There’s not enough suspension of disbelief in the entire known universe for this movie: Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Ghost Wars. Yikes!
Chris Abraham
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“If you don’t do X then you will have blood on your hands” totally isn’t manipulative at all. Just facts.
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West Wing Democrats died in the ’90s. But the sharper point isn’t that Bartlet would lose a Democratic primary today—he couldn’t pass the vetting. Catholic, pro-military, patriotic without asterisks, willing to argue with Republicans in good faith. The base won’t tolerate him.
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Brilliant insight for reals
The default core, the baseline tone of modern Western film and prestige television of today, is something audiences are truly sick of: cynicism. youtube.com/watch
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Have You Ran or Have You Run? You can conjugate the verb. You just have to want to. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/have-yo…
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An actual and truth-based primer on actual fascism.
A clarification of a widely-held misconception about what Fascists ACTUALLY believed youtube.com/watch
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All Cops Are Beautiful (ACAB)
For One Day Out of 10,950, They Finally Meant It the Other Way open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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RIP Barney Frank, King and Queen of Washington, DC
Barney Frank died Tuesday at 86, at his home in Maine, with his husband Jim beside him. I didn’t know him. I want to be clear about that—I met him once, briefly, as an 18-year-old freshman at George Washington University in 1988, newly arrived in DC with a PoliSci major and …
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Barney Frank died Tuesday at 86. I met him once, briefly, as an 18-year-old PoliSci kid at GW in 1988. He was everything I’d hoped Washington could be—wickedly smart, unpretentious, genuinely present. That memory held up. Rest easy, Congressman.
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Comedy Gold 🪙
AOC - “Opening Silo” instead of “Salvo” youtube.com/shorts/3s…
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Two Sets of Books: How the climate movement learned to keep one ledger for the public and another for the back office chrisabraham.substack.com/p/two-set…
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Knew it! Told you so! Suckers!
The Worst-Case Climate Scenario Is Dead RCP8.5 is officially retired, scientists say. www.bloomberg.com/news/news…
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Friedrich Engels
“And if we then ask what guarantee we have that necessary quantity and not more of each product will be produced, that we shall not go hungry in regard to corn and meat while we are choked in beet sugar and drowned in potato spirit, that we shall not lack trousers to cover …
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These are both terrible and beautiful.
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“Prices are like messengers conveying news” —Thomas Sowell
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Some light reading
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Fun fact: Elon Musk’s net worth is approximately $839 billion, making him the wealthiest person in the world by a significant margin.
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Blue Star Families is collecting military stories at Penrose Square Starbucks, Columbia Pike, South Arlington—today until 3pm & tomorrow 10am–3pm. You don’t need to have served. Any connection counts. Go share yours. #BlueStar250
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Only eagles get to talk about doves. Peace is a victory lap, not a strategy. You can’t olive-branch your way to the table—you earn the branch by already owning the sky. Also nobody’s ever gotten a dove tattoo to feel dangerous.
