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There Is No Such Thing As A Good Man With A Gun? What happened in Twin Falls, and the argument it started chrisabraham.substack.com/p/there-i…

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Nobody Ever Looks in the Mirror and Sees Judas

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Every betrayer goes home that night believing he’s the last honest man in the room\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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Sorry, haters, I love Super Girl—I finally saw it with my own eyeballs.

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The Footnote Miracle: Five thousand strangers ambushed a grieving man in the wilderness—and the real miracle wasn’t the bread, it was that he didn’t turn the boat around chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-foo…

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Warning warning warning they’re going to be too many substats today coming from me. I apologize in advance. It was a very busy Sunday morning.

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I feel like nobody I follow is talking about Sugar on Apple+

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Shoe0nHead is 12-years-old!

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I Survived ‘Woke 1.0’—The First Culture War\nyoutube.com/watch

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The Cockblock of History

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Joe Biden had the legal power to make Kamala Harris president two years early. He didn’t do it out of defiance, not just vanity.\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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So Iran is pro-ICE MAGA now?

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reaking news: Iran is likely behind cyberattack on Minnesota water systems, U.S. says
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@theonion.com When I was in public school in Honolulu and the ’70s all of my school teachers had husbands who were doctors and lawyers so effectively they were providing their own salary on behalf of family wealth.

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In 1950 America had 151 million people. When I was born in 1970 it was 203 million. Today it’s about 348 million: more than double 1950, up 70% since 1970. That’s 145 million more people since I was born, mostly through immigration, while our flagship institutions barely scaled up.

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Unintended consequences—or intended? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8tGL7…

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Nice Guys Never Are

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Why the word you’re afraid of being called and the word you actually want mean opposite things\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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The FUBU Face

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Why seeing what women actually say to each other didn’t make dating more honest—it made it impossible\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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The Protected Species

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They call it a “protected class.” Critics have started calling it something else: a “protected species.” That jab isn’t a joke—it’s the whole argument.\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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The Empathy Loyalty Test

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The Economist thinks the right hates a feeling. What it actually hates is a shibboleth.\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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The Terrarium

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Why New York is the only American city where the most regressive men and the most liberated women share the same six feet of sidewalk\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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Saw the skit. Reprehensible. Was this skit from 1960? > ‘Seinfeld’ star Jason Alexander apologized for an inappropriate sketch with 17-year-old married Courtney Stodden.https://people.com/jason-alexander-apologizes-for-inappropriate-funny-or-die-sketch-with-teen-courtney-stodden-12024419

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Femme Formidable Sunny Ray, the Hors-Flesh, and the Body That Won’t Stay Still

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She built an audience on an engineered body, then started defacing it on purpose—and the internet still can’t decide which version to believe.\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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They could have just fired the designerly-AF glasses. They always have them. I had them when I was designerly as well.

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Cracker Barrel Chief Executive Who Oversaw Logo Change Steps Down: Julie Masino faced backlash online when the company tried to shed its old-timey image. David Deno, a former chief of Bloomin’ Brands, will take over.\nwww.nytimes.com/2026/07/2…

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“The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic” —Joseph Stalin> Iran war casualty count eclipses 600 as Pentagon quietly changes accountinghttps://www.cnn.com/2026/07/26/politics/iran-war-casualties

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Fair Enough

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The word doing all the work in “fair enough” is “enough.”\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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“Very Silly”

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AOC said the thing. She said the thing.\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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Disclosure Day drips with Hitchcock’s color-era DNA—Kodak-saturated frames, patient blocking, dread built through composition not noise. Haven’t finished it yet, but 30 years of Art Bell primed me for this one. It’s already one of the most visually compelling disclosure narratives put to film.

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The Diorama Builds Itself

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A cartoon about the year 2300 is actually a museum exhibit under construction right now, by the same kind of person who built all the ones we’ve since apologized for\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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Praying With Your Fists Up

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Punching down was supposed to mean punching the powerless. Follow the rule far enough and it turns out to be a religion instead\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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@nerdjpg.com Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please

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@ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social The UN defines democracy by absolute equality and direct popular will. But America was never built to be a pure democracy; the Founders designed a Republic with structural checks to limit direct majority rule. The system functions exactly as intended, not by a failure of democracy.

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@ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social The UN views democracy through the lens of absolute equal participation. America, however, operates on a completely different historical blueprint: a constitutional republic. What critics call democratic shortcomings are actually the foundational features of American republicanism.

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@ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social There is a massive gap between the UN definition of democracy—based on equal citizen participation—and what America has always been. The U.S. is a Constitutional Republic built on institutional checks and balances, intentionally prioritizing the rule of law over direct popular rule.

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@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social Is it New Jersey shit on itself enough on its own?

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@bluedotin.bsky.social Cars are guns

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@joncooper-us.bsky.social Cars are guns

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@punishedsardines.bsky.social I feel like people are just making up rights now just saying whatever they want is a right whatever they desire is right whatever they think is fair is right whatever they think is cool as a right there is a stampede of rightness. A righteous rightness of rights.

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@theonion.com Okay this is hilarious. Welcome back @theonion.com

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@abraham.su A lingua franca was never universal fluency—French didn’t need every peasant speaking it, just to be the access point if you wanted in on diplomacy or letters. Same logic: most people understand a Midwest or BBC newsreader far more easily than that newsreader would understand them.

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@chadstanton.blacksky.app Also, ‘privileged’ as an argument-ender is a strange move in 2026—you’re essentially saying I have some superpower you lack. Taken to its logic, calling someone privileged means you think they need a handicap just to make the conversation competitive. That’s not an argument.

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@chadstanton.blacksky.app Ironic, since this is gatekeeping too—deciding whose experience ‘counts’ as valid input versus whose gets waved off as privilege. I told you what I saw firsthand in Hawaii. Dismissing that as privilege rather than engaging it is the same boundary-policing you’re accusing me of.

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@chadstanton.blacksky.app Witnessed this firsthand at UEA in ’90-’91—posh students downgrading their accents and buying deliberately crap cars to dodge class resentment. Thatcher-era backlash made poshness a liability, at least on campus. Point stands: gatekeeping cuts every direction, not just downward.

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@chadstanton.blacksky.app Also, the gatekeeping argument is 19th-century thinking—same claim once made about Latin Mass or Masonic ritual. Today there’s infinite free access to grammar, rhetoric, anything. The real gatekeeping now is peer pressure calling you a sellout for using those tools at all.

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@chadstanton.blacksky.app And it’s not just dialect drift—basic Standard English literacy is eroding among native speakers too. I/me confusion, run/ran/run gone sideways, gerunds nobody can name let alone use. That’s not folksy accessibility, that’s just grammar nobody was taught rigorously anymore.

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@chadstanton.blacksky.app Growing up in Hawaii, I’d push back on ‘everyone can code-switch.’ Mostly it’s academics who actually do it fluently. Most people’s attempt at ‘proper’ English is a rough, ill-fitting performance—see local guys in traffic court fumbling grammar trying to sound formal for the judge.

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@chadstanton.blacksky.app Growing up in Hawaii, pidgin defiance was real—refusing ‘the master’s tongue’ on purpose. But there’s an arrogance in that exclusivity too: gatekeeping your own dialect from outsiders isn’t more virtuous than gatekeeping Standard English. Both are boundary-drawing dressed up as principle.

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@chadstanton.blacksky.app That cuts both ways. Pidgin/patois are real, and often signal defiance plus limited formal schooling—both true at once. They’re inclusive within the in-group and exclusive to outsiders. A lingua franca’s whole job is maximum inclusion, which is exactly what makes standardized English still useful.

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@chadstanton.blacksky.app Pidgin, Spanglish, Franglish—these aren’t gibberish, they’re functioning Creoles with real grammar. And code-switching cuts both ways: I grew up in Hawaii where speaking “proper” English got you called a Twinkie or Oreo. Purity policing language ignores who gets punished for fluency either direction

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@chadstanton.blacksky.app Sticking to a standardized version of English isn’t just about rules for the sake of rules; it provides a universal operating system that allows people from completely different backgrounds to understand each other without friction. English is the global lingua franca today

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@chadstanton.blacksky.app Sticking to a standardized version of English isn’t just about rules for the sake of rules; it provides a universal operating system that allows people from completely different backgrounds to understand each other without friction. English is the global lingua franca today

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@chadstanton.blacksky.app You can do whatever you want anytime of day and there is a spectrum: You’re either saying beep boop beep boop beep boop in a corner or you are addressing the United Nations. Mean as long as there are enough people who understand beep boop beep beep beep boop then you can have an new entire language.

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@chadstanton.blacksky.app You can do whatever you want anytime of day and there is a spectrum: You’re either saying beep boop beep boop beep boop in a corner or you are addressing the United Nations. Mean as long as there are enough people who understand beep boop beep beep beep boop then you can have an new entire language.

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@katmabu.bsky.social It’s totally normal

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