Dirt Dork.
@dirtdork.bsky.social
Illinoisan. Likes plants. Posts are whatever crossed my mind, reposts are things I thought anyone who willingly signed up for Matt Thoughts would also find interesting.
This is good for $50 to the next credible challenger to him for anything, just lmk
Thanks for validating me, governor
December 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is good for $50 to the next credible challenger to him for anything, just lmk
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“No evidence the intent went beyond freeing slaves” — the framers of the amendment openly stated that it would grant citizenship to the children of Chinese immigrants. It’s in the Congressional record. Cited extensively in Wong Kim Ark. These aren’t obscure sources, especially for law professors.
December 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“No evidence the intent went beyond freeing slaves” — the framers of the amendment openly stated that it would grant citizenship to the children of Chinese immigrants. It’s in the Congressional record. Cited extensively in Wong Kim Ark. These aren’t obscure sources, especially for law professors.
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Everybody acting like there is a “debate” on birthright citizenship doesn’t believe in the constitution. Simple as.
December 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Everybody acting like there is a “debate” on birthright citizenship doesn’t believe in the constitution. Simple as.
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By neglecting his own impending demise in favor of tending to the needs of his charges, largely in defiance of secular authorities, Frosty takes up the messianic archtype promising to "be back someday". In this essay I will
December 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
By neglecting his own impending demise in favor of tending to the needs of his charges, largely in defiance of secular authorities, Frosty takes up the messianic archtype promising to "be back someday". In this essay I will
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"Cats love you so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic."
December 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
"Cats love you so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic."
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I think it's important to just treat these guys as engaged in a conspiracy against the Republic and the Constitution.
What's most galling is Wurman and Barnett aren't stupid. They both know exactly how dishonest this is. Whatever their motives, and I don't really care, they're not doing scholarship in any of this. They're willful liars abusing their credentials in an aid of a lawless attack on fundamental rights.
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I think it's important to just treat these guys as engaged in a conspiracy against the Republic and the Constitution.
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We need to purge those who launder authoritarianism and bigotry in the language of intellectualism from polite society.
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We need to purge those who launder authoritarianism and bigotry in the language of intellectualism from polite society.
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Have always loved “Miss Garrity. Photographer.” Can’t imagine there were a ton of Black photographers around Chicago 135 years ago!
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December 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Have always loved “Miss Garrity. Photographer.” Can’t imagine there were a ton of Black photographers around Chicago 135 years ago!
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So what do we think is getting banned from Izzet?
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Who will emerge victorious? Find out as the semifinals get underway at twitch.tv/Magic
December 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
So what do we think is getting banned from Izzet?
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i feel like we have this dynamic where conservative constitutional “scholars” just like lie about the plain textual meaning of the reconstruction amendments while liberal scholars are doing the john ganz scrapbook tweet in response
This isn’t a difference of opinion. Ilan Wurman and Randy Barnett are straightforward liars.
December 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i feel like we have this dynamic where conservative constitutional “scholars” just like lie about the plain textual meaning of the reconstruction amendments while liberal scholars are doing the john ganz scrapbook tweet in response
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The unit cost of each Hellfire missile is ~$100k btw. That not even taking into account at all the expense of flying the mission, the pay of operators, fuel, etc etc. That’s why this is so degrading: it is for nothing. Nothing at all. They are so many more Robert Sanchez’s than there are Hellfires.
By the way this is why I know they’re lying when they say they knew who was on the boats and they’re all on a military list. The US military had somehow built a dossier on Robert Sanchez, the boat pilot living in a cinderblock house and earning $100 a month? He was next on the kill list after Osama?
Everyone seems to have forgotten but the AP actually went to Venezuela and found some of these men. They aren’t terminator-like cartel warriors, ready to give their life to ship kilos. They’re random dudes from small towns - bus drivers, fishermen - recruited for a payday. apnews.com/article/trum...
December 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The unit cost of each Hellfire missile is ~$100k btw. That not even taking into account at all the expense of flying the mission, the pay of operators, fuel, etc etc. That’s why this is so degrading: it is for nothing. Nothing at all. They are so many more Robert Sanchez’s than there are Hellfires.
I think the time to couch this kind of thing in "I don't think there will be legal consequences" is over. I think it is actively detrimental to the actual task, which is fighting the kind of extended campaign that will lead to those consequences. That campaign may lose, but why envision failure?
I don't think the administration's murder of folks that happen to be on "drug-boat"-ish vessels will lead to much in the way of legal consequences but everyone who objects should still expend every effort to make that happen. Giving up would be as big a betrayal of the rule of law.
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I think the time to couch this kind of thing in "I don't think there will be legal consequences" is over. I think it is actively detrimental to the actual task, which is fighting the kind of extended campaign that will lead to those consequences. That campaign may lose, but why envision failure?
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One of the goals is to get elected Dems to constantly say they are unleashing violence against anyone and must be stopped. Anger should turn into investigations, impeachment, defunding, an end to unanimous consent, no votes on Trump nominees
I don't think the administration's murder of folks that happen to be on "drug-boat"-ish vessels will lead to much in the way of legal consequences but everyone who objects should still expend every effort to make that happen. Giving up would be as big a betrayal of the rule of law.
December 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
One of the goals is to get elected Dems to constantly say they are unleashing violence against anyone and must be stopped. Anger should turn into investigations, impeachment, defunding, an end to unanimous consent, no votes on Trump nominees
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Also Tom Cotton, "Maybe the Lusitania deserved it?"
WELKER: Is there any hard evidence showing this particular boat was headed to the US?
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
December 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Also Tom Cotton, "Maybe the Lusitania deserved it?"
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"The question is whether the beliefs in human dignity and human value that undergird a free society can flourish in the outrage and humiliation circus we have built."
I didn't think anyone could make the Nuzzi fiasco interesting, but @aselrod.bsky.social found a way to do it:
I didn't think anyone could make the Nuzzi fiasco interesting, but @aselrod.bsky.social found a way to do it:
I wrote about the Olivia Nuzzi saga and how it reflects the voyeurism and indignity that drives so much of our media—social and otherwise.
This is an essay about elite excess, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and the crisis of our democracy.
www.liberalcurrents.com/american-fre...
This is an essay about elite excess, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and the crisis of our democracy.
www.liberalcurrents.com/american-fre...
American Freakshow: Our Reality TV-Driven Media Is Killing Our Democracy
The lurid details of Olivia Nuzzi's transgressions and the popularity of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives derive from the same culture of voyeurism.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"The question is whether the beliefs in human dignity and human value that undergird a free society can flourish in the outrage and humiliation circus we have built."
I didn't think anyone could make the Nuzzi fiasco interesting, but @aselrod.bsky.social found a way to do it:
I didn't think anyone could make the Nuzzi fiasco interesting, but @aselrod.bsky.social found a way to do it:
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the titular Old Man of The Old Man and the Sea was struck by an R9X knife missile earlier this morning
December 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
the titular Old Man of The Old Man and the Sea was struck by an R9X knife missile earlier this morning
The stench of absolute fucking faithlessness and oathbreaking from this regime is something it will take us the rest of my life to scrub off and atone for.
Portrait of a great nation bespoiled by a hate-fueled, malignant regime: People who did everything right, followed all the rules, did all the work, passed the test, and then, at a celebration, humiliated, pulled out of line, citizenship yanked at the last minute.
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Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The stench of absolute fucking faithlessness and oathbreaking from this regime is something it will take us the rest of my life to scrub off and atone for.
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Peanuts really was the OG of modern absurdist humor.
December 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Peanuts really was the OG of modern absurdist humor.
critical support for (checks notes) anti-choice crime enthusiast Henry Cuellar.
BARTIROMO: Have you considered switching parties?
CUELLAR: Look, I'm a Democrat
BARTIROMO: Okay, but Trump is out with a new Truth Social saying saying, "next time, no more Mr Nice Guy"
CUELLAR: I was at church this morning praying for the president
CUELLAR: Look, I'm a Democrat
BARTIROMO: Okay, but Trump is out with a new Truth Social saying saying, "next time, no more Mr Nice Guy"
CUELLAR: I was at church this morning praying for the president
December 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
critical support for (checks notes) anti-choice crime enthusiast Henry Cuellar.
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there's a reason the reconstruction papers are top on our priorities list! we want to get the funding to put together a genuinely bold set of proposals for reconstructing our country--not whatever larry-summers-adjacent modslop is getting cooked now
www.liberalcurrents.com/a-preview-of...
www.liberalcurrents.com/a-preview-of...
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
there's a reason the reconstruction papers are top on our priorities list! we want to get the funding to put together a genuinely bold set of proposals for reconstructing our country--not whatever larry-summers-adjacent modslop is getting cooked now
www.liberalcurrents.com/a-preview-of...
www.liberalcurrents.com/a-preview-of...
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*It's hard! Ds have been fighting for a long time to conserve norms and institutions against R attacks! Those habits are *really* difficult to break. They require basic changes in style and rhetoric. Hell, I'm yelling about this all the time, but I often "snap back"... and I'm just an armchair prof!
December 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
*It's hard! Ds have been fighting for a long time to conserve norms and institutions against R attacks! Those habits are *really* difficult to break. They require basic changes in style and rhetoric. Hell, I'm yelling about this all the time, but I often "snap back"... and I'm just an armchair prof!
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5. FWIW, that's also why, if the pro-Constitutional Democracy factions of the U.S. political order ever get the trifecta, they can't wait to pass their reforms. They can't spend time hashing them out in committee. They need prêt à passer legislation.
December 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
5. FWIW, that's also why, if the pro-Constitutional Democracy factions of the U.S. political order ever get the trifecta, they can't wait to pass their reforms. They can't spend time hashing them out in committee. They need prêt à passer legislation.
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4. Indeed, you also need to shift politics *within* the party coalition.
Think about how the Liberals abandoned electoral reform in Canada. Real change is politically risky. It's easy for your opponents to demagogue. It's easy for your elected officials to balk.
Think about how the Liberals abandoned electoral reform in Canada. Real change is politically risky. It's easy for your opponents to demagogue. It's easy for your elected officials to balk.
December 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
4. Indeed, you also need to shift politics *within* the party coalition.
Think about how the Liberals abandoned electoral reform in Canada. Real change is politically risky. It's easy for your opponents to demagogue. It's easy for your elected officials to balk.
Think about how the Liberals abandoned electoral reform in Canada. Real change is politically risky. It's easy for your opponents to demagogue. It's easy for your elected officials to balk.
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3. That's another reason why anti-corruption is so central to the current political moment, and why Democrats need to discard their institutionalist dispositions* in favor of a "burn it all down, scorched-earth" attack on the regime that Trump and the GOP have created.
December 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
3. That's another reason why anti-corruption is so central to the current political moment, and why Democrats need to discard their institutionalist dispositions* in favor of a "burn it all down, scorched-earth" attack on the regime that Trump and the GOP have created.
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1. Much of the discussion of "messaging" among opponents of the Trump regime focuses on how to best get to 50+1 in electoral politics.
December 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
1. Much of the discussion of "messaging" among opponents of the Trump regime focuses on how to best get to 50+1 in electoral politics.