with apologies to @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, shorter Peter Thiel.

a remarkable thing abt Bari Weiss is how often the prominent people who say nice things abt her confess they know and like her personally. i’m really sure she’s delightful, charming, personable and helpful to those who know her! John Roberts is too. Clarence Thomas asks after everyone’s grandkids.

one video is tragedy. a thousand videos is just noise.

it’s weird how inured we’ve become. reliberation day is kind of a big deal, if we don’t TACO our way out of it very quickly. do we just presume we do? how much do China’s controls on rare earths matter in either case?

if you’re talking about your political party as a “brand”, you’e already lost the thread, if not the election.

feudalism is when you must do as the most pathetic people you encounter demand because they have the power to have you murdered.

jfc. A-Lie.

pleasantly surprised that here in Florida my wife and i were able to get COVID boosters without new formalities, attestations of comorbidities, etc. just signed up at CVS like last year.

the world’s most pathetic people.

if that impresses you, wait ‘til they let you in on his mental age!

next year he’s a sure thing because he’ll have the US military strike down the other nominees after declaring them to be “nobel-terrorists”.

pepe is trans. pass it on.

you can TACO your way out of the retaliation, but chickening out won't undo what you're retaliating against.

sometimes i think contemporary christianity is to christ like the twenty-dollar federal reserve note is to andrew jackson.

kind of fun that frog is now both a fascist-adjacent and antifascist-adjacent icon. slippery little guy, that one!

an antichrist is anyone who stands in my way. a christ is someone who reassures me that what i already want to do and already am doing is righteous. sounds like a good guy to go to for a theological education.

how will rare-earth scarcity intersect with data center build? might it be a meaningful bottleneck?

vote for the better candidate, but be grateful for vigorous primaries. “primarying” someone (an incumbent or just someone you like) is not a hostile act. it adds a sliver of choice in a system under which meaningful choice has too often been foreclosed.

“If your government is for sale to any billionaire willing to pay, you do not have a democracy… arbitrary power is arbitrary power, whether it belongs to a king of England or a prince of Silicon Valley… Billionaires are dangerous. We shld tax them until they aren’t.” @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

if you oppose the administration and call them fascist, what does that make you?