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Jew. Mostly leftist. Queer. Most people refer to me with the pronouns "he/him" and I acquiesce in this.
Text without character limits is politically wholesome, especially with short video dominating other platforms
this is unironically good
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Text without character limits is politically wholesome, especially with short video dominating other platforms
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Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
Uncomfortable with the First Thanksgiving Narrative? Good News, it’s Actually a Civil War Holiday
Take heart, all you who grow unsettled at the time of year where the narrative of friendly Pilgrims and American Indians is spread around to make us feel good about a brief moment in American histo…
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November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
"If anything, the gay wool fashion show should make us think not about the good fortune of the few rescued rams but about how animal farming systematically, routinely, and often violently exploits the reproduction of all the animals it encounters."
Two weeks ago, Grindr put on a fashion show of wool from "gay" rams rescued from slaughter. The media and the Internet swooned. But this feel-good story is a window into the dark role of forced reproduction in animal agriculture.
By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
The Internet Loves These “Gay Sheep.” The Real Story Is Much Darker.
A much-hyped fashion show with wool from “gay rams” obscures the brutal reality of an industry that exploits sheep sexuality at every turn.
newrepublic.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"If anything, the gay wool fashion show should make us think not about the good fortune of the few rescued rams but about how animal farming systematically, routinely, and often violently exploits the reproduction of all the animals it encounters."
This Thanksgiving marks sixteen years since I became a vegan. I guess it wasn't a phase
November 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This Thanksgiving marks sixteen years since I became a vegan. I guess it wasn't a phase
NYT reporting that it's now unclear the two National Guard members were killed
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
NYT reporting that it's now unclear the two National Guard members were killed
They are serving no purpose whatsoever in DC. I am skeptical of any sustained effect on violent crime from the federal deployment in DC but if there is any, it would be from federal law enforcement and not from National Guardsmen standing around
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
They are serving no purpose whatsoever in DC. I am skeptical of any sustained effect on violent crime from the federal deployment in DC but if there is any, it would be from federal law enforcement and not from National Guardsmen standing around
I am also starting to think this tbh
Maduro and most of his cohorts view the U.S. military threats as a bluff, according to a source familiar with senior Venezuelan government officials...Maduro believes that the only way the U.S. can oust him is by sending troops to Caracas, the person said.- WSJ
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I am also starting to think this tbh
The Fifth Circuit and the Eleventh Circuit are both quite conservative but they are very different things
Two Republican-appointed judges on the 3-judge panel:
Eleventh Circuit affirms $1 million sanctions award against Trump attorneys, led by Alina Habba, for frivolous "racketeering" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton (among many others): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The Fifth Circuit and the Eleventh Circuit are both quite conservative but they are very different things
This is generally true, that ideological impact on judicial voting increases at the appellate level, but it's hard to know what to make of this data because litigants do a lot of forum shopping for these challenges
District court judges are engaged in a bipartisan project of [forgive me] actually calling balls and strikes. Republican circuit judges are largely going full-tilt partisan.
Stats as of last month:
courtaccountability.substack.com/p/where-law-...
Stats as of last month:
courtaccountability.substack.com/p/where-law-...
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is generally true, that ideological impact on judicial voting increases at the appellate level, but it's hard to know what to make of this data because litigants do a lot of forum shopping for these challenges
Since the president has issued illegal orders and you can prove anything from a contradiction,
November 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Since the president has issued illegal orders and you can prove anything from a contradiction,
In the spirit of description, not judgment: participating in mainstream Jewish life in the United States normalizes Israel. Israel is home to 45% of the world's Jews and its Jewish community is closely tied to ours; American Jews visit and immigrate there and Israeli Jews visit and immigrate here
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
In the spirit of description, not judgment: participating in mainstream Jewish life in the United States normalizes Israel. Israel is home to 45% of the world's Jews and its Jewish community is closely tied to ours; American Jews visit and immigrate there and Israeli Jews visit and immigrate here
I don't think law can or should be entirely divorced from politics, but it's weird how some people have taken a decision ostensibly about the meaning of a single statute as being a sort of comprehensive vindication of their policy views and metaphysical commutments
"gender ideology is anti-gravity nonsense that only the desperate, the deluded and the double-dealing grifters still believe": just in case you were still wondering quite how consumed with hatred are Hadley Freeman and The Sunday Times.
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I don't think law can or should be entirely divorced from politics, but it's weird how some people have taken a decision ostensibly about the meaning of a single statute as being a sort of comprehensive vindication of their policy views and metaphysical commutments
This is obviously incorrect
Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This is obviously incorrect
Amazing
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Amazing
Is there any prospect that Jared Polis would actually do this????
NEW: Colorado’s county election clerks (majority Republican) implore Gov Polis (D) not to release Tina Peters to the Trump administration. Their joint letter says it would be a slap in the face to clerks who endure threats due to Peters’ election rigging conspiracy theories.
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Is there any prospect that Jared Polis would actually do this????
These people tell us that sex is determined by whether you make small gametes or large gametes and also tell us that it is obvious, can't have both sorry!
Who does this …reptile… think she is speaking for anyone else?
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
These people tell us that sex is determined by whether you make small gametes or large gametes and also tell us that it is obvious, can't have both sorry!
A violent criminal gang on a kidnapping spree
America 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A violent criminal gang on a kidnapping spree
Zelensky should hold firm, Trump has limited leverage here--Trump will not follow through on this threat for long in the face of domestic political pressure, we've seen this movie before and Trump is even weaker now
*US THREATENS TO CUT INTEL, WEAPONS SUPPLY TO UKRAINE: REUTERS
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Zelensky should hold firm, Trump has limited leverage here--Trump will not follow through on this threat for long in the face of domestic political pressure, we've seen this movie before and Trump is even weaker now
Not the biggest issue here but it is outrageous that this plan provides for the US getting tribute payments from Ukraine's reconstruction
Read the full text of Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan on.ft.com/4ibYCHp
Read the full text of Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
[FREE TO READ] Proposed deal would limit size of Ukrainian forces and calls on Kyiv to withdraw troops from eastern Donetsk
on.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Not the biggest issue here but it is outrageous that this plan provides for the US getting tribute payments from Ukraine's reconstruction
The most offensive thing about this to me is that it doesn't even work as a dig, there are more Bluesky users than there are adopters of any uniform law because there are only fifty states
What is this dig at BlueSky doing in a judicial opinion? www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The most offensive thing about this to me is that it doesn't even work as a dig, there are more Bluesky users than there are adopters of any uniform law because there are only fifty states
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
Obviously disqualifying
November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Obviously disqualifying
I don't understand what "Hegelian" is supposed to mean in that sentence
This week’s scorecard of German Idealism in legal documents:
Kant 1
Hegel ?
Left: Hunter Biden motion for default judgment
Right: Judge Smith’s dissent in Texas redistricting case
(Smith’s reference is obviously meant to be negative, but given the tenor of the dissent, how to score?)
Kant 1
Hegel ?
Left: Hunter Biden motion for default judgment
Right: Judge Smith’s dissent in Texas redistricting case
(Smith’s reference is obviously meant to be negative, but given the tenor of the dissent, how to score?)
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I don't understand what "Hegelian" is supposed to mean in that sentence
Also, it's not just a due process issue, you can't even murder people who have been validly convicted of a crime
1) There were interviews. Fox didn't air them.
2) Due process isn't just for people we think are innocent. It's for everyone, even when we think they are guilty.
3) The US benefits from countries observing the traditional laws of the sea, and has every reason to set that example.
2) Due process isn't just for people we think are innocent. It's for everyone, even when we think they are guilty.
3) The US benefits from countries observing the traditional laws of the sea, and has every reason to set that example.
Cotton on Trump's boat strikes: "Use common sense. If any of these had been boats full of fisherman or refugees, CNN would've already been on the ground & interviewed all their families & told their stories. We can be confident all of these strikes have been against cartel-based drug traffickers."
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Also, it's not just a due process issue, you can't even murder people who have been validly convicted of a crime
"But its headline-grabbing LGBTQ+ figure requires some clarification: It is based on a survey of 181 volunteer respondents, with limited participation from Orthodox students, making it impossible to know how precisely it reflects the entire population of aspiring rabbis."
A new study finds 51 percent of current rabbinical students identify as LGBTQ, reflecting major shifts in American Jewish life. Educators say queer rabbis bring empathy, resilience, and leadership at a time of rising challenges.
www.jpost.com/diaspora/art...
www.jpost.com/diaspora/art...
Study finds surge of LGBTQ rabbinical students | The Jerusalem Post
“It signals that American progressive Jewish life has evolved to the point where LGBTQ inclusion is a no-brainer.” said Hannah Karpel-Pomerantz
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November 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"But its headline-grabbing LGBTQ+ figure requires some clarification: It is based on a survey of 181 volunteer respondents, with limited participation from Orthodox students, making it impossible to know how precisely it reflects the entire population of aspiring rabbis."