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Brent Cox

@titivil.bsky.social
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Rebuilding the Future Like There's No Tomorrow. Blogging at www.titivil.com.

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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 2h
A Truth and Reconciliation Day sounds ~so~ ~nice~
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 18h
Sucks that Eric Schmitt getting his microdick caught in his zipper takes away from Jack Smith's actual testimony about the actual crimes committed by the actual president.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Imagine if you were running a small business with these relative numbers.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well guess what?
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How much more treason do you need? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bitch can't walk a straight line.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Diesel at record high prices and why no trucker convoy in DC?
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A project of such unalloyed good I'm surprised Republicans aren't making speeches against it. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
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Largest wildlife overpass in North America located in Colorado with 91% reduction in collisions: "Big success"
A wildlife mitigation system made up of North America's largest wildlife overpass, five wildlife underpasses, and fencing to guide animals to the crossings has led to a 91% decrease in wildlife collis...
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These Paid For by the US Government Trump commercials are an excellent reminder of Fuck Trump.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Before, I was going to watch Musk once. Now I might watch it two or three times.
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Joanie's Post Post Feminist Phase @bettybitter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
There's a foreboding sense of cultural death in 1981 Doonesbury. America is repudiating everything Garry's stood for while getting nothing in exchange. It's pervasive in a way that's hard to clip, but here's a little montage.
1981/4/18

[Walden College Reunion]
Alum 1: ...and then last year I finally got fed up. I quit the school board and started a local chapter of the Moral Majority!
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Alum 2: The Moral Majority? You mean the folks who say God wants a bigger defense budget?
Alum 1: It’s true. The Bible supports US Military Supremacy.
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Alum 2: Gee, I’m not so sure I go along with you on that one. But, hey, to each his own, right? That’s what this country’s all about!
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Alum 2: Well, great seeing you again, buddy..
Alum 1: May you burn in Hell for all eternity.1981/2/15

[WBBY Studios]
Mark: Tonight we’re pleased to welcome to the show Miss Muffy Harkness, lead singer for the hot new preppy band “Muffy and the Top-Siders.”
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Mark: Muffy’s been making the rounds to chat up her debut album “Cotillion.” So tell us, Muffy, what’s Ruling-Class Rock all about?
Muffy: Well, basically, it’s the sensible sound, Mar. Just really neat, really key music.
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Muffy: Not that Prep Pop isn’t a hoot as well. Au contraire! Some of our songs are such a stitch it’s not funny! It’s just we’re trying to stay away from the usual tacky [black] stuff.
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Mark: But isn’t the prep movement limiting it’s appeal by suggesting that elitism and privilege have become hip?
Muffy: Maybe. But the political climate is just so right for that, don’t you think?
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Muffy: I mean, look at the new crowd in Washington. From George Bush on down, there’s loads of Old Money. I think people have had enough of New Money. New Money is almost as bad as poverty!
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Mark: Except to the poor, of course.
Muffy: Really. Of course most of them are too declasse to notice, n’est-ce pas?1981/3/23-25

[ABC Nightly News]
Hedley: Good evening. Today the furor continued over President Reagan’s recent statement that the only lesson of Vietnam was to “never enter into a war you don’t intend to win.”
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Hedley: With the memory of 210,000 US casualties still vivid, millions of shocked Americans expressed outrage over the disclosure that their government never had any intention of winning the Vietnam War.
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Hedley: I’m Roland Hedley. As cries of “Never Again” ring out across the country tonight, join me as we take a look into our own front yard… for a war we can win!
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[Map of El Salvador serving as the title card for “One For The Gipper: 1981-?”]
Hedley: Brought to you by Hertz, where the winners rent..

[skipping the middle comic cause it puts me over the alt-text limit and it's the one I'm least interested in highlighting]

Hedley: Whether the US meant to win the Vietnam War or not, today there is growing pressure to find a war we can win. US strategist Abe Levin explains how El Salvador was selected.
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Levin: It wasn’t easy. We’d been looking for a place to draw the line for weeks, but there just weren’t any civil wars on the front page. Finally, some guy in research hit on El Salvador.
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Levin: It was perfect. Small, close to home, and the right side was already winning. We hit it hard. Within days, we’d turned El Salvador into a metaphor for the geopolitical struggle between the superpowers!
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Hedley: And the Russians agreed with your choice?
Levin: Well, no, they wanted some Persian gulf state, but we put our foot down

[transcriber's note: ouch]1981/4/24

[Duke and NRA executive Springfield talking at a bar in DC]
Duke: Things must be a little hot in your shop since the shooting, eh, Springfield?
Springfield: On the contrary, Duke, things have never been quieter.
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Springfield: Oh, for a few days we took a lot of editorial flak, but basically it’s become a foregone conclusion that you can’t beat the NRA and the Gun Lobby.
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Springfield: Consequently, nobody in Congress wants to stick his neck out, and no bills get passed. We end up looking stronger than ever. Even though we haven’t made a single phone call!
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Duke: At last! The perfect lobby!
Springfield: I’m afraid so. We’re probably going to have to let some of our people go
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Baseball is good.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The useful part of president's "AI is now SI!" dipshittery is anyone using SI instead of AI in the wild might as well be wearing an I AM A CRINGING IDIOT tee.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kai Ryssdal, exploring the possibilities of the first line of his obit.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Multiple ICE agents aggressively tackled a man to the ground Wednesday night in Naples, Florida, in an arrest that quickly spiraled out of control. During the struggle, they broke his ribs then pointed a weapon at onlookers. Status Coup's Phillip Hawkins breaks it all down.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A normal iced coffee, no problem. One of them AI-slop lookin' iced coffees, I'm afraid not.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an internationally-wanted war criminal (whose forces have killed Americans) comes to US soil, attacks Americans (including the mayor of the largest city), and then says "Remember the beepers" in reference to a terrorist attack he committed — how can that be taken as anything other than a threat?
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In instances of bad faith, ALWAYS BURN YOUR SOURCES
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Some day we'll look back at people who insist on using DEI in the pejorative (Bret Stephens is an excellent example) as dimestore racists too gleeful for a polite replacement of hard-R to feign innocence on the matter.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Way ta go, Rob Bonta.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I, a dummy, cannot help but wonder: can anyone trust these lying assholes?
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dipshit is gonna start renaming household objects.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So many reasons for Gavin Newsome to go fuck himself, finally a reason for Gavin Newsome to go fuck himself for eternity
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Very inspirational meeting, for all of the "warfighters" who aspire to become a sports entertainer, or to have their jaw broken right off their face.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 20/09/2026
This morning in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of the District of Columbia, the occupied capital of the United States, armed military troops illegally participated in a domestic police action #possecomitatusact #nationalguardgohome #freedc
Two National Guard troops detain an American civilianTroops and MPD collaborating
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
All this story is missing is Trump feeding target location data to Putin. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘The rules have changed’: has Russia begun to order assassinations on US soil?
Exiled dissidents and an unsealed indictment suggest Kremlin may have abandoned longstanding taboo on attacks on its rival’s territory
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I know it's silly to try to make sense of such a thing, but a sniper's nest where Trump wants to build one would be only useful in targeting tombstones in Arlington, or the Potomac River
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think we should call it Trumptrumpigence.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The History of Concrete: five stars. What a delight.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
YES. That we are inventing exotic new flavors of trauma, induced solely by the behavior of history's dumbest despot, is no consolation at all.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I love my city, shitty coward fash-collaborating hospitals notwithstanding.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bret finally gave in and went and bought himself a monocle.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We returned from Canada yesterday, and at the border the (very nice) US customs agent said, "Welcome home!" and boy I had to hold my tongue.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I guess that I won't ask a souped-up autocorrect to "think" is why I'm not a billionaire.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Pete Hegseth's Shirtless Jackboot Revue
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Even more fun reading this while standing on Canadian soil.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The inundation of AI takes is a bit overwhelming, but at the least a prompt for rereading certain William Gibson works.
A worn paperback copy of Count Zero by William Gibson.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This AI slop must end!
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think a better headline for this would be "Being Roland Headley." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/i...
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How The Times Covers ‘60 Minutes’ and Other Journalists
Journalists don’t want to become the story. But newsrooms — and the people who run them — are the story for Times media reporters.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hope no one here in Montréal confuses us with Lisa Leda Jackson Palmer, Jane Smith or the other two idiot motherfuckers.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As a NYer, what I remember is Americans being hateful in my name and then telling me that we were sharing a bond.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
JD pulls the mask off, revealing a hood
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“We were tired of being called racists for scapegoating minorities for filth and poverty”
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A third of today's Americans are too young to have any memory of the "Drop the Chalupa!" ad campaign.
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Duke Kaboom @freelarrydoby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Let's get drones in the shape of Giuliani and Christine Todd Whitman shredding reports of cancerous toxins in the air downtown
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Peter Kuper @pkuper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Don't worry, only a 10% chance that A.I. will cause extinction of humans--and what's not to love about data centers? My latest gallery rogue. #dataCenters #google #a.i.threat #openAI #GTS
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Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
there was a cracked graphic lost to the sands of time that was a newspaper cover with a poll titled "why do they hate us" and "turns out it's because we're bombing them" and "100% ... do not like being bombed"
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Funny thing about "political operatives" is they get paid either way, and then they get paid even more to be a talking head whether or not they've achieved a fucking thing ever.
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