Tristan Palmgren
@tristanpalmgren.bsky.social
Author of Marvel Prose Novels (Domino: Strays, Outlaw: Relentless, Siege of X-41), and Quietus and Terminus, science fiction novels set during the Black Death. Newest: Twilight Imperium: Voice of One, out now! Somehow on Bluesky now. They/them.
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this is part of Hegseth's character. one thing he was known for before this was getting drunk and bragging about his role in war crimes which either didn't happen or he verifiably could not have participated in.
That's the part that sticks with me.
This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something.
Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!
This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something.
Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!
this is just murder, and pointless murder at that.
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
this is part of Hegseth's character. one thing he was known for before this was getting drunk and bragging about his role in war crimes which either didn't happen or he verifiably could not have participated in.
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This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
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Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
I'm sure glad everyone will be normal about this.
DSA endorses hakeem jeffries for NY-8
Chi Ossé ends early bid to challenge Jeffries
He struggled to gain traction among city leaders like Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
www.politico.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I'm sure glad everyone will be normal about this.
Anyone who gave RFK Jr. or Elon Musk an ounce of credibility should forever be on the world's shitlist, and all the the deaths those two are causing a topic that chases their supporters around forever. A media ecosystem constantly attempting to justify and rehabilite them deserves the same scorn.
some worldviews should be silenced rather than publicly debated
shame is helpful and useful in accomplishing this, and when liberals take back power we're going to shame a lot of people into silence so their sincerely held beliefs die with them (when they die of natural causes,after being silenced)
shame is helpful and useful in accomplishing this, and when liberals take back power we're going to shame a lot of people into silence so their sincerely held beliefs die with them (when they die of natural causes,after being silenced)
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Anyone who gave RFK Jr. or Elon Musk an ounce of credibility should forever be on the world's shitlist, and all the the deaths those two are causing a topic that chases their supporters around forever. A media ecosystem constantly attempting to justify and rehabilite them deserves the same scorn.
Wormsona
What if muad’dib had a fursona
December 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Wormsona
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I just wish my bird would stop laughing so creepily when people get hurt on TV.
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I just wish my bird would stop laughing so creepily when people get hurt on TV.
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They dumped people in a foreign torture gulag without any kind of process and made sadistic videos celebrating it. Psychopaths.
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
They dumped people in a foreign torture gulag without any kind of process and made sadistic videos celebrating it. Psychopaths.
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There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
I bet if anyone tried to predict the critical success of a show based on a fandom's reaction to the first promos, they'd find... no correlation at all.
hey remember when promos for Star Trek Lower Decks came out and everyone was convinced the art style meant it was going to be garbage?
December 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I bet if anyone tried to predict the critical success of a show based on a fandom's reaction to the first promos, they'd find... no correlation at all.
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hey remember when promos for Star Trek Lower Decks came out and everyone was convinced the art style meant it was going to be garbage?
December 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
hey remember when promos for Star Trek Lower Decks came out and everyone was convinced the art style meant it was going to be garbage?
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a visibly ailing president alternates between funneling billions to cronies and his children, dozing off during paeans to his own genius, going on shocking white supremacist tirades about the need to expel ethnic groups from the us, and building monuments to himself
US media: next, the jobs report
US media: next, the jobs report
December 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
a visibly ailing president alternates between funneling billions to cronies and his children, dozing off during paeans to his own genius, going on shocking white supremacist tirades about the need to expel ethnic groups from the us, and building monuments to himself
US media: next, the jobs report
US media: next, the jobs report
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What the fuck....?
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
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Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
What the fuck....?
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For all the talk of how the Trump Administration has failed to do Regime Consolidation (which is true, they are incompetent) his billionaire allies, who now run most of the news media and social media, have continued their version of it mostly unabated.
The Trump administration and Larry Ellison are going to go out of their way to ensure that Larry is the one that gets to buy HBO/CNN/Warner Brothers
Paramount Accuses Warner Bros. Discovery of Unfair Bidding Process, Favoring Netflix in Letter to Zaslav
The letter accuses the sales process of being "tainted by management conflicts"
www.thewrap.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
For all the talk of how the Trump Administration has failed to do Regime Consolidation (which is true, they are incompetent) his billionaire allies, who now run most of the news media and social media, have continued their version of it mostly unabated.
One of the hallmarks of authoritarianism is that everyone is expected to take the most ridiculous post-hoc rationalizations for murder at face value.
A top admiral is expected to tell lawmakers tomorrow that he and his legal adviser concluded that the two survivors of a boat strike in September were attempting to continue their drug run, making them and the damaged vessel legitimate targets for another attack.
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Exclusive | Survivors of Boat Strike Were Actively Continuing Drug Mission, Admiral to Tell Lawmakers
Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley, the commander of the September attack, is set to provide an account of his role for the first time in a closed briefing.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
One of the hallmarks of authoritarianism is that everyone is expected to take the most ridiculous post-hoc rationalizations for murder at face value.
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So much of this shit is gambling! Robinhood is fucking gambling! Crypto is gambling! Videogame business models are gambling! It's all fucking gambling! Laws need to really catch up to the fact that the brain can be hacked by this shit.
This is gambling, and we've essentially decided that it's okay to let it go on entirely unregulated for ??? Reasons.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
So much of this shit is gambling! Robinhood is fucking gambling! Crypto is gambling! Videogame business models are gambling! It's all fucking gambling! Laws need to really catch up to the fact that the brain can be hacked by this shit.
if only they had been warned, repeatedly, to not do this terrible thing
Cosmically funny that, the American public has had less than a year of uncut republican governance, and they’ve decided that they absolutely hate this shit, spit it out
December 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM
if only they had been warned, repeatedly, to not do this terrible thing
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just breathtaking racism
"They contribute nothing," Trump said during a meeting of his Cabinet. "I don't want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason. The country stinks, and we don't want them in our country."
The president also attacked Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who was born in Somalia.
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The president also attacked Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who was born in Somalia.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
just breathtaking racism
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Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.
Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US
December 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.
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one of the reasons that the STEM-humanitiies culture war is stupid is that there's a lot of interesting stuff there at the intersection of the two. like it's very sociologically interesting the way that programming languages are maintained, propagated, and evolve.
December 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
one of the reasons that the STEM-humanitiies culture war is stupid is that there's a lot of interesting stuff there at the intersection of the two. like it's very sociologically interesting the way that programming languages are maintained, propagated, and evolve.
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Anyway the best I've ever felt about America was me (Jewish) standing in line with my friend and her daughter (Irish and Latina) to pet a baby lamb at the Minnesota State Fair alongside a hijabi Black woman and her daughter, an East Asian family, an African-American family, and some white people.
December 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Anyway the best I've ever felt about America was me (Jewish) standing in line with my friend and her daughter (Irish and Latina) to pet a baby lamb at the Minnesota State Fair alongside a hijabi Black woman and her daughter, an East Asian family, an African-American family, and some white people.
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Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara notes the MPD will not work with federal agents & says "In moments like this, I know how real the fear is in our community. People are going to want to speak out, protest, & exercise their 1st Amendment rights. We will absolutely defend people's right to do just that"
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara notes the MPD will not work with federal agents & says "In moments like this, I know how real the fear is in our community. People are going to want to speak out, protest, & exercise their 1st Amendment rights. We will absolutely defend people's right to do just that"
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the thing is - and i know in my heart that this is WHY they say shit like this - i can feel my OWN moral fibre fraying as a consequence of having read this. some part of me is off in its own private domain imagining Kelly encountering Hell the way a sentence encounters an exclamation point
Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
the thing is - and i know in my heart that this is WHY they say shit like this - i can feel my OWN moral fibre fraying as a consequence of having read this. some part of me is off in its own private domain imagining Kelly encountering Hell the way a sentence encounters an exclamation point
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“Affordability is a scam” is something a con artist would say to Homer Simpson and then be surprised when it works
December 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“Affordability is a scam” is something a con artist would say to Homer Simpson and then be surprised when it works
Weird how every time I see The King In Yellow, I mean Avatar, strange holes open in my memory. Anyway, off to fjoilodn a dciumletnmsuirodnesr
I’m gonna go see it in the theater with my kid and it’s going to be three hours of perfect entertainment and I will remember nothing about it two days later
it's that time of year when a bunch of people start pretending their personal distaste for the avatar franchise can bend reality in their favor against the inevitable tide of james "big jim" cameron's next guaranteed blockbuster smash hit. you can ignore them, they are fools
December 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Weird how every time I see The King In Yellow, I mean Avatar, strange holes open in my memory. Anyway, off to fjoilodn a dciumletnmsuirodnesr