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that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth
that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth
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@vchaud.bsky.social
· Jan 18
Here's the thing: I really am not interested right now in having a lot of followers - and unless we have something in common (as I privately ascertain) I'll probably block you. A heads up. If bluesky had a private mode, I would use it.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.
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Now look at CBS. Installing Bari Weiss to run a news division isn’t a "pivot to the center." It is a deliberate hollowing out.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Now look at CBS. Installing Bari Weiss to run a news division isn’t a "pivot to the center." It is a deliberate hollowing out.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
The Road to Wellville is a very funny movie
December 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The Road to Wellville is a very funny movie
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If you're wondering what happened to Nate Silver, he was into the COVID lab leak theory and got negative feedback online, including from epidemiologists and virologists and (GASP!) posters, which added to his belief that The Woke are victimizing Nate Silver. It spiraled from there.
I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding.
December 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
If you're wondering what happened to Nate Silver, he was into the COVID lab leak theory and got negative feedback online, including from epidemiologists and virologists and (GASP!) posters, which added to his belief that The Woke are victimizing Nate Silver. It spiraled from there.
I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding.
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Bloody hell, the SEC’s Caroline Crenshaw is not leaving the organisation quietly.
She says there is a “rapacious” appetite to deregulate, and warns that “the darkest depths of winter still lie ahead for America’s capital markets”. www.ft.com/content/7027...
She says there is a “rapacious” appetite to deregulate, and warns that “the darkest depths of winter still lie ahead for America’s capital markets”. www.ft.com/content/7027...
December 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Bloody hell, the SEC’s Caroline Crenshaw is not leaving the organisation quietly.
She says there is a “rapacious” appetite to deregulate, and warns that “the darkest depths of winter still lie ahead for America’s capital markets”. www.ft.com/content/7027...
She says there is a “rapacious” appetite to deregulate, and warns that “the darkest depths of winter still lie ahead for America’s capital markets”. www.ft.com/content/7027...
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There are a lot of presidential democracies in the world. They haven't just sat back and continued to face the same problems over and over again without trying different approaches. One of the biggest things they've done is institute a secret ballot on impeachment trials
Impeach and Remove the Bastards
A scenario for 2027.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
There are a lot of presidential democracies in the world. They haven't just sat back and continued to face the same problems over and over again without trying different approaches. One of the biggest things they've done is institute a secret ballot on impeachment trials
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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 5:10 PM
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
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Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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Yep, the Supreme Court really is just a House of Lords—a purely political branch with bizarre veto power, wielded capriciously and without accountability. Time for massive reform.
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Yep, the Supreme Court really is just a House of Lords—a purely political branch with bizarre veto power, wielded capriciously and without accountability. Time for massive reform.
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Sauer saying something is unconstitutional because it "would be unconstitutional under Justice Scalia's dissent" is a remarkably cogent statement of the Roberts Court's approach to precedent.
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Sauer saying something is unconstitutional because it "would be unconstitutional under Justice Scalia's dissent" is a remarkably cogent statement of the Roberts Court's approach to precedent.
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A LOT of us find ourselves asking “Why don't they make movies like they used to?” - or - “They don't seem to make movies for me anymore”.
MATT DAMON gives us his take on why.
MATT DAMON gives us his take on why.
December 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A LOT of us find ourselves asking “Why don't they make movies like they used to?” - or - “They don't seem to make movies for me anymore”.
MATT DAMON gives us his take on why.
MATT DAMON gives us his take on why.
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Father Christmas out & about (wearing a Brodie helmet) on Regent Street - London in 1940🎄
December 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Father Christmas out & about (wearing a Brodie helmet) on Regent Street - London in 1940🎄
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#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar
December 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar
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In a world where much of the current governing US elite has been driven insane through decades of being very online some of the best analysts of US elite behaviour are people like Mihnea who have detailed knowledge of the internet spaces that drove them round the bend
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In a world where much of the current governing US elite has been driven insane through decades of being very online some of the best analysts of US elite behaviour are people like Mihnea who have detailed knowledge of the internet spaces that drove them round the bend
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"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
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The lack of curiosity about the world, the insanely petty infighting about shit that doesn't matter, the attitude of superiority to anything and anyone that doesn't match their ideas about how the world is supposed to work: not a fan
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The lack of curiosity about the world, the insanely petty infighting about shit that doesn't matter, the attitude of superiority to anything and anyone that doesn't match their ideas about how the world is supposed to work: not a fan
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ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts
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Epstein filings: today in DC the Oversight Committee "received records from J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank. Oversight Democrats intend to release files to the public after review in the days ahead." But what about files from Bank of America & BNY Mellon? #OCCcoverup innercitypress.com/jpmchase2eps...
December 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Epstein filings: today in DC the Oversight Committee "received records from J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank. Oversight Democrats intend to release files to the public after review in the days ahead." But what about files from Bank of America & BNY Mellon? #OCCcoverup innercitypress.com/jpmchase2eps...
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Calling all #MastersDegree and #PhD students in subjects related to our press. Remember to submit your applications for our annual book grant before the end of the year. You could win $500-worth of our titles to help your studies. Full details here. www.gorgiaspress.com/gorgias-book... #grants
a cartoon of a boy reading a book surrounded by books .
ALT: a cartoon of a boy reading a book surrounded by books .
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December 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Calling all #MastersDegree and #PhD students in subjects related to our press. Remember to submit your applications for our annual book grant before the end of the year. You could win $500-worth of our titles to help your studies. Full details here. www.gorgiaspress.com/gorgias-book... #grants
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
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And we'll have to get people to care about the dreadfully boring topic of *procurement capture*
Because that's how the surveillance monster is getting built: guys like Peter Thiel are writing themselves government contracts to slurp up gov data and circumvent the data partitions the law requires
Because that's how the surveillance monster is getting built: guys like Peter Thiel are writing themselves government contracts to slurp up gov data and circumvent the data partitions the law requires
Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:19 AM
And we'll have to get people to care about the dreadfully boring topic of *procurement capture*
Because that's how the surveillance monster is getting built: guys like Peter Thiel are writing themselves government contracts to slurp up gov data and circumvent the data partitions the law requires
Because that's how the surveillance monster is getting built: guys like Peter Thiel are writing themselves government contracts to slurp up gov data and circumvent the data partitions the law requires
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one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries