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I have one. Voters make decisions based on the ideas in their heads and their beliefs about the world, and those ideas and beliefs are heavily shaped by their social interactions, especially media consumption, and in the last 20 years most media consumption is from social media's sea of lies.
I don't think center left or left or center pundits have put forward a single coherent explanation of the 2016 election following the 2024 election as literally all of their theories of the 2016 election were disproven by the Biden term.
"Men are disturbed not by events, but by the view that they take of them"
Epictetus
Epictetus
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in isolation this honestly sounds like he's railing against inflation
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
in isolation this honestly sounds like he's railing against inflation
Remarkable that for decades of talk about moving beyond American unipolarity and dominance, at the precise moment when it would be most suitable to do so, it's not happening
We're the Indispensable Nation, whether we like it or not.
We're the Indispensable Nation, whether we like it or not.
Applications to what new research positions tbh, Europe isn't funding.
"He emphasized that the US as a research location is irreplaceable and warned: "Weakening the US scientific system would be a weakening for all of us.""
"He emphasized that the US as a research location is irreplaceable and warned: "Weakening the US scientific system would be a weakening for all of us.""
December 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Remarkable that for decades of talk about moving beyond American unipolarity and dominance, at the precise moment when it would be most suitable to do so, it's not happening
We're the Indispensable Nation, whether we like it or not.
We're the Indispensable Nation, whether we like it or not.
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>bottom falling out of the economy
>imperial adventurism & resource irredentism
>useless parliament relative to the executive
>unclear military chain-of-command
21st century america never beating the imperial japan allegations
>imperial adventurism & resource irredentism
>useless parliament relative to the executive
>unclear military chain-of-command
21st century america never beating the imperial japan allegations
December 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
>bottom falling out of the economy
>imperial adventurism & resource irredentism
>useless parliament relative to the executive
>unclear military chain-of-command
21st century america never beating the imperial japan allegations
>imperial adventurism & resource irredentism
>useless parliament relative to the executive
>unclear military chain-of-command
21st century america never beating the imperial japan allegations
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Very excited to see who's nominated for Best Adapted Mukbang and Best ASMR Screenplay
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Oscars will move to YouTube in 2029, departing the film awards' longtime home of ABC.
December 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Very excited to see who's nominated for Best Adapted Mukbang and Best ASMR Screenplay
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"That's one hell of an act you've got there. What do you call it?"
"The Kakistocrats!"
"The Kakistocrats!"
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
December 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"That's one hell of an act you've got there. What do you call it?"
"The Kakistocrats!"
"The Kakistocrats!"
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L + RATIO + DIDN'T ASK + DON'T CARE + REST IN PISS YOU WONT BE MISSED nypost.com/2025/12/16/u...
December 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
L + RATIO + DIDN'T ASK + DON'T CARE + REST IN PISS YOU WONT BE MISSED nypost.com/2025/12/16/u...
It's giving...
December 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
It's giving...
So ... Agent Smith was right
"The world is actually in pretty good shape, but that's not enough because they want a world of struggle, they want a world in which they can risk their lives for something...they kind of invent an existential crisis."
@frankfukuyama.bsky.social joins @monacharen.bsky.social on The Mona Charen Show
@frankfukuyama.bsky.social joins @monacharen.bsky.social on The Mona Charen Show
December 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
So ... Agent Smith was right
17 - No Mix Tape, Waterbed, or AOL address
And I STILL use a checkbook
And I STILL use a checkbook
Show your age
17 (have never used a fax machine, a record player, or a phone booth)
17 (have never used a fax machine, a record player, or a phone booth)
December 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
17 - No Mix Tape, Waterbed, or AOL address
And I STILL use a checkbook
And I STILL use a checkbook
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Donald Trump is doing public mourning the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
December 16, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Donald Trump is doing public mourning the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
"It's just Large Language Models ... it's all made up"
In the Margin Call boardroom scene Jeremy Irons has that bit about "Do you know why they pay me the big bucks? Because it's my job to think about what the music will sound like a month, 3 months, a year from now..." and a lot of analysis and reports are mostly about informing that decision.
December 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"It's just Large Language Models ... it's all made up"
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- Pope Leo X in 1517, after being told about Martin Luther.
WTF is a “Christian influencer?”
December 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
- Pope Leo X in 1517, after being told about Martin Luther.
Deeply distraught for my Alma Mater
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OFFICIAL Statement from AAUP-TNS on Cuts to Faculty and Staff 12-9-25
The New School - Austerity Cuts to the Bone A Statement from the Leadership Council of AAUP-TNS On December 3, 2025, New School President Joel Towers and Provost Richard Kessler issued voluntary sep...
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December 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Deeply distraught for my Alma Mater
Just literally making Black Mirror episodes real these days
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Just literally making Black Mirror episodes real these days
The thing is, they probably could have gotten away with the Oligarchic Aristocracy if they weren't also aggressively committed to the Ostentatiously Virulent Racism
The former can remain invisible to most for a very long time; the second poisons everything immediately
The former can remain invisible to most for a very long time; the second poisons everything immediately
TRUMP: “I said why is it we only take people from shithole countries? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark… But we always take people from Somalia— places that are filthy, dirty, disgusting.”
Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?
Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?
December 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The thing is, they probably could have gotten away with the Oligarchic Aristocracy if they weren't also aggressively committed to the Ostentatiously Virulent Racism
The former can remain invisible to most for a very long time; the second poisons everything immediately
The former can remain invisible to most for a very long time; the second poisons everything immediately
One needn't use the term "Trade School" derisively to describe what is being created here... That is just straightforwardly what it is. The institution is insisting it will train its students with specific technical job skills
That's not a *bad thing,* per se, but a *College Education*, it is not
That's not a *bad thing,* per se, but a *College Education*, it is not
There are a lot of big questions at play here, but the most fundamental might be: what is the point of college?
December 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
One needn't use the term "Trade School" derisively to describe what is being created here... That is just straightforwardly what it is. The institution is insisting it will train its students with specific technical job skills
That's not a *bad thing,* per se, but a *College Education*, it is not
That's not a *bad thing,* per se, but a *College Education*, it is not
The mid-20th Century wouldn't have been able to get enough of this nonsense
“I look down at the crashing swell. Alone at the after-party, a kind of honeymoon in hell. I am on the list, a bit of grave misfortune. I am in the New York Post, even worse. The ink is black, the pages yellow. Everything, some kind of lie. What of doubt? Scientists cannot see the soul.”
Sentences From American Canto That Sent Me To The Hospital
I reviewed Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto for Slate. There's far less RFK Jr. in it than you'd expect.
substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The mid-20th Century wouldn't have been able to get enough of this nonsense
Probably needed five Hogsheads of Mead
Man arrested, accused of robbing Tulsa liquor store with antique gun
Man arrested, accused of robbing liquor store with antique gun
The Tulsa Police Department arrested a man accused of robbing a south Tulsa liquor store with an antique gun on Friday night.
www.fox23.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Probably needed five Hogsheads of Mead
I mean, it's probably on Polymarket already
are we supposed to be placing bets on this or something
December 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I mean, it's probably on Polymarket already
You will be visited by 3 spirits
December 9, 2025 at 5:31 AM
You will be visited by 3 spirits
As someone who played WH and WH40K in the 90s and early 00s, but gave it up in no small part because it was simply too niche, this remains one of the most puzzling cultural and business developments to have witnessed
it's so funny that Games Workshop went in twenty years from a company that made games you got beaten up in middle school for enjoying to now being the 67th most valuable company in the United Kingdom
incredible victory for kids who spent ages 11+ with a crust of super glue on their fingertips
incredible victory for kids who spent ages 11+ with a crust of super glue on their fingertips
December 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
As someone who played WH and WH40K in the 90s and early 00s, but gave it up in no small part because it was simply too niche, this remains one of the most puzzling cultural and business developments to have witnessed
Must have been that Sharpie
Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."
December 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Must have been that Sharpie