@socraticmethodman.bsky.social
Rational Man in a Post-Rational World. Militant Secular Humanist.
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The mainstream press has the same problem as the Democratic Party: it treats the Republican Party as a normal political party, rather than as an anti-Enlightenment, segregationist death cult. You should not work with them on anything, you should defeat them because all their ideas suck.
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this woman is approaching Joe Lieberman levels of “I am going to stroke out from rage every time I see a picture of your face”
“‘We are in this magical, unique time,’ Sinema said of Trump’s health department, led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
Kyrsten Sinema Is Ready for Her MAHA Turn
In a new interview, the one-time Democrat says the movement for psychedelic medicine should capitalize on the Trump administration.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
this woman is approaching Joe Lieberman levels of “I am going to stroke out from rage every time I see a picture of your face”
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Crying at Ronald Reagan bearing silent witness
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Crying at Ronald Reagan bearing silent witness
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Anything we can actually do, we can afford.
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Anything we can actually do, we can afford.
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One of the most interesting pillars of American Christianity specifically is the constant scams
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
One of the most interesting pillars of American Christianity specifically is the constant scams
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There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak!
But media elites find that boring.
But media elites find that boring.
It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak!
But media elites find that boring.
But media elites find that boring.
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
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Milei has proven austerity works . . . when heavily subsidized . . . by foreign taxpayers . . . who themselves are deprived of affordable healthcare . . . and affordable housing . . . and affordable education . . .
By Russell Vought
By Russell Vought
October 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Milei has proven austerity works . . . when heavily subsidized . . . by foreign taxpayers . . . who themselves are deprived of affordable healthcare . . . and affordable housing . . . and affordable education . . .
By Russell Vought
By Russell Vought
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All of the talk of "doxing ICE agents" should be a non-premise because law enforcement agents working for the government shouldn't have anonymity to begin with. "Steve Johnson from Duluth is a cop" should be a matter of public record. You're a government employee not fucking Banksy
October 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
All of the talk of "doxing ICE agents" should be a non-premise because law enforcement agents working for the government shouldn't have anonymity to begin with. "Steve Johnson from Duluth is a cop" should be a matter of public record. You're a government employee not fucking Banksy
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It’s probably bad how the United States economy will collapse to 1929 level lows if everyone just decides to log off for a mental health day. We propped up the entire economy on the idea that people will just continue to willingly inflict psychic damage on themselves on a daily basis
October 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It’s probably bad how the United States economy will collapse to 1929 level lows if everyone just decides to log off for a mental health day. We propped up the entire economy on the idea that people will just continue to willingly inflict psychic damage on themselves on a daily basis
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These assholes aren’t messiahs or super-geniuses. They’re weirdos who were in the right place at the right time and were all ruthless enough to fuck everyone over they ever knew and shameless enough to build cults populated with other antidemocratic weirdos. It’s infuriating.
October 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
These assholes aren’t messiahs or super-geniuses. They’re weirdos who were in the right place at the right time and were all ruthless enough to fuck everyone over they ever knew and shameless enough to build cults populated with other antidemocratic weirdos. It’s infuriating.
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Hot damn they aren't pulling punches.
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Hot damn they aren't pulling punches.
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I’m really hung up on this idea that everyone left of center with any kind of platform must triangulate to swing voters in Missouri. It’s utterly bizarre. Politics does not work that way. It never has.
September 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I’m really hung up on this idea that everyone left of center with any kind of platform must triangulate to swing voters in Missouri. It’s utterly bizarre. Politics does not work that way. It never has.
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“I’m entering the war on AIDS on the side of AIDS.” -John Roberts, respectable jurist
BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump unilaterally freeze billions in congressionally appropriated foreign aid money
apparent 6-3 vote with liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 vote with liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
“I’m entering the war on AIDS on the side of AIDS.” -John Roberts, respectable jurist
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If someone from another country explained that their president could violate their constitution's plain text but that it was completely legitimate because lifetime judges who belong to political parties said he could on the "shadow docket," you would laugh at them because their country is primitive.
BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump unilaterally freeze billions in congressionally appropriated foreign aid money
apparent 6-3 vote with liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 vote with liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
If someone from another country explained that their president could violate their constitution's plain text but that it was completely legitimate because lifetime judges who belong to political parties said he could on the "shadow docket," you would laugh at them because their country is primitive.
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Under some plausible assumptions, without court reform there will be a conservative majority until 2065.
September 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Under some plausible assumptions, without court reform there will be a conservative majority until 2065.
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One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.
September 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.
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I think the reason for this is pretty straightforward: the largest cohort of cross-pressured swing voters in the United States are people who are cross-pressured because they are secular but racist
People really need to reckon with why people will vote for pro-choice referendums and pro-life candidates at the same time.
This isn’t an argument for a pro-life candidate but it is a suggestion that voting the referendums don’t refute the point.
This isn’t an argument for a pro-life candidate but it is a suggestion that voting the referendums don’t refute the point.
I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!
September 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I think the reason for this is pretty straightforward: the largest cohort of cross-pressured swing voters in the United States are people who are cross-pressured because they are secular but racist
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it’s becoming more and more clear that Ezra Klein and the abundance movement at large has gotta be CIA backed. absolutely no way it’s not. its perfectly designed to keep the most slushbrained liberals safely away from any leftist mode of thought. its neoliberalism’s last stand.
September 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
it’s becoming more and more clear that Ezra Klein and the abundance movement at large has gotta be CIA backed. absolutely no way it’s not. its perfectly designed to keep the most slushbrained liberals safely away from any leftist mode of thought. its neoliberalism’s last stand.
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Kind of weird how Roberts declared the VRA preclearance to rest on dated and unfair assumptions about the South and within 15 years the former Confederate states will have effectively eliminated almost every black district within those states.
Missouri Republicans today passed a new gerrymander that would break apart the Democratic district in Kansas City, which would flip a seat to the GOP. (The governor is expected to sign it.) www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
Missouri senators pass gerrymandered map that slashes through Kansas City
The vote marked a pivotal moment in Missouri, potentially altering the political makeup of Kansas City for years.
www.kansascity.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Kind of weird how Roberts declared the VRA preclearance to rest on dated and unfair assumptions about the South and within 15 years the former Confederate states will have effectively eliminated almost every black district within those states.
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The Speaker of the House has learned that the President worked for decades behind the scenes on a secret strike force to take down the world's most notorious pedophile.
He planned the announcement for maximum impact: responding to a guy yelling at him in a hallway with at 5:30 p.m. on a Friday.
He planned the announcement for maximum impact: responding to a guy yelling at him in a hallway with at 5:30 p.m. on a Friday.
Yeah this is real. Mike Johnson said Trump was an FBI informant in the Epstein case.
September 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The Speaker of the House has learned that the President worked for decades behind the scenes on a secret strike force to take down the world's most notorious pedophile.
He planned the announcement for maximum impact: responding to a guy yelling at him in a hallway with at 5:30 p.m. on a Friday.
He planned the announcement for maximum impact: responding to a guy yelling at him in a hallway with at 5:30 p.m. on a Friday.
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I don't know why I keep reaching in my mind for this analogy but American political culture feels to me right now like what Moses found when he returned from Mt Sinai and everyone had said "screw it" and started worshipping the golden calf.
September 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I don't know why I keep reaching in my mind for this analogy but American political culture feels to me right now like what Moses found when he returned from Mt Sinai and everyone had said "screw it" and started worshipping the golden calf.