Enlightened Despotist in Name Only
@edino.bsky.social
A true DINO. (In reality a progressive incrementalist.) Math and board game fan.
Phila, PA
Tax the rich.
Phila, PA
Tax the rich.
WaPo editorial board: “…which was yet another genius maneuver by our unparalleled king, er, president.”
When Jason Reding Quiñones was hired in 2018 as a federal prosecutor in Florida, he flunked out of the office’s boot camp for new hires and left the office in 2024.
A year later, President Trump tapped him to lead the U.S. attorney’s office.
A year later, President Trump tapped him to lead the U.S. attorney’s office.
The Trump prosecutor probing former top Obama administration officials
Jason Reding Quiñones, U.S. attorney in Miami and a favorite prosecutor for the Trump administration, is pursuing a broad investigation into former Obama officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
WaPo editorial board: “…which was yet another genius maneuver by our unparalleled king, er, president.”
I can hardly believe this is real.
November 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I can hardly believe this is real.
I don’t know why I’m fixating on this particular detail but I appreciate that the “doctor he trusted” (🚩🚩) didn’t even do his/her own scan. The doctor was like “no don’t worry, no need to come in, I can make my diagnosis based on these pictures in the newspaper”.
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know why I’m fixating on this particular detail but I appreciate that the “doctor he trusted” (🚩🚩) didn’t even do his/her own scan. The doctor was like “no don’t worry, no need to come in, I can make my diagnosis based on these pictures in the newspaper”.
Whatever you may think of Wilson, this criticism is just in *hilariously* transparent bad faith. It’s implying that because she doesn’t own a house or drive, she’s unfit to govern (??), although the last sentence could be repurposed to say that it’s improper for a city government to pay for roads.
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Whatever you may think of Wilson, this criticism is just in *hilariously* transparent bad faith. It’s implying that because she doesn’t own a house or drive, she’s unfit to govern (??), although the last sentence could be repurposed to say that it’s improper for a city government to pay for roads.
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This practice was endorsed by a Supreme Court Justice.
#KavanaughStop
#KavanaughStop
US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This practice was endorsed by a Supreme Court Justice.
#KavanaughStop
#KavanaughStop
Ralph Nader sucks absolute ass. On a related note, I graduated high school in 2000 and many of my classmates voted for him. Not, thank god, in FL. (But in OR which was actually a contested state then.)
relatedly, ralph nader deserves to be remembered for the rest of time as someone who voluntarily assisted in a critical attack on american democracy, the importance of which far outweighs any of his consumer advocacy
bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
November 17, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Ralph Nader sucks absolute ass. On a related note, I graduated high school in 2000 and many of my classmates voted for him. Not, thank god, in FL. (But in OR which was actually a contested state then.)
Can AI find a way to make guys like this shut up?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Can AI find a way to make guys like this shut up?
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If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
Trump now says House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files “because we have nothing to hide”
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
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lol this is literally true
If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
Trump now says House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files “because we have nothing to hide”
November 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
lol this is literally true
We’re running back “I’d be happy to release my tax returns but I can’t bc they’re under audit”. It was transparently horseshit of course, but most Americans were too dumb to care, so he figures it can be made to work here too.
He’s definitely decided to block their release by claiming it’s all evidence for his cases against Democrats
Trump: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide."
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
We’re running back “I’d be happy to release my tax returns but I can’t bc they’re under audit”. It was transparently horseshit of course, but most Americans were too dumb to care, so he figures it can be made to work here too.
What happened to investigating democratic operative JP Morgan Chase??
Trump: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide."
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
What happened to investigating democratic operative JP Morgan Chase??
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They really are going with immaculate asymmetry of tariffs, which didn't raise prices when they were imposed but will cut them when they're withdrawn.
KARL: Tariffs have been removed from some food items. How soon do we expect prices on those goods will go down?
HASSETT: The prices for those goods weren't necessarily going up just because of tariffs
KARL: So they might not go down?
HASSETT: The prices for those goods weren't necessarily going up just because of tariffs
KARL: So they might not go down?
November 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
They really are going with immaculate asymmetry of tariffs, which didn't raise prices when they were imposed but will cut them when they're withdrawn.
“These keys will be jingled in front of you by Ted Nugent, a once-in-a-lifetime entertainment experience for which you’d gladly pay more than $2,000”
BESSENT: “THE $2,000 DIVIDEND COULD COME IN LOTS OF FORMS… IT COULD BE JUST THE TAX DECREASES. IT COULD BE NO TAX ON TIPS.”
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
“These keys will be jingled in front of you by Ted Nugent, a once-in-a-lifetime entertainment experience for which you’d gladly pay more than $2,000”
The surroundings I guess is a house, dining room table, and decorations.
Trump shamelessly lies: "Go to Walmart and other companies, and in every case it's about 25% that a Thanksgiving meal and surroundings are 25% lower. That's big fact."
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The surroundings I guess is a house, dining room table, and decorations.
Values may not sum to 100% due to rounding/insane poll design.
Democrats are frustrated, dissatisfied and pessimistic because of the Democrats caving to Republicans
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Values may not sum to 100% due to rounding/insane poll design.
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Another way to put it:
If you're a child sex predator or drug trafficker or mafioso, you love Donald Trump because he's eliminated all the cops whose job was catch you.
If you're a child sex predator or drug trafficker or mafioso, you love Donald Trump because he's eliminated all the cops whose job was catch you.
Trump is not tough on crime. He reassigns expert law enforcement in areas like child sex trafficking (imagine that) to immigration enforcement where their skills aren’t as relevant, making us more vulnerable to crime
“Homeland security agents investigating sexual crimes against children…have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown…hampering their pursuit of child predators…efforts to combat human smuggling and sex trafficking have languished…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
November 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Another way to put it:
If you're a child sex predator or drug trafficker or mafioso, you love Donald Trump because he's eliminated all the cops whose job was catch you.
If you're a child sex predator or drug trafficker or mafioso, you love Donald Trump because he's eliminated all the cops whose job was catch you.
This. Yes, there are many good people in southern states are in awful circumstances due to forces beyond their control. But it’s total bullshit to say that they are only governed by assholes bc of voter suppression or whatever. They’re governed by assholes bc most of the voters there are assholes.
this take gets annoying as a southerner. you should not give up on the south, but no, it is not red because of voter suppression or a lack of funding for dems. doug jones raised shitloads of money and lost. it is red because the overwhelming majority are extremely racist white conservatives
I understand why a lot of white liberals are like, fuck the south, because they think about the people in power who are mostly white conservatives. But that is only because of Jim Crow, voter suppression, a lack of real funding for Dems there
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This. Yes, there are many good people in southern states are in awful circumstances due to forces beyond their control. But it’s total bullshit to say that they are only governed by assholes bc of voter suppression or whatever. They’re governed by assholes bc most of the voters there are assholes.
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This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
In complete sincerity this is an incredible play by #94
November 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
In complete sincerity this is an incredible play by #94
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TFW you switch teams from "protects but does not bind" to "binds but does not protect"
Trump literally putting Marge’s life in danger because she wants to see the Epstein files
November 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
TFW you switch teams from "protects but does not bind" to "binds but does not protect"
If this was how you bribed other world leaders in a nation-building video game people would make fun of it for being too ridiculous.
“Apple set the tone” when Tim Cook gave Trump an engraved, glass disc. This week, the Swiss delegation gave him a “special Rolex desktop clock” and a $130,000 gold bar.
“.. It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it," an administration official told @axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
“.. It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it," an administration official told @axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
November 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
If this was how you bribed other world leaders in a nation-building video game people would make fun of it for being too ridiculous.
Dang I wish I could understand what Young Kim is upset about, so that we could consider whether the complaint has any merit. But that’s impossible because, as wise Chief Justice Roberts taught us, it’s just meaningless sociological gobbledygook.
Delusional people.
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Dang I wish I could understand what Young Kim is upset about, so that we could consider whether the complaint has any merit. But that’s impossible because, as wise Chief Justice Roberts taught us, it’s just meaningless sociological gobbledygook.
It is genuinely bizarre how many people who seem to outraged by all injustices against all human beings also seem to be entirely unbothered by anything people do to animals for food.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It is genuinely bizarre how many people who seem to outraged by all injustices against all human beings also seem to be entirely unbothered by anything people do to animals for food.
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Someone must stop these low-wage servants from buying all the houses!
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Someone must stop these low-wage servants from buying all the houses!