Mother of Exiles
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I left twitter, I left reddit, I left threads, and I'll leave this motherfucker too
she/her
I left twitter, I left reddit, I left threads, and I'll leave this motherfucker too
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This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.
The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision.
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.
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Matt Yglesias has been a morally bankrupt hack since he was a cheerleader for the invasion of Iraq as a college student. The fact that I still have to hear about his opinions more than two decades later is as a damning indictment of our information environment as I can imagine.
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Matt Yglesias has been a morally bankrupt hack since he was a cheerleader for the invasion of Iraq as a college student. The fact that I still have to hear about his opinions more than two decades later is as a damning indictment of our information environment as I can imagine.
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"I have to work harder than most people to avoid a life of smug superficiality."
― David Brooks, The Road to Character
― David Brooks, The Road to Character
December 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"I have to work harder than most people to avoid a life of smug superficiality."
― David Brooks, The Road to Character
― David Brooks, The Road to Character
Isn't he supposedly 6'3"? How tall are those other guys, 7'?
lots of awkward standing around and whispering going on in the Oval Office right now
December 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Isn't he supposedly 6'3"? How tall are those other guys, 7'?
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when you’ve been waiting 18 minutes for the shredded cheese for your fajitas
December 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
when you’ve been waiting 18 minutes for the shredded cheese for your fajitas
you will be visited by three spirits
December 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
you will be visited by three spirits
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making america hurl again
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
making america hurl again
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Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
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Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
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Zohran Mamdani won the primary by double digits. Eric Adams squeaked by with 0.8% and we had to suffer endless thinkpieces on why his conservative center-right politics was the "real future" of the Democratic party.
we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Zohran Mamdani won the primary by double digits. Eric Adams squeaked by with 0.8% and we had to suffer endless thinkpieces on why his conservative center-right politics was the "real future" of the Democratic party.
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
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we are far from out of the woods but man it’s nice to see humanity get some points on the board again
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
we are far from out of the woods but man it’s nice to see humanity get some points on the board again
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Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
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Remember, we learned in 2021 that a win by the out party in a Virginia gubernatorial election fully nullifies any presidential mandate. I don’t make the rules
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Remember, we learned in 2021 that a win by the out party in a Virginia gubernatorial election fully nullifies any presidential mandate. I don’t make the rules
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BREAKING: Andrew Cuomo has been endorsed by The Ass-To-Ass Guy
November 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
BREAKING: Andrew Cuomo has been endorsed by The Ass-To-Ass Guy
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We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:
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Reminder that George Clooney is a billionaire now who lives in France because he's too chicken shit to stay in America and fight back.
November 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Reminder that George Clooney is a billionaire now who lives in France because he's too chicken shit to stay in America and fight back.
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"Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good."
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- J.R.R. Tolkien
October 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good."
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- J.R.R. Tolkien
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(correctly) pointing out how badly this misunderstands the Revolution misses the point. These people have no coherent ideology and aren't trying to; they digest any imagery involving a heroic individual doling out violence and imagine themselves doing it to whoever they insist deserves it.
October 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
(correctly) pointing out how badly this misunderstands the Revolution misses the point. These people have no coherent ideology and aren't trying to; they digest any imagery involving a heroic individual doling out violence and imagine themselves doing it to whoever they insist deserves it.
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This is a US citizen and father who served in our armed forces.
He was tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, pinned to the ground, then imprisoned naked for three days with no explanation—during or since.
No crime. No charges. No conviction. No phone calls. No appeal.
He was tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, pinned to the ground, then imprisoned naked for three days with no explanation—during or since.
No crime. No charges. No conviction. No phone calls. No appeal.
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is a US citizen and father who served in our armed forces.
He was tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, pinned to the ground, then imprisoned naked for three days with no explanation—during or since.
No crime. No charges. No conviction. No phone calls. No appeal.
He was tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, pinned to the ground, then imprisoned naked for three days with no explanation—during or since.
No crime. No charges. No conviction. No phone calls. No appeal.
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I forgot how badly the media wanted a Biden recession. They were dying for it.
October 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I forgot how badly the media wanted a Biden recession. They were dying for it.