Bartlebybyday
@dyspetic.bsky.social
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#RadicalLove 🇺🇦
#RadicalLove 🇺🇦
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From March:
“In short, the United States behaving as a predatory hegemon unconstrained by the UN Charter and threatening other states with territorial conquest may spur more countries to acquire their own atomic insurance policies.”
www.justsecurity.org/109537/upend...
“In short, the United States behaving as a predatory hegemon unconstrained by the UN Charter and threatening other states with territorial conquest may spur more countries to acquire their own atomic insurance policies.”
www.justsecurity.org/109537/upend...
Upending the International Order
Through both word and deed, President Trump has been aggressively undermining the rule of law internationally.
www.justsecurity.org
January 4, 2026 at 3:19 AM
From March:
“In short, the United States behaving as a predatory hegemon unconstrained by the UN Charter and threatening other states with territorial conquest may spur more countries to acquire their own atomic insurance policies.”
www.justsecurity.org/109537/upend...
“In short, the United States behaving as a predatory hegemon unconstrained by the UN Charter and threatening other states with territorial conquest may spur more countries to acquire their own atomic insurance policies.”
www.justsecurity.org/109537/upend...
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USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Who said it? “The myth is deliberately cultivated that we are embarking on a new course not out of free will but because competition is spontaneously eliminated by technological changes which we can neither reverse nor should we wish to prevent.”
December 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Who said it? “The myth is deliberately cultivated that we are embarking on a new course not out of free will but because competition is spontaneously eliminated by technological changes which we can neither reverse nor should we wish to prevent.”
Feeding the bots 🤖
Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify.
Platform with 700m users says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped tracks and metadata.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Platform with 700m users says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped tracks and metadata.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify
Platform with 700m users says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped tracks and metadata
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Feeding the bots 🤖
It’s not about making a coherent theological argument it’s about building a coherent ideological argument that American violence, as wielded by the Trump administration, is sacred. If violence is sacred, holy it also cannot be questioned. To do so is heretical, sacrilegious.
Despite the writer's block and with an awful lot of help from my friends, @ardenthistorian.bsky.social and I have a piece up on @religiondispatches.org on the Jerusalem Cross patch Southcom posted.
religiondispatches.org/that-jerusal...
religiondispatches.org/that-jerusal...
That Jerusalem Cross is a Commitment to a Military Operation so Far Beyond the Mere Disruption of Drug Trafficking
It’s never a good sign when the Jerusalem Cross hits the news in the United States. Which is unfortunate, since the symbol, which features prominently on the flag of Georgia (the country, not the stat...
religiondispatches.org
December 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
It’s not about making a coherent theological argument it’s about building a coherent ideological argument that American violence, as wielded by the Trump administration, is sacred. If violence is sacred, holy it also cannot be questioned. To do so is heretical, sacrilegious.
Truly excellent
December 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Truly excellent
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It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
December 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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Inspired by an exchange here yesterday, I wrote up a short piece at CAMPAIGN TRAILS about an infamous Lee Atwater quotation that just about everyone gets wrong.
Southern Strategies
This week, I saw someone on social media trot out a notorious quote from Lee Atwater that's wildly misunderstood. I went back to dust off my old Twitter thread about it, but I found that a lot of the ...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
December 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Inspired by an exchange here yesterday, I wrote up a short piece at CAMPAIGN TRAILS about an infamous Lee Atwater quotation that just about everyone gets wrong.
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so much of the conservative legal revolution seems to outright reject the idea that democratic publics legitimately constituted can fix the meaning of the constitution without formal amendment.
December 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
so much of the conservative legal revolution seems to outright reject the idea that democratic publics legitimately constituted can fix the meaning of the constitution without formal amendment.
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the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
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The desperate hands of the global south seek to take back an overheated world. Seriously, what's next? The McHamburglar trophy in gourmet cooking? The Pol Pot Human Rights medal? The Jeffrey Epstein childcare grant? The Vladimir Putin democracy fellowship? The Weinstein-Cosby feminism prize?
December 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The desperate hands of the global south seek to take back an overheated world. Seriously, what's next? The McHamburglar trophy in gourmet cooking? The Pol Pot Human Rights medal? The Jeffrey Epstein childcare grant? The Vladimir Putin democracy fellowship? The Weinstein-Cosby feminism prize?
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Troops are on the Ground in Venezuela. This is not going to end well. Read it here:
open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...
open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Troops are on the Ground in Venezuela. This is not going to end well. Read it here:
open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...
open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...
“Every day, professional cultural commentary seems closer and closer to marketing copy, as we slouch deeper and deeper into an era defined by our collective decision that life is too hard and we all should just slip into a warm bath of low standards and perpetual excuses.”
Well I suppose it had to happen eventually: Freddie DeBoer has written something that I agree with 100%.
Hating Stranger Things During the Death Rattle of Criticism
this kind of piece will be criminalized within a year
freddiedeboer.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“Every day, professional cultural commentary seems closer and closer to marketing copy, as we slouch deeper and deeper into an era defined by our collective decision that life is too hard and we all should just slip into a warm bath of low standards and perpetual excuses.”
The incident mirrors similar drone incursions in Europe in recent months which led to the closure of airports in Brussels and Denmark and caused significant security tensions.
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The incident mirrors similar drone incursions in Europe in recent months which led to the closure of airports in Brussels and Denmark and caused significant security tensions.
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When you have a pocket pardon you can do anything you want.
December 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
When you have a pocket pardon you can do anything you want.
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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
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What’s fun is this is the sort of thing that historically is only discovered decades later, via deathbed confessions, etc.
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
What’s fun is this is the sort of thing that historically is only discovered decades later, via deathbed confessions, etc.
Amen
The worse behavior in the world is playing videos on your phone without headphones.
November 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Amen
“That rot appears in journalists in different forms: debasing themselves at the feet of power because it’s rewarded; allowing themselves to be debased by the powerful to maintain status and access; and identifying more with their powerful subjects than regular people“
I love the point @marisakabas.bsky.social makes about jumping to the head of the line by doing sensational “journalism” with questionable ethics. This has been a thing in sports media for a long time, as management thinks hiring influencers is the key to getting any more clicks.
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“That rot appears in journalists in different forms: debasing themselves at the feet of power because it’s rewarded; allowing themselves to be debased by the powerful to maintain status and access; and identifying more with their powerful subjects than regular people“
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At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
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"FBI Warns Of Tomatoes Posing As Tomahtoes"
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
"FBI Warns Of Tomatoes Posing As Tomahtoes"
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More people voted in New York City’s election this year than they have in 50 years.
That’s a win for democracy, and a testament to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's inspiring campaign.
Congratulations to the next mayor of the greatest city in the world. 🗽
That’s a win for democracy, and a testament to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's inspiring campaign.
Congratulations to the next mayor of the greatest city in the world. 🗽
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
More people voted in New York City’s election this year than they have in 50 years.
That’s a win for democracy, and a testament to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's inspiring campaign.
Congratulations to the next mayor of the greatest city in the world. 🗽
That’s a win for democracy, and a testament to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's inspiring campaign.
Congratulations to the next mayor of the greatest city in the world. 🗽
In any case, his slight tax increase on rich people, free buses, and city-run grocery stores are pretty far from a communist revolution. But that’s not how it appears to rich people, surrounded on all sides by yes-men and toadies, who spend several hours a day marinating in an online Nazi sewer.
"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...
prospect.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
In any case, his slight tax increase on rich people, free buses, and city-run grocery stores are pretty far from a communist revolution. But that’s not how it appears to rich people, surrounded on all sides by yes-men and toadies, who spend several hours a day marinating in an online Nazi sewer.
“The regime likes what’s happening to us, and the opposition party isn’t an opposition party at all.
We are tradespeople in a dying trade, fighting the Fat Cat media execs and each other for scraps while still trying to do this job…”
We are tradespeople in a dying trade, fighting the Fat Cat media execs and each other for scraps while still trying to do this job…”
Alright I fucking wrote about this. It was apparently necessary to vent my rage about this this afternoon, because that took me two hours to get it all out and onto the page.
November 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
“The regime likes what’s happening to us, and the opposition party isn’t an opposition party at all.
We are tradespeople in a dying trade, fighting the Fat Cat media execs and each other for scraps while still trying to do this job…”
We are tradespeople in a dying trade, fighting the Fat Cat media execs and each other for scraps while still trying to do this job…”
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Remember when Paul Krugman’s columns were soooo wonky.
“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” - Paul Krugman
“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” - Paul Krugman
The Hunger Games Begin
40 million Americans are about to lose food stamps
open.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Remember when Paul Krugman’s columns were soooo wonky.
“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” - Paul Krugman
“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” - Paul Krugman