Josh Rudolph
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Josh Rudolph
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I think a pseudo-niche political opinion that I’m developing is judge-maxing. Both the United States and the world generally need far greater number of judges. I think we need legal-abundance: an oversupplied court system able to both clear simple cases quickly and devote more time to complex ones.
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This city was once the jewel of america. a place of high density, public transit, and mixed use zoning, and it shall be once more
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I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives
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It’s kinda amusing how “left populism” just means “smallholder interests” now.
Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.”

But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.
Democrats Cynically Wield “Wokeness” Against Graham Platner
Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.” But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.
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For the love of IDIC, stop reposting the articles and sites that publish such crap about women not liking science fiction. Kill them with silence, with zero visibility. Celebrate everyone in SFF. Let the haters choke in darkness.
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Donald Trump is the FIRST president to ever be unable to continue SNAP benefits during a shutdown.
Carter. Reagan. Bush. Clinton. Obama. None of them had to stop SNAP benefits during their shutdowns.
ONLY Trump is incapable of feeding starving Americans.
Sad.
So incompetent.
Wow.
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they say stuff like this and you realize, they believe women just fine. they just don't care when we're hurt and think men should be allowed to paw at whomever they want without consequence.
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"Get a real job" is devastating
A lot of folks may think that just yelling at ICE agents is ineffective, but consider the cumulative psychological toll of being yelled at EVERY DAY when trying to do shit. Even the biggest asshole in the world who doesn't give a shit about other people will feel the pressure.
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“the president got mad at a television commercial so now your maple syrup is more expensive” is no way to run a country
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Intolerable. Americans are being treated like citizens of a conquered territory
A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.
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WaPo deserves the grave it has dug itself
I can’t believe there are not one but two articles, in major papers, with this dumb framing. It is not NIMBY to express dismay when a big part of the White House is suddenly rubbled
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part of what gets me is the particular double-think involved in left-nimbyism. left nimbyism has been the dominant mode of thinking in urban governance for like fifty years, they won the war and achieved total control of policy, and they *still* think they're the plucky upstarts fighting The Man
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what if vietnam era discontent, but the president was -far- less popular and had 0 institutional support?
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A reminder that losing SNAP will be particularly devastating to those whose disabilities require them to have special diets.

The disability tax is real.

Everything costs more when you’re sick, and special diets are no exception.

Boost & donate to mutual aid. People need help.
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The average voter in America is like forty something woman nurse, iirc
right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.
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good news, though, the GOP are looking at extinction level numbers in just.... little over a year!

bsky.app/profile/usap...
Generic Ballot Polling Among Men:

🔴 Republicans: 45%
🔵 Democrats: 43%

Quinnipiac / Oct 20, 2025
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I hope the ghost of D.C. Fontana curb stomps this guy in his nightmares while the ghost of Lucille Ball watches and jerks off
okay grandpa, let's get you to bed
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I do think that reformed neo-cons have more of a stomach for what needs done than most liberals do.
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i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.
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huge problem with a lot of political analysis is that people think coalitions are fixed when they're really, really not
just to play this out: losses geographically concentrated among expected partisan voters are catastrophic for gerrymanders, because they violate the efficiency assumptions of your cracked districts.
This is the dumbest thing I've ever read and this person needs to be launched into the sun.

6-8 point rural swing is how you get an absolute apocalypse for the GOP
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It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.
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capital-a Abundance types have a laughably bad theory of the mind when it comes to their coalitional politics tbh
This is one of my biggest beefs with “Abundance” advocates at least so much as it defines a certain genre of punditry. Constant prog/ left NIMBY punching but they won’t address the elephant in the room: mainstream, centrist, establishment democrats are responsible for urban housing shortages.
This is why Hakeem Jeffries and his intransigent coalition is so toxic. Calling Mamdani’s supports “Team Gentrification” gives the whole game away.

Their shitty machine politics gave us these shortages and they lost many of their own voters because of it! www.newsweek.com/hakeem-jeffr...
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His brain is getting worse
The scope is growing: Trump is now calling for the criminal prosecutions of perceived political foes Christopher Wray, Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, and Lisa Monaco — mischaracterizing records and falsely claiming they'd rigged the 2020 election.