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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for

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mothman the wanderer @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I see you're posting a photo of a loved one. must be nice. have you considered, though, that right now, some atrocity is going on that you could helplessly doompost about?

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tawwab explains how clear boundaries protect relationships by clarifying needs, limits, and expectations. She explores boundaries with family, partners, friends, work, and technology through examples and case studies. Full review: nwcasebolt.substack.com/p/set-bounda....

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Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

Nedra Glover Tawwab

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Additionally, I don't believe voters disliked Harris to the same extent they perceived her as unserious and unready. Vance has a bigger likeability gap than she did. I can't imagine how a VP wins a "third term" for a universally hated president when *he himself* is broadly not popular.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In the famous words of Gillian Jacobs on Community, a lot of voters are like “I can excuse the racism!” But there are no follow up questions. They don’t vote morally and are genuinely surprised when amoral people may be using the government to pillage the country.

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BEAVE @beaveinflow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My current financial strategy is simply hoping a future version of me has money.

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bakos’s memoir follows her CIA career in and out of Iraq, where she helped target Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. She condemns the war’s origins while honoring intelligence officers who fought its consequences. Full review: nwcasebolt.substack.com/p/the-target....

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The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House

Nada Bakos

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Great Khan of the Plains seeks a nuclear shield for the peaceful existence of the free tribes.

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Anna argues that Mexico’s first republic collapsed not from chaos at the periphery, but from centralist elites reclaiming power from the states. Factionalism, violence, and collapsing trust destroyed Mexican federalism from its outset. Full review: nwcasebolt.substack.com/p/forging-me...

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Forging Mexico, 1821-1835

Timothy E. Anna

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Make Politics a Bunch of Boring People Droning in a Room While We Live Our Lives and the Deep State Keeps the Lights On Again

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In order to deal with the constant onslaught of destabilizing news, I have adopted an attitude of "therapeutic accelerationism." Any time some event happens that will be included in a history textbook as a portent of the dark times, I crack a cold one, sit back and think "all according to plan."

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

sooner or later Trump is going to start rambling during a speech about the need to catch and kill "The Batman"

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I so badly want this to be true.

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Platt’s history of the Opium War shows how corruption, misunderstanding, greed, and individual failures can turn unwanted conflict into catastrophe. It reveals how history emerges from large forces and flawed people. Full review: nwcasebolt.substack.com/p/imperial-t....

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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

Stephen R. Platt

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If this is how the GOP ends, you could be sad about the fate of Abraham Lincoln’s party. Or you could rejoice that his vision triumphed so completely that, when his party fell to racists and bigots, the nation followed his example and put it down. His truth is marching on.

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Of course Kavenaugh wants to leave the door open for dictatorship later, and of course Alito and Thomas are filling their diapers with “legal opinion.” But good news nonetheless.

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What a game in Houston. Really got my heart rate up. I may need to look into blood pressure pills. #BillsMafia

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Uribe’s memoir recounts Colombia’s fight against violence and presents his theory of leadership: security, transparency, personal responsibility, and trust. His reflections on restoring faith in the democratic state are compelling. Full review: nwcasebolt.substack.com/p/no-lost-ca....

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No Lost Causes

Álvaro Uribe Vélez

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Third quarter and Rams have played the whole game like they’re jet-lagged. For reasons beyond human ken.

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Tooze’s economic history of Nazi Germany shows how Hitler’s ideology drove a war that Germany lacked the resources to win. It also challenges us to understand irrational leaders on their own terms. A sobering warning. Full review: nwcasebolt.substack.com/p/the-wages-....

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The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

Adam Tooze

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Awful comfortable out there." ... ... ... ... "Maybe a little too comfortable."

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Starting to think electing a guy who has lived for 80 years and somehow never committed an act of kindness was a mistake

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Paratroopers in 1944: “look out Hitler, here we come” Paratroopers in 2026: “girls have cooties”

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“American Royals” offers an America where Washington founded a monarchy. Unfortunately, its alternate history makes no sense, and its predictable YA romances aren’t for me. Still, McGee knows her audience. nwcasebolt.substack.com/p/american-r...

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American Royals (American Royals #1)

Katharine McGee

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

High gas prices got you down? Cheer up! Travel to these whimsical destinations is free, and they’re no further away than your imagination.

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Were you there" is vintage YEC apologetics. Forty years ago when I was a kid, the literature encouraged us to throw this in the face of teachers who, in the telling, would sputter and flail and fumble in the face of such a powerful solipsism. The seeds planted then are sprouting now.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Me, looking through the window at the birds: Well, shit

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The Mall Krampus @themallkrampus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It's impressive how consistently Trump sets his own dick on fire with literally everything involving trade because that certainly seems like the one thing where he does have well-developed ideological beliefs about (that are themselves dumb but not in ways that predict this kind of crotch-flambe)

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ceej @ceej.online · 21/08/2026

crucially, I’m not asking if dracula could be *charged* with murder, I’m asking what my odds are as his defense attorney

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Alberta studies American evangelicalism’s embrace of MAGA and how political power has displaced Christian virtue. Preaches to the choir, but offers some home to the remnant. Full review: nwcasebolt.substack.com/p/the-kingdo...

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Arguably social media + smartphones has been a societal and mental health disaster, and we're all using these things to post about how bad data centers are. On social media. With our phones. That process our messages through data centers. Never change, Internet.

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Dickens's Christmas anthology for 1859 provokes thought about the 'ghosts' that haunt us all through his own pen and those of five literary friends and collaborators. Full review: nwcasebolt.substack.com/p/the-haunte...

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The Haunted House

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Correct. You need only immerse in the rantings of people who think the Constitution offers no protections to non-citizens. This is why they get exercised by the extension of due process to immigrants in jeopardy of deportation. In their minds, citizens have protections and immigrants don't. Period.

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Chess’s novel makes refugees personal. Through displaced Americans from a lost universe, she turns abstraction into intimate loss, showing how identity fractures when home disappears. It also made me want to love the stranger. Full review: nwcasebolt.substack.com/p/famous-men...

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Famous Men Who Never Lived

K Chess

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Took a decade, but Euros are finally standing in the doorway and drumming their fingers on the frame. I still think there’s time for them to say, “Oh thank God” and come back into the room, but that window *is* closing. Tremendous work on our part, top shelf, no notes.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 11/08/2026

I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

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Al has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.
• Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books - a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane - makes it easy to lose the thread. Al can help you pick it back up without starting over.
Ш I really got into using Al while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:
• "T'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
• The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You have to feel sorry for the guy. He could’ve just opted for prison and unlimited naps. Missed opportunity.

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Shermer probes religion and science’s attempts to defeat death, exposing problems with spiritual and technological hopes of immortality. See what he gets right—and where his skepticism leaves unanswered questions. Full review: nwcasebolt.substack.com/p/heavens-on....

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Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia

Michael Shermer

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I don’t want to draw overly broad conclusions, but it’s possible that putting dummies in charge was dumb.

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Muravchik traces socialism's resilience as an idea despite repeated failure. Every attempt founders on human nature, but perhaps true socialism has never been tried! We will surely be the first to get it right. Full review: nwcasebolt.substack.com/p/heaven-on-...

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Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism

Joshua Muravchik

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

O'Donnell's Pacific War accounts restore humanity to stories sanitized by Hollywood today. Veterans reveal unspeakable horrors balanced with mercy. Hirabayashi embodies America's truest ideal: equality despite injustice. Full review: nwcasebolt.substack.com/p/into-the-r...

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Into the Rising Sun: World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat

Patrick K. O'Donnell

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Nathan Casebolt @nwcasebolt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"I don't accept the argument that if you cut power to the hospitals—even valuable, well situated hospitals (which some of them were)—you're responsible for killing people." Okay man, whatever you say, you do you.

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