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tim dewey

@tjdfotographist

Father, amateur photographer, rockhound, lit professor, conspiracy theory theorist, Minnesotan/Montanan; deemed “poorly disposed for productive conversation” by the Bluesky chapter of the Friends of Roko’s Basilisk

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tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 14

You can always pause for hydration

It’s always morally correct

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 14

Plain, drowsy Winnie the Pooh = content creator

Fancy, smug Winnie the Pooh in a tuxedo = citizen journalist

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 14

THESE COLORS DON’T RUN in the colors and design of the new MN state flag.

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 14

It’s an analogy for eugenics derived from the belief that the same kinds of practices used to breed champion racehorses can and should be applied to human populations. It was a very popular theory in the early 20th century, and led to some horrific policies—most notably in Nazi Germany.

Blowing the 'racehorse theory' whistle
Trump's references to breeding premise of Nazis and eugenicists alarm
Jewish leaders.
By Seema Mehta
President Trump has alarmed Jewish leaders and others with remarks that appeared to endorse "racehorse theory" - the idea that selective breeding can improve a country's performance, which American eugenicists and German Nazis used in the last century to buttress their goals of racial purity.
"You have good genes, you know that, right?" Trump told a mostly white crowd of supporters in Bemidji, Minn., on Sept. 18. "You have good genes. A lot of it is about the genes, isn't it? Don't you believe? The racehorse theory.
You think we're so different? You have good genes in Minnesota." Rabbi Mark Diamond, a senior lecturer on Jewish studies at Loyola Marymount University, was stunned.
"To hear these remarks said at a rally in an election campaign for the presidency is beyond reprehensible," said Diamond, the former executive vice president of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California.
"This is at the heart of Nazi ideology.... This has brought so much tragedy and destruction to the Jewish people and to others. It's actually hard to believe in 2020 we have to revisit these very dangerous theories." The Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

Trump's remark was not the first time that he has spoken favorably about the racehorse analogy, which has been embraced by white supremacists for decades. But these latest comments come as the country has been roiled over racial injustice and the protests against it.
Trump has continued to make inflammatory remarks and his campaign has made blatantly racist appeals.
During the presidential debate on Sept. 29, he touched upon the genetic theory, returning to a frequent sentiment - that one's skills are innate.
"You could never have done the job we did," Trump said to former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee. "You don't have it in your blood."
Trump has long spoken about his beliefs in the superiority of his genes, dating back to his days as a Manhattan developer; he's talked less frequently of his belief in the racehorse theory, which basically calls for using breeding to encourage desirable traits and eliminate undesirable traits.
Initially used for horses, the theory was ultimately used to justify selective breeding of people, including forced sterilization laws that were on the books in 32 states and used in some of them up through the 1970s.
Scientists who study human intelligence and accomplishment generally agree that while genetics may play some role, the success of individuals is heavily shaped by their environment, including their families and neighborhoods, as well as other factors including mentoring some people receive and simple chance.
Trump views the issue differently.
"You can absolutely be taught things. Absolutely. You can get a lot better. But there is something. You know, the racehorse theory, there is something to the genes, " Trump told Larry King on CNN in 2007. "And I mean, when I say something, I mean a lot."
Three years later, he told CNN that his father was successful and it naturally followed that he would be too: "I have a certain gene. I'm a gene believer.
Hey, when you connect two racehorses, you usually end up with a fas…

He used the phrase again at a 2016 campaign rally in Iowa, and his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., told his father's biographer that the family believed in the theory.
"Like him, I'm a big believer in racehorse theory. He's an incredibly accomplished guy, my mother's incredibly accomplished, she's an Olympian, so I'd like to believe genetically I'm predisposed to better-than-average," Trump Jr. told Michael D'Antonio in a 2014 interview, according to a transcript provided by the author. D'Antonio, now a Trump critic whose scathing biography "Never Enough" was published in 2015, vividly recalled the interview.
"I happened to have done a book on eugenics so I knew exactly what he was talking about, I knew where it came from," said D'Antonio, who had written a nonfiction book about the confinement of learning-disabled orphans in Massachusetts. "This was something American pseudo-scientists taught the Nazis.... It sent a chill through me."
In the late 18oos and early 1900s, some mainstream scientists and elected officials in the United States, particularly in California, urged "the improvement" of the citizenry through eugenics. The concept was often used against people of color, Jewish people and Native Americans, but it was also used against white people who were deemed "feeble-minded," delinquent or otherwise damaged.
Eugenics arose in the U.S. as the gains Black people had made during the Reconstruction era came under attack by white people aiming to maintain power, often by murder and mob violence. It was also used to argue against immigration by Italians and others.
Across the U.S., "there were two avenues that eugenicists used to exploit what they thought of as the racehorse theory of human development,"
D'Antonio said.
The first was to encourage people deemed to have superior traits to have large families. These efforts were partly encouraged by "fitter family" competitions at state fairs, where well-nourished white families would be judged on their height, weight…

The second avenue in the U.S. was institutionalization and sterilization.
Children, often minorities, who were deemed troubled or labeled with the term "imbeciles" were confined to institutions. More than 65,000 people were "officially" sterilized against their will, said Paul Lombardo, a Georgia State University law professor who specializes in bioethics, though he suspects the actual number is far larger.
He said eugenics theory was used to justify forced sterilization laws, as well as immigration restrictions and miscegenation prohibitions. American eugenicists conversed with German leaders in the 1920s and 1930s, and their policies became part of the Nazi playbook. In "Mein Kampf," Adolf Hitler wrote approvingly about the United States' immigration restrictions, Lombardo said.
At the Nuremberg trials, after World War II, Nazi defenders noted that Americans had also forcibly sterilized people and quoted a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from the 1920s that said state laws allowing such procedures did not violate the Constitution, said Lombardo, who has written two books on the history of eugenics in the U.S.
"When Trump says at a rally in Minnesota, 'You have good genes, I believe in the racehorse theory of heredity, he has all of the earmarks of a classic eugenicist," Lombardo said. "It has been astounding to me as somebody who has studied this stuff for 40 years that any public figure would be willing to use that kind of language that so clearly echoes the kinds of things we heard from the people who were running the eugenics movement back in the '20s and'30s."
Rob Eshman, the former editor of the Jewish Journal who is now the national editor of the influential Jewish American online newspaper the Forward, said Trump's language was a clear signal to his supporters who harbor racist or anti-Semitic views.
Racehorse theory "is basically like a forerunner to eugenics theory, which led to the Nazis' 'final solution, " Eshman said after Trump's Minnesota comments. "It's o…

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 14

WE HAVE SUCH FLAVOR TO SHOW YOU

Pinhead from HELLRAISER offering you some Van Leeuwen Ooey Gooey Butter Cake I e Cream.

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 13

“A person was killed. ICE was involved.”

"A person was killed. ICE was involved.
State Police and the Department of Public Safety are now on scene to gather details and would expect the FBI to investigate as well," Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau said in a statement on Facebook. "These are the details that I have at this time. I will provide further updates, as they are relayed to me."

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 12

Pausa de hidratación!

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 12

Looks pretty good on heather green, imo.

THESE COLORS DON’T RUN (MN flag) printed on a heather green tee shirt.

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 12

“THESE COLORS DON’T RUN” using the new MN state flag

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 12

Text over a photo of Lindsay Graham

***
If I died
tomorrow, no one would shed
a tear. Load my fricking lard carcass into the mud.
No coffin, please, just wet, wet mud...
bae.
***

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 11

I don't know what any of this shit is, and I'm fucking scared.

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 11

A second botched reflecting pool renovation has hit the newspapers.

The senator wrote that the whistleblower disclosure includes allegations that "a cosmetic and rushed revamp of the Center's Reflecting Pool is already rusting and peeling, and will need to be fully rebuilt", and that Trump's "preferred contractor cut corners when repainting the Center's columns, sticking taxpayers with the repair bill".

Chief of Staff Andy Card whispering news of the second aircraft hitting the WTC to George W. Bush

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 11

Everybody drink!

Lyman Stone
Economist

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 11

tobias funke discipline daddy dot gif

78yo Dan Patrick giving a speech, wearing a black mock neck shirt and black leather biker’s jacket.

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 10

Da Pope, rn:

George Costanza: Why does it always seem like I'm the only one working at this break-up?

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 10

Sgt. Maj. Sixta from GENERATION KILL, glaring.

Text reads: GROOMING STANDARD INTENSIFIES

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 10

Real Shakespeare-knowers know HAMLET is not, in fact, weasel-free.

It's not clear when the references stopped getting passed down from play to play, but thanks to the diligent work of archaeologists and linguists, we now know precisely which ancient actor not to cast in Hamlet, assuming you want your Hamlet to be weasel-free.

Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?

Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed

Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.

Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.

Hamlet: Or like a whale?

Polonius: Very like a whale.

[William Shakespeare, HAMLET]

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 9

EMBRACE TRADITION, PATRIOTS

Ben Franklin flying a kite in a thunderstorm

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 9

Screenshot from WIDOW’S BAY

Tom finds a sinister looking board game called “Daddy’s Home!” in the closet at the inn. It looks like a typical 60s era Parker Bros. game, but the goal is apparently to not be beaten by your drunk father.

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 9

That better be beef tallow.

Guy rubbing white stuff all over his knee.

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 9

Really hate that we have Jordan Fucking Peterson to thank for this 100% Certified Grade A Banger.

$Dr Jordan B Peterson & @jordanbpeterson There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see [photo of sunlight refracting through a bottle of Evian water in a cup holder on a private jet]$

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 9

Uh…

Isaacman, who made his fortune through a payment processing company Shift4 Payments, also co-founded Draken International, a defense contracting company that also holds one of the world's largest privately owned fleets of military fighter jets.

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 9

They’ll never be him.

Corn dog

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 8

Coming soon!

Trump Platinum Card
Coming Soon*
Foreign nationals can sign up now and secure their places on the waiting list for the Trump Platinum Card.
When launched, and upon receipt of a $15,000 DHS processing fee and $5 million contribution, they will have the ability to spend up to 270 days in the United States without being subject to U.S. taxes on non-U.S. income.
*Those who have ever been subject to U.S. tax on non-U.S. income (e.g., U.S. citizens and resident aliens) are not eligible to apply for the Trump Platinum Card. Additional small fees to the U.S. Department of State may apply depending on the applicant.

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 8

Lealie Knope: I stand behind my decision to avoid salad and other disgusting things.

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 8

David Brooks the Republican?

Jim Downey on Conan O’Brien’s podcast

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 8

The telekinetic kid from “It’s a Good Life” staring into the camera, smiling, while the terrified adults behind him clap and try not to anger him.

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 7

Spoke to my friend Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes today.

Laurence Olivier as Hamlet, addressing Yorick’s skull.

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 7

tim dewey@tjdfotographist· Jul 6

Never bet against the HR lady.

Matt Stoller
@matthewstoller
Graham Platner represents a rejection of Dem HR lady politics
9:20 AM • Jun 5, 2026