Why not a dictator who will get things done?
My latest Substack: "The Strongman Fantasy: And Dictatorship in Real Life"
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
My latest Substack: "The Strongman Fantasy: And Dictatorship in Real Life"
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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I don’t even mean because it hurt Trump. That’s nice too. But Jean stood up for sexual assault victims everywhere by facing down one of the most powerful men in the world. And she won.
This is a watershed day for survivors.
This is a watershed day for survivors.
E JEAN CARROLL THANK YOU. 😭😭😭
January 26, 2024 at 9:49 PM
I don’t even mean because it hurt Trump. That’s nice too. But Jean stood up for sexual assault victims everywhere by facing down one of the most powerful men in the world. And she won.
This is a watershed day for survivors.
This is a watershed day for survivors.
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There are changes in the forecast for our upcoming cold spell, which looks to arrive in the Houston area earlier than anticipated. There is also a slight chance of some wintry precipitation on Sunday night into Monday morning. But things are still up in the air - so to speak.
Arctic air is coming to Texas, possibly as early as Sunday morning
Good morning. There are some changes in the forecast for our upcoming cold spell, which looks to arrive earlier than anticipated. There is also a slight chance of some wintry precipitation on Sunda…
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January 11, 2024 at 2:55 PM
There are changes in the forecast for our upcoming cold spell, which looks to arrive in the Houston area earlier than anticipated. There is also a slight chance of some wintry precipitation on Sunday night into Monday morning. But things are still up in the air - so to speak.
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“What a Gazan Should Do During an Israeli Air Strike” by Mosab Abu Toha:
January 11, 2024 at 2:30 PM
“What a Gazan Should Do During an Israeli Air Strike” by Mosab Abu Toha:
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The reason swatting is effective as a domestic terrorism tactic is because it assumes — correctly — that the police who respond to an anonymous call are likely to immediately resort to extreme violence if something goes wrong or wires get crossed or whatever.
January 10, 2024 at 2:02 AM
The reason swatting is effective as a domestic terrorism tactic is because it assumes — correctly — that the police who respond to an anonymous call are likely to immediately resort to extreme violence if something goes wrong or wires get crossed or whatever.
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It's the final December Comfort Watch, and we finish with what is probably the ultimate in comfort watches: The Princess Bride. Would you like to know why I think this film, originally only a modest box-office success, became a generational classic? As you wish:
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December 31, 2023 at 4:43 PM
It's the final December Comfort Watch, and we finish with what is probably the ultimate in comfort watches: The Princess Bride. Would you like to know why I think this film, originally only a modest box-office success, became a generational classic? As you wish:
whatever.scalzi.com/2023/12/31/t...
whatever.scalzi.com/2023/12/31/t...
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here is some very good advice from Spinoza. I think of this often, especially in dark times:
![“No deity, nor anyone else, save the envious, takes pleasure in my infirmity and discomfort, nor sets down to my virtue [my] tears, sobs, fear, and the like… Therefore… it is the part of a wise man to refresh and recreate himself with moderate and pleasant food and drink, and also with perfumes, with the soft beauty of growing plants, with dress, with music, with many sports, with theatres, and the like, such as every man may make use of without injury to his neighbour.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w53ugkdy674dqmggiu6jjl65/bafkreib3m55ddhkacery5h2xzhwb2p6pyb5sa3ht2tfonoi5ldxjwp3d2q@jpeg)
December 29, 2023 at 7:59 PM
here is some very good advice from Spinoza. I think of this often, especially in dark times: