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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I have concerns based on how weasel-y he was with Warren, but I also wonder how much false information he gets fed during the mission planning process. He seems highly disciplined but also comfortable with compartmentalization. Then there’s this from That Hideous Strength:

“This was the first thing Mark had been asked to do which he himself, before he did it, clearly knew to be criminal. But the moment of his consent almost escaped his notice; certainly, there was no struggle, no sense of turning a corner. There may have been a time in the world’s history when such moments fully revealed their gravity, with witches prophesying on a blasted heath or visible Rubicons to be crossed. But, for him, it all slipped past in a chatter of laughter, of that intimate laughter between fellow professionals, which of all earthly powers is strongest to make men do very bad things before they are yet, individually, very bad men.”

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I think a higher priority is seriously putting the highlighted section of Article III in play. Packing SCOTUS is fine, but there is no reason we cannot have the lesser courts that we want with powers defined by Congress.

From Article III Sec 2 US Constitution:

In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Philadelphia Story is great, but gotta go with

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

So let’s talk about the fulfilling nature of the lives of the horses that don’t exist:

Graph from researchgate.net showing the decline in horse populations in the U. S.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Not everything is about political maneuvering. I see ICE as nascent secret political police threat. I truly do. I’m all for anything that can be used to defang and restrain them, but in the final analysis, secret police have to go.

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Two questions: What’s for dinner? How is this crazier than Zuck sporting an afro?

Line drawing of snake eating its own tail.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Max: A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma and wearing a cat suit.

A grey and white tuxedo cat staring out of a felt box

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I did, but apparently not hard enough. “Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely”

If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know how much truth is stronger than errors, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

If you frame the top of his head just right it could just as easily be an H-bomb test at the Bikini atoll.

The top of Schumer’s head cropped to imitate the detonation of a hydrogen bomb.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I remember distinctly seeing Blazing Saddles for the first time, after all of the American Love it or Leave it stuff, the Nixon years, etc, and seeing the easy natural camaraderie between Gene Wilder and Cleavon Little in that scene and thinking, if we can just wait out the olds we’ll be alright.

Quote from Blazing Saddles: “You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know … morons.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

“When people show you who they are, believe them” doesn’t just apply to evil nazi shit.

Bert Lahr as the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The mission was to instill fear. The arrest of Sandwich Man was just pretext. I call upon the ghost of Ceaușescu to haunt their dreams every night. Pretty good likeness of RFK Jr. wouldn’t you say.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Flying blind would still be preferable to this.

Tunnel painted on wall of bridge support.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

If he’s wearing toreador pants you are right to be scared.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

There’s a beautiful beautiful field Far away in a land that is fair Happy landings to you Amelia Earhart Farewell First Lady of the air

Amelia Earhart smiling straight into the camera

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

He’s not even fit to sweep up after his shitty parade.

$Picture of the guy that sweeps up after the fractured fairytales popping up out of his trash can with his broom.$

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Happy 79th to the fabulous and absolutely magnificent Joanna Lumley!

Joanna Lumley in a fur lined parka in the Moscow train station from the ‘60s.

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Tbh I can rarely come within a mile of keeping up with you, but when I try I inevitably feel like the result is worth the effort, so I read the wiki on Lange. I found this quote highly ironic:

Milton Friedman criticized the Lange model on methodological grounds. According to Friedman, the model rested on "models of imaginary worlds" rather than "generalizations about the real world"

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Peter Kurze @peterkurze.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Here’s a couple of movie recommends for the dark days ahead:

Movie poster for 1942 movie To Be or Not To Be either Jack Benny and Carole Lombard.

Movie poster for Charlie Chaplin movie The Great Dictator

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