Cup of Libertea
@liberalhegemon.bsky.social
Writer | Espionage Steampunk & SFF | Masters in International Relations | Swift-Fukuyama Thought
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I'm just saying, I think you all underrated Alex Garland's Civil War in any number of ways.
"Never talk to outsiders about what insiders say or do"
Summers treated Epstein as a fellow insider, even sharing views he did not want spread outside the relationship. He's absolutely guilty af.
Summers treated Epstein as a fellow insider, even sharing views he did not want spread outside the relationship. He's absolutely guilty af.
Elizabeth Warren and Yanis Varoufakis have each written of meeting Summers for the first time and him posing a specific, pretty odd question. I wonder how many of your scores of equally unimpressive people who wrote pieces defending him have gotten the same question and answered him differently.
November 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
"Never talk to outsiders about what insiders say or do"
Summers treated Epstein as a fellow insider, even sharing views he did not want spread outside the relationship. He's absolutely guilty af.
Summers treated Epstein as a fellow insider, even sharing views he did not want spread outside the relationship. He's absolutely guilty af.
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It's not hard to figure out what the @nytimes.com ownership and editors care about and believe, we're just all supposed to pretend otherwise because they've convinced you that being willfully stupid is an important journalistic norm.
and that can be true! but then you open the actual newspaper and it's soft-focus profiles of Chris Rufo, a frenzied transphobic crusade, an all-out effort to get the first Black woman president of Harvard canned over bullshit, Get Zohran, etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's not hard to figure out what the @nytimes.com ownership and editors care about and believe, we're just all supposed to pretend otherwise because they've convinced you that being willfully stupid is an important journalistic norm.
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This might even be true of this specific team but it’s obviously not true of the NYT at large. Trump’s extensive involvement with Epstein has been known for years and has always been downplayed by this newspaper
I was at NYT for 7 years & one of a dozen reporters who investigated Epstein’s interactions w/the rich & powerful. I don’t know every conversation held at every level there, but I do know we dedicated ourselves to exposing those who supported Epstein & engaged in the abuse of girls he facilitated
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This might even be true of this specific team but it’s obviously not true of the NYT at large. Trump’s extensive involvement with Epstein has been known for years and has always been downplayed by this newspaper
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More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
Jesus Christ, how is this SOB (Thomas Chatterton Williams) not in prison for this?
His memoir, referenced here robertlashley-54918.medium.com/on-a-word-th...
On A Word Thomas Chatterton Williams Needs To Keep Out Of His Mouth.
The man who blamed his act of of domestic violence on hip hop records wants to lecture black people (who think Tyre Nichols’s death’s had…
robertlashley-54918.medium.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Jesus Christ, how is this SOB (Thomas Chatterton Williams) not in prison for this?
Oh, look! What have we here?
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Oh, look! What have we here?
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The America First solution to the housing crunch isn’t a 50-year mortgage. It’s 100+ million deportations.
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
Don’t Build Housing, Just Deport People: The Nativist Right Recoils at Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Proposal
The backlash against Trump's proposal reveals the characteristics of his base's reactionary housing politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The America First solution to the housing crunch isn’t a 50-year mortgage. It’s 100+ million deportations.
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Take some time to read this thread if you can. The depravity and explicit racism of removing this memorial can't be overstated.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Take some time to read this thread if you can. The depravity and explicit racism of removing this memorial can't be overstated.
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been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
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November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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looking forward to more hard-hitting journalism from the times like "Does the Negro Belong in the Modern Office?" and "Do Homosexuals Have a Place in Schools?"
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
looking forward to more hard-hitting journalism from the times like "Does the Negro Belong in the Modern Office?" and "Do Homosexuals Have a Place in Schools?"
A Wong Kar Wai TV show? 30 Episodes?!
Unbelievably hyped for this.
Unbelievably hyped for this.
Wong Kar Wai’s BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI | Official Trailer 🌹 ✨ Mark your calendars! The first-ever TV series from Wong Kar Wai — visionary director of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE and CHUNGKING EXPRESS — will premiere exclusively on our streaming service, The Criterion Channel, on November 24 at 8pm ET.
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
A Wong Kar Wai TV show? 30 Episodes?!
Unbelievably hyped for this.
Unbelievably hyped for this.
"This new recruitment AI is amazing! It's already pre-sorted our applicants into ranked categories such as the preferred list of Nordics, Alpines and Mediterraneans, and then a second list of Undesirables are automatically reported to the Department of Racial Hygiene!"
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"This new recruitment AI is amazing! It's already pre-sorted our applicants into ranked categories such as the preferred list of Nordics, Alpines and Mediterraneans, and then a second list of Undesirables are automatically reported to the Department of Racial Hygiene!"
Are we still doing this debunked Russian apologia?
Root issue is that Putin's Russia is ideologically committed to imperial expansion.
The flaw in Western policy was its leaders scaled back on NATO expansion post 2004 in favor of economic & energy deals & "resets" with Russia. This was a mistake.
Root issue is that Putin's Russia is ideologically committed to imperial expansion.
The flaw in Western policy was its leaders scaled back on NATO expansion post 2004 in favor of economic & energy deals & "resets" with Russia. This was a mistake.
If Nato exists to maintain peace and protect Europe from Russian aggression, then I would not say it has done a wonderful job.
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Are we still doing this debunked Russian apologia?
Root issue is that Putin's Russia is ideologically committed to imperial expansion.
The flaw in Western policy was its leaders scaled back on NATO expansion post 2004 in favor of economic & energy deals & "resets" with Russia. This was a mistake.
Root issue is that Putin's Russia is ideologically committed to imperial expansion.
The flaw in Western policy was its leaders scaled back on NATO expansion post 2004 in favor of economic & energy deals & "resets" with Russia. This was a mistake.
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I think fundamentally the problem with post liberal thinkers is that they seem to assume that vanquishing liberalism results in their enemies being converted or defeated and not becoming radicalized into enemies who no longer extend the mercies they once did.
October 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I think fundamentally the problem with post liberal thinkers is that they seem to assume that vanquishing liberalism results in their enemies being converted or defeated and not becoming radicalized into enemies who no longer extend the mercies they once did.
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Jeffrey Donovan is always the protagonist, no matter the role
October 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Jeffrey Donovan is always the protagonist, no matter the role
Ok, now that my internal screaming is done, I'm interested in the ongoing pattern we've seen for a decade now where Disney leadership and execs keep overruling Lucasfilm studio decisions (production, release schedules, even story points) often to disastrous results - and still learn nothing.
whelp, I’ll be thinking about the Steven Soderbergh movie about Ben Solo until the day I die, I guess. we could’ve had it all.
apnews.com/article/adam...
apnews.com/article/adam...
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Ok, now that my internal screaming is done, I'm interested in the ongoing pattern we've seen for a decade now where Disney leadership and execs keep overruling Lucasfilm studio decisions (production, release schedules, even story points) often to disastrous results - and still learn nothing.
My V on her motorbike, feeling free on the road as she heads out into the badlands at dusk while Night City recedes behind her.
October 21, 2025 at 4:16 AM
My V on her motorbike, feeling free on the road as she heads out into the badlands at dusk while Night City recedes behind her.
Women do not like the vehicle.
October 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Women do not like the vehicle.
Another excellent essay from Sec Def Rock, with illuminating military history and a thorough take down of the sloppy work by The Free Press... yes please and thank you!
America didn’t win WWII through “inferior tech," it won through organization, integration, and strategy, as well as the myth that Nazi Germany’s “exquisite” weapons outclassed the Allies, and critiques how the media keeps misusing history to sound profound. My latest⬇️
The Myth of Allied Technological Inferiority
World War II, The Free Press, and the Problematic Use of History in Contemporary Media
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Another excellent essay from Sec Def Rock, with illuminating military history and a thorough take down of the sloppy work by The Free Press... yes please and thank you!
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The influencer economy has been a disaster when not applied to skincare or vacation packages.
October 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The influencer economy has been a disaster when not applied to skincare or vacation packages.
This is deeply embarrassing. I really don't see how US journalism pulls out of its death spiral when you have someone as nakedly corrupt, unqualified and partisan as Weiss installed at CBS as an explicitly ideological move, and then write "Girlboss persecution" nonsense like this.
This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss
The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
www.theatlantic.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This is deeply embarrassing. I really don't see how US journalism pulls out of its death spiral when you have someone as nakedly corrupt, unqualified and partisan as Weiss installed at CBS as an explicitly ideological move, and then write "Girlboss persecution" nonsense like this.