sitting on the front porch in my rocking chair watching that Chesterton lad put a fence up across the way

Goddamn he just doesn't miss, culture commentary SSPK of 1.0 on the substack fr

Neil Gorsuch suddenly remembers that the White House was built on unceded Nacotchtank-Piscataway land

Duty is as heavy as a mountain, Alan

DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK

Not suicide, though. This is more like hegemonic patricide: The wayward, feckless, spoiled sons and daughters of hegemony turning about to kill Pa because they didn't get what they wanted for Christmas. The rest of the family watching in horror, of course.

Live footage of us winning the political argument against fascism: Nah but I'm not just clowning on OP, this is a real failure of understanding for a political science PhD student. Politics is in a crude sense about power and violence. Defeat in war is a political argument.

tempting but incorrect analysis ; actually Oppenheimer is avant garde experimental film about how emaciated you can make Cillian Murphy before people stop considering him hot

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Oh sweet, my niche account is relevant again! Oh, shit, my niche account is relevant again.

hey uh what the fuck

Officer, this is my Second Amendment anti-satellite missile. I own it for home defense and other lawful purposes.

Grover spent his war sitting happy, thumb on the trigger of his Vickers gun, "watering his Huns". He couldn't take civilian life afterwards, bouncing between the poorhouse and the tavern until he joined up with the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1920. He was accidentally shot by a sentry in Belfast.

You know, to all my China watchers out there, this is probably good to keep in mind as we think about the evidence for purges within the CPC right now...

The thing about this film is that it so badly wants to be Dr Strangelove except Dr Strangelove and Fail-Safe were critiques of valid policy failures (like launch delegation and security) and not just the hysteria of the no-nukes crowd instead of the dozen or so real crises in the world.

The real casualty of House of Dynamite discourse looks like it will be missile defense discourse. We are so far removed from serious public discussion of nuclear war that even a movie which tries to start that conversation ends up starting proxy debates on things people would rather argue about.

Week 4 of the War on Livers. Cabinets are empty. All booze in Readiness States 1 through 3 is gone and we're burning through the RS 4 inactive hedge (schnapps and weird liqueurs). The RS 6 inactive reserve bevs, like cooking wines and last year's office holiday party beers, will be gone by NOV 1.

So... Most national security civs are either furloughed or working unpaid. Troops are getting paid by increasingly legally sketchy means. Critical infrastructure is either already on standby or close to entering minimum safe operations. And we're sending an aircraft carrier to the War on Drugs?

Well of course I know him, he's me

Tearing down MAL and every Trump hotel would be fair recompense for this crime. And it accomplishes the moral necessity of impoverishing the Trump Crime Family.

The fucker is literally tearing down the White House. He thinks he owns the country.

First time this has ever happened for NNSA or predecessor orgs as far as I'm aware. M&O contractors continuing mission with carryover as far as I'm aware, but that money is finite. To best of my knowledge the site contractors have never had to wind down to a minimum safe level before.

if the stupid thing actually gets built, November 9th 2029 is gonna be a hell of a 40 year reunion party

I'm not nor have I ever been an artilleryman but I have designed high explosive warheads before. This is not really a common failure mode to the best of my understanding. Any milsky artillery folks wanna chime in on the odds?

“the president is less popular than the Vietnam war” should be a simply irresistible headline

This is the ballgame. There are more of us (patriots, any party) than them (regime dead-enders and Hessians). A lot more. We are everywhere on the front foot. We are emboldened by the great mass of happy people at our shoulders behind us. You could no more hold us back than the flood tide.

We're everywhere. There's millions of us, ordinary people of all types, united by a couple of things. Fealty to no authority save the Constitution, love of freedom, neighbors and country in that order, and the knowledge that it's a time for choosing. Tomorrow there will be no shortage of patriots.

This is why you dress up smart for protests.

live look at Joe's front door after someone narc'd on him to North Carolina regional SOBRnashi very sad tale, do not go to daytime grandma and kids in strollers protest or boom, 10 years deportation Siberia without right of correspondence

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

I found it pretty charming to learn that after Roger Taney died, sitting lawmakers called his death a "victory for liberty and the Constitution," suggested that he was probably burning in hell, and joked (?) that they'd rather hang him in effigy than do literally anything to honor his memory

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

At this hour 166 years ago John Brown and his band of 21 other men embarked on what is probably the stupidest, most righteous small unit action in this country's history. But it was a very evil time, and so 22 men went to start a holy war against the slave power and its Federal enforcers.

A rather confusing announcement because as far as I can see from the inside it is not substantially true. I don't claim to know everything happening at every lab and PA site but I have not heard anyone in my network say a word about NSE layoffs. Wright also... doesn't control contractor layoffs?

Supposedly Old Testament literate, sola scriptura right wing churches are literally consulting with the Witch of Endor for worldly advice from the dead sure am glad nothing bad happened to Samuel after he disturbed the spirit of Saul before battle with the Philistines

Every time one of you oddballs refers to me as Rocky, my better half throws a baby carrot at my head

median no kings protester meanwhile:

Really waiting for a brave soul in DHS to blow the whistle on *exactly* who is working up these too-convenient, obviously fake intel assessments. Seriously, the one remaining constant in the US-narcocartel strategic balance is "don't kill US cops, remember how bad they fucked us up for Kiki"

"MAGA doesn't understand even a kid's Sunday School version of Christianity" isn't a new or interesting observation, but to be indulgent, "we are saving God" is a kind of heresy that struggles to even fit in a category box

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead-- newrepublic.com/article/2016...

“I sure would like to go to work tomorrow.” Things I said as I prepared to go to bed.

Grindr ping in vault

Faine doesn't want you to know this (possible mind cop? must investigate) but it must be said:

In the affairs of men - like Crooked Bill Clinton with Ms. Lewinsky in the Oval Office, we love our Clintons don't we folks? - In the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. No waning, that's what they tell me, Sleepy Joe might be waning though.

Given the gross inaccuracies in the film, I’m really struggling with this recommendation. Nuclear war is bad; so are ill-informed public’s that will choose and pressure leaders into bad choices and worse outcomes based on poor education.

One of the peculiar throughlines connecting MAGA to the last generation of reactionaries is the belief that the Civil Rights Movement was something forced on the South by a federal government of Northern liberals. This myth is load-bearing and explains much about how they view modern government.

It's been really, really nice seeing the Catholic social justice tradition in the US feel like it's empowered to spread its wings again without risking censure after a long time of being suppressed by US Catholic leadership, and it's exactly what I was hoping for from Pope Bob.