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Iowa. Root beer floats. #YNWA. If martin buber and EM Cioran had a baby and it married Italo Calvino's punk rock estranged kid, and they had a kid. Middling. Former licensed attorney, video store owner and floor layer.

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We're basically the unwitting subjects of Mk-Ultra experiments run by the largest companies in the world.

04.03.2026 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 149    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

WHOA. Camp East Montana in El Paso opened in August and quickly became the deadliest ICE facility, with infamously terrible conditions.

Now ICE is closing it, just as they plan to open up a detention camp nearly three times larger in a converted warehouse just outside El Paso.

05.03.2026 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 155    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

If a person cant come up with a christian lobbying group there when we are in the throes of a very dominionist, nationalist christian political right, maybe they need to ask themselves why they instead, off the dome, know AIPAC

The NAACP is a lobby, but its critics can easily skew say, a way

05.03.2026 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Pecan pie

Pecan pie

I made a pie. For a twist, it has no corn syrup. Time will tell.

04.03.2026 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the self-abolition of Congress is fucking unbelievable

04.03.2026 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Silly ass one branch government

04.03.2026 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
W's in the chat, boys!

W's in the chat, boys!

White House communications director:

04.03.2026 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 204    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 4

how did we get here

04.03.2026 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 1

For weeks?

Fuck me, even by UCE standards this is cruel.

04.03.2026 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hope this person has a great day, is hydrated, a full 8 of sleep, etc, good luck storming the castle

That said, "i dont have the answers" to a 101 level lit theory pondering, oh, laddy, get yourself an Oulippo text and have your mind blown, i guess

04.03.2026 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

6 hours later, after the occasional "are you still there isaac" answered without affect or pause with a simple self-assured and pleasant uh hmm, you break

You have been waterboarded in a desert by isaac chotiner

He offers salvation
Drink of the sphinx's spring and be sated

04.03.2026 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The scariest Chotiner is yet to come

Its the phonecall where you say "ok, got my coffee, comfie chair, i'm ready.... shoot"

And isaac takes a deep, cleansing breathe in.... then slowly, leisurely, exhales at his own luxurious pace and calmly says "oh, no questions"

Then stays on the line

04.03.2026 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Trump’s β€˜quasi-dove’ era is over. Iran strikes expose his hawkish turn
David Smith
in Washington
Deploying the world’s most powerful military seems to exert an almost erotic fascination for Donald Trump

Trump’s β€˜quasi-dove’ era is over. Iran strikes expose his hawkish turn David Smith in Washington Deploying the world’s most powerful military seems to exert an almost erotic fascination for Donald Trump

This gave me such a rollercoaster of ennui and laughter that it nit only turned me into the joker, but i'm like 5 jokers back. I'm Cesar Romero joker.

04.03.2026 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Again: Not hyperbole, misinterpretation, or a joke that Christian Dominionism is a strain of apocalyptic accelerationism which VERY LITERALLY SEEKS to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world, & the people who believe this have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power

03.03.2026 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1502    πŸ” 677    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 47
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With Us or Against Us, Again Congress didn’t authorize this war, and the only response to questions is a loyalty test we’ve fallen for before.

Afghanistan started at 92 percent approval. Iraq started at 71. Iran started at 27. The "whose side are you on" rhetoric is identical. The country underneath it isn't. I wrote about how the framework works, and who's deploying it. www.readtpa.com/p/with-us-or...

03.03.2026 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2339    πŸ” 559    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 32

dawg

03.03.2026 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 134    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1
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Whitewashing Selma: The Trump Administration's Assault on Civil Rights Memory When Preserving the Past Becomes a Threat to Power

Whitewashing Selma: The Trump Administration's Assault on Civil Rights Memory #NationalParks open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

03.03.2026 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Yeah, its a blamegame purely for convenience, every military person ive ever met who went over there has a memory of doing inexplicable iran related war games or exercises, the u.s. doesnt do anything it doesnt want.

Trump being impulsive isnt bibi's fault, bibi has his own dumb bs to carry as is

03.03.2026 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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There are at least 10,000 Amcits in Qatar alone, and the US government is saying we are on our own

03.03.2026 06:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1385    πŸ” 517    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 64

The pt barnum bit was a gasp

03.03.2026 05:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Living human brain cells are now playing Doom Cortical Labs grew 800,000 human neurons on a chip. First they learned Pong. Now they're running Doom.

Had a convo about this the other night. Basically, i'm more freaked out at this than any of the squishy llm claims to "souls"

This is both awe inspiring and really spooky, this is just life, in a sense

They have to 'feed' the dish cells to keep them going

03.03.2026 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I do not think bouie works at the trans genocide consent factory

03.03.2026 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Guys just in an eternal bad mood as a mode of valorous confrontation

03.03.2026 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump/Hegseth operational security: at Joe’s Stone Crab, a restaurant a 2-minute walk from the White House, someone was having a conversation about the attacks on Iran that were going to start in 6 hours. Loud enough for the founder of @TMZ.com to recount it in real time with his podcast cohost.

01.03.2026 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1626    πŸ” 630    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 54
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for β€œArmageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been β€œinundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

03.03.2026 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 12680    πŸ” 6341    πŸ’¬ 1285    πŸ“Œ 4148

Sooner or later, the costs of disinvesting in state capacity become apparent. If you put more money into bombing places you need foreign service capacity more, not less

02.03.2026 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1267    πŸ” 324    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 7

Bouie and uncharitable?

Guy is way too nice, if anything

02.03.2026 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I dont think its a one size fits all explanation either, but anecdotally, there has been a big amplification in the us midwest of what i'd call evangelical lite or adjacent denominations or even people who look down on institutional religion but self-label believer that adopted a xian zionist pov

02.03.2026 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Impeach the cabinet

#impeachthecab

I just made that up but it feels right

02.03.2026 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I knew someone would do this, if not, i was, at ease, its been handled

02.03.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0