the Jiminy Glick of The Left
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organizer, writer, adopted philadelphian, preeminent dingus
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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:11 PM
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."
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It's STFU Friday.
Refresh the script 👇
Refresh the script 👇
January 23, 2026 at 10:36 AM
It's STFU Friday.
Refresh the script 👇
Refresh the script 👇
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if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement
The elephant in the room is that mayors and governors across the country have very good reason to question the loyalty and allegiances of the state and local police forces and that’s one of the impediments to doing anything about the current occupations
January 10, 2026 at 1:40 PM
if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement
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The American dream is greeting a stray cat outside of a diner with your good pal on a cold winter night, and then heading inside to warm up with a cup of coffee while you eat pie and catch up.
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The American dream is greeting a stray cat outside of a diner with your good pal on a cold winter night, and then heading inside to warm up with a cup of coffee while you eat pie and catch up.
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me, smart, a big-shot university president, paying the Danegeld: that should be the last we hear from the Dane
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM
me, smart, a big-shot university president, paying the Danegeld: that should be the last we hear from the Dane
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Interesting thread
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Interesting thread
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Old Soviet joke:
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
October 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Old Soviet joke:
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
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I'd take the other side of all this seriously if anyone ever bothered to offer any solutions to our political divisions beyond "let's talk better." We live in the world we live in. No one has an actual way out of it because there isn't one. So let's take the world as it is, fight, and win.
September 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I'd take the other side of all this seriously if anyone ever bothered to offer any solutions to our political divisions beyond "let's talk better." We live in the world we live in. No one has an actual way out of it because there isn't one. So let's take the world as it is, fight, and win.
sorry everybody, this was my bad. last night I rewatched all the president's men with a Coors and some barbeque, then went to Redford's wiki and said out loud "wow, 89, good for him"
September 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
sorry everybody, this was my bad. last night I rewatched all the president's men with a Coors and some barbeque, then went to Redford's wiki and said out loud "wow, 89, good for him"
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It's finally happening. Philadelphia found a way to impregnate Gritty.
August 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It's finally happening. Philadelphia found a way to impregnate Gritty.
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st. peter is going to let her powerbomb hogan to hell
July 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
st. peter is going to let her powerbomb hogan to hell
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[In the imperial core as violence is visited upon the periphery] haha fuck yeah!! yes!!
[As the violence visited upon the periphery returns to the imperial core] well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
[As the violence visited upon the periphery returns to the imperial core] well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
July 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
[In the imperial core as violence is visited upon the periphery] haha fuck yeah!! yes!!
[As the violence visited upon the periphery returns to the imperial core] well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
[As the violence visited upon the periphery returns to the imperial core] well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
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The KKK of the 1920s is probably the most American organization to have ever existed; a for-profit fraternal organization, a multi-level marketing scheme founded by a defrocked minister to piggyback off of a popular movie, eventually torn apart by internecine infighting and a national sex scandal.
TIL - one reason for the KKK’s explosive growth in the early 1920s was that it was a multi-level marketing organization
June 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The KKK of the 1920s is probably the most American organization to have ever existed; a for-profit fraternal organization, a multi-level marketing scheme founded by a defrocked minister to piggyback off of a popular movie, eventually torn apart by internecine infighting and a national sex scandal.
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Law is fake. Power is real.
June 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Law is fake. Power is real.
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crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
June 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 'Borders and Bridges: Seeking Connections between Things' ( @dukepress.bsky.social , 2000).
May 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 'Borders and Bridges: Seeking Connections between Things' ( @dukepress.bsky.social , 2000).
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The good part of AI is that the only thing a writer can do to combat it is to become more human. Make your writing weirder, hornier, more violent, absurd, poetic, difficult, political, jagged, dreamlike, ironic, surreal, alive. You don't have any choice but to plumb the depths.
May 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The good part of AI is that the only thing a writer can do to combat it is to become more human. Make your writing weirder, hornier, more violent, absurd, poetic, difficult, political, jagged, dreamlike, ironic, surreal, alive. You don't have any choice but to plumb the depths.
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George Tooker (1920-2011)
April 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
George Tooker (1920-2011)
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It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you
April 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you
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As a good friend said today: they are at war with the entire post-WW2 world order because they are literally Nazis. Simple as!
people are expecting congress to swoop in and save the day, republicans defect, to vote down and retract the trump tariffs and i’m sorry but that’s just not happening. they are all in line and supportive of this
April 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
As a good friend said today: they are at war with the entire post-WW2 world order because they are literally Nazis. Simple as!
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People don't miss manufacturing jobs. They miss the effects of having 30+ percent union density. And we can build worker power again, with good policies, for the jobs most working class people actually have today rather than hoping mumbo jumbo will make it 1955 again.
When (some) people talk about bringing back manufacturing, they mean "bring back steel & auto jobs that someone can take right out of high school, and live a middle class life"
The worst part of this is that even if manufacturing jobs came back because of this (they won’t)
and even if Americans retooled for those jobs (they won’t) those jobs sucked! It’s like demanding to return to being a farming society. People fled that life the instant they could, in the millions!
and even if Americans retooled for those jobs (they won’t) those jobs sucked! It’s like demanding to return to being a farming society. People fled that life the instant they could, in the millions!
April 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
People don't miss manufacturing jobs. They miss the effects of having 30+ percent union density. And we can build worker power again, with good policies, for the jobs most working class people actually have today rather than hoping mumbo jumbo will make it 1955 again.
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This argument would not be any different if the victim were a US citizen: sorry we "accidentally" disappeared a citizen, but he's a foreign policy matter now.
That is exactly the goal. They think they found an infinite gulag glitch that works on anyone, even citizens.
That is exactly the goal. They think they found an infinite gulag glitch that works on anyone, even citizens.
Despite admitting to having illegally sent a guy to El Salvador by mistake, and even though the U.S. is paying El Salvador to indefinitely imprison him, the DOJ is arguing that, well, nothing to do, it's not in our hands anymore. The general tone of their response is "welp, sucks to be him."
April 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
This argument would not be any different if the victim were a US citizen: sorry we "accidentally" disappeared a citizen, but he's a foreign policy matter now.
That is exactly the goal. They think they found an infinite gulag glitch that works on anyone, even citizens.
That is exactly the goal. They think they found an infinite gulag glitch that works on anyone, even citizens.