Clarissa's Blog

A person who uses the word “transgressive” is a hopeless square and a sad oldster.

1989 called and asked for its vocab back.

Trump’s new agenda:

– 500,000 visas for communist China spies and the anti-American universities who soak up those dollars

– amnesty for Big Ag and factory farming practices using illegal immigrants

– war with Iran

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) June 12, 2025

He’s wrong, right? Somebody tell me he’s wrong and it’s unnecessary drama.

I didn’t used to like this guy but recently everything he’s been saying made sense. I didn’t follow the news today, so I either missed something important or he’s being needlessly defeatist.

At Lockheed Martin, management deliberately removed white people from the lists of workers who deserve bonuses.

These racist shenanigans are much worse in business than in academia.

I’m doing 3 public appearances today. Two down, one to go. I love doing this stuff but my vocal cords, not so much.

I’m not complaining, it’s great to be in demand. N, who engineered my career in public speaking, is bursting with delight. That alone would be worth it.

In the numerous news items about people lacking food in America, I notice a strange trend:

Today, we heard from Felecia, a single mom of four who works up to three jobs at a time to make ends meet. She counts on SNAP to help put food on the table.

This is who Republicans in Congress are trying to take food away from.

Listen to her story. pic.twitter.com/jEBo2fRPQc

— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) June 12, 2025

I’m certain that Felicia’s suffering is sincere but posting a video of her as opposed to pretty much anybody else is quite counterproductive.

The post ends up being comical instead of serious.

Seat 11A on the Indian airline crashed flight has walked away from the crash…

That is incredible.

— WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@WarMonitor3) June 12, 2025

Not for nothing, 11 is my lucky number.

Deep condolences to everybody who suffered losses in this horrific crash.

I’m live on Romanenko at 10 am US CT.

This is so mega cute! Read the captions:

Touching Video, I cried as well 😻🥰🥹💙💛 pic.twitter.com/eUn5Vvki8H

— NAFO_JoJo(Meow Fella) (@Jojomeowjojo) June 11, 2025

Have as beautiful a day as this nice couple!

Somebody asked me which is the first German book I will read. This decision was made for me by N who presented me with this copy today:

This book is very, very important to him, as it was for many Soviet children. He managed to engage Klara in the English version of Krabat. Now I get to read it in the original.

In the USSR, works of international literature and film that we were allowed to know about were often random. Why Krabat made the cut and was let through by Soviet censors while other books and cartoons weren’t is unknown.

The Right is everything that isn’t a tiny number of very rigid (and very fantastical) beliefs that define the Left. We are truly diverse. We have open-border libertarians, the “reduce all immigration to zero” crowd, and everybody in-between. And this is only one issue. We are just as seeking, enquiring, and rowdy on all others.

Nobody on our side calls others out for using the “wrong” terminology. There is no terminology. Everybody invents their own, experiments with language, plays word games. Nothing is off-limits. No idea is too scary to read, think about, and discuss. Nobody gains in-group points by denouncing others for not being ideologically pure enough.

And there’s humor. We make jokes, and nothing is too sacred to chuckle over. There’s always something happening, always something to think about. Nobody is reciting dogma. Nobody conducts witch hunts over wrong pronouns.

If you are not one of us yet, imagine, only imagine, saying whatever occurs to you, letting your thoughts roam freely, and abandoning all these mantras of “sex work is work” or “trans women are women.” You could have this freedom, too.