John Q. Public
@publius24.bsky.social
Former paper pusher for the deep state. Misanthropic humanist. Lover of art, literature, cinema, and all other humanistic endeavors.
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John Q. Public
@publius24.bsky.social
· Aug 25
I took a photo of the president’s latest portrait unfurled outside a federal building.
This one is outside the U.S. Department of Labor.
This one is outside the U.S. Department of Labor.
I don’t think that a good book *should* confirm your priors, but this paragraph from Richard Rorty summarizes my ideal political ideology so succinctly.
And I’m still lumbering through the preface, mind you. I’m taking lots of philosophical detours here to satisfy my curiosity.
And I’m still lumbering through the preface, mind you. I’m taking lots of philosophical detours here to satisfy my curiosity.
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I don’t think that a good book *should* confirm your priors, but this paragraph from Richard Rorty summarizes my ideal political ideology so succinctly.
And I’m still lumbering through the preface, mind you. I’m taking lots of philosophical detours here to satisfy my curiosity.
And I’m still lumbering through the preface, mind you. I’m taking lots of philosophical detours here to satisfy my curiosity.
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Every time I read an FDR speech it breaks my heart to see someone who assumes his audience is actually capable of understanding complex ideas and interested in learning more.
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
![I confess that I always had difficulty with interpreting the Biblical precept to love our neighbours “as ourselves” until I read some of the words of C.S. Lewis. He pointed out that we don't exactly love ourselves when we fall below the standards and beliefs we have accepted. Indeed we might even hate ourselves for some unworthy deed.
None of this, of course, tells us exactly what kind of political and social institutions we should have. On this point, Christians will very often genuinely disagree, though it is a mark of Christian manners that they will do so with courtesy and mutual respect. [Applause] What is certain, however, is that any set of social and economic arrangements which is not founded on the acceptance of individual responsibility will do nothing but harm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25/bafkreicrdgbtvm54qnmttwe6crhxwt4be5v3izjmqtnvlxmaljwg5wolai@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Every time I read an FDR speech it breaks my heart to see someone who assumes his audience is actually capable of understanding complex ideas and interested in learning more.
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These people will not rest until this country disintegrates into uncontrolled political violence. And politics as usual simply is not going to cut it anymore.
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
These people will not rest until this country disintegrates into uncontrolled political violence. And politics as usual simply is not going to cut it anymore.
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This is similar to the logic that the Nazis used to justify mass deportation and murder of Jews, Romani, and other people.
They’re not Nazis, though!
They’re not Nazis, though!
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is similar to the logic that the Nazis used to justify mass deportation and murder of Jews, Romani, and other people.
They’re not Nazis, though!
They’re not Nazis, though!
“As my notebooks filled, I came to realize that I was compiling an eyewitness account of a particularly ignominious chapter in the United States’ fraught record of overseas interventions.”
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“As my notebooks filled, I came to realize that I was compiling an eyewitness account of a particularly ignominious chapter in the United States’ fraught record of overseas interventions.”
Sharing this again because, no matter how evil these people are, they have simply grown tired of modernity. That’s all this is.
They have everything. But they grew decadent and bored and turned to hate, fear, and paranoia because those sensations make life far more exciting.
They have everything. But they grew decadent and bored and turned to hate, fear, and paranoia because those sensations make life far more exciting.
"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
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Sharing this again because, no matter how evil these people are, they have simply grown tired of modernity. That’s all this is.
They have everything. But they grew decadent and bored and turned to hate, fear, and paranoia because those sensations make life far more exciting.
They have everything. But they grew decadent and bored and turned to hate, fear, and paranoia because those sensations make life far more exciting.
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The US federal government is openly warring against its own nonwhite population in a way no one alive has ever experienced. It’s not even getting to hide it. The overt bigotry is comparable to Jim Crow. And our pathetic, cowed, putrid political class just keeps pretending it isn’t even happening.
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The US federal government is openly warring against its own nonwhite population in a way no one alive has ever experienced. It’s not even getting to hide it. The overt bigotry is comparable to Jim Crow. And our pathetic, cowed, putrid political class just keeps pretending it isn’t even happening.
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Miller and Hegseth are *obsessed* with the idea that they can engineer a MAGA golden age by violently purging everyone they perceive as an internal enemy; and they are ludicrously overconfident in their ability to get the military to go along with their shared delusion.
They are going to *try*.
They are going to *try*.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Miller and Hegseth are *obsessed* with the idea that they can engineer a MAGA golden age by violently purging everyone they perceive as an internal enemy; and they are ludicrously overconfident in their ability to get the military to go along with their shared delusion.
They are going to *try*.
They are going to *try*.
Seems like there’s a steady drumbeat calling for revenge happening over on the other site
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Seems like there’s a steady drumbeat calling for revenge happening over on the other site
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
Fuck these wannabe Nazi scum.
That is all.
That is all.
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Fuck these wannabe Nazi scum.
That is all.
That is all.
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I don’t want to be alarming but I think shit might be getting out of hand and we have yet to see the worst of it
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I don’t want to be alarming but I think shit might be getting out of hand and we have yet to see the worst of it
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This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language.
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Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
He is significantly ratcheting up the racism and hysteria here. This is bleak stuff.
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
He is significantly ratcheting up the racism and hysteria here. This is bleak stuff.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Per CNN: President Trump says US land action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela will start "very soon".
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November 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Happy Thanksgiving!
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I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
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The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
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We've not spent enough time talking about this administration as unamerican, rather than cruel or wrong or illegal. This stuff just is not who we are.
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We've not spent enough time talking about this administration as unamerican, rather than cruel or wrong or illegal. This stuff just is not who we are.
Absolutely infuriating.
Apparently she offered to cover other people's shifts so they could go home to their families for the holiday.
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Two National Guard members were tasked with serving the nation. One is dead as the other fights for his life after shooting | CNN
On a day when many families gather across the country to give thanks, a National Guard member’s family is mourning her death after an ambush-style shooting in Washington, DC, as her colleague fights f...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Absolutely infuriating.
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But no more of this.
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
But no more of this.
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“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
Washingtonians frequently refer to them as the National Gardeners—because they haven’t been fighting crime, they’ve been landscaping. That’s what they died for.
Trump claims National Guard members were shot in DC because they’ve been so effective at stopping crime
November 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Washingtonians frequently refer to them as the National Gardeners—because they haven’t been fighting crime, they’ve been landscaping. That’s what they died for.
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BREAKING: President Donald Trump says West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from wounds in the Washington, D.C., attack.
Afghan national charged in Guard ambush shooting drove across US to carry out attack, officials say
An Afghan national has been accused of shooting two West Virginia National Guard members just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence.
bit.ly
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
BREAKING: President Donald Trump says West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from wounds in the Washington, D.C., attack.
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Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.