M. Jeffreson
@mjeffreson.bsky.social
Attempted Author, environmental chemist, toddler dad.
Currently reading: "The Life of a Poet: Ranier Maria Rilke" Ralph Freedman
Currently listening: Standards: Fruit Island, Fruit Town.
Currently reading: "The Life of a Poet: Ranier Maria Rilke" Ralph Freedman
Currently listening: Standards: Fruit Island, Fruit Town.
"But a lot more than 8 dem senators wanted to vote for the CR!"
Cool, we should make them even more afraid by completely destroying the political careers of the chosen scapegoats.
Scapegoats are sacrifices. We should sacrifice these scapegoats.
Cool, we should make them even more afraid by completely destroying the political careers of the chosen scapegoats.
Scapegoats are sacrifices. We should sacrifice these scapegoats.
November 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"But a lot more than 8 dem senators wanted to vote for the CR!"
Cool, we should make them even more afraid by completely destroying the political careers of the chosen scapegoats.
Scapegoats are sacrifices. We should sacrifice these scapegoats.
Cool, we should make them even more afraid by completely destroying the political careers of the chosen scapegoats.
Scapegoats are sacrifices. We should sacrifice these scapegoats.
Its funny but I think it actually reflects THE fundamental tension in Christianity since its earliest foundation: is the faith principally about personal holiness or outward focused mercy?
Obviously, no binary can fully capture the diversity of billions of people over thousands of years, but...
Obviously, no binary can fully capture the diversity of billions of people over thousands of years, but...
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Its funny but I think it actually reflects THE fundamental tension in Christianity since its earliest foundation: is the faith principally about personal holiness or outward focused mercy?
Obviously, no binary can fully capture the diversity of billions of people over thousands of years, but...
Obviously, no binary can fully capture the diversity of billions of people over thousands of years, but...
It does open the possibility that Donald Trump/his estate AND any number of White House officials could be personally financially responsible for maintaining or paying for removal of the ballroom and the restoration of the East Wing.
Asking earnestly, how is the ballroom project at all legal under the Anti Deficiency Act?
www.gao.gov/legal/approp...
www.gao.gov/legal/approp...
www.gao.gov
October 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
It does open the possibility that Donald Trump/his estate AND any number of White House officials could be personally financially responsible for maintaining or paying for removal of the ballroom and the restoration of the East Wing.
One of my favorite aspects of authoritarian Christianity (modern and older) is how easily god can be foiled, and how we have to stop him from being tricked.
The holy creator who spoke the infinite cosmos into being gets stumped by a little dental care.
The holy creator who spoke the infinite cosmos into being gets stumped by a little dental care.
'Fluoride Disconnects One from God': Inside the Weekly Call With RFK Jr.'s MAHA Hype Squad
A growing weekly call gives insight into RFK Jr.'s biggest allies, showcasing how a fringe movement now holds legitimate power.
www.notus.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:44 AM
One of my favorite aspects of authoritarian Christianity (modern and older) is how easily god can be foiled, and how we have to stop him from being tricked.
The holy creator who spoke the infinite cosmos into being gets stumped by a little dental care.
The holy creator who spoke the infinite cosmos into being gets stumped by a little dental care.
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“WHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!” exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.
Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism
October 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“WHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!” exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.
Wow your bouncing AI agent icon that i keep accidentally clicking cause it takes up the bottom right fifth of my mobile screen sure isnt helpful.
It really makes a rote and boring chore into a uniquely irritating experience. Thanks!
It really makes a rote and boring chore into a uniquely irritating experience. Thanks!
October 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Wow your bouncing AI agent icon that i keep accidentally clicking cause it takes up the bottom right fifth of my mobile screen sure isnt helpful.
It really makes a rote and boring chore into a uniquely irritating experience. Thanks!
It really makes a rote and boring chore into a uniquely irritating experience. Thanks!
I can already see how SNL is going to do the Mamdani head Bob. His way of puncuating and accenting with neck movements is going to saturate our language like Obama's "look" has become the standard filled pause at the start of a sentence.
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I can already see how SNL is going to do the Mamdani head Bob. His way of puncuating and accenting with neck movements is going to saturate our language like Obama's "look" has become the standard filled pause at the start of a sentence.
Early Saturday morning, baby wakes me up 5:30a, so im makin' the yorkshire puddings.
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Mid morning Saturday, im Eatin' all the yorkshire puddings.
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Mid morning Saturday, im Eatin' all the yorkshire puddings.
October 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Early Saturday morning, baby wakes me up 5:30a, so im makin' the yorkshire puddings.
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Mid morning Saturday, im Eatin' all the yorkshire puddings.
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Mid morning Saturday, im Eatin' all the yorkshire puddings.
I am patently against circumcision of infants outside of medical necessity. It should be illegal to modify the body of a child who we all recognize cannot give consent, except in medical necessity.
But not like this. This will just means circumcision without pain management.
But not like this. This will just means circumcision without pain management.
October 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I am patently against circumcision of infants outside of medical necessity. It should be illegal to modify the body of a child who we all recognize cannot give consent, except in medical necessity.
But not like this. This will just means circumcision without pain management.
But not like this. This will just means circumcision without pain management.
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Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.
Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"
October 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.
I DONT WANT ANY TRUE CRIME PODCASTS THANK YOU.
October 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I DONT WANT ANY TRUE CRIME PODCASTS THANK YOU.
Really disappointed with AFGE (my union) for this email and the message therein.
While it contains some great demands re impoundment and pocket rescissions, its obvious that their priority is funding the government and not fighting the fascism metastisizing throughout the gov.
#AFGE
While it contains some great demands re impoundment and pocket rescissions, its obvious that their priority is funding the government and not fighting the fascism metastisizing throughout the gov.
#AFGE
October 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Really disappointed with AFGE (my union) for this email and the message therein.
While it contains some great demands re impoundment and pocket rescissions, its obvious that their priority is funding the government and not fighting the fascism metastisizing throughout the gov.
#AFGE
While it contains some great demands re impoundment and pocket rescissions, its obvious that their priority is funding the government and not fighting the fascism metastisizing throughout the gov.
#AFGE
I am a Fed Civie and I approve this message.
Sorry but this is the exact right response, regardless of who it's from.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...
September 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I am a Fed Civie and I approve this message.
I think this is a false dichotomy. The Christians who help their community, i.e. outward facing good acts, are never doing it for fear of hell.
The "i have to be virtuous to avoid hell" is always inward focused, "i CANT jerk off or acknowledge that im gay" (its like 90% sex stuff).
The "i have to be virtuous to avoid hell" is always inward focused, "i CANT jerk off or acknowledge that im gay" (its like 90% sex stuff).
sorry, but if person A is being a good person and helping their community because it's the right, human thing to do, while person B is being a good person because of the threat of eternal punishment in hell, I'm inclined to trust the person with developed personal morals not tied to religion
September 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I think this is a false dichotomy. The Christians who help their community, i.e. outward facing good acts, are never doing it for fear of hell.
The "i have to be virtuous to avoid hell" is always inward focused, "i CANT jerk off or acknowledge that im gay" (its like 90% sex stuff).
The "i have to be virtuous to avoid hell" is always inward focused, "i CANT jerk off or acknowledge that im gay" (its like 90% sex stuff).
Inherent Vice was phenomenal and I have no reason to expect this will be different.
if you're a person who doesn't see the unalloyed good in Warner Bros spending $150 million on a loose Pynchon adaptation by Paul Thomas Anderson, we simply do not occupy the same reality
September 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Inherent Vice was phenomenal and I have no reason to expect this will be different.
The harsh fact revealed by the "Woke Right" is that those who decried wokeness never actually engaged with the arguments. To them, "woke" just meant "nagging". They became reflexively/reactionarily anti-social justice, but their only real complaint was that someone dared to have a different opinion.
The irony is, "woke" was a term specifically from Black people/culture, which was then appropriated and weaponized to target anything related to race/social justice...
Woke = Black
The "Black Right"?
Do I have this straight?
Woke = Black
The "Black Right"?
Do I have this straight?
I can explain the term "the woke right." The logic:
1) I denounced "wokeness" for years, proclaiming it dire threat to free speech, a civilizational danger
2) This fascism I was downplaying while focused on wokeness seems actually bad
3) Since I am by definition never wrong, the fascism is wokeness
1) I denounced "wokeness" for years, proclaiming it dire threat to free speech, a civilizational danger
2) This fascism I was downplaying while focused on wokeness seems actually bad
3) Since I am by definition never wrong, the fascism is wokeness
September 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The harsh fact revealed by the "Woke Right" is that those who decried wokeness never actually engaged with the arguments. To them, "woke" just meant "nagging". They became reflexively/reactionarily anti-social justice, but their only real complaint was that someone dared to have a different opinion.
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AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED
September 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED
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wow, difficult decision! do the right thing and cement your legacy as a hero in history books. or make a lot of money!
tough!!
tough!!
One other wrinkle to consider as Bob Iger makes his decision about Jimmy Kimmel
September 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
wow, difficult decision! do the right thing and cement your legacy as a hero in history books. or make a lot of money!
tough!!
tough!!
Cancel your Hulu, cancel Disney+
September 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Cancel your Hulu, cancel Disney+
Phenomenal thread.
it kills me knowing what’s needed is for people to double down on bucking any demands for “civility” because they understand these demands are training people to surveil & snitch on their neighbors and an exploit to intensify authoritarian control over our thoughts.
September 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Phenomenal thread.
I think I've lost the last gossamer of my faith. Am I an ex-Christian? Am I separated from that tradition entirely? I don't know how to define myself.
I do not ask for things. I don't worship, I don't attend a church. But something hums inside me like the ache and buzz of a lost limb.
#faith
I do not ask for things. I don't worship, I don't attend a church. But something hums inside me like the ache and buzz of a lost limb.
#faith
September 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I think I've lost the last gossamer of my faith. Am I an ex-Christian? Am I separated from that tradition entirely? I don't know how to define myself.
I do not ask for things. I don't worship, I don't attend a church. But something hums inside me like the ache and buzz of a lost limb.
#faith
I do not ask for things. I don't worship, I don't attend a church. But something hums inside me like the ache and buzz of a lost limb.
#faith
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Shorter Ezra Klein:
September 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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