Listen folks I do not know what 2026 has in store but I do know John Fetterman is going to get a lot more racist

2026: the year it happens

Was just carded at the bar despite the actual Bluesky age of 38

The amount of people getting dogwalked by Marjorie Taylor Greene's wallet inspector bit is beyond embarrassing.

“There are 4,000 daycares within 20 miles of Boston!” Ok, that’s honestly less than I expected. A lot of people live there fyi

Real cool that the editorial position of the NYT is that Mamdani is an existential threat to Jews everywhere because of their twisted, bad faith interpretation of everything he says while the vociferously antisemitic MTG is just a sweet lil’ angel

MTG is anti-democracy. You're not pro-democracy just because you've broken with Donald Trump. She ~literally~ still thinks the 2020 election was stolen and supports J6 rioters. When did everyone get so stupid???

Viewing the promulgation of real harms as simply “passing a bill” is an extension of the same worldview that excuses the invasion of Iraq as a mere “policy mistake” and not a crime against humanity

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The 3 genders

Real cool that the editorial position of the NYT is that Mamdani is an existential threat to Jews everywhere because of their twisted, bad faith interpretation of everything he says while the vociferously antisemitic MTG is just a sweet lil’ angel

Harvard Law professors will publish anything. “US citizenship law has always followed the precedents of Roman adoption practices” No it didn’t. That isn’t true

Roman History is just a bunch of guys assuming what worked 50 years ago will work this time and then when it doesn’t they decide that what thy need to do is try something that worked 100 years ago

I remember that one! 😃 love how the Victoria has its leg actually off the surface of the cowl. Such a beautiful addition.

Harvard Law professors will publish anything. “US citizenship law has always followed the precedents of Roman adoption practices” No it didn’t. That isn’t true

sure looks like it

I know precious little about Vermeule (and want to keep it that way) but his entire deal seems to be recognizing that there is no precedent for integralism in the US founding so he seeks it in other stuff that he assumes because he doesn’t know it, no one knows enough about to fact check him

Visited the Sunken Treasures exhibit at the Fernbank Museum in Atlanta it included a number of incredible artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean, including the ram of a ship lost during the first Punic war. The dedicatory inscription was even still legible!

As the Trump phenomenon was beginning in 2015 I remember being struck by how much his rallies seemed like a therapy group for old people with at least one adult child who has stopped speaking to them.

Merry Christmas from Tribunate! Here’s a past video on the anti-Roman subtext of the gospel nativity narratives, as well as a reflection on resistance in Palestine from the past to the present The Anti-Romanism of the Gospels youtu.be/XHE7QIgUJyY

white old people who lobotomized themselves with talk radio and cable news, the ones who needed gutter racism to wash down all the treats brought to them by an empire that turned the world into a killing field for their comfort, of course they are the ones to mostly likely embrace AI slop

Feel like this is the Rosetta Stone for understanding how Trump became a semi-divine figure for people who have alienated themselves from everyone in their lives

[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service

And even though it (almost certainly) isn’t his actual birthday, here’s my video on the historical Jesus, or at least how we can state with conviction that he was a historical individual youtu.be/o5GdcSFiRq0

December 25: A really great day to remind people who try and tell you otherwise that actually, Mithras didn’t even have a birthday—he was born from a rock 🪨—and Christmas really doesn’t have anything to do with Mithraism. Mythbusting: the gift that keeps giving historical truth.

Merry Christmas from Tribunate! Here’s a past video on the anti-Roman subtext of the gospel nativity narratives, as well as a reflection on resistance in Palestine from the past to the present The Anti-Romanism of the Gospels youtu.be/XHE7QIgUJyY

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

It’s true

he calls the social war "the war"

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Wars of course happen for reasons completely unrelated to social history and class struggle

The way conservatives see the concept of public health people they don't like dying is a plus for it. If there was a disease that could be controlled via massive racism it'd be suddenly the only one they took seriously.

Probably bad that even centrist and now liberal institutions regard the relatively mild intervention in order to slow the spread of a deadly disease as a mistake. Really not comforting to think how this will impede response to a future pandemic

The Biden DOJ had a perfectly legal avenue to release this to the public—a response to a FOIA request. They may have even been legally obligated to produce it in response to the FOIA request. And they decided not to, to protect Donald Trump’s reputation? What?

Dan Flashes is funded by the Koch Foundation.

Reading at the bar is cool, actually

More than ideological allies, I think this is best described as solidarity between people who are fucking terrible at their jobs

Not a surprise that the Magazine overseen by Israeli gulag guard has no problem with American gulags.

Buy it now because I promise this will be the most popular Christmas gift of 2026

Thank you Audible, very cool!

As a classical liberal in the Bari Weiss intellectual tradition I know I can’t stop anyone from watching this, but if you do choose to do so please remember that it is making Stephen Miller very sad when you do. Can you live with that on your conscience?

Posted it

I’m all for skepticism of ancient sources and interrogating them for Pro-Roman bias but if you don’t know about Polybius and his connection with the Scipio family, don’t make claims like this!

I’m going to watch the Pinker / Douthat God debate at COSM! Already bought tickets

One of the clearest indicators that Bari is not particularly bright is that she really thinks she’s getting away with it, that America views her as a principled liberal dedicated to upholding robust debate

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Reiterating that Trump explicitly requested the release of a sex trafficker and used US diplomatic pressure to do so. Cannot understand why Democrats do not take this slam dunk messaging opportunity to tie Trump to a vile misogynist with .1% approval among women and run with it.

If I was not opposed to sports betting on principle I think I would be good at it