Jeremy Mettler
@tokamak990.bsky.social
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The bees have discovered Brutalism
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The bees have discovered Brutalism
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I was thinking about Dad today because it’s 9/11.
He came with us to Seoul when we picked up my eldest. Our first adoption. He hadn’t been since the army. ‘58. A lot fewer bullet holes and a lot more buildings, he said. We had a blast.
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He came with us to Seoul when we picked up my eldest. Our first adoption. He hadn’t been since the army. ‘58. A lot fewer bullet holes and a lot more buildings, he said. We had a blast.
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September 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I was thinking about Dad today because it’s 9/11.
He came with us to Seoul when we picked up my eldest. Our first adoption. He hadn’t been since the army. ‘58. A lot fewer bullet holes and a lot more buildings, he said. We had a blast.
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He came with us to Seoul when we picked up my eldest. Our first adoption. He hadn’t been since the army. ‘58. A lot fewer bullet holes and a lot more buildings, he said. We had a blast.
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Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
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Seriously. You know who has *great* messaging? Cancer researchers! Literally curing cancer! Sells itself!
Still got fed to the DOGE woodchipper.
FEMA and the National Weather Service got fed to the DOGE woodchipper, too. Nobody thought poorly of them until the right did the thing they always do.
Still got fed to the DOGE woodchipper.
FEMA and the National Weather Service got fed to the DOGE woodchipper, too. Nobody thought poorly of them until the right did the thing they always do.
You hear this a lot on the left but it isn't true. USAID did not "fail to tell its story to Americans," the right targeted the agency with lies and misinformation.
Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
June 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Seriously. You know who has *great* messaging? Cancer researchers! Literally curing cancer! Sells itself!
Still got fed to the DOGE woodchipper.
FEMA and the National Weather Service got fed to the DOGE woodchipper, too. Nobody thought poorly of them until the right did the thing they always do.
Still got fed to the DOGE woodchipper.
FEMA and the National Weather Service got fed to the DOGE woodchipper, too. Nobody thought poorly of them until the right did the thing they always do.
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Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
June 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
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But it is hard to believe that Iran won't now focus on getting a nuclear weapon.
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June 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
But it is hard to believe that Iran won't now focus on getting a nuclear weapon.
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All we know is Trump's post, and now reports are coming in that there was bombing.
We're not going to know how much damage was done for some time. Tomorrow there may be satellite photos.
If a lot of bombs were dropped at Fordo, Natanz, and Esfahan, the Iranian nuclear program is down.
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We're not going to know how much damage was done for some time. Tomorrow there may be satellite photos.
If a lot of bombs were dropped at Fordo, Natanz, and Esfahan, the Iranian nuclear program is down.
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We don't know how many planes, or how many bombs on each plane, or how big the bombs are. Or how many bombs were dropped on each target.
We need to know those kinds of thing before we can even guess.
We need to know those kinds of thing before we can even guess.
June 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
All we know is Trump's post, and now reports are coming in that there was bombing.
We're not going to know how much damage was done for some time. Tomorrow there may be satellite photos.
If a lot of bombs were dropped at Fordo, Natanz, and Esfahan, the Iranian nuclear program is down.
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We're not going to know how much damage was done for some time. Tomorrow there may be satellite photos.
If a lot of bombs were dropped at Fordo, Natanz, and Esfahan, the Iranian nuclear program is down.
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June 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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June 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I've said this a million times, but the stuff the left did -- trying to marshal social pressure to disincentivize hateful speech -- is the *alternative* to using state force to suppress speech. It's how you try to shape values when you *do* value free speech. But elites hated being subject to it.
June 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I've said this a million times, but the stuff the left did -- trying to marshal social pressure to disincentivize hateful speech -- is the *alternative* to using state force to suppress speech. It's how you try to shape values when you *do* value free speech. But elites hated being subject to it.
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Read this but also even just the paragraph that starts “On the 30th anniversary of the massacre, Thompson went back to My Lai and met some of the people whose lives he had saved…”
www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...
www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...
Op-Ed: A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago today
Everybody’s heard of the My Lai massacre — March 16, 1968, 50 years ago today — but not many know about the man who stopped it: Hugh Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot.
www.latimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Read this but also even just the paragraph that starts “On the 30th anniversary of the massacre, Thompson went back to My Lai and met some of the people whose lives he had saved…”
www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...
www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...
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They're literally doing the meme
June 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
They're literally doing the meme
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Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement.
Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime.
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Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime.
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June 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement.
Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime.
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Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime.
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I'm going to state something that's obvious at every university: today was the deadline for folks to decide which grad school they'll join in the fall.
This probably won't make headlines, but because we don't expect normal funding, universities aren't admitting a normal number of students.
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This probably won't make headlines, but because we don't expect normal funding, universities aren't admitting a normal number of students.
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April 16, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I'm going to state something that's obvious at every university: today was the deadline for folks to decide which grad school they'll join in the fall.
This probably won't make headlines, but because we don't expect normal funding, universities aren't admitting a normal number of students.
(1/4)
This probably won't make headlines, but because we don't expect normal funding, universities aren't admitting a normal number of students.
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Wake up babe, the stock market looks like a Bessel function of the first kind.
April 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Wake up babe, the stock market looks like a Bessel function of the first kind.
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We are imposing tariffs on WHOLLY UNINHABITED antarctic islands in this list (Heard and McDonald). The administration asserts—and Forbes reprints this uncritically—those islands have charged 10% tariffs on US goods that it needs to respond to. www.forbes.com/sites/mollyb...
Here’s The Full List Of Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs Announced Wednesday
Reciprocal tariffs the U.S. is imposing on other countries will range from a flat 10% rate to 50%, President Donald Trump announced.
www.forbes.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We are imposing tariffs on WHOLLY UNINHABITED antarctic islands in this list (Heard and McDonald). The administration asserts—and Forbes reprints this uncritically—those islands have charged 10% tariffs on US goods that it needs to respond to. www.forbes.com/sites/mollyb...
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The government’s statement is a flex, not a confession of error. The important elements of the flex are these:
1. We send enemies to brutal foreign labor camps.
2. We decide who enemies are.
3. We may decide you are an enemy based on a secret informant, or our view of your tattoos.
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1. We send enemies to brutal foreign labor camps.
2. We decide who enemies are.
3. We may decide you are an enemy based on a secret informant, or our view of your tattoos.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/Bot5mE4O
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
theatln.tc
April 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The government’s statement is a flex, not a confession of error. The important elements of the flex are these:
1. We send enemies to brutal foreign labor camps.
2. We decide who enemies are.
3. We may decide you are an enemy based on a secret informant, or our view of your tattoos.
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1. We send enemies to brutal foreign labor camps.
2. We decide who enemies are.
3. We may decide you are an enemy based on a secret informant, or our view of your tattoos.
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This is the op-ed Rumeysa Ozturk co-wrote in 2024 criticizing the Tufts administration’s response to student demands for action regarding Gaza and Israel. It is unquestionably speech protected by the First Amendment.
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www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
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www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions - The Tufts Daily
The independent student newspaper of Tufts University
www.tuftsdaily.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This is the op-ed Rumeysa Ozturk co-wrote in 2024 criticizing the Tufts administration’s response to student demands for action regarding Gaza and Israel. It is unquestionably speech protected by the First Amendment.
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www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
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www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
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Today's OPSEC lesson is this: all of the encryption in the world is not going to save you if you add the editor of The Atlantic to your war-planning Signal group chat.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Today's OPSEC lesson is this: all of the encryption in the world is not going to save you if you add the editor of The Atlantic to your war-planning Signal group chat.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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This story is headlined as though the instructions to immigration officers are limited to visa applications from athletes, as opposed to all trans people, but they haven’t quoted the part of the state department cable that applies that limitation, if it exists. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This story is headlined as though the instructions to immigration officers are limited to visa applications from athletes, as opposed to all trans people, but they haven’t quoted the part of the state department cable that applies that limitation, if it exists. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
February 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
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Please, science Bluesky. I am begging. I need to know the most ridiculous looking species.
Please tell me what the weirdest little weirdos on the planet are.
Give me your weirdest animal facts.
My feeble grip on sanity is dependent on you.
Please tell me what the weirdest little weirdos on the planet are.
Give me your weirdest animal facts.
My feeble grip on sanity is dependent on you.
February 4, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Please, science Bluesky. I am begging. I need to know the most ridiculous looking species.
Please tell me what the weirdest little weirdos on the planet are.
Give me your weirdest animal facts.
My feeble grip on sanity is dependent on you.
Please tell me what the weirdest little weirdos on the planet are.
Give me your weirdest animal facts.
My feeble grip on sanity is dependent on you.
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We have been in this bizarre spiral my entire life:
1. Democrats ignore right-wing radicalization to focus on economic issues.
2. Right-wing media accuses Democrats of being out-of-touch leftist elites.
3. Centrist media repeats right-wing framing.
4. Democrats double down on economic issues.
1. Democrats ignore right-wing radicalization to focus on economic issues.
2. Right-wing media accuses Democrats of being out-of-touch leftist elites.
3. Centrist media repeats right-wing framing.
4. Democrats double down on economic issues.
NEW —> Democrats' playbook for Trump 2.0: Tune out the noise and focus on economic issues www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Democrats' playbook for Trump 2.0: Tune out the noise and focus on economic issues
As Trump floods the zone in his first week in office, Democrats are departing from their "resistance" strategy in his first term and zeroing in on issues that cost them the last election.
www.nbcnews.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We have been in this bizarre spiral my entire life:
1. Democrats ignore right-wing radicalization to focus on economic issues.
2. Right-wing media accuses Democrats of being out-of-touch leftist elites.
3. Centrist media repeats right-wing framing.
4. Democrats double down on economic issues.
1. Democrats ignore right-wing radicalization to focus on economic issues.
2. Right-wing media accuses Democrats of being out-of-touch leftist elites.
3. Centrist media repeats right-wing framing.
4. Democrats double down on economic issues.
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Infrared imagery of the Eaton fire burning through the community of Altadena, California via Maxar. Many city blocks and likely hundreds of homes have been destroyed.
January 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Infrared imagery of the Eaton fire burning through the community of Altadena, California via Maxar. Many city blocks and likely hundreds of homes have been destroyed.