Partisan
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Jewish YIMBY.
Whatever the opposite of an enlightened centrist is.
Citizen of the Greatest Nation in This or Any Age (Washington State).
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Whatever the opposite of an enlightened centrist is.
Citizen of the Greatest Nation in This or Any Age (Washington State).
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Too many self-proclaimed leftists think that they're 'too good' for revisionism in the same way that too many self-proclaimed centrists think that they're 'too good' for populism.
my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue
January 22, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Too many self-proclaimed leftists think that they're 'too good' for revisionism in the same way that too many self-proclaimed centrists think that they're 'too good' for populism.
Related take: We should absorb prosecutor and public defender back into one role, where attorneys have to regularly alternate between them.
It's a good thing 'juror' is not a career, and it's been a pretty obviously bad thing that 'judge' is.
one of my kinda more crank, unworkable ideas is that there are jobs where the people who self-select into them are not the people who you want & that maybe we should just sortition people into those roles. like there are some things that attract people to policing that you don't want in cops.
January 22, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Related take: We should absorb prosecutor and public defender back into one role, where attorneys have to regularly alternate between them.
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Every single decision about prosecuting Trump and holding him accountable has been made not with the objective of maximizing the odds of conviction and consequences, but minimizing the odds someone will say Dems are being political or targeting Trump. Consequently they failed utterly at both.
January 22, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Every single decision about prosecuting Trump and holding him accountable has been made not with the objective of maximizing the odds of conviction and consequences, but minimizing the odds someone will say Dems are being political or targeting Trump. Consequently they failed utterly at both.
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Hard agree. It’s just wrong! There’s a reason my community is full of Latino and Hmong and Somali people, and it’s because another America does exist and has existed. A free and welcoming America we can return to
I've said this before, but "america was always fascist" is simply not an effective messaging strategy for fighting an american fascist movement. you should not cede them control of the national identity! that's what they want!
People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.
January 22, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Hard agree. It’s just wrong! There’s a reason my community is full of Latino and Hmong and Somali people, and it’s because another America does exist and has existed. A free and welcoming America we can return to
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Democratic leadership is terrified of being seen on the side of the people of Minneapolis, least they lose the potential future support of pro-cop people whose support they do not and never will have.
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
January 22, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Democratic leadership is terrified of being seen on the side of the people of Minneapolis, least they lose the potential future support of pro-cop people whose support they do not and never will have.
It's a good thing 'juror' is not a career, and it's been a pretty obviously bad thing that 'judge' is.
one of my kinda more crank, unworkable ideas is that there are jobs where the people who self-select into them are not the people who you want & that maybe we should just sortition people into those roles. like there are some things that attract people to policing that you don't want in cops.
January 22, 2026 at 4:50 AM
It's a good thing 'juror' is not a career, and it's been a pretty obviously bad thing that 'judge' is.
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That Five-Year-Old Was No Angel
January 22, 2026 at 3:51 AM
That Five-Year-Old Was No Angel
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People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars
January 22, 2026 at 2:10 AM
People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars
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There is no redeeming this, no amount of training that can fix the rot at the heart of this institution. Any Democratic official that votes to give this agency a penny is betraying our country.
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:52 AM
There is no redeeming this, no amount of training that can fix the rot at the heart of this institution. Any Democratic official that votes to give this agency a penny is betraying our country.
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ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.
January 21, 2026 at 11:14 PM
ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
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Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
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this is actually a basic D&D problem: the game's 'economy' is still built on the notion that resting is limited and dangerous.
Really destroys the resource economy the game wants to have too; you can take too many long rests
January 21, 2026 at 9:48 PM
this is actually a basic D&D problem: the game's 'economy' is still built on the notion that resting is limited and dangerous.
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I really do think "caretaking" being fem-coded and growing to encompass like... basic civilizational upkeep... is somehow the key to all this. Paladin went from the most masc-coded to the most fem-coded class. IDK how to articulate this intelligently.
It does seem like femininity, while it was also somewhat fragmented along socioeconomic and ethnic/cultural lines, has fragmented yet further along ideological lines, and now it's a crap shoot
January 21, 2026 at 5:01 PM
I really do think "caretaking" being fem-coded and growing to encompass like... basic civilizational upkeep... is somehow the key to all this. Paladin went from the most masc-coded to the most fem-coded class. IDK how to articulate this intelligently.
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really wish we'd opted against having the worst people in the world run my country
Trump: "No nation is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the US. We're a great power. Much greater than people even understand. I think they found that out 2 weeks ago in Venezuela. We saw this in World War 2 when Denmark fell to Germany after just 6 hours of fighting."
January 21, 2026 at 2:12 PM
really wish we'd opted against having the worst people in the world run my country
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I don’t doubt your sincerity so I will be nice. I am not interested in “supporting Democrats” or “dragging them down.” I want to annihilate the monstrous out of control paramilitary that is terrorizing everyone I know. If Democrats are with me on this, I’m with them. If not, we’ll fight it alone.
January 21, 2026 at 3:38 AM
I don’t doubt your sincerity so I will be nice. I am not interested in “supporting Democrats” or “dragging them down.” I want to annihilate the monstrous out of control paramilitary that is terrorizing everyone I know. If Democrats are with me on this, I’m with them. If not, we’ll fight it alone.
So, like, this is totally because of zoning, right? Like we can all pretty easily see that the reason we didn't get [Cyberpunk] is because all Cyberpunk media takes place in dense cities, which we banned in the U.S., right? That's why we're not getting cheap street food and cool neon signs.
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 9:55 PM
So, like, this is totally because of zoning, right? Like we can all pretty easily see that the reason we didn't get [Cyberpunk] is because all Cyberpunk media takes place in dense cities, which we banned in the U.S., right? That's why we're not getting cheap street food and cool neon signs.
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no greenlander ever called me a libtard
January 20, 2026 at 8:18 PM
no greenlander ever called me a libtard
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i'm going to spend the rest of my life figuring out how a small band of elites decided that acting as the global currency and primary military hegemon was gay and feminine coded
BREAKING: Europe may begin selling U.S. assets in response to a new conflict with the US, a move that could trigger a dollar collapse, per Bloomberg.
January 20, 2026 at 6:18 PM
i'm going to spend the rest of my life figuring out how a small band of elites decided that acting as the global currency and primary military hegemon was gay and feminine coded
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“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
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Just as everyone predicted with the exception of Donald Trump, Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, and Kevin Hassett. The last 3 knew they’ve been lying, not sure with Orange Caligula because he’s a moron and a liar so in his case it could be either one or both.
January 20, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Just as everyone predicted with the exception of Donald Trump, Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, and Kevin Hassett. The last 3 knew they’ve been lying, not sure with Orange Caligula because he’s a moron and a liar so in his case it could be either one or both.
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If your church is run by an ICE field director you are not actually attending a church, you’re part of a cult.
January 20, 2026 at 1:38 AM
If your church is run by an ICE field director you are not actually attending a church, you’re part of a cult.
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German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had
removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews.
In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship.
Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.
removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews.
In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship.
Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.
January 19, 2026 at 10:22 PM
German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had
removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews.
In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship.
Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.
removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews.
In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship.
Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.
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Let's remember that MLK was assassinated while in Memphis supporting African American sanitation workers who were, despite CNN's weird definition, actually members of the working class.
January 19, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Let's remember that MLK was assassinated while in Memphis supporting African American sanitation workers who were, despite CNN's weird definition, actually members of the working class.
Jared Jackson (a Jew of color), 10 years ago:
"I used to love MLK weekend. Then I realized how many Ashkenazi Jewish communities take credit for a social justice heritage to which they are not currently contributing."
Good G-d.
forward.com/opinion/3302...
"I used to love MLK weekend. Then I realized how many Ashkenazi Jewish communities take credit for a social justice heritage to which they are not currently contributing."
Good G-d.
forward.com/opinion/3302...
Jewish Uses and Abuses of Martin Luther King's Memory
Four years ago, I made a promise to myself: I would not accept any more invitations to speak to the Jewish community on Martin Luther King weekend. Since then, I have dutifully kept that promise. But ...
forward.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Jared Jackson (a Jew of color), 10 years ago:
"I used to love MLK weekend. Then I realized how many Ashkenazi Jewish communities take credit for a social justice heritage to which they are not currently contributing."
Good G-d.
forward.com/opinion/3302...
"I used to love MLK weekend. Then I realized how many Ashkenazi Jewish communities take credit for a social justice heritage to which they are not currently contributing."
Good G-d.
forward.com/opinion/3302...