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“The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise - with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
- Abraham Lincoln, 1862
- Abraham Lincoln, 1862
January 14, 2026 at 7:19 PM
“The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise - with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
- Abraham Lincoln, 1862
- Abraham Lincoln, 1862
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days like today i think about how Obama tried to normalize relations with Cuba, then Trump shut that down, and not a single noteworthy national democrat ever felt the need to bring it up again after that
January 3, 2026 at 6:27 PM
days like today i think about how Obama tried to normalize relations with Cuba, then Trump shut that down, and not a single noteworthy national democrat ever felt the need to bring it up again after that
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You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.
January 3, 2026 at 6:58 AM
You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! EACH DAY BRINGS US CLOSER TO THE TYRANT'S FALL.
January 1, 2026 at 5:00 AM
HAPPY NEW YEAR! EACH DAY BRINGS US CLOSER TO THE TYRANT'S FALL.
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"As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free" gets all the attention (correctly), but don't overlook "He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored." Battle Hymn of the Republic is packed with heaters. Julia Ward Howe — she had bars! Should be our national anthem.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
YouTube video by The United States Army Field Band
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free" gets all the attention (correctly), but don't overlook "He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored." Battle Hymn of the Republic is packed with heaters. Julia Ward Howe — she had bars! Should be our national anthem.
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Here in Delaware we have a statue of Thomas Garrett, a white man found guilty of obstructing the recapture of fugitives from slavery – ordered to pay damages to the point of ruin for it.
We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
December 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Here in Delaware we have a statue of Thomas Garrett, a white man found guilty of obstructing the recapture of fugitives from slavery – ordered to pay damages to the point of ruin for it.
We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.
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Fundamentally, my ideal foreign policy vision is Brits & Americans & Frenchmen & Germans & Poles & Ukrainians and Japanese & Taiwanese & South Koreans & Australians and whoever else wants to join, all standing together, under arms if necessary, to declare that all people are and ought to be free.
December 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Fundamentally, my ideal foreign policy vision is Brits & Americans & Frenchmen & Germans & Poles & Ukrainians and Japanese & Taiwanese & South Koreans & Australians and whoever else wants to join, all standing together, under arms if necessary, to declare that all people are and ought to be free.
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The unrealized promise of America is good, actually, and we should fight for it
i have been thinking a bit about how any political program that requires the premise of “america bad” is a dead end
December 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The unrealized promise of America is good, actually, and we should fight for it
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NO WAR WITH VENEZUELA
December 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
NO WAR WITH VENEZUELA
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i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
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when life is sad, burrito is there. thank you burrito.
November 12, 2024 at 7:34 PM
when life is sad, burrito is there. thank you burrito.
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"Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
When It Happens
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN. It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
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There's a fundamental problem with equating "this polls well" with "we should focus on this", and putting lead pollution mitigation front and center is an exemplar. Infrastructure is another good example. People love it, Biden relentlessly focused on it, and it didn't move the needle.
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
There's a fundamental problem with equating "this polls well" with "we should focus on this", and putting lead pollution mitigation front and center is an exemplar. Infrastructure is another good example. People love it, Biden relentlessly focused on it, and it didn't move the needle.
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I'M ON MY FEET I'M ON THE FLOOR I'M GOOD TO GO. SO CMON DAVEY SING ME SOMETHING THAT I KNOW!
A praise chorus by jimmy eat world is the best song ever made
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I'M ON MY FEET I'M ON THE FLOOR I'M GOOD TO GO. SO CMON DAVEY SING ME SOMETHING THAT I KNOW!
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anyway when is the order of the triad coming to the mcu
October 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
anyway when is the order of the triad coming to the mcu
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"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.
www.nytimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
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I remember Astead being a little asshole and saying he had no regrets about his coverage of Biden's age and would do the same of Trump if it became the issue, where you at now you sniveling little fuck
September 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I remember Astead being a little asshole and saying he had no regrets about his coverage of Biden's age and would do the same of Trump if it became the issue, where you at now you sniveling little fuck
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i truly hate that the language of business has come to define all government functions. like "oh the mail has to make enough money to justify its existence" fuck you its a public service
September 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
i truly hate that the language of business has come to define all government functions. like "oh the mail has to make enough money to justify its existence" fuck you its a public service
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People care more about prices going up than their wages going up is part of it, but we shouldn't neglect that the Democrats are Mom and the Republicans are Dad, and voters were mad at Mom for telling them they couldn't see their friends in 2020, even if Dad was in office at the time.
A challenge to politics-understanders: why was Biden so unpopular given the very good policy he delivered on wages, climate, & antitrust, among others? This is not an invitation to relitigate 2024, but rather explore what his political failure reveals about the underlying mechanisms of politics.
Ah, I see. I suppose I want deliverism to work, but fear Biden proves it doesn't, so I want someone to explain convincingly why some future attempt would be different. Perhaps that's not clear
September 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
People care more about prices going up than their wages going up is part of it, but we shouldn't neglect that the Democrats are Mom and the Republicans are Dad, and voters were mad at Mom for telling them they couldn't see their friends in 2020, even if Dad was in office at the time.
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It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.
September 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.