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Buckley
@buckley19608.bsky.social
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I used to think I was clever and cool. Now I know only that I don't know
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buckley19608.bsky.social
My man, you're a capitalist. Your job is to believe whatever you need to believe to dominate and exploit the labor of everybody around you
January 20, 2026 at 8:38 PM
buckley19608.bsky.social
My man, you're a capitalist. Your job is to believe whatever you need to believe to dominate and exploit the labor of everybody around you
January 20, 2026 at 8:35 PM
buckley19608.bsky.social
so the "restoring masculinity" people are mainly about "killing people while secure in the knowledge that they'll get away with it"

which like, okay, thanks, makes me feel real good about being a guy these days

at least the boosters for these guys are having their "are we the baddies" moment 🫤
January 14, 2026 at 8:48 PM
buckley19608.bsky.social
love this, though I'm starting to think our 250th July 4th is a good time to get back to our roots
ositanwanevu.com Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 7d
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil. It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States. Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
January 14, 2026 at 6:13 PM
buckley19608.bsky.social
losing my mind at this Majora's mask run
January 10, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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shakespeare.lol
if any crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the street
January 8, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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lorak.bsky.social
This was a masterpiece of a feature story on how Epstein became Epstein. Notice all the moneyed people who knew he was a liar, fraudster and abusive jerk who let him stick around because they wanted to save face or identified with a "striver." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...
Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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horsedisc.bsky.social
Repeat after me:

I am not cleverer than Luigi Mangione.
I am not cleverer than David Lynch.
I am not cleverer than Yoko Ono.
I am not cleverer than Lowtax.

But if I stand back and watch and learn,
I will be cleverer than I am.
December 29, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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figgityfigs.bsky.social
Me: is.
You: ought?!?!?!
Me: no, is.
You: OUGHT?!?!?!
Me: once again, is.
You: OuGhT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
December 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
buckley19608.bsky.social
all great world historic wars appear, so to speak, twice
ianboudreau.com Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · Dec 18
Very weird feeling waiting for the president to announce an illegal war based on total bullshit that they made up right in front of our faces on TV, almost like I've lived through this moment before
December 18, 2025 at 1:34 AM
buckley19608.bsky.social
can I say something without everyone getting mad at me
evanbernick.bsky.social Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Dec 16
you get one guess as to who came up with this thought experiment and considered it to be a useful way to think about abortion
here's another thought experiment I think about a lot when it comes to abortion. This one I made up myself, or at least I think I did, and ChatGPT seems to agree with me. Imagine you meet a single mother struggling to raise a 2-year-old alone-her dreams of medical school crushed and unlikely to be fulfilled, her dating life filled with an endless series of men who back away from raising someone else's child, her nights a frequent battle with loneliness and toddler tantrums. You see that she is breaking under the strain, and just as you are thinking how sad it is, someone hands you a button. If you push that button, the toddler will be erased. The child will feel no pain, but will simply vanish, and no one, not even you, will remember that he ever existed. The woman will blink and find herself in med school, dating a charming and kind fellow student with great potential as a husband and father. Do you push the button? (Megan McCardle)
December 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
buckley19608.bsky.social
s/o to John Bingham, my favorite founding father
larryglickman.bsky.social Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · Dec 7
On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
What is necessarily implied in this declaration of the Democratic Party? 1. That citizenship is not a birth-right, and from this it results that the majority may rightfully, in the several States of this Union, deprive the minority of all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States. I submit that no greater political atrocity can possibly be committed by human agency. Let the people accept this proposition and they will become the architects of their own ruin. Nothing can be clearer than this, that under the representative system of government the rights of the minority are as sacred and inviolable as the rights of the majority. If the majority may rightfully disfranchise the minority of citizens on account of race, color or former condition of servitude, they may, with equal propriety, disfranchise citizens for want of stature or property, or on account of nativity, thereby, presenting to teh world the miserable spectacle of a government wherein a mere majority subjects to the absolute despotism of their will a minority of their fellow citizens, almost equal in number to themselves, and per chance, greatly superior in all the attainments and virtues which adorn, or elevate, or ennoble human nature.
December 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
buckley19608.bsky.social
I'm reminded of this gem. If you're trying to decode the plot like a puzzle box, you have missed the point the art was actually making
December 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
buckley19608.bsky.social
gotta hang on to this one
anguilline.bsky.social the irreducible @anguilline.bsky.social · Nov 25
For scale: I spent eleven days in the maximum security wing of a local county lockup before a judge heard my case and moved me to min. I had one hour out of the cell a day. The cell was small. There was a speaker in the ceiling. By the end I was talking to the speaker and spending hours each day
boltsmag.org Bolts @boltsmag.org · Nov 24
Rejon Taylor was one of 37 people on federal death row whose death sentence was commuted by then-President Biden. This year, he learned the Trump administration was sending him to a supermax prison once called a “clean version of hell.”
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
buckley19608.bsky.social
is the cure for male loneliness in joining a union?
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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executiveotaku.bsky.social
Now this is not We're So Back. It is not even We're Back. But it is, perhaps, the end of It's So Over.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
buckley19608.bsky.social
I am learning so much about baseball fans tonight
November 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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hilaryagro.com
My actual hottest take is that it's easier to understand maga indoctrination through the lens of spirit possession than any other paradigm
October 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
buckley19608.bsky.social
Can I say something without everybody getting mad at me
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Oct 29
READ THEORY (academic history books from Cambridge University Press)
RED GLOBALIZATION
October 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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gwenckatz.bsky.social
I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
buckley19608.bsky.social
who had that thread "a poli sci course in ten tweets" gotta add this one
veryimportant.lawyer Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
October 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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barbrastreisand.bsky.social
On Saturday October 18th, I’m asking you to attend the No King’s March in your local communities. We have witnessed the increasing authoritarianism and its policies in our country. We dissent.
October 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
buckley19608.bsky.social
hitting the acceptance stage of political grief. like I'm still gonna protest and donate and phone bank and participate, but I dunno man, "hope for a brighter future" just isn't with me these days
October 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
buckley19608.bsky.social
realizing I have no idea how video game music gets made these days. did christopher larkin contract a string quartet for this soundtrack? or can software just make those sounds now?
October 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM