Effing Grim
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Effing Grim
@effinggrim.bsky.social
· Sep 23
Fox News can’t make you indifferent toward children. Can’t make you cheer using a child as a threat against their parent. It reveals it. You are that way.
The truth.
It’s amazing.
The thirsty, desperate/to-be-relevant, foreign policy commentariat that is so unfortunately platformed by a lot of mainstream media wants to portray the Venezuela operation as “sending a message” to China and Russia and other adversaries.
This is so abjectly moronic. (1/x)
The thirsty, desperate/to-be-relevant, foreign policy commentariat that is so unfortunately platformed by a lot of mainstream media wants to portray the Venezuela operation as “sending a message” to China and Russia and other adversaries.
This is so abjectly moronic. (1/x)
January 5, 2026 at 1:39 PM
The truth.
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It’s amazing.
The thirsty, desperate/to-be-relevant, foreign policy commentariat that is so unfortunately platformed by a lot of mainstream media wants to portray the Venezuela operation as “sending a message” to China and Russia and other adversaries.
This is so abjectly moronic. (1/x)
The thirsty, desperate/to-be-relevant, foreign policy commentariat that is so unfortunately platformed by a lot of mainstream media wants to portray the Venezuela operation as “sending a message” to China and Russia and other adversaries.
This is so abjectly moronic. (1/x)
January 5, 2026 at 2:47 AM
It’s amazing.
The thirsty, desperate/to-be-relevant, foreign policy commentariat that is so unfortunately platformed by a lot of mainstream media wants to portray the Venezuela operation as “sending a message” to China and Russia and other adversaries.
This is so abjectly moronic. (1/x)
The thirsty, desperate/to-be-relevant, foreign policy commentariat that is so unfortunately platformed by a lot of mainstream media wants to portray the Venezuela operation as “sending a message” to China and Russia and other adversaries.
This is so abjectly moronic. (1/x)
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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
January 3, 2026 at 9:42 PM
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
December 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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And may every day be another wonderful secret.
December 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
And may every day be another wonderful secret.
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I did not know this
December 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I did not know this
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Francis M. Wilhoit: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Francis M. Wilhoit: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
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I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.
Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
October 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.
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Trump posted an AI video last night of him wearing a crown, flying a jet and bombing protesters with shit. Yes, shit. Many U.S. media have ignored this latest example of Trump’s mental instability. Others have downplayed it. The response says a lot about why we’re in this mess. 🧵 1/
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
October 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Trump posted an AI video last night of him wearing a crown, flying a jet and bombing protesters with shit. Yes, shit. Many U.S. media have ignored this latest example of Trump’s mental instability. Others have downplayed it. The response says a lot about why we’re in this mess. 🧵 1/
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The most important political thread of our time.
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
October 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The most important political thread of our time.
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Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.
October 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.
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Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?"
Older veteran: “87.”
Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”
Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”
🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥
Older veteran: “87.”
Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”
Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”
🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥
October 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?"
Older veteran: “87.”
Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”
Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”
🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥
Older veteran: “87.”
Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”
Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”
🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Yes indeed! What do you do when you're covering a lying, bloviating politician who revels in attention, good or bad? Ignoring him or covering him neutrally or even covering him critically doesn't work. You've got to try something different! Clip and save this chart:
October 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Yes indeed! What do you do when you're covering a lying, bloviating politician who revels in attention, good or bad? Ignoring him or covering him neutrally or even covering him critically doesn't work. You've got to try something different! Clip and save this chart:
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An attempt to make sense of Trump's "incomprehensible determination to press ahead with policies – such as tariffs and the defunding of medical research–that will do deep harm without any apparent gain, even for Trump’s backers and clients, still less his voters." www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
An attempt to make sense of Trump's "incomprehensible determination to press ahead with policies – such as tariffs and the defunding of medical research–that will do deep harm without any apparent gain, even for Trump’s backers and clients, still less his voters." www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
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New from me: A "heterodox" writer took a week to teach himself immigration law, then reprimanded me for daring to suggest that Trump is violating the due process rights of immigrants.
He's wrong -- about pretty much everything.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/what-to-wa...
He's wrong -- about pretty much everything.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/what-to-wa...
As Trump vows to end asylum, a tech bro site valiantly defends him -- from accusations that he wants to end asylum
An editor at the "anti-woke" site Pirate Wires scolds me for criticizing Trump's immigration policy. He has no idea what he's talking about.
radleybalko.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
New from me: A "heterodox" writer took a week to teach himself immigration law, then reprimanded me for daring to suggest that Trump is violating the due process rights of immigrants.
He's wrong -- about pretty much everything.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/what-to-wa...
He's wrong -- about pretty much everything.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/what-to-wa...
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Not only is this piece an incredibly informative read, Balko absolutely nails the disingenuous, moderate actor here (such as Jonathan Haidt).
September 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Not only is this piece an incredibly informative read, Balko absolutely nails the disingenuous, moderate actor here (such as Jonathan Haidt).
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Fox News can’t make you indifferent toward children. Can’t make you cheer using a child as a threat against their parent. It reveals it. You are that way.
September 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Fox News can’t make you indifferent toward children. Can’t make you cheer using a child as a threat against their parent. It reveals it. You are that way.
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There's no more fitting tribute to Charlie Kirk than the one they're giving him right now: nominally Christian survivors on the same grift clambering over one another for more publicity, capped by the shambling, lurching embodiment of everything they long to be. You couldn't write anything meaner
September 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
There's no more fitting tribute to Charlie Kirk than the one they're giving him right now: nominally Christian survivors on the same grift clambering over one another for more publicity, capped by the shambling, lurching embodiment of everything they long to be. You couldn't write anything meaner
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Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC
September 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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