Dag.
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Politics, prose, pro soccer, pretty good cook. Petering out being alliterative presently. He/him/dude Pro Trans, Pro Palestinian Pro Jew, Pro Equality and if you aren't, you aren't welcome.
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He is a very smol bean congress member. How could he be expected to know exactly what this vote was for?
Rep. Tom Suozzi(D-NY), getting raked over the coals for his vote for more ICE funding, says in a campaign email that he didn’t understand what he was doing
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
He is a very smol bean congress member. How could he be expected to know exactly what this vote was for?
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Have they changed their opinions? Or have their opinions always been "things that negatively affect other people are fine, things that could negatively affect me are bad"?
Bluesky idea: if people who didn't agree with you change their opinions so that they do agree with you, why not be happy that you are making progress - rather than complaining that they are "only just catching up"?
January 26, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Have they changed their opinions? Or have their opinions always been "things that negatively affect other people are fine, things that could negatively affect me are bad"?
When you want to apologize to the black community over your horrible behavior, everybody thinks first of the Wall Street Journal as where most people are going to read it.
January 26, 2026 at 3:25 PM
When you want to apologize to the black community over your horrible behavior, everybody thinks first of the Wall Street Journal as where most people are going to read it.
Olivia Reingold will be joining the staff of 60 minutes as lead correspondent. Rod Dreher will be offering Andy Rooney style commentary, and all the kids are going to love it.
NEWS: Bari Weiss will hold an all-hands meeting to discuss the future of CBS News tomorrow, per note that just went out to employees.
January 26, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Olivia Reingold will be joining the staff of 60 minutes as lead correspondent. Rod Dreher will be offering Andy Rooney style commentary, and all the kids are going to love it.
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No, NYT. They didn’t “rush to judgement”. They lied.
January 26, 2026 at 12:16 PM
No, NYT. They didn’t “rush to judgement”. They lied.
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i've been dumping trash around the park every day for 20 years. many times people told me "hey stop dumping trash in the park" but i scoffed because trash dumper was a very prestigious job. now that we know dumping trash is bad, some have asked why i should be chairperson for the recycling committee
Bluesky idea: if people who didn't agree with you change their opinions so that they do agree with you, why not be happy that you are making progress - rather than complaining that they are "only just catching up"?
January 26, 2026 at 1:50 PM
i've been dumping trash around the park every day for 20 years. many times people told me "hey stop dumping trash in the park" but i scoffed because trash dumper was a very prestigious job. now that we know dumping trash is bad, some have asked why i should be chairperson for the recycling committee
Emojis don't kill people, people using emojis kill people.
Then there’s…this. This is a news article, not an op ed. I reviewed Fox’s December 2019-March 2020 COVID coverage in their online news section and it didn’t throw in shit like this, even since then they’ve deteriorated
January 26, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Emojis don't kill people, people using emojis kill people.
January 26, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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Right.
The whole 'well we finally came around' bit is great for simple matters of opinion but people died crying out to be heard while the self-proclaimed smartest people in the room were twiddling their thumbs & telling everyone getting fed to the woodchipper they were being sensationalist
The whole 'well we finally came around' bit is great for simple matters of opinion but people died crying out to be heard while the self-proclaimed smartest people in the room were twiddling their thumbs & telling everyone getting fed to the woodchipper they were being sensationalist
This isn't Whataburger is better than In N Out. People's lives were in danger and your bad opinions amplified and ensured the danger.
January 26, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Right.
The whole 'well we finally came around' bit is great for simple matters of opinion but people died crying out to be heard while the self-proclaimed smartest people in the room were twiddling their thumbs & telling everyone getting fed to the woodchipper they were being sensationalist
The whole 'well we finally came around' bit is great for simple matters of opinion but people died crying out to be heard while the self-proclaimed smartest people in the room were twiddling their thumbs & telling everyone getting fed to the woodchipper they were being sensationalist
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We got a lot of snow
January 26, 2026 at 1:26 PM
We got a lot of snow
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Standing with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open Letter to Minnesota Law CommunityJanuary 25
January 25, 2026 To the Minnesota Law Community: We, the undersigned faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School, write in our individual capacities to address the federal government's ongoin...
docs.google.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Standing with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
John Kerry is worth 9 figures. Hillary Clinton is worth 8 figures. Yet they are taking bribes (I mean fees) to go speak with Tucker Carlson and Piers Morgan at a Saudi real estate conference at a time when authoritarianism is reigning supreme in this country.
And they wonder why the base is angry.
And they wonder why the base is angry.
Genuinely the funniest possible panel line-up of all time and it's for a real estate conference in Riyadh
January 26, 2026 at 12:59 PM
John Kerry is worth 9 figures. Hillary Clinton is worth 8 figures. Yet they are taking bribes (I mean fees) to go speak with Tucker Carlson and Piers Morgan at a Saudi real estate conference at a time when authoritarianism is reigning supreme in this country.
And they wonder why the base is angry.
And they wonder why the base is angry.
If a dem won in 2024 and were imposing authoritarianism from the left. Rounding up right wingers, terrorizing conservative eras, prosecuting Republican officials not for actions, but for speech, how many Republican congress members would be voting for their budgets? Or senators for their nominees?
January 26, 2026 at 12:49 PM
If a dem won in 2024 and were imposing authoritarianism from the left. Rounding up right wingers, terrorizing conservative eras, prosecuting Republican officials not for actions, but for speech, how many Republican congress members would be voting for their budgets? Or senators for their nominees?
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“Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?”
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:57 AM
“Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?”
ICE not doing serious investigations, defending staff who commit horrible offenses, and just transfering them to a new community in a different state without warning people of their behavior reminds me of something.
But I can't quite put my finger on it.
But I can't quite put my finger on it.
January 26, 2026 at 11:56 AM
ICE not doing serious investigations, defending staff who commit horrible offenses, and just transfering them to a new community in a different state without warning people of their behavior reminds me of something.
But I can't quite put my finger on it.
But I can't quite put my finger on it.
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Man, they just love doing comedy festivals
Genuinely the funniest possible panel line-up of all time and it's for a real estate conference in Riyadh
January 26, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Man, they just love doing comedy festivals
If what you saw the past decade didn't make you reconsider your priors, but executing middle class white people in the streets made you have an epiphany that you might be hurt too, how much of an epiphany is it?
Are you going to now care about the broken brown and black bodies too? If not...
Are you going to now care about the broken brown and black bodies too? If not...
Bluesky idea: if people who didn't agree with you change their opinions so that they do agree with you, why not be happy that you are making progress - rather than complaining that they are "only just catching up"?
January 26, 2026 at 11:30 AM
If what you saw the past decade didn't make you reconsider your priors, but executing middle class white people in the streets made you have an epiphany that you might be hurt too, how much of an epiphany is it?
Are you going to now care about the broken brown and black bodies too? If not...
Are you going to now care about the broken brown and black bodies too? If not...
If you thought things were already ridiculously fucked up, they have plans on going Galaxy Brain making it much much worse.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence
The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer....
www.propublica.org
January 26, 2026 at 11:17 AM
If you thought things were already ridiculously fucked up, they have plans on going Galaxy Brain making it much much worse.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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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.
There is no low bar that they won't slither under. In the first term some of the secretaries had lines they wouldn't cross. There are no lines now. Trump tells them to dance like a monkey and they won't even skip a beat.
Absolutely shameful to throw your employee under the bus when they’re murdered, but that’s what happens when you’re in the dumbest cult of personality in the history of the world
January 26, 2026 at 12:35 AM
There is no low bar that they won't slither under. In the first term some of the secretaries had lines they wouldn't cross. There are no lines now. Trump tells them to dance like a monkey and they won't even skip a beat.
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fuck off into the wild blue yonder, @theatlantic.com, "sharper focus"
THIS IS WHO HE ALWAYS WAS.
He told you he would do exactly this.
HE IS DOING WHAT HE SAID HE WOULD DO.
THIS IS WHO HE ALWAYS WAS.
He told you he would do exactly this.
HE IS DOING WHAT HE SAID HE WOULD DO.
"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus," Jonathan Rauch argues. "'Fascist' best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse." theatln.tc/wVq7MFaa
January 26, 2026 at 12:29 AM
fuck off into the wild blue yonder, @theatlantic.com, "sharper focus"
THIS IS WHO HE ALWAYS WAS.
He told you he would do exactly this.
HE IS DOING WHAT HE SAID HE WOULD DO.
THIS IS WHO HE ALWAYS WAS.
He told you he would do exactly this.
HE IS DOING WHAT HE SAID HE WOULD DO.
Straight Cringe. OMG. Like it's totally whack.
“Straight cringe” and it’s about the state smearing a murdered person as a terrorist.
This woman is a parody of Beltway journalists.
This woman is a parody of Beltway journalists.
January 26, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Straight Cringe. OMG. Like it's totally whack.
Went outside to see how conditions were in the front, and I heard a loud snap in the back, top of a tree cracked, popped and fell just missing the backside of our back fence. This shit is nerve wracking.
January 25, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Went outside to see how conditions were in the front, and I heard a loud snap in the back, top of a tree cracked, popped and fell just missing the backside of our back fence. This shit is nerve wracking.
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