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it has more in common, in fact, with with the antebellum slaveholder preoccupation with (its vision of) medieval europe, a romantic notion of Anglo supremacy that you can see articulated, in similar form, during the early days of american imperialism at the turn of the 20th century.

rubio’s invocation of “western civilization” — defined here as racial and religious chauvinism, if not outright supremacy — is a rejection of the more egalitarian and universalistic notions that came out of america’s two revolutions.

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"O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!"

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Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

this sequence in the U.S. women’s curling match was pure cinema

llms destroying the lore tuber economy will be too w y l d once its hits the 40k community

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Classic Conan™️ pouring gasoline on the fire of modernity

AEW’s Legendary Heel staring right at the camera

Griffin and his Monster Friends

Detective Kermit J Frog

everything is collective make-believe (2026)

Beliefs serve at least two core functions.

1) they help us navigate the world
2) they serve as signals to manipulate others

Philosophers & psychologists have focused on the first while largely overlooking the second
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blindsight vampires but it’s peak wesley snipes channeling blade

a whole command structure of blades exploring the milky way

the ghost of lee atwater continues to haunt us

and yet the cursed brine remains unexplored

space exploration is truly the last cold war albatross hanging about our necks

Against the Slave Power: the Fugitive Liberalism of Frederick Douglass Douglass elaborated a political theory from his experiences as a slave, where institutions were directed against people like him. He had to become attuned to the differential character of law as it ap...

Here I talk about what I call Douglass's fugitive liberalism, by which I mean the way his constitutional liberal values interacted with the law and the state when the law and the state were turned against the people. Under-appreciated dimension of his political philosophy!

Misappropriating Douglass Frederick Douglass deserves every bit of the accolades heaped upon him, but he was not a libertarian—and this isn’t a close call.

Folks are doing the Douglass birthday thing, so I will do a short thread of essays I've written about him, or channeling him.

First is this piece pressing back against the belief among libertarians that Douglass was one of theirs. He wasn't. In fact he rejected Garrison's libertarianism.

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barry goldwater and his ideas have been disastrous for modernity

every wine mom is a thaddeus stevens in waiting

every yoga mom is a charles sumner in neon icon sauconys

every heavy lifts only gym mom is a creatine ulysses in the wings

"We waked up stark mad Abolitionists" - Salon.com Inside the New England big money, made off of slavery, that also funded the fight to keep slavery out of Kansas

I've been thinking a lot lately about how communities in the Antebellum North organized to protect Black Americans from kidnapping enslavers, and also how witnessing (and resisting) such kidnappings slowly radicalized a critical mass of white Northerners against slavery www.salon.com/2017/08/05/w...

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

“the chairman maintained that no republican candidate ran on the issue of segregation arguing the gop attracted support because southerners believe as we do in fiscal responsibility…less federal government and in steadfast anticommunism, not because they think we are softer o the civil rights issue”

Since October, hundreds of judges have ruled more than 4,400 times that the Trump administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully. Despite those rulings, the administration continued jailing people indefinitely, a Reuters review of court records found reut.rs/40gfILP

the core tenet of anti vax philosophy: 19th century maladies, 21st century medical bills

in this version of conservative world building is the south and Black people just not included?

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to build on this response to @professormusgrave.bsky.social, the ocean is such a brutal environment, much more than space, that they put a arms dealer and then legendary shark killer in charge of a research vessel

the roy scheider cinematic universe is just too w y l d

tom’s answer isnt wrong, it’s just the scope and length of transformation is a little longer than just the last forty years or so.

i would argue the modern republican party starts with andrew johnson and not lincoln

opportunism and moral rot isnt a strong answer to how we go from stevens to gaetz

its a great read!