The Conquest of Churu
@spicycatnoodle.bsky.social
sewer anarchism with liberal characteristics
can only afford semi-pro nouns
she/her
can only afford semi-pro nouns
she/her
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a belief that liberals are not in spiritual communion with the white working class, which is held as the virtuous repository of american identity.
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
a belief that liberals are not in spiritual communion with the white working class, which is held as the virtuous repository of american identity.
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the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland
Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland
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They think it’s an anti white epithet rather than a factual description of a set of beliefs
December 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
They think it’s an anti white epithet rather than a factual description of a set of beliefs
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A classic of the genre
December 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A classic of the genre
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Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
December 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
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elite DEI panic is just status competition, part infinity
So...Bari Weiss deposes yet another journalist of color - Maurice DuBois - to install CBS Mornings anchor Tony Dokoupil as lead anchor of the CBS Evening News. I guess DEI is okay if it works in certain directions? https://loom.ly/fNDlGDE
Paramount Press Express | TONY DOKOUPIL NAMED ANCHOR OF THE CBS EVENING NEWS
Dokoupil Will Assume the Role on Jan. 5 Tony Dokoupil – an Emmy Award-winning journalist known for his fairness, curiosity and doggedness – has been n
www.paramountpressexpress.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
elite DEI panic is just status competition, part infinity
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Funny how those of us in hospitals didn’t treat it as 1 of 200 diseases; probably because 1/4 of our hospitalized patients had COVID and we were literally running out of oxygen in our supply lines.
But from his corner office at Stanford, I’m sure things looked lovely 🙄
But from his corner office at Stanford, I’m sure things looked lovely 🙄
In fall 2021 Bhattacharya aid we should treat covid as 1 of 200 diseases.
He is still tweeting about lockdowns *today* even though he is also NIH director.
He is still tweeting about lockdowns *today* even though he is also NIH director.
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Funny how those of us in hospitals didn’t treat it as 1 of 200 diseases; probably because 1/4 of our hospitalized patients had COVID and we were literally running out of oxygen in our supply lines.
But from his corner office at Stanford, I’m sure things looked lovely 🙄
But from his corner office at Stanford, I’m sure things looked lovely 🙄
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The LA County jails just posted their 43rd in custody death for this year, and the second in under a week
December 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The LA County jails just posted their 43rd in custody death for this year, and the second in under a week
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This is very exciting news, not only because it's cool and interesting and could represent a major leap forward for modern construction technology, but also because it opens the door to a brutalism revival www.scientificamerican.com/article/pomp...
Pompeii Time Capsule Reveals Why Ancient Romans Were Such Incredible Builders
Lime granules trapped in ancient walls show Romans relied on a reactive hot-mix method to making concrete that could now inspire modern engineers
www.scientificamerican.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This is very exciting news, not only because it's cool and interesting and could represent a major leap forward for modern construction technology, but also because it opens the door to a brutalism revival www.scientificamerican.com/article/pomp...
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One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
YouTube video by Clasher Sports
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
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congratulations to Rand Paul on inventing
*checks notes*
single payer healthcare
*checks notes*
single payer healthcare
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
congratulations to Rand Paul on inventing
*checks notes*
single payer healthcare
*checks notes*
single payer healthcare
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Also, just to build on this as a they/them, the number of supposed friends who would throw me (& my community) under the bus because some guy said it might possibly have had an effect on one election is not great!
I would appreciate if our supposed friends would stand with us on principle!!
I would appreciate if our supposed friends would stand with us on principle!!
Also I want to re-up this part of the essay because I think it's one of the most important points I make. The most popular stat used to argue the "they/them" ad worked? It can't be verified or independently evaluated.
When I was researching this essay I was struck by the fact that a key piece of evidence used to support the idea that the "they/them" ad was decisive is, apparently, unverifiable to the public.
That inconvenience didn't stop a stampede of people waving the 2.7% figure around like a bloody shirt.
That inconvenience didn't stop a stampede of people waving the 2.7% figure around like a bloody shirt.
December 9, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Also, just to build on this as a they/them, the number of supposed friends who would throw me (& my community) under the bus because some guy said it might possibly have had an effect on one election is not great!
I would appreciate if our supposed friends would stand with us on principle!!
I would appreciate if our supposed friends would stand with us on principle!!
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A little learning is a dangerous thing ;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
December 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
A little learning is a dangerous thing ;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
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A big advance, folks, for off-the-shelf, universal, engineered (base-edited) T cells achieving complete response vs incurable leukemia in several patients
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A big advance, folks, for off-the-shelf, universal, engineered (base-edited) T cells achieving complete response vs incurable leukemia in several patients
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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just a total abdication of the notion that being in position of power should carry with it any responsibility at all. all that matters is your personal #brand and #journey
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
December 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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prospects do not appear favorable, it’s true. but I like to think about how much of actually existing America was built in a frenzy of work between 1933-45
"Rebuild." Pssh. Look around you at the absolute wretched state of the US elite. Look at the sad, corporate-captured, power-worshiping media. Look at the distracted, deluded, increasingly spectacle-addicted US public. Look at the denuded, decrepit set of ideas allowed in our discourse. Look.
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
prospects do not appear favorable, it’s true. but I like to think about how much of actually existing America was built in a frenzy of work between 1933-45
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Josh Marshall is absolutely right about this as a matter of constitutional restoration BUT ALSO
You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.
You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.
“Supreme Court reform is now the sine qua non of any reformist program in the United States, any program to re-implant/re-secure civic democracy in the United States”
-- @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
-- @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything
I’ve become something of a broken record on this. But repetition sometimes...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Josh Marshall is absolutely right about this as a matter of constitutional restoration BUT ALSO
You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.
You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.
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"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
The only way to assure individual liberty is to hand unprecedented governmental power to the guy engaged in blatant democratic backsliding
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
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Watching all the defense wonks on my TL tear this NYT piece apart has been interesting. So many parallels to “Gadgetbahn” discourse in transportation policy. Editorial boards, pundits, and electeds are in love with the idea that “innovation” could relieve them of political problems and tradeoffs.
I see the gizmo cult has made its way into the NYT
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Watching all the defense wonks on my TL tear this NYT piece apart has been interesting. So many parallels to “Gadgetbahn” discourse in transportation policy. Editorial boards, pundits, and electeds are in love with the idea that “innovation” could relieve them of political problems and tradeoffs.
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one of the other funny things that i get reminded of by @nonbinary.computer's essay is that the culture prioritizes bullet biting, but somehow very few people who consider themselves part of the culture have publicly bitten any bullets that really alienate their peers
December 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
one of the other funny things that i get reminded of by @nonbinary.computer's essay is that the culture prioritizes bullet biting, but somehow very few people who consider themselves part of the culture have publicly bitten any bullets that really alienate their peers
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Something notable about Richard Hanania is that he's the *only* IQ supremacist hereditarian to actually admit that liberals have higher IQs and that the highest IQ groups are the most liberal ones, and that's also why he's ingratiated himself to everyone making seven figures on Substack
one of the other funny things that i get reminded of by @nonbinary.computer's essay is that the culture prioritizes bullet biting, but somehow very few people who consider themselves part of the culture have publicly bitten any bullets that really alienate their peers
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Something notable about Richard Hanania is that he's the *only* IQ supremacist hereditarian to actually admit that liberals have higher IQs and that the highest IQ groups are the most liberal ones, and that's also why he's ingratiated himself to everyone making seven figures on Substack
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it's cool how the elites in the media are like "we need to make the army bigger in case of future threats"
my brother in christ, the threat begins at home with illiberalism
my brother in christ, the threat begins at home with illiberalism
“A more secure world will almost certainly require more military commitment from allies like Canada, Japan and Europe”: yes, well this administration has told Canada and Europe to piss off and left Japan out to dangle re: Taiwan, so … okay.
This is a wild framing.
The US can dominate everywhere in the world except 7000 miles away at an island 100 miles off another superpower’s coast.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The US can dominate everywhere in the world except 7000 miles away at an island 100 miles off another superpower’s coast.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
December 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
it's cool how the elites in the media are like "we need to make the army bigger in case of future threats"
my brother in christ, the threat begins at home with illiberalism
my brother in christ, the threat begins at home with illiberalism
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Conservatives: Democrats bribe lazy minorities with goodies
Also conservatives: bsky.app/profile/carl...
Also conservatives: bsky.app/profile/carl...
December 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Conservatives: Democrats bribe lazy minorities with goodies
Also conservatives: bsky.app/profile/carl...
Also conservatives: bsky.app/profile/carl...
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too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
December 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent
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and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you