Jason M. Klug
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so many of our current problems stem from americans not being able to comprehend that a guy they know from tv might actually be stupid
December 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
so many of our current problems stem from americans not being able to comprehend that a guy they know from tv might actually be stupid
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
September 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
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Day by day I get more and more nervous about our ability to get through the next three years of this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Day by day I get more and more nervous about our ability to get through the next three years of this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
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Ex-FBI agent on ICE masking: “Masking has always been associated with police states. I think the masking symbolizes the drift of law enforcement away from democratic controls.” [theguardian.com]
The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: ‘A police state’
Mike German, an ex-FBI agent, said immigration agents hiding their identities ‘highlights the illegitimacy of actions’
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Ex-FBI agent on ICE masking: “Masking has always been associated with police states. I think the masking symbolizes the drift of law enforcement away from democratic controls.” [theguardian.com]
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"Maybe journalism can win its race against the machines by running in the opposite direction — back to the basics."
I would start with verification.
www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
I would start with verification.
www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
June 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"Maybe journalism can win its race against the machines by running in the opposite direction — back to the basics."
I would start with verification.
www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
I would start with verification.
www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
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1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
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So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow
Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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When I was a kid the thing I most wanted from Star Wars was a lightsaber but now I think I'd probably prefer a competent rebellion.
June 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
When I was a kid the thing I most wanted from Star Wars was a lightsaber but now I think I'd probably prefer a competent rebellion.
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When you see it for what it is, it pretty quickly becomes clear that it’s the foundation of right wing politics, particularly in the United States, that it is profoundly dangerous, and also that it is entirely built on a little boy’s fear and insecurity of being picked on by bigger boys.
May 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
When you see it for what it is, it pretty quickly becomes clear that it’s the foundation of right wing politics, particularly in the United States, that it is profoundly dangerous, and also that it is entirely built on a little boy’s fear and insecurity of being picked on by bigger boys.
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A few years ago someone told to me that men aren’t taught to be men, they’re just taught to be terrified of being thought womanly, and that this demonization of “things women are or do” is just blunt misogyny, which is also behind homophobia and transphobia, and they were 100% right.
A Fox host’s ‘rules for being a man’: no leg-crossing, no public soup drinking | Arwa Mahdawi
A Fox host’s ‘rules for being a man’: no leg-crossing, no public soup drinking | Arwa Mahdawi
Jesse Watters’ list is so bizarre, it has me agreeing with Ted Cruz – and Watters’ show helps shape US politics
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A few years ago someone told to me that men aren’t taught to be men, they’re just taught to be terrified of being thought womanly, and that this demonization of “things women are or do” is just blunt misogyny, which is also behind homophobia and transphobia, and they were 100% right.
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Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...
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The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
Leavitt: "I think it's frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit. He left a life of luxury and a life of running a very successful real estate empire for public service."
May 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
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It’s not just about lying. Establishing a fascist authoritarian regime is about ruling through fear. This govt is actively finding reasons to fuck people up. They want to establish an environment where everyone is too afraid to try to stop them.
Fascists really have to lie about absolutely everything. Like, they couldn't stand letting this woman leave with her reputation intact.
The Library of Congress is a research library.
You have to be 16 to access it.
Leavitt is lying.
You have to be 16 to access it.
Leavitt is lying.
May 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It’s not just about lying. Establishing a fascist authoritarian regime is about ruling through fear. This govt is actively finding reasons to fuck people up. They want to establish an environment where everyone is too afraid to try to stop them.
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In case anyone missed the post I was replying to yesterday, here it is.
I find the idea that boys are turning to the far right because liberals are oppressing them to be nonsense.
It’s just status anxiety—that everyone feels—being exploited by the right and turned into grievance and hatred.
I find the idea that boys are turning to the far right because liberals are oppressing them to be nonsense.
It’s just status anxiety—that everyone feels—being exploited by the right and turned into grievance and hatred.
May 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
In case anyone missed the post I was replying to yesterday, here it is.
I find the idea that boys are turning to the far right because liberals are oppressing them to be nonsense.
It’s just status anxiety—that everyone feels—being exploited by the right and turned into grievance and hatred.
I find the idea that boys are turning to the far right because liberals are oppressing them to be nonsense.
It’s just status anxiety—that everyone feels—being exploited by the right and turned into grievance and hatred.
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No better example of the American press instinct to appease, treating a news interview as a joint performance, that more than anything needs to stay on track, rather than as a way to get closer to the truth.
I had to upload the clip here because it's frankly insane. Possibly the most insane trump clip yet. His brain is pudding
April 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
No better example of the American press instinct to appease, treating a news interview as a joint performance, that more than anything needs to stay on track, rather than as a way to get closer to the truth.
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Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
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I want to make this clear: We're growing BECAUSE we stuck to who we are in the face of fascism.
Eight days after the election, when everyone was scared, we bought InfoWars. (So was the court, turns out. We're working on it.)
We knew it would be hard, but the world needed it, so we did it.
Eight days after the election, when everyone was scared, we bought InfoWars. (So was the court, turns out. We're working on it.)
We knew it would be hard, but the world needed it, so we did it.
April 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I want to make this clear: We're growing BECAUSE we stuck to who we are in the face of fascism.
Eight days after the election, when everyone was scared, we bought InfoWars. (So was the court, turns out. We're working on it.)
We knew it would be hard, but the world needed it, so we did it.
Eight days after the election, when everyone was scared, we bought InfoWars. (So was the court, turns out. We're working on it.)
We knew it would be hard, but the world needed it, so we did it.
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if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean
April 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean
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It seems ineacapable that the post war order was held up by ads for used lawnmowers, which shouldn't be true but I can't see a way around it.
I have a theory that the collapse of civic virtue among political correspondents is linked to the collapse of local journalism as the route up.
If you’re attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke about the toddler cancer patient they just disappeared despite her being a citizen.
Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.
Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.
April 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It seems ineacapable that the post war order was held up by ads for used lawnmowers, which shouldn't be true but I can't see a way around it.
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"When in doubt, draw a distinction." 🧵
In grad school one of my professors told me that. Some of the best advice I have ever received.
This is a thread about the key distinctions I use in my work.
I had a version of it posted at the other joint, which I revised a bit to make this one.
Ready? 1/
In grad school one of my professors told me that. Some of the best advice I have ever received.
This is a thread about the key distinctions I use in my work.
I had a version of it posted at the other joint, which I revised a bit to make this one.
Ready? 1/
April 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"When in doubt, draw a distinction." 🧵
In grad school one of my professors told me that. Some of the best advice I have ever received.
This is a thread about the key distinctions I use in my work.
I had a version of it posted at the other joint, which I revised a bit to make this one.
Ready? 1/
In grad school one of my professors told me that. Some of the best advice I have ever received.
This is a thread about the key distinctions I use in my work.
I had a version of it posted at the other joint, which I revised a bit to make this one.
Ready? 1/
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I’ve never understood the protests as a way to influence Trump. I believe they’re important because they’re a way to tell each other that we’re not okay with this. They’re a way to communicate with other Americans and hopefully suppress further normalization of Trumpism in everyday life.
Mass protests might serve as a national venting session for aggrieved Americans, but they don’t change Trump's behavior.
What might is American workers standing together and showing him the power they have.
What might is American workers standing together and showing him the power they have.
Is America Pissed Off Enough at Trump and Musk for a General Strike?
The United States hasn’t seen such a massive labor action in 78 years. But the oligarchic wreckage of this administration is fueling multiple movements toward that goal.
newrepublic.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I’ve never understood the protests as a way to influence Trump. I believe they’re important because they’re a way to tell each other that we’re not okay with this. They’re a way to communicate with other Americans and hopefully suppress further normalization of Trumpism in everyday life.
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SINNERS. Go see it. In a theater. 70mm if possible. I’d read nothing about the movie, watched no trailers — went in blind and was BLOWN AWAY. And Delroy Lindo better get an Oscar nomination.
April 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
SINNERS. Go see it. In a theater. 70mm if possible. I’d read nothing about the movie, watched no trailers — went in blind and was BLOWN AWAY. And Delroy Lindo better get an Oscar nomination.
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Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats
April 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats
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Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?
April 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?