Richard Hardack
@richardhardack.bsky.social
Berkeley PhD & JD, needs to buy a vowel. Possibly a Hardack to follow. Author of _Your Call Is Very Important to Us: Advertising and the Corporate Theft of Personhood_ & _Not Altogether Human: Pantheism and the Dark Nature of the American Renaissance_.
... And Roe is settled law, he'd never weaponize the DOJ, I'll never interfere with CDC experts, and I've never been blackmailed by Putin and Epstein.
December 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
... And Roe is settled law, he'd never weaponize the DOJ, I'll never interfere with CDC experts, and I've never been blackmailed by Putin and Epstein.
If every reporter there pushed back in concert, if every university and law firm and network and foreign leader stood together and told Trump to F himself, he'd be defenseless.
December 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If every reporter there pushed back in concert, if every university and law firm and network and foreign leader stood together and told Trump to F himself, he'd be defenseless.
He ended the war between Oceania and Melania.
December 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
He ended the war between Oceania and Melania.
Fair enough if you start w/that premise. But narrowly viewing antitrust by whether something helps consumers short term, rather than hurts competition long term, is what got us Amazon, ClearChannel, Beltone, 3 major airlines, a few giant supermarket chains, media consolidation, ad infinitum.
December 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Fair enough if you start w/that premise. But narrowly viewing antitrust by whether something helps consumers short term, rather than hurts competition long term, is what got us Amazon, ClearChannel, Beltone, 3 major airlines, a few giant supermarket chains, media consolidation, ad infinitum.
He'll auction it off for a pardon as soon as he wins the World Cup.
December 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
He'll auction it off for a pardon as soon as he wins the World Cup.
You'd think Russian bots could get their own dates.
December 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
You'd think Russian bots could get their own dates.
It will be nothing compared to when he wins the World Cup.
December 6, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It will be nothing compared to when he wins the World Cup.
The Sacklers have boats too, right?
December 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The Sacklers have boats too, right?
Why would anyone apply to Quisling University after this?
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Why would anyone apply to Quisling University after this?
Hesgeth clearly thinks he's a big fish,but he's a sub sub sub sub secretary.
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Hesgeth clearly thinks he's a big fish,but he's a sub sub sub sub secretary.
It's a direct lift from Total Recall and John Wick. Hesgeth is murdering people to cosplay being an action hero.
November 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
It's a direct lift from Total Recall and John Wick. Hesgeth is murdering people to cosplay being an action hero.
It's a direct lift from Total Recall and John Wick. Hesgeth is murdering people to cosplay being an action hero.
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
It's a direct lift from Total Recall and John Wick. Hesgeth is murdering people to cosplay being an action hero.
It's a direct lift from Total Recall and John Wick. Hesgeth is murdering people to cosplay being an action hero.
November 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM
It's a direct lift from Total Recall and John Wick. Hesgeth is murdering people to cosplay being an action hero.
So now he's in a literal pissing match with Trump.
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
So now he's in a literal pissing match with Trump.
It's almost as if Trump used to plant stones about himself in the press or call in to radio shows to talk about himself while pretending to be someone else.
November 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
It's almost as if Trump used to plant stones about himself in the press or call in to radio shows to talk about himself while pretending to be someone else.
Signature policy.
November 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Signature policy.
I was fortunate to take a course of his in college, and he's a convincing champion of the pragmatism of idealism. He also had us read Richard Barnet's The Roots of War, which is a brilliant, terrifying and now sadly overlooked expose of the US espionage mindset.
November 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I was fortunate to take a course of his in college, and he's a convincing champion of the pragmatism of idealism. He also had us read Richard Barnet's The Roots of War, which is a brilliant, terrifying and now sadly overlooked expose of the US espionage mindset.
Resign in disgrace. People ask what worse could Trump do if he worked directly for Putin? We need to ask, what worse would you do if you worked directly for Trump, which you apparently do.
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Resign in disgrace. People ask what worse could Trump do if he worked directly for Putin? We need to ask, what worse would you do if you worked directly for Trump, which you apparently do.
Resign in disgrace. People ask what worse could Trump do if he worked directly for Putin? We need to ask, what worse would you do if you worked directly for Trump, which you apparently do.
November 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Resign in disgrace. People ask what worse could Trump do if he worked directly for Putin? We need to ask, what worse would you do if you worked directly for Trump, which you apparently do.
Resign in disgrace. People ask what worse could Trump do if he worked directly for Putin? We need to ask, what worse would you do if you worked directly for Trump, which you apparently do.
November 13, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Resign in disgrace. People ask what worse could Trump do if he worked directly for Putin? We need to ask, what worse would you do if you worked directly for Trump, which you apparently do.