Chad Denton
@reluctantlychad.bsky.social
Struggling writer, renegade historian, trash culture archaeologist. Check out my work: https://linktr.ee/drownedinink
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Chad Denton
@reluctantlychad.bsky.social
· Oct 31
Episode 83: The Breakup
Cosimo and Marguerite-Louise’s dysfunctional marriage hits its dramatic crescendo and falls apart. Will Marguerite-Louise escape back to her homeland, or will she remain a prisoner of her des…
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Cosimo and Marguerite-Louise’s dysfunctional marriage hits its dramatic crescendo and falls apart. Will Marguerite-Louise escape back to her homeland, or will she remain a prisoner of her despised husband?
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I got into a conversation with the dental hygienist about awkward dates. I felt like it was too soon to go into the story about the time I had blood-red eyes like a vampire because my then-boyfriend splooged in my eyes and we ran into his dad thirty minutes later.
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I got into a conversation with the dental hygienist about awkward dates. I felt like it was too soon to go into the story about the time I had blood-red eyes like a vampire because my then-boyfriend splooged in my eyes and we ran into his dad thirty minutes later.
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the Sam Bankman-Fried affair was the closest we got to seeing the shape of our ruling class. The man had nothing to offer. Couldn't code, didn't have any coherent ideas, could barely describe his own business in either simple or technical terms. But he was surrounded by old school finance people
December 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
the Sam Bankman-Fried affair was the closest we got to seeing the shape of our ruling class. The man had nothing to offer. Couldn't code, didn't have any coherent ideas, could barely describe his own business in either simple or technical terms. But he was surrounded by old school finance people
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RIGHT-WING CHURCHES: we must exterminate the trannies
RIGHT-WING POLITICIANS: we must exterminate the trannies
RIGHT-WING MEDIA: we must exterminate the trannies
RIGHT-WING MOGULS: we must exterminate the trannies
THE CENTRE: to fail the essay "But Da Bible Said So" is viewpoint discrimination
RIGHT-WING POLITICIANS: we must exterminate the trannies
RIGHT-WING MEDIA: we must exterminate the trannies
RIGHT-WING MOGULS: we must exterminate the trannies
THE CENTRE: to fail the essay "But Da Bible Said So" is viewpoint discrimination
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
RIGHT-WING CHURCHES: we must exterminate the trannies
RIGHT-WING POLITICIANS: we must exterminate the trannies
RIGHT-WING MEDIA: we must exterminate the trannies
RIGHT-WING MOGULS: we must exterminate the trannies
THE CENTRE: to fail the essay "But Da Bible Said So" is viewpoint discrimination
RIGHT-WING POLITICIANS: we must exterminate the trannies
RIGHT-WING MEDIA: we must exterminate the trannies
RIGHT-WING MOGULS: we must exterminate the trannies
THE CENTRE: to fail the essay "But Da Bible Said So" is viewpoint discrimination
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100 percent. People who can’t afford to pay me to do art, always want to pay me to do art.
Rich people want me to do stuff for free, can’t remember my name and always ask for more like it’s a favour to me.
Rich people want me to do stuff for free, can’t remember my name and always ask for more like it’s a favour to me.
December 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
100 percent. People who can’t afford to pay me to do art, always want to pay me to do art.
Rich people want me to do stuff for free, can’t remember my name and always ask for more like it’s a favour to me.
Rich people want me to do stuff for free, can’t remember my name and always ask for more like it’s a favour to me.
Please pray for me, I'm seeing a dentist for the first time in about two years.
December 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Please pray for me, I'm seeing a dentist for the first time in about two years.
The fact that, contrary to being core to anyone's beliefs, progressive and LGBTQ Christians exist and in large, influential numbers should be the end of the conversation.
Why does what other people claim to “sincerely believe” matter to my rights and liberties??
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The fact that, contrary to being core to anyone's beliefs, progressive and LGBTQ Christians exist and in large, influential numbers should be the end of the conversation.
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Homelessness in the U.S. is far more pervasive than the official figures suggest: roughly four million people are without housing right now.
Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them.
I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):
Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them.
I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Homelessness in the U.S. is far more pervasive than the official figures suggest: roughly four million people are without housing right now.
Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them.
I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):
Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them.
I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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law professor seeing a grad student be targeted by a hate movement to try to get her fired: it's her fault for not writing a tighter essay prompt
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
law professor seeing a grad student be targeted by a hate movement to try to get her fired: it's her fault for not writing a tighter essay prompt
Of course it's a poli sci person who speaks up for the quality of what should be a substandard paper and who thinks it's actually the openly bigoted student and not the instructor being deliberately targeted who is the victim.
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Of course it's a poli sci person who speaks up for the quality of what should be a substandard paper and who thinks it's actually the openly bigoted student and not the instructor being deliberately targeted who is the victim.
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They lie. It's the most important fact about the Trump administration. All politicians lie, but with these guys lying is their first instinct and go-to strategy in every event -- probably because everything they're about (like this whole "saving America from immigrants" bullshit) is a fraud.
“In nearly all of the examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, she says the Department of Homeland Security narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras.”
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
Federal agents engaged in widespread misrepresentations to justify use of force: Judge
The ABC7 I-Team is taking a closer look at a trove of videos ordered released by a federal judge in her explanation of the preliminary injunction she issued earlier this month restricting use of force...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
They lie. It's the most important fact about the Trump administration. All politicians lie, but with these guys lying is their first instinct and go-to strategy in every event -- probably because everything they're about (like this whole "saving America from immigrants" bullshit) is a fraud.
I wonder if this will become Will Stancil's new line.
When newspapers are owned by billionaires you get headlines like this 🤡
The Jeff Bezos- owned @washingtonpost.com , folks 🙃 🤦🏻♂️
The Jeff Bezos- owned @washingtonpost.com , folks 🙃 🤦🏻♂️
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I wonder if this will become Will Stancil's new line.
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I was worried my kids would rely on AI as a shortcut but they hate it. They use "AI" to mean stupid or cheap ("aimbot" means good). I tried to say AI is helpful for some things and my daughter said "yeah, for making you stupid." This is how they talked about Drake after "Not Like Us" came out
December 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I was worried my kids would rely on AI as a shortcut but they hate it. They use "AI" to mean stupid or cheap ("aimbot" means good). I tried to say AI is helpful for some things and my daughter said "yeah, for making you stupid." This is how they talked about Drake after "Not Like Us" came out
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reading a bunch of pro-AI replies to her other posts has been really enlightening in that not fucking one of those people knows what any of the objections *are* and keep coming up with some psychological theory why people irrationally hate a shitty thing that makes their loves and the world worse
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
reading a bunch of pro-AI replies to her other posts has been really enlightening in that not fucking one of those people knows what any of the objections *are* and keep coming up with some psychological theory why people irrationally hate a shitty thing that makes their loves and the world worse
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I listened to a biography of FDR recently and the throughline of his first 2 terms is that he was boldly against monied interests in word and deed and the American people fucking loved him to death for it*
*kept reelecting him until he literally died in office
*kept reelecting him until he literally died in office
Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936
Right: 1936 electoral map
Right: 1936 electoral map
November 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I listened to a biography of FDR recently and the throughline of his first 2 terms is that he was boldly against monied interests in word and deed and the American people fucking loved him to death for it*
*kept reelecting him until he literally died in office
*kept reelecting him until he literally died in office
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I feel comfortable and secure in my belief that democratic leadership should not be pulling their slogans from venture capitalists. That this, at minimum, is a significant indictment of who they are listening and talking to. It’s not that complicated.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I feel comfortable and secure in my belief that democratic leadership should not be pulling their slogans from venture capitalists. That this, at minimum, is a significant indictment of who they are listening and talking to. It’s not that complicated.
In my official capacity as a degreed historian, I declare that the scene from DEATH BY LIGHTNING where a drunken Chester A. Arthur grabs two cops' bowler hats and wears them on top of each other at the same time is based on historical fact.
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 AM
In my official capacity as a degreed historian, I declare that the scene from DEATH BY LIGHTNING where a drunken Chester A. Arthur grabs two cops' bowler hats and wears them on top of each other at the same time is based on historical fact.
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Thinking again about how the Campbell's soup executive melted down about making "poor people" food, and the broad-ranging disgust rich people now for the very idea that their job might provide a product or service (especially to the poor) and not just siphon up money for no return and no reason.
November 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Thinking again about how the Campbell's soup executive melted down about making "poor people" food, and the broad-ranging disgust rich people now for the very idea that their job might provide a product or service (especially to the poor) and not just siphon up money for no return and no reason.
Just in time for Thanksgiving so you can force all your loved ones to listen, we have a new episode of the Medici Podcast! The vultures surround Tuscany as the Medici begin to die out.
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Episode 85: Waiting For The Inevitable
The vultures surround Tuscany as the Medici begin to die out. The only thing left for Cosimo III is to try to guarantee Tuscany’s independence in the future, even though most of the great pow…
medicipodcast.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Just in time for Thanksgiving so you can force all your loved ones to listen, we have a new episode of the Medici Podcast! The vultures surround Tuscany as the Medici begin to die out.
medicipodcast.com/2025/11/27/e...
medicipodcast.com/2025/11/27/e...
When you're turned on just a little bit by a violent scene in a horror movie.
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
When you're turned on just a little bit by a violent scene in a horror movie.
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The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment of the established order.
New piece:
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment of the established order.
New piece:
The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment
steady.page
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment of the established order.
New piece:
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment of the established order.
New piece:
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"y'all still hating on generative AI over here?"
"yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"
"yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"y'all still hating on generative AI over here?"
"yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"
"yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"
I argued a bit with an "AI" defender who admittedly sounded somewhat reasonable and then checked out his timeline to find he's still really banging the drum on "Crypto is doing great."
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I argued a bit with an "AI" defender who admittedly sounded somewhat reasonable and then checked out his timeline to find he's still really banging the drum on "Crypto is doing great."
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This is disgusting.
Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson.
George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day.
And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson.
George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day.
And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is disgusting.
Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson.
George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day.
And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson.
George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day.
And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...