Thaddeus
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October 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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This is state-sponsored media shit. Absolutely, shocking, insane dictator overreach
#BREAKING: Sinclair says it will air a one-hour tribute to Charlie Kirk on its ABC-affiliated stations in the time slot that is usually occupied for "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The special will air on Friday, per a Sinclair spokesperson.
September 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This is state-sponsored media shit. Absolutely, shocking, insane dictator overreach
Noting for the record that the @espiers.bsky.social piece on Charlie Kirk was word- and pitch-perfect. Any freedom-loving institution should have been proud to publish or fund it.
www.elizabethspiers.com/whatta-week-...
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Whatta Week: Charlie Kirk, JD Vance, and My Inbox
I wrote a column for The Nation about why I don't celebrate Charlie Kirk's death, but I won't celebrate his life, either. I'm posting it below in its entirety.
Since the column came out, it has been ...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Noting for the record that the @espiers.bsky.social piece on Charlie Kirk was word- and pitch-perfect. Any freedom-loving institution should have been proud to publish or fund it.
www.elizabethspiers.com/whatta-week-...
www.elizabethspiers.com/whatta-week-...
Anti-anti-fascism—can we call it “pro-fa”?— is now the controlling ideology of the GOP, the US government, and various other major American institutions (e.g., ABC, WaPo).
Playing the hits www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
September 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Anti-anti-fascism—can we call it “pro-fa”?— is now the controlling ideology of the GOP, the US government, and various other major American institutions (e.g., ABC, WaPo).
Crazy. And crazy-making. Nothing that any commentator of prominence has said about Kirk compares in offensiveness to any number of things that Kirk said over many years. We’re being asked to believe not just that up is down, but that up is the wisest, kindest, most generous down that ever lived.
genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people
September 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Crazy. And crazy-making. Nothing that any commentator of prominence has said about Kirk compares in offensiveness to any number of things that Kirk said over many years. We’re being asked to believe not just that up is down, but that up is the wisest, kindest, most generous down that ever lived.
Stop acting like a Nazi. Stop acting like a fascist.
Thank you for playing “Easy Answers to Hard Question.“
Thank you for playing “Easy Answers to Hard Question.“
Vance: "What is it that you want people to do when you call them 'Nazis'? What is it that you want them to do when you call them 'fascist'?...This rhetoric is completely out of control and it's part of this entire network of violence that exists on the far-left."
September 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Stop acting like a Nazi. Stop acting like a fascist.
Thank you for playing “Easy Answers to Hard Question.“
Thank you for playing “Easy Answers to Hard Question.“
This is an excellent point. But the relevant date range is probably something like 1865-2024.
I think a genuine issue is a lot of elites genuinely do hold the election of Trump proves that there was a populist mandate to overturn ths social progress of 2016-2024.
A lot of people who were panic mongering about a woke cultural revolution are conspicuously quiet about a youth activist denouncing a professor for wrong think and that professor being fired as part of a campaign of public shaming by political leaders.
September 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is an excellent point. But the relevant date range is probably something like 1865-2024.
What’s the over/under on days until pardon talk for Tyler Robinson enters this-is-legitimate mainstream political discourse?
September 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
What’s the over/under on days until pardon talk for Tyler Robinson enters this-is-legitimate mainstream political discourse?
We live in an Orwell Moment, when plain speaking about unpleasant political facts is strangely rare and uniquely valuable—when simple truths, simply told, can have a marvelous tonic effect, even many people deem them hard to swallow. (Orwellian times, of course, open space for an Orwell Moment.) 1/3
September 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
We live in an Orwell Moment, when plain speaking about unpleasant political facts is strangely rare and uniquely valuable—when simple truths, simply told, can have a marvelous tonic effect, even many people deem them hard to swallow. (Orwellian times, of course, open space for an Orwell Moment.) 1/3
There will be many breaking points before it’s all over (“it” being the Trump-MAGA regime, but like Paul Campos, I feel that we’ve reached a big in Aug-Sep 2025.
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www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/alte...
Alternatives to ordinary politics - Lawyers, Guns & Money
For some probably random reason I went over a psychological cliff yesterday. I think it may have been this that sent me over the edge: If you haven’t seen the movie, Robert Duvall plays Lt. Col. Bill ...
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September 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
There will be many breaking points before it’s all over (“it” being the Trump-MAGA regime, but like Paul Campos, I feel that we’ve reached a big in Aug-Sep 2025.
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/alte...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/alte...
“Politics,” Steve Bannon said, “is downstream of culture.” When he’s right, he’s right! This sharp piece delves into the meaning of the larger MAGA project, a key part of which involves using a kitsch aesthetic to eliminate every vestige of liberalism.
www.vox.com/politics/459...
www.vox.com/politics/459...
Trump isn’t just remodeling the White House. He’s rebranding America.
The president’s tacky aesthetic is a window into his quest to become the single most enduring symbol of America.
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September 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“Politics,” Steve Bannon said, “is downstream of culture.” When he’s right, he’s right! This sharp piece delves into the meaning of the larger MAGA project, a key part of which involves using a kitsch aesthetic to eliminate every vestige of liberalism.
www.vox.com/politics/459...
www.vox.com/politics/459...
All of this. Very much all of this. One way to understand MAGA is as an erasure of the Second Founding.
Allowing Trump to run for president after Jan 6 was an act of constitutional suicide.
Allowing Trump to run for president after Jan 6 was an act of constitutional suicide.
Also, the 2024 election was tainted by the fact that the Supreme Court ignored the PLAIN TEXT of the Constitution and allowed Trump to run.
Trump was patently ineligible! Insurrectionists cannot hold office. That the Court is corrupt doesn't change that. We can read the Constitution!
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Trump was patently ineligible! Insurrectionists cannot hold office. That the Court is corrupt doesn't change that. We can read the Constitution!
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I honestly do not understand the push to discover that the 2024 election was tainted by bad counts or something.
It was tainted by an insurrectionist pledging violence if he lost being allowed to run. Isn't that enough? Obviously not a free and a fair election.
It was tainted by an insurrectionist pledging violence if he lost being allowed to run. Isn't that enough? Obviously not a free and a fair election.
September 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
All of this. Very much all of this. One way to understand MAGA is as an erasure of the Second Founding.
Allowing Trump to run for president after Jan 6 was an act of constitutional suicide.
Allowing Trump to run for president after Jan 6 was an act of constitutional suicide.
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Just thinking about how fighting the Nazis in WWII was pretty woke
September 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Just thinking about how fighting the Nazis in WWII was pretty woke
Great point! And don’t forget that the Trump regime has also (illegally) dismantledUS institute of Peace.
September 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Great point! And don’t forget that the Trump regime has also (illegally) dismantledUS institute of Peace.
Those who forget immunology are condemned to learn it again the hard way.
Willful cultural amnesia explains so much of the current catastrophe. (Op. cit. John Roberts Voting Rights Act decisions.)
Willful cultural amnesia explains so much of the current catastrophe. (Op. cit. John Roberts Voting Rights Act decisions.)
September 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Those who forget immunology are condemned to learn it again the hard way.
Willful cultural amnesia explains so much of the current catastrophe. (Op. cit. John Roberts Voting Rights Act decisions.)
Willful cultural amnesia explains so much of the current catastrophe. (Op. cit. John Roberts Voting Rights Act decisions.)
Ha!
Soon will come the day when Murc’s Law will be the only law that we have.
Soon will come the day when Murc’s Law will be the only law that we have.
Donald Trump posted “Chicago is about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR” on his Truth Social account, raising alarms about Biden’s mental state.
September 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Ha!
Soon will come the day when Murc’s Law will be the only law that we have.
Soon will come the day when Murc’s Law will be the only law that we have.
MAGA types, including DJT, are the ultimate “ bad fans”: They watch and presumably enjoy perfectly good movies without any conception of who the bad guys are. Nor, as others pointed out, do they have any conception of which side lost this particular guerrilla war.
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
September 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
MAGA types, including DJT, are the ultimate “ bad fans”: They watch and presumably enjoy perfectly good movies without any conception of who the bad guys are. Nor, as others pointed out, do they have any conception of which side lost this particular guerrilla war.
Brilliantly said. I totally agree with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social. Sweeping out top congressional Dem leaders is a necessary step forward.
Yet it’s far from sufficient. It’s far from clear the leaders who would replace Schumer and Jeffries would be much better.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yet it’s far from sufficient. It’s far from clear the leaders who would replace Schumer and Jeffries would be much better.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan
This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition. We all deserve better
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Brilliantly said. I totally agree with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social. Sweeping out top congressional Dem leaders is a necessary step forward.
Yet it’s far from sufficient. It’s far from clear the leaders who would replace Schumer and Jeffries would be much better.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yet it’s far from sufficient. It’s far from clear the leaders who would replace Schumer and Jeffries would be much better.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why we are where we are, in 10 indelible words: “You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!”
I'm kind of shocked that anyone is still proposing technocratic solutions to the "debate" over immigration. Even if this were a good idea (and it is not), Republican elites and media will never tell their base about it. You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!
September 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Why we are where we are, in 10 indelible words: “You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!”
For years, the whole phenomenon of Donald Trump has flabbergasted me—because, as this great comment at @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social notes, he embodies every villain trope in modern American popular culture. Again and again,I just want to scream: This guy?
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/no-m...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/no-m...
September 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
For years, the whole phenomenon of Donald Trump has flabbergasted me—because, as this great comment at @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social notes, he embodies every villain trope in modern American popular culture. Again and again,I just want to scream: This guy?
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/no-m...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/no-m...
Great thread. Very smart to connect “deliverism” with Dem leaders‘ current hapless strategy on the funding battle. Common denominator: Congressional Dems cling to the outdated idea that their primary task is legislation. No! It’s all about the info battle. It’s all about the war for attention.
Democratic leadership are now engaged in a new form of failed deliverism.
Four years ago, it was “pass good bills and the people will love us and vote for us.” That didn’t work.
Now it is “sit back, let Republicans do bad things, and people will hate them and vote for us.” That is also bad!
Four years ago, it was “pass good bills and the people will love us and vote for us.” That didn’t work.
Now it is “sit back, let Republicans do bad things, and people will hate them and vote for us.” That is also bad!
September 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Great thread. Very smart to connect “deliverism” with Dem leaders‘ current hapless strategy on the funding battle. Common denominator: Congressional Dems cling to the outdated idea that their primary task is legislation. No! It’s all about the info battle. It’s all about the war for attention.