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scipioasina.bsky.social
History PhD with a research background in the ancient Mediterranean and Black Sea. Chinese American in Southern California. Husband and cat dad. Liberal, humanist, and Christian Universalist.
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This is the guy who wants to put autonomous robots in everyone's homes. Can't wait until they start seig heiling during the washing up.

this is the best one imo

The mobility of people at this elite level is so fundamentally unlike the mobility available even to their less famous colleagues, to say nothing of the vast majority of scholars (whether of fascism or of anything else), that it’s hard to imagine any practical “lesson” being drawn from this.

A swing voter is not a centrist. It's like, a guy who loves guns but has a gay sister, loves weed but hates food stamps because his cousin who owes him 50 bucks gets them. (Also, Osama was Iraqi.) You don't win that guy with a carefully crafted platform, you do it by not seeming fucking lame

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Are you ready to turn your TASTE BUDS into the RUBBLE OF STALINGRAD? Do you want your teeth to CHITTER like it's OPERATION BARBAROSSA TIME and you're in the LAST PANZER OUT? Want to watch ENDLESS NIGHT become ENDLESS DAY as you INDUSTRIALIZE YOUR HEART RATE to grind out MECHANICAL VICTORY?????????

I tell you, this is the piece I struggle with the most. I can grasp people liking his malice and his greed and his corruption, but the guy looks like a piece of shit, he always wears suits that look like shit on him, he’s tacky as fuck, I don’t get it.

The contrast between the feeding frenzy over the misleading Biden wheelchair story & this is infuriating.

Pope Leo about to drop some fresh interdicts

I, personally, am very tired of being stuck in a cycle of "GOP creates a crisis, voters bring in Dems to fix it, Dems fix it, voters throw them out and bring back in GOP, GOP creates even worse crisis than the last one" for the past 25ish years and counting in this country.

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray to be seen by others.” - Matthew 6:5

Scripture is great because you can hear how Jesus has to tell the disciples the same thing over and over again and you think to yourself "how are they not getting it" and then you contemplate :: waves hands at general milieu::

This isn't a racist dogwhistle. This is a stack of concert-quality speakers blaring racism into an arena.

The Taiwan Army fired its M142 HIMARS rocket artillery for the first time in Taiwan, totaling 33 rounds, on 5/12. All 11 HIMARS in Taiwan participated.

ohhhh for fucking sure dude, I'm sure this would be reported exactly the same if Obama had accepted to the Sky Palace from the petrostate

the president of the united states of america declares, loudly and clearly and without any ambiguity, that paying fair market value for any good is for suckers. the president wants a nation of thieves and liars, because thieves and liars are easily bought by other thieves and liars.

s-usih.org/2025/05/the-... Savage review by @notoriousrsg.bsky.social: "Little did Steinmetz-Jenkins know that, within a year of its publication, his volume would go from being a triumphant coup-de-grace against the liberal tyrannophobes, to an artifact of the shortest victory lap ever taken. "

This is such bullshit.

what is the point of existing moment to moment if thought is such a burden that it must be perpetually offloaded to machines

Wait are they becoming literal Know Nothings

Presented without comment

It is a testament to how lopsided discursively the US tilts towards Republicans that a GOP presidency can make deals with the Taliban, Ansarallah, and Hamas, thus far all fairly good deals, but a Democrat making forgoing military intervention in favor of a deal with Iran was a years long debacle.

This is a very consultant-brain type of thinking bc swing voters aren’t “centrists” by any meaningful sense of the world. Their most salient ideological characteristics are, like, a general disinterest in “the news” and a loose and absolutely incoherent set of political beliefs

The only thing I am sure of is that all the Democrats who think it is a genius idea to not call for Trump’s removal are going to look like colossal idiots no matter who writes the history books.

Future generations will marvel at the fact that Biden could have helped the Ukrainians destroy the Russian army in the field in 2022 and chose not to do it in exchange for… uh… well, I’m sure it must have been good.

May we become a nation worthy of Rumeysa Ozturk's faith.

AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

Deborah is a genuinely underrated biblical character imo

On the one hand, that's really sweet. On the other hand, holy shit academia is bleak if being disappeared doesn't get you out of dissertation work

in the gop tax plan, the top 0.1% gets more than all the households in the bottom half of america combined

I don't know what is funniest. The fact that their Y axis goes to 120%, them not being able to sort the dates properly, or the approval rating that would make Kim Jong Un blush.

Karl Marx was directly descended from Confucius and Xi Jinping is their love child. We all know that.

They're firing black people from the federal government. That's it. There's no nuance to this. It's just racism straight up.

The highest priest of 1.4 billion with a b people made a speech. How can we make this about us instead?

ICYMI: these are the only refugees they are making room for. Their vision for 🇺🇸 couldn’t be any clearer.

I think about this comic at least once a week

FDR's preface to the inaugural 1942 issue of Yank (the Army weekly magazine) hits different in 2025

Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!!

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."