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Dogs, philosophy, virtue, the transcendentals, House, books, opera, musical theater, horror, the gymnasium, papism, curmudgeonly connoisseurship, green carnations, eclecticism, … Hoosier living in southernmost California Etiam si omnes ego non
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The world is yet full of miracles and wonders and beauty and you.

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Everything suffers and everyone dies, so why not strive to make our time here, together, as warm, as compassionate, as caring, as kind, as good as it possibly can be?

submitted 14 days ago • 47 comments

The regime has posted signs at Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans, asking visitors to report "negative" historical interpretations. Hard to imagine a positive interpretation but it's probably just an excuse to shut down the park. www.sfgate.com/california-p...

submitted 9 hours ago • 51 comments

This is not the kind of thing you do if you love America.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Remember all the assholes in 2003 who insisted that we’d be greeted as liberators and called you anti-American for opposing the war and then changed their minds many years later to pretend like they always opposed the war? They’re doing the same schtick again.

submitted 7 hours ago • 72 comments

In the barrage of outrages, it's easy to forget that most of the people disappeared to CECOT are still disappeared.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

That last sentence really is the perfect distillation of NYT-brain: imagine thinking that you had the understanding of American political life necessary to understand what is or isn't a "fundamental" change but had no need to say whether those changes were good or bad.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

President Deals got tired of talking about deals and wanted to go home and watch some TV. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

My god. This story is just RELENTLESS. You almost have to admire the dogged determination of our entire mainstream media apparatus to center this one putative news item. Almost.

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

The thing is, even if you find her views correct, Bruenig just doesn't have the intellectual or journalistic chops to argue for them coherently or persuasively—and, she's allergic to nuance or deep consideration. It's like the worst of manual Thomism for the magazine-reading set.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Grandpa's brain doesn't work right anymore. Trump's brains are leaking out his ears.

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

submitted 17 hours ago • 116 comments

Selling our birthright (public lands) for a mess of pottage (tax cuts for the already very wealthy).

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Supposed to be close to 90 tomorrow. A/C quit tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Is the plan to pacify all of America’s Democratic-governed cities (and states) and rule them from Mar-A-Lago?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Trump declares war on cities “We must expand efforts to detain & deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as LA, Chicago, & NY, where Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. These, & other Cities, are core of the Dem Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base”

submitted 1 day ago • 1581 comments

Intentionally targeting non-combatants is unjust no matter who does it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The democratic Senate caucus should demand a censure

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

It has been three days since Kristi Noem, the head of the department of homeland security, said this in public. If meant literally, it describes the end of democracy in California. If not meant literally, would be nice for that to be clarified and for the troops to leave. bsky.app/profile/just...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments