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American Obituary.

"when you see the discourse of the day unfolding but you can't figure out the source so it's like dark matter that can only be observed by its effect on its surroundings" —@tomtomorrow.bsky.social

Halt Me.

   "harvest moon
over Gold Mountain Diner --
a migrant and I
eat and chat around the edges
of our lost dreams"

—Chen-ou Liu
Onions in Moonlight: TSA Members' Anthology, 2025 via @evecastle.bsky.social

"This is what a finished machine looks like. The dice still roll. The opposition still plays. But the system converts any governing-party plurality into a supermajority, and a supermajority lets the ruling party keep rewriting the rules that produce supermajorities."