Effing Grim
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Effing Grim
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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.
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/
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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Here's a good blog post: defector.com/this-is-who-...
This Is Who Charlie Kirk Was | Defector
Certainly the dead tend to be thought of more fondly than they were in life. Still, it’s quite disorienting to watch American institutions obediently line up to display the utmost solemnity for a bigo...
defector.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Here's a good blog post: defector.com/this-is-who-...
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Everyone including media and democrats have completely accepted and promote Trump and MAGAs blame of democrats.
If we are stereotyping —
The suspect in the picture looks like a groyper or disgruntled MAGA. Homicidally mad about Israel or the Epstein cover up is completely plausible.
If we are stereotyping —
The suspect in the picture looks like a groyper or disgruntled MAGA. Homicidally mad about Israel or the Epstein cover up is completely plausible.
September 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Everyone including media and democrats have completely accepted and promote Trump and MAGAs blame of democrats.
If we are stereotyping —
The suspect in the picture looks like a groyper or disgruntled MAGA. Homicidally mad about Israel or the Epstein cover up is completely plausible.
If we are stereotyping —
The suspect in the picture looks like a groyper or disgruntled MAGA. Homicidally mad about Israel or the Epstein cover up is completely plausible.
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the media rush to canonize charlie kirk is legitimately maybe one of the weirdest things of this nature i have ever seen in my life
September 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
the media rush to canonize charlie kirk is legitimately maybe one of the weirdest things of this nature i have ever seen in my life
“Policy is being set in order to provide content for the MAGA social media hordes”. And reporters label normal reactions to each outrage as partisan and divisive.
Ask Dems opposed to military occupation of U.S. cities, for example, why they don’t want to stop crime.
Ask Dems opposed to military occupation of U.S. cities, for example, why they don’t want to stop crime.
It is impossible to overstate the centrality of social media to our political collapse. Policy is being set in order to provide content for the MAGA social media hordes, who then spiral into greater radicalism, which then results in more extreme policy. Complete disregard for any other goal.
In a suit filed earlier today by three fired FBI officials, Patel and Bongino are portrayed as being so obsessed with social media that it could “risk outweighing more deliberate analyses of investigations."
September 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
“Policy is being set in order to provide content for the MAGA social media hordes”. And reporters label normal reactions to each outrage as partisan and divisive.
Ask Dems opposed to military occupation of U.S. cities, for example, why they don’t want to stop crime.
Ask Dems opposed to military occupation of U.S. cities, for example, why they don’t want to stop crime.
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It is impossible to overstate the centrality of social media to our political collapse. Policy is being set in order to provide content for the MAGA social media hordes, who then spiral into greater radicalism, which then results in more extreme policy. Complete disregard for any other goal.
In a suit filed earlier today by three fired FBI officials, Patel and Bongino are portrayed as being so obsessed with social media that it could “risk outweighing more deliberate analyses of investigations."
September 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
It is impossible to overstate the centrality of social media to our political collapse. Policy is being set in order to provide content for the MAGA social media hordes, who then spiral into greater radicalism, which then results in more extreme policy. Complete disregard for any other goal.
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There is no democratic justification for withholding these files. This is a coverup.
September 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
There is no democratic justification for withholding these files. This is a coverup.
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The degree that the Republican Party has been compromised by the Russian Federation is the great under-reported story of our time. Nothing like this has ever happened.
In another nod to Putin, Trump administration officials inform European diplomats that the US will no longer fund programs that train and equip militaries in eastern European countries that would be on the frontline of any conflict with Russia. www.ft.com/content/0157...
US to cut some security funds for European countries bordering Russia
Move comes as Washington pushes Nato allies to pay more towards their own defence
www.ft.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The degree that the Republican Party has been compromised by the Russian Federation is the great under-reported story of our time. Nothing like this has ever happened.
“Capitalism without government-granted patent and copyright monopolies is still capitalism.”
Capitalism without competition is feudalism. To the GOP + their corporate Dem auxiliary’s threat that the elite won’t invest if we don’t surrender to them endless certain profit, I’d reply “crypto”.
Capitalism without competition is feudalism. To the GOP + their corporate Dem auxiliary’s threat that the elite won’t invest if we don’t surrender to them endless certain profit, I’d reply “crypto”.
Taxing the rich is great, but it would be even better not to write the laws so that the rich get all the money deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-rich-w...
The Rich Wrote the Laws So that They Get all the Money, While the Left Was Sleeping
I endlessly hear people complaining that we should tax billionaires, which we should.
deanbaker22.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
“Capitalism without government-granted patent and copyright monopolies is still capitalism.”
Capitalism without competition is feudalism. To the GOP + their corporate Dem auxiliary’s threat that the elite won’t invest if we don’t surrender to them endless certain profit, I’d reply “crypto”.
Capitalism without competition is feudalism. To the GOP + their corporate Dem auxiliary’s threat that the elite won’t invest if we don’t surrender to them endless certain profit, I’d reply “crypto”.