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Struggling writer, renegade historian, trash culture archaeologist. Check out my work: https://linktr.ee/drownedinink
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In the interest of breaking up the politics talk here's my best sex story: I had to tell my then-boyfriend's dad that my eyes were vampiric levels of bloodshot because I had a bad allergic reaction from hiking earlier that day when actually it was an oral sex mishap from an hour ago.

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At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

submitted 10 hours ago • 931 comments

the people in LA putting their safety on the line right now to try and stop ICE are the bravest people we have got

submitted 12 hours ago • 95 comments

I hate the caricature of Americans as couch potatoes who don’t do anything about fascism. People in LA and NYC are doing the international legacy of stuff like the Battle of Cable Street proud.

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

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The new episode of the Medici Podcast is up, where I get to the Medici's last great contribution to history. medicipodcast.com/2025/06/07/e...

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I'm not going to lie, I want Mamdani to win the NYC mayor's race because I like the cut of his jib and for a number of ideological reasons. Also I believe Democrats like Cuomo need to have all of their prospects destroyed if possible...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

I read a screed somewhere that argued again that the Musk-Trump fight is just a bump in the road toward Peter Thiel establishing a dictatorship, there won't be any midterm elections, etc., and I flashed back to the days when I was convinced the PATRIOT Act meant democracy was over.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Battling the urge to go over my recent posts to see why someone I thought I got along with unfollowed me instead of something productive. Few things are worse for my George Costanza-esque tendencies than social media.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Bluesky when something funny happens

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I had to do the research to make sure this image wasn't made by @diamandahagan.bsky.social .

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By justifying all of this with claims of "antisemitism" Trump is doing more to discredit the pro-Israel cause than anyone else. Unfortunately he's also giving ammo to actual antisemites.

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