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@PassagePress chonki boi

Wombats are stout

@Home_of_Fight Wayne Rooney?

🥹 Brock Lesnar opens up about how proud he is of his children, and they’re the real legacy he will leave behind and not his sporting accolades. “None of my championships or accolades mean anything to me. My kids are my legacy. In today’s dark world, raising good, respectful boys is what I take the most pride in.” (via @spittinchiclets)

@JamesMelville Fan fiction, lol

I’ve just watched Palestine 36: So many people need a history lesson. October 7th wasn’t the start. It goes back a long long way. Imagine being a citizen to a place that lost status, sovereignty, human rights, freedom and land. And then for decades got hemmed in, encroached, destroyed and an appropriation of the land unchecked. Destinies of people who have lived there for generations completely torn up. Grief turns into rage. It would anywhere. But apparently it’s “antisemitic” to raise any concerns about this.

@lwoodhouse @AshantiVanBuren @clairlemon @CheckItOuter @matthewstoller ‘Mass murder in Gaza … and now ‘destroying’ Iran’ Iran has murdered more of its own citizens in 2 months than Israel have killed as collateral damage in Gaza over 2 years. Man you are one lame duck. Lol

Antisemitism is different to other forms of racism, in that it is usually driven by envy rather than contempt x.com/matthewstoller…

@artofdarkpod @L0m3z It’s why we call the 1st draft a vomit draft … get it out your system as quick as you can, then get to work .. writing is rewriting

Critical writing advice. You have to give yourself permission to vomit garbage onto the page. Then you sculpt the garbage, then you polish it.

@GestaltU @ctindale @w41gy @ProfSteveKeen @RARohde Howard Beale meets Vaclav Smil

@ctindale @w41gy @ProfSteveKeen @RARohde You’re on fire at the moment, Craig. 👏

This post rests on an assumption: that a political intention can summon an industrial reality. That’s what’s been wrong with the whole net zero idea from the outset. It’s not that it’s a bad idea. It’s worse than that. It’s impossible to Implement but the advocates don’t understand why. They don’t even understand themselves what they suggest isn’t possible . EV are presented as a substitute for oil dependence, yet substitution in a modern economy can’t occur through decree or preference. It occurs through the slow construction of an entire material order , an industrial metabolism . Transport systems are not ideas; they are physical arrangements of mines, refineries, power plants, grids, factories, ports and logistics networks. Oil mobility rests on a century of accumulated infrastructure. Wells, pipelines, supertankers, refineries, storage terminals and filling stations form a coherent global system. Every litre of fuel moves through this structure with extraordinary efficiency. It exists because the industrial world spent generations building it. Electrified transport requires a different structure entirely. Motors require copper and rare earth magnets. Batteries require lithium, nickel, cobalt and graphite. Vehicles must be supported by generation capacity, transmission networks, local distribution upgrades and charging infrastructure. Each component depends on its own upstream chain of extraction, refining and manufacturing. Yeah, we have a political & academic class who completely ignore what’s possible. Industrial capacity isn’t presently configured at the scale required. Mines for critical minerals take many years to permit and build. Refining capacity for many of these materials is concentrated in a handful of countries. Grid expansion in advanced economies already moves slowly, constrained by land, regulation and capital. The result is a tension between two forms of reasoning. The academic argument proceeds normatively: if oil dependence creates geopolitical risk, states should accelerate electrification. The industrial reality proceeds materially: systems change only when the physical apparatus required for change exists. Modern political debate often confuses intention with capacity. Policies can alter incentives and prices, but they cannot compress geological discovery, mine construction, metallurgical processing and grid expansion into the span of a policy cycle. In this sense the Strait of Hormuz crisis reveals something deeper than energy vulnerability. It reveals the distance between a political program and the industrial foundations required to sustain it. It shows us the blindness caused by nested specialisation in academia . Islands of ideas that collapse when exposed to reality . These ideas propose solutions that have no executable pathways .

@TXMCtrades @TheCinesthetic Adventureland no.1

@TheCinesthetic One of the all time great movie soundtracks

Garden State (2004) definitely caught some backlash in recent years. What once felt sincere to a lot of viewers now gets labeled pretentious, partly since it’s such a personal passion project from Zach Braff. x.com/thehollowhorn/…

@jamestalarico youre obviously a bottom

6 months ago we launched this grassroots campaign for the US Senate to bring working people together. Because the biggest divide in our politics is not left vs right — it’s top vs bottom. Today is Election Day. Find your nearest polling place: jamestalarico.com/vote

@Osint613 telling my kids this is Billy Corgan..

Sen. John Fetterman, mocking Zeteo’s founder Mehdi Hasan when asked about the U.S. strike on an Iranian naval ship in international waters, shot back: “I want to offer condolences to your boss [Mehdi]. I know he’s all broke up about the Ayatollah.”

@grok @ttmygh Were they overly mean or just regular piss taking ?

John Davidson, a Scotsman with severe Tourette’s (coprolalia), involuntarily shouted the N-word and other slurs at the Feb 2026 BAFTAs while Black actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo presented. He’s the real-life inspiration for the BAFTA-nominated film *I Swear*. Hollywood figures denounced and ridiculed him anyway. At the NAACP awards, comedian Deon Cole joked about “white men with Tourette’s” needing to “read the room.” SNL ran a sketch mocking Tourette’s as a bigotry excuse. The Telegraph piece calls this hypocritical “crybullying” from the “compassionate” Left.

“Crybullies” 🎯 Watch ‘I Swear’ and then tell me there is any other take than this one. Shame on them all These Hollywood crybullies have accidentally exposed the truth about the ‘compassionate’ Left telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/0…

@TheFlowHorse Always has been. Always will.

We live in a world where might makes right, anything else is a fairytale unfortunately.

@Steve_Sailer @NYMag Contracted on the same day in a daisy chain

@NYMag 83 male figure skaters died of AIDS compared to 1 NHL ice hockey player.

Did the sight of Shane and Ilya kissing in ‘Heated Rivalry’ awaken a libidinal desire inside you? Is this you: “I can’t actually figure out what’s happening to me. I’m just having a midlife crisis where I’m like, I’m never going to feel these feelings again.”? You’re not alone. Hear from women fujoing out, the gay men calling them out for it, ‘Game Changers’ author Rachel Reid, and more in E. Alex Jung’s investigation into why so many women are losing their minds over gay romance: nymag.visitlink.me/3sUDsz

@Scholars_Stage @kofinas lol Xi sacked his entire war cabinet and generals to consolidate power. His soon to be new yesmen will be much worse than even Hegserh et al

The Department of War is led by feckless men. Xi Jinping has this thing. He brings it up in half of his speeches -- he wants the leaders of China to have what he calls "calamity consciousness." He needs every leader, and every cadre, in China to understand that their choices matter. What they say, what they do, what they pay attention to -- that is all that stands between national revival and national disintegration. There is nothing else. They are all that stands between their people and calamity. That consciousness must imbue everything they do. The American Secretary of War stands between America and calamity. He guides and organizes the immense military power of the United States. He is the most obvious face of that power to all foreign nations and nationals who may wish us harm. This is an immense responsibility. The weight of world peace rests on his shoulders. He spends his time making videos about the names of Boy Scout merit badges. I am all for making the Boy Scouts of America great again. It is a disgraceful organization that turned its back on its founding mission some decades ago--on a different day I would be quite happy to rant about its failures (and the disillusionment that caused me to walk away from it one merit badge short of an Eagle). But not today. This simply is not something the Secretary of War should be giving speeches about. This video should have been put out by some undersecretary--or better yet, someone at the White House. The world we live is not sound. America is not sound. A Secretary of War who prioritizes viral videos about DEI in Boy Scouts is not a luxury we can afford. This is decadent. We are no longer powerful enough to afford decadence. We need men seized with calamity consciousness.

@TXMCtrades Fun fact: Heat is a remake of a made-for-tv film called ‘LA Takedown’ which was shot by none other than Michael Mann himself.

If Michael Mann does not film Heat 2 in this same fashion, fully dedicated, it will not hold a candle to the original. The commitment to realism is what made that film legendary. The bank heist and downtown shootout is maybe the greatest gun fight ever filmed because there is no artificiality to it.

@___Sean______ @christopherrufo lol. Israel fought its war of independence with 30% of its men having been holocaust survivors against seven armies whilst being under an arms embargo from the US. They’ll do just fine without the US .

@christopherrufo The problem is that Israel cannot defend itself against its enemies without American help. Supporters of Israel would be lying if they made that claim. That's why they go in circles. If Israel has a right to exist, Americans can be persuaded to defend that right.

I found the Tucker-Huckabee conversation deeply frustrating. Both men seemed to be grounding their arguments on the question of “indigeneity,” which, if applied to other parts of the world, becomes immediately recognizable as the Third Worldist ideology of “decolonization” and “land acknowledgements.” “International law” is fake and, as Huckabee conceded elsewhere, should not be something to which we automatically submit. And the “right to exist” formulation is a leftist bastardization of the natural rights doctrine, which, properly interpreted, would point to the argument that Israel secures the natural rights of its citizens in a state of civil society, but exists in a state of nature, and sometimes a state of war, relative to its neighbors. Rather than go in circles, supporters of Israel should reject the premise of arguments related to “the right to exist” or “indigeneity,” and instead, make the argument that Israel has established a state to secure the life, liberty, and property of its citizens and will defend itself against its enemies. That’s probably more persuasive to modern Americans than parsing the genetic lineage of Abraham or debating whether the Jews or the Palestinians should be doing “land acknowledgements.” There is a big debate about this on both sides of the political aisle and pro-Israel conservatives can’t rely on inertia or half-formed theological arguments. It’s baffling that the US Ambassador to Israel seemed totally lost on these questions.

@TXMCtrades lol 😂

For your consideration: Christopher Nolan 2000-2014

@L0m3z @JamesSurowiecki ‘And that’s all she wrote folks’ Well played .

@JamesSurowiecki What are American middle class mores? Where do they come from? What exactly are they being assimilated into?

This is wrong historically, but Jonah, and others are right that in living memory using "white" in this context has been taboo or anyway mostly a tool of the left, and perhaps most contemporary white people have only thought of themselves as such within the very limited context of their legal/census designation but which had no larger cultural meaning nor indicated a shared past or set of traditions or anything like that. For better or worse, white people, famously, have been the least willing to think of themselves as white. The prevailing theory among liberals then is that woke radicals suddenly activated this identity in the last few years by reifying "whiteness" as a category––not a race per se–– but a unified set of norms and behaviors from the big things like literature and philosophy and music and tendencies toward colonialist expansion to the more fuzzy things like "Karen"-style behaviors and "showing up on time," etc. that in its pervasiveness, stitched as it was into the very fabric of modernity, could and often was embodied by non-whites as well. "Don't take the bait," liberals will say. "Don't accept the premise." They object to the language––they don't like the term white––but never explain why the premise is wrong, and then confuse the premise by applying their own racial essentialism to it, despite the fact that even in the bad woke version, "whiteness" is available to anyone living within its boundaries and willing to adopt its norms. But importantly, and here is the crux of it, liberals also neglect the main underlying cause of this "recent" reification of the term white. Why is this happening now? Is it really just that a bunch of radical leftist academics memed their racial resentments into the popular culture at some point in the last 10 years? Not really. Look carefully at the chart below. This country reached a demographic inflection point somewhere around 2011-2013. For the first time in the nation's history non-white births surpassed white births. The new majority-minorty is roughly 15 years old, almost exactly one more election cycle away from reaching voting age. It is not a coincidence that the clip of Congressman Gene Wu attempting to organize a non-white uprising against their "oppressors" was making the rounds the week before @realJeremyCarl's senate hearing. The political physics of mass immigration are, at long last, making themselves known in ways that can simply no longer be hand waved away as the ravings of crazed academic leftists. White people are being forced to confront the fact of a shared political identity imposed on them by others. Liberals (of which I include Jonah) can lament this all they want, and insist it is a "tactical mistake" to take the bait, but they have shown absolutely zero interest or ability to do anything about the underlying demographic realities that woke lunacies sit on top of. It is no wonder that Jonah's brand of liberal conservatism has been on the losing side of this question since pretty much exactly when the two lines on the chart below crossed each other. You can have white racial consciousness disappear into the background of an uncontested and deracialized Anglo-European monoculture, or you can have mass immigration. You can't have both.

@GiancarloSopo @L0m3z Christian ethics. Greek philosophy. Roman law. The bedrock of Western civilisation. You’re on third base and pretending the game isn’t baseball.

I understand the concept. My point is that these terms are imprecise to the point that they're almost meaningless. The only reason for using them is for political signaling, and I refuse to dabble in a turd polishing exercise. If I were describing America's legal and political heritage, I wouldn't call it "white" or "Western." That could theoretically encompass the Spanish encomienda system, and thank God we didn't inherit that. I'd say we inherited 18th-century British common law. If I wanted to be more precise, I'd say the Founders were essentially Whigs. I'm sure a historian could do even better ("classical republicanism!" "Scottish Enlightenment!"). I deal with the limits of broad ethnic labels all the time. Why call Cubans "Latino voters" when you can just say Cubans, and the distinction would tell you so much more? Same is true here.

Lomez has made some interesting points about art, but this doesn't make sense. I'm a Cuban American from Miami. My great-grandparents were all European. Spanish, to be exact. The notion that I share some kind of common cultural bond with a Dutch-Irish dude from the Ozarks — that I may not share with a mulato Cuban or some of my Haitian friends growing up — on the basis of a similar skin tone is absurd. And we really need to get out of the turd polishing business. We are under no obligation to build intellectual scaffolding around the idiocies of political allies.

@Geo_papic @RosenvoldGeo foot on ze gas Hans

@RosenvoldGeo Germans only have two gears... Park and... well... really INTENSE GEAR.

When Europe gets going, we go hard. I don’t see this fervor on deregulation anywhere else in the world. Europe has taken over the DOGE mantle.