@jockhigh.bsky.social
Unable to describe self. Has performed a quirkafleeg.
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The news coming from Minnesota are reminding me of Justice Jackson's dissenting opinion in Trump v Casa in which she warned against lawlessness and referenced "the dual state" book by Ernst Fraenkel, a German Jewish labor lawyer who fled the Nazis in 1938...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is trying to warn us about something. Are we listening?
Jackson enters her fourth year on the supreme court on Monday. As its fiercest liberal voice wary of Trump’s growing power, she faces an intense battle ahead
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:14 AM
The news coming from Minnesota are reminding me of Justice Jackson's dissenting opinion in Trump v Casa in which she warned against lawlessness and referenced "the dual state" book by Ernst Fraenkel, a German Jewish labor lawyer who fled the Nazis in 1938...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Wow. Stephen already knew he'd won and still chose to share it. What a man.
#TheTraitors
#TheTraitors
January 23, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Wow. Stephen already knew he'd won and still chose to share it. What a man.
#TheTraitors
#TheTraitors
Great thread, with which I fully agree, sadly.
🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
Democratic politicians have, though, pursued growth in GDP at the expense of other values. One response to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com pessimistic scenario is refocus on those values, combined with egalitarianism, sufficiency and quality of life. Not "it's the economy, stupid" but "it's the the society"
January 23, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Great thread, with which I fully agree, sadly.
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I could break your arm to make you give me your wallet but I won’t because you’re just going to give it to me nicely.
- Phew
What?
- Thanks for clarifying that you’re not going to break my arm.
What?
- Phew
What?
- Thanks for clarifying that you’re not going to break my arm.
What?
January 21, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I could break your arm to make you give me your wallet but I won’t because you’re just going to give it to me nicely.
- Phew
What?
- Thanks for clarifying that you’re not going to break my arm.
What?
- Phew
What?
- Thanks for clarifying that you’re not going to break my arm.
What?
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I've criticized Obama in this vein, too. But the real question is where the hell are GWB & Mitt Romney (& John Kelly, Jim Mattis, Mike Pence, Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Bob Gates, Hank Paulson, etc). Obama isn't going to convince the 10 people in Congress who can end this now
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
OPINION | Barack Obama might be one of the few people in politics left with his moral authority intact; his silence is deafening.
Barack Obama, Where the F--k Are You?
The former president, his moral authority intact, is missing in action.
trib.al
January 20, 2026 at 6:21 AM
I've criticized Obama in this vein, too. But the real question is where the hell are GWB & Mitt Romney (& John Kelly, Jim Mattis, Mike Pence, Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Bob Gates, Hank Paulson, etc). Obama isn't going to convince the 10 people in Congress who can end this now
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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‘This Face Will Be The Last Thing You See Before You Die,’ Says Trump In Healing Address To Nation https://theonion.com/this-face-will-be-the-last-thing-you-see-before-you-di-1843888214/
January 19, 2026 at 11:00 PM
‘This Face Will Be The Last Thing You See Before You Die,’ Says Trump In Healing Address To Nation https://theonion.com/this-face-will-be-the-last-thing-you-see-before-you-di-1843888214/
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Great piece on pressures on European state pension schemes including this chart showing comparative cost now and projection to 2070. UK costs relatively low in comparison to most others www.ft.com/content/9c3c...
January 15, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Great piece on pressures on European state pension schemes including this chart showing comparative cost now and projection to 2070. UK costs relatively low in comparison to most others www.ft.com/content/9c3c...
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in other news apparently you can now get shot for being smug
Fox News' Will Cain: “There's a weird kind of smugness... in the way that some of these liberal white women interact with authority”
January 14, 2026 at 9:42 AM
in other news apparently you can now get shot for being smug
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Glasgow Brutalism: Queen Elizabeth Square, Hutchesontown ‘C’ blocks designed by Sir Basil Spence. Photo: Henk Snoek (1965).
Known for his dramatic use of light and shadow, Snoek was one of the leading architectural photographers of the 1960s and 1970s.
Known for his dramatic use of light and shadow, Snoek was one of the leading architectural photographers of the 1960s and 1970s.
January 14, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Glasgow Brutalism: Queen Elizabeth Square, Hutchesontown ‘C’ blocks designed by Sir Basil Spence. Photo: Henk Snoek (1965).
Known for his dramatic use of light and shadow, Snoek was one of the leading architectural photographers of the 1960s and 1970s.
Known for his dramatic use of light and shadow, Snoek was one of the leading architectural photographers of the 1960s and 1970s.
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As the kids say, some news:
www.thelastcriticfilm.com
www.thelastcriticfilm.com
A Documentary about Robert Christgau
The official website for "The Last Critic," a documentary about Robert Christgau, the most beloved and most loathed of all music critics, who is still grading new albums in his Consumer Guide at age 8...
www.thelastcriticfilm.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:59 PM
As the kids say, some news:
www.thelastcriticfilm.com
www.thelastcriticfilm.com
@janeespenson.bsky.social - loved the latest episode of Fallout, and when your name came up as the writer at the end I thought "yup, that figures".
January 11, 2026 at 8:28 PM
@janeespenson.bsky.social - loved the latest episode of Fallout, and when your name came up as the writer at the end I thought "yup, that figures".
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It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls.
If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
January 11, 2026 at 7:49 PM
It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls.
If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
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The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
January 10, 2026 at 11:24 PM
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
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This was palpably chilling. Searching Google for the complete text of William Penn's treatise on religious tolerance, I got nothing but the American Heritage Education Foundation. Two pages of nearly identical returns, then nothing. Looked like this. Tried an incognito window, same. Bing is OK.
January 4, 2026 at 10:57 PM
This was palpably chilling. Searching Google for the complete text of William Penn's treatise on religious tolerance, I got nothing but the American Heritage Education Foundation. Two pages of nearly identical returns, then nothing. Looked like this. Tried an incognito window, same. Bing is OK.
People who post something while stating that certain anticipated but inoffensive responses will receive a block have confused email with social media.
Unfollow.
Unfollow.
January 4, 2026 at 11:22 PM
People who post something while stating that certain anticipated but inoffensive responses will receive a block have confused email with social media.
Unfollow.
Unfollow.
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i love the implication that crypto gaming was fundamentally sound and only died because VCs failed to manifest it
January 4, 2026 at 6:00 PM
i love the implication that crypto gaming was fundamentally sound and only died because VCs failed to manifest it
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Europe needs to get much more comfortable threatening Trump with serious deterrent measures, and if necessary implementing them. Tariffs, taxes & bans on US firms; selloffs of US Treasuries; expulsions of American troops; sanctions on individuals. Speak his language: strength.
Why should Trump stop at Venezuela? They’re champing at the bit for territorial expansion. Katie Miller, Stephen Miller‘s wife, posted a map of Greenland marked as a US territory with the words „SOON“.
January 4, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Europe needs to get much more comfortable threatening Trump with serious deterrent measures, and if necessary implementing them. Tariffs, taxes & bans on US firms; selloffs of US Treasuries; expulsions of American troops; sanctions on individuals. Speak his language: strength.
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Kidnapping a head of state is not ‘audacious’ if you are the world’s most powerful military. It is not bold or brilliant. It is something within your capacity to do but that should not be done
January 4, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Kidnapping a head of state is not ‘audacious’ if you are the world’s most powerful military. It is not bold or brilliant. It is something within your capacity to do but that should not be done
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If truth has no value, or is deemed impossible to ascertain, then politically anything is possible.
November 23, 2024 at 11:30 PM
If truth has no value, or is deemed impossible to ascertain, then politically anything is possible.
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I think FIFA must rescind Donald Trump’s FIFA inaugural peace prize or I think the reputation of the FIFA peace prize could be severely compromised and it will be seen as just a sycophantic bauble - poor FIFA
January 4, 2026 at 9:31 AM
I think FIFA must rescind Donald Trump’s FIFA inaugural peace prize or I think the reputation of the FIFA peace prize could be severely compromised and it will be seen as just a sycophantic bauble - poor FIFA
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What just happened ...
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
January 4, 2026 at 8:33 AM
What just happened ...
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
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After this, no one should doubt Trump’s intention to invade Greenland. The EU needs to step up fast.
January 3, 2026 at 11:32 AM
After this, no one should doubt Trump’s intention to invade Greenland. The EU needs to step up fast.
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Trump's actions in Venezuela shows why it was wrong to dismiss his threats to Greenland. If he's willing to do this, he will be willing to do anything
January 3, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Trump's actions in Venezuela shows why it was wrong to dismiss his threats to Greenland. If he's willing to do this, he will be willing to do anything