Ian R
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Ian R
@iragsdale.bsky.social
· Feb 17
You're Allowed to Feel like Garbage
Even people who experience depression and anxiety can personally subject themselves to the stigma toward depression and anxiety.
lindseyadler.substack.com
You're allowed to feel like shit, the circumstances warrant that feeling. So don't beat yourself up about it:
lindseyadler.substack.com/p/youre-allo...
lindseyadler.substack.com/p/youre-allo...
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“The most troubling aspect of Trump’s attacks on Somali-Americans is how acceptable it’s become for the president of the United States and members of Congress to speak this way, and how much we’ve desensitized ourselves to it.”
Spot on by @melissaryan.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/ctrlaltr...
Spot on by @melissaryan.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/ctrlaltr...
The White Supremacist President
Donald Trump attacked Somali immigrants this week. Here’s why it matters.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
“The most troubling aspect of Trump’s attacks on Somali-Americans is how acceptable it’s become for the president of the United States and members of Congress to speak this way, and how much we’ve desensitized ourselves to it.”
Spot on by @melissaryan.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/ctrlaltr...
Spot on by @melissaryan.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/ctrlaltr...
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tumblr just brought this to my attention (i have discovered the queer leftist catholic corner of tumblr and it is a delight), and i want to make sure @clairewillett.bsky.social knows about it too:
The Madonna di Montevergine, mother of LGBTQ Catholics
For queer Catholics, this icon of Mary is a reminder that her loving care and protection extends to all her children.
uscatholic.org
December 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
tumblr just brought this to my attention (i have discovered the queer leftist catholic corner of tumblr and it is a delight), and i want to make sure @clairewillett.bsky.social knows about it too:
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oh shit I love this????? I had never heard this story!
as always with wild saint lore, I’m just as interested in WHY certain legends stick. there’s something really moving in the idea of centuries of Catholics repeating and repeating a story where Mary’s miracle was saving two men from homophobes
as always with wild saint lore, I’m just as interested in WHY certain legends stick. there’s something really moving in the idea of centuries of Catholics repeating and repeating a story where Mary’s miracle was saving two men from homophobes
tumblr just brought this to my attention (i have discovered the queer leftist catholic corner of tumblr and it is a delight), and i want to make sure @clairewillett.bsky.social knows about it too:
The Madonna di Montevergine, mother of LGBTQ Catholics
For queer Catholics, this icon of Mary is a reminder that her loving care and protection extends to all her children.
uscatholic.org
December 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
oh shit I love this????? I had never heard this story!
as always with wild saint lore, I’m just as interested in WHY certain legends stick. there’s something really moving in the idea of centuries of Catholics repeating and repeating a story where Mary’s miracle was saving two men from homophobes
as always with wild saint lore, I’m just as interested in WHY certain legends stick. there’s something really moving in the idea of centuries of Catholics repeating and repeating a story where Mary’s miracle was saving two men from homophobes
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Instead of focusing on threats from Russia and China, Trump’s new National Security Strategy takes aim at Europe, warning against “civilizational erasure” caused by unfettered migration and a feckless liberal establishment @ishaantharoor.bsky.social writes
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Column | A line in the sand moment for Europe and the U.S.
The release of the U.S. National Security Strategy landed like a grenade in Brussels, underscoring the depth of ideological vehemence within the White House.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Instead of focusing on threats from Russia and China, Trump’s new National Security Strategy takes aim at Europe, warning against “civilizational erasure” caused by unfettered migration and a feckless liberal establishment @ishaantharoor.bsky.social writes
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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not sure how one argues with a straight face anymore that liberal elites did not play an outsized role in the slow-then-sudden disappearance of the cordon sanitaire around open racism and eugenics
Thanks for validating me, governor
December 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
not sure how one argues with a straight face anymore that liberal elites did not play an outsized role in the slow-then-sudden disappearance of the cordon sanitaire around open racism and eugenics
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The evidence is also the British Nationality Act of 1981
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The evidence is also the British Nationality Act of 1981
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it’s been pretty funny to see Polis’ addiction to posting completely end any discussion of him as a potential 2028 candidate
December 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
it’s been pretty funny to see Polis’ addiction to posting completely end any discussion of him as a potential 2028 candidate
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If you'd rather see elected Dems reading Liberal Currents than reading Richard Hanania, I recommend supporting the Liberal Currents Startup Fund: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
December 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If you'd rather see elected Dems reading Liberal Currents than reading Richard Hanania, I recommend supporting the Liberal Currents Startup Fund: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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Today is the 10th anniversary of one of the stupidest tweets ever written
December 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Today is the 10th anniversary of one of the stupidest tweets ever written
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It is disgusting that Trump’s hateful words of calling Somali Americans “garbage” have continued to go unchecked by members of the Republican Party.
These are US citizens he is denigrating.
We have a duty as Americans to call out his hateful rhetoric.
These are US citizens he is denigrating.
We have a duty as Americans to call out his hateful rhetoric.
December 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
It is disgusting that Trump’s hateful words of calling Somali Americans “garbage” have continued to go unchecked by members of the Republican Party.
These are US citizens he is denigrating.
We have a duty as Americans to call out his hateful rhetoric.
These are US citizens he is denigrating.
We have a duty as Americans to call out his hateful rhetoric.
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That time when Erick Erickson added the lights to the cross in the backyard
December 7, 2023 at 11:15 PM
That time when Erick Erickson added the lights to the cross in the backyard
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So Adm. Bradley ordered a murder because he was afraid of losing his paycheck?
BRENNAN: Do you have confidence in Admiral Bradley?
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
December 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
So Adm. Bradley ordered a murder because he was afraid of losing his paycheck?
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After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
December 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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Ya this all seems correct to me. NYPD will never like Mamdani but they might at least respect him if he shows strength and power rather than weakly capitulating.
Enormous mistake as @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social reappoints Jessica Tisch NYPD commissioner. He calls her a pursuer of police corruption but she promoted John Chell. Calls her an opponent of authoritarianism but she collaborated with ICE. The case against Tisch:
Mamdani's NYC Can't Afford NYPD Commissioner Tisch
With ICE on its way, how can we expect an ICE collaborator to protect New Yorkers? Here's a compromise: make Tisch sanitation commissioner again
www.forever-wars.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Ya this all seems correct to me. NYPD will never like Mamdani but they might at least respect him if he shows strength and power rather than weakly capitulating.
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Thank goodness Trump didn’t call half of Somalis something like “deplorable” else it would have been the biggest scandal ever
CURTIS: All of us need to wake up every morning & say, 'what am I doing to make immigrants feel welcome' regardless of an individual says
BASH: But he's not just an individual. He's the president calling an entire community garbage
C: We knew very well what we were electing. We wanted a disrupter
BASH: But he's not just an individual. He's the president calling an entire community garbage
C: We knew very well what we were electing. We wanted a disrupter
December 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Thank goodness Trump didn’t call half of Somalis something like “deplorable” else it would have been the biggest scandal ever
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A prosecutor who beat a DOJ indictment hit back on Saturday, saying that President Donald Trump has done nothing to improve the dangerous fentanyl situation in the U.S., choosing instead to "pardon a drug kingpin.
'What the hell have you done?!' Trump foe targets president after beating DOJ indictment
A prosecutor who beat a DOJ indictment hit back on Saturday, saying that President Donald Trump has done nothing to improve the dangerous fentanyl situation in the U.S., choosing instead to "pardon a drug kingpin."New York Attorney General Letitia James hit back against Trump, who sought her indictm...
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A prosecutor who beat a DOJ indictment hit back on Saturday, saying that President Donald Trump has done nothing to improve the dangerous fentanyl situation in the U.S., choosing instead to "pardon a drug kingpin.
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Yeah, these manly man “you libs couldn’t handle me in a firefight” guys are going to be very surprised when their F-150 convoy is ganked by a homemade drone piloted by a pencil-necked Magic the Gathering fan 100 miles away.
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Yeah, these manly man “you libs couldn’t handle me in a firefight” guys are going to be very surprised when their F-150 convoy is ganked by a homemade drone piloted by a pencil-necked Magic the Gathering fan 100 miles away.
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People who couldn't handle the mild inconvenience of social distancing are somehow going to endure the far more immense disruption of getting randomly shot by their neighbors?
Sure, ok 👍👍
Sure, ok 👍👍
that's cool, man, but have you tried the taste of a refreshing matcha latte
December 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
People who couldn't handle the mild inconvenience of social distancing are somehow going to endure the far more immense disruption of getting randomly shot by their neighbors?
Sure, ok 👍👍
Sure, ok 👍👍
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Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
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Just thinking about how one of the Chicago police involved in killing Dexter Reed quit to avoid any risk of accountability—and guess where she went? A department in Ohio.
Now if she shoots someone she can remain anonymous.
Now if she shoots someone she can remain anonymous.
Cop who shot and killed Dexter Reed quits amid investigations
Alexandra Giampapa was one of four Chicago police officers who fired at Reed in a hail of 96 bullets at a traffic stop last year. Now she’s a cop in Ohio.
unraveledpress.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Just thinking about how one of the Chicago police involved in killing Dexter Reed quit to avoid any risk of accountability—and guess where she went? A department in Ohio.
Now if she shoots someone she can remain anonymous.
Now if she shoots someone she can remain anonymous.
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James Madison warned us about Trump:
December 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
James Madison warned us about Trump: