Kip Manley
@kiplet.myatproto.social
Writer, phantasist, bon viveur; a litigation support paralegal as needed. Spouse to a cartoonist, parent to an aspiring large-animal veterinarian, three cats and (now) two dogs to be fed on a regular basis. See also @thecityofroses.com
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Kip Manley
@kiplet.myatproto.social
· Oct 11
Attently reading, as one does.
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Still get chills when Jens Lekman implores his lesbian buddy in Berlin—and all of us—not to let anything stand in our way.
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Still get chills when Jens Lekman implores his lesbian buddy in Berlin—and all of us—not to let anything stand in our way.
Drinkin wine, foldin zines, doot de doot de doo...
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Drinkin wine, foldin zines, doot de doot de doo...
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Elizabeth Warren and Yanis Varoufakis have each written of meeting Summers for the first time and him posing a specific, pretty odd question. I wonder how many of your scores of equally unimpressive people who wrote pieces defending him have gotten the same question and answered him differently.
November 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Elizabeth Warren and Yanis Varoufakis have each written of meeting Summers for the first time and him posing a specific, pretty odd question. I wonder how many of your scores of equally unimpressive people who wrote pieces defending him have gotten the same question and answered him differently.
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DHS has said to be considering moving into a Newport Coast Guard air facility at the Newport Municipal airport, after they already displaced a Coast Guard helicopter some weeks ago at the property, concerning city officials who rely on that helicopter for safety along the Oregon’s coastline.
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
DHS has said to be considering moving into a Newport Coast Guard air facility at the Newport Municipal airport, after they already displaced a Coast Guard helicopter some weeks ago at the property, concerning city officials who rely on that helicopter for safety along the Oregon’s coastline.
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I’m meant to believe you’re an anarchist movement and yet you have no pamphlets?
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I’m meant to believe you’re an anarchist movement and yet you have no pamphlets?
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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If you, a cishet white guy, notice an increase in fascism, you are guaranteed to be underestimating it by orders of magnitude.
January 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
If you, a cishet white guy, notice an increase in fascism, you are guaranteed to be underestimating it by orders of magnitude.
Hoo, boy, that Times headline asking whether women ruined the workplace suddenly hits different, don't it.
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Hoo, boy, that Times headline asking whether women ruined the workplace suddenly hits different, don't it.
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At some level of horror, it is completely and wildly insufficient to look at it as an individual action. Every single institution ended up participating in it.
The US, which completely failed to do this with both Reconstruction and denazification, has never actually done this.
The US, which completely failed to do this with both Reconstruction and denazification, has never actually done this.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
At some level of horror, it is completely and wildly insufficient to look at it as an individual action. Every single institution ended up participating in it.
The US, which completely failed to do this with both Reconstruction and denazification, has never actually done this.
The US, which completely failed to do this with both Reconstruction and denazification, has never actually done this.
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Stop me if you've heard this before:
If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF???
They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???
If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF???
They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Stop me if you've heard this before:
If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF???
They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???
If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF???
They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
Authoring investment content for financial institutions, as one does.
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Authoring investment content for financial institutions, as one does.
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Since the redesign of the website at the beginning of the year, I've been reposting the epic every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, adding up to a novelette every two weeks:
Renovations
How I’ve spent my winter holidays.
thecityofroses.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Since the redesign of the website at the beginning of the year, I've been reposting the epic every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, adding up to a novelette every two weeks:
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Sure it's funny now, but think how devastated and ashamed Trump will be when he goes to bed tonight only to find his porcelain mask from the orgy on the pillow next to his beautiful sleeping wife
November 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Sure it's funny now, but think how devastated and ashamed Trump will be when he goes to bed tonight only to find his porcelain mask from the orgy on the pillow next to his beautiful sleeping wife
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
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As the city begins to cite and arrest people for living outside, those working with homeless Portlanders say the ban only makes life harder for people living outside.
www.streetroots.org/news/2025/11...
www.streetroots.org/news/2025/11...
Advocates speak out on the detrimental impacts of Portland's ‘camping’ ban
www.streetroots.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
As the city begins to cite and arrest people for living outside, those working with homeless Portlanders say the ban only makes life harder for people living outside.
www.streetroots.org/news/2025/11...
www.streetroots.org/news/2025/11...
Shooting a man in Reno just to watch him die, as one does.
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Shooting a man in Reno just to watch him die, as one does.
"Secretary Noem is working with state and local governments to secure greater and more cost-effective detention space, like Alligator Alcatraz, Speedway Slammer, Louisiana Lockup and Cornhusker Clink."
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"Secretary Noem is working with state and local governments to secure greater and more cost-effective detention space, like Alligator Alcatraz, Speedway Slammer, Louisiana Lockup and Cornhusker Clink."
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Ding! Part of why I personally despise the framing of “pedocon theory” is that
IF YOU TALK TO EXVANGELICALS or read the actual sermons
You don’t need a theory
THESE PEOPLE TELL YOU THIS
European history tells you this
You need “theory” because you don’t respect the testimony of the victims
IF YOU TALK TO EXVANGELICALS or read the actual sermons
You don’t need a theory
THESE PEOPLE TELL YOU THIS
European history tells you this
You need “theory” because you don’t respect the testimony of the victims
If anything I'd argue that Trump is a symptom
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Ding! Part of why I personally despise the framing of “pedocon theory” is that
IF YOU TALK TO EXVANGELICALS or read the actual sermons
You don’t need a theory
THESE PEOPLE TELL YOU THIS
European history tells you this
You need “theory” because you don’t respect the testimony of the victims
IF YOU TALK TO EXVANGELICALS or read the actual sermons
You don’t need a theory
THESE PEOPLE TELL YOU THIS
European history tells you this
You need “theory” because you don’t respect the testimony of the victims
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6. Until we have communal confidence that permanently suspended people actually received detailed and ideally actionable reports on what happened (appeal processes should exist), it's going to keep feeling bad.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
6. Until we have communal confidence that permanently suspended people actually received detailed and ideally actionable reports on what happened (appeal processes should exist), it's going to keep feeling bad.
"I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything."
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything."
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NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.