We're still working on 1619.

Former leftists, infected by Trumpism, are the most dangerous as they abandon history, compassion and reality.

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Ask at the link!!

Perpectual Three Dot Column Burning down humanities burns down democracy: April 19, 2026

Ask Larry Summers anything.

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Genius.

Pro tip: If you wake up with insomnia at 3 tomorrow a.m., open up @rickperlstein.bsky.social's "Reaganland." Carter-era heds all like today's news.

1924-1932 7

... and the Buckleyites had their own con, which was their claim that conservatism was driven by themselves, and not those louche pretenders.

"X" Marks the Spot ...a shared spot, that is.

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I don't think there's good evidence of Reagan campaign backchannels with Iran.

Why mute anyone?

Newsmaxxing A parable about how “news” works in America in 2026.

Country livin': a political parable.

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What did the person say?

I'm blocked from seeing the post you're responding to, but, yes: it is. In both secret recordings and contemporaneous notes.

Your moved goalpost doesn't even make sense.

Uh. I have 350 paid subscribers.

How do you build an audience?

They went with a click-bait headline that will be easy to take out of context (the gift is that when fascists post on platforms consumed by the general public and not just fascists ones, we can better see what they're up to), but I stand behind what I say here, and would be glad to discuss it.

Thurbsday Blurbsday If you love freedom....

If you love freedom, thank a lefty journalist.

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Not dying, writing.

I don't begrudge yours. But I just can't imaging shutting myself off from otherwise worthy writing because of where it's published. Throwing 'Stack a few bones seems about 100 notches down the list of compromised purchases all of us make all the time without a thought.

Then you wouldn't buy any books. 80% of books are published by the big 5 conglomerates, and I'm sure all have imprints that have published fascists. Houghton Mifflin, the 8th biggest firm, published and still publishes Mein Kampf.

Writers write to be read.

Toyoga.bsky.social, if I go to your house and point to all the books you have published by publishers whove published fascists (including Hitler!) will you no longer read anything from those publishers?

Watch the part of the Peter Jackson documentary where Paul shows Ringo at the piano what cords he can use for a song he's writing and why, which is... music theory.

Thank you.

That's knowing theory.

He might know theory, but the utterance under discussion does not evidence that.

You don't need to know the names of things to know theory.

The critic, however, did not. "Aeolian cadences" is not a thing, really.

They had a great deal of knowledge of music theory.