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“We’ll shoot your wife / mother / aunt. Vote MAGA 2026.”
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 13, 2026 at 11:33 PM
“We’ll shoot your wife / mother / aunt. Vote MAGA 2026.”
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This is a good question. Let's talk about it!
Why do civil servants resign in protest? Couldn't they have done more good on the inside? 🧵
Why do civil servants resign in protest? Couldn't they have done more good on the inside? 🧵
Sincerely wanting to understand why is honest people resigning, being considered an act of bravery or somehow fruitful. It’s one thing if the admin felt embarrassed by the resignations & rectified course. But that’s not happening, so now our institutions are just left with fewer people of integrity.
Breaking: NYT now says *six* federal prosecutors in Minnesota have just resigned over the Justice Department's push to investigate the widow of Renee Good and the department's reluctance to investigate the ICE agent who shot Good, according to people with knowledge of their decision.
January 13, 2026 at 11:59 PM
This is a good question. Let's talk about it!
Why do civil servants resign in protest? Couldn't they have done more good on the inside? 🧵
Why do civil servants resign in protest? Couldn't they have done more good on the inside? 🧵
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Postmodernism also does a pretty decent job of depicting how actual fascism works, because fascism works on memetic gestalt (and this is why in general it works great on personalist authoritarianism).
It's been really bad at describing US govt...until the US got taken over by a reality TV psycho.
It's been really bad at describing US govt...until the US got taken over by a reality TV psycho.
January 10, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Postmodernism also does a pretty decent job of depicting how actual fascism works, because fascism works on memetic gestalt (and this is why in general it works great on personalist authoritarianism).
It's been really bad at describing US govt...until the US got taken over by a reality TV psycho.
It's been really bad at describing US govt...until the US got taken over by a reality TV psycho.
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e.g. that bit about how governments were building nuclear missiles in order to compensate for something downstairs was absurd, and it was utterly false, too.
Until, that is, Trump took power and started ranting about how his 'nuclear button' was bigger and more beautiful than Kim Jong Un's.
Until, that is, Trump took power and started ranting about how his 'nuclear button' was bigger and more beautiful than Kim Jong Un's.
January 10, 2026 at 4:04 AM
e.g. that bit about how governments were building nuclear missiles in order to compensate for something downstairs was absurd, and it was utterly false, too.
Until, that is, Trump took power and started ranting about how his 'nuclear button' was bigger and more beautiful than Kim Jong Un's.
Until, that is, Trump took power and started ranting about how his 'nuclear button' was bigger and more beautiful than Kim Jong Un's.
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The funny thing about postmodern [insert any of many relevant words]-studies is that they do a much better job of describing the antics of stupid ppl who live in a post-fact gestalt than portraying the operation of a functioning society.
Our govt is run by a post-fact batshit insane meme gestalt.
Our govt is run by a post-fact batshit insane meme gestalt.
i just… when i was earning my women’s and gender studies graduate certificate in a program the Texas state legislature literally banned for being subversive, i don’t think i *or my professors* believed in the patriarchy as much as has been materially demonstrated this week
January 10, 2026 at 3:57 AM
The funny thing about postmodern [insert any of many relevant words]-studies is that they do a much better job of describing the antics of stupid ppl who live in a post-fact gestalt than portraying the operation of a functioning society.
Our govt is run by a post-fact batshit insane meme gestalt.
Our govt is run by a post-fact batshit insane meme gestalt.
Started watching heated rivalry interesting show
January 6, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Started watching heated rivalry interesting show
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maybe *this* time old Donald Trump won't betray me!
Hannity: Did you at any point offered to give him the Nobel peace prize?
Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him.
Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him.
January 6, 2026 at 3:31 AM
maybe *this* time old Donald Trump won't betray me!
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Well they said they were against bringing freedom and democracy to other countries and, in their defence, Venezuela isn't getting any of that
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Well they said they were against bringing freedom and democracy to other countries and, in their defence, Venezuela isn't getting any of that
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Convinced the best prism for understanding this admin is if you've worked for a real narcissist boss where you have to chart a course between doing enough insane things to satisfy their ego and not doing too many insane things.
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Convinced the best prism for understanding this admin is if you've worked for a real narcissist boss where you have to chart a course between doing enough insane things to satisfy their ego and not doing too many insane things.
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The actual danger isn't some sort of 21st century Tanaka Memorial world conquest scheme. It's doing what Imperial Japan actually did: blundering your way through interventions at the whim of Twitter personalities (very akin 1930s self-radicalizing gekokujō, really) until you wind up in a massive war
I want you to understand that there is no grand conspiracy to suddenly annex the world. There are a bunch of dumbasses, some of whom do have baroque fantasies of doing just that sort of world conquest, running around and starting fires they have no idea how to quench before they get burned.
NATO just warned that Russia is prepping for a war to the scale orlf WW1/WW2. While Europe and NATO are busy helping USA will try to swing in to get Canada. Don't be naive. They aren't done.
January 4, 2026 at 10:56 PM
The actual danger isn't some sort of 21st century Tanaka Memorial world conquest scheme. It's doing what Imperial Japan actually did: blundering your way through interventions at the whim of Twitter personalities (very akin 1930s self-radicalizing gekokujō, really) until you wind up in a massive war
babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes
“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”
January 3, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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Pierre Jean Claude du Pedofile's landmark work of philosophy and postmodernism Racisme: Un Defense was edited by his Nazi collaborator wife and typed by his 13 year old Moroccan boyfriend.
December 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Pierre Jean Claude du Pedofile's landmark work of philosophy and postmodernism Racisme: Un Defense was edited by his Nazi collaborator wife and typed by his 13 year old Moroccan boyfriend.
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the established best practice in these cases is putting your finger up to their mouth, and insouciantly telling them "please mon cherie, you are far too sexy to be bothering yourself with such things" and everyone walks away happy
December 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
the established best practice in these cases is putting your finger up to their mouth, and insouciantly telling them "please mon cherie, you are far too sexy to be bothering yourself with such things" and everyone walks away happy
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between brigitte bardot and polo & pan, 2025 was the year that americans re-learned the most important possible lesson about the french: the cooler and sexier a french person is, the more likely they are to be deeply problematic
December 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
between brigitte bardot and polo & pan, 2025 was the year that americans re-learned the most important possible lesson about the french: the cooler and sexier a french person is, the more likely they are to be deeply problematic
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The difference between Republican fundraising and scamming is that the scam artists care slightly more about the mental wellbeing of their victims.
this is such a funny email to send millions of people several times per week
December 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The difference between Republican fundraising and scamming is that the scam artists care slightly more about the mental wellbeing of their victims.
Can we ban tech bros from reading lord of the rings
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
Sauron, the high-end home security startup for "super premium" customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos | TechCrunch
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
techcrunch.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Can we ban tech bros from reading lord of the rings
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19th century Scrooge would have been a Liberal. An austere, rich, self-made middle-class Scot impressed with his own generosity for giving his employee a day off - don't tell me he wouldn't have loved Gladstone.
UK (GB), YouGov poll:
Who do you think Ebenezer Scrooge would vote for?
REFORM~NI: 43%
CON~ECR: 28%
LAB-S&D: 20%
LDEM-RE: 1%
GREENS-G/EFA: 1%
SNP-G/EFA: 1%
PC-G/EFA: 0%
Fieldwork: 23-24 November 2025
Sample size: 2,155
➤ https://europeelects.eu/uk/
#BahHumbug2025
Who do you think Ebenezer Scrooge would vote for?
REFORM~NI: 43%
CON~ECR: 28%
LAB-S&D: 20%
LDEM-RE: 1%
GREENS-G/EFA: 1%
SNP-G/EFA: 1%
PC-G/EFA: 0%
Fieldwork: 23-24 November 2025
Sample size: 2,155
➤ https://europeelects.eu/uk/
#BahHumbug2025
December 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
19th century Scrooge would have been a Liberal. An austere, rich, self-made middle-class Scot impressed with his own generosity for giving his employee a day off - don't tell me he wouldn't have loved Gladstone.
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The movie / miniseries I really want that we will never ever get is one about the marriage of Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Sinclair, a now mostly forgotten story that rivals Charles Windsor and Diana Spencer in terms of soap-opera level psychodrama and intrigue
December 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The movie / miniseries I really want that we will never ever get is one about the marriage of Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Sinclair, a now mostly forgotten story that rivals Charles Windsor and Diana Spencer in terms of soap-opera level psychodrama and intrigue
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Can't believe the MAGA lot are ruining "being really into an impractically huge navy" and making it earnest and weird. THAT WAS MY BIT!
December 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Can't believe the MAGA lot are ruining "being really into an impractically huge navy" and making it earnest and weird. THAT WAS MY BIT!
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My favourite electoral dog story was in the 2017. Out in Canning Town with our candidate and some of his mates who'd come along to help. For those unfamiliar with C-Town, in the mid 00s, DHL delivered to post-invasion Baghdad, but the drivers refused to come here because it was too dangerous.
Informative and fun thread about delivering the festive post. This gave me a flashback to when I was a political activist and just turning into one door and the postman just doing a 'no, no, stay away' hand gesture. I leapt back as a dog *hurled* itself against the front door.
20. Speaking of dogs - having a sign that says “beware of the dog” hanging on the gate you have to walk through to reach your front door: not very reassuring for your postman that.
Do you actually want your post delivered?
Do you actually want your post delivered?
December 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
My favourite electoral dog story was in the 2017. Out in Canning Town with our candidate and some of his mates who'd come along to help. For those unfamiliar with C-Town, in the mid 00s, DHL delivered to post-invasion Baghdad, but the drivers refused to come here because it was too dangerous.
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On Acafe this week, look back at some favorite albums of 2025, as well as some great artists who left us this year… hear it now at Acafe.com/listen
December 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
On Acafe this week, look back at some favorite albums of 2025, as well as some great artists who left us this year… hear it now at Acafe.com/listen
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The Hermione Ranfurly he mentions is a Countess who published a WWII diary in 1994, which was accurately described by the Times as “a madcap, aristocratic window behind the lines of war” – and you can read more about her here
Love, War and the Countess
To War with Whitaker | Review by Peter J. Conradi | Dan and Hermione Ranfurly were on a deer-stalking holiday in Scotland when war was declared . . .
foxedquarterly.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The Hermione Ranfurly he mentions is a Countess who published a WWII diary in 1994, which was accurately described by the Times as “a madcap, aristocratic window behind the lines of war” – and you can read more about her here
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I just wanted to unleash dark forces without having them ultimately consume me. Is that really so much to ask?
*Chris Rufo* warns X is making the right too conspiratorial:
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
December 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I just wanted to unleash dark forces without having them ultimately consume me. Is that really so much to ask?