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Hunters in the Snow https://www.wikiart.org/en/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/hunters-in-the-snow-1565
Hunters in the Snow
November 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Glenn Beck was drinking from the same well. Fox News, January 2010: "Woodrow Wilson, this is an evil S.O.B. Man, you need to read about Wilson. Bad dude. He passed the Revenue Act of 1913. Blatantly unconstitutional, but people let it slide..." www.mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/s...
sfomel.bsky.social Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · Mar 6
In 2009-2010, Glenn Beck popularized the hatred of Woodrow Wilson among the Tea Party. Beck drew inspiration from Ronald Pestritto, a professor at Hillsdale College, and Cleon Skousen, an influential Mormon conspiracist. Skousen believed Wilson's Fed and income tax were parts of an evil conspiracy.
Confounding Fathers
The Tea Party’s Cold War roots.
www.newyorker.com
September 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
Trump's winning 2024 coalition has evaporated
Claims of a conservative realignment of non-whites, the working class, and young voters have been highly exaggerated
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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sfomel.bsky.social
Charlie Kirk hired Candace Owens when TPUSA was under scrutiny for racism and violating its non-profit status. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
As Turning Point’s profile has risen, so has scrutiny of its funding and tactics. Internal documents that I obtained, as well as interviews with former employees, suggest that the group may have skirted campaign-finance laws that bar charitable organizations from participating in political activity. Former employees say that they were directed to work with prominent conservatives, including the wife of the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in aid of Republican Presidential candidates in 2016. Perhaps most troubling for an organization that holds up conservatives as the real victims of discrimination in America, Turning Point USA is also alleged to have fostered an atmosphere that is hostile to minorities. Screenshots provided to me by a source show that Crystal Clanton, who served until last summer as the group’s national field director, sent a text message to another Turning Point employee saying, “i hate black people. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Bill Buckley, an expert on the subject, reprimanded Coulter as "much, much more extreme in her judgments than McCarthy ever was" but also praised "her adroit wit in treating of political correctness." claremontreviewofbooks.com/tailgunner-a...
September 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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In Putin’s Russia, in August 2012, Garry Kasparov was acquitted by a court after being charged with a felony of attacking a police officer. Everyone had a good laugh. When did they stop laughing?
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Abby Spanberger will now be governor of Virginia, Mikie Sherrill governor of NJ. I wrote about both of them, and their friend group, last year
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Democrats’ Patriotic Vanguard
A small group of lawmakers with military or intelligence backgrounds prefigured Harris’s overtly patriotic campaign.
www.theatlantic.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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sfomel.bsky.social
"Hope may seem a flimsy thing to wield against autocracy, but it is the secret weapon of resistance... The opposition’s optimistic slogans ‘Joy is coming’ and ´Happiness is a rainbow’ helped to lessen fear and fatalism. A March for Joy, held days before the election, attracted hundreds of thousands"
How Chile Won Back Its Democracy
The ultimate lesson of the 1973 coup that brought in General Pinochet’s dictatorship was that the people would not in the end be denied their choice.
www.theatlantic.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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mikiesherrill.bsky.social
New Jersey, it is the honor of my life to earn your trust to become this great state’s 57th Governor.

I promise to listen, lead with courage, and never forget who I serve.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Eric Edelman, a loyal Cheney guy, pointed the finger at Liz. "She called me and said, ‘You know, I’m really worried about this. What should we do?’ ...Liz was a prime mover of the whole thing, really.” But we don't really know who told them about the plans to involve the military.
Liz Cheney’s months-long effort to turn Republicans from Trump threatens her reelection and ambitions. She says it’s only beginning.
The party’s third-highest leader has engaged in a raging months-long dispute with other House Republicans, likely to end in her dismissal from her leadership post.
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March 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
sfomel.bsky.social
Con qué tristeza miramos
Un amor que se nos va
Es un pedazo del alma
Que se arranca sin piedad
youtu.be/Ugm0wEa32bw
The classic song by María Teresa Vera popularized the habanera, a Cuban dance and music style based on an African rhythm pattern.
“Veinte años”
YouTube video by Pan con chile Boleros
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November 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Epic...

Thank you, Nancy Pelosi.
a woman in a white suit is standing in front of a red white and blue flag
ALT: a woman in a white suit is standing in front of a red white and blue flag
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November 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Let's get this done, California. Vote YES on Prop 50.
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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sfomel.bsky.social
Never forget.
As Mar Hicks, historian of technology, so aptly stated in a thread about Zuckerberg and Facebook on July 26, 2018: “FACEBOOK PROFITS FROM TOXIC CONTENT: Facebook started as Facemash–a hot-or-not ripoff site that stole women undergrads’ pics off internal Harvard “facebook” servers in order to humiliate and demean them. FOR CLICKS. FOR FUN. JUST TO SEE IF HE COULD.… Facebooks had SHIT beginnings. Zuck was not an enfant terrible–he was just a dickhead, a thief, and a cheat. And look at all the power he has now. History matters. Harvard *threw him out* for this BS. But venture fucking capitalists goddamn loved it. Guess why?“ https://theblackcritic633793338.wordpress.com/2021/08/05/the-rabbit-hole-understanding-the-world-of-republicans-and-their-political-advertising/
May 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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sfomel.bsky.social
Kevin Roberts uses a simpler language when asking Heritage donors for money.
Your monthly support will help advance three key policy initiatives needed for America’s future prosperity and flourishing. Mass deportations: Your support will help Heritage’s immigration experts create and advance policies that will help the Trump administration rapidly increase deportation rates—making American communities safer in the process. Voter Fraud: As the 2026 midterm elections approach, your support will help strengthen election integrity laws and develop innovative solutions to combat the Left’s voter fraud schemes. Combatting Leftist ideology: The Charlie Kirk assassination proved the radical Left is more violent than ever. Your support will help defeat leftist ideology in the public square and root out radical groups that wish to kill patriotic Americans. This work can only succeed with your generous monthly support. Now is the time to stay on offense and double down on our efforts.
November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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sfomel.bsky.social
Zbigniew Brzezinski clearly explained in 1994: "Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both... It cannot be stressed strongly enough that without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire."
The Premature Partnership
Rosy scenarios of a democratic, economically revitalized Russia are the basis for the U.S. partnership with Boris Yeltsin. Such views hinge on the assumption that Russia wants peace with its neighbors...
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November 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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sfomel.bsky.social
When Tucker Carlson was a voice of reason. "As it happened, Mr. Carlson was concerned that the president was not taking the coronavirus seriously enough and talked with him about it during the evening, according to a person informed about the conversation."
November 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
sfomel.bsky.social
Yo sé que no hay en el mundo
Amor como que el que me das
Y sé que noche con noche
Va creciendo más y más
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Pedro Infante exemplified the richness of Mexican culture. His untimely death in a 1957 plane crash at the age of 39 caused an outpouring of grief across Latin America.
Tania Libertad - Cuando Sale La Luna
YouTube video by Tania Libertad
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November 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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The picture on the cover of the first issue of Ebony was related to the cover story by Rev. Ritchie Low about his program to bring Black children from Harlem for a summer vacation in Vermont. Rev. Low died in 1948 at the age of 49. www.nytimes.com/1948/12/25/a...
https://archive.org/details/sim_ebony_1945-11_1_1/page/4/mode/2up
November 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
sfomel.bsky.social
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
youtu.be/e4Xz7WV_qJs
Julia Ward Howe wrote new lyrics to the song "John Brown's Body" in November 1861 after meeting Abraham Lincoln. Judy Garland sang it on television in December 1963 in memory of John F. Kennedy.
Judy Garland: Battle Hymn of the Republic
YouTube video by nyboxers73
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November 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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sfomel.bsky.social
The late Charlie Kirk, who co-hosted his podcast with Tucker Carlson’s Nazi speechwriter, made his choice because of his inability to debate the Nazis. Vance is no wiser.
sfomel.bsky.social Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · Sep 18
"Will you debate me on immigration, identity and demographics?" Neo-Nazi Patrick Casey to Charlie Kirk in 2019. Kirk refused to debate. Instead, he started to side with the Neo-Nazis on "immigration, identity and demographics." The groypers have won their war without a single debate.
Alt-right trolls make life miserable for Charlie Kirk and his Turning Point USA 'Culture War' tour
Charlie Kirk’s attempt at creating a young conservative movement, called Turning Point USA, has long had a complicated relationship with the youth-oriented, white nationalist alt-right. This week,
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November 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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sfomel.bsky.social
For context, it's helpful to know that Vance thought all Christians were dumb dupes until he met his sugar daddy, Peter Thiel, and had to act differently.
sfomel.bsky.social Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · Jan 31
Mimetic envy of Thiel: "Peter left me with one more thing: he was possibly the smartest person I’d ever met, but he was also a Christian. He defied the social template I had constructed—that dumb people were Christians and smart ones atheists. I began to wonder where his religious belief came from…"
How I Joined the Resistance
I often wonder what my grandmother—Mamaw, as I called her—would have thought about her grandson becoming Catholic. “All they want is money.” But she…
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November 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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📣 “I … will fight — even without you.”

A powerful and searing open letter from Galina Rymbu in Ukraine to Zarah Sultana, confronting how anti-imperial solidarity must refuse to abandon Ukraine.

Read it here ⬇️
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Galina Rymbu, An Open Letter to Zarah Sultana
An anarcho-feminist and poet from Ukraine delivers a personal address to the leader of Your Party, inviting reflection on what contemporary anti-fascism and genuine strategies of solidarity might look...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM