Oh hello you have caught me experiencing the stomach bug my kids brought from school
Doctor of History at LSE International History. Book on the Russian Constitutional Crisis of 1993 forthcoming. I use to live in DC and do public policy, geopolitics, and anti-extremism. Dyslexic Academic. Find a way or make one! he/him
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Oh hello you have caught me experiencing the stomach bug my kids brought from school
These muppets again
That woman is a queen
Days of Rage and The Terrorist Nextdoor are two great books on evolution of US domestic terrorism
Good write up I was an analyst covering Christchurch attack for Stratfor in 2019 it still haunts me
I did not ask to know anything about her or her activities and yet the British press insist I must. I suspect so they can justify their own search history as “research”
That’s a thought that’s going to fester
I thought they would be obsessing over the Bony Blue tour but I guess not
Do not mourn the bang bus: For it comes for thee
Good smash the infernal machine
Follow up what constitutes conservative beliefs these days according to these people I’m curious
What the bloody hell!?!
it does seem like mainstream media types are totally unequipped to even describe let alone parse this kind of hyper online political violence
From Yeats, The Second Coming: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." Seems pertinent.
Small victories
Vitamin D has been helping
I had to explain to a room full of increasingly horrified British people who Kash Patel is
It's worth asking why every elite institution is issuing statements like this rather than pointing out the obvious fact that the institutional right commits and glorifies violence far more than the left. Is there a reason you feel you can't say that out loud? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
Of course I wrote my MP a very stern letter chastising her over this rudeness. I think this is clear evidence I am assimulating well.
I choose to live as a free man and speak thus.
I believe the term is dilettantes
I think a pretty banal but logical explanation for the behavior of the pundit class around recent events. Is that it’s all a game for them they don’t actually have any stakes not the way a lot of other folks do. And they can’t quite comprehend that someone would take their game so seriously. 🙄
Brazil drops mic www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I feel like I’m improving getting a better sense of the colors
Yup be nice if more people recognized that
Also, she’s a young woman who is outspoken in her beliefs on climate action and social justice I mean really the fact she lives rent free in these guys heads is bizarre
I increasingly suspect there’s a strong gender element to this. It fits within the Epstein scandal men of a certain wealth bracket often see when it has status and commodities when one dares to challenge his paradigm, they react very negatively
Link man the link!
There ministers of state how exactly are we NOT supposed to take what they say seriously
Violence is a fire once you start you can’t control it and it will burn you
Rather reminds me of today’s New York dinner party pundit class
In the Russian case, these were the supposed liberal intelligencia mostly Moscow St Petersburg based who were very dismissive and stuck up towards people of a more conservative mindset, and also had a lot of of ties to western media as a result, western media tended write through their perspective
I can send you some direct quotes if I can dig them up, but it’s very interesting in that. There’s a similar dynamic to the US where there was a particular class of people who had an outsize influence on the media
Oh, they’re to busy being praised as visionary leaders, having abandoned the sinking ship after blowing holes in it
Which is all true, but that was also an accurate description of Boris Yeltsin administration. What really irritated me is how dismissive they were of the constitution which had been amended hundreds of times in an effort to make it functional and democratic
Russian constitutional crisis of 1993. The western press NYT especially really delegitimized the parliament accusing it of having a Soviet mentality and being elected under Soviet law and being full of former communist party members
8 year olds miniature painting is improving.
Day 3 tube strike. Who should I be shouting at
Has a Supreme Court justice ever been impeached? First time for everything.
Teaching timetables published. Monday 10am-2pm...well I guess I will sleep all Tuesday.
😆at least the Bush guys can fight
"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner."
“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them”
Oh how the poets will sing of that fallen realm where once liberty ruled and rich and poor stood equal in the light of freedoms day.
It really is hubris isn’t it. A unconquerable Empire of Liberty brought low by unmatched hubris
Is the speaker of the house legitimately up there saying that American citizens should consent to military occupation and the full suspension of their God given rights. For this, we fought a revolution!
Even with that officer being completely stone face, you can see the second hand embarrassment is causing him physical pain
Personally I’d love some old fashion inquisiting around here. Lot of people misusing religion for their politics
The Khan is ever victorious
The justices make mockery of the law in both its text and it’s spirit
It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.
So racial profiling is now legal and encouraged well 🤬
Oh love za floofer
Book Proposal submitted lets see how this goes.
Nice of Tapper to finally grow a pair
He reminds me of Sam Rayburn, and that is the highest compliment. I can pay a politician.
Chicago is collectively telling Orange boy to just go ahead and try it make their day
But libertarians get themselves and their kids they’re privatized vaccines. They really just don’t want to pay taxes to vaccinate other people. Excuse me while I scream into a pillow.
My kids friend who is over for a play date said make sure my phone was turned on at 3pm for the test because it’s the law 🙄
We eradicated polio within the US and smallpox around the world you worm brained buffoon!
Also, as someone who does legal history, the fact he advocated for the indigenous people in a court of law is a really interesting point to look at
Yes, I know all the caveats about him framing everything through a Christian teleological world view, but as an American anytime, the whole Christopher Columbus debate comes up he’s a good person to point to from the time. Who confirmed yes Columbus was a genocidal ass.
Oh I just admire his defense of indigenous rights and I use him in my class to illustrate how the argument that we should judge people based on the values of their time is somewhat bunk and value of human dignity are universal
@davidveevers.bsky.social hi how much is Bartolomé de Las Casas going to feature in your new book
This provokes the same feelings, a 4th century priest would feel seeing Huns quarter horses in a Church it’s beyond the pale it’s desecration it’s sacrilege
I definitely would throw something
Of course they wouldn’t have to if labor had implemented sensible policies rather than trying to win back the racist granny vote
Seeing some traction from the Greens and Lib Dems seems that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. As Reform gets more attention, people pay more attention to the lunatics and grifter that make it up. They start looking for other alternatives.
Oi good luck mate.
Pride without prejudice x
The most important news from today's reshuffle:
So when you fire all the competent people with qualifications and replace them with incompetent dilettantes this happens
Here’s my long pro-BlueSky thread. I like it here. /ends
I thought they did a big name change yesterday. Did somebody forget to update the letterhead hehehe
Yes they are multiplying at a exponential rate
Plagerist I gave him a instant block
After all, we have friends everywhere
I can’t help but think that while senior editorial staff are concocting a new series of opeds attacking Joe Biden’s age or has me two gone to far. Intrepid and determine staff are quietly pushing protest further and further up.
Although to be fair, I have noticed that the protest in Chicago and DC have received a lot more coverage on CNN and other outlets like WTOP then previously.
Yup I just paid the bloody thing again
Yeah immigration has crossed the threshold into something completely irrational
Even by recent declining standards this is a truly dumb thing to write in the newspaper
Jesus Christ alive. This is lunatic territory.
Yall remember when Obama wore a tan suit and it was beyond the pale
When President Obama worked in the Oval Office without wearing a suit jacket, the news networks went crazy because he was, in the words of this UPI caption, "breaking a tradition of former U.S. President George W. Bush"
Private Eye has been having a field day with this
This week The Cold War takes a look at a schism in the Catholic Church in Latin America that saw church leaders siding with leftist movements in favour of taking action on behalf of the poor and downtrodden. It's a look at Liberation Theology. youtu.be/Dfu2I_LTKt4
See I sometimes get students who tell me homosexuality is unnatural and then I show them stuff like that. Nature is weird and horny
For the Khan!
If you excuse me!
This is the problem a class of failson plutocrats whose understanding of violence is refracted through popular culture and misogynistic tropes. Of course it doesn’t matter none of them have seen the elephant as they are narcissistic vacuums incapable of empathy. A pox a pox on all of them!
Okay I got to hand it to him the man can campaign if he can govern then he is going to be a force to be reckoned with
Will no one rid me of these meddlesome false priests!
WHO DID THIS!!?? 🤣😆🤣
Someday, probably soon there will be quite the wave of. Oh I never thought AI was all it was cracked up to me. I am keeping the receipts. And there will be Shaming!
And a real weirdo
And remember under their rules, I don’t have to prove anything. I only have to have them disprove me. 😙
