@lshorts.bsky.social
New platform, new handle. In another life I was a cloud.
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Just apropos of several things going on on this site, I don’t want to be see mean or judgy (this isn’t a value judgement, to be clear), but I really feel like a lot of people are functionally illiterate. This goes beyond reading comprehension issues.
December 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Just apropos of several things going on on this site, I don’t want to be see mean or judgy (this isn’t a value judgement, to be clear), but I really feel like a lot of people are functionally illiterate. This goes beyond reading comprehension issues.
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Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.
JD Vance: "Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of freethinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?"
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.
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It's easy to dunk on liberals with something like 'why can't liberalism build anything as interesting as Soviet towers or Mussolini's monuments' but the more interesting question is the opposite, why does everyone with strong opinions on monumental architecture turn out to be politically insane.
December 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It's easy to dunk on liberals with something like 'why can't liberalism build anything as interesting as Soviet towers or Mussolini's monuments' but the more interesting question is the opposite, why does everyone with strong opinions on monumental architecture turn out to be politically insane.
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Their very obvious claim is that it’s racist discrimination to *have a policy to address racial disparities* but it’s fine to have a system that simply creates massive racial disparities. The correction attempt is the outrage. Not the disparities. Because they are white supremacists.
December 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Their very obvious claim is that it’s racist discrimination to *have a policy to address racial disparities* but it’s fine to have a system that simply creates massive racial disparities. The correction attempt is the outrage. Not the disparities. Because they are white supremacists.
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thinking about how few people know about the false electors scheme is genuinely depressing
thinking about how nobody in the democratic party has signaled a willingness to reopen that question is also depressing
i'm just really depressed, i think
thinking about how nobody in the democratic party has signaled a willingness to reopen that question is also depressing
i'm just really depressed, i think
I also developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt of this, using the investigative methods of "reading the words that the president regularly spoke and wrote in public forums."
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
December 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
thinking about how few people know about the false electors scheme is genuinely depressing
thinking about how nobody in the democratic party has signaled a willingness to reopen that question is also depressing
i'm just really depressed, i think
thinking about how nobody in the democratic party has signaled a willingness to reopen that question is also depressing
i'm just really depressed, i think
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Hundreds of underage girls married off and hundreds more children kidnapped as U.S. foreign aid cuts contribute to surge in violations against persecuted Rohingya children.
Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts
Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Hundreds of underage girls married off and hundreds more children kidnapped as U.S. foreign aid cuts contribute to surge in violations against persecuted Rohingya children.
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Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
December 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
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In hindsight what will be most glaring is how much of his influence over elected officials has been they're truly terrified he'll get them killed, and can on a moment's whim bombard them and their families w/ threats, swatting, etc. It's no excuse, but it's real and bigger than openly acknowledged.
Even among Republicans, "give Trump a blank check to stochastically kill anyone who annoys him on any given day" is remarkably unpopular.
Just ask senators in Indiana.
Just ask senators in Indiana.
The sociopathic tone of glee and mockery is bad enough, but that's really not the worst of it. He made up a claim that a Trump supporter had done it, *in order to say that would be good and justified.* Unambiguously telling his most insane cult followers that murdering his opponents makes him happy.
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
In hindsight what will be most glaring is how much of his influence over elected officials has been they're truly terrified he'll get them killed, and can on a moment's whim bombard them and their families w/ threats, swatting, etc. It's no excuse, but it's real and bigger than openly acknowledged.
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a lot of MAGA people have basically an imagined vision of Trump and i think the Reiner post is a good example of them encountering reality for the first time
"it's beneath you" lol
Scrolling through the comments on that truth social post
December 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
a lot of MAGA people have basically an imagined vision of Trump and i think the Reiner post is a good example of them encountering reality for the first time
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authoritarian states -- the confederacy, north korea, and communist china -- tend to make harsh demands of outsiders to mimic their internal censorship. because they feel (probably with some justification) that one little domino falling sets off a cascade. US cultural conservatism is this too
Exactly. Coddling them is not helping them or anyone else, and makes things worse for others.
Hard times are war, depression, tyranny. Not "I saw on my smartphone that people I don't know are reading books at a library in another town at a voluntary family event that I didn't attend." FFS.
Hard times are war, depression, tyranny. Not "I saw on my smartphone that people I don't know are reading books at a library in another town at a voluntary family event that I didn't attend." FFS.
I can understand, even if I disagree, why French wants to try and empathize with the concerns of these RW culture war types. But that empathy is just reinforcing their whiny, spoiled attitude when what they need to be told is to grow the fuck up, those aren’t real problems.
December 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
authoritarian states -- the confederacy, north korea, and communist china -- tend to make harsh demands of outsiders to mimic their internal censorship. because they feel (probably with some justification) that one little domino falling sets off a cascade. US cultural conservatism is this too
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Hollow public words, impotent task forces, phony dog-n-pony shows, performative platitudes & behind-the-scenes betrayals. This has become the norm in Southern Baptist leaders’ handling of clergy sex abuse.
"So much duplicity adds up." #ThisistheSBC
My column today: baptistnews.com/article/sout...
"So much duplicity adds up." #ThisistheSBC
My column today: baptistnews.com/article/sout...
Southern Baptist leaders’ duplicity betrays abuse survivors – Baptist News Global
Newly released court documents depict an image of Southern Baptist leaders’ duplicity in dealing with clergy sex abuse.
baptistnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Hollow public words, impotent task forces, phony dog-n-pony shows, performative platitudes & behind-the-scenes betrayals. This has become the norm in Southern Baptist leaders’ handling of clergy sex abuse.
"So much duplicity adds up." #ThisistheSBC
My column today: baptistnews.com/article/sout...
"So much duplicity adds up." #ThisistheSBC
My column today: baptistnews.com/article/sout...
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he went from having never held any office at any level straight to the presidency. he’s never even run a very large company — all of the trump org scams have been tightly held with a pretty small number of actual employees, they’ve always farmed everything to contractors who they then ripped off
December 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
he went from having never held any office at any level straight to the presidency. he’s never even run a very large company — all of the trump org scams have been tightly held with a pretty small number of actual employees, they’ve always farmed everything to contractors who they then ripped off
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You may recognize this guy we worship from our 2,000-year-old book "don't worship the antichrist"
December 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
You may recognize this guy we worship from our 2,000-year-old book "don't worship the antichrist"
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My therapist: The antichrist isn't real he can't hurt you.
U.S. politics: Hello we grew the antichrist in a special lab and made him president.
U.S. politics: Hello we grew the antichrist in a special lab and made him president.
December 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
My therapist: The antichrist isn't real he can't hurt you.
U.S. politics: Hello we grew the antichrist in a special lab and made him president.
U.S. politics: Hello we grew the antichrist in a special lab and made him president.
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The greatest trick Elon Musk ever pulled was making me think Twitter used to be good
December 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The greatest trick Elon Musk ever pulled was making me think Twitter used to be good
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i know i sound like a broken record but i genuinely think the problem mostly self-corrects if we tear down The Algorithm
fox news on tv or whatever (or, hell, even websites where you have to manually seek things out) don't have the same constant reinforcement needed to sustain that level of hate
fox news on tv or whatever (or, hell, even websites where you have to manually seek things out) don't have the same constant reinforcement needed to sustain that level of hate
We're going to have to jam civilization and science down some people's throats.
December 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
i know i sound like a broken record but i genuinely think the problem mostly self-corrects if we tear down The Algorithm
fox news on tv or whatever (or, hell, even websites where you have to manually seek things out) don't have the same constant reinforcement needed to sustain that level of hate
fox news on tv or whatever (or, hell, even websites where you have to manually seek things out) don't have the same constant reinforcement needed to sustain that level of hate
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Social cohesion can’t endure without some sort of penalty — opprobrium, shame, what have you — attaching to baldfaced, unrepentant lying.
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Social cohesion can’t endure without some sort of penalty — opprobrium, shame, what have you — attaching to baldfaced, unrepentant lying.
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Trump has now pardoned a murderous drug lord who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the country, AND the guy who ran the Dark Web's biggest drug marketplace.
Former Honduran president released from US prison after Trump pardon reut.rs/3Y3ziKg
Former Honduran president released from US prison after Trump pardon
President Donald Trump, who has painted himself as a fearsome warrior against illegal drugs, pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year sentence after being convicted of conspiring to import tons of cocaine into the United States.
reut.rs
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trump has now pardoned a murderous drug lord who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the country, AND the guy who ran the Dark Web's biggest drug marketplace.
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The baseline structure of the US constitution can survive many things. What it cannot survive is the speaker of the house being an omega male who is completely submissive to the president and willing to surrender all of his power. Mike Johnson is genuinely groundbreaking in this regard.
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The baseline structure of the US constitution can survive many things. What it cannot survive is the speaker of the house being an omega male who is completely submissive to the president and willing to surrender all of his power. Mike Johnson is genuinely groundbreaking in this regard.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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"The only way to get over being called fascists is by being even more committed fascists. Let us pray."
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"The only way to get over being called fascists is by being even more committed fascists. Let us pray."
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If Dems win cleanly in 2028 and power is transitioned peacefully, I don’t think there will be a lot of political will to go after high-level Trump officials.
But I suspect Hegseth et al will *perceive* a threat of prosecution and will attempt a coup. if that fails, they’re all getting prosecuted.
But I suspect Hegseth et al will *perceive* a threat of prosecution and will attempt a coup. if that fails, they’re all getting prosecuted.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
If Dems win cleanly in 2028 and power is transitioned peacefully, I don’t think there will be a lot of political will to go after high-level Trump officials.
But I suspect Hegseth et al will *perceive* a threat of prosecution and will attempt a coup. if that fails, they’re all getting prosecuted.
But I suspect Hegseth et al will *perceive* a threat of prosecution and will attempt a coup. if that fails, they’re all getting prosecuted.
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture