David_j_roth: Every idiotic show of force is an admission of weakness from institutions that are out of ideas and know it. If it leads to nothing else, I believe that everyone who sees this will never forget it. defector.com/they-are-ins...

Every idiotic show of force is an admission of weakness from institutions that are out of ideas and know it. If it leads to nothing else, I believe that everyone who sees this will never forget it. defector.com/they-are-ins...

They Are Insecure For A Reason | Defectordefector.com You have probably forgotten about the guy who worked at National Public Radio and got so upset because of how woke it was that he wrote a furious post about it for Bari Weiss’s newsletter, which I bel...

We've violenced our way into this situation and, goddamn it, we're going to violence our way out.

we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas dot gif

gifs are here baby!!

(I was on mobile lol)

curses!!

You have to be using a computer to post a GIF on Bluesky?

The desktop web version got the gif button a bit before the Android mobile client did (but now the android mobile client does have the gif button!)

Is there one for iOS?

My wife, watching Eric Adams speaking on CNN: this guy sounds like an idiot and also sounds like a cop Me:

"uniformed violence workers" fuckin gold

Could it possibly be that the kids are being kicked out because donors are saying end this or no check this year?

I'm sure that has a lot to do with it.

What will become of Baroness Minouche Shafik?

Great essay. The appeals to the name of “safety” by the powerful while constantly escalating in ways that deteriorate both their opponents’ and their own safety strike me as quite similar to the assertion that the only safe place for Jews is a country addicted to creating terrorists by the thousand.

This is such an excellent piece.

Thanks very much.

Loved it as always. I wish you had gone more into telling bad-faith actors and their remoras to fuck off.

Good piece! The refutation of reality seems to be the ultimate expression of power. We both know this is insane, but you cannot say so because I forbid it.

The sooner people figure this out... bsky.app/profile/acco...

The authoritarian system is profoundly weak. More important, it is keenly aware of its own weakness. This is why it must always respond to *any* potential destabilizing event with maximum force: To threaten the community into submission before people notice the whole thing is ready to collapse.

Strange that NPR scowled at Musk for being called state-affiliate media.

Remember VOA did too? Lmaoo that was pretty funny.

Pretty funny to see journos being angry at Musk.

great piece. incredibly, i just shared it to facebook and got this message:

Absolute banger David

Thanks very much.

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