Peter Kurze
@peterkurze.bsky.social
Imagine there’s no heaven…
Pronouns: who/me
Pronouns: who/me
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Our landlord put a new roof on our house and now my wife’s Instagram feed is full of roofing ads. We’re not currently in the market for roofing. All of these algorithms and big data are much better at being invasive than they are at being pertinent.
December 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Our landlord put a new roof on our house and now my wife’s Instagram feed is full of roofing ads. We’re not currently in the market for roofing. All of these algorithms and big data are much better at being invasive than they are at being pertinent.
Let’s see if we can spot the problem:
1.) He likes the idea of killing people.
2.) He’s smart enough to realize that he needs to associate it with something positive, however unlikely or fantastical.
3.) The press will continue to publish his words because it’s ‘news’ and they are cowards.
1.) He likes the idea of killing people.
2.) He’s smart enough to realize that he needs to associate it with something positive, however unlikely or fantastical.
3.) The press will continue to publish his words because it’s ‘news’ and they are cowards.
Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco
The president’s claims about the boat killings and his pardon of the Honduran ex-president in a new Politico interview should finally convince Republicans that they, and we, must get to the bottom of ...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Let’s see if we can spot the problem:
1.) He likes the idea of killing people.
2.) He’s smart enough to realize that he needs to associate it with something positive, however unlikely or fantastical.
3.) The press will continue to publish his words because it’s ‘news’ and they are cowards.
1.) He likes the idea of killing people.
2.) He’s smart enough to realize that he needs to associate it with something positive, however unlikely or fantastical.
3.) The press will continue to publish his words because it’s ‘news’ and they are cowards.
God bless that woman!!!
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
God bless that woman!!!
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When will it be time for the people to refuse their consent to be governed by these fascists?
December 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
When will it be time for the people to refuse their consent to be governed by these fascists?
More of that hard-hitting journalism from the Pentagon:
“At the Pentagon Christmas party they had a cookie bake-off between the Army, Navy, and Air Force mess. 5-star designs, beautifully wrapped.
@SecWar
’s team told me to take some for my kids, so I did. My daughter loved them!”
“At the Pentagon Christmas party they had a cookie bake-off between the Army, Navy, and Air Force mess. 5-star designs, beautifully wrapped.
@SecWar
’s team told me to take some for my kids, so I did. My daughter loved them!”
Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
More of that hard-hitting journalism from the Pentagon:
“At the Pentagon Christmas party they had a cookie bake-off between the Army, Navy, and Air Force mess. 5-star designs, beautifully wrapped.
@SecWar
’s team told me to take some for my kids, so I did. My daughter loved them!”
“At the Pentagon Christmas party they had a cookie bake-off between the Army, Navy, and Air Force mess. 5-star designs, beautifully wrapped.
@SecWar
’s team told me to take some for my kids, so I did. My daughter loved them!”
Rather than: What is fair treatment of billionaires? The question I would ask is: What is their existence doing to the rest of us and our society at large? The best reason to tax billionaires is not to get their money to use for other things, it’s to strip them of their inordinate power.
"Because working people have been shunted into defined contribution, self-funded retirement schemes, their futures are wedded to stock market returns in a way that people in similarly wealthy democracies find unimaginable." Inequality in the US is obscene. My thoughts:
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
The case for a 100% tax bracket for billionaires
I was looking through my photos, stumbled upon this image, and realized that I had to get out a seasonal newsletter today with a wish for 2025. Caption....
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December 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Rather than: What is fair treatment of billionaires? The question I would ask is: What is their existence doing to the rest of us and our society at large? The best reason to tax billionaires is not to get their money to use for other things, it’s to strip them of their inordinate power.
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This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
It’s ironic, no? When the great exodus was announced I joked that a million of the worst people in New York were volunteering to help Mamdani meet his housing goals. But it speaks of something deeper. The market, like government, is meant to serve, not dominate us. It’s ours to shape and command.
I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
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@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
December 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It’s ironic, no? When the great exodus was announced I joked that a million of the worst people in New York were volunteering to help Mamdani meet his housing goals. But it speaks of something deeper. The market, like government, is meant to serve, not dominate us. It’s ours to shape and command.
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Thoughts on the post-47th world:
[Or: sometimes in all the craziness, it's nice to just sit back and listen to reasonable people discuss reasonable things.]
@hcrichardson.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...
[Or: sometimes in all the craziness, it's nice to just sit back and listen to reasonable people discuss reasonable things.]
@hcrichardson.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...
American Conversations: Zohran Mamdani
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Thoughts on the post-47th world:
[Or: sometimes in all the craziness, it's nice to just sit back and listen to reasonable people discuss reasonable things.]
@hcrichardson.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...
[Or: sometimes in all the craziness, it's nice to just sit back and listen to reasonable people discuss reasonable things.]
@hcrichardson.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...
And I am sure he was acting as a lone wolf and the fact that it was so closely coordinated with everything else that was going on is just a remarkable coincidence.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
And I am sure he was acting as a lone wolf and the fact that it was so closely coordinated with everything else that was going on is just a remarkable coincidence.
I must admit, as I look forward to God telling Mike ‘Republican Moses’ Johnson to clock out, I do not have charity in my heart.
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I must admit, as I look forward to God telling Mike ‘Republican Moses’ Johnson to clock out, I do not have charity in my heart.
I don’t think you owe it to anybody, unless perhaps to the unborn and maybe your ancestors. Do what you have to do. But if you think of voting not as an emblem of your values which must be earned by fealty to the same, but rather as an exercise in harm reduction, it might help you see other /1
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I don’t think you owe it to anybody, unless perhaps to the unborn and maybe your ancestors. Do what you have to do. But if you think of voting not as an emblem of your values which must be earned by fealty to the same, but rather as an exercise in harm reduction, it might help you see other /1
My wife was reading this to me over coffee, but the coffee kept finding its way into my nose for some reason. It’s like “Best In Show Comes to The White House. “
www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/p...
Inside this year’s White House holiday decor | CNN Politics
It took 150 volunteers working for one week, with 25,000 feet of ribbon, 120 pounds of gingerbread, more than 10,000 butterflies and a 6,000-piece Lego portrait of President Donald Trump’s likeness to...
www.cnn.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
My wife was reading this to me over coffee, but the coffee kept finding its way into my nose for some reason. It’s like “Best In Show Comes to The White House. “
www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/p...
I have no problem with the concept of a strong floor. But the no ceiling bit is problematic. Vast accumulations of wealth invest a small number of individuals with inordinate power over both material resources and the flow of information. Dollars are an illusion. Resources are finite.
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I have no problem with the concept of a strong floor. But the no ceiling bit is problematic. Vast accumulations of wealth invest a small number of individuals with inordinate power over both material resources and the flow of information. Dollars are an illusion. Resources are finite.
So do they call it Black Friday because the promotional emails for it blot out the sun?
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 AM
So do they call it Black Friday because the promotional emails for it blot out the sun?
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Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it's already a bust
YouTube video by MS NOW
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November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
Does it bother anyone else that the plot of “Being There” is more realistic than our current lived reality?
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Does it bother anyone else that the plot of “Being There” is more realistic than our current lived reality?
Rubio has apparently stated categorically that it’s a little hard to tell who is in charge of what right now.
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Rubio has apparently stated categorically that it’s a little hard to tell who is in charge of what right now.
It’s a feature. 50 years ago a bunch of clever people convinced a bunch of powerful people that if everybody just watched out for their own interests, collectively we’d get the best possible outcome. It was stupid then and it’s stupid now, but there it is. It’s written into our operations manual.
Point blank, period.
Too many people in this country simply have no damned principles, and everything is negotiable to personal gain. That's why we are where we are now.
There's no way the GOP would still be a functioning party at this point if y'all weren't committed to being racist and stupid.
Too many people in this country simply have no damned principles, and everything is negotiable to personal gain. That's why we are where we are now.
There's no way the GOP would still be a functioning party at this point if y'all weren't committed to being racist and stupid.
There are plenty of conservative Black folks in this country, and there would be a whole lot more Black Republicans if the party weren’t so damn racist!
It really is that simple.
It really is that simple.
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM
It’s a feature. 50 years ago a bunch of clever people convinced a bunch of powerful people that if everybody just watched out for their own interests, collectively we’d get the best possible outcome. It was stupid then and it’s stupid now, but there it is. It’s written into our operations manual.
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Did they bother defining socialism?
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Did they bother defining socialism?
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The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
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That John Roberts was more concerned with nuisance lawsuits against the president than he was with whatever this is will haunt this country for a long time
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
That John Roberts was more concerned with nuisance lawsuits against the president than he was with whatever this is will haunt this country for a long time
I just called my rep (who is on the armed services committee) to speak out publicly in defense of his colleagues who are calling on the military to honor their oath to the constitution. I also asked him to do his utmost to contact John Roberts and encourage him to calm the waters. Please do this.
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I just called my rep (who is on the armed services committee) to speak out publicly in defense of his colleagues who are calling on the military to honor their oath to the constitution. I also asked him to do his utmost to contact John Roberts and encourage him to calm the waters. Please do this.
Good for you Senator Murphy. John Roberts needs to be at the head of this parade of patriots.
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Good for you Senator Murphy. John Roberts needs to be at the head of this parade of patriots.