Bjorning
@bjorning.bsky.social
Software dev, gamer, Tolkien geek, liberal post-Zionist agnostic frum Jew, pro-regulated-markets progressive, bear lover, general weirdo, proud dad of 2.
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before the trump admin, this would have been one of the biggest political scandals in history and alone would be solid grounds for impeachment and removal.
Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
December 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
before the trump admin, this would have been one of the biggest political scandals in history and alone would be solid grounds for impeachment and removal.
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then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
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It's very transparently an attempt to criminalize opposition to the regime.
Pam Bondi gave the FBI 30 days to compile a list of "terrorists" whose crimes are being pro-immigrant, pro-trans rights, or anti-capitalist, & directed the Joint Terrorism Task Forces to prioritize "rooting out all culpable participants".
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Bondi orders US law enforcement to investigate 'extremist groups'
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday ordered federal law enforcement to step up investigations into the anti-fascist antifa movement and similar "extremist groups," and asked the FBI to compile...
www.reuters.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
It's very transparently an attempt to criminalize opposition to the regime.
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the president is not an elected sovereign. he does not speak for the people or embody their will, he merely represents them. if he wants to change the constitution, let him make his case.
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
the president is not an elected sovereign. he does not speak for the people or embody their will, he merely represents them. if he wants to change the constitution, let him make his case.
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the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
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also, let’s say wurman is right. well, we have had nearly 160 years of unlimited birthright citizenship that has been affirmed again and again by generations of Americans. whatever the original intent, that is what the birthright clause *means*.
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
also, let’s say wurman is right. well, we have had nearly 160 years of unlimited birthright citizenship that has been affirmed again and again by generations of Americans. whatever the original intent, that is what the birthright clause *means*.
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this gets to the fundamental lawlessness. the difference between law as a game and law as a tool of government.
birthright citizenship is the law. nothing has changed. the documents are the same. if that can change based on *nothing*, you don't have a real constitution in the first place.
birthright citizenship is the law. nothing has changed. the documents are the same. if that can change based on *nothing*, you don't have a real constitution in the first place.
also, let’s say wurman is right. well, we have had nearly 160 years of unlimited birthright citizenship that has been affirmed again and again by generations of Americans. whatever the original intent, that is what the birthright clause *means*.
December 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
this gets to the fundamental lawlessness. the difference between law as a game and law as a tool of government.
birthright citizenship is the law. nothing has changed. the documents are the same. if that can change based on *nothing*, you don't have a real constitution in the first place.
birthright citizenship is the law. nothing has changed. the documents are the same. if that can change based on *nothing*, you don't have a real constitution in the first place.
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I'm not sure this is true, the techno fascist cluster seems to have nostalgia for an imagined mythological past that the AI god will somehow restore. It's just that past is something like a medieval pastiche out of fantasy lit or the gender politics of Revenge of the Nerds.
The phrase might feel wrong because "fascism" isn't quite right - it's usually associated with reactionary nostalgia. But "authoritarianism" is too long. We don't have a noun for a future-oriented version of fascism. That's your challenge!
Here's a breakdown in case any words here are useful.
Here's a breakdown in case any words here are useful.
December 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I'm not sure this is true, the techno fascist cluster seems to have nostalgia for an imagined mythological past that the AI god will somehow restore. It's just that past is something like a medieval pastiche out of fantasy lit or the gender politics of Revenge of the Nerds.
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The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
December 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
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Really is quite a thing how, after spending my life shrieking about abortions murdering babies, these fuckers have thrown their total support behind a guy who's arranging for thousands of newborns to die in unimaginably horrific ways.
I do not care for it and that's all I can say within ToS.
I do not care for it and that's all I can say within ToS.
To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Really is quite a thing how, after spending my life shrieking about abortions murdering babies, these fuckers have thrown their total support behind a guy who's arranging for thousands of newborns to die in unimaginably horrific ways.
I do not care for it and that's all I can say within ToS.
I do not care for it and that's all I can say within ToS.
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Brave thread.
I’m actually terrified to do this, but here goes.
One request. You do not comment until you read the entire thread. And you are respectful when you do. If not I will either restrict you or block you depending on how hateful you are.
Great, glad we’re on the same page, let’s begin.
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One request. You do not comment until you read the entire thread. And you are respectful when you do. If not I will either restrict you or block you depending on how hateful you are.
Great, glad we’re on the same page, let’s begin.
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December 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Brave thread.
For the second time, I'm dressing a 12-month-old baby in size 18M clothes. Why baby so large?
December 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
For the second time, I'm dressing a 12-month-old baby in size 18M clothes. Why baby so large?
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December 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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It really cannot be stressed enough that if we don’t have birthright citizenship we don’t have citizenship.
The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.
The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.
December 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It really cannot be stressed enough that if we don’t have birthright citizenship we don’t have citizenship.
The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.
The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.
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A reminder that "we just want immigrants to come here the *right* way!" was always a lie
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
A reminder that "we just want immigrants to come here the *right* way!" was always a lie
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December 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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We need to talk about the massive loophole that the Supreme Court just carved into election law over the shadow docket—giving states a free pass to enact patently unconstitutional voting rules within nearly *one year* of an election. A stunning new limit on judicial review. slate.com/news-and-pol...
December 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
We need to talk about the massive loophole that the Supreme Court just carved into election law over the shadow docket—giving states a free pass to enact patently unconstitutional voting rules within nearly *one year* of an election. A stunning new limit on judicial review. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The Supreme Court's conservative justices are the most powerful Republican political strategists in the country
The Supreme Court Wants Republicans to Keep the House In 2026
A federal district court found that Texas Republicans’ redistricting proposal is an illegal racial gerrymander. The conservative justices couldn't care less.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Supreme Court's conservative justices are the most powerful Republican political strategists in the country
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I think this dovetails well with the anti-corruption message Dems should concentrate on.
How much money has Trump, his family, and his lackeys looted from the taxpayers already? And SCOTUS—in the tank for corrupt pols generally and Trump specifically—will be a primary obstacles to getting it back.
How much money has Trump, his family, and his lackeys looted from the taxpayers already? And SCOTUS—in the tank for corrupt pols generally and Trump specifically—will be a primary obstacles to getting it back.
The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC.
Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I think this dovetails well with the anti-corruption message Dems should concentrate on.
How much money has Trump, his family, and his lackeys looted from the taxpayers already? And SCOTUS—in the tank for corrupt pols generally and Trump specifically—will be a primary obstacles to getting it back.
How much money has Trump, his family, and his lackeys looted from the taxpayers already? And SCOTUS—in the tank for corrupt pols generally and Trump specifically—will be a primary obstacles to getting it back.
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You aren’t going to believe this. But there’s an important distinction between detaining someone as a law enforcement action in an interdiction and summarily killing them.
If the US Coast Guard stops a ship in international waters and seizes their cocaine, is that a war crime? The ship has not done anything illegal. Should we prosecute the Coast Guard Captain for piracy?
December 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
You aren’t going to believe this. But there’s an important distinction between detaining someone as a law enforcement action in an interdiction and summarily killing them.
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The decision to delay the vote came abruptly yesterday afternoon when the panel realized it still did not understand the topic or what it was voting on.
CDC vaccine panel realizes again it has no idea what it’s doing, delays big vote
Today’s meeting was chaotic and included garbage anti-vaccine presentations.
arstechnica.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The decision to delay the vote came abruptly yesterday afternoon when the panel realized it still did not understand the topic or what it was voting on.
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Pretty fucking tiring having to be grateful every time the most likely scenario plays out and it turns out that the violent nutjob was, in fact, a violent rightwing nutjob, because in the rare situation where the domestic terrorist is a leftwing nutjob, the news suddenly cares.
It's a good thing the DC pipe bomber is a rightwing MAGA lunatic who bought into the lies that the GOP and its media poisoned the public with. Otherwise, Noah Rothman would have had to add entire new chapters to his upcoming book on the plague of political violence coming from... the left.
December 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Pretty fucking tiring having to be grateful every time the most likely scenario plays out and it turns out that the violent nutjob was, in fact, a violent rightwing nutjob, because in the rare situation where the domestic terrorist is a leftwing nutjob, the news suddenly cares.
Smash Mouth is playing on the classic rock station. This is not OK.
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Smash Mouth is playing on the classic rock station. This is not OK.