2026-08-21T00:52:45Z https://nostr.now A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆 https://nostr.now/npub1y7hqzxtext3t49mdg7u322ddxh3e25twnssymfulfsukctnzh7lsmm3tqs https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/508/253/original/6d1eb03b8cf1dee9.png https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/508/253/original/6d1eb03b8cf1dee9.png https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy3unlzmg9dd995nw58575qw9y6qgwfccaf86dmsppmnzj68eya6czyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7ejr638 Dolly Parton&#39;s passing is effortlessly proving that if you spend your life being nice and kind and generous instead of mean and cruel and selfish, then apologists for mean cruel selfish bullies won&#39;t have to go around scolding people for cheering when you die, because there will be no cheering. 2026-08-26T11:56:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst2zwvl9yrpwqss5g9amput69k4versha9fytqxeyj94r4n4dq7hszyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7w3au03 For those scared of being *called* Communist: My God, sack up. Have you ever tried agreeing with your bully&#39;s premise? How did it go?<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/soon-you-too-will-be-a-commie/">https://www.the-reframe.com/soon-you-too-will-be-a-commie/</a> 2026-08-23T15:51:10Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg00k79za85q2stmpn0xz34f3tvk0agnq27asecvdpcw7xpu05nnszyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7qshgnz When Trump dies and goes to hell, Hades is going to tell him he can walk out whenever he likes, but he has to do it without mentioning that he won in 2020. 2026-08-22T12:08:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswcx8kccv3jfx8ynzktdyuaj5eqer64z3fwatt6jlysv8n059u0vgzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7jnl3mg Saddened to hear my good friend the Finger Taker has passed away. I never agreed with him about amputating people&#39;s fingers in his dungeon, but I&#39;ll always remember the collegial good times, and most of all his great sense of humor. What laughs we had. Condolences to Ginny and his whole family. 2026-07-12T17:33:46Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswx7fvcm340ardcp09cn5j2ydla2tugyc5ualnhpc0gh2ef8dchfszyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7dtt28z The Democratic Socialists want your children to be fed healthy nourishing food and receive the best possible medical care, and to do that they intend to raise taxes on a handful of corrupt and squalid pedophiliac monsters who have stolen 1000x more money than anyone can spend—well not in MY America. 2026-07-03T12:43:36Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv5trj0clvnn9jj994ww2d043vt52l4zuemmsyh7jgrwrdmgua4mczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7u2edu8 I wrote about the way our stories inform our reality, the enduring popularity of evolving supremacist narratives even as its practitioners fall into disrepute, and the need to understand story if we are to defeat story.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/healing/">https://www.the-reframe.com/healing/</a> 2026-06-20T15:47:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2km6gg9xf3hw8jxev4862a4tslavlk0uzfdxtqzjpmvwkjmdw59czyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7hnlkqn One of the most extraordinary trends in modern politics is when somebody says something like “Nazism and sexual violence are absolutely unacceptable in a civilized society” and immediately somebody like JD Vance responds “I deeply resent this direct attack on American conservatives.” 2026-06-19T11:15:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqe2y4k8h0a6rchxft8y7gn4z7x2qf4ndxf9uffh23n7a7mlkj2pszyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm70n62zn If somebody tells you they don&#39;t believe in pronouns just call God &#34;she&#34; and I think they&#39;ll figure it out in a hurry. 2026-05-27T10:51:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsq8vnlgktvsmunakdjcqsjm9tz7ljty9vgrp070y58xv0np2sjyhgzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7s9mguy DeTrumpification is as necessary a project to the US as DeNazification was to Germany. Everything removed from everywhere, including every person in the Trump party from every elected or appointed position of public trust, with all appropriate investigations, charges, and trials. 2026-05-24T10:19:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs98c6fmgr4q5vm36ymq5n28e2kewg5mcjtsccxvw62ffnukhu42ngzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7kr6sd6 My taxes are going to murder school children overseas and to let pardoned insurrectionist pedophiles get their hush money payoffs to victims, meanwhile, the papers of record want to let me know the real danger is the guy who taxes second homes in Manhattan to balance budgets and feed hungry kids. 2026-05-19T11:18:21Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrkzdmruheadev7t3m57kvyspnf4pq5l6xm882vewyxf6snda9h6gzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7jdr08p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0xpmh92w2xludu7jryhzfw3cjafca9czm5p77p88pq8vpum2yh2czl0758'>nevent1q…0758</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Why do you mourn so to come to this end? Do princesses not also live at their emperor’s pleasure? Should you not also be glad to die so that he might live?”<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/one-thing-you-can-never-say-is-you-havent-been-told/">https://www.the-reframe.com/one-thing-you-can-never-say-is-you-havent-been-told/</a> 2026-05-11T09:50:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0xpmh92w2xludu7jryhzfw3cjafca9czm5p77p88pq8vpum2yh2czyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7eeyjr3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9p463cjuchk5k2j0lgkn3cxnw6hdkfhvml8ewqqf9fz0a6885uecrp0ehv'>nevent1q…0ehv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>“My siblings are dead and dying,” the princess mourned. “We didn’t know this would happen. Where is your mercy?”<br/><br/>“What mercy is left us we share among ourselves,” they replied. “Most of our mercy was killed by the emperor along with our parents and spouses and children, and now that he has used us up, the emperor will kill you in the same way.&#34; 2026-05-11T09:50:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9p463cjuchk5k2j0lgkn3cxnw6hdkfhvml8ewqqf9fz0a6885ueczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7eccexl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9xwkxqnen46l2s5df0dt98k5l6qq6asrt9fdm6w2x95dezm6gdtquxgec8'>nevent1q…gec8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>“I’m sorry,” she said to them. “I’m so sorry.”<br/><br/>But the people had learned how the fever had come to their land, and none who remained would speak to her. Instead, they turned their backs and closed their doors. “We few who are left have little desire to catch your fever,” they said. 2026-05-11T09:49:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9xwkxqnen46l2s5df0dt98k5l6qq6asrt9fdm6w2x95dezm6gdtqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm76s37hn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgv5z0c2jd93lxsc380rjze4hcuxkppw5xxngg2sw6d2hlvrz3rygn6rsw8'>nevent1q…rsw8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>After some time, the plague had ravaged the land and the empire had gravely weakened, allowing bandits and raiders to capture the treasury vaults. The youngest daughter, who had herself begun to flush with fever, came from the palace and appealed to the people to help her save the royal family. 2026-05-11T09:49:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgv5z0c2jd93lxsc380rjze4hcuxkppw5xxngg2sw6d2hlvrz3rygzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7pjg9ze In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgn3z6nfeu98drzaapmufj4f3gxq4nfxvdtydr8ju7qvvwrwfwargrmqn4q'>nevent1q…qn4q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The youngest daughter was castigated by her siblings, and she lapsed to silence, and quieted her concerns.<br/><br/>And so the royal siblings agreed to say nothing, for—while none of them mentioned it—none of them wished to see their inheritance further diluted among the people. 2026-05-11T09:49:37Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgn3z6nfeu98drzaapmufj4f3gxq4nfxvdtydr8ju7qvvwrwfwargzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7ncwxs7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvy8qmrk2c70aq5qkcsc8teyh4lklha7e8fk4tmktys29upud5p5sc2z8nu'>nevent1q…z8nu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>“Even if it was sent from him, what is that to me?” said the youngest prince. “It was our father’s decision and none of mine. What am I to the people, or they to me? They live in the country. We live in the palace. I share no blame for this plague.”<br/><br/>But the youngest daughter was troubled in her heart. “We too are people no matter where we live,” she said. “And in the end, disease will reach into palace and hovel alike.” 2026-05-11T09:49:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvy8qmrk2c70aq5qkcsc8teyh4lklha7e8fk4tmktys29upud5p5szyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7g9v5r2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqj0yvvpht2rssfmvzvhjt7r3r7spcp0xe0q0whksrjajvrg3envg9amm23'>nevent1q…mm23</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Four who remained discussed the matter among themselves.<br/><br/>“The people live at our father’s pleasure,” said the oldest prince. “They should be glad to die so that he might live. Their groans are sweet to my ears.”<br/><br/>“The people have always suffered illness,” said the oldest princess. “For they are base and filthy in their ways, and given to dissolution. We cannot know that this plague was sent to them from our father as the wizard claimed. Likely they have earned suffering.” 2026-05-11T09:49:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqj0yvvpht2rssfmvzvhjt7r3r7spcp0xe0q0whksrjajvrg3envgzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7km2zxg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrevr6t6f04kumt2gchtzaghms6mrc4er9glzuf4wqrlw6ymcee7qme6v2n'>nevent1q…6v2n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Now the emperor had a dozen daughters and a dozen sons, and when they saw this, most of them desired no parlay. “Who are we to concern ourselves? These are matters for emperors, and emperors will do as they will,” they said. “Princes and princesses like ourselves would do best to stay out of it.” 2026-05-11T09:48:46Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrevr6t6f04kumt2gchtzaghms6mrc4er9glzuf4wqrlw6ymcee7qzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7m36y39 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0w6zdpx4gjw9al986vrwhyce0jaa3eg2x0fmljrlcrq2y3c8rgfcdq5e37'>nevent1q…5e37</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The great emperor was restored to health, and a week of revels were announced throughout the land. Yet when the revels ended, the people saw that many among them had perished, for the land had been gripped with a terrible plague. 2026-05-11T09:48:33Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0w6zdpx4gjw9al986vrwhyce0jaa3eg2x0fmljrlcrq2y3c8rgfczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm722kqve In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2ue036p66kkzv8s4t6xaaw9hpq34cfu7vp20shu937x4jg5aec0s2s9vtp'>nevent1q…9vtp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The emperor’s brow darkened. “Traitor and liar!” he wheezed. “The wealth of a land is king’s wealth by law and divine mandate. Have this false prophet removed and executed at once!”<br/><br/>And so it came to pass. One wizard was hanged, and the other enriched. 2026-05-11T09:48:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2ue036p66kkzv8s4t6xaaw9hpq34cfu7vp20shu937x4jg5aec0szyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7td2ka0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswzdpzu7rmzjg4h8qk7psfalv56amezzrdfpg8kqanc797zjae78c3xmwem'>nevent1q…mwem</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>“Oh thou dying emperor,” the second wizard said, “This hasty fellow and his methods are known to me. His root and berry will indeed work—but only for a season.&#34;<br/><br/>&#34;Your ailment is a hoarder’s fever. You have taken your people’s wealth and locked it away for yourself. Come, majesty. Your legacy is secure. Return even a tenth of your gains to your people and the fever will depart. Send your fever to them and it will spread to all and ruin all.” 2026-05-11T09:48:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswzdpzu7rmzjg4h8qk7psfalv56amezzrdfpg8kqanc797zjae78czyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7ttz527 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswdxnjmrl06jklxhf82a8gua9lq49nrt05hhxy598lkrjsqav59pcvcsguh'>nevent1q…sguh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>“Oh mighty emperor,” said the first wizard. “In my hand I hold this berry and this root, which, if prepared with my skill and enhanced with my magic, will take your fever and spread it among your people instead.”<br/><br/>“Best of wizards!” the emperor weakly exclaimed. “Prepare your concoction with all haste!” 2026-05-11T09:47:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswdxnjmrl06jklxhf82a8gua9lq49nrt05hhxy598lkrjsqav59pczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7r3eadg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvglpk8c4a74hyhhh8x7w8ngtryj3xl59qut9ktptxey7evjdk0as0atp6u'>nevent1q…tp6u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>After providing proofs of their skill to the council of viziers, they were hurried to the imperial throne room, where the emperor languished in a bed beside his throne, with his many children attending him, for he was faltering and nearly dead.<br/><br/>“A third of all my fortune to whichever of you might heal me,” the emperor whispered. 2026-05-11T09:47:31Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvglpk8c4a74hyhhh8x7w8ngtryj3xl59qut9ktptxey7evjdk0aszyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm77np987 There came a day when the great emperor fell ill with fever, and none of his doctors could revive him. Now the call went out across the empire, promising great reward for any who could find a cure.<br/><br/>And so it came to pass that one week later, on the exact same day and at the exact same time, two magicians from opposite and obscure corners of the realm at last presented themselves to the court.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/one-thing-you-can-never-say-is-you-havent-been-told/">https://www.the-reframe.com/one-thing-you-can-never-say-is-you-havent-been-told/</a> 2026-05-11T09:47:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrfay78qtlxj65jpwxftu52vc5lu8jmvnyyjeqmjm0nnsupgvrkrqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7vpad2y The war currently raging is between a fanatical religious dictatorial autocracy whose militaristic posture, nuclear ambitions and zeal for apocalyptic messaging threaten to destabilize the entire global order, and Iran. 2026-04-04T15:25:56Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd4fa5q28390sm9xpjpg6wmwzky048vj7quta67e8zem4xqa36ynczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm786axnq The legacy of Mueller is that if you do diligent methodical careful work on a damning report, trusting to our institutions to do the right thing, damned liars will just tell damned lies about your work and the lies will stand, because institutions won&#39;t confront power and nobody does the reading. 2026-03-22T11:33:50Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsr54mly8gn9a8ges6r2m8060qfz60dfgda4qrd6w69ye6xl02utgczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7s05k7z Don&#39;t shun people just because they have different beliefs about blotting out the sun to usher in a new age of eternal darkness. We have to find an answer in the middle.<br/><br/>When you write people off simply because they are actively working to make the entire planet a frozen apocalyptic wasteland, it actually is you who are blotting out the sun—the sun of free discourse.<br/><br/>by Thomas Chatterton Williams 2026-03-07T12:25:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvvyld2jefy2fg536aqsthewtrglckvvzp7x98ehsh2d3pr4s6qsqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7a6qwkr 2006: don’t be evil<br/>2016: but really, what *is* evil?<br/>2026: meet your new assistant Evi L® delivering +225% ROI on prison labor 2026-03-06T10:38:57Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd860ymnver29juqceqxfr3340lqj2vu0q0aa9te9y2w59stfp6rczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7ldt6cq It should be much more at the forefront of our minds, the extent to which the most politically activated and politically empowered segment of the authoritarian American cult calling itself &#34;Christian&#34; see the apocalypse as something to hasten, not prevent. 2026-02-28T20:55:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswn59veqfragaf4hy3dtwlg7fh9ccpd0szwuc6j0jnecrx7xsftmgzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7zl469e &#34;A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman&#39;s humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hearts-or-die/">https://www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hearts-or-die/</a> 2026-02-24T11:24:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd2j5g7xqsh7k5ryqa8x3j3vv5tqjxns44xd5p9y48j2j3fmwva7gzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm77uw0kh Everywhere Russ Vought goes, he should be treated as if he is the murderer of millions of children, because that is what he is. <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/206559/russ-vought-usaid-funds-security">https://newrepublic.com/post/206559/russ-vought-usaid-funds-security</a> 2026-02-16T11:52:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8m6seyz90wzz6devd0dkuk088u2yauntte5jn4ny00zcdxq06dsgzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7v5807d Republican fascists will tell you that the people in parkas and bathrobes are domestic terrorists who threaten our way of life and the armed paramilitary thugs who are terrorizing them with kidnapping and gassing and beatings and murder are legal officers who ensure our peace and safety.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/058/209/306/396/224/original/334100d718b1cc72.png"> <br/> 2026-02-12T14:52:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspjwyq3y70wx738e84ksu0myhq6ncexevh8amwxn9nuddw68a64aszyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm76pn38a The reality is the US is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. The discomfort of white supremacist bigots is not a problem for us to solve; but a solution for us to pursue. White supremacist bigots *should* feel uncomfortable and excluded, as long as they would seek their identity in white supremacy. <a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-game/">https://www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-game/</a> 2026-02-09T12:11:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsypapyalj7syz55jz9smvx3wf9j4kc2sd0eytwqxppfyns56avcpgzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm75358t9 Today I wrote about the racist accommodation to the racist response to Bad Bunny&#39;s Super Bowl show; the moral hazard of extending good faith to those who act in bad faith; and how alienating white bigots is actually part of the solution, not a part of the problem. <a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-game/">https://www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-game/</a> 2026-02-08T18:11:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs899yepk6attj8d8mtpw04y3n5yj0qv7y4wgvak4elfvvxq5yykvqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm79439ht Today I wrote about a good man summarily executed on the streets by Republican death squads, and how, given the inevitable alternatives, even tyrants should hope for a people&#39;s liberation from tyranny. <a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/the-shovel-next-time/">https://www.the-reframe.com/the-shovel-next-time/</a> 2026-01-25T17:41:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx4dcmuctulvtkm7nqz39qua0ueam00veqvlkhkwu0cq50apdj3gszyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm78v95dl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2glhnu2j9zwzlry97tj8sy3vw0t0pcqpwe84l75w3tus60chx3pqm8j9sl'>nevent1q…j9sl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In a conflict between civilians and authorities, it is civilians who should receive benefit of the doubt; who should be allowed to claim to be frightened, who should receive qualified immunity under the law.<br/><br/>In interactions with authority, civilians are the ones who usually wind up dead, and unlike authorities, civilians are not trained for armed conflict. Civilians have the more justifiable claim to fear—a FAR more justifiable claim. 2026-01-14T11:21:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2glhnu2j9zwzlry97tj8sy3vw0t0pcqpwe84l75w3tus60chx3pqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm70xnkl4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfsme9tl7t3ywx3w34xx3wrmuzx5608myhkkeyau2898ku8vpd5nc6xeh0x'>nevent1q…eh0x</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If our authorities exist for the protection of the people, then the laws should exist for the protection of the people, not the protection of authorities. If the law exists for the protection of authorities, then the authorities do not exist for the protection of the people. 2026-01-14T11:21:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfsme9tl7t3ywx3w34xx3wrmuzx5608myhkkeyau2898ku8vpd5nczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7h9xgh7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs05dp70cenef297wknzqvlvgduxf9p4v7wzfz7n4ztgagpcxfpascqgrzjq'>nevent1q…rzjq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Under this framework, it is civilians who should enjoy greater considerations and protections following (hopefully rare) violent interactions. This might sound extreme or unrealistic to you; I&#39;d invite you to sit with how obvious it is, and how warped social beliefs around policing have become. 2026-01-14T11:21:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs05dp70cenef297wknzqvlvgduxf9p4v7wzfz7n4ztgagpcxfpasczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm77a9g59 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz5jhacy2xshxl7hhz200fes905drpnepkpwvyjrffar77tns4nscty73at'>nevent1q…73at</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This shift isn&#39;t a framework that says it is legal to go out and shoot authorities; it is rather a recognition that, in conflicts between police and civilians, it is civilians who far more justifiably can fear for their lives, and civilians who are far more justified in defending themselves. 2026-01-14T11:21:24Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz5jhacy2xshxl7hhz200fes905drpnepkpwvyjrffar77tns4nsczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7zfjzvx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvc7mhfea9ayr6zgr70m282xmxsnqnr02cpsvc0h44w4d6yy5wugqrx29dn'>nevent1q…29dn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What we have now is a &#34;qualified&#34; immunity for authority against citizens that effectively functions as absolute immunity; the legal assumption that in interactions with civilians, it is police who have the greater claim to fear, and who are justified in any force they deem appropriate in response. 2026-01-14T11:21:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvc7mhfea9ayr6zgr70m282xmxsnqnr02cpsvc0h44w4d6yy5wugqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7u5r85z Let me give you a thought experiment:<br/><br/>Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/absolute-immunity/">https://www.the-reframe.com/absolute-immunity/</a> 2026-01-14T11:21:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxl3gyd3nstckqctaed08q02nw2ppm03qv0v0ahjlz63m223jwf3qzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7keukzp This weekend, I wrote about the state murder of Renee Good, and the fascist claim that her murderer enjoys absolute immunity, and a common-sense reversal of qualified immunity that protects civilians from authorities, rather than the other way around.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/absolute-immunity/">https://www.the-reframe.com/absolute-immunity/</a> 2026-01-12T13:09:48Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswzta9hydrfvcm8wggtlvl0l0wdd7djdyeug423x9dtd46ancm65czyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm79jcacg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0d6xcky3qffcnwprunkt5t934lrk25eyfskwhma3xyfufltfpgxsp60u38'>nevent1q…0u38</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If you’re of the opinion that simply being frightened means authority gets to kill whoever they want, maybe shut up for the rest of your life and heal your twisted soul<br/><br/>Or at least considering that civilians murdering nobody have a far greater claim to fear than the heavily armed Trump Gestapo agents murdering them 2026-01-09T13:07:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0d6xcky3qffcnwprunkt5t934lrk25eyfskwhma3xyfufltfpgxszyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7unlyfm before murdering renee good, the ICE goon was frightened for his life, we’re told <br/><br/>It’s meant to justify the murder <br/><br/>nobody telling us this ever seems to wonder whether the woman who was murdered might have been afraid for her life <br/><br/>killing because you’re afraid is only for cops, it seems 2026-01-09T12:47:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst3sfdrcd6535x2uwe4puuklf9jjsy3zm4nnhc5vkfkseujxy2dfqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7rt09h9 Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it. 2025-12-29T10:48:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8jypak84w0cscyts8j0022vlamnzlqu2yh2klges0tnmf5yj8fuqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7x886e5 As a conservative Christian college student, it’s my firm religious belief that the correct answer to every question—in this test or any other, whether multiple-choice, essay, or oral examination—is C, and if you don’t give me full credit then you are taking away my freedom of religion and secret police should take you away to protect free speech. 2025-12-24T03:13:44Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy9dtyqpsauxe6tqkeqzvhnr7jxksskaszlwart9lwze4mpa30ueqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7qa37wg CBS really Bari&#39;d the story, huh 2025-12-22T18:57:10Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyt9smmfccx00lejjafc6ejx89u002m46t86yzmx6a5nq35ad4w3szyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7hejj6y lady looks like she&#39;s about to ask the ghostbusters if they&#39;re gods.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/763/347/257/515/627/original/e37f135377ea9318.png"> <br/> 2025-12-22T13:03:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8dewt8qysqf6g0fauxpyn649mz5qu4ataa6e0f5kqwdtedm66edqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7udwhk4 I wrote about Nazism in a small Michigan town, and in a large North American country; about the uses of and limits of shame; and on the importance of holding shared standards. <a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of-shame/">https://www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of-shame/</a> 2025-11-03T12:31:53Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs04j3ntxjmljp0l6pxfry8wn7evnmrw4z4hqfk749n6tznng07s7szyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7pdtpg6 When you&#39;re right, you&#39;re right.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/457/251/626/735/975/original/52c70c0c6beb5e88.png"> <br/> 2025-10-29T11:44:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9e9x7jygwem6dmtkn46yvyl35qhz3w080c28tmya86dyhffncsrgzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7vv57r2 did you guys hear that the adult leaders of the hitler youth were using slurs in their group chat 2025-10-18T11:39:28Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9d3u0ueza2wnuq7r5nece4488ds8uf62s94sly9wyvsl8u5m7xfgzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7v0nzlt I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of-human-virtue/">https://www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of-human-virtue/</a> 2025-10-12T16:05:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqgt3m98a7yrdgs73tgtdtgaftps5hm0rgwkvxruatjwxf2wthueszyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7zql4kw I&#39;ve noticed the opposing team&#39;s fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they&#39;ll start supporting us. And I&#39;m sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for? 2025-10-10T12:28:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfergsvdvqy5rp6aulkkqf7tvd2ct7aykrhwk3rsx26sgqq9kzyuczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7thaq5a “Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated.&#34;<br/><br/>-Anne Frank<br/><br/><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/us/chicago-apartment-ice-raid">https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/us/chicago-apartment-ice-raid</a> 2025-10-05T10:17:52Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd7mjsxrpnmfrwwnyam8u0fpq8xn9u4du50uy3p9kh7ypuyqlk9zgzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7zxzmsc We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people: 2025-09-30T09:42:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspmg2392cvm338enl7ca2vlsqumllsrc4q26dnxafuvj4p8sjqx4czyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm79gfypx you guys don&#39;t mock the president. my own grandfather was murdered when an escalator stopped, launching him 700 feet through a hotel lobby and into the open mouth of a waiting anaconda 2025-09-26T11:21:37Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfcyr3tkwq3th428yjwgj8ta4tmrhhdv6hnn50xsp8s99nf95wtnqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm75ctezh Trump: you can&#39;t fit all that liquid in a single baby, there&#39;s no way<br/>Reporter: [nods]<br/>Trump: the number of liquid<br/>Reporter: [nods]<br/>Trump: it&#39;s just too big a number of liquid for baby<br/><br/>Headline: Scientists uncertain about Trump vaccine claims. 2025-09-23T10:19:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrhfn9hkafjxxg0r5v92syqlxafl6zkxl3adx3tmnvfc8e0ww6yjczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7fhqwfw Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week<br/>Reporter: [nods]<br/>Trump: so we must murder on the high seas<br/>Reporter: [nods]<br/>Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once<br/>Reporter: [nods]<br/>Trump: the cock on that bunny<br/>Reporter: [nods]<br/>Trump: bigger than you think<br/><br/>Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives 2025-09-16T10:11:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyal7dtu70l4r32aptagh3mu4pdvftahpr8humfd2e7ynm248wm8gzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm705365r &#34;To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were. <br/><br/>But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-losses/">https://www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-losses/</a> 2025-09-13T18:29:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxv2d8m2jmejhd40eq6jzrvwwg526dzk4z9gl2qgjhemwe7pz5zhqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm77mk0fk &#34;I think that’s what lies at the bottom of supremacy’s well: a fear of death, set within such a morally childish framework that it would be unfair to infants to call it infantile. It’s a belief that we won’t have to die, if other people do the dying for us.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/the-die-ers/">https://www.the-reframe.com/the-die-ers/</a> 2025-09-13T11:14:08Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy98wlhg9jfnwd6czraza6kk3jud4m0k4phaw2ul9ylf228t6eflgzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7kpjq0e We sternly warn the left not to politicize the tragedy caused by our politics. 2025-09-12T18:22:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv7mz5tr8z0fkprsnkvmsgt5lwjqqcwvfavep0l8qaavlj8vuq4cczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7z0u5mz &#34;President Trump dead today, eaten by a tyrannosaurus rex while sitting fully nude on a golden toilet.&#34;<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/117/852/558/734/186/original/e02e55937e931b54.png"> <br/> 2025-08-30T13:04:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspx22n7wltkjkensmamgkxrpgx424hv5t7g0npas4hkvlv48nqvegzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7ycufyr Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism&#39;s false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward. <br/><br/>Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursuing everything.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-trolley-problem/">https://www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-trolley-problem/</a> 2025-08-24T15:03:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspccp5d47ymahsx7fxfzwdpxdcqfj4h2s8w6ahw9jtavt0auwlhpqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7y3a7wh In the final analysis, a billion monkeys chained to a billion typewriters may indeed produce Hamlet, but anyone who would chain a billion monkeys to a billion typewriters isn&#39;t going to appreciate or recognize Hamlet when it finally emerges. 2025-08-22T09:35:30Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsq9gmaq0sfypq0fu0s0w888g50evchrljs3pe5xp7vwcc4nu55enczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7l065fu If having principles about human rights is a purity test, then let’s have purity tests. 2025-08-08T11:44:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2pq989zw5x2phl8zg7t49xsvhnneqlnatj5mwdzetnvgtc6drx2czyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7wvmu04 The reason Substack pushed a Nazi blog onto people&#39;s phones is because—as founder Hamish McKenzie said in his response to Substackers Against Nazis 2 yrs ago—he believes it is valuable and important to platform Nazi voices.<br/><br/>This sort of thing is not a one-off. <a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/questions-for-substack/">https://www.the-reframe.com/questions-for-substack/</a> 2025-07-31T11:36:18Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg4ms4kt4mh9g5wv9lm8lphvd9puwaha4wy4u79lztswkel6qzhxszyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm78czpzc There appear to be two and only two mainstream opinion pieces now: 1) why the natural disgust and anger you feel is counterproductive and the obvious atrocity that elicited that reaction is complicated; 2) Nazi parents who want to liquidate your child for existing have several valid concerns, too 2025-07-29T11:06:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqxz2qhh3zsw4kest9yv3t64kgvvx3h2mg2khaj078s8zqhltaqmczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7alqawz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx65a2ae34ulqwkdl2dd8qam338tcf7d3gz63avwyh2fd5cuk9x2ger02wp'>nevent1q…02wp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Happily, it so happens there is a very specific remedy set aside within our Constitution specifically for the occasion of a president posing a threat to our democracy and its people and the Constitution itself. This process is known as impeachment. 2025-07-27T11:25:18Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx65a2ae34ulqwkdl2dd8qam338tcf7d3gz63avwyh2fd5cuk9x2gzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7y03plv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsda0jp3jya5gxtkynqsu5ukryd2hjvh2a59cv6r7qqmt0ea3jedacuwfj9z'>nevent1q…fj9z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Any eventual Museum of Trump&#39;s Dangers to Democracy will have several wings; one devoted to corruption, one devoted to kidnapping and brutality forces, one devoted to the insurrection, one for collusion with foreign governments, and so on. www.trumpactiontracker.info 2025-07-27T11:25:08Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsda0jp3jya5gxtkynqsu5ukryd2hjvh2a59cv6r7qqmt0ea3jedaczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7sj92ev In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfnrs20myygmsmrn79urftzkn3rxtkqguync0sz0l0ff2t0arl5nckwvzvt'>nevent1q…vzvt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Most every Democrat in Congress will agree that Donald Trump is a danger to our democracy. This statement is not just true; it’s an understatement. Trump is a danger to democracy in the same way as an active fire is a danger to a building. 2025-07-27T11:24:53Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst7gmn9g4mqy9l40js5a08z5e427mc0dfj9k6lp6640vx8ac8zdwszyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7kzd5d0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfnrs20myygmsmrn79urftzkn3rxtkqguync0sz0l0ff2t0arl5nckwvzvt'>nevent1q…vzvt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My second point is that Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and to everyone living in it, and that means that he must be impeached, as much as possible, as often as possible.<br/><br/><a href="https://citizensimpeachment.com/?ref=the-reframe.com">https://citizensimpeachment.com/?ref=the-reframe.com</a> 2025-07-27T11:24:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfnrs20myygmsmrn79urftzkn3rxtkqguync0sz0l0ff2t0arl5nczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7ygwvwk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdfr8ajucvw4ktz2ynj4rl6pp4wmz5wv8rxjuf65zxmaay68rk08qveq5jj'>nevent1q…q5jj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>No one who actually believed the dire nature of my warning would be behaving this way. My actions would speak over my words. <br/><br/>What&#39;s my point?<br/><br/>My first point is that people tend to disbelieve stories when the actions don&#39;t meet the words—even if the story is true. In fact, if the actions of those telling the story don&#39;t match their words, people tend to stop believing the story is true despite mounting evidence of its veracity. 2025-07-27T11:24:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdfr8ajucvw4ktz2ynj4rl6pp4wmz5wv8rxjuf65zxmaay68rk08qzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7ktquyd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfg930vd5tr2ypzq68mt623c2l6nxj8udr8dzffhu8w4hpkd0drecqyu2xw'>nevent1q…u2xw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You might start to wonder if I was having a laugh, or taking the piss, or mobbing the jolly, or some other British expression I may or may not have made up meaning “unserious person.” Your confusion would be understandable, because my actions wouldn’t be telling a story consistent with my words. 2025-07-27T11:23:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfg930vd5tr2ypzq68mt623c2l6nxj8udr8dzffhu8w4hpkd0dreczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7uvwe44 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx4ppdqx5zfkj3e8kr32zgelyyntqfgwcslg2fr96gtpkk8dmjtpgk2kf9d'>nevent1q…kf9d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What if I refused to call the fire department (let&#39;s pretend I have the only phone), explaining that unfortunately the fire department wasn&#39;t close enough to the building to successfully fight the fire? 2025-07-27T11:23:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx4ppdqx5zfkj3e8kr32zgelyyntqfgwcslg2fr96gtpkk8dmjtpgzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7s7x055 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx9wa92gkkzj54x8vyeq5tq9htx3zr0jsfzaudac8wu4hyyhffy0cu4z93w'>nevent1q…z93w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>But what if I then returned to my office and very calmly went back to work? What if, after warning of a horrible fire, I refused to pull the fire alarm, explaining that fire alarms are a loud distraction, and generally unpopular with the building&#39;s other residents? 2025-07-27T11:23:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx9wa92gkkzj54x8vyeq5tq9htx3zr0jsfzaudac8wu4hyyhffy0czyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7zy5qhw Say we&#39;re working at the top of a tall building. If I burst into your office and say &#34;the building is on fire!&#34; you&#39;ll be thinking of evacuation, of raising the alarm, calling the fire department—and understandably so. A building on fire is very bad news.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/impeachment-is-a-duty/">https://www.the-reframe.com/impeachment-is-a-duty/</a> 2025-07-27T11:23:16Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfvzqus3nwvd0qt04zulg23glk9c60yhv9j7zr7gzjjm50u3ssdxqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm78vce3u <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/848/955/557/552/614/original/2a5210a79c08f3c5.png"> <br/> 2025-07-14T01:26:28Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxcy0v23f89p8kq6fawkhks7d87cqzthlkxnac3gpdwtfad0xpk5szyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7rw4u5n I wrote about being a person of privilege in a supremacist society while trying to oppose supremacy, and the some ideas on how best to avoid becoming an obstacle to that struggle.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/be-bolder-not-a-boulder/">https://www.the-reframe.com/be-bolder-not-a-boulder/</a> 2025-07-13T17:21:21Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqxypp3n6557v59am7rh03m2w3xdz4z6040y9sv7d0kxjn4xewgnczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7r7vd06 We sternly warn the left not to politicize the tragedy caused by our politics. 2025-07-10T09:54:56Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs96439efc4nlad6532ra6q66p25fxwrhyyp2fzfem3azz33x7q2tczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7heajfc *observing a man being choked to death* listen man, I&#39;m with you in your struggle but only if this stays completely peaceful 2025-07-06T12:53:28Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0kgxmh7eu80fa4mn9hepkkttnvg6p9zjtazvkcp02k6tm8h33ccszyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7nrjqqs On my country&#39;s 249th birthday, I wrote about the problem of sharing a nation with millions of evil people, and how to live a human life in the face of overwhelming inhumanity.<br/><br/>Oh and the Beastie Boys make an appearance.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-good-deed-in-a-weary-world/">https://www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-good-deed-in-a-weary-world/</a> 2025-07-04T17:04:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxcepheaggwtqlpw8279jz8t38gthftmmdhuukajyvn784z7uee8qzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7fm75ac If you’re a Republican who isn’t a Nazi, yes you are. 2025-07-04T14:39:37Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszee8zzyrnhj83repgu5xmc5elx3pdxj2xu8rd3fl7pp5xn8y9e5gzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7twlrcv I finally wrote about the great episode of LOST, The Constant.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/lost-038-a-constant-of-sorrows-i-am-man/">https://www.the-reframe.com/lost-038-a-constant-of-sorrows-i-am-man/</a> 2025-06-21T17:04:56Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqtl38xkfjahdpceq0njyfznuzkv9z5jmyal4d2jyyf9fz6l0ukegzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7ws7fdp Put Weird Al in charge of everything until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 2025-06-19T12:05:56Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgxrcylx60t0n92hfca8dcyknel5q4ry2dyqy9wa9rv7ylrjwc43qzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7u3yn93 In the linked essay, I mention Nancy Mace&#39;s standard TERF question, asked most recently to Tim Walz: &#34;What is a woman?&#34;<br/><br/>My answer is simple. A woman is not a *what.* A woman is a *who.*<br/><br/>I want to expand a bit from the essay on why I think this matters.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/shows-of-weakness/">https://www.the-reframe.com/shows-of-weakness/</a> 2025-06-16T11:13:18Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvk68erdk07rad3yqxr6pghydluzkjs6uys0ftapy0x4t0qpqxstgzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7e7lxpv It&#39;s hard to credit MAGA with ignorance. If they were ignorant they&#39;d sometimes accidentally choose less evil over more evil, but no. No matter where you set them, no matter how many times you spin them around, their moral compasses point with unerring certainty toward maximum atrocity and cruelty. 2025-06-13T11:40:18Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxgpxgppeerpc8wkgxwhupjj6x9mhyfm7lezexgde9ds0zkhxj6tczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7ch3ztm “The reason we can say that the Republican Party is a hate group is that we’ve seen politically empowered and popular hate groups before, and they look like the Republican Party. More importantly, they act like the Republican Party.”<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/the-elephant-in-the-room/">https://www.the-reframe.com/the-elephant-in-the-room/</a> 2025-06-12T22:56:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy2egcvr865td5l2p8xn4s0psx6e3w6t5ys9e0m87drjpq6e3zkfqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7ryy3cr &#34;If we&#39;d do well to use the split between Musk and Trump as an occasion to welcome Musk into the big tent, wouldn&#39;t we do just as well to welcome Trump into the big tent, too? If one mass-murdering Nazi billionaire in the tent is good, wouldn&#39;t two be better?&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-middle/">https://www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-middle/</a> 2025-06-08T12:08:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2d5czyf3p420na9xnnheu4xd4gtv8p698tvjatrppn6y3h2m0nyqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7h39jf8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd065jl0a859c6w2h32g78ze7ckkd35zpxseumulk27n3am3lxh9q9f4mk5'>nevent1q…4mk5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If I could change one thing about US culture, it would be this unshakeable and absolutely backward belief that life must be earned, and generating profit is how you earn it. <br/><br/>Life is a human right. Profit must be earned, and those who want to earn it must respect human rights in order to do so. 2025-05-28T11:01:18Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd065jl0a859c6w2h32g78ze7ckkd35zpxseumulk27n3am3lxh9qzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm74sklq6 Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work. 2025-05-28T11:01:11Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdzyaclkdaesa8tuk6qsv64zxa350a86d7j2urmalvsvcf65em7zqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7vcfw6y If you don&#39;t want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement&#39;s desire for racial purity.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/534/004/909/187/893/original/3075cece43358fd3.png"> <br/> 2025-05-19T10:25:58Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9hrhc2vd8zyad94sn8wtrfky894qusp59tprt4f4zu8xj574ashqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm77aaxam I wrote about our Kidnapping &amp; Enslavement forces, the traditional notions that government is made for profit and human beings are meant for efficiency, and the ways these notions inevitably lead to enslavement.<br/><br/>The profit we gain from society IS society.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/our-purpose-isnt-efficiency">https://www.the-reframe.com/our-purpose-isnt-efficiency</a> 2025-05-11T13:36:24Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8dxdn9u37hycyw6slw5sj3ewecw46fp80r466sy0nu8pgycarelczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7hduckk The ethos of MAGA is demolishing livable society for themselves because they are so captured by bigotry that the thought of sharing a livable society with others causes them psychological trauma. They&#39;ve sold their inheritance for a bowl of poison, and they lick their fingers as they gobble it down. 2025-05-10T12:20:44Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsymszcu7njeteya8x87c43gpwua2vn22ftjhyuwgjef6qh7dtl4jczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7fcpwex A look at one of the most pressing problems of 2023: the lament that &#34;the left&#34; wouldn&#39;t be friends with &#34;the right,&#34; over &#34;political views.&#34;<br/><br/>Defining these terms and dealing with a strange spectacle: the world&#39;s most unfriendly people, demanding friendliness. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/if-you-want-to-be-friends-then-why/">https://www.the-reframe.com/if-you-want-to-be-friends-then-why/</a> 2025-04-26T13:46:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqha3wm63gepvwq0g2pvxmn4qvhhcfkh8ae49agw722lvmrumq5aqzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7r9ryky &#34;I didn’t always believe that Republicans were fascist, but I do now. I was persuaded. Who persuaded me, you might ask? Guess what—it was Republicans themselves. They&#39;ve been very persuasive.&#34; <br/><br/>From 2023, on bullies, persuasion, and the margins of permission:<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/youve-persuaded-us-already/">https://www.the-reframe.com/youve-persuaded-us-already/</a> 2025-04-19T11:25:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdr7vewwa46fcl9q9mrm68d37txrguhsfl3zqqqtjhl6qye6dy67szyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7dglxwr The thing that’s very important to remember about American conservatives and any other sort of fascist is that anytime they posit some value or principle or positive outcome, they are lying, often to themselves. Every time they talk about stealing and enslaving and murdering and terrorizing, they are telling the truth. 2025-04-18T11:53:25Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrk5p88wum5ymp4yjelqm7fcujw6hcc8fs9wpq2g6x4npeqa8jgzgzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7fdsuej Hey my reflections on leaving Substack a year ago are on Techdirt. Isn&#39;t that neat? <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/11/a-newsletter-writer-reflects-on-leaving-substack/">https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/11/a-newsletter-writer-reflects-on-leaving-substack/</a> 2025-04-12T12:15:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9jjy9nthd09dsjq5rd0mqguv54fl9049w807exhm5puk76ucl6wczyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7anzwxl I for one am amazed that allowing the world&#39;s stupidest man to bellow like an idiot while swinging a sledgehammer into every surface encountered has not fixed all of our problems but has instead made all problems worse and caused new ones. It makes no sense; he had the longest tie, the goldest hair. 2025-04-04T11:46:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdms4xuwxzypcmrp5nqrun8v3skcqmeva0fdts656kqh5xh3kc80qzyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7vstjsg I used the 1-year anniversary of moving my newsletter off of Substack (they monetize Nazis among other things it turns out) to write a few thoughts on the lessons I&#39;ve learned from the experience.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/1-year-after-substack">https://www.the-reframe.com/1-year-after-substack</a> 2025-03-29T15:39:48Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs05snu9rjg6h259fkjvp2ekqzhz6wr9908j870c2k4gr45k8mjecszyqn6uqge0yew9w5hd4rmj9ff45678923d6wzqnd8naxrjmpwv2lm7utfjxs Brb just texting war plans in an unsecured group chat, we white guys are always the best candidates for any important job. 2025-03-25T02:06:05Z