surly thaumaturge
@surlythaumaturg.bsky.social
Shaking to undo. Would like to quit the wizard. “None of your friends are online.” ~ PS4
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Yet another Biden administration official admits, after the fact, that the Biden administration's and more broadly America's policy of supporting Israel unconditionally does not work and needs to change.
The End of the Israel Exception
A new paradigm for American policy.
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Yet another Biden administration official admits, after the fact, that the Biden administration's and more broadly America's policy of supporting Israel unconditionally does not work and needs to change.
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Clark Griswold’s natural state is screaming and swearing and his character is perfect because he is constantly just barely stifling his true self. A wild eyed seething maniac. I love him
December 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Clark Griswold’s natural state is screaming and swearing and his character is perfect because he is constantly just barely stifling his true self. A wild eyed seething maniac. I love him
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"I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get these decorative gourds the fuck out of my house. The clock expired on these goofy goose-necked bastards about six weeks ago, but I pushed it, and shit got real on me."
It’s Rotting Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get these decorative gourds the fuck out of my house. The clock expired on these goofy goose-necked bas...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get these decorative gourds the fuck out of my house. The clock expired on these goofy goose-necked bastards about six weeks ago, but I pushed it, and shit got real on me."
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Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
December 6, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
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“Maybe the way to think about how to engage with enemies and friends alike is not in terms of drawing lines on the basis of some judgment of the balance of good versus evil present in a given case, but instead in terms of the direction in which our engagement moves us.”
Lorna Finlayson:
Lorna Finlayson:
Tainted Ladies - Boston Review
Liberal feminism is collapsing. Who’s really to blame?
www.bostonreview.net
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“Maybe the way to think about how to engage with enemies and friends alike is not in terms of drawing lines on the basis of some judgment of the balance of good versus evil present in a given case, but instead in terms of the direction in which our engagement moves us.”
Lorna Finlayson:
Lorna Finlayson:
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"The declared intent is to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats, and kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.
Wicker Directs Inquiry Into Hegseth's Reported 'Kill Them All' Order, Vowing 'Vigorous Oversight' of Boat Strikes
Sen. Roger Wicker is vowing "vigorous oversight" amid reports Hegseth ordered the U.S. military "to kill everybody" in a boat strike.
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"The declared intent is to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats, and kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.
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Here’s a shovel. Start digging. You’ll be fine once you get to six feet, but you won’t know until you’ve gone through the process.
December 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Here’s a shovel. Start digging. You’ll be fine once you get to six feet, but you won’t know until you’ve gone through the process.
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“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
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there *was* a war on christmas once, but christmas fought back
December 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
there *was* a war on christmas once, but christmas fought back
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Today at @atrupar.com’s PN: the administration claims that Maduro, as president of Venezuela, is the de facto head of a drug cartel being targeted by military airstrikes. Compare this with Trump’s statement about pardoning the former Honduran president:
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-boat...
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-boat...
December 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Today at @atrupar.com’s PN: the administration claims that Maduro, as president of Venezuela, is the de facto head of a drug cartel being targeted by military airstrikes. Compare this with Trump’s statement about pardoning the former Honduran president:
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-boat...
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-boat...
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Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58
How Trump flipped America's race conversation
Language that once was disqualifying is now a fixture of national political discourse.
www.axios.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58
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Tapping the sign (@boocanan.bsky.social)
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Tapping the sign (@boocanan.bsky.social)
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It’s pretty funny that this is almost the exact same amount of money Netflix paid for Warner Bros and HBO and CNN, all that for this
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 AM
It’s pretty funny that this is almost the exact same amount of money Netflix paid for Warner Bros and HBO and CNN, all that for this
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"Biological people" was always where this eugenicist rhetoric was headed - ie "biological women", "biological pronouns" - because they genuinely don't believe trans people are even human. This dehumanizing language is essential for them to paint trans people as genetically incompatible with society.
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Biological people" was always where this eugenicist rhetoric was headed - ie "biological women", "biological pronouns" - because they genuinely don't believe trans people are even human. This dehumanizing language is essential for them to paint trans people as genetically incompatible with society.
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A 27 year old man in end stage kidney failure was told if he wanted his dialysis he has to sign self deportation papers.
“If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here."
Withholding of life saving medical treatment should be considered torture.
www.wfae.org/race-equity/...
“If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here."
Withholding of life saving medical treatment should be considered torture.
www.wfae.org/race-equity/...
Family says critically ill man was pressured into deportation order after 'Charlotte's Web' sweep
Relatives of a 27-year-old Honduran man say he was denied dialysis and pressured into signing a voluntary deportation order after being detained during "Operation Charlotte's Web." ICE denies the alle...
www.wfae.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A 27 year old man in end stage kidney failure was told if he wanted his dialysis he has to sign self deportation papers.
“If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here."
Withholding of life saving medical treatment should be considered torture.
www.wfae.org/race-equity/...
“If you want to leave, sign. If not, you're going to die here."
Withholding of life saving medical treatment should be considered torture.
www.wfae.org/race-equity/...
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Jillian's (1985-2018): A chain of "barcade" restaurants, rivaling Dave and Buster's, marketed to kids and adults, featuring arcade games, bowling, drinks, and bar-style apps and entrees. Declared bankruptcy in 2004, with the last location (in San Francisco) closing in 2018.
June 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Jillian's (1985-2018): A chain of "barcade" restaurants, rivaling Dave and Buster's, marketed to kids and adults, featuring arcade games, bowling, drinks, and bar-style apps and entrees. Declared bankruptcy in 2004, with the last location (in San Francisco) closing in 2018.
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They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.
I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM
They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.
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House Democrats could have passed their major reconciliation bill first in 2021, before the corporate infrastructure bill. The Build Back Better Act would have created paid sick & family leave, child care & more.
The CBO found a tiny deficit impact over 10 years; Treasury found it revenue-positive.
The CBO found a tiny deficit impact over 10 years; Treasury found it revenue-positive.
December 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
House Democrats could have passed their major reconciliation bill first in 2021, before the corporate infrastructure bill. The Build Back Better Act would have created paid sick & family leave, child care & more.
The CBO found a tiny deficit impact over 10 years; Treasury found it revenue-positive.
The CBO found a tiny deficit impact over 10 years; Treasury found it revenue-positive.
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In which @angierasmussen.bsky.social rips into the conduct of the latest ACIP vaccine meeting.
"Like most kakistocrats, they do damage simply by being incompetent."
"Like most kakistocrats, they do damage simply by being incompetent."
That’s another horrendous ACIP meeting on the books. This clown show did a lot more than weakly recommend delaying the HBV birth dose and compare vaccines to planes.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/say-hello-...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/say-hello-...
Say Hello to Hepatitis B, Baby
Anti-vax ACIP are bumbling their way to higher rates of pediatric liver cancer...and worse
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
In which @angierasmussen.bsky.social rips into the conduct of the latest ACIP vaccine meeting.
"Like most kakistocrats, they do damage simply by being incompetent."
"Like most kakistocrats, they do damage simply by being incompetent."
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I've become deeply radicalized against gambling. It's just getting more evil the longer it's allowed to fester unregulated
"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
truthout.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I've become deeply radicalized against gambling. It's just getting more evil the longer it's allowed to fester unregulated
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“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly:
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
December 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly:
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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i wrote about why exactly i love ran-thru bald men so much
www.patreon.com/posts/145164...
www.patreon.com/posts/145164...
December 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
i wrote about why exactly i love ran-thru bald men so much
www.patreon.com/posts/145164...
www.patreon.com/posts/145164...
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Love to see hard work getting recognition
December 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Love to see hard work getting recognition