Ornamental Hermit
@smccain.bsky.social
I just wander from room to room.
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im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons
"Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him?"
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
January 8, 2026 at 2:53 AM
im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons
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it probably shouldn't make it worse that Renee Nicole Good was a pretty fine poet but it does
2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
poets.org
January 8, 2026 at 4:23 AM
it probably shouldn't make it worse that Renee Nicole Good was a pretty fine poet but it does
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Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis.
Say bad things are bad.
Say bad things are bad.
January 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis.
Say bad things are bad.
Say bad things are bad.
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Tangential, but I keep seeing an anti-military thread w/ a decent number of flat-out lies, the gist being: "don't join the military it's evil" and I'm sort of dumbstruck. We need a military, and ideally we should have moral people staffing and running it. Don't cede control of that to shitty people!
January 6, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Tangential, but I keep seeing an anti-military thread w/ a decent number of flat-out lies, the gist being: "don't join the military it's evil" and I'm sort of dumbstruck. We need a military, and ideally we should have moral people staffing and running it. Don't cede control of that to shitty people!
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"I doubt Senator Kelly will see this blog, and if he does see it, I imagine he will not be pleased with it. He’ll probably find it embarrassing. His humility likely makes him bristle at stuff like this. Well, that’s just too damn bad, Senator."
The Extraordinary Military Career of Mark Kelly
Good lord, has this man done a lot.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:13 AM
"I doubt Senator Kelly will see this blog, and if he does see it, I imagine he will not be pleased with it. He’ll probably find it embarrassing. His humility likely makes him bristle at stuff like this. Well, that’s just too damn bad, Senator."
@unrivaledwbb.bsky.social Seriously: why the hell are you still on the other site? Have you no respect for your players or your organization?
January 6, 2026 at 6:28 AM
@unrivaledwbb.bsky.social Seriously: why the hell are you still on the other site? Have you no respect for your players or your organization?
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One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
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Normal order & six Dems voting in favor of a DOD appointment 2 days after an unconstitutional attack on Venezuela and on the same day as Hegseth/DOD's retaliation against Kelly.
For all the strong language, these are not the *actions* of an opposition party that thinks DOD has acted unlawfully.
For all the strong language, these are not the *actions* of an opposition party that thinks DOD has acted unlawfully.
Voting yea: John Fetterman (PA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Jack Reed (RI), Jacky Rosen (NV), & Jeanne Shaheen (NH).
Gallego changed his cloture vote from nay to yea
6 Dems (Blunt Rochester, Coons, Kelly, Markey, Warnock & Welch) were absent. Kelly voted yea for cloture
Gallego changed his cloture vote from nay to yea
6 Dems (Blunt Rochester, Coons, Kelly, Markey, Warnock & Welch) were absent. Kelly voted yea for cloture
U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 2nd Session
www.senate.gov
January 6, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Normal order & six Dems voting in favor of a DOD appointment 2 days after an unconstitutional attack on Venezuela and on the same day as Hegseth/DOD's retaliation against Kelly.
For all the strong language, these are not the *actions* of an opposition party that thinks DOD has acted unlawfully.
For all the strong language, these are not the *actions* of an opposition party that thinks DOD has acted unlawfully.
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great work gang, you really showed it to the Trump administration by ,,, uhh ,,, attacking a trans woman for not being into the same type of porn as you until she deleted her account
truly thee vanguard
truly thee vanguard
January 5, 2026 at 8:06 PM
great work gang, you really showed it to the Trump administration by ,,, uhh ,,, attacking a trans woman for not being into the same type of porn as you until she deleted her account
truly thee vanguard
truly thee vanguard
The bullshit that drove Molloy off is probably the death knell to this site.
It was a decent run, but it's over, and assholes killed it as they do everything else.
It was a decent run, but it's over, and assholes killed it as they do everything else.
January 6, 2026 at 5:22 AM
The bullshit that drove Molloy off is probably the death knell to this site.
It was a decent run, but it's over, and assholes killed it as they do everything else.
It was a decent run, but it's over, and assholes killed it as they do everything else.
Thread, WA state.
1. This weekend, far-right group Lets Go Washington announced that it had collected enough signatures to get a trans sports ban on the ballot in the state.
The bill includes genital inspection provisions.
It is one of the first to go forward in a blue state.
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The bill includes genital inspection provisions.
It is one of the first to go forward in a blue state.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trans Sports Ban With Genital Inspections Gains Enough Signatures To Appear On Washington State Ballot
The initiative collected 400,000 signatures, and will be one of the first major attempts to get an anti-trans law onto the ballot in a state that has dubbed itself a "refuge" for transgender people.
www.erininthemorning.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Thread, WA state.
Thread.
A concept I've been meaning to float to make sense of what's happened to the US Constitution is an idea from the British constitutional tradition: "implied repeal."
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
January 5, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Thread.
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I can prove to you that the US Constitution is fatally flawed & requires replacement.
All agree that any minimally adequate form of government must include a way to remove a chief executive for flagrant misconduct. Impeachment is the US's main way to do that, but it's entirely broken.
All agree that any minimally adequate form of government must include a way to remove a chief executive for flagrant misconduct. Impeachment is the US's main way to do that, but it's entirely broken.
January 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I can prove to you that the US Constitution is fatally flawed & requires replacement.
All agree that any minimally adequate form of government must include a way to remove a chief executive for flagrant misconduct. Impeachment is the US's main way to do that, but it's entirely broken.
All agree that any minimally adequate form of government must include a way to remove a chief executive for flagrant misconduct. Impeachment is the US's main way to do that, but it's entirely broken.
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Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Wow.
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 9:05 AM
Wow.
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this is basically ricks' argument in THE GENERALS: that the structure of the american military (and political leadership) has generated an enormously competent professional force... that consistently generates useless results because of a void of strategic thinking at the top
January 4, 2026 at 1:51 PM
this is basically ricks' argument in THE GENERALS: that the structure of the american military (and political leadership) has generated an enormously competent professional force... that consistently generates useless results because of a void of strategic thinking at the top
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Another galling example of this: It's been said that Trump's hatred of the "deep state" is rooted in hatred of its "warmongering." But Trump hates the deep state because it tried to hold him accountable for his crimes and because a professional civil service is a barrier to authoritarian corruption!
January 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Another galling example of this: It's been said that Trump's hatred of the "deep state" is rooted in hatred of its "warmongering." But Trump hates the deep state because it tried to hold him accountable for his crimes and because a professional civil service is a barrier to authoritarian corruption!
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Anyway. Nothing but complete eradication of all right-wing ideology everywhere will suffice, I think.
January 4, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Anyway. Nothing but complete eradication of all right-wing ideology everywhere will suffice, I think.
Jar Jar in action.
My statement on the capture of the brutal, illegitimate ruler of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and need for a transition to democracy:
January 3, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Jar Jar in action.
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If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
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Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them
January 3, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them
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congratulations to the anti-porn and anti-sex work groups for helping create an internet where independent adult sex workers have been exploited, ripped off, and then run off and are now being replaced by on-demand CSAM
January 2, 2026 at 3:22 AM
congratulations to the anti-porn and anti-sex work groups for helping create an internet where independent adult sex workers have been exploited, ripped off, and then run off and are now being replaced by on-demand CSAM
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AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
January 2, 2026 at 9:07 AM
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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can't think of a better demonstration of how these things aren't intelligent and literally just tell you whatever you want to hear.
January 2, 2026 at 8:56 AM
can't think of a better demonstration of how these things aren't intelligent and literally just tell you whatever you want to hear.
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The reason the primary topic of my political writing this year has been "You are allowed to believe things and to act according to those beliefs" is that this appears to be completely incomprehensible to most of the American commentariat.
Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on liberals for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmfao
December 31, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The reason the primary topic of my political writing this year has been "You are allowed to believe things and to act according to those beliefs" is that this appears to be completely incomprehensible to most of the American commentariat.