@markhax.bsky.social

Art history prof, emeritus. My research and writing are essential to preserving my sanity in this dark time.

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7 hours ago

I found it confusing, his calling the war an “excursion.” He thinks it means “ incursion.” What a moron!

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When he returned to the White House in January 2025, he brought this tic with him. The plan to fire federal employees was ahead of schedule in March 2025, and bringing gas prices down was ahead of schedule a month later. Passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” was ahead of schedule in May and then again in July. 

In October, the country learned that Trump had authorized the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, the first step in a massive project aimed at building a ballroom for official events. This would be a $200 million project, the White House website assured Americans, and — sure enough! — would be completed ahead of schedule.

“It’ll be under budget, ahead of schedule,” Trump said in March. “It’ll be $400 million or less.”

The project was delayed after preservationists sued to keep it from moving forward. But when a “schedule” exists solely as a rhetorical device, an abstraction that the president can be ahead of, such delays get shrugged aside as easily as a doubling of the budget.

For Trump, everything is always "ahead of schedule" for the same reason that everything is the "greatest" and has "never been seen before": it's a boastful superlative he has internalized regardless of whether there's any connection to reality.
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WASHINGTON: Despite republicans’ best efforts, including a 24 hour filibuster-style debate — “the state house approved a levy on incomes over $1 million… pays for free breakfast & lunch for k-12 students…”

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10 hours ago

Wish he were up for reelection this year.

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11 hours ago
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"Once you cheapen a phrase like antisemitism… when you call Miss Rachel an antisemite, you're completely undermining the very important common struggle we should have against antisemitism.”

Piers Morgan & I discuss Ben Shapiro's attempts to cancel anyone who criticizes Israel.

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10 hours ago

What people, sir?

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10 hours ago
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Smart people don't have to convince people they're smart people.

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10 hours ago

You have to hand it to Steven Cheung for putting Trump's rambling words into a reasonably orderly form, even if it's all BS.

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10 hours ago

Better be careful looking so brown. Given the incompetence of this regime he could mistakenly be detained by ICE.

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10 hours ago

He really overdid the bronzer today. Remember when Maureen 'Dowd said Al Gore looked like a candle in his first debate with George W. Bush?

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12 hours ago
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FAFO.

When will these guys admit they fell for a con to own the libs? Good job, Joe.

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13 hours ago

well as long as everyone's having fun

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13 hours ago

Hegseth should spend a little less time worrying about how he looks in photos and a little more time fixing the fucking disaster he has created in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.

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17 hours ago

Maybe it wasn’t a good idea to purge the State Department and intelligence agencies of expertise on Iran. You can be sure no one in Trump’s inner circle read the 2010 Institute of Peace study.

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18 hours ago

Hmm. Well, that’s unexpectedly prudent!

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18 hours ago

The war will end in two weeks.

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19 hours ago

"Thank you, President Trump!"

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19 hours ago

just one more imperial war bro. just one more imperial war i swear. One more imperial war will fix it and display our inherent superiority over lesser peoples once and for all bsky.app/profile/mfor...

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19 hours ago

You can have the best armed forces in the history of the world, but if you are an incompetent criminal without a plan, you can still lose a war, and rather quickly.

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1 day ago

Straits of Labrador

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1 day ago

“Is Trump sick? Senile? Psychotic?” Yes, to all of the above.

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1 day ago

He’s forgetting the corrupting influence of AIPAC.

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1 day ago

This is the way a lot of us would like to think we would respond to hostile questions in a Congressional hearing, but its rare to see a witness just turn the tables on a Senator like this.

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1 day ago

Yeah, we and the genocidal Israelis.

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1 day ago

“Military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before." So what, is he going to nuke them?

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Who’s demanding it, Mikey?

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No differences between US and the genocidal state of Israel.

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