ScipioAsina
@scipioasina.bsky.social
History PhD with a research background in the ancient Mediterranean and Black Sea. Chinese American in Southern California. Husband and cat dad. Liberal, humanist, and Christian Universalist.
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ScipioAsina
@scipioasina.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Photographer captures last moments before being mauled by wild animal.
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None of this shit happens without a great many powerful people deciding that it's more important to generally preserve the impunity of elites they like than to pierce the elite impunity of child molesters.
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
None of this shit happens without a great many powerful people deciding that it's more important to generally preserve the impunity of elites they like than to pierce the elite impunity of child molesters.
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The main thing I want you to understand is that if you're like an unironic Bluesky liberal the people who control the heights of American culture and the intelligentsia genuinely despise you and would prefer the company of fascist pedophiles.
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The main thing I want you to understand is that if you're like an unironic Bluesky liberal the people who control the heights of American culture and the intelligentsia genuinely despise you and would prefer the company of fascist pedophiles.
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Exactly. I knew Trump was a Russian puppet and I knew he was a pedophile but I didn’t know his pedophile supplier also offered to be his go between with the Russians.
like the surprising thing here is that 'russiagate' and 'the epstein files' are literally the same thing, not that the former was true lol.
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Exactly. I knew Trump was a Russian puppet and I knew he was a pedophile but I didn’t know his pedophile supplier also offered to be his go between with the Russians.
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I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Letterheads and signage alone would quickly run the bill upward of $1 billion, with a full overhaul likely rising to double that amount.
Trump’s Insane Pentagon Name-Change Likely to Cost Taxpayers $2 Billion
Changing signage and stationary alone for the Department of Defense would cost at least a billion dollars.
trib.al
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
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“It’s all true.”
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
“It’s all true.”
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I have serious questions about how much House and Senate Democrats are even talking to one another at this point.
I have in my hands definitive evidence that my opponent has committed a world-historic evil. Evidence that, were it to be released to the public, would cause his supporters to abandon him and his entire world to crumble to dust. I therefore have no choice but to give in to every one of his demands
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I have serious questions about how much House and Senate Democrats are even talking to one another at this point.
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👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
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Ah yes, the most secure room in the White House, the one used to monitor and make decisions about natsec crises, now to be renamed the Don't Release Info About Trump Raping Kids room. We're at PEDOCON-1, people.
Q: "Why are White House officials…meeting with Rep. Boebert in an effort to try to get her to not sign this petition calling for the release of the [Epstein] files?"
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Ah yes, the most secure room in the White House, the one used to monitor and make decisions about natsec crises, now to be renamed the Don't Release Info About Trump Raping Kids room. We're at PEDOCON-1, people.
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If Dems aren't out there calling Trump a pedophile rapist, what good are they?
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If Dems aren't out there calling Trump a pedophile rapist, what good are they?
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I confess I cannot help but question the moral fiber of anyone still willing to openly and loudly support a president who seems quite clearly to have raped underaged girls, in league with a notorious sex-trafficker.
I am not sure how you can support that and be a good person. I don't think you can.
I am not sure how you can support that and be a good person. I don't think you can.
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I confess I cannot help but question the moral fiber of anyone still willing to openly and loudly support a president who seems quite clearly to have raped underaged girls, in league with a notorious sex-trafficker.
I am not sure how you can support that and be a good person. I don't think you can.
I am not sure how you can support that and be a good person. I don't think you can.
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Joke of the day from Moscow: Russia tried to unveil its first humanoid AI robot, Aidol. Key word: tried. The robot collapsed during its debut, forcing organizers to cut the presentation short. Their rushed attempt to lift the prop only made things worse.
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Joke of the day from Moscow: Russia tried to unveil its first humanoid AI robot, Aidol. Key word: tried. The robot collapsed during its debut, forcing organizers to cut the presentation short. Their rushed attempt to lift the prop only made things worse.
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To think that this is an old republic, with republican traditions and civic virtues– and that it leads to this, make the blood boil in indignation.
Trying to think of a more vulgar person—or someone with less understanding of or appreciation for American history.
No one comes immediately to mind.
No one comes immediately to mind.
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
To think that this is an old republic, with republican traditions and civic virtues– and that it leads to this, make the blood boil in indignation.
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Extremely tangential, but the Jan 6th - Jan 20th triumvirate is one of those things that is unknown to most of the population. It has had no effects, and I thought it would.
one of the weirdest things that people believe on a website where the collective mood changes every thirty-six hours is that events completely unknown to 60% of the population, where 90% have the facts wrong, will have persistent effects eighteen months later
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Extremely tangential, but the Jan 6th - Jan 20th triumvirate is one of those things that is unknown to most of the population. It has had no effects, and I thought it would.
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Yet another instance of Trump saying something that news media would utterly crucify anyone else for saying but that theyll largely ignore from him bc he's their special birthday boy
Trump: We gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It’s much better than the Congressional Medal of Honor because soldiers get the Congressional. And they’re in very bad shape because they're dead. She gets it and she's a healthy, beautiful woman. And they’re rated equal
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Yet another instance of Trump saying something that news media would utterly crucify anyone else for saying but that theyll largely ignore from him bc he's their special birthday boy
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Vance shares a strange immunity with Trump.
The press cannot or will not pierce through his rhetoric to see the what-should-be-obvious danger of the man.
This includes:
1. Vance follows lots of neo-Nazis on X
2. His championing of Germany's far right
3. HE'S WELCOMING HITLER LOVERS INTO THE GOP
The press cannot or will not pierce through his rhetoric to see the what-should-be-obvious danger of the man.
This includes:
1. Vance follows lots of neo-Nazis on X
2. His championing of Germany's far right
3. HE'S WELCOMING HITLER LOVERS INTO THE GOP
JD Vance now leads the GOP. And he wants the party to welcome Hitler lovers.
And the press refuses to reckon with what this means.
www.thefarce.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Vance shares a strange immunity with Trump.
The press cannot or will not pierce through his rhetoric to see the what-should-be-obvious danger of the man.
This includes:
1. Vance follows lots of neo-Nazis on X
2. His championing of Germany's far right
3. HE'S WELCOMING HITLER LOVERS INTO THE GOP
The press cannot or will not pierce through his rhetoric to see the what-should-be-obvious danger of the man.
This includes:
1. Vance follows lots of neo-Nazis on X
2. His championing of Germany's far right
3. HE'S WELCOMING HITLER LOVERS INTO THE GOP
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the thing about us evangelicalism is at it’s core it’s antinomian
From the outside US evangelicalism is a very puzzling religious group because ostensibly they are very concerned with the moral teachings of a publicly accessible text but also they seem to have inferred completely the opposite lessons from that text than what everyone else thinks is the plain read.
so my town has been hosting an emergency food drive for snap recipients. the town, high school clubs, the Y, the churches (Episcopal, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, Unitarians, and the Catholics) & the synagogue, are involved.
You know who isn't participating? the fucking evangelicals.
You know who isn't participating? the fucking evangelicals.
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
the thing about us evangelicalism is at it’s core it’s antinomian
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3 years ago Elon enabled the funniest day in Twitter history.
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
3 years ago Elon enabled the funniest day in Twitter history.
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“Darth Vader” was an amalgamation of various Imperial Era generals and cyborgs that were combined in histories written centuries after the fact
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“Darth Vader” was an amalgamation of various Imperial Era generals and cyborgs that were combined in histories written centuries after the fact
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the secret is that its all of those thing
"Would you say that the Democratic Party today is more of a..."
Mainstream Liberal Party: 37%
Socialist Party: 34%
Moderate Party: 28%
Harvard-Harris / Nov 6, 2025
Mainstream Liberal Party: 37%
Socialist Party: 34%
Moderate Party: 28%
Harvard-Harris / Nov 6, 2025
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
the secret is that its all of those thing
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I have thoughts, and they aren’t going to fit neatly into Bluesky posts. Briefly:
1. The deal sucks.
2. Probably not as much as you think it does.
3. It’s good to be mad.
4. FFS, be madder at the GOP.
5. Strategy is hard.
5b. Timing matters.
6. The fight isn’t over.
7. Go pet a cat. (Or a dog.)
1. The deal sucks.
2. Probably not as much as you think it does.
3. It’s good to be mad.
4. FFS, be madder at the GOP.
5. Strategy is hard.
5b. Timing matters.
6. The fight isn’t over.
7. Go pet a cat. (Or a dog.)
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I have thoughts, and they aren’t going to fit neatly into Bluesky posts. Briefly:
1. The deal sucks.
2. Probably not as much as you think it does.
3. It’s good to be mad.
4. FFS, be madder at the GOP.
5. Strategy is hard.
5b. Timing matters.
6. The fight isn’t over.
7. Go pet a cat. (Or a dog.)
1. The deal sucks.
2. Probably not as much as you think it does.
3. It’s good to be mad.
4. FFS, be madder at the GOP.
5. Strategy is hard.
5b. Timing matters.
6. The fight isn’t over.
7. Go pet a cat. (Or a dog.)
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it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
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as was said in ancient times
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
as was said in ancient times
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.