Constantine
@ajaxsinger.bsky.social
Teacher, writer, story-coach.
TradPub refugee & failed iconoclast
A story: https://tinyurl.com/k3e23k8a
Another: https://l1nq.com/singerinterrupt
Letter Prize Winning Unpublished Manuscript: https://tinyurl.com/Albertthelast
TradPub refugee & failed iconoclast
A story: https://tinyurl.com/k3e23k8a
Another: https://l1nq.com/singerinterrupt
Letter Prize Winning Unpublished Manuscript: https://tinyurl.com/Albertthelast
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Constantine
@ajaxsinger.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Hi new folks. I follow accounts who a) are experts in their fields, b) journalists with beats I care about, c) amusing, kind, insightful, or any combo thereof, and d) that interact with me in nice ways.
If you want a follow back, be one of those things.
If you want a follow back, be one of those things.
The moment where they send the second missile to kill the survivors is, quite literally, a moment-by-moment documentation of a very specific war crime.
Gift link. Folks in the DOD and military are actively trying to underbus Hegseth.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
wapo.st
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The moment where they send the second missile to kill the survivors is, quite literally, a moment-by-moment documentation of a very specific war crime.
There's a big chunk of Rs who "don't like what he's doing but trust him." This can only last so long b4 the cognitive dissonance becomes too painful. Will they resolve the dissonance by making themselves like the policies or by souring on Trump? My money's on the latter.
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
There's a big chunk of Rs who "don't like what he's doing but trust him." This can only last so long b4 the cognitive dissonance becomes too painful. Will they resolve the dissonance by making themselves like the policies or by souring on Trump? My money's on the latter.
My go-to Trump Analogy:
Trump is the Norma Desmond of Charles Foster Kaines.
Trump is the Norma Desmond of Charles Foster Kaines.
You know that Trump will never see these polls because he's Nora Desmond and Stephen Miller et. al. are playing Max the Butler
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My go-to Trump Analogy:
Trump is the Norma Desmond of Charles Foster Kaines.
Trump is the Norma Desmond of Charles Foster Kaines.
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You know that Trump will never see these polls because he's Nora Desmond and Stephen Miller et. al. are playing Max the Butler
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
You know that Trump will never see these polls because he's Nora Desmond and Stephen Miller et. al. are playing Max the Butler
In my political fantasy, we get Trump's actual medical records and use his 2025 stroke and mild/moderate Alzheimer's dementia diagnosis to invalidate every single decision made in his name during his presidency bc they were actually made by unelected staff.
There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.
November 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
In my political fantasy, we get Trump's actual medical records and use his 2025 stroke and mild/moderate Alzheimer's dementia diagnosis to invalidate every single decision made in his name during his presidency bc they were actually made by unelected staff.
TBH this is the best executive dysfunction treatment I've ever seen.
If I can't do a task, I put on a costume of a person who can do a task. I can't clean my kitchen, but the tavern wench who pours the grog can.
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
TBH this is the best executive dysfunction treatment I've ever seen.
In 2008, after 8 years of trying to privatize at SSI, destroying the economy, 2 wars of choice, Deepwater Horizon, & Katrina, GWB had a same party approve rate of 66%. Republicans stand by their man & the hermetically sealed RW media ecosystem gives Trump an extra 20 points.
New Gallup poll shows Trump's approval hit a new low for his second term:
-36% approve
-60% disapprove
His approval among Republicans went from 91% in January to 84% in November
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
-36% approve
-60% disapprove
His approval among Republicans went from 91% in January to 84% in November
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.
news.gallup.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
In 2008, after 8 years of trying to privatize at SSI, destroying the economy, 2 wars of choice, Deepwater Horizon, & Katrina, GWB had a same party approve rate of 66%. Republicans stand by their man & the hermetically sealed RW media ecosystem gives Trump an extra 20 points.
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the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Goosememe.jpg:
"Which culture turned him into a child-soldier to fight as their sock-puppet, Stephen?
WHICH CULTURE MOTHERFUCKER?"
"Which culture turned him into a child-soldier to fight as their sock-puppet, Stephen?
WHICH CULTURE MOTHERFUCKER?"
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Goosememe.jpg:
"Which culture turned him into a child-soldier to fight as their sock-puppet, Stephen?
WHICH CULTURE MOTHERFUCKER?"
"Which culture turned him into a child-soldier to fight as their sock-puppet, Stephen?
WHICH CULTURE MOTHERFUCKER?"
The Evils of Migration is the True Meaning of Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown.
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The Evils of Migration is the True Meaning of Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown.
"Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live."
Merry holidays from me and Dorothy Parker
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live."
Merry holidays from me and Dorothy Parker
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live."
Merry holidays from me and Dorothy Parker
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live."
Merry holidays from me and Dorothy Parker
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... but when Trump took over....
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
... but when Trump took over....
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This young man, this highly damaged man,. Who killed these guards is 29. In 2018, he was 22. If Pompei hadn't resuscitated this evil program, he would never have killed children, women, and families for the US govt and, maybe, he wouldn't have been destroyed enough to murder these poor kids.
The Night Raids
CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn't been held accountable. A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.
share.google
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This young man, this highly damaged man,. Who killed these guards is 29. In 2018, he was 22. If Pompei hadn't resuscitated this evil program, he would never have killed children, women, and families for the US govt and, maybe, he wouldn't have been destroyed enough to murder these poor kids.
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I was inspired to look at the whole history of the Zero Units. They started in 2002, less than 6 months after the start of the war. They were active through 2012 when push back against the program by Karzai and others grew stronger...
The Night Raids
CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn't been held accountable. A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.
share.google
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I was inspired to look at the whole history of the Zero Units. They started in 2002, less than 6 months after the start of the war. They were active through 2012 when push back against the program by Karzai and others grew stronger...
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The Zero Unit he was part of was clearly nothing less than a sock-puppeted US death-squad and I'd really love to know who greenlit the whole program and when.
I have suspicions.
I have suspicions.
If I'm understanding this correctly, the man who shot two national guards in DC was a former Afghan child soldier who fought alongside US special forces and in a CIA-supervised unit and later was granted asylum. The word "blowback" comes to mind.
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The Zero Unit he was part of was clearly nothing less than a sock-puppeted US death-squad and I'd really love to know who greenlit the whole program and when.
I have suspicions.
I have suspicions.
It's Thanksgiving so all the stations are playing the greatest hits.
TRUMP: WE MAY ALMOST COMPLETELY ELIMINATE INCOME TAX BECAUSE OF TARIFF PROCEEDS
November 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It's Thanksgiving so all the stations are playing the greatest hits.
Inchoate
Let’s all go around the table and say one word we’re thankful for.
November 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Inchoate
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fuck him up bonnie
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
fuck him up bonnie
Post something random or have an awful December.
November 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Post something random or have an awful December.
The Zero Unit he was part of was clearly nothing less than a sock-puppeted US death-squad and I'd really love to know who greenlit the whole program and when.
I have suspicions.
I have suspicions.
If I'm understanding this correctly, the man who shot two national guards in DC was a former Afghan child soldier who fought alongside US special forces and in a CIA-supervised unit and later was granted asylum. The word "blowback" comes to mind.
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The Zero Unit he was part of was clearly nothing less than a sock-puppeted US death-squad and I'd really love to know who greenlit the whole program and when.
I have suspicions.
I have suspicions.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
• David Bowie
• Nina Simone
• Eartha Kitt
• Bikini Kill (10x)
• Jason Isbell
• David Bowie
• Nina Simone
• Eartha Kitt
• Bikini Kill (10x)
• Jason Isbell
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
• David Bowie
• Taj Mahal
• The Pixies
• Robyn Hitchcock
• Billy Bragg
• David Bowie
• Taj Mahal
• The Pixies
• Robyn Hitchcock
• Billy Bragg
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
• The Damned
• Orville Peck
• Public Enemy
• Cocteau Twins
• Madonna
• The Damned
• Orville Peck
• Public Enemy
• Cocteau Twins
• Madonna
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
• David Bowie
• Nina Simone
• Eartha Kitt
• Bikini Kill (10x)
• Jason Isbell
• David Bowie
• Nina Simone
• Eartha Kitt
• Bikini Kill (10x)
• Jason Isbell
Oh man...
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Oh man...
The big lesson about social media and Thanksgiving is don't post a picture of your turkey unless you really want to hear what people think about it.
November 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The big lesson about social media and Thanksgiving is don't post a picture of your turkey unless you really want to hear what people think about it.
This isn't just saving small retail. It's probably saving family Thanksgiving.
Taking a ‘cousin walk’ this Thanksgiving? As cannabis has become less stigmatized and more readily available in the U.S., industry experts say ‘Green Wednesday’ has begun to rival 4/20 for the most weed sales.
The other thing Americans consume in record numbers on Thanksgiving: marijuana
At a Maryland cannabis dispensary on ‘Green Wednesday,’ a day that has begun to rival 4/20 for the most weed sales, one product sold out in 15 minutes.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This isn't just saving small retail. It's probably saving family Thanksgiving.
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Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction:
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
January 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction:
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home