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Writer | Founder of Swash Labs | Truman Project National Security Fellow | rogue.substack.com | he/him We deal in truth.

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I mean, don’t get me wrong - it is absolutely not a good time for them to be making a deregulatory argument, considering, you know, everything. But if we weren’t rocketing down the Autocracy Waterslide, I think there’d be some things worth considering in there.

25.07.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

my brother in christ, what do you think you are supposed to do after seizing the means of production? Just sort of chill? ok

25.07.2025 04:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I finished reading Abundance. It has its problems but I don't understand where all the handwringing about it is coming from. NIMBYism is bad and we should make it easier to build houses. A lot of people calling themselves Marxists out here seem to have skipped the economic parts of Das Kapital

25.07.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Mossimo. Stussey. Abercrombie.

24.07.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Tommy Lee Jones in No Country for Old Men looking up disdainfully from his newspaper

Tommy Lee Jones in No Country for Old Men looking up disdainfully from his newspaper

When I see someone saying β€œwhen was the last good Spielberg movie?”

22.07.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 193    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 3

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters β€” the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. β€” are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

15.07.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 39368    πŸ” 10440    πŸ’¬ 1039    πŸ“Œ 451

Besides, like Joel Silver replied when someone asked if he thought what he made was art: "No. I make shit. I buy art."

09.07.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He made an auteur piece! Pain and Gain! It was wild as hell!

09.07.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think we need to bring back the sea shanty craze but this time for union songs. I want 500 TikTok covers of Process Man

03.05.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1634    πŸ” 250    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 23

You think you can imagine how big the sun is? Fuck off! You can't!

29.04.2025 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

no

09.04.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, sorry, I’m trying to delete it

27.03.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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WILYERRRRRR #redsox

27.03.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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21.03.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1805    πŸ” 443    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 48

Listen to me, Democrats everywhere, you have got to be saying this kind of shit right now all the time like she has been. The literal least you can do. At least pretend like you have a fucking spine.

20.03.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2009    πŸ” 410    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 2
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17.03.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Speak frankly as the wind

03.03.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 197    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this multitude?

07.03.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 351    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 5

The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar.

16.03.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 701    πŸ” 129    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 4

[They stab Caesar.]

15.03.2025 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6099    πŸ” 1774    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 137

β€œβ€˜The pain we feel comes from them, not ourselves,’ said the banners, and people cheered, certain of all the certainty. But the next day they’d wake up and find that what had hurt in them still hurt.”

- Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

15.03.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe genesis of everyone’s pain had to be external, such was their certainty. And so legislators legislated, building border walls, barring citizens of there from entering here. β€œ

15.03.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe performance of certainty seemed to be at the root of so much grief. Everyone in America seemed to be afraid and hurting and angry, starving for a fight they could win. And more than that even, they seemed certain their natural state was to be happy, contented, and rich.β€œ

15.03.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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15.03.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 165    πŸ” 83    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 14

Today would be a good day to walk down to your local library and get a library card.

13.03.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1990    πŸ” 239    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 21
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14.03.2025 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

it doesn't matter if the CR was bad or anywhere near good; as long as lawlessnes reigns supreme in Washington you don't vote for a single GOP bill or a single GOP nominee, why is this so fuckin' hard to understand

14.03.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6265    πŸ” 1328    πŸ’¬ 107    πŸ“Œ 93

Too much is at stake not to keep up the pressure on the Senate Democrats up to the very moment of the vote.

14.03.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3115    πŸ” 703    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 31

I can't believe calling Democratic Senators to convince them to do one of the only things they can do while the whole goddamn ship is sinking is necessary, but I am glad and thankful for Democrats from Minnesota - provided the ones in the Senate do what's right and keep doing it.

14.03.2025 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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