@dicknixon.bsky.social A Syracuse NY sighting: I went out to pick up lunch and I pulled up to a light behind a pretty rusty white mid-to-late 60s Chrysler Newport convertible with a Nixon, Now More Than Ever bumper sticker.

One thing I always come back to is that reactionary politics (nationalism, racism, patriarchy, hierarchical thinking) & liberal universalism really are fundamentally incompatible. And every democracy basically contains two nations, adherents to the former & adherents to the latter, and ...

@pattonoswalt.bsky.social Now that the era of peak streaming is over, I have to ask: Was there ever a discussion about Remy (and Linguini, I GUESS) hosting a kids' cooking show on Disney+? It seems like such a no-brainer, surely someone must have kicked that idea around at some point.

My number one disappointment with Bluesky is that we don't have a J. Jonah Jameson account with the quality and prolificity of @dicknixon.bsky.social.

Damnatio Memoriae Trumpi! It turns out this necessary task didn’t have to wait until January 20, 2029. It began at the Kennedy Center today.

IF YOU ARE STILL IN LINE TO BOO TRUMP, PLEASE STAY IN LINE

Boy, I sure do miss when Bluesky wasn't All-Platner-All-The-Time. I'm looking forward to hearing about other things occasionally.

The entire Republican midterm campaign strategy is to say that Dems want to cut your son's dick off, not just metaphorically but literally, and that either works or it doesn't.

The Voting Rights Act was built on an assumption by its authors (primarily Abe Fortas and Nicholas Katzenbach) that the South would only act in racist ways if allowed to and so had to be stopped from doing so at all times forever, and holy shit was that assumption dead on. -OS

The Evansville Press, April 10,1916

There are bigger problems with the world, however, today my child factory reset my Nintendo Switch and I lost my Animal Crossing island.

I would have zero visibility into whatever passes for a dark underbelly of Bluesky if it wasn't for Tom raising it to our attention. This is like the Piker debate. If it wasn't for The Bulwark constantly arguing over how much attention to give him, I would have still never heard of him.

When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.

this just such a boring rehash of 2006 politics. we need leaders who put criminals and traitors in prison. there is no unity without accountability.

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign

... the more that social infrastructure will be degraded, and eventually everything will fall apart, and we'll start the slow process of rebuilding. That's all reactionaries do: spend down the legacy other, better people build.

All of that -- every bit of it -- is counter to the worldview & temperament of MAGA. None of it would have happened if these fuckers had been running things. Reactionaries are parasites. They depend entirely on social infrastructure other, better people build. The longer they're in charge ...

Markets: Surely, this time, he's not full of shit!

Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

It’s other people’s introspection that built the world that allows psychopaths like this to thrive and I think it’s gonna take some introspection to figure out how to fix it

THE LOWDOWN was a delight amid a sea of horrors in 2025. I am very much looking forward to season 2. One question, though: @dallasgoldtooth.bsky.social joining the regular cast when? I'd be happy to see that guy in every one of my favorite shows.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

hey gen z welcome to republican governance

Hey @iwriteok.bsky.social, can you recommend a pocast to learn about the lore of Warhammer 40K, starting from absolute zero? I am in dire need of something non-real-world-related and I think I want to learn about this world instead.

The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they’re all like D+40

Rothkopf's Dark Woke manifesto: • We will fight for what we believe in • Winning means ending the threat to our country, our values, our institutions • Structural changes & big ideas must drive the agenda • Going back to the “good old days” is not the answer • Do not apologize for being Democrats

The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

And of course, if you stumble across a voter who actually does know anything about anything, chances are extremely high they are already voting Democrat! Mountains of evidence on this.

MAGA Man tries to beat up high school kids. Emphasis on *tries*. :)

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

One thing the business world could do is agree that a stint in ICE makes a candidate unhireable. Make it so that these guys need to spend the rest of their lives lying about their past. Make "Can you explain this gap in your resume?," a cultural joke. It's the least they can do.

The people of Minneapolis are going to be out there icing up sidewalks and streets like Macauley Culkin.

No notes. ✅

Thoughts and prayers for the families of all the people who will have to be hanged when this all over.

The stakes have been raised. The Democrats have got to run on putting these people in prison. They have to. Jobs, food, all the rest, but shooting a mother in the head on a public street? None of this Garland stuff. "The full force of the government will be brought to bear" on this and similar.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social In light of your discussion on Christmas music, may I present the station that rekindled my love for the music of the holidays: somafm.com/jollysoul/

Oh man, for the 2025 Behind the Bastards Xmas special, I really hope @iwriteok.bsky.social touches on Syracuse's Jerry Rescue. Probably the peak of my city's history of doing something awesome.

Guess I'll post this again

Wishing @jwhitbrook.bsky.social a Christmas exactly as merry as he deserves.

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

Alright, fine, I'll get the snowblower off the blocks.

We ain’t buying shit! This Friday ain’t “Black” ‘cuz we got each others’ back.

I am the Leo pointing meme every time I'm reading @tombreihan.bsky.social's Number Ones column (it's great, read it!) and he mentions his time in Syracuse.

What the fuck? I feel like I went into this weekend and somehow wound up in the goddamn Twilight Zone. What the hell happened?