Not that proud
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Ideas control the world. No half measures.
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List of legal reforms:
1. Reintroduce compact and contiguous requirements for congressional districts
2. Expand the size of the house by setting the population to the least populous state.
3. Split the Fifth circuit and add new judges.
4. Split the Ninth Circuit and add new judges.
1. Reintroduce compact and contiguous requirements for congressional districts
2. Expand the size of the house by setting the population to the least populous state.
3. Split the Fifth circuit and add new judges.
4. Split the Ninth Circuit and add new judges.
I mean, I bet there are a lot of emails between Epstein and people who suck ass.
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Epstein Bantered Regularly With Larry Summers
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November 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I mean, I bet there are a lot of emails between Epstein and people who suck ass.
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This guy sucks and shouldn't be elected.
BREAKING: Jack Schlossberg, the son of Caroline Kennedy, has announced that he’ll seek Jerry Nadler’s congressional seat. He says the Democratic Party needs someone who can stand up strongly to Trump.
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This guy sucks and shouldn't be elected.
Yeah, none of this matters. Whether she controls the process or not, things can easily go the other way. Frankly, it would have been better to not stay it, force them to pay SNAP by midnight, and then the full court can do whatever it wants later.
Of course the Roberts et al could choose to extend the admin stay or, more likely, will just straight up stay McConnell’s order before KBJ’s deadline passes.
But she did what she could to control the process tonight and let CA1 put its reasoning on the record before Roberts et al disregard it.
But she did what she could to control the process tonight and let CA1 put its reasoning on the record before Roberts et al disregard it.
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Yeah, none of this matters. Whether she controls the process or not, things can easily go the other way. Frankly, it would have been better to not stay it, force them to pay SNAP by midnight, and then the full court can do whatever it wants later.
Best of the live blog
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Best of the live blog
The logic here is you little people need Big Daddy Cuomo to protect you. Grotesque. Alternative theory: People will stand with Mamdani against Trump because Mamdani represents us.
This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The logic here is you little people need Big Daddy Cuomo to protect you. Grotesque. Alternative theory: People will stand with Mamdani against Trump because Mamdani represents us.
Don’t know the poster, but this isn’t accurate. Mamdani is popular because he went out and talked to people, and he listened to them. It‘s not about pushing kitchen table issues, as so many centrist Dems would have it, but about being responsive to his constituency. ofc, much more to it.
Do you know why Mamdani is so popular? Because his policies are class based. After 20 years of identity politics torpedoing America, people are excited someone isn't telling them to vote for them because of the colour of their skin or what's in their pants.
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Don’t know the poster, but this isn’t accurate. Mamdani is popular because he went out and talked to people, and he listened to them. It‘s not about pushing kitchen table issues, as so many centrist Dems would have it, but about being responsive to his constituency. ofc, much more to it.
Lol
Attorney General Pam Bondi says she has retroactively appointed former Trump attorney Lindsey Halligan as a "special attorney" for DOJ and has "ratified" all of her actions to date, including her presentations to the grand juries that indicted Trump's foes.
November 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Lol
Alright, kids, give me the weird stuff you don’t want. 🎃
November 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Alright, kids, give me the weird stuff you don’t want. 🎃
Would be nice if their reporting reflected their editorial assessment.
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Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy?
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Would be nice if their reporting reflected their editorial assessment.
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Nothing can kill New York City. It survived the 70s, the 90s, it survived 9/11 and the financial crisis, Sandy and the Pandemic, Bloomberg and de Blasio. New York is all of us—bigger than any individual. We live and keep it alive. It’s 8 million people constantly recreating the city. It’s immortal.
October 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Nothing can kill New York City. It survived the 70s, the 90s, it survived 9/11 and the financial crisis, Sandy and the Pandemic, Bloomberg and de Blasio. New York is all of us—bigger than any individual. We live and keep it alive. It’s 8 million people constantly recreating the city. It’s immortal.
Reading Lederman’s amicus brief, he is basically daring the Trump admin to use the Insurrection Act rather than 10 USC 12406. His argument might win this case, but it doesn’t foreclose future action by the President. Temporary win at best.
BREAKING: SCOTUS defers any ruling for now in DOJ's request in the Nat'l Guard deployment case out of Illinois.
Instead, the court asks for briefing about the term "regular forces" in Section 12406 — a matter raised by @martylederman.bsky.social.
The means the TRO stays in effect for now.
Instead, the court asks for briefing about the term "regular forces" in Section 12406 — a matter raised by @martylederman.bsky.social.
The means the TRO stays in effect for now.
October 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Reading Lederman’s amicus brief, he is basically daring the Trump admin to use the Insurrection Act rather than 10 USC 12406. His argument might win this case, but it doesn’t foreclose future action by the President. Temporary win at best.
ICE jobs are welfare for white guys who peaked in high school.
“Go get a real job” is quickly becoming the popular refrain for dealing with these losers
New York, USA — September 9, 2025. A man reacts following a confrontation with federal agents on the 12th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, outside immigration courtrooms.
October 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
ICE jobs are welfare for white guys who peaked in high school.
Who cares? Stop reading the Times opinion page. There are no ethics for op-ed columnists. There is no level for it to be on.
October 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Who cares? Stop reading the Times opinion page. There are no ethics for op-ed columnists. There is no level for it to be on.
I mean, the next president should insist on driving the bulldozer himself.
Next president (being optimistic) is gonna point at the White House and then whisper, "make the fire look like an accident" to the Canadian PM and hand them a sack of money.
October 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I mean, the next president should insist on driving the bulldozer himself.
We’re going to have to deface his monuments when this is over.
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We’re going to have to deface his monuments when this is over.
I admit that I’m not quite sure what this means, because it’s fairly clear to me that having a coherent critique of the existing structure, and forming a party around that critique is really beneficial to electoral politics. It‘s beneficial in making demands of the state and holding it accountable.
what is not true is that you need to start by generating a coherent disciplined party that enforces pain on the state and extracts concessions, in the limit via armed force
even goddamn lenin didn't come to power that way!
even goddamn lenin didn't come to power that way!
October 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I admit that I’m not quite sure what this means, because it’s fairly clear to me that having a coherent critique of the existing structure, and forming a party around that critique is really beneficial to electoral politics. It‘s beneficial in making demands of the state and holding it accountable.
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"liberals lack a theory of change" is one of the things that gets me every time. like what's the leftist theory of change. how is its track record. what number general strike, seizure of the means of production, workers' revolution are we on.
October 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"liberals lack a theory of change" is one of the things that gets me every time. like what's the leftist theory of change. how is its track record. what number general strike, seizure of the means of production, workers' revolution are we on.
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I would argue that the statement that Democrats are too "woke" elides the real issue: Democrats leaned into cultural strength because they knew the party didn't have the courage for outright rules-changing to benefit the party itself (which is what Republicans have done for decades)
October 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I would argue that the statement that Democrats are too "woke" elides the real issue: Democrats leaned into cultural strength because they knew the party didn't have the courage for outright rules-changing to benefit the party itself (which is what Republicans have done for decades)
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Russell’s book is also just a pleasure to read. He wasn’t an academic, but a New England farmer who spent time exploring sites. He describes walking among Indian planting hills in the 1930s when those hills were at least 300 years old. Excellent book, and at ~200 pages, well worth your time.
October 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Russell’s book is also just a pleasure to read. He wasn’t an academic, but a New England farmer who spent time exploring sites. He describes walking among Indian planting hills in the 1930s when those hills were at least 300 years old. Excellent book, and at ~200 pages, well worth your time.
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He suggests, for example, that Europeans didn’t understand Indian agriculture because it wasn’t organized into plowed rows. Russell makes clear that this just wasn’t the case. Early European visitors very much understood Indian farming techniques. …
October 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
He suggests, for example, that Europeans didn’t understand Indian agriculture because it wasn’t organized into plowed rows. Russell makes clear that this just wasn’t the case. Early European visitors very much understood Indian farming techniques. …
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I would highly recommend Indian New England before the Mayflower by Howard Russell. I’m certain that Mann used it for 1491, but it serves as a counterpoint to that narrative as well. Mann, to my recollection, represents Europeans as not understanding Indian societies. …
October 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I would highly recommend Indian New England before the Mayflower by Howard Russell. I’m certain that Mann used it for 1491, but it serves as a counterpoint to that narrative as well. Mann, to my recollection, represents Europeans as not understanding Indian societies. …
Counterpoint: everyone has noticed.
We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.
Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies
October 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Counterpoint: everyone has noticed.
What if the TX NG goes to Chicago, and they find out that it’s fine and crime is way lower than Fox News says, and then they go back to Texas, and they’re like, “guys, they’re lying to you. I’ve been there, it was fine,” and also, they eat a bunch of deep dish pizza, and take an architecture tour?
October 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
What if the TX NG goes to Chicago, and they find out that it’s fine and crime is way lower than Fox News says, and then they go back to Texas, and they’re like, “guys, they’re lying to you. I’ve been there, it was fine,” and also, they eat a bunch of deep dish pizza, and take an architecture tour?