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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:11 PM
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."
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it's also a demand never made of, say, rural people who won't go into the city because they think they'll be murdered.
"getting outside your bubble" is an admirable thing when it means trying a new hobby or introducing yourself to your neighbor or watching an art film but people only want to apply it to "being a little more racist just to see how it feels"
these people seem like idiots
January 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
it's also a demand never made of, say, rural people who won't go into the city because they think they'll be murdered.
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Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
January 23, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
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Can confirm that being a journalist is occasionally very sick indeed.
January 26, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Can confirm that being a journalist is occasionally very sick indeed.
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Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
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Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.
January 24, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.
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Minnesota is the best of us.
January 23, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Minnesota is the best of us.
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We deal with this a lot in our civil rights work against the vast system of pretrial detention. Decades of mass incarceration has left our culture desensitized. We have stopped realizing a core pillar of a reasonable society: the state must have very good reasons for putting a human in a cage.
January 22, 2026 at 11:53 PM
We deal with this a lot in our civil rights work against the vast system of pretrial detention. Decades of mass incarceration has left our culture desensitized. We have stopped realizing a core pillar of a reasonable society: the state must have very good reasons for putting a human in a cage.
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Yeah. "This isn't who we are" is a useful rallying cry with moral weight to it. It's fine if it's meant as "this is not how we see ourselves" rather than "this is not what our history has been," the latter being erroneous but also not really the point anyway, the point is who we want to be.
I think a big part is just, some people mean “this isn’t what I want America to be”, not “this isn’t what America has been”. Those words can mean either, and perhaps we can distinguish between them by assuming others using the words differently are coming from a different linguistic tradition.
January 22, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Yeah. "This isn't who we are" is a useful rallying cry with moral weight to it. It's fine if it's meant as "this is not how we see ourselves" rather than "this is not what our history has been," the latter being erroneous but also not really the point anyway, the point is who we want to be.
@durbin.senate.gov is a pathetic embarrassment. We can’t be rid of him soon enough.
“Give us a chance to give [Trump] a way out of this that comes to the right ending. … I don’t know if that’s possible.” - @durbin.senate.gov to Danes in Europe.
Can the Senate Dems sound any more limp, facile and impotent to Europeans across the Atlantic?
Can the Senate Dems sound any more limp, facile and impotent to Europeans across the Atlantic?
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“COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A bipartisan group of lawmakers who traveled here on an urgent mission to reassure Danish leaders amid President Donald Trump’s escalating threats to acquire Greenland had a straightforward message.
In an interview between high-level meetings, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin summed it up this way: “Give us a chance to give [Trump] a way out of this that comes to the right ending.”
Durbin added: “I don’t know if that’s possible.”
The four-decade veteran of Congress, who’s been on dozens of CODELs, wasn’t just referring to Trump’s apparent determination to take over the Danish territory at all costs, or Republicans’ hesitation to openly defy him. Durbin was giving a sobering assessment of Congress as a supposedly coequal branch of government.
Over the span of several decades and under the leadership of both parties, lawmakers have ceded their authority to the executive branch on everything from war powers to tariffs to the power of the purse. Hill leaders have prioritized avoiding politically difficult votes or been slow to react – or done nothing – as presidents repeatedly pushed the limits of their own power at the expense of Congress.
“It’s not just this moment or this president,” said Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who co-led the delegation. “What makes this moment so hard is, if Congress can’t stand up in the face of something where there is no strategic value and lots of strategic harm…is Congress really willing to exert its authority at all?”
That’s what made this particular CODEL so uniquely difficult — and surreal.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cf26plxwia7dxpm6plry3sj2/bafkreibjseyx4567lbf33ldoqqe66czitqhdzl7ppsi4s3swrfyo6dtwsu@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 7:11 PM
@durbin.senate.gov is a pathetic embarrassment. We can’t be rid of him soon enough.
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The first Dem candidate who's campaign slogan is "Aren't you tired of being nice? Dont you wanna go apeshit?" is going to win in a landslide
January 15, 2026 at 3:16 PM
The first Dem candidate who's campaign slogan is "Aren't you tired of being nice? Dont you wanna go apeshit?" is going to win in a landslide
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when the right gets angry all the gop guys are like "you should be angry. at minorities, which is why we will arrest them all for you and murder some when we get bored"
when left gets angry at this the dnc goes "yeah but the thugs you're mad at want you to be mad, so calm down." gee thanks asshole
when left gets angry at this the dnc goes "yeah but the thugs you're mad at want you to be mad, so calm down." gee thanks asshole
January 15, 2026 at 3:11 PM
when the right gets angry all the gop guys are like "you should be angry. at minorities, which is why we will arrest them all for you and murder some when we get bored"
when left gets angry at this the dnc goes "yeah but the thugs you're mad at want you to be mad, so calm down." gee thanks asshole
when left gets angry at this the dnc goes "yeah but the thugs you're mad at want you to be mad, so calm down." gee thanks asshole
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This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny
It occurs to me all the yelling at ICE in MPLS isn't merely funny. Getting made fun of like this is awful for morale. ICE is losing field officers faster than it can wave them through training, and a big part of it is how little of this these little weasels can take.
January 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
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one lesson of trump's success is the power of taking what's basically an untenable, pandering position ("we'll only deport the bad guys") and then just doing what you want when you enter office
January 12, 2026 at 8:22 PM
one lesson of trump's success is the power of taking what's basically an untenable, pandering position ("we'll only deport the bad guys") and then just doing what you want when you enter office
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“The Attorney General’s Office did not respond to questions from WTTW News asking if it sought legal repercussions for those counties that did fulfill immigrant detainers and warrants and transferred individuals into DHS custody.”
Four Illinois Sheriff’s Offices Ignored Sanctuary Laws by Transferring People Into Federal Custody, AG Report Finds
Four Illinois sheriff’s offices defied the state’s sanctuary laws and transferred individuals into Department of Homeland Security custody in 2024, according to a new report.
news.wttw.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:26 PM
“The Attorney General’s Office did not respond to questions from WTTW News asking if it sought legal repercussions for those counties that did fulfill immigrant detainers and warrants and transferred individuals into DHS custody.”
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this is exactly why having to concede on deployment of the national guard was a big fucking deal
They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to pause operations in Chicago — where Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, has led controversial arrest efforts — to support the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota."
January 8, 2026 at 10:41 PM
this is exactly why having to concede on deployment of the national guard was a big fucking deal
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I'm looking at the data for a column, and "abolish ICE" is both a lot more popular than you probably think, and a lot more popular than it has been in the past, including 2018
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
I'm looking at the data for a column, and "abolish ICE" is both a lot more popular than you probably think, and a lot more popular than it has been in the past, including 2018
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In a strange position where I think there are massive, massive social harms to the proliferation of AI (misinfo, deepfakes, predatory 'companions', surveillance, labour rights) but also feel the mainstream arguments against it range from unconvincing (water) to actively harmful (copyright; "soul")
January 6, 2026 at 7:52 PM
In a strange position where I think there are massive, massive social harms to the proliferation of AI (misinfo, deepfakes, predatory 'companions', surveillance, labour rights) but also feel the mainstream arguments against it range from unconvincing (water) to actively harmful (copyright; "soul")
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They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal
January 8, 2026 at 12:37 AM
They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal
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An official NYT response means this is clearly a sore spot for them and people should keep hitting the target
NYT says a Trans News Network interview with ex-NYT editor Billie Jean Sweeney about NYT's gender identity coverage included "factually inaccurate criticisms" (The New York Times Company)
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January 5, 2026 at 10:32 PM
An official NYT response means this is clearly a sore spot for them and people should keep hitting the target
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tomorrow's not real it can't hurt us
January 5, 2026 at 2:53 AM
tomorrow's not real it can't hurt us
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yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
Right.
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
a lot of problems wouldn't exist if we had a congress with even an ounce of self interest
January 4, 2026 at 11:52 PM
yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.