History rhymes

History rhymes

You decide:

• https://chc.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressional-leaders-condemn-white-nationalist-stephen-miller-call-for
• https://www.americanprogress.org/article/white-supremacy-returned-mainstream-politics/
• https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/09/25/stephen-miller-charlie-kirk-speech/ 

Send in the Clowns

Attack academia. Check. Attack journalism. Check. Attack science, history, art and public resources of all kinds. Check. Now the Big-Beautiful-Regime is coming for the comedians. What's the matter, TACO? Can't take a joke?  

This machine kills fascists

What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism

If, in order to keep believing what you believe, you have to hide facts, erase or distort history, intimidate and cancel journalists, teachers and scientists, what you believe is bullshit. If you can't handle the knowledge that slavery, Jim Crow and the holocaust were perpetrated by white people, or that history is "woke" whateverthatmeans, you are being deluded. If you think there is some kind of organized invasion of our country by poor and persecuted people, you've been duped. You've been conned. You've been had.

You're part of a cult, seduced by an ideology that tells you you've been cheated by the people trying to help you, promulgated by the people who are actually cheating you. You are a victim, a rube, and very much on the wrong side of history.  

From here: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/281543725526797/ 

No matter what you hear from the Great-Big-Beautiful Administration, these are the actual facts:

"Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives.[1] In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.[2] A recent threat assessment by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concluded that domestic violent extremists are an acute threat and highlighted a probability that COVID-19 pandemic-related stressors, long-standing ideological grievances related to immigration, and narratives surrounding electoral fraud will continue to serve as a justification for violent actions.[3]"

Last week you would have found that article on an official government website (https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism). 

This week you can find it at https://archive.is/2024.10.24-222147/https:/nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism.

I guess Big Balls missed a spot. 

Apparently, without any public input or notification, the Minister of Personal Vengeance had the study removed in the hope that you couldn't cite the government's definitive research on the topic of Domestic Terrorism when your racist MAGA uncle tries to claim that the political Left is more violent than the Right. Or use the information to help us reduce the threat from our delusional neighbors, relatives and government officials. Or to refute the aforementioned autocratic regime when they use imaginary "emergencies" as justification to send the goon squad after you.  

Our country is now being run by your ignorant bigoted uncle. And he's building an army to stamp out dissent. Is that really what you wanted? 

De minimis maximus

Tobidashi kun pin from Blue Lug Bike Shop

Immediately prior to our current stoopid government imposing its latest stoopid import tax, I was fortunate enough to place an order with the world's greatest bike store, Blue Lug Bike Shop of Tokyo. I mostly ordered from them to get a Campagnolo Record threaded headset for the upcoming build of my second Crust Lightning Bolt, but of course while there, I had to throw a few other trinkets in the cart. I picked up a couple of the must-have mini triangle reflectors, a couple of their popular brass bits, and the enamel pin of the running boy above. Oh man, I'm gonna be so cool. Like the Ronnie Romance of the Bethesda, Maryland 60+ crowd. I've been picking up the necessary components for the better part of a year, and I've got nearly everything. Now I just need to get an IRD square taper bottom bracket and I should be ready to ride!