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Operationalizing dialectic: Hegelian in my dreams; organization man in my nightmares. linktr.ee/donaldtaylorii

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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 5h
If someone who subscribes to another religion is permitted to do something that is proscribed by my religion, then I don't have religious liberty. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...
abcnews.com
Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book
A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is some real Cobra Commander-level bullshit here. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
A sreenshot of one of Donald Trump's TruthSocial posts from 20 September 2026 that reads, At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at the Receptive Circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage. There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World. Out of the 59 top cities and Capitals, Washington, D.C., IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE A TRIUMPHAL ARCH, but it will now and, by far, the greatest of them all! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Demagogues the world over would have us believe this is one of the most dangerous anti-Semites in America.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No man signs in to the same Zoom twice.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
After the Democrats takeover in 2027, we're going to wish Trump's retribution was directed only at the Kennedy Center.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The debacle in Iran is what you get when an experienced national security aparatus and military veterans are pitted against reality television stars, podcasters and nepo babies.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
World oil production has declined by about 16 million barrels per day owing to Trump's wars in the Middle East. Demand has to be brought into alignment with this reduction in supply. I guess raising unemployment is part of the equation to accomplish that. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
wsj.com
Fed Delivers First Rate Hike in Years With Unanimous Vote
Most officials penciled in one more increase this year. An energy shock and a surge of AI investment have reshaped the inflation outlook.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It is a story when the president spends ten hours on an unhinged social media bender. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
nytimes.com
60 Posts in 10 Hours: How Trump’s Social Media Reflects His Version of Reality
With an assist from A.I., President Trump offers a window into how he wants to be seen — and, critics say, a barometer of his mental state.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My current workout audio book is Cixin's The Three Body Problem and it's been okay. But I just got to the destruction of Judgment Day and it is the most shocking scene I've read in sci-fi since the fall of the space elevator in Red Mars.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is going to make me sound old and maybe a little nostalgic but it’s really striking how in the Trump era, no one even pretends to debate about policy anymore.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Kennedy Center getting the Trump Taj Mahal treatment. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
washingtonpost.com
Kennedy Center could close as early as Tuesday, warns of bankruptcy, documents show
Officials said the center is facing “certain fiscal collapse” within weeks, insist that adding President Donald Trump’s name may be the only way to avoid bankruptcy.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Look, the reason why declaring victory in Iran and walking away is not tenable is because the war is spreading. www.axios.com/2026/09/11/h...
axios.com
Saudi crown prince urged Trump to strike Houthis amid Red Sea threat
Trump declined, and U.S. officials stressed he has no plans to intervene directly against the Houthis for now.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It is just flooring that eleven years into the Trump era major news outlets will still clear their homepage to cover some off-the-cuff shit he ad-libbed during one of his routines.
A screen shot of the Washington Post website landing page. An article by the Editorial Board, titled No one is falling for Trump’s budget-busting dividend check gimmick is highlighted. There are red arrows pointing out two other articles: Republican skepticism arises after Trump’s pledge of $5,000 payouts tied to GOP wins and What to know about $5,000 payouts Trump proposed at GOP convention.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
J.D. Vance's browser history is all Restoration Hardware and Crate & Barrel. Wayfair when he's basic. Facebook Marketplace if he's nasty.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Over the weekend Iran launched ballistic missiles at the USS Washington and a destroyer. In retaliation the U.S. struck three Iranian oil tankers. Today Iran launched 20 missiles at Al-Azraq airbase and the U.S. sank five tankers. It's barely getting reported at all. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/w...
nytimes.com
U.S. Strikes Three Iranian ‘Shadow Network’ Oil Tankers, Military Says
The U.S. military said it retaliated after Iran launched missiles at two warships. The strikes came days after the two sides exchanged some of their most intense fire in weeks.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Again, my prediction algorithm is: imagine the worst possible outcome: that's what's going to happen. Democrats take the Senate by one seat, Fetterman switches parties making it 50/50, and we have to endure two years J.D. Vance casting tie-breaking votes, making Democrats look incompetent.
A screenshot of a quote-post by Jamelle Bouie  responding to an Axios post. Axios writes, EXCLUSIVE: Sen. John Fetterman is preparing to make a bombshell appearance tonight at the GOP convention in a video praising President Trump and Pennsylvania GOP Sen. Dave McCormick, to which Bouie replies, my bet is that he'll flip if it's a 50-50 or 51-49 dem senate, so dems need to somehow get to 52 to be safe.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
No, an agreement with Iran is going to have to await the next administration in *Washington*.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Contestants will be vying for who will receive Donald Trump's endorsement in 2032. people.com/trump-admin-...
people.com
Trump Admin Announces ‘Apprentice’-Style Reality Competition Show Judged by Nicki Minaj
The Trump administration is producing a reality show competition featuring rapper Nicki Minaj as one of its judges and former Superman actor Dean Cain as its host, Small Business Administration (SBA) ...
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 31/08/2026
in 1989 francis fukuyama invented the clickbait title and has been punished for his sins ever since
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Slashdot @slashdot.org · 31/08/2026
MapQuest's App Surges to No. 1 In Navigation After Refusing to Rename Lake Ontario news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/31/16…
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MapQuest's App Surges to No. 1 In Navigation After Refusing to Rename Lake Ontario
MapQuest's refusal to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America" has sent its app surging up the charts, making it the No. 1 navigation app in the U.S. and driving "hundreds of thousands" of new downloads. In contrast, Google Maps announced on Saturday that it was complying with the Trump administration'...
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The poster for the 1984 movie, C.H.U.D. (cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers).
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My Amazon recommendations are flooded with lightly researched self-published 90 page pamphlets (probably heavily AI slop), to the point of uselessness. I need an advanced search option: major publishers only – or in my case, maybe even: university presses only.
A screen shot from the movie, The Big Lebowski with Lebowski and Sobchak in orange plastic chairs at a bowling alley, with a movie quote in blocky white letters that reads, Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As Chris Hayes repeatedly says, that all transactions are zero-sum is the closest thing Trump has to a core belief. But this is worse: this is negative-sum: everyone comes out with less.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
One of the greatest moments in cinema. I could die every time I see it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlwn...
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I see you shiver with anticipation
YouTube video by Zampone
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ontario is the name given to the lake by the Wendat Native American people. The name predates the United States and Canada by hundreds of years.
A screenshot of a 25 August 2026 Truth Social post by Donald Trump that reads, The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Bloomberg: The tax legislation adopted by the current Republican Congress has dramatically worsened America's fiscal trajectory, undermining confidence in the US economy, the dollar and Treasury bills.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I knew this was coming. There's not a chance white supremacist Secretary Hegseth is going to allow a capital ship to be named for a black person. www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...
cnn.com
Exclusive: Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump | CNN Politics
The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, three sources familiar wit...
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Look, one of the ways we can tell that the United States has lost against Iran is that the United States is withdrawing from the region. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon weighing smaller U.S. military presence in Gulf once Iran war ends
An analysis, which the Defense Department said was not yet a formal review, will help address whether to rebuild strike-battered bases, said people familiar with the matter.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Remember, Trump isn't running the government of a great power: he's hosting season nine of Celebrity Apprentice. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...
cbsnews.com
Rubio, Bessent took decoy Air Force One, Hegseth flew on secret flight with Trump
Secretaries Marco Rubio and Scott Bessent were on the decoy flight last month when President Trump secretly switched to a different plane while Pete Hegseth was with Mr. Trump.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Fortuna, nobody tell Trump that the total program-adjusted cost per unit for the B-2 stealth bomber exceeded the price of its weight in gold. We don't want this guy getting any more ideas about vessel design. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
washingtonpost.com
Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences
The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I've been slow to accept the story about the USS Abraham Lincoln because my countervailing thought: that if the Navy knows anything, it's logistics. But then comes the explanation: Iran significantly damaged Naval Support Activity Bahrain, where Lincoln is resupplied. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
nytimes.com
Navy and USS Lincoln’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War
Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/08/2026
AOC on Hasan Piker: "Much hay was made about the fact that we lost young men in the last election. Many of the same consultants that are wringing their hands today were the same ones talking about how we have to go on Joe Rogan and not be so willing to engage in cancel culture."
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Why choose? Why not be rid of both? thehill.com/homenews/cam...
thehill.com
Carville rips Piker: ‘If he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I’m out of here’
Democratic strategist James Carville on Sunday ripped into popular left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, saying that if he shapes himself into a force within the Democratic Party, “I’m…
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
And MAHA is a perfect example of that sector of Americans who simultaneously believe nothing and anything. [1/3]
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A widespread wishcasting among pundits – especially never-Trumpers – is the notion that Trump has destroyed the Republican party. The Republicans are doing just fine. If there's a party that's teetering on the brink of collapse, it's the Democrats.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I want a futuristically accurate sci-fi, where there are no white people because after generations of global population dispersal, they have been absorbed into the non-white global majority. The only remaining white people are weird racist enclave hold-outs in the Ozarks, Alaska & the Bavarian Alps.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I am going to add this to my American unreality file. Those 3 in 5 Americans are presumably getting a weekly reality-check on gas prices, but to no avail. 46% say a change in gas prices will impact how they vote, but how will they even know?
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Twice in the twenty-first century the United States has been run out of a country by a loose collection of amateurs with nothing but small arms, improvised explosive devices and Toyota pickup trucks and it's like it never happened.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I wish all these self-proclaimed Clausewitzians would spend more time closely reading Book VI, "Defense".
A meme of the Wilhelm Wach portrait of Clausewitz with a speech balloon next to him with a passage from On War that reads, … we must say that the defensive form of warfare is intrinsically stronger than the offensive. This is the point we have been trying to make, for although it is implicit in the nature of the matter and experience has confirmed it again and again, it is at odds with prevalent opinion, which proves how ideas can be confused by superficial writers. (Book VI, section 1, Attack and Defense, page 358)
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I can't believe we're repeating the Black Athena debates of the 1990s over Christopher Nolan's Odyssey. (Black Athena was one of villains of Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education.)
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Every attack there's a little bit more space, little quicker ball movement ... Just feels for this Spanish team it's a matter of time." #WorldCup
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I guess the reason they do third place matches is they are hilarious?
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
What is going on!? Has the French team decided they've met their syndicat de joueurs de football contract obligation? Is this some sort of work slowdown? #WorldCup
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein …" truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... Yes, if Canada would get their act together and rake one third of the Earth's boreal forest.
A screenshot of one of Donald Trump's 17 July 2026 Truth Social posts that reads, We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air, the quality of which is dangerous, and totally unacceptable! I will call the Prime Minister during the day to find out what they are going to do about it. The cost is incalculable! Canada has refused to engage in basic Forest Management and Debris Removal, knowing that such refusal will lead to exactly this result. This is Willful Negligence, and becoming a yearly occurrence, costing the United States Billions of Dollars, which cost of this pollution must of necessity be added to the TARIFFS Canada is currently paying. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14/07/2026
france had players, spain had a system. simple as
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Spain's passing game is so precise, even against a peer competitor like France, it is just next level. #WorldCup
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE."
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Having a functional electoral democracy is one of the most precious achievements of human civilization. We figured out how to—mostly at least—have our fights with slips of paper instead of killing each other. That's what's ultimately at stake, that's the depth of Graham's betrayal of society itself.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Spare me your paeans to Lindsey Graham as a champion of freedom around the world. He was a champion of freedom when it entailed bombing poor people from thirty-thousand feet. As soon as he encountered the slightest bit of domestic difficulty, he collapsed like a wet noodle.
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Donald Taylor @donaldtaylorii.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Fuck that game. Norway was as fun to root for as the U.S. against Belgium.
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