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Kristen Collins
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Political theorist thinking about surveillance. Senior Fellow, FA Hayek program at the Mercatus Center, GMU. Host of Virtual Sentiments, a podcast on the today’s most pressing problems in political economy with an eye to the past
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On the other hand at least this tragedy has yet to befall me
A bottle of Cholula hot sauce, shattered and spilled on a sidewalk and stoop
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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My personal favorite snippet of the SOCIALISM SHOWDOWN: Trump standing up against his own party member’s Islamophobia
From Guardian live updates of the Trump-Mamdani meeting: “Asked by a reporter if he agrees with his Republican ally Elise Stefanik’s characterization of Mamdani as a “jihadist”, Trump dismisses that as campaign rhetoric and says: “I met with a man who’s a very rational person”.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Reminder that today marks 3 months since Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in DC for no good reason, which has been extended until *February 28*

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A crochet banner stating, “Free DC” tied around a tree at night
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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DC protest art depicting Smokey the Bear saying “Only you can prevent tyranny”
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Please stop calling Trump and the Republicans “economic populists”
NYTimes bremaint headline “Trump Appeals Ruling That Orders Fast and Full SNAP Payments”
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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~*Just dc things*~
Adds for ark.ai defense technology referencing black hawk helicopters, M777 artillery, and Abrams tanks
October 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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That’s an awful lot of words to say “bootlicker”
Selection from Ben Terri’s NYmag article, “Top Goon,” on the DHS, Kristi Noem, and Corey Lewandowski: His longtime political ally David Bossie told the Times in 2015 that Lewandowski was “as anti-Establishment” as Trump. “Corey is driven by an incredible desire to please and be loved by those in positions of power, all while fighting against convention and normal ways of operating,” a campaign operative who worked with Lewandowski told me. He quickly became known for two things: getting arrested after grabbing the arm of a female reporter at a press conference (charges were dropped) and a political strategy that amounted to “Let Trump be Trump.” He lost his job after allies and donors complained he was running an undisciplined campaign. In the years that followed, Lewandowski would float in and out of Trumpworld but never fall completely out of Trump’s orbit. “The president has always been loyal to people he connects with successful phases of his life,” former Trump adviser Jason Miller told me. Lewandowski’s aggression was also useful. “He is not intimidated by..”
September 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Street art diptych in Georgetown last weekend
DC street art of a protester throwing a sub sandwich, à la Banksy’s “Flower Thrower” (part 1 of 2) DC street art of a subway sandwich hitting Pete Hegseth in the face (part 2 of 2)
September 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Obligatory “nightmare blunt rotation” post
JD Vance, Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller standing in front of a box of sandwiches in a Shake Shack while surrounded by soliders.
August 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Very, very French
A weird mime with the caption”Gustave destroyed the weird mime”
July 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Me and my book project
Jean-Claude Van Damme attacking an opponent in Bloodsport (with closed caption noting “yelling”)
July 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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How it started vs how it’s going
Titian’s Diana and Actaeon at the National Gallery in London Titian’s The Death of Actaeon at the National Gallery London
July 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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You know your presidency is going well when your latest post resembles a dril tweet
Screenshot of NYTimes coverage of tariffs that reads: As new U.S. tariffs upended financial markets and sent foreign governments scrambling to respond, President Trump on Wednesday morning remained ebullient, posting at one point on Truth Social: “BE COOL!” “Everything is going to work out well,” he maintained amid the unfurling chaos. “The USA will be bigger and better than ever before!” screenshot of 2011 viral dril tweet that reads “I’m not owned! I’m not owned!!”, I continue to insist as I slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob
April 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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My sickness is yearning to hate-read the Trumpists’ inevitable invocation of Rousseau to justify the tariffs
Meme image of a guy labeled “SICKOS” looking into a window saying, “Yes…ha ha ha…YES!” (originally from a 2015 comic published by The Onion)
April 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Smacks of gender
Pink sticker on telephone pole with red lettering reading “ELON MUSK IS A CRYBABY BITCH”
March 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The Sue Sylvester from Glee meme modified to say “I am going to create a public choice theory that is so anti tech oligarchs”
January 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Post an onion headline that lives in your head rent-free
Onion headline from 2014 reading “if the founding fathers were alive today, they’d be too fascinated by a garbage disposal to do anything”
December 1, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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From a 1965 review of Shklar’s Legalism
Text from the end of Lloyd Weinreb’s 1965 review of Judith Shklar’s book, Legalism, with the following phrase underlined: “there is no questioning the validity and contemporary importance of Professor Shklar’s recommendation that we recognize law as a ‘form of political action’ and not an ‘answer to politics’ (p. 143).”
November 6, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Easy pbs.twimg.com/media/EUcBaA...
Lisa Simpson shouting at her mother, “Grade me! Look at me! Evaluate and rank me! Oh! I’m good, good, good, and oh, so smart!”
October 21, 2023 at 10:56 PM
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Just absolutely incredible to revisit the 00s
August 13, 2023 at 2:52 AM
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This world is so sick
Anthropologie promotional email with the subject line “PSA: PUMPKIN SZN (Season) STARTS NOW!! Jack-o-lantern emoji”
July 21, 2023 at 2:12 AM