Michael Scott Balch, PhD
@uqprofessional.bsky.social
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The thing about the National Guard is that, going by historic norms, you've got MUCH better odds of the National Guard siding with the people (approx 50%) than you have of cops siding with the people (approx 0%).
January 24, 2026 at 8:08 PM
The thing about the National Guard is that, going by historic norms, you've got MUCH better odds of the National Guard siding with the people (approx 50%) than you have of cops siding with the people (approx 0%).
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Jonathan Ross *is* ICE training. He’s the person who trains ICE officers. They send ICE officers *to him* to be trained. If they increase the training from 47 stupid days, the ICE officers get more Jonathon Ross days. I can’t understand why scared Dems fail to see this basic fact.
January 23, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Jonathan Ross *is* ICE training. He’s the person who trains ICE officers. They send ICE officers *to him* to be trained. If they increase the training from 47 stupid days, the ICE officers get more Jonathon Ross days. I can’t understand why scared Dems fail to see this basic fact.
What kind of system needs you to believe that "human nature" is only the bad stuff?
January 22, 2026 at 2:32 PM
What kind of system needs you to believe that "human nature" is only the bad stuff?
Groupchat?
January 22, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Groupchat?
Line go down all day.
The fashion in which capitalism eats itself is contingent, but the fact that it does is not.
Still, sometimes it feels like this contingent mode of collapse was designed in a lab to specifically piss me off.
The fashion in which capitalism eats itself is contingent, but the fact that it does is not.
Still, sometimes it feels like this contingent mode of collapse was designed in a lab to specifically piss me off.
January 22, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Line go down all day.
The fashion in which capitalism eats itself is contingent, but the fact that it does is not.
Still, sometimes it feels like this contingent mode of collapse was designed in a lab to specifically piss me off.
The fashion in which capitalism eats itself is contingent, but the fact that it does is not.
Still, sometimes it feels like this contingent mode of collapse was designed in a lab to specifically piss me off.
Our society's propaganda appartus spent decades lionizing college drop-outs with a trust fund as the saviors of modernity and progress.
A deep well of actual professionals delayed the consequences of that campaign, but I think we're seeing what a society run by Trust Fund drop-outs truly looks like
A deep well of actual professionals delayed the consequences of that campaign, but I think we're seeing what a society run by Trust Fund drop-outs truly looks like
January 22, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Our society's propaganda appartus spent decades lionizing college drop-outs with a trust fund as the saviors of modernity and progress.
A deep well of actual professionals delayed the consequences of that campaign, but I think we're seeing what a society run by Trust Fund drop-outs truly looks like
A deep well of actual professionals delayed the consequences of that campaign, but I think we're seeing what a society run by Trust Fund drop-outs truly looks like
Dems meet the moment? Pssh. Not if they see it coming first.
January 22, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Dems meet the moment? Pssh. Not if they see it coming first.
No upside. All downside.
Did a five year old come up with this idea? No. Because it's also boring!
Did a five year old come up with this idea? No. Because it's also boring!
January 22, 2026 at 2:28 AM
No upside. All downside.
Did a five year old come up with this idea? No. Because it's also boring!
Did a five year old come up with this idea? No. Because it's also boring!
If these thngs are "the future," then there is no future.
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM
If these thngs are "the future," then there is no future.
The war on protein is over.
January 20, 2026 at 11:45 PM
The war on protein is over.
It's almost like Democrats miss the moment on purpose.
January 20, 2026 at 3:08 PM
It's almost like Democrats miss the moment on purpose.
Cops always go fascist, but militaries are a coin flip, once they get turned inwards.
January 19, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Cops always go fascist, but militaries are a coin flip, once they get turned inwards.