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The Tracinski Letter and Symposium on Substack. Director of the Executive Watch for ISMA/The UnPopulist. Columnist at Discourse Magazine, senior fellow at The Atlas Society. Sic semper tyrannis, baby. https://www.tracinskiletter.com

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BEACH (with seahorse)

BEACH (with seahorse)

I'M AT THE BEACH

I'M AT THE BEACH

BEACH RULES CATCH SOME RAYS

BEACH RULES CATCH SOME RAYS

Why does the decor of every beach house seem like it was designed for a person with amnesia who needs to be reminded where they are

03.08.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 828    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 9

there’s an infomercial on tv for some brain pill for seniors called neuroq and i don’t think you turn this country around until you (1) shut down the fake supplements industry and (2) make everyone responsible eat all the remaining inventory on a livestream i can check in on any time i want

03.08.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2239    πŸ” 344    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 28

I don't think enough good things can be said about the people who worked hard to build the political pressure for his and everyone else's release, including senator van hollen. otoh there is no bottom to my contempt for the people who were urging the opposite course of action

03.08.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2671    πŸ” 585    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 4

"We will impeach and remove the president for his many crimes" seems like a good midterm election pitch to me idk

03.08.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 15132    πŸ” 2790    πŸ’¬ 161    πŸ“Œ 191

No way older grey Epstein could go into a mall, or a fitness club, and entice children to go with him - only a posh sounding woman can do the enticing, fishing, and entrapment. This is Maxwell - she is NOT and never HAS been, a victim. She is just as evil and guilty, if not more so.

03.08.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 9888    πŸ” 2378    πŸ’¬ 283    πŸ“Œ 89

Not just tourism, though. They're LARPing a caricature of our own culture from a previous era.

A lot of conservatism is Leave It to Beaver cosplay.

04.08.2025 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love how nobody takes more seriously than the manosphere the idea that the performance of gender explains literally everything.

04.08.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"LARPs of dead cultures" is also the eternal essence of conservatism as a philosophy.

04.08.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Welcome to politics. It is a series of alliances to do very important things, made with people you despise who will eventually stab you in the back on other issues you care about.

04.08.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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These VOA newscasters and reporters were given visas because there weren't experienced broadcast journalists in the US with native level skills in such languages as Bambara, Lao or Georgian. But since Kari Lake wiped out nearly all VOA's 48 language services there are indeed no jobs for them now.

03.08.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 355    πŸ” 178    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 13

My style is a little more minimalist, so I would just go with "Pierogiless."

04.08.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

so if anyone does not recognize the name, this is probably the most famous living mathematician on earth. you basically fund his group to pay salaries and random shit like MRI machines becomes several times more efficient, like magic.

02.08.2025 06:23 β€” πŸ‘ 631    πŸ” 171    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 10
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I guess she’d aged out. But still seems to fit a certain pattern.

03.08.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1964    πŸ” 617    πŸ’¬ 125    πŸ“Œ 90
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ICE crackdown imperils Afghans who aided U.S. war effort, lawyers say Advocates fear President Donald Trump’s ambitious deportation plan jeopardizes Afghan interpreters and other allies who worked for U.S. troops during the war.

A disgrace.

β€œOne former interpreter for U.S. forces in Afghanistan was detained by immigration agents after he showed up for a routine green card appointment. A second was arrested just minutes after attending his first asylum hearing in San Diego.”

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

03.08.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 749    πŸ” 320    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 21
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Texas Democrats to flee state, blocking plan to pad GOP’s control of Congress By leaving, Democratic state legislators can stall a Republican plan that would give the GOP five more seats to protect their narrow House majority.

Breaking news: Democrats in the Texas legislature said they were fleeing the state Sunday to block a redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump aimed at preserving the GOP’s slim House majority.

03.08.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 351    πŸ” 84    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 11

Every congressional member should have USCP protection. If ICE or other LE put a hand on them, then USCP arrests them.

They absolutely have that authority.

When dems retake the majority, every member gets protection.

LE against LE is the only way.

03.08.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 613    πŸ” 146    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 12
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Crying at this

03.08.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 877    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 14
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The White House landscape now matches our national political one.

02.08.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 19538    πŸ” 4398    πŸ’¬ 1472    πŸ“Œ 397
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The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marksβ€”it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

03.08.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6516    πŸ” 2596    πŸ’¬ 347    πŸ“Œ 561
Kyrie and the ADL

Kyrie and the ADL

Thanks for all the kind words about my look inside the Anti-Defamation League. Here's an anecdote that didn't make it into the final story. It's about my one interaction with ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt, and my local NBA team.

nymag.com/intelligence...

03.08.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
Alan Dershowitz looking like absolute shit filming the police cause he was shut down at the farmers market

Alan Dershowitz looking like absolute shit filming the police cause he was shut down at the farmers market

Please commit this picture of Alan Dershowitz filming the police to memory so my Halloween costume makes sense

03.08.2025 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2993    πŸ” 274    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 33

"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead."

― James Baldwin

03.08.2025 03:18 β€” πŸ‘ 168    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Its not the fault of the information environment that people were credulous that the most pro life President in US history was going to protect IVF

03.08.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 139    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

Schumer caving on the budget will probably be seen as the biggest legislative mistake of this administration but that crypto bill is gaining fast and probably ends up being an early exhibit in explaining how we lost a republic

03.08.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1246    πŸ” 325    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 12

The fact that the one game made by an explicitly communist co-op game studio now has three successor studios making a self-proclaimed sequel to it, and dispute the legitimacy of the other two is, of course, the most communist outcome possible.

03.08.2025 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2977    πŸ” 757    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 19

None of it has anything do with combating antisemitism.

03.08.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The view from the International Space Station as an aurora meets the sunrise in space.

02.08.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6522    πŸ” 1129    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 61

Slander. Keiko would never let him.

03.08.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Quark voted Trump twice and thinks it was the biggest mistake of his life both times! Nog and Rom weren't very happy about this.

03.08.2025 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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