@radicalcontrarian.bsky.social
Having completed a searching and fearless moral inventory, I have ascertained that I am 37% evil.
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Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
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By now, foreign governments must have put their least effective and competent spies on the job of spying on us. It's just too easy.
Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.
October 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
By now, foreign governments must have put their least effective and competent spies on the job of spying on us. It's just too easy.
I met this teenage girl, Alice, in Uganda, shortly after she had been forced by her father to marry an older man because the US aid cuts had impoverished her family and the area.
Here's a gift link to the column: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o... I hope you'll read and spread the word.
Here's a gift link to the column: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o... I hope you'll read and spread the word.
Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I met this teenage girl, Alice, in Uganda, shortly after she had been forced by her father to marry an older man because the US aid cuts had impoverished her family and the area.
Here's a gift link to the column: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o... I hope you'll read and spread the word.
Here's a gift link to the column: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o... I hope you'll read and spread the word.
The level of trolling in this tweet is very satisfying.
August 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The level of trolling in this tweet is very satisfying.
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Can't believe historians wasted eight fucking years debating whether or not we can call this fascism.
Karoline Leavitt indicates the administration is open to a denaturalization-oriented investigation against Zohran Mamdani
June 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Can't believe historians wasted eight fucking years debating whether or not we can call this fascism.
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I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.
An international trucking logistics firm is buying as much as *** $20 MILLION *** worth of President Donald Trump’s crypto coins to influence the administration’s trade policy.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Company Boasts Spending Up To $20 Million On Trump Crypto Coin To Buy Influence
The arrangement puts money in Trump’s pocket in return for the opportunity to change policy — exactly the sort of pay-to-play scheme critics warned about.
www.huffpost.com
May 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.
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the first sentence of Elon's obituary should be that he was one of the greatest mass murderers in the history of humanity
this is his legacy
this is his legacy
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
the first sentence of Elon's obituary should be that he was one of the greatest mass murderers in the history of humanity
this is his legacy
this is his legacy
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"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."
Elon’s hopes crushed by the Cheesehead State.
April 2, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Elon’s hopes crushed by the Cheesehead State.
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This will not end well. He’s a domestic terrorist.
March 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This will not end well. He’s a domestic terrorist.
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‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE. “You can’t coherently audit something like the whole Social Security system in a week or two.” www.wired.com/story/federa... @wired.com
‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
www.wired.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE. “You can’t coherently audit something like the whole Social Security system in a week or two.” www.wired.com/story/federa... @wired.com
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Having grown up under a military dictatorship in the 90's, can confirm.
The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety as to whether, how, or against whom power will be exercised.
March 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Having grown up under a military dictatorship in the 90's, can confirm.
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people say The Great Gatsby is “no longer relevant,” but careless people have never been more brazen, or more prominent.
![[“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreiexvgjd7znr3dm5pqixs6ovqor5ngwerzgle7p7w73kdqhj5lipja@jpeg)
March 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
people say The Great Gatsby is “no longer relevant,” but careless people have never been more brazen, or more prominent.
