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A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Unfortunately, it will take something worse than Kent State for White and White Protestant America to stand-up to Trump.

After all, who remembers Jackson State?

"America" only cares when the victims are clean-cut middle-class+ White people.

I know people think of it as low-brow, but I thought Akiva Schaffer's The Naked Gun had more to say about our present problems than Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, especially with respect to technology.

My European aerospace and defense ETF is up +32% 😈

I'm doing my part for NATO and Ukraine 💪🏻

For anyone who would like to hear it, I can only say the best about the 90+ students I am currently teaching in my first-year writing courses. They are sincere about learning. They bring as much of their full selves into the class as they feel capable and safe to do so. 1/

neil gorsuch anxiously looking at two buttons

Former Reagan speechwriter pretends she has no role in any of this whatsoever. 🥴

This federal judge appointed by President Trump found his claims of “chaos“ in Portland, Oregon “untethered to the facts.“

The lesson of the Trump era is to stick with your principles. He’s coming for you anyway, whether you do or not, so you might as well stick to your principles so people don’t laugh at you afterward and you can look yourself in the mirror.

And 100 million men will read this and nod along 🤦‍♂️

Also, we don't know very much about the "qualifications" and "training" of these ICE flying columns. What we do know is disturbing, such as convicted January 6th insurrectionists and Proud Boys among them.

This is heading towards another Kent State.

Why not tried in the United States?

It's something to see how many brains covid broke

I'm shocked

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A central problem that we still don’t talk about enough is that nearly all of our elite societal institutions - universities, media outlets, corporations, corporations, political parties, etc. - have proven increasingly unable or unwilling to screen out lying grifting charlatans like this

Hate to be right about this stuff so often

Munich drone sightings force airport to cancel flights in latest Europe disruption The German airport was forced to suspend operations, in the latest drone disruption to European aviation

Munich drone sightings force airport to cancel flights in latest Europe disruption www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The ads for Brilliant Minds makes it look unwatchable

Musk, Bezos, Ellison, et al, don't need to look to what happened to German and Italian industrialists in the 1930s-1940s...

They can simply look at the fates of Berezovsky and Khodorkovsky.

Trump is more than an oligarch. He admires Putin and other dictators.

Trump’s Speech to Generals Was Incitement to Violence Against Americans Military leaders’ quiet professionalism offers hope amid a maelstrom.

A stunning rebuke from AEI's @kschake.bsky.social in @foreignpolicy.com: #Trump and #Hegseth's speeches were "tantamount to incitement—a genuinely dangerous effort to suborn the military’s oath and condition them for using violence against their fellow Americans." foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/01/t...

Atrocity propaganda has never gone away.

Same. I can only assume this is some devious new Russian torture technique.

in all seriousness, I don't think most normal people appreciate that the majority of the military is a logistical and administrative machine

if you make the military entirely the pointy bit of the spear it simply will not work

And wannabe witchfinders

It corresponds with the increase in advertising

"We are so much more hardcore"

these men are so used to being excused their crimes that they blunder into self-incrimination easily.

To be quite honest, the Quantico Scandal seemed less like Trump crossing the Rubicon, and more like Hegseth "living the dream", as Eliot A Cohen put it in The Atlantic.

Even Trump seemed wary of Hegseth's speech. Is Hegseth emerging as a rival during this slow-motion autocoup?