Jake Knanishu
@cantorsparadise.bsky.social
Plaintiff's lawyer, southerner, cheesehead
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“You can’t define a woman?” Party becomes “What is a child?” Party
November 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“You can’t define a woman?” Party becomes “What is a child?” Party
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The state has a monopoly on violence(-posting)
“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The state has a monopoly on violence(-posting)
Agreed. But also, that’s part of what makes “centrist” pundits just like everyone else, much to their chagrin
legitimately i think one of the core failings of centrist pundits is that they have come to define themselves by what they are against--to chart their intellectual course by who they think is being annoying this week--instead of by recourse to genuine principle
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Agreed. But also, that’s part of what makes “centrist” pundits just like everyone else, much to their chagrin
“By right” 🙄
This dude is such a joke
This dude is such a joke
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“By right” 🙄
This dude is such a joke
This dude is such a joke
“Thankfully, the Democrats handle all that so I can focus on using the office of President to extract money from my personal enemies for ostentatious vanity projects”
Trump: The bible tells us that one of the measures of any society is how it cares for vulnerable children and orphans—so important and so big in the bible.
November 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
“Thankfully, the Democrats handle all that so I can focus on using the office of President to extract money from my personal enemies for ostentatious vanity projects”
Fox News about to teach half the country about the soon-to-be “important difference” between pedophiles and hebephiles/ephebophiles
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Fox News about to teach half the country about the soon-to-be “important difference” between pedophiles and hebephiles/ephebophiles
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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Also important to remember that everyone involved in the coverup -- whether formally or informally -- is part of the exact same conspiracy against the victims and against the nation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Also important to remember that everyone involved in the coverup -- whether formally or informally -- is part of the exact same conspiracy against the victims and against the nation.
“By the way, I’m not a pedophile. Don’t put it in the news that I’m a pedophile”
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“By the way, I’m not a pedophile. Don’t put it in the news that I’m a pedophile”
Beginning to suspect that ~some people~ view power and the sexual exploitation of women as functionally identical.
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Beginning to suspect that ~some people~ view power and the sexual exploitation of women as functionally identical.
Signing all my emails the rest of the week with DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Signing all my emails the rest of the week with DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
The second sentence here is the key. Would have been very easy to present this week’s developments as, “After sweeping the elections, we are consolidating our victory, saving the hungry, and pivoting to an issue (healthcare) on which we have kicked Republicans’ asses many times”
This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The second sentence here is the key. Would have been very easy to present this week’s developments as, “After sweeping the elections, we are consolidating our victory, saving the hungry, and pivoting to an issue (healthcare) on which we have kicked Republicans’ asses many times”
Thinking today about my old boss, a lesbian, who often referred to Kim Davis as her “second wife” and threatened to gay-marry anyone who dared insult Davis’s honor
I hope Kim Davis knows nothing but pain looking into the mirror every day to see she’s as ugly on the outside as she is on the inside. Turtle ass looking motherfucking homophobe
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Thinking today about my old boss, a lesbian, who often referred to Kim Davis as her “second wife” and threatened to gay-marry anyone who dared insult Davis’s honor
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If I were a Republican leader, I would simply compromise on my belief that people should not be able to afford healthcare and work with Democrats to prevent insurance premiums from going up by one gazillion percent in a midterm year.
Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
If I were a Republican leader, I would simply compromise on my belief that people should not be able to afford healthcare and work with Democrats to prevent insurance premiums from going up by one gazillion percent in a midterm year.
Quit on the shutdown and SNAP while you’re ahead, and pivot to healthcare?
Or spineless cowardice snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?
Two ways you can look at the reported deal. Only one of them showing up ok Bluesky though, and I don’t really get why
Or spineless cowardice snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?
Two ways you can look at the reported deal. Only one of them showing up ok Bluesky though, and I don’t really get why
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Quit on the shutdown and SNAP while you’re ahead, and pivot to healthcare?
Or spineless cowardice snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?
Two ways you can look at the reported deal. Only one of them showing up ok Bluesky though, and I don’t really get why
Or spineless cowardice snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?
Two ways you can look at the reported deal. Only one of them showing up ok Bluesky though, and I don’t really get why
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Everyone says stuff like this right now and I understand why. But if you think that 2024 shook out the way it did because enough voters didn’t know whom to blame for what’s pissing them off, then I think you should apply the same logic to this situation.
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If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Everyone says stuff like this right now and I understand why. But if you think that 2024 shook out the way it did because enough voters didn’t know whom to blame for what’s pissing them off, then I think you should apply the same logic to this situation.
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Trump is like a toddler: time he spends asleep is to be prized, not resented. Every minute he sleeps is a minute he is not tantruming or breaking things or smearing his own shit on things.
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.
Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media | CNN Politics
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise qu...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Trump is like a toddler: time he spends asleep is to be prized, not resented. Every minute he sleeps is a minute he is not tantruming or breaking things or smearing his own shit on things.
This is what it all boils down to imo. How will the generally uninformed public view Dems after this? Miserable holdouts who were always to blame and eventually caved, or the Party That Saved Thanksgiving? The terms of the alleged ‘deal’ don’t matter half as much as that
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This is what it all boils down to imo. How will the generally uninformed public view Dems after this? Miserable holdouts who were always to blame and eventually caved, or the Party That Saved Thanksgiving? The terms of the alleged ‘deal’ don’t matter half as much as that
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
All true, but with the caveat that the vast majority of Americans do not know that this shutdown is about health care. They won’t until the vote comes
“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
All true, but with the caveat that the vast majority of Americans do not know that this shutdown is about health care. They won’t until the vote comes
Yes. The gamble, wise or foolish, must be that they can build steam for 2026 this way. Once the public clearly blames Rs for the problems of the present, cave on the future (thus teeing up another fight later) to solve them
Could work out, but needs strong, consistent messaging, which… well, y’know
Could work out, but needs strong, consistent messaging, which… well, y’know
so much suffering and sacrifice only to to agree to terms that will beget more suffering and sacrifice.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Yes. The gamble, wise or foolish, must be that they can build steam for 2026 this way. Once the public clearly blames Rs for the problems of the present, cave on the future (thus teeing up another fight later) to solve them
Could work out, but needs strong, consistent messaging, which… well, y’know
Could work out, but needs strong, consistent messaging, which… well, y’know
Waiting to see what actually happens, but it certainly feels like the only options for the Dems here are this or an unprecedented media campaign on “we swept the elections, and with that power we have saved Thanksgiving and Xmas from the Republicans”
Imagine coming off an incredible Election Day mandate from coast to coast and going 'you know what voters want? to be completely sold out by a bunch of craven cowards too pathetic to hold the line against a bunch of fucking weirdos'
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Waiting to see what actually happens, but it certainly feels like the only options for the Dems here are this or an unprecedented media campaign on “we swept the elections, and with that power we have saved Thanksgiving and Xmas from the Republicans”
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KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
November 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position