scrambled egg globalist
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Sweetness & light. | “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken.“ | Mostly literature & history, for now.
…is “Just the News” the name of a media outlet?
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 AM
…is “Just the News” the name of a media outlet?
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podcaster History Day is every day. Maybe be someone who is Zoroastrian, a Hindu or part of the Green Party or even someone who has vampirism. You should reevaluate your podcaster privilege Bobby. You never had to fight for your right to coexist in society.
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
podcaster History Day is every day. Maybe be someone who is Zoroastrian, a Hindu or part of the Green Party or even someone who has vampirism. You should reevaluate your podcaster privilege Bobby. You never had to fight for your right to coexist in society.
STEPHEN A: Skip, I want to ADDRESS this issue.
[BAYLESS nods]
You KNOW I am insensitive to the Holocaust.
BAYLESS: Absolutely.
STEPHEN A: BUT!
[BAYLESS nods]
You KNOW I am insensitive to the Holocaust.
BAYLESS: Absolutely.
STEPHEN A: BUT!
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 AM
STEPHEN A: Skip, I want to ADDRESS this issue.
[BAYLESS nods]
You KNOW I am insensitive to the Holocaust.
BAYLESS: Absolutely.
STEPHEN A: BUT!
[BAYLESS nods]
You KNOW I am insensitive to the Holocaust.
BAYLESS: Absolutely.
STEPHEN A: BUT!
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“Hi. I am [Name] and my zip code is [ZIP]. I am a longtime supporter of [SENATOR] but am calling to express my disappointment at [SPECIFIC THING]. I would like the Senator to do [OTHER THING] instead. Thank you”
This isn’t rocket science
This isn’t rocket science
Y’all, don’t be fucking dicks to staffers, it is neither nice nor particularly productive
You ever call a senator's office and ask the staffer who picks up what it's like to work for someone without a spine?
10/10 recommend.
10/10 recommend.
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
“Hi. I am [Name] and my zip code is [ZIP]. I am a longtime supporter of [SENATOR] but am calling to express my disappointment at [SPECIFIC THING]. I would like the Senator to do [OTHER THING] instead. Thank you”
This isn’t rocket science
This isn’t rocket science
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There is an utter failure on this site to understand how things fit together.
Let me spell it out slowly: If you have been posting for 10 months about power politics and how Trump and Vought want to politicize the civil service, you should not want to turn the existing civil service against us.
Let me spell it out slowly: If you have been posting for 10 months about power politics and how Trump and Vought want to politicize the civil service, you should not want to turn the existing civil service against us.
I, a 15-year career federal employee, am responsible for ACA subsidies being taken away.
Not the tens of millions of people who voted to give Donald Trump's Republican Party control of the American government, no, they're blameless victims. It's my fault and I should suffer for it.
fuck this shit.
Not the tens of millions of people who voted to give Donald Trump's Republican Party control of the American government, no, they're blameless victims. It's my fault and I should suffer for it.
fuck this shit.
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
There is an utter failure on this site to understand how things fit together.
Let me spell it out slowly: If you have been posting for 10 months about power politics and how Trump and Vought want to politicize the civil service, you should not want to turn the existing civil service against us.
Let me spell it out slowly: If you have been posting for 10 months about power politics and how Trump and Vought want to politicize the civil service, you should not want to turn the existing civil service against us.
and another thing. please don’t put in the newspaper that Joyce Carol Oates said I lead a diminished life.
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
and another thing. please don’t put in the newspaper that Joyce Carol Oates said I lead a diminished life.
“Penguin audiobook at 1.25X speed is best. It was meant to be a spoken, not written, story” is going to live in my head for a long while.
so many layers here, but obviously you can’t *not* notice that he’s linking to the Odyssey in a post recommending the Iliad.
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
“Penguin audiobook at 1.25X speed is best. It was meant to be a spoken, not written, story” is going to live in my head for a long while.
my god.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
my god.
[pulling up a chair, sitting down backwards, and turning my hat around]
These politicians aren't in disarray. They fucking hate you. They don't work for you.
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
[pulling up a chair, sitting down backwards, and turning my hat around]
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related: i didn't realize the AfD tiktoks are so fucking annoying, and yet somehow compelling to zoomers?
like this is just dogmom content but far-right
like this is just dogmom content but far-right
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
related: i didn't realize the AfD tiktoks are so fucking annoying, and yet somehow compelling to zoomers?
like this is just dogmom content but far-right
like this is just dogmom content but far-right
everyone who comments on American politics has their own version of the Baileys; most people simply don’t put in the effort to name them & give them lore.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
everyone who comments on American politics has their own version of the Baileys; most people simply don’t put in the effort to name them & give them lore.
truth nuke:
I feel like at this point that requires largely ignoring most of his current output, the firehose of third worldist shit and PRC fanboying gets tiring otherwise.
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
truth nuke:
unexplained vomiting again with a weird neck pain, very cool stuff.
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
unexplained vomiting again with a weird neck pain, very cool stuff.
thought of a malapropism today that made me smile: "the enormous condensation of posterity."
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
thought of a malapropism today that made me smile: "the enormous condensation of posterity."
great book dedication or greatest book dedication?
![Mrs. Gaskell and her daughters, the eldest a girl of about twenty, were also spending part of the winter in Rome, and Norton saw them constantly. The relations thus established ripened, through the delightful Roman hours, into a close and lasting friendship, of which there is a record in Mrs. Gaskell's dedication of “Sylvia's Lovers" in the first American edition of that story:' . . .
[the dedication]
This Book is Dedicated To all
My Northern Friends
With the truest sympathy of an English Woman; and in an especial manner to my dear Friend
Charles Eliot Norton
And to his Wife
Who, though personally unknown to me, is yet dear to me for his sake.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bczoelpvffcqo7haqvbtsdxo/bafkreify7leolvnhrca7quj5l7evbmszbiu6x7lpmcgvnlausxbxietrmm@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
great book dedication or greatest book dedication?
I would not treat “Thanksgiving air travel in the United States” as something that only affects a few dissolute elites.
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I would not treat “Thanksgiving air travel in the United States” as something that only affects a few dissolute elites.
good question (& the answer is no).
Sincere question: does anybody have any evidence that the GOP/WH would have eventually folded and extended the ACA subsidies if the shutdown continued?
I haven’t seen any. The President didn’t seem to feeling any pressure. No GOP Senator AFAIK expressed any concern. (Some Reps did)
I haven’t seen any. The President didn’t seem to feeling any pressure. No GOP Senator AFAIK expressed any concern. (Some Reps did)
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 AM
good question (& the answer is no).
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So many responses tonight are like “who cares what good parts are in the law they passed, Trump won’t follow them anyway” and like, goddamn, listen to yourselves and ask why you even care for one second what’s in any of this, then.
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 AM
So many responses tonight are like “who cares what good parts are in the law they passed, Trump won’t follow them anyway” and like, goddamn, listen to yourselves and ask why you even care for one second what’s in any of this, then.
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Ed Martin seemed to explicitly link the pardons to his “No MAGA left behind” mantra—tweeting the news in reply to a post that said exactly that.
In addition to his role as pardon attorney, Martin leads the Weaponization Working Group, which probes alleged “politicization” of the Justice Department.
In addition to his role as pardon attorney, Martin leads the Weaponization Working Group, which probes alleged “politicization” of the Justice Department.
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Ed Martin seemed to explicitly link the pardons to his “No MAGA left behind” mantra—tweeting the news in reply to a post that said exactly that.
In addition to his role as pardon attorney, Martin leads the Weaponization Working Group, which probes alleged “politicization” of the Justice Department.
In addition to his role as pardon attorney, Martin leads the Weaponization Working Group, which probes alleged “politicization” of the Justice Department.
oh wow the people you guys usually say are evil support your position, which vindicates it?
When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
oh wow the people you guys usually say are evil support your position, which vindicates it?
what is even the point of politics?
I would accept the death of ten million Americans to deal with this problem. I do not care about some people's paychecks.
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 AM
what is even the point of politics?
oh no doubt, dude.
Behind the bailouts, the sanctions, and the flattery of right-wing strongmen sits a single project: a U.S.-led Western Hemisphere united against China’s rise, writes Tyler Cowen for The Free Press.
Trump’s Bid to Rule the Americas
Behind the bailouts, the sanctions, and the flattery of right-wing strongmen sits a single project: a U.S.-led Western Hemisphere united against China’s rise, writes Tyler Cowen for The Free Press.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
oh no doubt, dude.
The best case scenario was probably that they got a deal that included the ACA subsidies & the filibuster survived, a deal people here would have shit on because it would protect Republicans before the midterms.
Personally, I never saw how the shutdown was supposed to end in victory for Democrats, which is why I did not think it was a good idea in the first place (though it was probably inevitable given the political pressures).
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The best case scenario was probably that they got a deal that included the ACA subsidies & the filibuster survived, a deal people here would have shit on because it would protect Republicans before the midterms.
Works cited: trust me.
Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Works cited: trust me.
Personally, I never saw how the shutdown was supposed to end in victory for Democrats, which is why I did not think it was a good idea in the first place (though it was probably inevitable given the political pressures).
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Personally, I never saw how the shutdown was supposed to end in victory for Democrats, which is why I did not think it was a good idea in the first place (though it was probably inevitable given the political pressures).