@loydchristmas.bsky.social
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remembering footage out of the Hong Kong protests
January 24, 2026 at 9:22 PM
remembering footage out of the Hong Kong protests
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What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.
They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence.
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.
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Not to make everything about My Thing, but my god think about the intellectual dishonesty and cowardice of people who turned all of this into complaints about a "stifling culture" on college campuses of whatever
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
January 24, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Not to make everything about My Thing, but my god think about the intellectual dishonesty and cowardice of people who turned all of this into complaints about a "stifling culture" on college campuses of whatever
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This is the basis of JD Vance's entire career.
I have a whole thesis on the governing ethos of the Times and similar as 'weakly held liberalism' - people immersed in a liberal social context without any genuine belief or principle backing it up, who thus idealize conservatism as authentic and strong.
I honestly think a lot of it is that the NYT crowd really are the 'coastal elites' everyone complains about, so they went to find the Minnesota working class they expected: old, white and racist.
It never occurred to them to look for communities that didn't look like that.
It never occurred to them to look for communities that didn't look like that.
January 23, 2026 at 7:27 PM
This is the basis of JD Vance's entire career.
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it’s the part people overlook in Fukuyama’s End of History and the Last Man.
For some reason, these days I find myself thinking a lot about how SimCity players would eventually get bored and start triggering disasters.
January 23, 2026 at 11:15 PM
it’s the part people overlook in Fukuyama’s End of History and the Last Man.
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Christ just look at it
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Christ just look at it
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punchline's worth it on this one
This reminds me of one of my favorite stories. During a Javelin Thrust in Yuma one year, we brought two Navajo Code Talkers out to talk to the comm Marines about doing the job in WW2, get a brief on modern comm gear, and so we could ensure we still had Marines who could say they shook their hands.
I really dislike this leftie tendency to use all of the horrible crimes this country has committed as proof that the country is irredeemable, when the people who fought against it often did so *as Americans* because it implies they were a bunch of stupid fucking rubes
January 22, 2026 at 4:56 PM
punchline's worth it on this one
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We're basically locked in a car with a senile Liz Truss, which is both bad and also probably bad for them
Occasionally remembering that I'm gonna have to live through 4 more years of Donald Trump being the world's dumbest chief executive and sighing
December 27, 2024 at 4:00 AM
We're basically locked in a car with a senile Liz Truss, which is both bad and also probably bad for them
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this is just conservatism, no understanding of the systems they benefit from and constant false victimhood
It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.
US trade secretary Howard Lutnick really not mincing his words here at Davos: "We are here to make a v clear point: globalisation has failed the West and the USA. It's a failed policy. It's what the WEF has stood for, which is, export, offshore, find the cheapest labour in the world."
January 21, 2026 at 12:56 PM
this is just conservatism, no understanding of the systems they benefit from and constant false victimhood
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Atlantic Anglosphere politics seems to be trying to push the limits of trustee vs delegate representation: The left side is sure you just do stuff & public opinion will fall in line. The right side is sure you can't do anything unless public opinion is already behind it. Both seem unwise.
It is not normal for a president to be pushing for a net -80 policy. That Trump apparently does not care about the public opinion on Greenland (or maybe he doesn't know about the polls) is a sign of how far we have drifted from normal democratic government
Quinnipiac Poll, Jan 8-12 - poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
January 21, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Atlantic Anglosphere politics seems to be trying to push the limits of trustee vs delegate representation: The left side is sure you just do stuff & public opinion will fall in line. The right side is sure you can't do anything unless public opinion is already behind it. Both seem unwise.
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trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him
January 20, 2026 at 7:54 PM
trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him
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I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
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And when if that spectre stares into the abyss, sometimes the abyss says, 'we're all Keynesians now."
Its like gramsci said the monster struggles to be born, haunting europe as a spectre
waking up to the Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Davos re: Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
January 20, 2026 at 10:29 PM
And when if that spectre stares into the abyss, sometimes the abyss says, 'we're all Keynesians now."
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That Heritage Foundation guy back in 2024 was talking about The Second American Revolution being 'bloodless, if the left allows it to be' and I'm increasingly feeling that was a Delphic oracle moment too
January 20, 2026 at 3:25 AM
That Heritage Foundation guy back in 2024 was talking about The Second American Revolution being 'bloodless, if the left allows it to be' and I'm increasingly feeling that was a Delphic oracle moment too
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China having a really, really strict COVID policy until it suddenly didn’t is an excellent example of this.
authoritarian regimes are actually more sensitive to public opinion than democratic ones because they do not have a reliable mechanism to reset their legitimacy (ie actual elections)!
How is it that so many people think that authoritarianism is a way to bypass completely public opinion?
January 19, 2026 at 9:09 PM
China having a really, really strict COVID policy until it suddenly didn’t is an excellent example of this.
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Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it
March 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it
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We've been asking about this for a decade.
Occam's Razor indicates they don't exist.
Occam's Razor indicates they don't exist.
one wonders when the self-preservation instinct kicks in for Congressional Republicans, big business and the US media
January 19, 2026 at 4:54 AM
We've been asking about this for a decade.
Occam's Razor indicates they don't exist.
Occam's Razor indicates they don't exist.
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every mumblecore film ever made
What movie trailer do you think is better than the actual film?
Ill start:
Mandy (2018)
Ill start:
Mandy (2018)
January 18, 2026 at 7:13 PM
every mumblecore film ever made
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the degree to which the mainstream press is just plainly terrified of ta-nehisi coates' moral clarity makes this basically proven imo
There was a similar flowering of Black American public intellectuals culminating in the 2016-2024 period, and I'd argue the anti-Woke backlash was in many ways a reaction to the threat this posed to the outclassed white punditocracy, for whom meritocracy and DEI hire was a way to disqualify them.
Just finished this right after having read @hofrench.bsky.social's Second Emancipation, and it convinced me that the African & African diaspora anti-colonial thinkers of the 1940-1975 period constituted one of the great intellectual movements in the history of humankind.
Second Enlightenment level.
Second Enlightenment level.
January 18, 2026 at 2:40 PM
the degree to which the mainstream press is just plainly terrified of ta-nehisi coates' moral clarity makes this basically proven imo
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There's a really interesting phenomenon in legislatures like California's (full-time, highly-professional) where legislators will chase around middling public safety issues or moral panics in order to burnish their resumes for their next job.
I am that lawmaker: CA lawmaker proposes legislation to restrict e-bike speed as safety concerns rise abc7news.com/post/califor...
CA lawmaker proposes legislation to restrict e-bike speed as safety concerns rise
Petaluma police are sounding the alarm about the dangers of e-bikes and e-motorcycles, posting a video on social media of a young rider blasting through stop signs. Now, lawmakers are eyeing new legis...
abc7news.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:06 PM
There's a really interesting phenomenon in legislatures like California's (full-time, highly-professional) where legislators will chase around middling public safety issues or moral panics in order to burnish their resumes for their next job.
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this is cold as fuck
January 14, 2026 at 4:04 AM
this is cold as fuck
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Roberta Gratz was a personal friend of Jane Jacobs, and recently sold the Long Island City warehouse she inherited from her industrialist family for $5.2 million. She sold it to a tennis court operator, who gives lessons to yuppies who live in all the new high-rise towers. traded.co/deals/new-yo...
January 16, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Roberta Gratz was a personal friend of Jane Jacobs, and recently sold the Long Island City warehouse she inherited from her industrialist family for $5.2 million. She sold it to a tennis court operator, who gives lessons to yuppies who live in all the new high-rise towers. traded.co/deals/new-yo...
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Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...