Anonymous WPA Bureaucrat
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Rush Hour 4 press conference with Chris Tucker
immigration ban or war with Venezuela? place your prediction market bets now
*TRUMP TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT AT 2PM EST TUESDAY
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Rush Hour 4 press conference with Chris Tucker
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Modern liberal societies are great for allowing a particular kind of human flourishing, where one can author their own life script and decide for themselves on what 'the good life' is, but there are a lot of people I know who *don't want* to make such choices and aren't equipped to do so!
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Modern liberal societies are great for allowing a particular kind of human flourishing, where one can author their own life script and decide for themselves on what 'the good life' is, but there are a lot of people I know who *don't want* to make such choices and aren't equipped to do so!
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people think grant’s fatal flaw was alcoholism, but that’s a lot more nuanced than is generally discussed. his fatal flaw was being pathologically incapable of recognizing that someone might be trying to get one over on him.
US Grant: best general in US history, one of the most decent people to ever hold high office, and just catastrophically terrible at anything having to do with money or business. from birth to death one comical pratfall after the next
December 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
people think grant’s fatal flaw was alcoholism, but that’s a lot more nuanced than is generally discussed. his fatal flaw was being pathologically incapable of recognizing that someone might be trying to get one over on him.
Donald Trump famously loves engaging in mutually beneficial trade with Europeans
First time I’ve seen a post complaining about (((Norwegians)))
December 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Donald Trump famously loves engaging in mutually beneficial trade with Europeans
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Reactionaries are not usually very smart, but the most developed of them have something like an instinct for preemptive defense of hierarchies. They can’t tell you what “woke” actually means, or how transition works, or what drives international migration. But they identify these things as threats.
December 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Reactionaries are not usually very smart, but the most developed of them have something like an instinct for preemptive defense of hierarchies. They can’t tell you what “woke” actually means, or how transition works, or what drives international migration. But they identify these things as threats.
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Increasingly convinced that freedom of movement and ease of attaining citizenship in one’s chosen country is the great social reform of our time, and once achieved it will have enormously far-reaching effects, mostly positive, on a par with the eight hour day and maybe even the abolition of slavery.
December 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Increasingly convinced that freedom of movement and ease of attaining citizenship in one’s chosen country is the great social reform of our time, and once achieved it will have enormously far-reaching effects, mostly positive, on a par with the eight hour day and maybe even the abolition of slavery.
Actually enforcing the Real ID provisions is the least stupid thing this admin has done all year and maybe the only thing a Harris WH would’ve also done. It’s been 20 years! The people you actually should get mad at is your state DMV for not making you get one by now or issuing it
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Actually enforcing the Real ID provisions is the least stupid thing this admin has done all year and maybe the only thing a Harris WH would’ve also done. It’s been 20 years! The people you actually should get mad at is your state DMV for not making you get one by now or issuing it
Setsuka Haro or like Robert Mitchum would probably be my picks
This is a Bill Simmons game, but you’re stranded on a desert island. You can only have one actor’s filmography. You get it all, including cameos. But just the one performer.
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
December 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Setsuka Haro or like Robert Mitchum would probably be my picks
Lizza, Nuzzi, and Jr, are three world-class manipulators and we’re all falling for it. They’re the ‘96 Bulls of narcissism
December 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Lizza, Nuzzi, and Jr, are three world-class manipulators and we’re all falling for it. They’re the ‘96 Bulls of narcissism
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Normal people in a society have a natural human drive to want to participate in “the game”, whatever the game happens to be. But because they don’t realize fascism is a nonconsensual game by and for spoilsports, they enroll themselves to “play” at hunting the victims on behalf of the actual players.
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Normal people in a society have a natural human drive to want to participate in “the game”, whatever the game happens to be. But because they don’t realize fascism is a nonconsensual game by and for spoilsports, they enroll themselves to “play” at hunting the victims on behalf of the actual players.
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Developing a theory of fascism as unwelcome agonistic play that violates expected boundaries and cultural norms of the play-space, and non-consensually enrolls its opponents not as fellow players but as victims to hunt as in a blood-sport
December 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Developing a theory of fascism as unwelcome agonistic play that violates expected boundaries and cultural norms of the play-space, and non-consensually enrolls its opponents not as fellow players but as victims to hunt as in a blood-sport
I’m going to briefly step from the culture war battlefront on this and make a tangential point that, broadly speaking, K-12 teachers and professors should feel a lot more comfortable failing students, and should be better supported by their administrations in doing so
December 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I’m going to briefly step from the culture war battlefront on this and make a tangential point that, broadly speaking, K-12 teachers and professors should feel a lot more comfortable failing students, and should be better supported by their administrations in doing so
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Cyber Monday is here and deals are going fast! These deals are diaphanous. They are receding even as we speak, becoming mere memories of deals, prices longed for but lost, hints at what could have been had for less. A golden slant of sun through window falls on an empty countertop. Act now.
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Cyber Monday is here and deals are going fast! These deals are diaphanous. They are receding even as we speak, becoming mere memories of deals, prices longed for but lost, hints at what could have been had for less. A golden slant of sun through window falls on an empty countertop. Act now.
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I think there's basically two issues here: (1) changes in communications technology and political organization have made the parties' brands much more uniform and polarized, and thus unable to stretch to solve branding issues; and (2) our democratic institutions are extremely broken.
December 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I think there's basically two issues here: (1) changes in communications technology and political organization have made the parties' brands much more uniform and polarized, and thus unable to stretch to solve branding issues; and (2) our democratic institutions are extremely broken.
Transcendentally dumb idea that will not pan out in anyway. Casino and gambling business in LAS VEGAS is currently in a downturn
Breaking News: A New York board recommended licenses for three casinos, one in the Bronx and two in Queens, to a state commission, which is expected to award all three.
Gaming Board Recommends All 3 Bids for New York City Casino Licenses
A New York board recommended that the state’s gaming commission award licenses to Bally’s, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and Resorts World New York City. The commission is expected to follow the recommendations.
nyti.ms
December 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Transcendentally dumb idea that will not pan out in anyway. Casino and gambling business in LAS VEGAS is currently in a downturn
A note from an IT guy, we know a lot about what you’re doing in the office, we just don’t really care and your boss doesn’t know to ask
IT already knows when you’re not logging into the office WiFi btw, maybe your boss doesn’t but if they request the info, they’re getting it
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
A note from an IT guy, we know a lot about what you’re doing in the office, we just don’t really care and your boss doesn’t know to ask
If we had a national plebiscite on establishing a hukou system, it’d pass by at least a 2 to 1 margin
I have discovered there's a sort of person who gets mad at red state leftists for going to blue states bc they should 'stay and fight and make their home better instead of invading others', and it's so funny they basically recreated MAGA immigration awfulness but internally from first principles lol
December 1, 2025 at 3:57 AM
If we had a national plebiscite on establishing a hukou system, it’d pass by at least a 2 to 1 margin
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This country built itself up after WW2 and then civil rights happened and we decided to just let the whole thing fall apart as we lived in the ruins.
Something notable in this article is how much the life long locals don’t seem to give a shit. Which was an entirely predictable outcome if you've spent any amount of time among people like this
How life changed in a rural town in Virginia that lost its sole health clinic after the passage of Trump’s megabill. The residents voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2024, and now they’re suffering for it.
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
This country built itself up after WW2 and then civil rights happened and we decided to just let the whole thing fall apart as we lived in the ruins.
There is a real low grade nihilism at work among a good many Americans at this point that come from a a complete lack of drive. You can try to argue it’s because “well politics has failed them“ and sure there’s some of that, but we’re also in this situation because they didn’t *want* it to either
A pervasive, nihilistic belief that better things aren’t possible and/or the past will forever be better than the future and/or this all doesn’t matter because [insert corrupted Christian belief here]
So many Americans have had the imagination and drive beaten out of them
So many Americans have had the imagination and drive beaten out of them
December 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
There is a real low grade nihilism at work among a good many Americans at this point that come from a a complete lack of drive. You can try to argue it’s because “well politics has failed them“ and sure there’s some of that, but we’re also in this situation because they didn’t *want* it to either
Something notable in this article is how much the life long locals don’t seem to give a shit. Which was an entirely predictable outcome if you've spent any amount of time among people like this
How life changed in a rural town in Virginia that lost its sole health clinic after the passage of Trump’s megabill. The residents voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2024, and now they’re suffering for it.
How life changed in a rural town that lost its clinic after Trump’s megabill, even if the politics haven’t | CNN Politics
As the final hues of autumn linger in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its only health clinic.
www.cnn.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Something notable in this article is how much the life long locals don’t seem to give a shit. Which was an entirely predictable outcome if you've spent any amount of time among people like this
Like the 1890s
December 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Like the 1890s
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This is a scandal.
Public universities should be banned from paying these insane buyouts for college coaches.
No pro sports teams are paying $33 million to fire their incompetent coach, so why are colleges paying this kind of money?!?
Public universities should be banned from paying these insane buyouts for college coaches.
No pro sports teams are paying $33 million to fire their incompetent coach, so why are colleges paying this kind of money?!?
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
November 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is a scandal.
Public universities should be banned from paying these insane buyouts for college coaches.
No pro sports teams are paying $33 million to fire their incompetent coach, so why are colleges paying this kind of money?!?
Public universities should be banned from paying these insane buyouts for college coaches.
No pro sports teams are paying $33 million to fire their incompetent coach, so why are colleges paying this kind of money?!?
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
Top down structural failure in higher ed and this one you can’t even blame on AI. This has been coming for awhile
Absolute debasement of academic standards
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Top down structural failure in higher ed and this one you can’t even blame on AI. This has been coming for awhile
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Absolute debasement of academic standards
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Absolute debasement of academic standards
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended