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@somecaveats.bsky.social
MA/PhD student in history, software dev in a past life. Ideally I'll post about books and art and medieval history but let's be real it'll mostly be politics.
Mike's threatening us with a good time here.
we absolutely must make sure that we live up to our enemies' expectations when we take power back
Johnson: "If they had no filibuster, they would pack the SCOTUS. You'd go from 9 to 17 or however many liberals they could pack. You would make DC & Puerto Rico into states, which would give 4 additional Democrat senators & make us a permanent minority. You'd see massive restrictions of 2A rights"
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Mike's threatening us with a good time here.
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trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors
Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling
The Trump administration plans to open whole swaths of the East and West Coasts to offshore drilling, including areas previously protected for environmental reasons, documents show.
www.yahoo.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors
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why in the fuck are people acting like Platner already won the nomination and we're arguing that people should vote for Susan fucking Collins? like, stating that as a plain fact? over and over again? are they lying on purpose, or just being as dumb as a box of rocks?
October 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
why in the fuck are people acting like Platner already won the nomination and we're arguing that people should vote for Susan fucking Collins? like, stating that as a plain fact? over and over again? are they lying on purpose, or just being as dumb as a box of rocks?
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i appreciate that the white house is honestly kind of small and in-the-middle-of-a-city by standards of presidential residences
June 10, 2024 at 1:50 PM
i appreciate that the white house is honestly kind of small and in-the-middle-of-a-city by standards of presidential residences
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Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.
Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.
Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.
October 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.
Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.
Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.
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Listen idk if it's going to break through at all, but if I were the media and the literal POPE was lecturing me for being a lying piece of shit, I may look in the mirror for a moment.
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”
apnews.com/article/pope...
apnews.com/article/pope...
Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
apnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Listen idk if it's going to break through at all, but if I were the media and the literal POPE was lecturing me for being a lying piece of shit, I may look in the mirror for a moment.
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Understanding the libidinal/emotional appeal of racism and why it makes more sense than the rational economic case of anti-racism for generational GOP voters is what we need more than trying another round of deliverism b/c materialism does not explain this electorate.
October 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Understanding the libidinal/emotional appeal of racism and why it makes more sense than the rational economic case of anti-racism for generational GOP voters is what we need more than trying another round of deliverism b/c materialism does not explain this electorate.
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I’ve been terrible at promoting but I’ll be at SLICE next weekend! And I’m currently at a show in Ann Arbor lol
Just imagine, this time next week you'll be feasting your eyes on all the indie print goodness SLICE has to offer! Check out our list of 100+ amazing exhibitors and our workshop and lecture schedule on our website. See you next Satuday, October 18 at The Sheldon!
www.slicexpo.org/slice-2025/
www.slicexpo.org/slice-2025/
October 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I’ve been terrible at promoting but I’ll be at SLICE next weekend! And I’m currently at a show in Ann Arbor lol
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There is a problem with people confusing procedural (bipartisanship etc.), policy, and aesthetic moderation. Buttigieg is an aesthetic moderate but a pretty consistent partisan, while someone like Sanders is a policy and aesthetic radical (within US politics) but a procedural moderate
October 6, 2025 at 5:23 AM
There is a problem with people confusing procedural (bipartisanship etc.), policy, and aesthetic moderation. Buttigieg is an aesthetic moderate but a pretty consistent partisan, while someone like Sanders is a policy and aesthetic radical (within US politics) but a procedural moderate
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being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"
October 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM
being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"
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there's a tendency in parts of the left to believe that 'community' is the answer to everything but communities are often horrendous!
did not realize that prisonculture's "abolitionism" consists of believing that lynchings would be better if they were conducted at lilith fair
this is a theory of what we would have instead of cops from a popular poster static1.squarespace.com/static/5345d...
September 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
there's a tendency in parts of the left to believe that 'community' is the answer to everything but communities are often horrendous!
I'm glad Susan Collins' legacy is being preserved.
Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."
Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
September 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I'm glad Susan Collins' legacy is being preserved.
I can't get over how publicly attended executions are just casually dropped at the end here.
(The whole thing is horrifying but my god).
(The whole thing is horrifying but my god).
this is a theory of what we would have instead of cops from a popular poster static1.squarespace.com/static/5345d...
static1.squarespace.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I can't get over how publicly attended executions are just casually dropped at the end here.
(The whole thing is horrifying but my god).
(The whole thing is horrifying but my god).
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I should be in a monastery or debating theology homoerotically or something and instead i'm swearing at thinking rocks and have anxiety, of course this is the way my own mind turns towards RETVRN
September 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I should be in a monastery or debating theology homoerotically or something and instead i'm swearing at thinking rocks and have anxiety, of course this is the way my own mind turns towards RETVRN
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first off: my own class background means that, like a bunch of the reporters I was dunking on earlier, I've been raised to see having education and a family background of homeownership and professional employment as "privilege" & to assume others were "less fortunate"
September 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
first off: my own class background means that, like a bunch of the reporters I was dunking on earlier, I've been raised to see having education and a family background of homeownership and professional employment as "privilege" & to assume others were "less fortunate"
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last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"
anyways, great news! (1/X)
anyways, great news! (1/X)
September 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"
anyways, great news! (1/X)
anyways, great news! (1/X)
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we had a Black President in the past and now he’s old and boring! there was a good D&D movie! most people know a trans person! mostly the world is an astonishing wonder to our younger selves
June 2, 2024 at 5:03 AM
we had a Black President in the past and now he’s old and boring! there was a good D&D movie! most people know a trans person! mostly the world is an astonishing wonder to our younger selves
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so, I used to be a leftist dead-ender. I don't talk about this a lot because I actually have gotten some pretty nasty responses from people about it, but I feel like it and I think it's worth talking about so people can understand some of the mindset
June 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
so, I used to be a leftist dead-ender. I don't talk about this a lot because I actually have gotten some pretty nasty responses from people about it, but I feel like it and I think it's worth talking about so people can understand some of the mindset
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Gonna wriggle under your garden gate >:3c
June 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Gonna wriggle under your garden gate >:3c
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Probably my loneliest position online is "I like Joe Biden and think he was a pretty good man and a pretty good President."
Which is weird since, like, at dead worst this is the position of a good 40% of the voting public.
Which is weird since, like, at dead worst this is the position of a good 40% of the voting public.
June 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Probably my loneliest position online is "I like Joe Biden and think he was a pretty good man and a pretty good President."
Which is weird since, like, at dead worst this is the position of a good 40% of the voting public.
Which is weird since, like, at dead worst this is the position of a good 40% of the voting public.
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I think the Democratic Party should turn over a new populist leaf by promising to put the entire staff of the New York Times in stocks
May 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I think the Democratic Party should turn over a new populist leaf by promising to put the entire staff of the New York Times in stocks
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people posturing like this makes being trans into a terrifying political allegiance instead of a sincere personal understanding and it's heartbreaking
the government is trying to make our lives harder and our community is doing jujitsu to *help* them do that
the government is trying to make our lives harder and our community is doing jujitsu to *help* them do that
A few days ago I saw a skeet that’s been nagging at me: “Death before detransition.”
Who is being forcibly detransitioned? How would that work if it were on the table? Are there a bunch of re-education camps to throw trans people in?
Sounds like macho chest pounding divorced from real threats.
Who is being forcibly detransitioned? How would that work if it were on the table? Are there a bunch of re-education camps to throw trans people in?
Sounds like macho chest pounding divorced from real threats.
May 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
people posturing like this makes being trans into a terrifying political allegiance instead of a sincere personal understanding and it's heartbreaking
the government is trying to make our lives harder and our community is doing jujitsu to *help* them do that
the government is trying to make our lives harder and our community is doing jujitsu to *help* them do that
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I have to point this out: international undergraduate students generally pay full freight at US universities, which means they effectively subsidize higher education for Americans; we *export* higher ed.
Full freight at Harvard is ::checks:: $86,926 per year.
Full freight at Harvard is ::checks:: $86,926 per year.
May 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I have to point this out: international undergraduate students generally pay full freight at US universities, which means they effectively subsidize higher education for Americans; we *export* higher ed.
Full freight at Harvard is ::checks:: $86,926 per year.
Full freight at Harvard is ::checks:: $86,926 per year.