Elliot
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I want to call this phenomenon "The Deneen Effect", i.e. it's a phenomenon where you ask someone with a bigoted, extremist ideology to be concrete about what they are trying to save or restore in American culture, and they are totally incapable of giving an answer that has any substance at all.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:54 PM
I want to call this phenomenon "The Deneen Effect", i.e. it's a phenomenon where you ask someone with a bigoted, extremist ideology to be concrete about what they are trying to save or restore in American culture, and they are totally incapable of giving an answer that has any substance at all.
the purpose of democracy is to have a society in which people pursue new and surprising forms of happiness, like subsisting off of pickles and goldfish.
I really don’t want to do another round of inflation discourse, particularly as a practicing economist, but like, this was $54. And, like, i’m not exactly splurging here. Store brand cheese and pickles? Crackers? Lunch meat? A pound of chicken?
February 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
the purpose of democracy is to have a society in which people pursue new and surprising forms of happiness, like subsisting off of pickles and goldfish.
Today’s poem: Elizabeth Bishop, “In the Waiting Room” (in two parts)
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February 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Today’s poem: Elizabeth Bishop, “In the Waiting Room” (in two parts)
#lunchpoems
#lunchpoems
shoulders / chest ✅
(exhausted)
(exhausted)
February 12, 2026 at 1:31 AM
shoulders / chest ✅
(exhausted)
(exhausted)
no you see, the founders wanted to establish an absolute monarchy*
with a carve out for the federal reserve board, in cases tbd by John Roberts, Supreme Pontiff and Vicar of Jefferson
with a carve out for the federal reserve board, in cases tbd by John Roberts, Supreme Pontiff and Vicar of Jefferson
Trying to understand: the Constitution gives Congress the power to impose tariffs. The President imposes tariffs without Congress. Congress passes a law rescinding his tariffs. The President then vetos that law. Seems like something’s wrong here.
February 12, 2026 at 12:56 AM
no you see, the founders wanted to establish an absolute monarchy*
with a carve out for the federal reserve board, in cases tbd by John Roberts, Supreme Pontiff and Vicar of Jefferson
with a carve out for the federal reserve board, in cases tbd by John Roberts, Supreme Pontiff and Vicar of Jefferson
i wish the best for the guthrie woman, but it’s obscene the amount of coverage CNN is giving this story, when masked men are abducting people all over the country with government sanction.
we deserve a news media that serves the public interest and not the prurient interest of retirees.
we deserve a news media that serves the public interest and not the prurient interest of retirees.
February 12, 2026 at 12:17 AM
i wish the best for the guthrie woman, but it’s obscene the amount of coverage CNN is giving this story, when masked men are abducting people all over the country with government sanction.
we deserve a news media that serves the public interest and not the prurient interest of retirees.
we deserve a news media that serves the public interest and not the prurient interest of retirees.
Today’s poem: Robert Frost, “The Pasture”
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February 11, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Today’s poem: Robert Frost, “The Pasture”
#lunchpoems
#lunchpoems
a day of nonstop non-stopping, now the gym.
February 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
a day of nonstop non-stopping, now the gym.
Still wondering what this new performative “fuck” is going to do to political rhetoric over time. If we’re lucky we’ll end up with a public political discourse obsessed with elaborate, obscene fecal or porcine insults.
Helluva statement from Colorado Rep Crow (D) on the Trump administration's failure to indict him and others
February 11, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Still wondering what this new performative “fuck” is going to do to political rhetoric over time. If we’re lucky we’ll end up with a public political discourse obsessed with elaborate, obscene fecal or porcine insults.
biceps / triceps ✅
my coach walked up to me today mid-workout and told me i look huge, which was cool.
my coach walked up to me today mid-workout and told me i look huge, which was cool.
February 11, 2026 at 12:18 AM
biceps / triceps ✅
my coach walked up to me today mid-workout and told me i look huge, which was cool.
my coach walked up to me today mid-workout and told me i look huge, which was cool.
Today’s workout made possible by Bruckner.
February 11, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Today’s workout made possible by Bruckner.
Reposted by Elliot
"If you 'know what time it is,' you understand the hour is late and you’re prepared to do whatever it takes. It gives carte blanche for total ruthlessness in politics because you understand the stakes." @lkatfield.bsky.social talks to @inthesetimes.com about her brilliant new book, Furious Minds.
"Carte Blanche for Ruthlessness"
Author Laura Field on how Trump and the furious minds of the New Right are in a mutually reinforcing cycle of radicalization.
inthesetimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:08 PM
"If you 'know what time it is,' you understand the hour is late and you’re prepared to do whatever it takes. It gives carte blanche for total ruthlessness in politics because you understand the stakes." @lkatfield.bsky.social talks to @inthesetimes.com about her brilliant new book, Furious Minds.
man i am super low energy today. idk what’s up.
February 10, 2026 at 6:08 PM
man i am super low energy today. idk what’s up.
The best kind of gay porn. Everyone is clothed in pants and long dresses, smiling, and a guy is holding up a football with a civics message on it.
Watch out, Sean Cody.
Watch out, Sean Cody.
February 10, 2026 at 5:09 PM
The best kind of gay porn. Everyone is clothed in pants and long dresses, smiling, and a guy is holding up a football with a civics message on it.
Watch out, Sean Cody.
Watch out, Sean Cody.
check in day. 203lbs this morning, fasted.
February 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
check in day. 203lbs this morning, fasted.
TBH as a closeted homophobe at the time, it’s hard to overstate the impact “Born this Way” had on my sense of what “everyone” believed about being gay.
Not trying to dunk on the quoted post, but the normalization of ideas and identities by big pop culture figures does actually work.
Not trying to dunk on the quoted post, but the normalization of ideas and identities by big pop culture figures does actually work.
People who think Bad Bunny did a lot for immigrants because of the super bowl are the same people who think Lady Gaga solved homophobia and transphobia because she said "no matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgender life" in her show in 2017
February 10, 2026 at 2:12 AM
TBH as a closeted homophobe at the time, it’s hard to overstate the impact “Born this Way” had on my sense of what “everyone” believed about being gay.
Not trying to dunk on the quoted post, but the normalization of ideas and identities by big pop culture figures does actually work.
Not trying to dunk on the quoted post, but the normalization of ideas and identities by big pop culture figures does actually work.
ideas are fun and talking about the interplay of different intellectual systems is also fun
a group of women are dancing on a stage in front of a drum set .
ALT: a group of women are dancing on a stage in front of a drum set .
media.tenor.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:55 AM
ideas are fun and talking about the interplay of different intellectual systems is also fun
“guys having a dictator bound by no laws would be so epic and based”
[several years of self-destruction later…]
“wait actually rights are cool, and democracy is also cool. dictators are dumb and they suck.”
[several years of self-destruction later…]
“wait actually rights are cool, and democracy is also cool. dictators are dumb and they suck.”
One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
Dr. Mehmet Oz is calling on Americans to get the measles vaccine as cases spread across the U.S.
February 10, 2026 at 1:41 AM
“guys having a dictator bound by no laws would be so epic and based”
[several years of self-destruction later…]
“wait actually rights are cool, and democracy is also cool. dictators are dumb and they suck.”
[several years of self-destruction later…]
“wait actually rights are cool, and democracy is also cool. dictators are dumb and they suck.”
update: i rewatched the hockey show again over the weekend while i was doing other stuff, and the end of ep 5 still had me weeping.
i don’t understand the wizardry but it works.
i don’t understand the wizardry but it works.
February 9, 2026 at 10:30 PM
update: i rewatched the hockey show again over the weekend while i was doing other stuff, and the end of ep 5 still had me weeping.
i don’t understand the wizardry but it works.
i don’t understand the wizardry but it works.
idk what the difference is but the janky old hack squat at the gym feels way better than the nicer looking new one.
February 9, 2026 at 10:07 PM
idk what the difference is but the janky old hack squat at the gym feels way better than the nicer looking new one.