acewing13.bsky.social
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Writer, love space and the train wreck of politics
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This anti-primary culture in the Democratic Party needs to end.
It’s not “drama” or hate, it’s democracy.
Embrace it, make politicians earn your vote, be critical of them, and take note of how they respond.
If they’re dismissive when they need your vote, that says a lot.
It’s not “drama” or hate, it’s democracy.
Embrace it, make politicians earn your vote, be critical of them, and take note of how they respond.
If they’re dismissive when they need your vote, that says a lot.
December 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This anti-primary culture in the Democratic Party needs to end.
It’s not “drama” or hate, it’s democracy.
Embrace it, make politicians earn your vote, be critical of them, and take note of how they respond.
If they’re dismissive when they need your vote, that says a lot.
It’s not “drama” or hate, it’s democracy.
Embrace it, make politicians earn your vote, be critical of them, and take note of how they respond.
If they’re dismissive when they need your vote, that says a lot.
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NEW: A major shift in underway in recent months kicked into gear this week, with ICE trial attorneys around the country asking immigration "judges" to toss out *nearly all* asylum applications on the grounds of "safe third country" agreements with Uganda, Honduras, Ecuador, and Guatemala.
December 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
NEW: A major shift in underway in recent months kicked into gear this week, with ICE trial attorneys around the country asking immigration "judges" to toss out *nearly all* asylum applications on the grounds of "safe third country" agreements with Uganda, Honduras, Ecuador, and Guatemala.
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Giving the game away. he has more “scholarly ammunition” than he did in January because a bunch of professional bootlicks and liars who have never had real jobs started lying about birthright citizenship in January.
December 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Giving the game away. he has more “scholarly ammunition” than he did in January because a bunch of professional bootlicks and liars who have never had real jobs started lying about birthright citizenship in January.
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the articles of impeachment can literally be "Donald J. Trump is hereby impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors" then take a vote. There is literally no Constitutional requirement for any of the procedures he claims are required.
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
the articles of impeachment can literally be "Donald J. Trump is hereby impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors" then take a vote. There is literally no Constitutional requirement for any of the procedures he claims are required.
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Aside from how he's wrong right now on the history, process, strategy, and merits, this is Jeffries heavily signaling that even when they're in the majority, he'll oppose any impeachment that doesn't first get slow-walked in needless committee dithering for as long as he can delay it there.
Significant statement from Jeffries and House Democratic leaders saying they will vote “present” on the motion to table Al Green’s resolution to impeach President Trump. They say they’re “laser-focused on fighting to lower the high cost of living” plus on health care and corruption.
December 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Aside from how he's wrong right now on the history, process, strategy, and merits, this is Jeffries heavily signaling that even when they're in the majority, he'll oppose any impeachment that doesn't first get slow-walked in needless committee dithering for as long as he can delay it there.
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all i'm saying is that there were better options
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
all i'm saying is that there were better options
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I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.
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100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
It must be wild to get to abuse the public then pay for it with the public's money
December 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
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Remember this as a bipartisan coalition of folks in Congress tell us over and over again that they're trying to protect children online. Meanwhile the US embassy is saying even kids can't have private social media accounts if they want to visit the US.
One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
From the US Embassy in London today.
December 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Remember this as a bipartisan coalition of folks in Congress tell us over and over again that they're trying to protect children online. Meanwhile the US embassy is saying even kids can't have private social media accounts if they want to visit the US.
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the return of shame would be the best thing to happen so far this decade, unambiguously
December 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
the return of shame would be the best thing to happen so far this decade, unambiguously
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Sometimes I think white peoples obsession with rewhitening media is a form of self-soothing, like sucking your thumb. if all the lantern jawed manly white men and submissive blonde thin women return, things will be okay again and the world won’t be so scary again.
Sometimes it’s just racism.
Sometimes it’s just racism.
Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics”
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
December 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Sometimes I think white peoples obsession with rewhitening media is a form of self-soothing, like sucking your thumb. if all the lantern jawed manly white men and submissive blonde thin women return, things will be okay again and the world won’t be so scary again.
Sometimes it’s just racism.
Sometimes it’s just racism.
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More research showing a thing the GC movement wishes to deny trans people, in this case respecting their name and pronouns, is a thing that improves mental health and could prevent a death by suicide, yet still they persist.
“Transgender and nonbinary youth (ages 13 to 24) whose pronouns are respected were 31 percent less likely to attempt suicide in the past year than those whose pronouns are not respected, according to a new report from The Trevor Project”
www.advocate.com/exclusives/p...
www.advocate.com/exclusives/p...
Transgender and nonbinary youth whose pronouns are respected attempt suicide less: report
"It's about effort, and just attempting to be respectful and kind to people," lead author Steven Hobaica tells The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
More research showing a thing the GC movement wishes to deny trans people, in this case respecting their name and pronouns, is a thing that improves mental health and could prevent a death by suicide, yet still they persist.
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Importantly, this wouldn't have passed without Dem support. There was enough of a split within Republican ranks that if Dems had voted against the bill it would've been doa. Giving Trump a blank check to warmonger *and* passing an anti-trans measure was a choice.
115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.
December 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Importantly, this wouldn't have passed without Dem support. There was enough of a split within Republican ranks that if Dems had voted against the bill it would've been doa. Giving Trump a blank check to warmonger *and* passing an anti-trans measure was a choice.
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I think the only nice thing about the pandemic was seeing all the anti-vaxxers leave the healthcare field because their religious exemption got denied. That was nice.
Religious freedom doesn't mean shit when you're dead
December 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I think the only nice thing about the pandemic was seeing all the anti-vaxxers leave the healthcare field because their religious exemption got denied. That was nice.
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Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.
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Pre-authorizer, on the phone with Senator-patient:
"Sir, please upload the three competitive bids for your MRI."
"I'm having a stroke and need the imaging IMMEDIATELY"
"Sir, you voted for price shopping. This is your requirement.
Please upload three competitive bids for your MRI.
Good bye."
"Sir, please upload the three competitive bids for your MRI."
"I'm having a stroke and need the imaging IMMEDIATELY"
"Sir, you voted for price shopping. This is your requirement.
Please upload three competitive bids for your MRI.
Good bye."
December 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Pre-authorizer, on the phone with Senator-patient:
"Sir, please upload the three competitive bids for your MRI."
"I'm having a stroke and need the imaging IMMEDIATELY"
"Sir, you voted for price shopping. This is your requirement.
Please upload three competitive bids for your MRI.
Good bye."
"Sir, please upload the three competitive bids for your MRI."
"I'm having a stroke and need the imaging IMMEDIATELY"
"Sir, you voted for price shopping. This is your requirement.
Please upload three competitive bids for your MRI.
Good bye."
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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👇🎯 Again, a system of government in which the only way in real time to remove a lawless authoritarian executive is an extraordinary mechanism, requiring huge supermajorities, that has never been successfully used, & everyone rules out ex ante as poison, is not actually a functioning democracy.
There's a Hill bubble narrative, posing as savvy realism, in treating impeachment as some radioactive poison and so Democrats must squash any talk of it. But there's zero evidence for that. No polls back it up, nor recent history. It's all just pundit-brained conventional wisdom eating its own tail.
December 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
👇🎯 Again, a system of government in which the only way in real time to remove a lawless authoritarian executive is an extraordinary mechanism, requiring huge supermajorities, that has never been successfully used, & everyone rules out ex ante as poison, is not actually a functioning democracy.
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Roosevelt really fucked up by basically giving no plans for future foreign policy despite knowing he was dying (also wayyyy to credulous of Stalin)
the US letting the communists carry the banner of decolonization is maybe *the* geopolitical own goal of the cold war
Vietnam? yeah, totally. we dropped a bunch of bombs, killed a bunch of people, and it was totally pointless because we ended up allied with the government of communist Vietnam in the long term because Vietnam's biggest problem is always China
December 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Roosevelt really fucked up by basically giving no plans for future foreign policy despite knowing he was dying (also wayyyy to credulous of Stalin)
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You may realize that nightmarish visa requirements are bad for US tourism …
… but you may not realize that most visa policies are reciprocal.
The harder for foreigners to visit America, the harder for Americans to visit other countries.
This doubles as a trap that prevents Americans from leaving.
… but you may not realize that most visa policies are reciprocal.
The harder for foreigners to visit America, the harder for Americans to visit other countries.
This doubles as a trap that prevents Americans from leaving.
December 10, 2025 at 6:47 AM
You may realize that nightmarish visa requirements are bad for US tourism …
… but you may not realize that most visa policies are reciprocal.
The harder for foreigners to visit America, the harder for Americans to visit other countries.
This doubles as a trap that prevents Americans from leaving.
… but you may not realize that most visa policies are reciprocal.
The harder for foreigners to visit America, the harder for Americans to visit other countries.
This doubles as a trap that prevents Americans from leaving.
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jimmy fallon has a knack for embracing scams
December 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
jimmy fallon has a knack for embracing scams
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It is my hope that we don’t make the mistake again of not expanding SCOTUS.
December 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It is my hope that we don’t make the mistake again of not expanding SCOTUS.
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Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
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This is so absurd. Over the summer I sent a FOIA to Cincinnati PD for information about the cops who killed 18yo Ryan Hinton. TMK they’ve never ID’d the officers and used Marsy’s Law to deny producing names because some subset of them were “victims.”
Ohio Supreme Court rules cops can be considered victims under Marsy’s Law ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/05/o...
Ohio Supreme Court rules cops can be considered victims under Marsy's Law • Ohio Capital Journal
The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled police officers can be considered victims, and thus not subject to public disclosure, under Ohio’s Marsy’s Law privacy protections.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is so absurd. Over the summer I sent a FOIA to Cincinnati PD for information about the cops who killed 18yo Ryan Hinton. TMK they’ve never ID’d the officers and used Marsy’s Law to deny producing names because some subset of them were “victims.”
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.