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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 1h

Yep. I remember being corrected on this point in a HS class on Huck Finn.

Don't ask how I know the pronunciation of Virginville PA.

Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 1h

Cairo IL

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 11h

Read this Reddit thread.

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 12h

With all the caveats about anonymous posters, this is still staggering, a revelation of what a sliver we see reported across mainstream & alt media combined; and this itself is obviously just a sliver. www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 1d

Just a thought about wrong footing ICE thugs in public confrontations. Have protestors considered the optics of blockading them simply by dancing, maybe to old timey Latin music?

Can't imagine how Pam Bondi would justify images of Trump's goons rushing and violently bashing mambo dancers.

Mambo No. 5

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 1d

Even the Mamluks, slave mercenaries of the Ottoman rulers, were paid for their service. This statement of the MAGA ethos should give Americans pause. Who do they think *we* serve? Who is it unnecessary and inappropriate to pay for their labor?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 1d

Even the Mamluks, slave mercenaries of the Ottoman rulers, were paid for their service. This statement of the MAGA ethos should give Americans pause. Who do they think *we* serve?

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 1d

The speech was greeted with stone cold silence by the general officers in attendance.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

The biggest dumbass you've ever met in your life:

Opinion
Guest Essay

That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
Oct. 7, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 1d

10 yrs ago I spent vast effort trying to get the most basic facts about Bondi's AG career into her WP page. A partisan troll kept trying to obstruct - often arguing that the cited facts & sources were portraying her as implausibly shameless.

Normie WP editors almost always accepted that argument!

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds just like a man who has a ready plan to hide from the truth whenever it isn't on his side.

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 2d

A very sharp weapon for Democrats if they just resolve not to take a defensive crouch over the shut down but instead keep making the case that Republicans are so out of the minds & intransigent on one-party power they're now refusing to accept the results of any congressional election the GOP loses.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

They really don't want to release the Epstein Files, huh.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva won her election two weeks ago. Republicans refuse to seat her in Congress.

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 2d

A hostile VC takeover of a once great news organization. Nobody henceforth should cite or discuss CBS News reporting with any more credence or respect than a tweet or a public insult or a Nazi salute coming from any of our reviled tech oligarchs.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss launched The Free Press with funding from Peter Thiel allies Marc Andreessen and David Sacks. She’s the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. 1/

Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 2d

There's a story to be told about a shitty Civil War historian, the USNA, some comically extreme sucking up to Harrison Ford, the filming of Patriot Games, and the first time I heard somebody spouting 'they didn't try hard enough to win'. But it's too nauseating to tell in these v nauseating times.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks I deleted it.

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks it's deleted

Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 3d

The adolescent Artemis! What a charmer.

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 3d

In my youth older Italians would tell you fondly about how when the fascists realized they were cooked, they began to slip away first in a trickle & then suddenly almost all went to ground or fled in a rush - often in disguise. Sometimes they were caught on the edge of town. They know they're hated.

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 3d

Bari Weiss' opinion on merit in the university was expressly that the only professors who merited continued employment were those who shared her own political opinions. Infamously she tried to impose that POV at Columbia.

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 4d

He's an abuser and a narcissist; checks out.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 4d

Yep, it's Vance's way of saying "you don't really rate". No coincidence it's closely analogous to the racist trope that slaves and their descendants ought to be grateful for how much they benefited at the hands of the slavers.

Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 4d

Vance is very special and this is his very special version of 'You should smile more!'

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 4d

Still recall fondly when George Will started pretending he was an expert on baseball. When I was a research assistant to the architectural historian Wm. MacDonald, he would always greet me when I walked in his office by reading roguishly Will's latest column - punctuated by gales of laughter.

Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 4d

When did we decide in the US that we want this man to get all up in our grill every damn day about everything? He won't leave us alone, and now we're supposed to carry around a graven image of his stupid face in our pocket?

Democratic governors need to declare that this will not be valid currency.

Trump administration considers minting a $1 Trump coin

The U.S. treasurer said on Friday that Treasury is considering minting new one-dollar coins for the nation's 250th anniversary featuring President Trump's image.

abcnews.go.com

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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 5d

Focusing on health insurance premium hikes right now is re-arranging deck chairs on a sinking submarine.

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