@mikefirmand.bsky.social
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This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.
Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
October 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.
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I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
www.the-reframe.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
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It's 2025 and a President is punishing every place that ain't being shitty enough to the marginalized. That's 90% of his damn workday. "How do we make things shittier for them? How can I use my power to make things worse for them?" Fucking wild and whatnot.
September 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It's 2025 and a President is punishing every place that ain't being shitty enough to the marginalized. That's 90% of his damn workday. "How do we make things shittier for them? How can I use my power to make things worse for them?" Fucking wild and whatnot.
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Thank God the Supreme Court gave the president's secret police the right to profile and detain anyone based on any immutable characteristic today, knowing the president himself will never reveal himself to be writing Zodiackian poems and pervert kiddie sketches to a world-historic pedophile.
September 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Thank God the Supreme Court gave the president's secret police the right to profile and detain anyone based on any immutable characteristic today, knowing the president himself will never reveal himself to be writing Zodiackian poems and pervert kiddie sketches to a world-historic pedophile.
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Live look of all the combining pressures in the US economy:
August 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Live look of all the combining pressures in the US economy:
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Controversial opinion: When it comes to US presidents, "blatantly breaking laws and violently violating people's rights" is a bigger deal than "is old," meriting greater public concern and a higher percentage of attention.
August 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Controversial opinion: When it comes to US presidents, "blatantly breaking laws and violently violating people's rights" is a bigger deal than "is old," meriting greater public concern and a higher percentage of attention.
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[clears throat, steps up to mic]
Dean Cain’t.
Dean Cain’t.
August 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
[clears throat, steps up to mic]
Dean Cain’t.
Dean Cain’t.
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
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I think it can be hard to understand why someone in this category would vote for this unless you follow sports. All they're hearing is that their Team won, so they're happy. Their self-esteem is tied to feeling like Trump got what he wanted, they'll blame someone else for their hardship later
NYT: “.. People making between about $51,000 and $17,000 could lose about $700 on average in after-tax income ..
“By contrast, the top 0.1 percent, including those with incomes over $4.3 million, would gain on average more than $389,000 ..”
@tonyromm.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
“By contrast, the top 0.1 percent, including those with incomes over $4.3 million, would gain on average more than $389,000 ..”
@tonyromm.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
May 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I think it can be hard to understand why someone in this category would vote for this unless you follow sports. All they're hearing is that their Team won, so they're happy. Their self-esteem is tied to feeling like Trump got what he wanted, they'll blame someone else for their hardship later
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I know how crazy many of us feel watching what’s unfolding in America. So I wrote about it all. Hopefully it helps.
www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad
American politics has become so insane that being reasonable feels like a malady, and MAGA agrees.
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I know how crazy many of us feel watching what’s unfolding in America. So I wrote about it all. Hopefully it helps.
www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
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I wrote about the practical strategic necessity of doing "impossible" things, the moral and strategic emptiness of making the middle your destination, and the way persuasion requires vision, and vision requires standing for something.
www.the-reframe.com/the-unmovabl...
www.the-reframe.com/the-unmovabl...
The Unmovable Sink
How do you make impossible things possible? Same way anyone ever did: By trying.
www.the-reframe.com
March 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I wrote about the practical strategic necessity of doing "impossible" things, the moral and strategic emptiness of making the middle your destination, and the way persuasion requires vision, and vision requires standing for something.
www.the-reframe.com/the-unmovabl...
www.the-reframe.com/the-unmovabl...
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In effectively a single blink of the historical eye, we’ve seen our entire constitutional system simply … stop. We can clearly see what’s happening is wrong—illegal and unconstitutional—and the actors who can do something about that just … aren’t. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...
America's "Constitutional Crash"
This isn't "just" a crisis.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
March 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
In effectively a single blink of the historical eye, we’ve seen our entire constitutional system simply … stop. We can clearly see what’s happening is wrong—illegal and unconstitutional—and the actors who can do something about that just … aren’t. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...
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Americans voted for a criminal who insisted law doesn't apply to him and vowed to break it in office, the Senate voted to confirm an Attorney General and FBI Director who advocate corrupting DOJ from law enforcement into personal revenge and loyalty enforcement, and they're getting what they wanted.
March 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Americans voted for a criminal who insisted law doesn't apply to him and vowed to break it in office, the Senate voted to confirm an Attorney General and FBI Director who advocate corrupting DOJ from law enforcement into personal revenge and loyalty enforcement, and they're getting what they wanted.
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Some of us have been saying this since 2020 and even before: Dems should make corruption *the* central issue in US politics and public life and go on the offensive against GOP/MAGA/Trump transparent and hypocritical corruption and grifting. Most voters hate corruption.
March 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Some of us have been saying this since 2020 and even before: Dems should make corruption *the* central issue in US politics and public life and go on the offensive against GOP/MAGA/Trump transparent and hypocritical corruption and grifting. Most voters hate corruption.
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The mood is grim in this Ohio bar as locals consider the double whammy of tariff-driven inflation and sinking retirement funds. But they know it's a price worth paying because things will be even worse for Blacks and Hispanics.
March 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The mood is grim in this Ohio bar as locals consider the double whammy of tariff-driven inflation and sinking retirement funds. But they know it's a price worth paying because things will be even worse for Blacks and Hispanics.
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Yeah, no.
Those AI models depend on the work of actual experts and what they crap out is always inferior to the work of actual experts.
AI work looks expert-ish to outsiders in a field but if you really know a subject it’s almost always bullshit dressed up a bit.
Those AI models depend on the work of actual experts and what they crap out is always inferior to the work of actual experts.
AI work looks expert-ish to outsiders in a field but if you really know a subject it’s almost always bullshit dressed up a bit.
If you have zero education, but learn how to ask AI models the right questions , in many jobs you will be able to outperform someone with an advanced degree, but who is unwilling to use Large Language Models.
Just takes a smartphone, curiosity to experiment and a mindset to learn.
Just takes a smartphone, curiosity to experiment and a mindset to learn.
February 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Yeah, no.
Those AI models depend on the work of actual experts and what they crap out is always inferior to the work of actual experts.
AI work looks expert-ish to outsiders in a field but if you really know a subject it’s almost always bullshit dressed up a bit.
Those AI models depend on the work of actual experts and what they crap out is always inferior to the work of actual experts.
AI work looks expert-ish to outsiders in a field but if you really know a subject it’s almost always bullshit dressed up a bit.
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I really did not want to write this. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/is-the-uni...
Is the United States Still a Liberal Democracy?
I'm afraid the question must be asked.
danieldrezner.substack.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I really did not want to write this. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/is-the-uni...
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This is so good - @vermontgmg.bsky.social takes a stab at imagining how the US press would be covering overseas what's happening inside the U.S. right now:
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is so good - @vermontgmg.bsky.social takes a stab at imagining how the US press would be covering overseas what's happening inside the U.S. right now:
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I wrote about the clarifying power of simple declarations of basic truths and decency; how they show us what we stand for, and how they expose what indecent liars stand for.
Five thoughts on finding our direction in the Republican Party's Nazi America.
www.the-reframe.com/the-bishop-a...
Five thoughts on finding our direction in the Republican Party's Nazi America.
www.the-reframe.com/the-bishop-a...
The Bishop and the Billionaire
Five directional thoughts to align ourselves for the fight ahead. Notice direction, fight upward, ladders downward, look inward, grow outward.
www.the-reframe.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I wrote about the clarifying power of simple declarations of basic truths and decency; how they show us what we stand for, and how they expose what indecent liars stand for.
Five thoughts on finding our direction in the Republican Party's Nazi America.
www.the-reframe.com/the-bishop-a...
Five thoughts on finding our direction in the Republican Party's Nazi America.
www.the-reframe.com/the-bishop-a...
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Lessons from the election: How defending a people-eating system is an electoral liability; how we don't win fights if we don't fight; how we aren't the opponent of those we won't oppose; and how those who do not lead us where we need to go are not our leaders.
www.the-reframe.com/being-more-l...
www.the-reframe.com/being-more-l...
Being More Like Republicans
Four simple observations from the recent election about the nature of opposition.
www.the-reframe.com
January 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Lessons from the election: How defending a people-eating system is an electoral liability; how we don't win fights if we don't fight; how we aren't the opponent of those we won't oppose; and how those who do not lead us where we need to go are not our leaders.
www.the-reframe.com/being-more-l...
www.the-reframe.com/being-more-l...