“The selection of Gaetz just rips the mask off. With it, Trump is trolling not just his defeated opponents but many of his craven establishment supporters. It’s like Caligula trying to make his horse a consul.” ~Michelle Goldberg www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/o...

a parasitic worm that infects the brain, drives its host to take over his nation’s public health service, then drops larvae into the raw milk the population is now forced to imbibe.

the twitter files was pretty lame, but i am looking forward to the x files.

“(You may notice that straightforward ideas like ‘fire everyone in Democratic Party leadership positions automatically after a national election loss’ do not appear to be on the table.)” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/so-what-do... ht @costrike.bsky.social

the only qualification is the favor of the king.

as long as there still is a Department of Education, shouldn't it be a creationist?

plutocrats are only wealthy because we collectively enforce the existence of their wealth. they should think about that more. so should we.

a talent of the worst people is to shitpost until even angels look like the worst people.

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“And just like family members, our brands regard one another with mutual suspicion and malice.” theonion.com/heres-why-i-... ht @andrewducker.bsky.social

when politics is good television, it’s bad real life.

it's really gratifying to see meritocracy restored to the United States.

[new draft post] What does it mean to have no kings? drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/11/13/w...

without comment. from Luke Lattanzi americanmind.org/salvo/post-l...

rule of law? secured.

wow. www.axios.com/2024/11/13/t...

Like water.

"We can call the depression void-gazing. Everyone does it sometimes, but step two has to be wrenching your gaze away from the void and doing something. There's nothing in the void but more void" ~Nikhil Suresh ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/why-i-w...

you can make facile analogies with the Roman Empire and pretend there's fundamentally been no progress, but we really have advanced. they had to go through like two emperors before they got themselves a caligula.

handing control over one of the world's largest bureaucracies to a person who has zero experience with how jockeying for influence works managing inside this (or any) bureaucracy seems like a pretty big win for the deep state.