Hugh
@hughrbeyer.bsky.social
Nerd. Programmer. 3d modeler. Maker of game mods and modding tools. Sailor. Aikidoka.
"We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually."
I am tired of scrolling through YouTube shorts and seeing beefy conspiratorial clowns declare cooked food and vaccines and the very presence of a foreign person to be anathema to their delusional vision of a perfect, homogenous, walled-off society.
We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually.
We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually.
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
"We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually."
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This is what federally-sponsored domestic terrorism looks like. An ICE raid targeting a bus full of farmworkers on their way to work, picking the produce that ends up on our dinner tables.
Only the worst of the worst, right MAGA? 😡 Deplorable.
Only the worst of the worst, right MAGA? 😡 Deplorable.
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This is what federally-sponsored domestic terrorism looks like. An ICE raid targeting a bus full of farmworkers on their way to work, picking the produce that ends up on our dinner tables.
Only the worst of the worst, right MAGA? 😡 Deplorable.
Only the worst of the worst, right MAGA? 😡 Deplorable.
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Timeliness cleanser.
Moon River
Moon River
November 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Timeliness cleanser.
Moon River
Moon River
Fear, Greed, Civic Virtue and the Fall of the Elites talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fear-...
It would be good and necessary to tighten up all the holes in our constitutional structure. But in the end no constitution can hold up unless enough people are committed to it. Is that true of this country?
It would be good and necessary to tighten up all the holes in our constitutional structure. But in the end no constitution can hold up unless enough people are committed to it. Is that true of this country?
Fear, Greed, Civic Virtue and the Fall of the Elites
Members of America’s founding generation had an ambivalent and evolving understanding of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Fear, Greed, Civic Virtue and the Fall of the Elites talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fear-...
It would be good and necessary to tighten up all the holes in our constitutional structure. But in the end no constitution can hold up unless enough people are committed to it. Is that true of this country?
It would be good and necessary to tighten up all the holes in our constitutional structure. But in the end no constitution can hold up unless enough people are committed to it. Is that true of this country?
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This kind of work creates POLITICAL COVER for people (normies and politicos) to peel away from the fash and do hard but necessary work to recreate the public sphere. It's THE LITERAL EMBODIMENT of liberal pluralism in the BODY POLITIC.
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This kind of work creates POLITICAL COVER for people (normies and politicos) to peel away from the fash and do hard but necessary work to recreate the public sphere. It's THE LITERAL EMBODIMENT of liberal pluralism in the BODY POLITIC.
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This too shall pass
September 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This too shall pass
Yikes.
We have the PA turnout data. Dems lost this election on voter registration over the 4 year cycle, and turnout. And for the first presidential election in what is likely a very long time, the total turnout from registered GOPs exceeded that of Dems.
July 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Yikes.
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ok I’ll bite. does anyone on here want to argue about what the best shorebird is
Apparently it’s weird when you don’t want to spend your whole day arguing with randoms.
July 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
ok I’ll bite. does anyone on here want to argue about what the best shorebird is
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(the above is from my long interview with @startswithabang.bsky.social for @bigthink.com, worth checking out:
bigthink.com/starts-with-...)
So a conspiracy theorist rejects any documented evidence of suspicious behavior by China when it concerns the market, but then turn around and claim...
bigthink.com/starts-with-...)
So a conspiracy theorist rejects any documented evidence of suspicious behavior by China when it concerns the market, but then turn around and claim...
Ask Ethan: Couldn't COVID-19 have originated in a Chinese lab?
In theory, scientists could've produced a deadly virus that accidentally infected lab workers. In practice, we know that didn't happen.
bigthink.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
(the above is from my long interview with @startswithabang.bsky.social for @bigthink.com, worth checking out:
bigthink.com/starts-with-...)
So a conspiracy theorist rejects any documented evidence of suspicious behavior by China when it concerns the market, but then turn around and claim...
bigthink.com/starts-with-...)
So a conspiracy theorist rejects any documented evidence of suspicious behavior by China when it concerns the market, but then turn around and claim...
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here’s Tuesday’s post, on the giddy glee with which Republicans are celebrating their new concentration camp —
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4ey8Y2o
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4ey8Y2o
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
July 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
here’s Tuesday’s post, on the giddy glee with which Republicans are celebrating their new concentration camp —
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4ey8Y2o
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4ey8Y2o
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
Good paper on how AI degrades thinking quality: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088... -- just in time for my book in which I make that claim.
arxiv.org
June 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Good paper on how AI degrades thinking quality: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088... -- just in time for my book in which I make that claim.
I still can't get over how? David Farenthold of the Washington Post revealed that no supposed beneficiaries of Trump's charity had ever gotten a dime and none of the media would pick up the story. A few good reporters, no good news outlets.
When this is all over, and over it will be eventually, the MSM will bear the lions share of the blame for not coming at Shitler full on with the truth to the public. They omitted SO many things. You'd thing with MULTIPLE avenues for news ONE of the big ones would be reporting different crimes, lies/
June 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I still can't get over how? David Farenthold of the Washington Post revealed that no supposed beneficiaries of Trump's charity had ever gotten a dime and none of the media would pick up the story. A few good reporters, no good news outlets.
Tucker Carlson running a legit tougher interview than any of the mainstream media ever has against a Republican. In other news, pigs fly and the sky is green.
WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.”
Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran
Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran
June 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Tucker Carlson running a legit tougher interview than any of the mainstream media ever has against a Republican. In other news, pigs fly and the sky is green.
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MAGAs are so morally broken that they can't even bring themselves to condemn the assassinations of Democratic politicians in their homes. They would rather push an asinine false narrative than be decent human beings.
June 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
MAGAs are so morally broken that they can't even bring themselves to condemn the assassinations of Democratic politicians in their homes. They would rather push an asinine false narrative than be decent human beings.
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No fallacies detected.
June 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
No fallacies detected.
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if you didnt do a thing you wanted to because cringe, congratulations, you are stil 14 years old and care more about your rep in the hallway than yourself
June 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
if you didnt do a thing you wanted to because cringe, congratulations, you are stil 14 years old and care more about your rep in the hallway than yourself
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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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Healthcare for seniors is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.
Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.
A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.
A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
June 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Healthcare for seniors is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.
Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.
A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.
A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
"The question of whether Trump is primarily symptom or cause is settled by the fact that Trump’s most uncritical lickspittles and enablers on the Court are the two he didn’t appoint."
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/05/cour...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/05/cour...
Court rules 7-2 against Trump administration's efforts to disappear people without due process - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Trump administration has fully (and properly) lost the presumption of good faith in its AEA deportation process on the part of a majority of a Court, including four Republicans: By the standards o...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
"The question of whether Trump is primarily symptom or cause is settled by the fact that Trump’s most uncritical lickspittles and enablers on the Court are the two he didn’t appoint."
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/05/cour...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/05/cour...
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We have a govt that’s engaged in human trafficking, that’s openly allowing a gulf petrostate to bribe its leadership, that’s reshaping the refugee program in overtly racist terms, that’s almost ended American foreign aid entirely, that’s doing its level best to crash the economy from the rose garden
May 15, 2025 at 4:05 AM
We have a govt that’s engaged in human trafficking, that’s openly allowing a gulf petrostate to bribe its leadership, that’s reshaping the refugee program in overtly racist terms, that’s almost ended American foreign aid entirely, that’s doing its level best to crash the economy from the rose garden
Whole thread is interesting but this bit all by itself deserves a repost.
And now -- drum roll, please -- we get to everyone's favorite villain, the architect of everything that's wrong with the US today, the man whose administration is the inflection point of every single graph charting any measure of like ANYTHING over time: RONALD FUCKING REAGAN.
May 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Whole thread is interesting but this bit all by itself deserves a repost.
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Words to live by.
April 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Words to live by.
Woo-hoo. Corey Booker's kinda punchy but he's still going. Love to see it.
April 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Woo-hoo. Corey Booker's kinda punchy but he's still going. Love to see it.
