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Angry vet. (Col)lapsed academic. (Un)civil servant. I have fifteen friends. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦
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good to see "partyism" taken up (and if anyone can come up with better branding for the tendency, they have my blessing fwiw)
Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Partyism Without the Party - Dissent Magazine
Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.
dissentmagazine.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
good to see "partyism" taken up (and if anyone can come up with better branding for the tendency, they have my blessing fwiw)
This is right. DOGE is—as a project—and I can’t emphasize this enough—not gone. Its agents and their lapdogs are serving in political positions all over the government. The destruction continues.
DOGE likely killed a few hundred thousand people already and participated in a direct attack on Constitutional government.
They’re still out there, too - pulling the copper out of walls, even a wretched McKinsey partner at Department of the Navy who should be in iron shackles.
Maybe start there.
They’re still out there, too - pulling the copper out of walls, even a wretched McKinsey partner at Department of the Navy who should be in iron shackles.
Maybe start there.
We all believe in improving efficiency, and a team genuinely focused on that could do a world of good.
But the DOGE we could have had is a far cry from the DOGE we actually got.
But the DOGE we could have had is a far cry from the DOGE we actually got.
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This is right. DOGE is—as a project—and I can’t emphasize this enough—not gone. Its agents and their lapdogs are serving in political positions all over the government. The destruction continues.
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can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
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I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
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All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
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This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.
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In a very practical way, CS Lewis is illustrating how propriety and modesty are functions of common sense, enabling legibility in a context, whereas virtues (like chastity) enable self-transcendence.
Regarding behavior, there's a chapter on sexual morality that begins with one of the least popular Christian virtues: modesty. Here's what CS Lewis had to say:
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
In a very practical way, CS Lewis is illustrating how propriety and modesty are functions of common sense, enabling legibility in a context, whereas virtues (like chastity) enable self-transcendence.
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you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
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On the, um, bright side, I tossed all of the institutions/process stuff this fall and focused on:
--racism
--psychopathology or pathological psych
--how autocracies make foreign policy
--racism
--psychopathology or pathological psych
--how autocracies make foreign policy
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
On the, um, bright side, I tossed all of the institutions/process stuff this fall and focused on:
--racism
--psychopathology or pathological psych
--how autocracies make foreign policy
--racism
--psychopathology or pathological psych
--how autocracies make foreign policy
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
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part of my pitch for future democratic military policy is "we should crush the special forces and double crush the seals specifically"
they contribute little-to-nothing valuable to american defense and are riddled with war crimes and also just regular crimes
they contribute little-to-nothing valuable to american defense and are riddled with war crimes and also just regular crimes
They're routing this through SOCOM ppl who have traditionally been used for assassinations abroad, presumably including occasional black ops on the high seas.
I’m surprised that the military has been so willing to break the law here.
October 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
part of my pitch for future democratic military policy is "we should crush the special forces and double crush the seals specifically"
they contribute little-to-nothing valuable to american defense and are riddled with war crimes and also just regular crimes
they contribute little-to-nothing valuable to american defense and are riddled with war crimes and also just regular crimes
Good lord. Most chaotic or devoted thing imaginable. I guess that’s why he’s the pope.
Pope Leo XIV has revealed a closely held secret: He uses a different Wordle start word each day.
Pontifical secret revealed: Pope Leo XIV changes his Wordle start word each day
Pope Leo XIV has revealed a closely held secret: He uses a different Wordle start word each day. Leo divulged his strategy playing the popular New York Times online game during an online encounter with American young people.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Good lord. Most chaotic or devoted thing imaginable. I guess that’s why he’s the pope.
It’s not enough that’s she’s a terrible person and utterly lost in the in the political moment; she’s also wrong.
Slotkin: "He's trying to distract us from the big stories of last week, the Epstein files and economy. He's tweeting 'the economy is the best it's ever been' -- amazing considering the public isn't stupid. It reminded me of Joe Biden. Biden tried to tell us for a year that the economy was great."
November 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It’s not enough that’s she’s a terrible person and utterly lost in the in the political moment; she’s also wrong.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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Anyway the District of Columbia is an incredible city and I love it so much and I’m so glad I get to live here.
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Anyway the District of Columbia is an incredible city and I love it so much and I’m so glad I get to live here.
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In normal democracy terms, we've in bad shape and things are getting worse.
In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.
Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.
In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.
Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.
It is good to see the pushback on Trump lead to real losses for him. But it's hard to be optimistic when he still wields the enormous power of the presidency. ICE is still rampaging, HHS is harming people, the U.S. may be about to sell out Ukraine, the boat strikes...he's still doing so much damage.
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
In normal democracy terms, we've in bad shape and things are getting worse.
In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.
Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.
In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.
Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.
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“In a video shared by Cesar Jimenez, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.””
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
“In a video shared by Cesar Jimenez, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.””
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The only way we crawl out of this with a shred of respect, both for ourselves and from others, is to impose extremely harsh punishments on every member of this administration and many Republican members of congress (easy to do because they are all so corrupt).
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The only way we crawl out of this with a shred of respect, both for ourselves and from others, is to impose extremely harsh punishments on every member of this administration and many Republican members of congress (easy to do because they are all so corrupt).
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Funny how every Senate Democrat voted for this immoral person as Secretary of State.
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Funny how every Senate Democrat voted for this immoral person as Secretary of State.
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this is a revealing focus
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
this is a revealing focus
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CORRECTION: A *third* potato has been named after Prince.
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
CORRECTION: A *third* potato has been named after Prince.
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Good old Woz. Good for him.
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Good old Woz. Good for him.