Carthaged
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Delenda Est, but with exhausted characteristics. Trying to be normal
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there's something objectively hilarious about 'ADHD Activists' like mate have you met ADHD types that's usually the whole problem
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 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
there's something objectively hilarious about 'ADHD Activists' like mate have you met ADHD types that's usually the whole problem
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I'm basically a single issue voter in the next presidential primary: whichever candidate will take court reform the most seriously. You won't be able to govern without it.
we are going to have to start writing laws with explicit addenda preemptively rebutting the most likely bad faith interpretations from future fedsoc hacks.
December 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I'm basically a single issue voter in the next presidential primary: whichever candidate will take court reform the most seriously. You won't be able to govern without it.
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Oh so now it's illegal to defend Suriname from the scourge of fentanyl
New: Alleged traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were not heading toward the US, Adm Bradley told lawmakers yesterday, per people briefed.
Instead they were heading to link up with another vessel that was bound for Suriname. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
Instead they were heading to link up with another vessel that was bound for Suriname. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers | CNN Politics
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east ...
www.cnn.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Oh so now it's illegal to defend Suriname from the scourge of fentanyl
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Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
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Lol, we don't have a bourgeois society.
We have one of petty financial aspiring lords.
Oh, if only we had a bourgeois democracy, and not a rentier gentry seeking to turn things into an aristocratic oligarchy.
We have one of petty financial aspiring lords.
Oh, if only we had a bourgeois democracy, and not a rentier gentry seeking to turn things into an aristocratic oligarchy.
December 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Lol, we don't have a bourgeois society.
We have one of petty financial aspiring lords.
Oh, if only we had a bourgeois democracy, and not a rentier gentry seeking to turn things into an aristocratic oligarchy.
We have one of petty financial aspiring lords.
Oh, if only we had a bourgeois democracy, and not a rentier gentry seeking to turn things into an aristocratic oligarchy.
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i’m sorry but you don’t get to pretend you’re just advocating for a return to the obama era version of politics while also arguing against birthright citizenship.
December 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
i’m sorry but you don’t get to pretend you’re just advocating for a return to the obama era version of politics while also arguing against birthright citizenship.
This is a lawyered sentence, and implies they’ve been trying to fire her for several days at minimum
December 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is a lawyered sentence, and implies they’ve been trying to fire her for several days at minimum
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the pmc is achieving self-consciousness as a world-historical class
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
the pmc is achieving self-consciousness as a world-historical class
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California's Prop 13 is faithful to the intentions of the Founders
(Partially because they were also really worried about maintaining the privileges of the landed upper class, without a titled aristocracy)
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
California's Prop 13 is faithful to the intentions of the Founders
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Founding Fathers: Democracy!
Also
Also
a man in a hospital gown is smiling with the words i 've made a huge mistake behind him
ALT: a man in a hospital gown is smiling with the words i 've made a huge mistake behind him
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Founding Fathers: Democracy!
Also
Also
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We're going to have to jam civilization and science down some people's throats.
December 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
We're going to have to jam civilization and science down some people's throats.
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this shit is just beyond parody, man
Yeah, they fed generations bullshit beginning in the 70s and by the 2000s and by hurricane Katrina Iraq and GFC were already thinking they’d maybe fucked up a little. But it was way too late. The idiot children they raised to believe fairy tales are today’s American gentry.
I buy the Cabaret theory of modern politics: current right wing politics was, once upon a time, a thing elites sold to rubes while merely pretending to believe themselves while they pursued wealth, but now the True Believers are actually in charge and acting on sincerely believed insane nonsense.
December 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Yeah, they fed generations bullshit beginning in the 70s and by the 2000s and by hurricane Katrina Iraq and GFC were already thinking they’d maybe fucked up a little. But it was way too late. The idiot children they raised to believe fairy tales are today’s American gentry.
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If they do, it's a 1 way cool zone ticket.
This is "consent of the governed" shit we're playing with.
Accepting the Texas map is already pretty damn risky.
Rejecting California's is just outright declaring your intent to make Taney look like a unifier.
This is "consent of the governed" shit we're playing with.
Accepting the Texas map is already pretty damn risky.
Rejecting California's is just outright declaring your intent to make Taney look like a unifier.
December 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If they do, it's a 1 way cool zone ticket.
This is "consent of the governed" shit we're playing with.
Accepting the Texas map is already pretty damn risky.
Rejecting California's is just outright declaring your intent to make Taney look like a unifier.
This is "consent of the governed" shit we're playing with.
Accepting the Texas map is already pretty damn risky.
Rejecting California's is just outright declaring your intent to make Taney look like a unifier.
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it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools
My experience as well. So far we're 2-for-2 on kids having a largely bullying/abuse-free middle school experience. Not without bumpy spots of course, but light years away from what I endured.
My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
for what it’s worth I got roped into helping out with my sixth grader’s extracurricular thing so I’ve had more recent contact with middle schoolers who aren’t mine than I usually do, and biased sample/biased reviewer/etc but my verdict is that the kids are all right
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools
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also we really slashed teen pregnancy and now the right is mad that we did.
December 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
also we really slashed teen pregnancy and now the right is mad that we did.
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I have been thinking and talking about Israel my whole life, and have taught about Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East since 2008, well before TikTok existed. I can attest that young Americans’ opinion of Israel has gotten more negative over that time, and the main reason is Israel’s actions.
Also apropos nothing else, public opinion was turning against Israel before TikTok went mainstream
December 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I have been thinking and talking about Israel my whole life, and have taught about Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East since 2008, well before TikTok existed. I can attest that young Americans’ opinion of Israel has gotten more negative over that time, and the main reason is Israel’s actions.
By swimming real good? And dragging the drugs behind them?
A top admiral is expected to tell lawmakers tomorrow that he and his legal adviser concluded that the two survivors of a boat strike in September were attempting to continue their drug run, making them and the damaged vessel legitimate targets for another attack.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive | Survivors of Boat Strike Were Actively Continuing Drug Mission, Admiral to Tell Lawmakers
Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley, the commander of the September attack, is set to provide an account of his role for the first time in a closed briefing.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
By swimming real good? And dragging the drugs behind them?
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when you dodge becoming the fall guy
December 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
when you dodge becoming the fall guy
That’s cool. Fuck Chuy Garcia, what he did was unamerican.
Former Latino Victory Fund executive director Mayra Macias is running as a Democratic-aligned independent one month after Rep. Chuy Garcia engineered his retirement to ensure that only his preferred candidate would be able to run in next year’s Democratic primary. #IL04
Mayra Macías to challenge Rep. Chuy García's handpicked successor
García, D-Ill., infuriated his party when he announced his retirement after the filing deadline, leaving his chief of staff as the only one running for the Democratic nomination.
www.nbcnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
That’s cool. Fuck Chuy Garcia, what he did was unamerican.
“unitary exec theory - but for good” is going to be a persistent feature of discourse for the next three years. People are going to put their mental energy into imagining a democratic administration that uses the current Presidential tool kit. They are not going to plan for it being 2012 again.
Again (and realizing this should really be a blog) I'm sympathetic and consider myself part of Dunkleman's project of making democratic governments responsive and functional. But you can't hand wave the accountability stuff. The argument can't be a "unitary exec theory - but for good!"
December 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
“unitary exec theory - but for good” is going to be a persistent feature of discourse for the next three years. People are going to put their mental energy into imagining a democratic administration that uses the current Presidential tool kit. They are not going to plan for it being 2012 again.
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I'm a smart dude with ADHD. I spent my entire academic career being told that I didn't need the accommodations I had and that I was just taking advantage of the system.
So here's my response: fuck off. All the way off. And then keep going. Y'all aren't in my brain, and you don't want none of this.
So here's my response: fuck off. All the way off. And then keep going. Y'all aren't in my brain, and you don't want none of this.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I'm a smart dude with ADHD. I spent my entire academic career being told that I didn't need the accommodations I had and that I was just taking advantage of the system.
So here's my response: fuck off. All the way off. And then keep going. Y'all aren't in my brain, and you don't want none of this.
So here's my response: fuck off. All the way off. And then keep going. Y'all aren't in my brain, and you don't want none of this.
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they view themselves as a sort of wise-guy bridge-and-tunnel my-father-works-in-sanitation aristocracy. contemptible but also really, really funny sometimes
December 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
they view themselves as a sort of wise-guy bridge-and-tunnel my-father-works-in-sanitation aristocracy. contemptible but also really, really funny sometimes
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Critical support to comrade paul
Rand Paul: "Secretary Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen. It was fake news. It didn't happen. And then the next day, from the podium of the WH, they're saying it did happen. So either he was lying to us on Sunday or he's incompetent and didn't know what had happened."
December 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Critical support to comrade paul
The crash out of the last decade isn’t not because the divorced dads of America decided that Hillary Clinton was the manifestation of their greatest fears: HR and Family Court Judges.
this genuinely is a political movement of divorced dads who are mad that their families won't talk to them and think they can solve that problem by yelling at them more during the next custody hearing
December 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The crash out of the last decade isn’t not because the divorced dads of America decided that Hillary Clinton was the manifestation of their greatest fears: HR and Family Court Judges.