@nonamesplease.bsky.social
Angry vet. (Col)lapsed academic. (Un)civil servant. I have fifteen friends. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦
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You don’t hate these people enough.
They’re pillaging your future.
They’re pillaging your future.
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
You don’t hate these people enough.
They’re pillaging your future.
They’re pillaging your future.
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Think you hate the Gizmo Cult?
Read this and you’ll despise it even more.
The ritualistic, masturbatory early morning flag-wrapped workout should disgust you. These people demand attention. Deny it to them.
Join the infantry or shut the hell up.
Read this and you’ll despise it even more.
The ritualistic, masturbatory early morning flag-wrapped workout should disgust you. These people demand attention. Deny it to them.
Join the infantry or shut the hell up.
Someone designed this article in a lab to upset me. Another addition to an insane series.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | America’s Military Needs a Culture Shift (Gift Article)
The benefits of serving have never been more appealing, but the Pentagon needs a better approach to recruiting new talent.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Think you hate the Gizmo Cult?
Read this and you’ll despise it even more.
The ritualistic, masturbatory early morning flag-wrapped workout should disgust you. These people demand attention. Deny it to them.
Join the infantry or shut the hell up.
Read this and you’ll despise it even more.
The ritualistic, masturbatory early morning flag-wrapped workout should disgust you. These people demand attention. Deny it to them.
Join the infantry or shut the hell up.
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I cannot stress enough how I was not and am not a serious political analyst. And yet some Very Serious People still haven't gotten the memo! Ten years of Roberts Court doing its best impression of a Taney Court after eating lead paint later!
December 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I cannot stress enough how I was not and am not a serious political analyst. And yet some Very Serious People still haven't gotten the memo! Ten years of Roberts Court doing its best impression of a Taney Court after eating lead paint later!
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The United States Constitution, absent the reconstruction amendments, would not be worth defending
The 14th amendment is super specific and if SCOTUS just disappears it - the entire Constitution may fall into chaos.
Maybe that’s what they want.
Maybe that’s what they want.
December 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The United States Constitution, absent the reconstruction amendments, would not be worth defending
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Wine friends, give this a read!
Tradition is a Lie — French Wine’s Place in France’s Far-Right Gastronationalism — Pellicle share.google/sQYLwrsM48cs...
Tradition is a Lie — French Wine’s Place in France’s Far-Right Gastronationalism — Pellicle share.google/sQYLwrsM48cs...
Tradition is a Lie — French Wine’s Place in France’s Far-Right Gastronationalism — Pellicle
The wine that French presidents choose to serve during official visits is far more than a drink. It’s a way of expressing their political beliefs, and their taste has long been scrutinised and documen...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Wine friends, give this a read!
Tradition is a Lie — French Wine’s Place in France’s Far-Right Gastronationalism — Pellicle share.google/sQYLwrsM48cs...
Tradition is a Lie — French Wine’s Place in France’s Far-Right Gastronationalism — Pellicle share.google/sQYLwrsM48cs...
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2/ It is about rent extraction, social dominance, resources and brologarchic fantasies of techno-libertarian cities. As @segoddard.bsky.social and I argue, this is not a world of national interests but clique interests. In other words, a neo-royalist order.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System - Volume 79 Issue S1
www.cambridge.org
December 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
2/ It is about rent extraction, social dominance, resources and brologarchic fantasies of techno-libertarian cities. As @segoddard.bsky.social and I argue, this is not a world of national interests but clique interests. In other words, a neo-royalist order.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I think it’s a bummer that the GOP has decided it would rather eat the shit sandwich on health care than negotiate a bipartisan bill, but now it’s down to us to make them eat that sandwich.
December 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I think it’s a bummer that the GOP has decided it would rather eat the shit sandwich on health care than negotiate a bipartisan bill, but now it’s down to us to make them eat that sandwich.
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Pope Leo XIV didn’t mince words: Christian fear of Islam is a distortion of the Gospel.
The backlash from the MAGA right was instant.
The backlash from the MAGA right was instant.
Pope Leo to MAGA: Christians Must Stop Fearing Islam
On his first trip abroad, Pope Leo XIV extols Muslim-Christian friendship — delivering a pointed rejoinder to MAGA pundits who deride compassion as “suicidal empathy.”
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Pope Leo XIV didn’t mince words: Christian fear of Islam is a distortion of the Gospel.
The backlash from the MAGA right was instant.
The backlash from the MAGA right was instant.
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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generational discourse can be solved once and for all by distinguishing between "remembers no computers", "remembers no personal computers", and "remembers no cell phones". everything before that fought in wars. everything after that is, best case scenario, inventing the borg
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
generational discourse can be solved once and for all by distinguishing between "remembers no computers", "remembers no personal computers", and "remembers no cell phones". everything before that fought in wars. everything after that is, best case scenario, inventing the borg
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Jesus Christ, public opinion is not some static thing that has to be “respected” by politicians.
Politicians should work to shape it, to make the case for their priorities and positions, to win over voters to *their* ideas not convince voters that they agree with them.
Politicians should work to shape it, to make the case for their priorities and positions, to win over voters to *their* ideas not convince voters that they agree with them.
This exchange drives me nuts. Neither the interviewer nor Bazelon acknowledges that 1) abortion rights are really popular! and 2) what ICE is doing is hugely unpopular!
December 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Jesus Christ, public opinion is not some static thing that has to be “respected” by politicians.
Politicians should work to shape it, to make the case for their priorities and positions, to win over voters to *their* ideas not convince voters that they agree with them.
Politicians should work to shape it, to make the case for their priorities and positions, to win over voters to *their* ideas not convince voters that they agree with them.
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I don't believe the moral arc is inevitable Whiggish progress or anything like that, everything is contingent on our choices. But I am firmly convinced these people will be damned on the wrong side of history, and that will arrive sooner and in greater force than our current elites can comprehend.
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I don't believe the moral arc is inevitable Whiggish progress or anything like that, everything is contingent on our choices. But I am firmly convinced these people will be damned on the wrong side of history, and that will arrive sooner and in greater force than our current elites can comprehend.
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This. I think the next Reconstruction will require a profound reassertion of the role of the legislative branch that SCOTUS will resist tooth and nail.
A kind of reverse "Marbury vs Madison." Article I gets to say what the law is because they write it.
A kind of reverse "Marbury vs Madison." Article I gets to say what the law is because they write it.
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This. I think the next Reconstruction will require a profound reassertion of the role of the legislative branch that SCOTUS will resist tooth and nail.
A kind of reverse "Marbury vs Madison." Article I gets to say what the law is because they write it.
A kind of reverse "Marbury vs Madison." Article I gets to say what the law is because they write it.
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This is absolutely correct. A constitution is every citizen's compact with the government, not some secret scroll that only members of a priest caste are allowed to access.
It's largely lost today because we've allowed constitutional law to become the exclusive preserve of lawyers, but the original idea of written constitutionalism was partly one of public education, publicity, & (proto-)democracy—people should be able to read & come to know the law which binds them
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is absolutely correct. A constitution is every citizen's compact with the government, not some secret scroll that only members of a priest caste are allowed to access.
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That this SCOTUS used it to justify striking affirmative action bc it discriminated against WHITE people and now thinks their might be a colorable argument about the birthright part shows only that they are confused about whether the good team won the Civil War. (2/3)
December 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
That this SCOTUS used it to justify striking affirmative action bc it discriminated against WHITE people and now thinks their might be a colorable argument about the birthright part shows only that they are confused about whether the good team won the Civil War. (2/3)
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democratic legitimacy is about the consent of the governed and we simply do not need to consent to this court's lawless jurisprudence.
court packing, jurisdiction stripping, congressional oversight, DOJ investigations into corruption ... we have levers to bring the court to heel
court packing, jurisdiction stripping, congressional oversight, DOJ investigations into corruption ... we have levers to bring the court to heel
December 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
democratic legitimacy is about the consent of the governed and we simply do not need to consent to this court's lawless jurisprudence.
court packing, jurisdiction stripping, congressional oversight, DOJ investigations into corruption ... we have levers to bring the court to heel
court packing, jurisdiction stripping, congressional oversight, DOJ investigations into corruption ... we have levers to bring the court to heel
Good article about what's happened at State, seen through the lens of the Legal Advisor's office (L). What's described applies across State. 1/n
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Exodus From State Department Legal Office Could Heighten Risk Of Trump Admin Breaking The Law
The office tackles global issues such as the administration’s deadly strikes in the Caribbean, which lawmakers and experts say could involve war crimes. Dozens of officials have left this year.
www.huffpost.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Good article about what's happened at State, seen through the lens of the Legal Advisor's office (L). What's described applies across State. 1/n
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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I can tell you this. The Supreme Court will not "ultimately decide" this question. We, the people will ultimately decide it, just as the Court did not ultimately decide on the question of slavery in the Dred Scott case.
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I can tell you this. The Supreme Court will not "ultimately decide" this question. We, the people will ultimately decide it, just as the Court did not ultimately decide on the question of slavery in the Dred Scott case.
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Counterpoint:
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Counterpoint:
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
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I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
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 10:41 PM
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
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Find it hilarious how the NSS keeps talking about the free market - as if the Trump regime has any interest in that at all.
December 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Find it hilarious how the NSS keeps talking about the free market - as if the Trump regime has any interest in that at all.
I complained about Legal sending me ethics notifications about holiday parties and not taking gifts worth more than $20 when the president's son just got a 620 million dollar deal from the Pentagon. My friend said: you're poor so you're expected to have ethics.
December 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I complained about Legal sending me ethics notifications about holiday parties and not taking gifts worth more than $20 when the president's son just got a 620 million dollar deal from the Pentagon. My friend said: you're poor so you're expected to have ethics.
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The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.