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It's not discrimination if you're a dipshit Robby that's not a suspect class
December 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It's not discrimination if you're a dipshit Robby that's not a suspect class
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this is completely delusional
December 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
this is completely delusional
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Venezuela is a case study in how letting the leader of a failed coup evade serious punishment and go on to participate in electoral politics can lead to the destruction of liberal democracy and the establishment of an illegitimate authoritarian regime. Good thing that could never happen here.
December 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Venezuela is a case study in how letting the leader of a failed coup evade serious punishment and go on to participate in electoral politics can lead to the destruction of liberal democracy and the establishment of an illegitimate authoritarian regime. Good thing that could never happen here.
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picturing GOB here trying to shove larry ellison into The Aztec Tomb
Trying to imagine the audience for Bari Weiss having a struggle session with Erica Kirk, and it's literally just this dork.
December 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
picturing GOB here trying to shove larry ellison into The Aztec Tomb
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When I'm testing the guardrails of the AI porn bot with the worst prompts I can think of
December 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
When I'm testing the guardrails of the AI porn bot with the worst prompts I can think of
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I have come to the view that a) there is nothing inherently wrong with pornography, b) a worrying amount of Actually Existing Pornography is essentially hate propaganda against women, c) a lot of b is made under deeply abusive conditions.
Yes, which is why it is both true that (1) allowing THIS congress and THIS administration to sign internet restrictions or porn bans is crazy, but (2) there is a major, major problem with online access to pornography and liberals/Democrats needs to start thinking of ways to reckon with it.
also the online far-right are, almost to a man, porn-brained at a level that's quite difficult for people to process. they genuinely believe pornography is an expression of reality, and porn tropes shape their thinking about women.
December 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I have come to the view that a) there is nothing inherently wrong with pornography, b) a worrying amount of Actually Existing Pornography is essentially hate propaganda against women, c) a lot of b is made under deeply abusive conditions.
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Christian Fascism with Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job characteristics.
December 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Christian Fascism with Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job characteristics.
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It's only through the equally blurry social construction of race that any of these civilizational boundaries make sense. And because the dominant social construction of race emerged in Europe and the US to justify colonialism, those racial hierarchies are embedded in our notions of civilization.
December 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It's only through the equally blurry social construction of race that any of these civilizational boundaries make sense. And because the dominant social construction of race emerged in Europe and the US to justify colonialism, those racial hierarchies are embedded in our notions of civilization.
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I'm privileged to work with Harrison, who spent a day off as a volunteer interpreter at an immigration detention center. He wrote about the experience for Jesuits.org, and I can't recommend it enough for your Our Lady of Guadalupe feast day reading.
www.jesuits.org/stories/what...
www.jesuits.org/stories/what...
What I Learned During My Visit to an Immigration Detention Center - Jesuits.org
Harrison Hanvey, Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology, reflects on his visit to an immigration detention center in Virginia.
www.jesuits.org
December 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I'm privileged to work with Harrison, who spent a day off as a volunteer interpreter at an immigration detention center. He wrote about the experience for Jesuits.org, and I can't recommend it enough for your Our Lady of Guadalupe feast day reading.
www.jesuits.org/stories/what...
www.jesuits.org/stories/what...
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This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
Memorandum and Order – #114 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM ORDER granting 112 Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; Respondents are enjoined from re-detaining Petitioner in ICE custody until this Court can receive further briefing from the partie...
www.courtlistener.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
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It's heartening the leadership firewall against any talk of impeachment is breaking down, because it's so delusionally out of touch with reality. Either you mean what you say about the current anti-constitutional crime spree or you don't, and if you do, impeachment is the unavoidable implication.
Yes, I'm taking the first step towards Noem's impeachment.
I demand a full investigation into Secretary Noem's unlawful actions and unethical behavior. The people will have accountability.
I demand a full investigation into Secretary Noem's unlawful actions and unethical behavior. The people will have accountability.
December 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
It's heartening the leadership firewall against any talk of impeachment is breaking down, because it's so delusionally out of touch with reality. Either you mean what you say about the current anti-constitutional crime spree or you don't, and if you do, impeachment is the unavoidable implication.
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It’s been very neat to see people posting clips of Olivia Nuzzi narrating her audiobook going “can you believe this?!” and then 15 minutes later going “looks like I fell for a clever hoax” and then 15 minutes later going “oh wait that is actually how it sounds I guess”
December 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
It’s been very neat to see people posting clips of Olivia Nuzzi narrating her audiobook going “can you believe this?!” and then 15 minutes later going “looks like I fell for a clever hoax” and then 15 minutes later going “oh wait that is actually how it sounds I guess”
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One thing that drives me crazy about this is that it would constitute a bait-and-switch that radically rebalances power in a way that fundamentally relies on Congress having deceived about its own ability to constrain executive agencies.
NEW: SCOTUS appears ready to give Trump greater firing powers, over sharp liberal warnings.
The Republican appointees are almost certain to overturn a 90-year precedent, as Trump wants. Pushing back, Sotomayor told DOJ: “You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government.”
Law Dork:
The Republican appointees are almost certain to overturn a 90-year precedent, as Trump wants. Pushing back, Sotomayor told DOJ: “You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government.”
Law Dork:
SCOTUS appears ready to give Trump greater firing powers, over sharp liberal warnings
The Republican appointees are almost certain to overturn a 90-year precedent, as Trump wants. Pushing back, Sotomayor told DOJ: “You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government.”
www.lawdork.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
One thing that drives me crazy about this is that it would constitute a bait-and-switch that radically rebalances power in a way that fundamentally relies on Congress having deceived about its own ability to constrain executive agencies.
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We don't need massive SCOTUS reform in the abstract. Fixed terms, some small things. But the problem isn't the Court. It's the justices. These six people are so bad, such enemies of the Constitution, they must be removed or otherwise disempowered even if it means things I'd generally rather not do.
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
We don't need massive SCOTUS reform in the abstract. Fixed terms, some small things. But the problem isn't the Court. It's the justices. These six people are so bad, such enemies of the Constitution, they must be removed or otherwise disempowered even if it means things I'd generally rather not do.
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Said it before and I'll say it again: A real problem with the legal profession's cultural norm of venerating the Supreme Court is that the legal profession never contemplated that there might someday be a justice as dumb as Brett Kavanaugh on it
December 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Said it before and I'll say it again: A real problem with the legal profession's cultural norm of venerating the Supreme Court is that the legal profession never contemplated that there might someday be a justice as dumb as Brett Kavanaugh on it
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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.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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.
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"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
December 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
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cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans
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Yeesh.
DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Yeesh.
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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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