Dennis Lytton
@dennislytton.bsky.social
Los Angeles is home. Pro democracy reform (proportional representation & reigning in imperial POTUS), unabashedly liberal and in the fight. Anti Trump.
All things pax train 🚆 ops & safety. Cali native 🎿 🏄♂️, Georgetown, and UCLA, Chess♟️player, Episcopalian
All things pax train 🚆 ops & safety. Cali native 🎿 🏄♂️, Georgetown, and UCLA, Chess♟️player, Episcopalian
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The American Presidency Can Never Be Trusted Again
It’s time for multiparty democracy and a limited executive.
www.liberalcurrents.com
America & the world can never trust the US Presidency & our calcified, two-party Congress again.
In @liberalcurrents.com, I argue we need to reform the executive (limit it), make the legislature supreme, & institute multiparty proportional representation.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
In @liberalcurrents.com, I argue we need to reform the executive (limit it), make the legislature supreme, & institute multiparty proportional representation.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
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Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.
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Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Part of this is a pool problem: People attracted to Trump are disproportionately rather stupid and emotionally dysfunctional. Part is tactical: An incompetent person is more acutely aware how dependent they are on the patron’s grace, and has no independent reputation to protect. But also…
"Trump II administration figures often speak the language of merit in order to contrast it to 'DEI' or 'affirmative action,' but in practice they only hire incompetent clowns—so long as they are also loyal clowns." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-p...
The War on Professionalism and Professional Competence
Incompetence and sloppiness are the self-conscious ethos of the administration.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Part of this is a pool problem: People attracted to Trump are disproportionately rather stupid and emotionally dysfunctional. Part is tactical: An incompetent person is more acutely aware how dependent they are on the patron’s grace, and has no independent reputation to protect. But also…
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I had an enlightening conversation with a very smart lawyer friend recently about court reform, and he made a persuasive case for simple court expansion because it's the only plan that gets you the requisite change that's also completely, unquestionably constitutional.
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.
December 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I had an enlightening conversation with a very smart lawyer friend recently about court reform, and he made a persuasive case for simple court expansion because it's the only plan that gets you the requisite change that's also completely, unquestionably constitutional.
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Term limits for SCOTUS and expand the Court. If there was ever a need for change at the highest level, it’s now.
looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign
*SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ROLLBACK
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Term limits for SCOTUS and expand the Court. If there was ever a need for change at the highest level, it’s now.
How is the Robert's majority's reasoning effectively any different than the old German Leader Principle -- Führerprinzip?
If POTUS can make legislation, spend or not spend money, murder people on the high seas, make election rules . . . why have a legislature?
If POTUS can make legislation, spend or not spend money, murder people on the high seas, make election rules . . . why have a legislature?
looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign
*SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ROLLBACK
December 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
How is the Robert's majority's reasoning effectively any different than the old German Leader Principle -- Führerprinzip?
If POTUS can make legislation, spend or not spend money, murder people on the high seas, make election rules . . . why have a legislature?
If POTUS can make legislation, spend or not spend money, murder people on the high seas, make election rules . . . why have a legislature?
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worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants
Here is the question presented. It's a relatively clean vehicle for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether it is lawful for the president to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants
I see your bet that Trump is an enemy of humanity, and I raise you that,
The whole world-wide axis of right-wing authoritarians are enemies of humanity same as the Axis were in 1939-45.
The whole world-wide axis of right-wing authoritarians are enemies of humanity same as the Axis were in 1939-45.
Respectfully I must disagree with the esteemed congress woman @crockett.house.gov who said Trump is an 'enemy of the United States'.
No. Trump is the enemy of the entire human race. He's a #PEDONAZI with 5,000 nukes that's already a proven #SerialKiller. Otherwise I'm with her 100% on all points.
No. Trump is the enemy of the entire human race. He's a #PEDONAZI with 5,000 nukes that's already a proven #SerialKiller. Otherwise I'm with her 100% on all points.
December 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I see your bet that Trump is an enemy of humanity, and I raise you that,
The whole world-wide axis of right-wing authoritarians are enemies of humanity same as the Axis were in 1939-45.
The whole world-wide axis of right-wing authoritarians are enemies of humanity same as the Axis were in 1939-45.
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The common law back to the 13c medieval England acknowledged birthright citizenship. The ancient right was affirmed in Calvin’s Case in 1608 to makes King James’s people one, it was confirmed by English monarchs in American expedition charters, and practiced in early America.* This is our law today.
December 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The common law back to the 13c medieval England acknowledged birthright citizenship. The ancient right was affirmed in Calvin’s Case in 1608 to makes King James’s people one, it was confirmed by English monarchs in American expedition charters, and practiced in early America.* This is our law today.
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Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.
December 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.
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I really am having a hard time processing the fact that the president put a medal around his own neck in order to claim a made up award.
December 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I really am having a hard time processing the fact that the president put a medal around his own neck in order to claim a made up award.
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"I was shooting the remains of the boat, the people just got in the way." Again, worth noting that this was exactly the defense that U-852's captain used in his post-WW2 war crimes trial for the Peleus Incident. He was found guilty and shot.
Won't the whole SOF community be relieved when doing water survival training that properly packed cocaine acts as a flotation device. Bradley "I was shooting the remains of the boat, the people just got in the way."
A true seal special
December 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"I was shooting the remains of the boat, the people just got in the way." Again, worth noting that this was exactly the defense that U-852's captain used in his post-WW2 war crimes trial for the Peleus Incident. He was found guilty and shot.
How is the Supreme Court's federalist society set's interpretation of the Presidential Power effectively any different than the old German Leader Principle -- Führerprinzip?
If POTUS can make legislation, spend or not spend money, murder people on the high seas, etc, why have a legislature?
If POTUS can make legislation, spend or not spend money, murder people on the high seas, etc, why have a legislature?
December 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
How is the Supreme Court's federalist society set's interpretation of the Presidential Power effectively any different than the old German Leader Principle -- Führerprinzip?
If POTUS can make legislation, spend or not spend money, murder people on the high seas, etc, why have a legislature?
If POTUS can make legislation, spend or not spend money, murder people on the high seas, etc, why have a legislature?
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I believe it’s called the John Urschel Award.
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I believe it’s called the John Urschel Award.
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even if look past the errors of fact and poor reasoning throughout this piece, you are still left with a massive normative claim that isgur doesn’t even bother to support, which is that the purpose of the executive branch is to execute the president’s will and priorities.
Opinion | Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
even if look past the errors of fact and poor reasoning throughout this piece, you are still left with a massive normative claim that isgur doesn’t even bother to support, which is that the purpose of the executive branch is to execute the president’s will and priorities.
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Nobody involved in this should draw a free breath for the rest of their lives
December 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Nobody involved in this should draw a free breath for the rest of their lives
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imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail
December 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail
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good reminder that ezra notwithstanding, charlie kirk was and turning point usa is a vicious proto-fascist organization devoted to harassing and silencing political enemies and glorifying violence.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
good reminder that ezra notwithstanding, charlie kirk was and turning point usa is a vicious proto-fascist organization devoted to harassing and silencing political enemies and glorifying violence.
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Publishing all the other boat murder videos but refusing to release the one of the two survivors being killed is an admission they know exactly how bad it looks. There's no other distinction to draw there, no reason to publish the others while withholding that one.
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Publishing all the other boat murder videos but refusing to release the one of the two survivors being killed is an admission they know exactly how bad it looks. There's no other distinction to draw there, no reason to publish the others while withholding that one.
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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this really isn’t an exaggeration
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
this really isn’t an exaggeration
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"Christians" doing Christ stuff.
The Secretary of Defense taking extrajudicial killing requests from podcast hosts
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
"Christians" doing Christ stuff.
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SPLIT IN HALF?
The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?
I got nothing folks.
Trials. Prison. Everyone.
If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?
I got nothing folks.
Trials. Prison. Everyone.
If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
SPLIT IN HALF?
The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?
I got nothing folks.
Trials. Prison. Everyone.
If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?
I got nothing folks.
Trials. Prison. Everyone.
If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.