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And what EU resolution must be directed towards is Trump's vanity. He will sacrifice all of us for his selfish lusts; it doesn't matter which of you lights the pyre. Measures that get his attention, that target him and thwart him *personally* are what have a prayer of working right now.
January 19, 2026 at 12:18 PM
And what EU resolution must be directed towards is Trump's vanity. He will sacrifice all of us for his selfish lusts; it doesn't matter which of you lights the pyre. Measures that get his attention, that target him and thwart him *personally* are what have a prayer of working right now.
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This is literally what I've been writing and podcasting about for years. I was planning to do an essay on this, but here's a 🧵.
The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.
The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.
Fight and help win a world war.
Establish a global order that cements your national power for 80 years.
Blow it all up.
What am I missing?
Establish a global order that cements your national power for 80 years.
Blow it all up.
What am I missing?
January 18, 2026 at 5:43 PM
This is literally what I've been writing and podcasting about for years. I was planning to do an essay on this, but here's a 🧵.
The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.
The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.
TL;DR it’s bad science. I don’t mean morally bad although it’s that too. I mean she elevates, promotes, and engages in poor scientific practice to get the result she wants.
So Emma Hilton is now the interim chair of Sex Matters.
Let’s check out some of the Sex Science that she’s famous for
Let’s check out some of the Sex Science that she’s famous for
FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"
January 17, 2026 at 11:13 AM
TL;DR it’s bad science. I don’t mean morally bad although it’s that too. I mean she elevates, promotes, and engages in poor scientific practice to get the result she wants.
I don’t think Rollins and her ilk allow each other to eat tortillas
Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."
January 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
I don’t think Rollins and her ilk allow each other to eat tortillas
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Laura Jedeed on applying for a job with ICE: "I expected them to Google me, and they didn't ... they sent me a final job offer ... what's disturbing is we don't know who is wearing these masks with guns in our city. We don't know if they have domestic violence convictions."
January 14, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Laura Jedeed on applying for a job with ICE: "I expected them to Google me, and they didn't ... they sent me a final job offer ... what's disturbing is we don't know who is wearing these masks with guns in our city. We don't know if they have domestic violence convictions."
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Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
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As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
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When Rebecca Solnit asks you to turn a thread into an essay, you fucking do it. jessica.substack.com/p/cbs-news-f...
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December 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
When Rebecca Solnit asks you to turn a thread into an essay, you fucking do it. jessica.substack.com/p/cbs-news-f...
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I have no stories like this. But I was once mistaken for Jared Padalecki at a craft fair.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I have no stories like this. But I was once mistaken for Jared Padalecki at a craft fair.
As with a lot of things perceived as “getting worse,” I have my doubts that families are getting estranged at much higher rates than before. It’s just more visible and more explicit. Time was Uncle Charlie would just move to the Everglades and nobody would ever hear from him again.
Yeah, no thanks.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
December 26, 2025 at 5:07 AM
As with a lot of things perceived as “getting worse,” I have my doubts that families are getting estranged at much higher rates than before. It’s just more visible and more explicit. Time was Uncle Charlie would just move to the Everglades and nobody would ever hear from him again.
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A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Chappell Rohan
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Sex Bomb-adil.
December 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols
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hey guys i made a seasonal meme
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
hey guys i made a seasonal meme
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Elected officials deserve your snide remarks! Average voter who is just trying to make it day to day may not
November 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Elected officials deserve your snide remarks! Average voter who is just trying to make it day to day may not
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General strikes don't guarantee anything, nothing does, but they can and have created MAJOR WINS.
Real ones. BIG ones.
Ideally, a strike is part of a larger strategy of other actions-- cross-society, a range of tactics, sustained with discipline over time.
THAT'S how we'll win.
We can.
Real ones. BIG ones.
Ideally, a strike is part of a larger strategy of other actions-- cross-society, a range of tactics, sustained with discipline over time.
THAT'S how we'll win.
We can.
On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
General strikes don't guarantee anything, nothing does, but they can and have created MAJOR WINS.
Real ones. BIG ones.
Ideally, a strike is part of a larger strategy of other actions-- cross-society, a range of tactics, sustained with discipline over time.
THAT'S how we'll win.
We can.
Real ones. BIG ones.
Ideally, a strike is part of a larger strategy of other actions-- cross-society, a range of tactics, sustained with discipline over time.
THAT'S how we'll win.
We can.
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something's going on behind the scenes in MAGA world and you will not catch ME giving any of these assholes credit for being on the right side of history on even one thing until I understand exactly why they've decided there's more safety in going against Trump on some topic than siding with him
October 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
something's going on behind the scenes in MAGA world and you will not catch ME giving any of these assholes credit for being on the right side of history on even one thing until I understand exactly why they've decided there's more safety in going against Trump on some topic than siding with him
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he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
October 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
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Tear gas everywhere.
September 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Tear gas everywhere.
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"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
Acceptable Losses
Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?
www.the-reframe.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
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There’s a lot here to think about, and I will, later.
I'm surprised how many people are quick to make a defense of violence in my replies. For them it's necessary, foreclosing on its use is a privilege. For me, non-violence is a powerful tool. It is the lesson of one of my heroes, Bayard Rustin. 1/ wagingnonviolence.org/2022/08/reme...
Remembering the genius of Bayard Rustin
Thirty-five years after his death, the man who mentored Martin Luther King Jr. still has much to teach movements.
wagingnonviolence.org
September 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
There’s a lot here to think about, and I will, later.
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why is it always "you should try talking with your right wing family" and not "your right wing family maybe needs to stop voting for people who want you dead
September 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
why is it always "you should try talking with your right wing family" and not "your right wing family maybe needs to stop voting for people who want you dead
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So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do.
This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.
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This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.
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September 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do.
This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.
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This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.
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