Nayr
@nayrgeno.bsky.social
Still a little toy robot head.
he/him
he/him
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It's also insane that Abundance Bros like @mattyglesias.bsky.social pretend to support "state capacity" while for decades inveighing against government employees and their unions.
Without a professional and empowered civil service we're all screwed.
Without a professional and empowered civil service we're all screwed.
December 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It's also insane that Abundance Bros like @mattyglesias.bsky.social pretend to support "state capacity" while for decades inveighing against government employees and their unions.
Without a professional and empowered civil service we're all screwed.
Without a professional and empowered civil service we're all screwed.
I'm a simple man with simple desires, like being able to exchange money for goods and services* without having to give my phone number, open a link, download an app, etc
(*specifically right now getting my car back from the hotel parking)
(*specifically right now getting my car back from the hotel parking)
December 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I'm a simple man with simple desires, like being able to exchange money for goods and services* without having to give my phone number, open a link, download an app, etc
(*specifically right now getting my car back from the hotel parking)
(*specifically right now getting my car back from the hotel parking)
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We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025
While the outcome should be clear from the plain text of the Constitution, the central project of this court and Administration, together, is to nullify the reconstruction amendments
The Supreme Court Friday agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump can unilaterally limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually every person born in the United States. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025
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Wow it’s almost like the pseudoscience founded by a quack in the 19h century (who claimed that a ghost taught him how to manipulate bones) might have a lot in common with the brainworms-and-raw milk crowd.
How Chiropractors Became the Backbone of MAHA
Why they love Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and he loves them.
www.politico.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Wow it’s almost like the pseudoscience founded by a quack in the 19h century (who claimed that a ghost taught him how to manipulate bones) might have a lot in common with the brainworms-and-raw milk crowd.
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it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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Disneyland once had a “Wizard of Bras”...
December 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Disneyland once had a “Wizard of Bras”...
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I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
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he had that shit on
December 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
he had that shit on
Over did it slightly with the Thai chilies in dinner tonight and now everything is suddenly so loud.
And tingles.
And tingles.
December 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Over did it slightly with the Thai chilies in dinner tonight and now everything is suddenly so loud.
And tingles.
And tingles.
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The current Supreme Court has forfeited all legitimacy.
Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.
John Roberts > Roger Taney.
Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.
John Roberts > Roger Taney.
Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The current Supreme Court has forfeited all legitimacy.
Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.
John Roberts > Roger Taney.
Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.
John Roberts > Roger Taney.
Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
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Hey, hey, RFK
How many kids did you kill today?
How many kids did you kill today?
December 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Hey, hey, RFK
How many kids did you kill today?
How many kids did you kill today?
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2000: measles declared eradicated in the U.S.
2025: measles surging in the Americas; U.S. expected to lose measles-free certification next month and is a harbinger of things to come
[discussion of polio and diphtheria follows]
🧪 #medsky
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
2025: measles surging in the Americas; U.S. expected to lose measles-free certification next month and is a harbinger of things to come
[discussion of polio and diphtheria follows]
🧪 #medsky
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Measles resurgence a herald of other infectious disease waves, WHO warns
A global resurgence of measles is a “fire alarm” for further waves of other infectious diseases such as diphtheria and polio, a senior health official has said.
The remarks came at the launch of the ...
www.bmj.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
2000: measles declared eradicated in the U.S.
2025: measles surging in the Americas; U.S. expected to lose measles-free certification next month and is a harbinger of things to come
[discussion of polio and diphtheria follows]
🧪 #medsky
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
2025: measles surging in the Americas; U.S. expected to lose measles-free certification next month and is a harbinger of things to come
[discussion of polio and diphtheria follows]
🧪 #medsky
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.
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Exactly. It's disingenuous to call it a purity test to say "You shouldn't be beholden to right-wing billionaires pushing right-wing policies and right-wing candidates."
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
No, Progressives Don’t Want “Purity.” They Just Want Some Courage.
When left-leaning Democrats complain about corporate influence, it’s not a “purity test.” It’s a demand for a better politics.
newrepublic.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Exactly. It's disingenuous to call it a purity test to say "You shouldn't be beholden to right-wing billionaires pushing right-wing policies and right-wing candidates."
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
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This is obviously total thuggery, but, in my limited capacity as a short-lived former letter carrier for USPS: it is also a completely empty bluff. Fucking good luck to Amazon doing last mile delivery to every address in the US.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
This is obviously total thuggery, but, in my limited capacity as a short-lived former letter carrier for USPS: it is also a completely empty bluff. Fucking good luck to Amazon doing last mile delivery to every address in the US.
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We absolutely do not need an animated cat in the hat movie, what we do need though is a sequel to the original where Dakota Fanning is a Weyland-Yutani robot strapped to the back of Mike Myers's Cat in the Hat.
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We absolutely do not need an animated cat in the hat movie, what we do need though is a sequel to the original where Dakota Fanning is a Weyland-Yutani robot strapped to the back of Mike Myers's Cat in the Hat.
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Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
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I’m a station wagon expert. The problem isn’t whatever nonsense the Secretary of Road Rules Real World Challenge is saying. The problem is Subaru deciding the most popular wagon in history should actually look like a Ford 150 had a baby with a Jeep Cherokee for no fucking reason
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I’m a station wagon expert. The problem isn’t whatever nonsense the Secretary of Road Rules Real World Challenge is saying. The problem is Subaru deciding the most popular wagon in history should actually look like a Ford 150 had a baby with a Jeep Cherokee for no fucking reason
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Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![Texas is not on “the eve of an election,” as was true in the
case the majority cites. Republican National Committee v.
Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 (2020)
(per curiam); see ante, at 2. The election there was five days
after the injunction. Similarly, the election in Purcell was
“just weeks” away. 549 U. S., at 4. Here, Election Day is
eleven months from now. Even the primary election (which
Texas could change) is in March. The District Court care-
fully listed the various “election preparations” underway to
switch to the 2025 map. App. 144. On the other hand, the
court noted how the 2021 map—which the injunction rein-
stated—was, in a real sense, the status quo. See id., at 145.
Officials, candidates, and voters are all familiar with it from
the last two election cycles. Until late last summer, every-
one expected that map to govern 2026 too. And indeed, it
will be used in a special runoff election in the State’s largest
county on January 31, 2026. So, the District Court properly
concluded, “[a]n injunction in this case would not cause sig-
nificant disruption.” Id., at 144. Except to the extent all of
us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congres-
sional election is not well underway.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpna2qi2e44fafbhhtqjak3x/bafkreifzzrhpyftoam4b4eqcpdcegf2hksn4ula6rwbtv6fqwviqfgikte@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
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rian johnson talking about his religious upbringing and how deeply he believed has really made the last jedi click into place as a personal film about a priest having a crisis of faith.
Had a great conversation with @rianjohnson.bsky.social about how his religious upbringing influenced Wake Up Dead Man, Daniel Craig recommending Josh O'Connor, Glen Close's already underrated performance, and much more
Rian Johnson's Explains How His Religious Upbringing Inspired 'Wake Up Dead Man'
Rian Johnson reveals that Daniel Craig turned him on to Josh O'Connor and why the Knives Out movies are intentionally not timeless
theplaylist.net
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
rian johnson talking about his religious upbringing and how deeply he believed has really made the last jedi click into place as a personal film about a priest having a crisis of faith.
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the biggest lie in american politics, probably only second to bush lying us into iraq, has been democrats constantly telling us "we just can't..." only to watch republicans do whatever the fuck they want over and over and over. makes me sick.
December 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
the biggest lie in american politics, probably only second to bush lying us into iraq, has been democrats constantly telling us "we just can't..." only to watch republicans do whatever the fuck they want over and over and over. makes me sick.
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rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.