Iskaral Pust
@iskaral-pust.bsky.social
Itinerant wizard/misanthrope
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If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
“This is not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one”
Zohran Mamdani: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
“This is not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one”
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I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.
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Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.
Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal
If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.
www.msnbc.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.
October 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.
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This is the kind of choice that leads to a military that tells you you’ll take Kyiv the first day
BREAKING: Pete Hegseth fires the general whose agency's initial intel assessment of damage to Iran nuclear sites angered President Trump, AP sources say.
Hegseth fires general whose agency's intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iran nuclear sites from U.S. strikes angered President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision.
bit.ly
August 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is the kind of choice that leads to a military that tells you you’ll take Kyiv the first day
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Fascinating how "do your own research" just means "don't trust real research"
August 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Fascinating how "do your own research" just means "don't trust real research"
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"Intellectuals" in the American conservative movement are just people who invent new sets of keys to jangle in front of the simpleton goons that make up the Republican voting base. There's really not much more to it than that.
August 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
"Intellectuals" in the American conservative movement are just people who invent new sets of keys to jangle in front of the simpleton goons that make up the Republican voting base. There's really not much more to it than that.
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You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
May 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
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What George Lucas got right about the original trilogy, but has never managed to replicate since, is that I was a little kid when those came out
May 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
What George Lucas got right about the original trilogy, but has never managed to replicate since, is that I was a little kid when those came out
What I take from this is that the pressure on Tesla’s sales and stock price is working.
Musk says the administration is going to “go after” people pushing lies about Tesla
March 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
What I take from this is that the pressure on Tesla’s sales and stock price is working.
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Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism
March 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism
If there’s any silver lining here, it’s that reminding the world what a greasy worm Marco Rubio is, is back in style.
Nobody should be surprised that our Secretary of State is a pathetic, weak, cowardly piece of shit.
March 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
If there’s any silver lining here, it’s that reminding the world what a greasy worm Marco Rubio is, is back in style.
“We must reduce waste by no longer giving life-saving $5 pills to dying children.
Also we will be spending half a billion dollars on the ugliest and least reliable vehicles ever made, so everyone in the world can spot our diplomats broken down at the side of the road and give them the finger.”
Also we will be spending half a billion dollars on the ugliest and least reliable vehicles ever made, so everyone in the world can spot our diplomats broken down at the side of the road and give them the finger.”
Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents.
State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 5:22 AM
“We must reduce waste by no longer giving life-saving $5 pills to dying children.
Also we will be spending half a billion dollars on the ugliest and least reliable vehicles ever made, so everyone in the world can spot our diplomats broken down at the side of the road and give them the finger.”
Also we will be spending half a billion dollars on the ugliest and least reliable vehicles ever made, so everyone in the world can spot our diplomats broken down at the side of the road and give them the finger.”
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
December 14, 2024 at 1:14 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
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as horrible as it is theres something darkly comic about the Department of Efficiency having 2 chairmen
November 13, 2024 at 3:00 AM
as horrible as it is theres something darkly comic about the Department of Efficiency having 2 chairmen
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for no reason at all thinking about the fact that trump was a known associate of jeffrey epstein and the mysterious way jeffrey epstein died in custody in a federal prison, while trump was president, with the security cameras outside his cell disabled. just a thing bouncing around my mind today
October 23, 2024 at 8:55 PM
for no reason at all thinking about the fact that trump was a known associate of jeffrey epstein and the mysterious way jeffrey epstein died in custody in a federal prison, while trump was president, with the security cameras outside his cell disabled. just a thing bouncing around my mind today
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Good god. A Trump boat parade earlier featuring Lara & Eric Trump was joined by Neo-nazis. They shouted “White Power”, “Make America White Again,” & “Heil Trump”.
Who would have thought Trump’s
racist and fascist speeches would attract racists and fascists?
(📽️credit: PatriotTakes/X)
Who would have thought Trump’s
racist and fascist speeches would attract racists and fascists?
(📽️credit: PatriotTakes/X)
October 14, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Good god. A Trump boat parade earlier featuring Lara & Eric Trump was joined by Neo-nazis. They shouted “White Power”, “Make America White Again,” & “Heil Trump”.
Who would have thought Trump’s
racist and fascist speeches would attract racists and fascists?
(📽️credit: PatriotTakes/X)
Who would have thought Trump’s
racist and fascist speeches would attract racists and fascists?
(📽️credit: PatriotTakes/X)
We will solve the housing shortage by deporting all the people who build the houses
October 2, 2024 at 3:44 PM
We will solve the housing shortage by deporting all the people who build the houses
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"To have been harmed by the pager attack means that one is a terrorist, because the attack was directed against terrorists. This is the logic of genocide: we have marked all terrorists for death, a status only we can impose or remove, and thus your death will always serve as its own justification."
Your death will serve as its own justification
I have six new shorts and poems up at Flaming Hydra this week.
Unforeseen DifficultiesFiction by Luke O’Neil The guilt He was in the garage jigsaw-puzzling the architecture of the bones. After some d...
www.welcometohellworld.com
September 21, 2024 at 1:34 PM
"To have been harmed by the pager attack means that one is a terrorist, because the attack was directed against terrorists. This is the logic of genocide: we have marked all terrorists for death, a status only we can impose or remove, and thus your death will always serve as its own justification."
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ironic, Trump attacked by man who also hates windmills
legit the funniest euphemism for “he’s white” I’ve ever seen
September 16, 2024 at 3:34 AM
ironic, Trump attacked by man who also hates windmills