Windsor Mann
@windsormann.bsky.social
Member of USA Today’s Board of Contributors, editor of The Quotable Hitchens, and freelance supermodel.
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Windsor Mann
@windsormann.bsky.social
· Nov 18
The key to surviving a second Trump presidency is to oppose him without losing your mind. If anyone knows how to do this, let me know.
This, along with the talk of fighting Venezuela, seems very “I’m unpopular so I’ll start random wars” to me.
Trump says we are preparing to invade Nigeria. Apparently that’s what voters said they wanted in the exit polls. Trump: “We’re going to do things to Nigeria that Nigeria’s not gonna be happy about. Guns-a-blazin!”
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This, along with the talk of fighting Venezuela, seems very “I’m unpopular so I’ll start random wars” to me.
You Winsome, you lose some.
November 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
You Winsome, you lose some.
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January 23, 2025:
a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
September 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
January 23, 2025:
George Orwell wrote in 1941:
June 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
George Orwell wrote in 1941:
Trump thinks D-Day stands for Donald Day.
June 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Trump thinks D-Day stands for Donald Day.
Trump is doing to businesses what he did to his businesses.
April 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Trump is doing to businesses what he did to his businesses.
Happy April Trump’s Day!
April 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Happy April Trump’s Day!
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I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now
March 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now
My DMs are open for anyone who wants to text me their war plans.
March 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
My DMs are open for anyone who wants to text me their war plans.
The weirdest thing just happened to me. A guy just asked me what time it was.
February 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The weirdest thing just happened to me. A guy just asked me what time it was.
Remembering this nugget from @davidfrum.bsky.social’s March 2017 cover story:
“The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty.”
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
“The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty.”
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How to Build an Autocracy
The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism.
www.theatlantic.com
January 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Remembering this nugget from @davidfrum.bsky.social’s March 2017 cover story:
“The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty.”
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
“The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty.”
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
“American politics has an ingrained philistinism and anti-intellectualism that has been the cause of infinite mischief.”
—Irving Kristol (born OTD in 1920)
—Irving Kristol (born OTD in 1920)
January 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“American politics has an ingrained philistinism and anti-intellectualism that has been the cause of infinite mischief.”
—Irving Kristol (born OTD in 1920)
—Irving Kristol (born OTD in 1920)
I’ll procrastinate later.
January 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I’ll procrastinate later.
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"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The New Rasputins
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
If you think it’s “divisive” to talk about January 6, you should have seen the time the president incited a mob to overthrow the government.
January 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
If you think it’s “divisive” to talk about January 6, you should have seen the time the president incited a mob to overthrow the government.
“Hatred has become a habit. With no more outside enemies to destroy, the fanatics make enemies of one another.”
—Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
—Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
January 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“Hatred has become a habit. With no more outside enemies to destroy, the fanatics make enemies of one another.”
—Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
—Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
New Year’s Resolution: make better decisions, like not purchasing Saved by the Bell: The College Years on iTunes.
January 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
New Year’s Resolution: make better decisions, like not purchasing Saved by the Bell: The College Years on iTunes.
Isaac Asimov was born on this day in 1920. This quotation from 1980 holds up:
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States…. [It is] nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States…. [It is] nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
January 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Isaac Asimov was born on this day in 1920. This quotation from 1980 holds up:
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States…. [It is] nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States…. [It is] nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
Happy birthday to Andrew Johnson, the second-worst president of the United States!
December 29, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Happy birthday to Andrew Johnson, the second-worst president of the United States!
I would wish everyone a Merry Christmas, but I can’t do that because Biden is still president.
December 25, 2024 at 2:39 PM
I would wish everyone a Merry Christmas, but I can’t do that because Biden is still president.
Column 1: Trump is a conspiracist.
Column 2: Bullshit! All Democrats are pedophiles!
Column 2: Bullshit! All Democrats are pedophiles!
L.A. Times opinion staffers notify the executive editor that Soon-Shiong has banned criticism of Donald Trump unless its "presented side-by-side with another opinion piece representing the 'opposing view,’" via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
www.status.news/p/patrick-so...
www.status.news/p/patrick-so...
Meddling for MAGA
Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, has dismayed staffers as he curtails critical coverage of Donald Trump.
www.status.news
December 17, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Column 1: Trump is a conspiracist.
Column 2: Bullshit! All Democrats are pedophiles!
Column 2: Bullshit! All Democrats are pedophiles!
Christopher Hitchens died 13 years ago today. I miss him.
December 15, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Christopher Hitchens died 13 years ago today. I miss him.
Island of garbage
December 4, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Island of garbage
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One of the hallmarks of this era is the frequent appointment of people who could not get hired in any capacity to work *for* federal agencies to run them.
December 1, 2024 at 8:22 AM
One of the hallmarks of this era is the frequent appointment of people who could not get hired in any capacity to work *for* federal agencies to run them.
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convinced that there are people who love trump for no other reason than that he gave them a personality, however rancid it might be
If your family started doing this at Thanksgiving dinner, what would you do? 😳
November 29, 2024 at 1:55 PM
convinced that there are people who love trump for no other reason than that he gave them a personality, however rancid it might be