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Tonepainter
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Writer, college educator.

Psychopomp and Circumstance.
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reread this morning to prepare for class & teared up at “harm / will not fall, his perfect hand”
February 12, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Happy to see Yale taking this step. Let’s hope they fire him.

Can’t imagine a woman feeling safe or evaluated fairly in his class.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Yale Professor Who E-mailed Epstein About a “Small Goodlooking Blonde” Student Is No Longer Teaching
After outcry from students over e-mails showing David Gelernter’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the computer science professor is under review by the university.
www.thenation.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.

The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.

Follow along!
February 9, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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Just the White House referencing “which way, western man” by William gayley Simpson (published by the National Alliance, the Neo Nazi group led by white nationalist William Luther Pierce of Turner Diaries fame) AND threatening Greenland in the same tweet.
“Which way, Greenland man?”
January 14, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here."
Peter Thiel to give four lectures on the "biblical Antichrist." Among the "religious thinkers upon whom Peter will draw" is Nazi theorist Carl Schmitt.
August 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The Exorcist, except the demon’s name is James Dobson.
August 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
RSV 1/10 don’t recommend.
February 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.
February 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Et tu, Māla?

I can't see Steve Jobs ever having allowed this.
February 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
You want to know what sucks? I’ll tell you what sucks.

You’ve got a nasty rotator cuff injury. But you’re asleep and you dream that you have full range of motion.

And then you wake up in sharp pain at 12:52 a.m. because guess why.

That right there, that sucks.
February 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If this bill passes, maybe I can get a job as a crash test dummy...
February 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Putin defenestrates his political opponents.

Trump is defenestrating the institutions and norms of our democracy.

The same thing, just at scale.
February 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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BREAKING: Attorneys General of CA, NY, AZ, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, NV, NC, NJ, NM, OR, RI, VT, WA, WI, and D.C. are suing Trump for his budget freeze.

That 0 GOP AGs are joining, despite the fact that this freeze hurts their constituents the most, speaks to how MAGA is 100% a cult.
January 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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This is horrifying. And Trump has taken away all the protections preventing it and now plans to move a trans woman who transitioned at 15 into a men’s prison.
This is what happens to trans women placed in men's prisons. They are subjected to daily horrific rapes and used as human chattel to pacify aggressive and violent inmates. It's called v coding.
January 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
January 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
She's the best. I hope to vote for her for higher office in the not-too-distant future.
AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.
January 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
With Trump's actions today, is there any daylight between him and Project 2025 so far?
January 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Musk comes from a family that moved to South Africa *for* the racism. He has repeatedly endorsed Great Replacement Theory in the US & Neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. He championed the rights of white nationalists and restored Nazi accounts to Twitter.

But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
January 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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If you're discriminated against or arrested for being trans in Illinois, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected].
January 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Lacan wishes you a happy new year, from the first seminar of Lacan.
December 31, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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I think this assessment (by @beijingpalmer.bsky.social) will stand up much better than the current "Oh, they have some reasonable points..." rationalizations.

Remember that we are talking about people like Musk and Vivek, the out-of-control RFKJr, Gabbard/ Patel, Navarro/ Miller. And ...TRUMP
DOGE is not going to give you a chance to reduce American militarism. RFK is not going to give you a chance to take on big pharma. If you try and engage on their terms you will become more like them and you will have no effect on what they do.
December 31, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Hard to argue with this…
December 28, 2024 at 11:15 PM