Lawsome
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30s. Gay kink. @switchbastien’s collared dogboy. Episcopalian. Politics. DC comics? Warhammer? Not legal advice. Views my own.
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Wild that this is happening at the same time that the Popularist crowd has decided to declare a jihad against any kind of climate policy.
This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm”
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.
www.pv-magazine.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Wild that this is happening at the same time that the Popularist crowd has decided to declare a jihad against any kind of climate policy.
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Tragically many governments are reneging on the commitment to asylum but one of the particular horrors of the Trump Administration is that they are not merely indifferent to sending refugees back to be persecuted, a lot of the time it's what they deliberately set out to achieve
December 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Tragically many governments are reneging on the commitment to asylum but one of the particular horrors of the Trump Administration is that they are not merely indifferent to sending refugees back to be persecuted, a lot of the time it's what they deliberately set out to achieve
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British media culture really does seem completely unable to grasp the idea that you are not entitled to everybody's unconditional support all of the time.
Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
December 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
British media culture really does seem completely unable to grasp the idea that you are not entitled to everybody's unconditional support all of the time.
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We won WW2 with "Beautician" as a billet
December 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
We won WW2 with "Beautician" as a billet
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It's the end of 2027. Americans struggle through stagflation, Silicon Valley pleads for bail outs from the AI bubble bursting, unbought crops rot in the fields and the Venezuela War drags on.
The White House tells the press that Trump is laser focused on the 33rd attempt to indict Letita James.
The White House tells the press that Trump is laser focused on the 33rd attempt to indict Letita James.
GRAND JURY DECLINES INDICTMENT AGAINST NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL JAMES FOR SECOND TIME-SOURCES
December 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It's the end of 2027. Americans struggle through stagflation, Silicon Valley pleads for bail outs from the AI bubble bursting, unbought crops rot in the fields and the Venezuela War drags on.
The White House tells the press that Trump is laser focused on the 33rd attempt to indict Letita James.
The White House tells the press that Trump is laser focused on the 33rd attempt to indict Letita James.
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Politically correct language policing by the woke nanny state, etc, etc, so on and so forth, oh who even gives a fuck anymore.
More pages of that list of words forbidden from being used by Head Start programs:
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Politically correct language policing by the woke nanny state, etc, etc, so on and so forth, oh who even gives a fuck anymore.
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I dislike weighing in on stupid and pointless discourses, but the idea that you cannot target retreating troops is one of the most grating topics that people bring up.
You retreat so you can conserve combat power and come back to fight from a better position the next day and kill your adversary.
You retreat so you can conserve combat power and come back to fight from a better position the next day and kill your adversary.
December 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I dislike weighing in on stupid and pointless discourses, but the idea that you cannot target retreating troops is one of the most grating topics that people bring up.
You retreat so you can conserve combat power and come back to fight from a better position the next day and kill your adversary.
You retreat so you can conserve combat power and come back to fight from a better position the next day and kill your adversary.
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It's getting tiring to keep saying this, but if the Biden DHS had tried this, conservatives would be screaming about it for the next twenty years and there would be three separate SCOTUS opinions about religious freedom referencing it.
December 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It's getting tiring to keep saying this, but if the Biden DHS had tried this, conservatives would be screaming about it for the next twenty years and there would be three separate SCOTUS opinions about religious freedom referencing it.
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The truly Christian response to this demand is, "Fuck you. Make me."
Fairly remarkable article here: ICE's acting director is publicly demanding that a parish in Massachusetts remove its nativity scene because it offends the administration.
www.masslive.com/news/2025/12...
www.masslive.com/news/2025/12...
ICE director demands Mass. church remove ‘ICE was here’ nativity scene
ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons is calling for the removal of a nativity scene at a Catholic church in Mass. that protests U.S. immigration policies.
www.masslive.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The truly Christian response to this demand is, "Fuck you. Make me."
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“My biggest fault? I’d say it’s that I work too hard and care too much” ass lede
December 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM
“My biggest fault? I’d say it’s that I work too hard and care too much” ass lede
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you'd think that the fact that the president is currently trying to get the Feds to arrest Senators would be what the NYT editorial board would focus on but...
I see the gizmo cult has made its way into the NYT
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
you'd think that the fact that the president is currently trying to get the Feds to arrest Senators would be what the NYT editorial board would focus on but...
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"My child was perfect and has been replaced by a changeling baby," but in the year 2025.
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"My child was perfect and has been replaced by a changeling baby," but in the year 2025.
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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This is a progressive Christian congregation, United Methodist in denomination although they call themselves "multi-denominational community". Contra some tweets I am seeing this isn't a sign church as a whole changing sides, rather a faction that was always there getting much louder. (This is good)
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This is a progressive Christian congregation, United Methodist in denomination although they call themselves "multi-denominational community". Contra some tweets I am seeing this isn't a sign church as a whole changing sides, rather a faction that was always there getting much louder. (This is good)
1) God can we please build some more housing.
2) That said, lol. lmao.
2) That said, lol. lmao.
I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
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December 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
1) God can we please build some more housing.
2) That said, lol. lmao.
2) That said, lol. lmao.
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i think an overriding theme of american politics today is that so many elites think politics is gamesmanship; that its intra in-group signaling and posturing without any severe material effects. that there is a hard floor we can't actually sink beneath, that the bottom can't fall out. and buddy
It's neither here nor there, but the kind of shit a pissant like Wurman is peddling is the exact of shit that would get you jumped by a couple of congressmen while you walked back to your bunkhouse on 1850s Washington
the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
December 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
i think an overriding theme of american politics today is that so many elites think politics is gamesmanship; that its intra in-group signaling and posturing without any severe material effects. that there is a hard floor we can't actually sink beneath, that the bottom can't fall out. and buddy
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Automatically replacing <3 with a heart emoji is a hate crime against millennials
December 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Automatically replacing <3 with a heart emoji is a hate crime against millennials
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John Calvin on exploiting workers:
"When a robber kills a man, his object is the spoil; but he who extorts labor from a poor man and sucks, so to speak, his blood… this is more atrocious than if he violently killed a stranger.”
"When a robber kills a man, his object is the spoil; but he who extorts labor from a poor man and sucks, so to speak, his blood… this is more atrocious than if he violently killed a stranger.”
December 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
John Calvin on exploiting workers:
"When a robber kills a man, his object is the spoil; but he who extorts labor from a poor man and sucks, so to speak, his blood… this is more atrocious than if he violently killed a stranger.”
"When a robber kills a man, his object is the spoil; but he who extorts labor from a poor man and sucks, so to speak, his blood… this is more atrocious than if he violently killed a stranger.”
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I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.
December 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.
What’s fascinating about this claim is that it renders everything she signs void, which is gonna fuck up all kinds of federal cases.
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
December 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
What’s fascinating about this claim is that it renders everything she signs void, which is gonna fuck up all kinds of federal cases.
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They know that SCOTUS is very likely to overturn the 14th amendment, which definitionally means that overturning the 14th amendment is a reasonable thing to do, which means they need to start preemptively constructing justifications for it now, to show how reasonable and sensible they are.
You could write this. Or you could write: “That notion, which has been the rule in nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere for over a century, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment.”
All how you choose to frame it.
All how you choose to frame it.
December 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM
They know that SCOTUS is very likely to overturn the 14th amendment, which definitionally means that overturning the 14th amendment is a reasonable thing to do, which means they need to start preemptively constructing justifications for it now, to show how reasonable and sensible they are.
I do kinda wish we had more coverage about the sheer blatant bigotry of this administration. Just the random deletions of black history recognition, the gratuitous deadnaming/misgendering of trans people, etc. etc.
December 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I do kinda wish we had more coverage about the sheer blatant bigotry of this administration. Just the random deletions of black history recognition, the gratuitous deadnaming/misgendering of trans people, etc. etc.
This is such fucking petty bigotry.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is such fucking petty bigotry.
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“We had to kill the survivors in the water with a missile because they might flip the shards of the boat, continue to the US, and sell drugs” is not really any different than “We had to kill the entire village because the children might grow up and join the Vietcong,” except much less plausible
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
“We had to kill the survivors in the water with a missile because they might flip the shards of the boat, continue to the US, and sell drugs” is not really any different than “We had to kill the entire village because the children might grow up and join the Vietcong,” except much less plausible