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I have a Substack superfan in the form of a cat named Twig

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Not a Manhunt The bad hombre lie, the ladder that only sees motion, and why “never waste a crisis” cuts both ways. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/not-a-m…

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Proportional

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The math says school is safe. The culture says otherwise.\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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Perspective: What the seventies can teach us about how safe 2026 actually is\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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

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Clear Skies Only: Everyone quotes the first two lines of the Serenity Prayer. The entire thing runs on the third. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/clear-s…

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Hubristic Pity: The Compassion of Status-Seekers: Noblesse oblige needs a noble and an oblige. The neo-nobility kept the first word and dropped the second. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/hubrist…

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Lupita Nyong’o is easily more than beautiful enough to be Helen of Troy.

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The Making an Example Of Deterrence was never supposed to be universal. That’s what makes it work. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-mak…

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The Camera Doesn’t Take Sides, But It Isn’t Blind Either Total transparency ended every performance at once. It just didn’t end them equally. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-cam…

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“But Nobody Gave Me the Instruction Manual!” The rulebook is real, unwritten, and enforced against you whether you ever saw it or not chrisabraham.substack.com/p/nobody-…

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The Sporting Fallacy

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Why “it was good while it lasted” beats “no way, piggy” every single time.\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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How did I miss this banger?

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The Right has always loved the star spangled banner and “white supremacy” has expanded to every flag-lover

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“…there is a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag and they equate being an American or an American flag with white supremacy…”\nwww.irishstar.com/culture/e…

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The Barbecue Always Wins

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How the 250th slipped out of NPR’s hands, and why nobody but me seems to have wanted it there in the first place\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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The Envy Machine

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Why the crab bucket always wins, and why nobody escapes it by flattening the bucket\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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So good. Reality is basically SETI@Home

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The Basement: Danny Goler | The Laser Experiment and the Code Inside\npca.st/episode/7…

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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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Here’s my most recent diagnosis.

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Glad America doesn’t have a glass jaw

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The 4th of July stress test wasn’t about violence. It was about whether the First Amendment still has teeth.\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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Waka waka I guess the SPLC spent quite a lot of it’s members' donations on white supremacists today! Waka waka ;)\nwww.politico.com/news/2026…

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Whimsy Beats Hypergamy

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On looksmaxxing, mogging, and why being someone’s ride or die beats being anyone’s stat sheet\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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I feel like MAGA has disavowed Donald Trump après Iran attacks. Only neocons and America First zealots support the President now—and for months.

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@mayor.nyc.gov What a privilege WE Americans have. Yikes!

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The Nail That Stands

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What a Honolulu hallway taught me about every hierarchy I’ve stood inside since\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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I’m in Northern Virginia—sexy South Arlington—and can see DCA from my window. All I’ve heard, though my closed windows and blaring AC, all morning, is the roar and boom of fighterjets—I assume celebrating America’s 250th here in the Nation’s Capital.

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@karlbode.com It’s kind of hard to call someone a huckster when they are changing the world in very eyeball visible ways. Maybe a different word?

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@gaudipern.bsky.social Did you tell him that that’s what critical race theory actually looks like?

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@thetnholler.bsky.social That makes Donald Trump so lovely and playful and it makes me reassured that Donald Trump is not islamophobic.

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@nytpitchbot.bsky.social Are you saying that Joe Biden is a loser cuz he wasn’t more aggressive?

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@senseidai.bsky.social You mean the religion where we’re all sinners? And that only through grace and mercy allow us to enter the kingdom of heaven? That religion?

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@senseidai.bsky.social Christians are sinners and the church is a hospital for sin.

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@kylegriffin1.bsky.social Ha ha ha ha ha. As if. But I do love e-discovery.

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@manmademoon.bsky.social Ha ha ha ha ha

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