🙃 I know—I liked the joke.
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🙃 I know—I liked the joke.
🙃 You laugh because of the modern usage of the name, but the citizen soldiers of Thespiae held their own in many Greek wars.
REMEMBER THE 800 THESPIANS!!!
We have so fetishized the Spartans that popular culture ignores that they were a minority of the Greek soldiers who fought and died at Thermopylae.
(This is true—look it up! I agree it sounds funny with the modern meaning of "thespian").
He gave a very good answer.
WaPo gift article: Free trade, free markets, anti-slavery, anti-colonialism.
The 250th anniversary of "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith.
wapo.st/4s1yF1d
Unlocked NYT article. Why Vance the ideologue may be the greater threat to American liberty.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...
🤔 That there IS no leader? Which is not unusual for a party out of power.
🙃 I just bucked the "Democratic establishment" and contributed to Mills in Maine. I understand the concept of "backing the candidate with the best chance in the general", but I think they are being too driven by early polls
Oh they are saying this about Haitians too.
National socialism is government dictatorship, not allegedly on behalf of some proletariat, but for a very exclusionary definition of nation ("Volk").
MAGA is generally xenophobic (even against "xenos" born here).
"Resist, Rebel, Rebuild" was Daredevil's cry after a criminal gained Executive power in his city.
No resemblance to real life at all.
NYT unlocked article
This does cross lines other Presidents have not crossed.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/o...
I took part in a panel at the recent Principles First summit, and was overjoyed to share the stage with Jessica Riedl and Francis Fukuyama, and the whole thing is available online, if you want to watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiUJ...
"Speaker Johnson must immediately reconvene the House so that we may vote on a war powers resolution."
Full New Dem Leadership statement:
Agreed. Unwise and illegal, but at least a commendable goal.
My fear is that this makes the justified overthrow of the regime LESS likely.
The people claiming to be "Constitutional conservatives" are the ones least worthy of that label.
In memory of Neil Sedaka.
And in memory of better times in America.
🎵There was a time when strangers were welcome here.🎵
music.amazon.com/albums/B0DQL...
The Trump Administration has continued to weaponize the federal government and abuse its power to threaten and intimidate anyone who doesn’t bend the knee to them.
I’m running because Maine deserves a Senator who will stand up to him — and it’s clear that’s not Susan Collins.
For what it’s worth, I don’t have any tattoos.
To my friends on the left:
Listen to Republicans, former Republicans, and conservatives talk about MAGA's threat to America in far more detailed and scarier terms than you often hear even on Bluesky.
"Breach of protocol" is understatement—ICE committed a 4th amendment violation.
I believe Elizabeth Warren applauded one of Trump's market-bashing ideas during the SOTU too.
To my friends on the left:
Listen to Republicans, former Republicans, and conservatives talk about MAGA's threat to America in far more detailed and scarier terms than you often hear even on Bluesky.
Lots of people used Totenkopf symbols.
As I said, his words seem more fascistic to me than his art.
@michaelsteele.bsky.social: "Trump wants to stoke violence and he wants to use the levers of government to do it…If we don't feed the beast it starves. And that is what happened in Minnesota. We didn't feed the beast of violence with a violent response, and it starved.
From the Principles First National Summit:
This group of moderates, conservatives, Republicans, and ex-Republican did nothing but cheer the people of Minneapolis.
They are viewed as a ray of hope—Americans standing against tyranny when so many others find it inconvenient.
Croatian nationalist. 🤔 Not really that much better.
🙃 I suppose since I argued there is not much dif between Hitler and Stalin, it is inconsistent of me to fine tune my taxonomy of fascists.
@nategowdy.bsky.social: "The law can say you're free to speak or document, but the enviornment determines if you will…The First Amendment exists, state law exists, injunctions exists, but enforcement depends on the culture of power in the moment."
@nategowdy.bsky.social: "Control of the record is a form of power…In the digital era, the First Amendment isn't only about who can speak, it's about what version of events becomes durable and lasting."
"The tat" I have always been more willing than you to forgive. But he has always said very authoritarian things, just with left coding.
As you know, I have said I would vote for an AOC over a MAGA, though alcohol would be involved. It would be harder for me to do with Platner.
NYT gift article on the #PrinciplesFirst Summit I am attending.
Good article, but I strongly disagree with the headline—we are NOT fractured and we are growing.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...
