Blue Apsara

Someone asked me WHY I chose to move to Vietnam, of all places, inspiring me to post this narrative, which might give you... well, barely any insight at all into the decision. open.substack.com/pub/michaelslo…

@Matt_Pinner What’s wrong with braids? If we are going to restrict hair styles, start with dreds (unless you have very darks skin and very light eyes, you look like cleaning supplies) or shaven head (you don’t look like Kojak, you look like an ECT patient).

Simple Yes or No poll, should white women be allowed to wear braids? YES NO

My last post, I swear, about the angst of leaving. Future posts, I have to warn you, will probably cover the angst of air travel and then the angst, if any, of living in Southeast Asia. open.substack.com/pub/michaelslo…

@tonyver45 @USMCLiberal Yeah, because nothing screams “I have some legitimate criticism” like calling somebody short.

@USMCLiberal I just call him "Shorty" cuz he carries his little step stool with him everywhere that he goes...

MAGA called Senator Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” after she said she had Native American heritage. Markwayne Mullin says he’s a Cherokee. This pasty, white, wannabe cowboy. What should his name be? I’m going with “Shitting Bull.”

@TripperDay @kimmie_c_ @NatashaCL7 Yeah, the stingier your social-welfare system, the better class of immigrants you get. People who feel entitled to free room and board often feel entitled to free sex too.

@kimmie_c_ @NatashaCL7 There's a lot of shit I'd change about America, but I'm thankful our immigrants are relatively secular and unrapey.

Does anyone know what Poland is doing differently than these other European countries? 🤔

@notcee_fan Damaging a TV is the result of an action. Was the underlying action punishment-worthy? Is administering the punishment the only way the 8-year-old will know not to do it again?

What’s an appropriate punishment when your 8 year old cracks your 75 inch screen?

I don’t have to go home but I can’t stay here. open.substack.com/pub/michaelslo…

@hesse_conn61574 @SidneyPowellQ No, RECEIVING millions of dollars worth of education would be a good thing. As it is, we are spending the money and not getting much for it.

Yes, we spend millions of dollars on education, which is a good thing. But since the creation of the DoE, student outcomes are rapidly declining. The States were doing a better job. I'm all for there being a framework for receiving federal money. Mandating specific ways and ideologies to teach to satisfy union leaders goes beyond anything intended. We've fast-tracked 2 generations in to what to think rather than how to think and removed real world skills and cooperative acheivement.

Question for MAGA from a liberal woman. "Hi, I'm just wondering if you guys who voted for Trump — did you vote for the Department of Education to be dismantled? Because that's what he's doing right now. MAGA?

@SidneyPowellQ I’m not MAGA but I can tell you, Republicans in general have opposed the the Department of Education since Day 1. It’s a pure giveaway to the teachers’ union and it’s destructive to education.

@charlesbrown3rd @oelma__ Nikon is a great camera, but it is not a lot of use in the situation you describe.

@oelma__ To protect against someone high coming up the stairs toward you and the 6 bullets from your revolver did not stop him.

@xavierjamesg @Zigmanfreud @nytimes The modern yoga mat was invented by a yogi Angela Farmer in 1982 and marketed by a company called Hugger Mugger Yoga Products. Prior to that, yoga was done on the ground or on a deer-skin mat.

@Zigmanfreud @nytimes Yoga mats have been used for centuries, if not millennia. YOUR concept of what a yoga mat must be is not historically relevant.

The @nytimes is being lavished with praise by the virtue-signaling brigade, but there are very basic problems with their Cesar Chavez story… -The “evidence” doesn’t come close to the threshold for such a devastating claim, especially against a man who has been dead for 33 yrs -We don’t know for sure that the 2 children who are now claimed to be his, via 2 “rapey” encounters, are biologically his, partly because his accuser had 4 kids with his BROTHER, which the NYTimes somehow left out of the story (along with the fact that she had at least 11 children with at least 4 men) -We somehow don’t even know the names of the two kids that were allegedly fathered by Cesar -The NYTimes ignored the numerous very positive recent public statements by Dolores Huerta about Cesar, including a YouTube video created during the #MeToo panic where she praised him for his protection of women against sexual harassment -The NYTimes insidiously conflates the 60 year old Huerta claims with the two allegations of child sex abuse, even though they have nothing to do with each other. They are using Huerta to prop up the stories on which the real scandal rests, which, on their own, despite claims from the NYTimes, have absolutely no real corroboration -Not only do the two claims of child sex abuse have no real corroboration (a love struck letter TO him from a 13 year old girl, which he never destroyed, and which makes no references to inappropriate contact, does NOT, on its own, count), they have at least one major factual/timeline issue -One of the VERY few details in the two claims of child sex abuse from the early 1970s includes the key use of a “yoga mat,” but yoga mats were not even a thing until at least 10 years, and possibly 20 years, later -There is absolutely no consideration of the many possible motives for those involved, especially Huerta, to shade, or even fabricate, the truth, even if their memories of over half a century ago haven’t been naturally clouded by old age -There was no context provided for just how incredibly crazy Huerta’s full story would be if her current version, told at the age of 96, is actually true Typical of how much journalism has recently died/decayed, the NYTimes piece, which is being widely lauded, is actually an abomination (regardless of whether Chavez was actually an abuser) that should be condemned by anyone who cares about journalistic standards, basic fairness, and the truth.

@bitchuneedsoap Good. We tech workers are a spoiled and overpaid bunch. If someone else will do the work for cheaper, more power to them.

Amazon received 10,044 H-1B approvals in 2025, the most of any company in America, while laying off 14,000 American employees. They are the single largest H-1B sponsor in the country.

@RichardGrenell “I cannot sanction your buffoonery.”

Your buffoonery knows no limits. You sat silent while the place went into total disrepair. You sat silent while the staff was paid with monies designed to pay off the future $30 million loan coming due in 2030 because there was no money in the bank to pay salaries. You sat silent while corporations left because of the hard left woke programming. We fixed it. And we are doing the right thing to close the entire place in a few weeks to renovate it - because of your years of neglect. This Washington game of kicking the can down the road and never solving problems has ended with President Trump. It doesn’t matter what you or the New York Times or CNN says. We are fixing the place that YOU ruined. It becomes a construction site for two years because you failed to keep up with the maintenance. And we have a world-class construction leader to do it the right way. You are welcome.

@triallawyerpath @DanFriedman81 No, police very rarely look for motivation, only in the cases when it helps establish identity of the criminal. It’s not an element of the crime and it’s never exculpatory.

@DanFriedman81 no one is trying to justify, they are covering his motive- you know like cops do for every crime

The Left is so committed to the position that bad guys are actually good guys and good guys are actually bad guys that multiple major media outlets tried to justify and rationalize the actions of a terrorist who drove a truck full of explosives into a pre-school full of babies.

@Araoluwanimi01 Stock.

You’re given $2m. You have 20 minutes to spend it. You can’t spend it on cars, airplanes, yacht or a house. You can’t spend it on golds or diamonds either. What will you buy??

@DavidSharp84 @politicalmath I know literally hundreds of American Jews. Not one has told me he is genocidal or that he has dual-loyalties. There are terrible, disgusting people out there who believe that being Jewish or favoring the existence of a Jewish state is equivalent, but those people are wrong.

@BlueApsaraBlog @politicalmath American Jews. Lol, you guys really have jack sht. American Jews are overwhelmingly pro-Israel and guilty of dual loyalty on the issue.

Imagine if a man attacked a black church, specifically targeting black children, because a black man killed his daughter. Imagine if someone told you "that's not racism, that's blowback" idk, that would seem like a weird take to me bc it's saying that the killer is not a someone with agency. Because, wink wink, of course the killer would target black children. That's just the natural inclination of people "like that". You know. *Those* people. You just have to expect this kind of behavior from them.

@DavidSharp84 @politicalmath Who is “them”? I have never met anyone who said “I am a genocidal dual-loyalist Jew.”

@BlueApsaraBlog @politicalmath 90% of them, literally.

@DavidSharp84 @politicalmath Do you know anyone who identifies as a genocidal dual-loyalist Jew? Or is that just a name you call people you dislike?

@politicalmath You're completely full of sht. Muslims are regularly judged for their tendency to commit terrorist acts. You yourself would say the same. But you want to hide behind anti-racism when people say the same about genocidal dual loyalist Jews.

@politicalmath People SAY “you can criticize Israel while also expecting American Muslims to hold to the same standards of non-violence” but no-one ever seems to attempt it.

I find that whole attitude weirdly bigoted against Muslims because it says we simply must expect that some of them will kill innocent Jews when they get angry at Israel. That's just blowback. I think you can criticize Israel while also expecting American Muslims to hold to the same standards of non-violence we demand from everyone else

@Flat6forever @politicalmath So, just to be sure, we are giving up on the notion that there is daylight between “antisemitism” and “antizionism”? I’m game if you are.

@politicalmath Previously unknown levels of "Israel has nothing to do with all the things Israel has done."