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Adrian Bonenberger@bonenberger.bsky.social |
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Long excerpt from a memoir in the WSJ about how a woman wonders why her husband killed himself and then at the end there’s a photo of her with her new husband that comes more or less out of the blue and ending it on that specific note is so jarring www.wsj.com/health/welln...
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Thus it can be true both that Biden is unfit for the presidency, and also that to say so is a betrayal of him in accordance with deep-seated conceptions of how our society understands proper behavior during times of struggle
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Whether a thing is true or not has become the provenance of philosophers. In the past it simply meant whether or not a fighting man would answer their lord’s call to war
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Our word “true” descends from the Old English word for loyalty (trywe) and the Vulgar Latin term for members of a king’s warband (dructis) and describes the relationship between a military retainer and his lord
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Roe!!
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Adrian Bonenberger
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The most common reaction I get from right wing friends is “they don’t mean it,” which was pretty convincing before they overturned Row v Wade
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Sam W
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Everybody needs to see this quote, understand that this is what Project 2025 is about, and internalize the fact that this is what the Republican Party is doing.
This is not a conspiracy theory from the left. They are saying it out loud.
#politics #news
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Everyone knows Ivan the Terrible, but have you ever heard of Ivan the Unlovable? I realize that didn’t quite come together the way I thought when I started writing it down but I’ve gone too far to back out now
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Wrote a piece for The Boston Globe about Ukraine mobilizing young men for their military, and how to prevent conscription from returning, the U.S. ought to raise the maximum age of enlistment www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/05/o...
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Rory Blank (on vacation)
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spy vs spy redux (2023)
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
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Here's a guest link to an opinion piece the NYT published today that is actually worth your time and attention: Gettysburg’s Lost Cause Problem www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...
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Nathan Bernhardt
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the economist sided with the confederacy in the civil war, idk that you're gonna be able to make their Top 100 list of worst shit with ageism and ableism
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John Schwartz
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Who's actually pushing violence? It's Trump, writes @maggieastor.bsky.social in this great NYT takedown of Kevin Roberts' "second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”"
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/u...
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Timothy Burke
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I was ranting about this to someone EARLIER TODAY who was going on and on about some picture of Justin Timberlake looking like a doose & saying "Millennials thought this looked cool" & it's like nobody thought this was cool, we mocked this contemporaneously
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Jonathan M. Katz
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Gonna stake out this one in case it comes true: Trump names Melania as his VP
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brent
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[me telling my story how I survived a plane crash and lived on a deserted island for a year] it was crazy [friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?
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Adrian Bonenberger
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I know, I know what day it is
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Landed at JFK as it was getting dark and now with the fireworks displays it feels like people are celebrating my arrival home from Ukraine
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Adrian Bonenberger
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If you see more bad in America than good, frankly, you’re not gonna like many other places, particularly the further back you go in history
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Gerry Doyle
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anyway. america is a good place. its government has done a lot of bad things, and it's ok to acknowledge those while also embracing the goodness, of which there is also a lot
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Anya Taylor-Ham
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look if this country is going to have insane authoritarian leaders can we at least get one with a little showmanship
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Adrian Bonenberger
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I’m fine with political non-participation, I’m fine with just about any way of interacting with democracy up until the point where one begins opposing democracy as a valid form of government at which point I think it’s time for a person to leave the community
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Adrian Bonenberger
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You’re free not to vote in a democracy but people who have a moral objection to democracy I think maybe ought to have their citizenship revoked
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Pwnallthethings
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This is a dumb article, but also isn't the author's first rodeo, and his other writing shows the real reason he doesn't vote
"But my principal reason for declining to take part in elections is moral. It involves, I suppose, a private objection to democracy itself." theweek.com/articles/802...
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Adrian Bonenberger
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How leftists gave the Democratic Party the blueprint for 8 years of electoral success and also the key to renewed U.S. industrial competitiveness against China and how business friendly centrist Dems tossed a pick 6 to Donald Trump (and are about to do exactly that again)
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Tempered my instinctive revulsion at the aesthetic with admiration for the family’s unity
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Adrian Bonenberger
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One thing I love about Ukraine is that it is illegal to develop private property within 100m of a body of water. That is all public property. Now some people break or skirt the law of course. But you can always get loud about it
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Didn’t read the piece but I can say without any doubt that voting and participating in local politics is the easiest way to have a vastly disproportionate effect on the laws and regulations and budgets that get passed in your town
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Shogun Chronicles: the Ben Franklin Edition
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The Shrimpening 🎩🦐☕️🫖🪸🐚
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perhaps one of history’s small mercies is that ben franklin never visited japan
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Adrian Bonenberger
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I have heard that sand tiger sharks grow to 10 feet in length and that they frequent the Long Island Sound. Are sharks well studied in the Long Island Sound and if so do you know of any good resources on the subject?
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Saw a family of four at the airport and everyone was wearing matching black suede fedoras. Mom, dad, brother, sister
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Tim Mak
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Only 3% of Russian missiles, drones, and guided bombs hit military targets in Ukraine, with 97% aimed at civilian infrastructure, according to Ukraine's OSCE delegation. In the past week alone, Russia targeted civilian infrastructure with over 800 guided bombs.
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Andy Richter
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“Yeah, yeah, sure, I know what he’s done to others, but I’ll be the one helper that he doesn’t try to destroy” - Huge Craven Pieces of Shit Who Never Learn
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Adrian Bonenberger
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It’s going to be a horrible ride to the end but watching them all ultimately turn on each other will give the tragedy we’re about to live through at least some sense of closure
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Fearmongering about the people in Trump’s preferred think tank promising to end civil rights and women’s suffrage and withdraw the U.S. from NATO. When asked to clarify they say “repeal the 20th century”
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Remind me, when Sulla returned to Rome he sat down and talked through the political problems with Rome that led to his political enemies denouncing him right? That’s how it went I think, I forget
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Not only are they traitors to the Republic, they should not be welcome in any civilized country after what we saw them do in Germany between 1933 and 1945
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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one thing democrats need to understand is that in this moment transparency is their ally
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Bernie Ride or Dies offering spirit bomb energy to the K Hive mostly to spite the Clinton dead-enders who continue to scapegoat Sanders for their own candidate’s unique lack of charisma and inexcusable loss to Trump
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Adrian Bonenberger
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If Trump is elected, the recent horrifying Supreme Court cases are going to look tame by comparison. The difference between seeing one of the shambling fish-men of Innsmouth and seeing a Shoggoth
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Adrian Bonenberger
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What they want is a return to the 19th century. They are talking openly about it. That is their project. It’s not hysterical to say it, it’s the truth.
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Adrian Bonenberger
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The far right which is in charge at Heritage does not see it as “more qualified,” it sees white Christian men as the only ones who are qualified, and all other races, religions, and genders as equally and absolutely unqualified to do anything but serve
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Adam Serwer
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I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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The Shrimpening 🎩🦐☕️🫖🪸🐚
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this greek trireme is slow as shit. we’ll never get to coachella
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Pwnallthethings
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(bell curve meme) dumb: the president is elected by people voting for president and him getting to 270 US constitution: noooo noo actually they're elected by the EC electors, and the state legislatures get to Jedi: the president is elected by people voting for president and him getting to 270
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Adrian Bonenberger
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More than the racism I think is the cult of the me, and the cult of the I want to be rich and not be taxed, and a deep culture of incuriosity and anti-intellectualism
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Jeffrey Vagle
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Adrian Bonenberger
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Oh yeah, I agree, just giving an example of the file clerk phenomenon
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Adrian Bonenberger
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JD Vance, the king of the MAGA suck ups, was a USMC PAO
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