Jared Friedman 🇺🇦
@silkscreenfiend.bsky.social
Cast your doubts about house music -
You got the body, so why don't you use it?
Naturally swinging your thing to the song,
Cause that's how we pump the dancefloor for the strong.
You got the body, so why don't you use it?
Naturally swinging your thing to the song,
Cause that's how we pump the dancefloor for the strong.
Pinned
Hot take incoming: we should amend the Constitution to remove the requirement that the president be a "natural-born" US citizen, because that legally establishes two classes of citizenship, even if only for two offices. 1/
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The cool thing about Trump and Putin continuing to gang up on the Ukrainians is that no normal person is deceived by this shit. History will not absolve them. They will be remembered as evil motherfuckers and people will piss on their graves.
December 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The cool thing about Trump and Putin continuing to gang up on the Ukrainians is that no normal person is deceived by this shit. History will not absolve them. They will be remembered as evil motherfuckers and people will piss on their graves.
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a nice thing you can do when leaving a house party is pick a random person who seems hazy memories drunk but not blackout, put your hands on their shoulders, look them in the eyes and tell them Hey, Your Secret Is Safe With Me. just so they're not worried about their secret for the rest of the night
December 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
a nice thing you can do when leaving a house party is pick a random person who seems hazy memories drunk but not blackout, put your hands on their shoulders, look them in the eyes and tell them Hey, Your Secret Is Safe With Me. just so they're not worried about their secret for the rest of the night
One thing they never tell you about getting old is that you start seeing people who you think you recognize, only to realize that the person you thought they were looked like that 20 years ago.
December 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
One thing they never tell you about getting old is that you start seeing people who you think you recognize, only to realize that the person you thought they were looked like that 20 years ago.
They have no conception of a post-Trump era where this sort of asinine brazening-through stops working with a majority of the electorate. Which makes them exceedingly dangerous.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support the pardon of the former Honduran president?
SCHMITT: I'm not familiar w/ the facts or circumstances
S: What do you mean you're not familiar? It's been front page news
SCHMITT: You spew Democrat talking points every single week, which is why your ratings are so bad
SCHMITT: I'm not familiar w/ the facts or circumstances
S: What do you mean you're not familiar? It's been front page news
SCHMITT: You spew Democrat talking points every single week, which is why your ratings are so bad
December 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
They have no conception of a post-Trump era where this sort of asinine brazening-through stops working with a majority of the electorate. Which makes them exceedingly dangerous.
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This is why I wrote "Log Off."
Social media is a machine for mass producing "solipsism dressed up as social justice."
Social media is a machine for mass producing "solipsism dressed up as social justice."
December 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This is why I wrote "Log Off."
Social media is a machine for mass producing "solipsism dressed up as social justice."
Social media is a machine for mass producing "solipsism dressed up as social justice."
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ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped.
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped.
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
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Stop appearing on far-right propaganda networks. Stop posting on their trash sites. Stop sitting on panels with them. Stop being friends with them. Don't shake their hands. Don't try to meet them halfway. Don't gotta hand it to them. Ever. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Stop appearing on far-right propaganda networks. Stop posting on their trash sites. Stop sitting on panels with them. Stop being friends with them. Don't shake their hands. Don't try to meet them halfway. Don't gotta hand it to them. Ever. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
We got here by letting the outcome determine what the law must say. Trump was clearly ineligible in '24 per the 14th Amendment. And yet, SCOTUS (and elite opinion in general) couldn't tolerate the idea that a popular candidate might be constitutionally barred, so they made up a Calvinball rule.
"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
December 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
We got here by letting the outcome determine what the law must say. Trump was clearly ineligible in '24 per the 14th Amendment. And yet, SCOTUS (and elite opinion in general) couldn't tolerate the idea that a popular candidate might be constitutionally barred, so they made up a Calvinball rule.
"Democracy" and "free speech," in the mouth of a reactionary, is invariably a disgusting lie, and we need to start saying so aggressively.
NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY DROPPED
There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
"Democracy" and "free speech," in the mouth of a reactionary, is invariably a disgusting lie, and we need to start saying so aggressively.
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(1/2) This court is a problem that won't go away. They'll block everything the next Dem president does.
Got to start talking about "court reform" now. "Republicans in robes", "corruption". Not "packing" or "expanding".
Start framing the discussion now.
We know that...
Got to start talking about "court reform" now. "Republicans in robes", "corruption". Not "packing" or "expanding".
Start framing the discussion now.
We know that...
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
(1/2) This court is a problem that won't go away. They'll block everything the next Dem president does.
Got to start talking about "court reform" now. "Republicans in robes", "corruption". Not "packing" or "expanding".
Start framing the discussion now.
We know that...
Got to start talking about "court reform" now. "Republicans in robes", "corruption". Not "packing" or "expanding".
Start framing the discussion now.
We know that...
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This is really, really cynical and ignores that it will take a while to buy enough Trump crypto and convey the purchase to Roger Stone.
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is really, really cynical and ignores that it will take a while to buy enough Trump crypto and convey the purchase to Roger Stone.
Let's crack down on illegal immigration by legalizing everyone who wants to come here.
What if:
Immigration is actually really beneficial to a country and helps secure its future prosperity and long term health of its culture and isn’t a really bad thing like all those rich sociopaths who moved to Dubai say it is?
Immigration is actually really beneficial to a country and helps secure its future prosperity and long term health of its culture and isn’t a really bad thing like all those rich sociopaths who moved to Dubai say it is?
Guys, guys, guys:
what if we provide asylum to lots of refugees so that when the conflict in their homeland ends and economic reconstruction begins we have lots of social links to that country that allow us to forge mutually beneficial economic partnerships with it?
what if we provide asylum to lots of refugees so that when the conflict in their homeland ends and economic reconstruction begins we have lots of social links to that country that allow us to forge mutually beneficial economic partnerships with it?
December 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Let's crack down on illegal immigration by legalizing everyone who wants to come here.
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We have spent four decades casting cynicism as wisdom and selfishness as virtue, and now we reap the fruits
Median Western voter:
(a) I do not care at all if our policies destabilize a country in the developing world
(b) I do not want to see any money spent or soldiers sent to stop any country from destabilizing
(c) I do not want one refugee fleeing the destabilized country to ever move here ever
(a) I do not care at all if our policies destabilize a country in the developing world
(b) I do not want to see any money spent or soldiers sent to stop any country from destabilizing
(c) I do not want one refugee fleeing the destabilized country to ever move here ever
December 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
We have spent four decades casting cynicism as wisdom and selfishness as virtue, and now we reap the fruits
We have made a mistake (I suspect from Reaganism and the time we spent in that wilderness) of framing everything in terms of financial success or failure instead of Right and Wrong. The New Deal, the most sweeping economic legislation in American history, was framed not economically but morally.
best way to put it is that they're on track for a huge thermostatic backlash but not a political regime shift (yet)
My takeaway from last night is that Republicans are in deep trouble next year but even a D+10-12 political environment in 2026 feels pretty underwhelming all things considered.
They’re looting the country and have Gestapo agents kidnapping people and states like Iowa still probably won’t flip.
They’re looting the country and have Gestapo agents kidnapping people and states like Iowa still probably won’t flip.
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We have made a mistake (I suspect from Reaganism and the time we spent in that wilderness) of framing everything in terms of financial success or failure instead of Right and Wrong. The New Deal, the most sweeping economic legislation in American history, was framed not economically but morally.
We have yet to unpack the scandal that is Mrs. Pete Hegseth, but mark my words, some absolutely terrifying shit is coming.
[Q]:
If you could host a dinner party with three people dead or alive, who's coming to the table and what are you eating?
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth:
I think it would be President Trump, Vladimir Putin and Zelenskyy. See what happens. See what happens.
What are we eating?
If you could host a dinner party with three people dead or alive, who's coming to the table and what are you eating?
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth:
I think it would be President Trump, Vladimir Putin and Zelenskyy. See what happens. See what happens.
What are we eating?
December 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
We have yet to unpack the scandal that is Mrs. Pete Hegseth, but mark my words, some absolutely terrifying shit is coming.
His truth is marching on.
Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
December 3, 2025 at 2:51 AM
His truth is marching on.
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The trick to quality news coverage is to subvert expectations. Why are you so sure that Hitler was bad? Maybe it’s ok for the US military to double tap fishing boats for shits and giggles. Put peas in the hummus. Wint was right about candles. Do we need so many doors?
December 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The trick to quality news coverage is to subvert expectations. Why are you so sure that Hitler was bad? Maybe it’s ok for the US military to double tap fishing boats for shits and giggles. Put peas in the hummus. Wint was right about candles. Do we need so many doors?
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
This administration's dedication to eliminating the scourge of antisemitism really is inspiring.
NEW: Tina Peters' legal team launches a new effort to free her from prison, as a key ally and MAGA podcaster says Colorado leaders blocking her release are "Satan Jews"
December 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This administration's dedication to eliminating the scourge of antisemitism really is inspiring.
And this, dear STEM partisans, is why you should study the humanities as well.
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
And this, dear STEM partisans, is why you should study the humanities as well.
One problem with becoming SecDef after an undistinguished military career is that everyone of consequence whom you'll be trying to order around outranks you militarily, and knows it.
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
One problem with becoming SecDef after an undistinguished military career is that everyone of consequence whom you'll be trying to order around outranks you militarily, and knows it.
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Gentle reminder….
Grace is for AFTER someone takes accountability.
It’s not to be given before they do so. And it damn sure shouldn’t be used instead of.
When you give grace without accountability then you’re just condoning the behavior.
Grace is for AFTER someone takes accountability.
It’s not to be given before they do so. And it damn sure shouldn’t be used instead of.
When you give grace without accountability then you’re just condoning the behavior.
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Gentle reminder….
Grace is for AFTER someone takes accountability.
It’s not to be given before they do so. And it damn sure shouldn’t be used instead of.
When you give grace without accountability then you’re just condoning the behavior.
Grace is for AFTER someone takes accountability.
It’s not to be given before they do so. And it damn sure shouldn’t be used instead of.
When you give grace without accountability then you’re just condoning the behavior.
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if what I did was a "war crime" then how come I'm not in trouble
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
if what I did was a "war crime" then how come I'm not in trouble