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Just a dilettante amateur political science bird who lives in the US Pacific Northwest. If you want to know what I think, try my blogs at adviceunasked.blogspot.com and shinycroak.blogspot.com.
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This is some lovely infographic design

submitted 48 minutes ago • 0 comments

Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

submitted 3 hours ago • 22 comments

In the era that I studied when I was still part of the academic world one recurrent topic was that of "over-mighty subjects". This referred to subjects of the Crown who were themselves so powerful that they threatened the sovereign power of the Crown itself. In the US we have no sovereign, or ...

submitted 2 hours ago • 24 comments

"Mental illness" has historically been applied to - lgbtq people, people of color who resisted racism, women who had sex outside marriage or did anything a male relative disliked, leftists of all stripes, poor people and people who want non-traditional lifeways...

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

You know, my life would be improved if I never saw a picture of Elon Musk giving the Nazi salute again.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Lol! It's like a Soviet press release, though I'm dating myself. I suppose it's now like a Chinese press release.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

@irhottakes.bsky.social lol. You're absolutely right. Foreign policy just doesn't carry much weight with most voters.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

He's failed at making them the villains, but he's certainly making their lives miserable. I wonder what his address is.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

So if Peter Thiel is the chairman of Palantir, does that make him Sauron?

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

"There is a stubborn tendency among historians and the general voting public in democracies to admire steadfastness and consistency in political figures. (1/3)

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

People may not believe in Biden's prosperity, but they believe in losing it.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

We really need to lock them up, you know.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

I knew they'd get around to Jews eventually.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

All this talk of "efficiency" exists because Americans are taught to be misers. So many of us are so sure that if they pinch pennies, it will somehow make them rich that they'll support penny pinching, even if it means giving up all manner of rights.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

This always was in the cards. I hope the ukrainians have alternative technology planned.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 22 hours ago • 49 comments

Impeach the President, and Donald Trump, too.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Let's say their names: * General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: FIRED FOR BEING BLACK * Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE * Admiral Linda Fagan, Coast Guard Commandant: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE All replaced by less qualified white guys.

submitted 22 hours ago • 82 comments

Snicker snicker snicker

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

To accept this post in this circumstance is to demonstrate that you are unfit to hold it. To accept this post is dishonorable.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

They're planning on committing atrocities, possibly within the USA itself.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The purge of the military has begun. We’re getting closer to the time when every member of the military, active or retired, is gonna have to look deep inside themselves and decide where they stand. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments