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Lapsed academic. “A middle manager’s middle manager”
To whom much is given, much will be required.
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make miserly rich people villains again
December 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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December 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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"Cuomo isn't Jewish, Adams isn't Jewish, Trump isn't Jewish. But they all are delighted to weaponize antisemitism, to weaponize Jewish fear, against Muslims especially."

Jewish Democratic Congressional candidate Brad Lander.

My full interview with him: zeteo.com/p/meet-the-p...
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Both of these happened at the Harper in Hyde Park Chicago.
Star Wars VII(?) everyone cheered when old Han Solo appeared the first time.
Mad Max was the most physical viewing experience I’ve had in a theater. I didn’t realize till after the 1st chase (30ish min?) I was gripping my seat and TENSE
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?

Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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in a shock, the winner of a made up award from one of the worlds foremost institutions of corruption is president donald j trump
December 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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I say this every year: has any man been more vindicated by history than John Brown bsky.app/profile/haym...
Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
December 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Really hard not to see this whole thing as an effort to get a trans person fired from her TA job
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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It's also worth noting that romanticizing the rule of law means adopting a wholly false perspective around what the law is, who it targets, who it privileges, and how it functions—or I suppose it could just be an embrace of that hierarchy, which is also... a problem.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Keep in mind that white American males shot and killed countless Americans including many children, and no one ever did a thing but protect their right to do it again.
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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#WATCH | A new video shows the consequences of Israel's two-year "military operation" (Genocide) in the capital of the Gaza Strip.
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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I wonder how many people will never hear from their loved ones again because of this shit. A real life horror show.
Another Africa ICE removal underway, via a private jet operated by Journey Aviation. Like Journey’s ICE trip to Liberia last week, this is likely a third-country removal.

In the six weeks the South Sudan 7 were stuck in Djibouti, this aircraft was used to swap out ICE guards every few weeks.
November 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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So, skeptical of a screen shot from Twitter, I went through and translated his actual speech myself and it goes WAY HARDER THAN THE SCREEN SHOT SUGGESTS

he mixes in the history of Colombia into the drug cartels and Bernie Moreno into Jeffrey Epstein, it's wild, wild stuff
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This kicks off one of the most bemusing threads ever
Heck yeah, Thomas Massie. Really happy with the way he’s helped lead the charge with this.
November 13, 2025 at 4:01 AM