SuaSponte2024
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Data architect, legal analyst, writer. Formerly "Matt Gertz's Forehead" on the hellsite. A rising tide sinks all boats with holes in them. "There's a world going on underground." - Tom Waits (Underground)
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This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
Texas is invading Illinois and Oregon.
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I cannot express how pathetic you have to be to believe this happened in the TTRPG hobby in the last decade
December 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I cannot express how pathetic you have to be to believe this happened in the TTRPG hobby in the last decade
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We who grew up in the postwar era in the 20th century came to believe that democracy and freedom were inevitable.
We were wrong.
If we are to preserve our experiment in self-governance, we have to bend that arc of justice ourselves.
We were wrong.
If we are to preserve our experiment in self-governance, we have to bend that arc of justice ourselves.
December 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We who grew up in the postwar era in the 20th century came to believe that democracy and freedom were inevitable.
We were wrong.
If we are to preserve our experiment in self-governance, we have to bend that arc of justice ourselves.
We were wrong.
If we are to preserve our experiment in self-governance, we have to bend that arc of justice ourselves.
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Please join us in this holiday season to watch Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson slowly lose their entire minds.
December 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Please join us in this holiday season to watch Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson slowly lose their entire minds.
I think the secret to a successful Mystery Box show is to have an outline* of the answer to a mystery before you pull it out of the damned box.
*Or even just the concept of an outline! As long as there's some idea you can put into the series bible!
*Or even just the concept of an outline! As long as there's some idea you can put into the series bible!
Btw, if you want examples of Mystery Box type shows done *right* -
"Paradise": Intriguing, weird, internally consistent and then before Season 2, closes up the open questions while leaving a new door open.
"Counterpart,", the best. Most consistent and satisfying mystery box spy-fi ever made.
"Paradise": Intriguing, weird, internally consistent and then before Season 2, closes up the open questions while leaving a new door open.
"Counterpart,", the best. Most consistent and satisfying mystery box spy-fi ever made.
December 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I think the secret to a successful Mystery Box show is to have an outline* of the answer to a mystery before you pull it out of the damned box.
*Or even just the concept of an outline! As long as there's some idea you can put into the series bible!
*Or even just the concept of an outline! As long as there's some idea you can put into the series bible!
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They can't even appoint a US Attorney the correct way.
What makes you think their war in Venezuela is going to go well?
They won't even commit to taking care of our vets now, do you think they will take care of the broken minds and bodies that will return?
Service members will die needlessly.
What makes you think their war in Venezuela is going to go well?
They won't even commit to taking care of our vets now, do you think they will take care of the broken minds and bodies that will return?
Service members will die needlessly.
December 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
They can't even appoint a US Attorney the correct way.
What makes you think their war in Venezuela is going to go well?
They won't even commit to taking care of our vets now, do you think they will take care of the broken minds and bodies that will return?
Service members will die needlessly.
What makes you think their war in Venezuela is going to go well?
They won't even commit to taking care of our vets now, do you think they will take care of the broken minds and bodies that will return?
Service members will die needlessly.
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The Right: preferred pronouns? I don’t have to respect that bullshit, I’m free to act as I like
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
December 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The Right: preferred pronouns? I don’t have to respect that bullshit, I’m free to act as I like
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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No, he does not speak for the minority party, dipshit. His job isn’t what you pull out of your ass. Nor is it to INSPIRE you.
December 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM
No, he does not speak for the minority party, dipshit. His job isn’t what you pull out of your ass. Nor is it to INSPIRE you.
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i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me
December 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me
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This is one of those things that makes me so angry about this stuff. We are at an amazing level of technological progress and we can’t even actually appreciate because almost everything they claim it can do is a lie even though what it can do is amazing.
December 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is one of those things that makes me so angry about this stuff. We are at an amazing level of technological progress and we can’t even actually appreciate because almost everything they claim it can do is a lie even though what it can do is amazing.
I learned it in the Epic of Gilgamesh. That's how old the trope is: it's the first plot point in the first known story ever written down.
men have been powerless in the face of fearsome whores since time immemorial, i learnt about it in this documentary titled "knock knock"
December 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I learned it in the Epic of Gilgamesh. That's how old the trope is: it's the first plot point in the first known story ever written down.
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see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.
December 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.
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They are "teaching" 4th graders prompts? This is anti-education.
December 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
They are "teaching" 4th graders prompts? This is anti-education.
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At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
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‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods
Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make their job as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
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Post a meme made by you. From a marginally more innocent time.
December 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Post a meme made by you. From a marginally more innocent time.
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The Supreme Court majority has decided that they are the fact-finders, and the facts are what they want them to be, and quite frankly if District Courts disagree, they can pound sand because they're not the ones in charge.
They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.
They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.
December 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Supreme Court majority has decided that they are the fact-finders, and the facts are what they want them to be, and quite frankly if District Courts disagree, they can pound sand because they're not the ones in charge.
They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.
They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.
I think the selective redaction of four names on the autodial in Epstein's mansion is absurd.
December 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I think the selective redaction of four names on the autodial in Epstein's mansion is absurd.
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Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
Our Secretary of Defense thinks "fog of war" refers to smoke on the water, fire in the sky.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Our Secretary of Defense thinks "fog of war" refers to smoke on the water, fire in the sky.
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Nature Begins Reclaiming Chuck Grassley
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Nature Begins Reclaiming Chuck Grassley
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The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
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The press keeps quoting Trump as if anything he says has any validity and he won't change his mind in a heartbeat. I am so sick of it.
November 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The press keeps quoting Trump as if anything he says has any validity and he won't change his mind in a heartbeat. I am so sick of it.