I might give secessionism the time of day when it starts coming from someone with actual problems. In the meantime they should all be treated like terrorists.
October 2, 2026 at 11:26 PM
I might give secessionism the time of day when it starts coming from someone with actual problems. In the meantime they should all be treated like terrorists.
AfD unexpectedly throws the Italian far right off balance by encouraging secessionism in South Tyrol [translation in comments]
https://elpais.com/internacional/2026-09-23/afd-descoloca-por-sorpresa-a-la-ultraderecha-italiana-al-alentar-el-secesionismo-del-tirol-del-sur.html
https://elpais.com/internacional/2026-09-23/afd-descoloca-por-sorpresa-a-la-ultraderecha-italiana-al-alentar-el-secesionismo-del-tirol-del-sur.html
September 25, 2026 at 7:04 PM
AfD unexpectedly throws the Italian far right off balance by encouraging secessionism in South Tyrol [translation in comments]
https://elpais.com/internacional/2026-09-23/afd-descoloca-por-sorpresa-a-la-ultraderecha-italiana-al-alentar-el-secesionismo-del-tirol-del-sur.html
https://elpais.com/internacional/2026-09-23/afd-descoloca-por-sorpresa-a-la-ultraderecha-italiana-al-alentar-el-secesionismo-del-tirol-del-sur.html
Exactly - the court is effectively encouraging internal secessionism within blue states.
September 25, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Exactly - the court is effectively encouraging internal secessionism within blue states.
Best piece of journalism of 2026. The funniest and the most depressing
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No Country for Tech Bros | The Point Magazine
As the public face of Silicon Valley secessionism, Srinivasan’s Network State Conference seemed like a prime window into the techno-capitalist frontier.
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September 20, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Best piece of journalism of 2026. The funniest and the most depressing
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So we can now legitimately describe Rupert Lowe as a traitor if he is supporting secessionism?
September 17, 2026 at 6:28 AM
So we can now legitimately describe Rupert Lowe as a traitor if he is supporting secessionism?
Difficulties franchising the Singapore Model burbclave? Who woulda thunk it?
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No Country for Tech Bros | The Point Magazine
As the public face of Silicon Valley secessionism, Srinivasan’s Network State Conference seemed like a prime window into the techno-capitalist frontier.
thepointmag.com
September 15, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Difficulties franchising the Singapore Model burbclave? Who woulda thunk it?
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thepointmag.com/politics/no-...
Obviously a tactic with a very problematic past but I don't get why countries like the UK dealing with ethno-regional secessionism don't try to Balkanize their secessionists anymore. Scotland wants to secede from the UK? Hit them with a northern Scotland secession movement, not so funny now is it?
September 14, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Obviously a tactic with a very problematic past but I don't get why countries like the UK dealing with ethno-regional secessionism don't try to Balkanize their secessionists anymore. Scotland wants to secede from the UK? Hit them with a northern Scotland secession movement, not so funny now is it?
broadly I think at least 20% of the secessionism is driven by little England's refusal to even look at constitutional issues; multiple choice voting with proportional outcomes, the Lords, the general "nothing can be done" malaise.
September 14, 2026 at 12:12 PM
broadly I think at least 20% of the secessionism is driven by little England's refusal to even look at constitutional issues; multiple choice voting with proportional outcomes, the Lords, the general "nothing can be done" malaise.
Quebec had a 60/40 split in the 1980 ref, and we ended up doing it again in 95 and may be heading for round 3.
With the probable demographic & economic changes in AB to 2045, bouncing the rubble here with an 80/20 probably kills secessionism forever. Instead looks like we'll dance again
With the probable demographic & economic changes in AB to 2045, bouncing the rubble here with an 80/20 probably kills secessionism forever. Instead looks like we'll dance again
September 10, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Quebec had a 60/40 split in the 1980 ref, and we ended up doing it again in 95 and may be heading for round 3.
With the probable demographic & economic changes in AB to 2045, bouncing the rubble here with an 80/20 probably kills secessionism forever. Instead looks like we'll dance again
With the probable demographic & economic changes in AB to 2045, bouncing the rubble here with an 80/20 probably kills secessionism forever. Instead looks like we'll dance again
A distressed Forest City and an “Eton for Edgelords” Network School. Sounds about right! From Sam Venis—who is also working on a play about the Quebec separatist movement in 1976 Montreal.
– cc @sarahkmoser.bsky.social
– cc @sarahkmoser.bsky.social
No Country for Tech Bros | The Point Magazine
As the public face of Silicon Valley secessionism, Srinivasan’s Network State Conference seemed like a prime window into the techno-capitalist frontier.
thepointmag.com
September 10, 2026 at 1:58 PM
A distressed Forest City and an “Eton for Edgelords” Network School. Sounds about right! From Sam Venis—who is also working on a play about the Quebec separatist movement in 1976 Montreal.
– cc @sarahkmoser.bsky.social
– cc @sarahkmoser.bsky.social
“We are rebooting the community as a tech tribe,” Balaji Srinivasan said to start the meeting, “and our core competency will be turning around distressed real estate.”
thepointmag.com/politics/no-...
thepointmag.com/politics/no-...
No Country for Tech Bros | The Point Magazine
As the public face of Silicon Valley secessionism, Srinivasan’s Network State Conference seemed like a prime window into the techno-capitalist frontier.
thepointmag.com
September 10, 2026 at 11:57 AM
“We are rebooting the community as a tech tribe,” Balaji Srinivasan said to start the meeting, “and our core competency will be turning around distressed real estate.”
thepointmag.com/politics/no-...
thepointmag.com/politics/no-...
The #NetworkState tries to get geopolitical, aiming at “a new Hanseatic League" of private #startupcities around the world. Said just before #Balaji 's Network School was kicked out of Malaysia...
Excellent piece by Sam Venis.
#cities
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Excellent piece by Sam Venis.
#cities
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No Country for Tech Bros | The Point Magazine
As the public face of Silicon Valley secessionism, Srinivasan’s Network State Conference seemed like a prime window into the techno-capitalist frontier.
thepointmag.com
September 10, 2026 at 10:50 AM
The #NetworkState tries to get geopolitical, aiming at “a new Hanseatic League" of private #startupcities around the world. Said just before #Balaji 's Network School was kicked out of Malaysia...
Excellent piece by Sam Venis.
#cities
thepointmag.com/politics/no-...
Excellent piece by Sam Venis.
#cities
thepointmag.com/politics/no-...
Second layer of gold leaf, this time with hot apple tart and Tobi Reiser quintet!
#austria #pasteries #goldleaf #gayartist #painter #tobireiser #saintgeorge #armor #viking #forest #secessionism #vienna
#austria #pasteries #goldleaf #gayartist #painter #tobireiser #saintgeorge #armor #viking #forest #secessionism #vienna
September 9, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Second layer of gold leaf, this time with hot apple tart and Tobi Reiser quintet!
#austria #pasteries #goldleaf #gayartist #painter #tobireiser #saintgeorge #armor #viking #forest #secessionism #vienna
#austria #pasteries #goldleaf #gayartist #painter #tobireiser #saintgeorge #armor #viking #forest #secessionism #vienna
The very short story is that they are Canada’s Texas; oildrunk and delusional, Loud masters of the universe who can make their cronies in media pay attention to them; but actual secessionism isn’t popular with the rest of the province.
September 9, 2026 at 1:28 AM
The very short story is that they are Canada’s Texas; oildrunk and delusional, Loud masters of the universe who can make their cronies in media pay attention to them; but actual secessionism isn’t popular with the rest of the province.
This is one of the things that radicalized me into secessionism. Sovereign states should be kept small so if "the people" choose to murk the subaltern, they'll only have a local footprint.
It's absurd that a government that rules out of Washington has any authority over Minnesota.
It's absurd that a government that rules out of Washington has any authority over Minnesota.
September 8, 2026 at 9:01 PM
This is one of the things that radicalized me into secessionism. Sovereign states should be kept small so if "the people" choose to murk the subaltern, they'll only have a local footprint.
It's absurd that a government that rules out of Washington has any authority over Minnesota.
It's absurd that a government that rules out of Washington has any authority over Minnesota.
An interesting article by David J. Rovinsky on ‘Beyond Nationalism? Resource Federalism and Regional Secessionism in Western Australia and Alberta’ in Vol. 6 of JACANZS. #Alberta #Federalism #ResourcePolitics #Secession #WesternAustralia
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‘Beyond Nationalism? Resource Federalism and Regional Secessionism in Western Australia and Alberta’
David J. Rovinsky david@rovinsky.net Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies 6 (September 2026): 37-76, Abstract: This article compares secessionist politics in Western Au…
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September 3, 2026 at 9:31 AM
An interesting article by David J. Rovinsky on ‘Beyond Nationalism? Resource Federalism and Regional Secessionism in Western Australia and Alberta’ in Vol. 6 of JACANZS. #Alberta #Federalism #ResourcePolitics #Secession #WesternAustralia
doi.org/10.52230/DXR...
doi.org/10.52230/DXR...
“We must eradicate MAGA both because it is no different from the KKK or McCarthyism or secessionism in the 19th Century, a cancer on our body politic, but because it has always been primarily a populist vehicle to advance the interests of the few against those of the many.”
A must read by Rothkopf
A must read by Rothkopf
I wrote a couple threads here on Bluesky about this weekend's headlines, how they tie to corruption and what we must do to deal with the threat. I revisit and expand upon what I wrote here in my latest Substack. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/its-the-co...
It’s the Corruption, Stupid
Toward a Unified Theory of Political Division and Healing in America
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August 31, 2026 at 2:02 PM
“We must eradicate MAGA both because it is no different from the KKK or McCarthyism or secessionism in the 19th Century, a cancer on our body politic, but because it has always been primarily a populist vehicle to advance the interests of the few against those of the many.”
A must read by Rothkopf
A must read by Rothkopf
sometimes it's secessionism, sometimes it's just self-determination of nations who never asked to be subjugated into the empire.
August 28, 2026 at 11:40 AM
sometimes it's secessionism, sometimes it's just self-determination of nations who never asked to be subjugated into the empire.
Blurring the question of a United Ireland with that of Scottish secessionism or, even worse, Brexit, when the Good Friday Agreement's Unity clause is *right there* is just a bit mad, and completely unnecessary.
August 28, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Blurring the question of a United Ireland with that of Scottish secessionism or, even worse, Brexit, when the Good Friday Agreement's Unity clause is *right there* is just a bit mad, and completely unnecessary.
Secessionism is almost always justified.
August 28, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Secessionism is almost always justified.
Secessionism is very rarely justified but if it is ever, then not wanting to be part of the Russian Empire is such a case
August 28, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Secessionism is very rarely justified but if it is ever, then not wanting to be part of the Russian Empire is such a case
Exciting news everybody: so long as you change the name on the tin of your empire, it is suddenly not imperialism for you to violently reconquer the people you used to control, it's just sparkling anti-secessionism.
Tankies, man, wow.
Tankies, man, wow.
August 28, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Exciting news everybody: so long as you change the name on the tin of your empire, it is suddenly not imperialism for you to violently reconquer the people you used to control, it's just sparkling anti-secessionism.
Tankies, man, wow.
Tankies, man, wow.
When Canada needs unity and the steadfastness of all its citizens, Danielle Smith continues to undermine that unity by empowering secessionism with her blather about a "binding" referendum and now, her pusillanimous, weak-kneed response to the latest American aggression and PM Carney's firm reaction
August 22, 2026 at 3:07 PM
When Canada needs unity and the steadfastness of all its citizens, Danielle Smith continues to undermine that unity by empowering secessionism with her blather about a "binding" referendum and now, her pusillanimous, weak-kneed response to the latest American aggression and PM Carney's firm reaction
@velshi.com @msnowreports.bsky.social revived Banned Books & interviewed brilliant @paultremblay.bsky.social on Dreaming of Electric Sheep. But 🙏 critique Secessionism that idealizes abandoning & endangering progressives in gerrymandered Red states, ignoring racial/educational/urban vs rural splits.
August 22, 2026 at 2:53 PM
@velshi.com @msnowreports.bsky.social revived Banned Books & interviewed brilliant @paultremblay.bsky.social on Dreaming of Electric Sheep. But 🙏 critique Secessionism that idealizes abandoning & endangering progressives in gerrymandered Red states, ignoring racial/educational/urban vs rural splits.