Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent
Um, holy shit? This has gotta be up there in the most crass & worse things Trump has ever said
January 28, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent
This is what Democratic leadership wants IMO - a guaranteed minority of gerrymandered seats where they can sit back, cash checks from Israel, and enjoy a lifetime of the best health care the world has to offer. All this massive political action is a huge headache for them!
Chris Murphy to @gregsargent.bsky.social: "If people don’t see us fighting on something as existential as whether we condone the federal govt murdering our own citizens, there will be a mass withdrawal from politics altogether. This is a critical moment."
This is what Democratic leadership wants IMO - a guaranteed minority of gerrymandered seats where they can sit back, cash checks from Israel, and enjoy a lifetime of the best health care the world has to offer. All this massive political action is a huge headache for them!
Who's living in a bubble? The people who have been saying for months that invading US cities probably wasn't going to work out the way the administration thought it would or the posters on X and Truth Social who think a value pack of Hot Hands is evidence that antifa is being funded by George Soros?
January 27, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Who's living in a bubble? The people who have been saying for months that invading US cities probably wasn't going to work out the way the administration thought it would or the posters on X and Truth Social who think a value pack of Hot Hands is evidence that antifa is being funded by George Soros?
This is a pet peeve for me, but I do get the anger about “why isn’t the media doing this or that.” It has either been captured by ghouls or is gone. I am begging people to let go of the idea of news industry or media you had when you were younger. let’s all adapt pls: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...
This is a pet peeve for me, but I do get the anger about “why isn’t the media doing this or that.” It has either been captured by ghouls or is gone. I am begging people to let go of the idea of news industry or media you had when you were younger. let’s all adapt pls: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...
Every time pple think of saying, “why aren’t more publications covering [topic xyz],“ please don’t. This is why. been in media for 35 years & rich assholes destroyed it. media of past no longer exists. We are trying. Subscribe. But let go of the idea of “media” from 10-20-30 years ago. That’s gone.
From Paul Farhi at the other site. Former media reporter there.
January 26, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Every time pple think of saying, “why aren’t more publications covering [topic xyz],“ please don’t. This is why. been in media for 35 years & rich assholes destroyed it. media of past no longer exists. We are trying. Subscribe. But let go of the idea of “media” from 10-20-30 years ago. That’s gone.
They say we live in a bubble when there is a dude so fully ensconced in podcasts, twitter, group chats, and stimulants that he thought he could dress like a literal Nazi and start shooting people in the street and be remembered as a hero
These people live in a shrinking and dying parallel universe
Exclusive: Border Patrol “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role and is expected to retire soon, sources tell @nickmiroff.bsky.social.
They say we live in a bubble when there is a dude so fully ensconced in podcasts, twitter, group chats, and stimulants that he thought he could dress like a literal Nazi and start shooting people in the street and be remembered as a hero
These people live in a shrinking and dying parallel universe
This is a terrific piece of rhetorical construction that also happens to be a very good point. A lot of us have been heartened by the courage and integrity so many Minnesotans have shown over this past week, in the face of intimidation and spiteful violence.
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 AM
This is a terrific piece of rhetorical construction that also happens to be a very good point. A lot of us have been heartened by the courage and integrity so many Minnesotans have shown over this past week, in the face of intimidation and spiteful violence.
Greg Bovino sadly filling one steamer trunk after another with elaborate fashy overcoats, the teargas canisters he always has bouncing around on him like labubus, and dozens of "chest-belts." They will be shipped ahead of him as he prepares to return to his home, which is a men's size 10 boot.
January 27, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Greg Bovino sadly filling one steamer trunk after another with elaborate fashy overcoats, the teargas canisters he always has bouncing around on him like labubus, and dozens of "chest-belts." They will be shipped ahead of him as he prepares to return to his home, which is a men's size 10 boot.
make sure to check up on your mentally ill friends but only when it makes you feel like a benevolent god looking down at a bug if they make you uncomfortable at all cut contact move to the woods
January 27, 2026 at 10:19 AM
make sure to check up on your mentally ill friends but only when it makes you feel like a benevolent god looking down at a bug if they make you uncomfortable at all cut contact move to the woods
This is embarrassingly on-the-nose textbook “psychology of fascism” stuff. Bitter, impotent tools getting to feel powerful by proxy watching brutality done on their behalf.
Tim Pool: “I’m not licking the boot. It’s my boot. I voted for it. I’m the one stomping…”
This mindset is genuinely pathetic.
It’s an alpha fantasy: watching state violence and imagining you’re exercising power rather than the one submitting to it.
/1
January 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM
This is embarrassingly on-the-nose textbook “psychology of fascism” stuff. Bitter, impotent tools getting to feel powerful by proxy watching brutality done on their behalf.
I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
one of the reasons everybody hates late arrivals from the right or even the center is they're all weepy little idiots who want to be coddled and forgiven and make it everybody else's problem. shut up, figure out how to help fix what you broke, and stop writing thinkpieces
January 26, 2026 at 6:05 PM
one of the reasons everybody hates late arrivals from the right or even the center is they're all weepy little idiots who want to be coddled and forgiven and make it everybody else's problem. shut up, figure out how to help fix what you broke, and stop writing thinkpieces
"Joe Lonsdale reposted" - Palantir's cofounder. Silicon Valley's oligarchs seem themselves as literally at war with the American people because their end-goal is to enslave us.
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 6:27 PM
"Joe Lonsdale reposted" - Palantir's cofounder. Silicon Valley's oligarchs seem themselves as literally at war with the American people because their end-goal is to enslave us.
Philip Rivers is moving to Mississippi so he and his kids and use the state welfare system to renovate every training facility at every college in the state
But he has enough kids who could take the written tests for him.
January 26, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Philip Rivers is moving to Mississippi so he and his kids and use the state welfare system to renovate every training facility at every college in the state