Sir Michael Cianci
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Johns Hopkins SAIS | Robert Moses Democrat | Most importantly, New Jerseyan
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I do think probably the most influential demographic/cultural shift of the last decade or two is that rural America has become culturally and political homogenous practically overnight
December 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I do think probably the most influential demographic/cultural shift of the last decade or two is that rural America has become culturally and political homogenous practically overnight
So this is supposedly about Fentanyl…but they’ll strike cocaine production facilities in Colombia and Venezuela? Mexico (perhaps soon enough) would make more sense, as zero fentanyl really comes from (or through) Colombia or Venezuela...
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
So this is supposedly about Fentanyl…but they’ll strike cocaine production facilities in Colombia and Venezuela? Mexico (perhaps soon enough) would make more sense, as zero fentanyl really comes from (or through) Colombia or Venezuela...
Someone check in on United Fruit
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Someone check in on United Fruit
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"what if 2003, but for the *actual* reasons conspiracy theorists thought we went in 2003 for?"
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"what if 2003, but for the *actual* reasons conspiracy theorists thought we went in 2003 for?"
This is the true “Great Replacement”; transplanting and replacing *Americans* with blood and soil European nationalists who, definitionally, cannot be assimilated to American values.
November 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is the true “Great Replacement”; transplanting and replacing *Americans* with blood and soil European nationalists who, definitionally, cannot be assimilated to American values.
Apropos Ukraine, the worst possible outcome is that the war is won—but the peace lost. And to that, another war lingers beyond the horizon. Just like what happened in the Gulf, or at the end of the First World War.
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Apropos Ukraine, the worst possible outcome is that the war is won—but the peace lost. And to that, another war lingers beyond the horizon. Just like what happened in the Gulf, or at the end of the First World War.
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Positively Lynchian.
November 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Positively Lynchian.
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notice how we're emulating the stuff that the PLA and Russia puts out with giant flaming hoops and so forth.
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
notice how we're emulating the stuff that the PLA and Russia puts out with giant flaming hoops and so forth.
Conservatives seem to be re-litigating (almost exactly) the welfare debate of the 90s, around the same issues the PRWORA reforms actually solved.
November 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Conservatives seem to be re-litigating (almost exactly) the welfare debate of the 90s, around the same issues the PRWORA reforms actually solved.
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The fact that the president is focused on remodeling the White House while Stephen Miller commands his security forces makes me think the proper analogy isn't so much Caligula as it is Tiberius and Sejanus.
October 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The fact that the president is focused on remodeling the White House while Stephen Miller commands his security forces makes me think the proper analogy isn't so much Caligula as it is Tiberius and Sejanus.
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the thing about the RSF is that once your state decides it needs death squads for regime security, it's the death squads' decision, not the regime's, whether the state needs death squads anymore
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 PM
the thing about the RSF is that once your state decides it needs death squads for regime security, it's the death squads' decision, not the regime's, whether the state needs death squads anymore
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“It is important to demonstrate that authoritarian gains are not permanent. That liberal society has the will to undo their grotesqueries.
Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...
Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...
We Will Tear Down the Trump Palace Ballroom and Casino
Thinking like a dissident movement.
www.thebulwark.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“It is important to demonstrate that authoritarian gains are not permanent. That liberal society has the will to undo their grotesqueries.
Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...
Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...
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The piercing blow of a whistle has become a Chicago-wide means of signaling that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are present.
How plastic whistles are becoming an anti-ICE resistance tool in Chicago
The piercing blow of a whistle has become a Chicago-wide means of signaling that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are present.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The piercing blow of a whistle has become a Chicago-wide means of signaling that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are present.
Trump is the first Emirati President
October 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Trump is the first Emirati President
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The U.S. military mobilization in the Caribbean:
• 8 Navy warships
• 10 stealth fighters
• About 10,000 troops
• New ammunition storage sites in Puerto Rico
The goal, officials say privately, is to oust Maduro from power.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
• 8 Navy warships
• 10 stealth fighters
• About 10,000 troops
• New ammunition storage sites in Puerto Rico
The goal, officials say privately, is to oust Maduro from power.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Where the U.S. Is Building Up Military Force in the Caribbean
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The U.S. military mobilization in the Caribbean:
• 8 Navy warships
• 10 stealth fighters
• About 10,000 troops
• New ammunition storage sites in Puerto Rico
The goal, officials say privately, is to oust Maduro from power.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
• 8 Navy warships
• 10 stealth fighters
• About 10,000 troops
• New ammunition storage sites in Puerto Rico
The goal, officials say privately, is to oust Maduro from power.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
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The Fetterman thing. What a goddamn mess. He is going to be primaried because they just don't like him. A lot of Senators don't like each other, but they don't like Fetterman, none of them, they can't rely on him or do business with him. It's far less the Trump angle, which is overstated.
October 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The Fetterman thing. What a goddamn mess. He is going to be primaried because they just don't like him. A lot of Senators don't like each other, but they don't like Fetterman, none of them, they can't rely on him or do business with him. It's far less the Trump angle, which is overstated.
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In which I call for a Brown Scare and a left-wing McCarthyism.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-coming...
The Coming Purge
We're going to need a left-wing Joe McCarthy
www.unpopularfront.news
October 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
In which I call for a Brown Scare and a left-wing McCarthyism.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-coming...
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AOC: When one party wants the votes of another party. You negotiate, you come to a compromise and you pass a bill. That is schoolhouse rock. And that is how things should be
October 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
AOC: When one party wants the votes of another party. You negotiate, you come to a compromise and you pass a bill. That is schoolhouse rock. And that is how things should be
Here’s my substack btw! Bringing it back under a new name, to write about crisis of American political life we’re living through!
sirmichael.substack.com
sirmichael.substack.com
The Third Founding? | Sir Michael Cianci | Substack
Here to write about what's going on in America, and the world. Click to read "The Third Founding?", by Sir Michael Cianci, a Substack publication. Launched 3 years ago.
sirmichael.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Here’s my substack btw! Bringing it back under a new name, to write about crisis of American political life we’re living through!
sirmichael.substack.com
sirmichael.substack.com
It only makes sense that the GWOT would come home to roost. There is a direct line, from 9/11 to the rise of MAGA and 1/6. The complete destruction of a system of checks and balances, a greater imperial presidency, the threat abdication by congress, all of it borne while the rubble still smoldered.
RM @meeks.house.gov: President Trump's extrajudicial killings and deployments in South America were always meant to inch America towards a forever war—this time in our own hemisphere. The American people do not want this.
October 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It only makes sense that the GWOT would come home to roost. There is a direct line, from 9/11 to the rise of MAGA and 1/6. The complete destruction of a system of checks and balances, a greater imperial presidency, the threat abdication by congress, all of it borne while the rubble still smoldered.
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RM @meeks.house.gov: President Trump's extrajudicial killings and deployments in South America were always meant to inch America towards a forever war—this time in our own hemisphere. The American people do not want this.
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
RM @meeks.house.gov: President Trump's extrajudicial killings and deployments in South America were always meant to inch America towards a forever war—this time in our own hemisphere. The American people do not want this.