Patrick Montague

@StephenM If you're offering to go back to Belarus or Moldova or wherever it is that you're from, please just go ahead and leave. Thanks.

Not long after World War II the West dissolved its empires and colonies and began sending colossal sums of taxpayer-funded aid to these former territories (despite have already made them far wealthier and more successful). The West opened its borders, a kind of reverse colonization, providing welfare and thus remittances, while extending to these newcomers and their families not only the full franchise but preferential legal and financial treatment over the native citizenry. The neoliberal experiment, at its core, has been a long self-punishment of the places and peoples that built the modern world.

'It is not for nothing that the place teems with Mongolian Muscovites. Do not model yourself on them, do not let them infect you with their ideas, but instead compare your own nature & hold sacred those things that by both nature & heritage are sacred to you.' - Thomas Mann

and there it is

@Dynastus Tawdry, tacky, trash. No sense of balance, proportion, harmony, or taste.

This works too.

@SecDuffy shame on you, pathetic.

We are level-setting with the American people. We’re doing whatever it takes to get passengers to their destination safely.

@SecDuffy shame on you, pathetic.

The deranged New York Times is bending over backwards to cover for the left. Let me be clear: this isn’t about “leverage” — it’s about the safety of the flying public. The NYT may think our airspace is another pawn in the left’s sick game to inflict pain on the American people. It’s not. We will do whatever it takes to keep you and your family safe in our skies.

@SecDuffy shame on you, pathetic.

[Bracket City] September 29, 2025 theatlantic.com/games/bracket-… Rank: 🔮 (Puppet Master) 🎹 Total Keystrokes: 66 🎯 Minimum Required: 66 Total Score: 100.0 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪

@teddyschleifer In Tokyo week of Sept 22, also think we both live in DC now would be great to grab a coffee/beverage.

ok, send me your Tokyo / Kyoto / Osaka / Hiroshima restaurant recs

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I grew up in Washington DC and it has never felt safer or cleaner. Trump's "emergency" is fake, straight out of the authoritarian playbook

They really posted this

“We are witnessing a capitalist class so drunk on its power that it has become incapable of recognizing its interests…So contemptuous of the institutions that created their wealth that they are destroying the conditions that make capitalism possible.” open.substack.com/pub/mikebrock/…

New Digital Comics Store Takes Aim at Amazon nytimes.com/2025/06/19/bus… 👏👏 @DSTLRY_Media

Liverpool FC. Premier League champions.

@McFaul Almost sounds like a veiled cultural revolution style threat....

Former USAID economists are going to work in factories? Former VOA journalists are going to make tshirts? There is no way that Bessent believes this nonsense. Bessent: Federal layoffs will help fill factory jobs created by Trump tariffs thehill.com/business/52362…

@zachweinberg Helping America dress well again, I suppose?

@thesephist credit to @ganeumann

I forget where I found it, but this must be my favorite online essay/blog I have read in a long time. Closest thing to a theory of everything of economics of invention and innovation I've found yet reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-de…