Michael
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So we bleat on, goats against the current, borne back fleecelessly into the past.
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They aren't mad their perspective isn't taught - it is still taught, it is still the *primary* perspective taught.
They're mad that any other perspectives are included at all.
And, you know, fuck them. The United States is *more* than a white ethnostate.
They're mad that any other perspectives are included at all.
And, you know, fuck them. The United States is *more* than a white ethnostate.
December 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
They aren't mad their perspective isn't taught - it is still taught, it is still the *primary* perspective taught.
They're mad that any other perspectives are included at all.
And, you know, fuck them. The United States is *more* than a white ethnostate.
They're mad that any other perspectives are included at all.
And, you know, fuck them. The United States is *more* than a white ethnostate.
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He’s literally up there bearing false witness on the sabbath in defense of a thieving adulterer who covets more than any other human being alive.
December 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
He’s literally up there bearing false witness on the sabbath in defense of a thieving adulterer who covets more than any other human being alive.
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I think it's actually quite beautiful we live at the same time as a writer and orator whose style is so distinctive, and has pushed the boundaries of the English language so far, that you hear the phrase "her undergarments, sometimes referred to as panties" and immediately know that's the President
December 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I think it's actually quite beautiful we live at the same time as a writer and orator whose style is so distinctive, and has pushed the boundaries of the English language so far, that you hear the phrase "her undergarments, sometimes referred to as panties" and immediately know that's the President
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Historians say "murdered by zoomer with incomprehensible politics" was one of the leading causes of death in the mid 21st century- to be exceeded only by "Climate, Miscellaneous"
December 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Historians say "murdered by zoomer with incomprehensible politics" was one of the leading causes of death in the mid 21st century- to be exceeded only by "Climate, Miscellaneous"
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Trump is like when Mr. Burns from the simpsons has every disease but in his case it's every greek myth that's meant to teach you a lesson
December 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Trump is like when Mr. Burns from the simpsons has every disease but in his case it's every greek myth that's meant to teach you a lesson
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my only three dialogue options when you talk to me
December 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
my only three dialogue options when you talk to me
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The unrealized promise of America is good, actually, and we should fight for it
i have been thinking a bit about how any political program that requires the premise of “america bad” is a dead end
December 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The unrealized promise of America is good, actually, and we should fight for it
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This is the funniest thing I've seen all week
absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos
December 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This is the funniest thing I've seen all week
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the fae are really mailing it in these days
December 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
the fae are really mailing it in these days
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Honestly, it's AMAZING how thoroughly Elon has dedicated himself to psychological self-destruction. I cannot think of any way he could be more thorough about it, although no doubt he will find some way to surprise me.
December 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Honestly, it's AMAZING how thoroughly Elon has dedicated himself to psychological self-destruction. I cannot think of any way he could be more thorough about it, although no doubt he will find some way to surprise me.
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Kindly ignore the fact that this is a part of an extended whine about NORTH: Rob Reiner’s directorial hot streak was the hottest anyone ever had.
Two things worth pointing out:
One: Rob Reiner was a golden god at this point in his career so it's not unusual that he was handed a blank check for an ambitious family film.
Two: it's not *trying* to be a bad movie. It's got that JOE VS. THE VOLCANO kind of magical floatiness. It just sucks.
One: Rob Reiner was a golden god at this point in his career so it's not unusual that he was handed a blank check for an ambitious family film.
Two: it's not *trying* to be a bad movie. It's got that JOE VS. THE VOLCANO kind of magical floatiness. It just sucks.
December 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Kindly ignore the fact that this is a part of an extended whine about NORTH: Rob Reiner’s directorial hot streak was the hottest anyone ever had.
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This is getting lost: For weeks Trump officials had the option to remove Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, but refused to do so. Instead they kept trying to send him somewhere more dangerous. Costa Rica wasn't cruel and dehumanizing enough.
This is deeply sick conduct.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
This is deeply sick conduct.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is getting lost: For weeks Trump officials had the option to remove Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, but refused to do so. Instead they kept trying to send him somewhere more dangerous. Costa Rica wasn't cruel and dehumanizing enough.
This is deeply sick conduct.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
This is deeply sick conduct.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
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This is really solid investigative reporting from the Sun-Times. And a brutal expose of Greg Bovino, the cosplaying tough guy who has terrorized so many immigrants in Chicago. Read it all. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is really solid investigative reporting from the Sun-Times. And a brutal expose of Greg Bovino, the cosplaying tough guy who has terrorized so many immigrants in Chicago. Read it all. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.
December 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.
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The most uncomfortable part: although the US left has tended to support a strong federal govt, devolution to the states is now saving our butts in many instances. If we had stronger traditions of federal law enforcement a bunch more of us might be in jail.
December 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The most uncomfortable part: although the US left has tended to support a strong federal govt, devolution to the states is now saving our butts in many instances. If we had stronger traditions of federal law enforcement a bunch more of us might be in jail.
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The Founders built a system designed to enable and legally legitimize popular resistance to a tyrant, via strong free speech protections, the right to jury trial, and all sorts of restrictions on direct federal government action against individuals.
And the People are resisting, as elites cower.
And the People are resisting, as elites cower.
It’s striking how many of the most mundane features of American democracy, built centuries ago to protect against remembered tyrants from centuries prior, are still the bulwark against Trumpian fascism, while all the newfangled modern institutions simply collapsed on first contact with him
JUST IN: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Snell just confirmed, at the prodding of U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling, that this motion for dismissal followed a "no bill" from a grand jury.
That means the grand jury refused to indict.
That means the grand jury refused to indict.
December 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The Founders built a system designed to enable and legally legitimize popular resistance to a tyrant, via strong free speech protections, the right to jury trial, and all sorts of restrictions on direct federal government action against individuals.
And the People are resisting, as elites cower.
And the People are resisting, as elites cower.
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Moreover, we need to understand that when the Cratchit's are described as 'poor' this is relative to their social station (urban middle class) not the population at large. Bob Cratchit is an educated clerk, his eldest daughter an apprentice at a trade.
They are not working/lower class.
They are not working/lower class.
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Moreover, we need to understand that when the Cratchit's are described as 'poor' this is relative to their social station (urban middle class) not the population at large. Bob Cratchit is an educated clerk, his eldest daughter an apprentice at a trade.
They are not working/lower class.
They are not working/lower class.
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The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.
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I think my semi-serious theory is that *physically going to university* - leaving your hometown, meeting new people, living in a diverse city with an ethnically diverse population and lots of visible LGBT people - make people better people, but the classes have nothing to do with it
December 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I think my semi-serious theory is that *physically going to university* - leaving your hometown, meeting new people, living in a diverse city with an ethnically diverse population and lots of visible LGBT people - make people better people, but the classes have nothing to do with it
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"As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free," goes harder than any Civil War song has any right to go.
December 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free," goes harder than any Civil War song has any right to go.
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"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend:
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend:
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".