I am Patrick's Sports Angst
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Random explosions of gopher sports and shit posts. Pasquale rhymes with trolley.
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Is it the eve of an election or the middle of a primary campaign?
The word "eve" is doing a lot of work here in the Court's 'decision'
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Is it the eve of an election or the middle of a primary campaign?
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Kagan with more dispositive proof of Roberts Court Calvinball
December 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Kagan with more dispositive proof of Roberts Court Calvinball
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There’s just no choice anymore. There should be zero Republican House reps from blue states. None.
the democratic response to this must be, in the words of @dennycarter.bsky.social, to go goblin mode on redistricting in the states where they have a trifecta. eliminate every republican district in those states.
This isn't a Supreme Court, it's just six Republican operatives imposing law on the rest of us in order to help Trump and MAGA destroy the Constitution and impose authoritarian rule.
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
There’s just no choice anymore. There should be zero Republican House reps from blue states. None.
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Wow the reasoning is literally “the challengers couldn’t make a non-racially-gerrymandered map where Texas Republicans still netted 5 seats, so they lose”
December 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Wow the reasoning is literally “the challengers couldn’t make a non-racially-gerrymandered map where Texas Republicans still netted 5 seats, so they lose”
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Yep, the Supreme Court really is just a House of Lords—a purely political branch with bizarre veto power, wielded capriciously and without accountability. Time for massive reform.
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Yep, the Supreme Court really is just a House of Lords—a purely political branch with bizarre veto power, wielded capriciously and without accountability. Time for massive reform.
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“What’s your plan for the Court?” is the only question that matters for 2028 Democratic hopefuls, because if they don’t, the Republican Super Legislature is hatcheting their agenda before it can get off the ground.
December 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“What’s your plan for the Court?” is the only question that matters for 2028 Democratic hopefuls, because if they don’t, the Republican Super Legislature is hatcheting their agenda before it can get off the ground.
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2/ As long as this short post is getting some attn, here I explain why there is no saving the American Republic without reforming the Court and breaking the hold of the corrupt six Republican appointees. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
The Status Interview—Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List
Over the last couple days I’ve argued both that the denouement of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
2/ As long as this short post is getting some attn, here I explain why there is no saving the American Republic without reforming the Court and breaking the hold of the corrupt six Republican appointees. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
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What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?
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The Supreme Court sided with this dissent:
Um.... This is an actual judicial opinion (dissenting in the TX gerrymandering case)
December 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Supreme Court sided with this dissent:
Blew up the context window in cursor chat tonight so I'm going to maybe take a break
Robot go brrrrrr cough choke ack
Robot go brrrrrr cough choke ack
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Blew up the context window in cursor chat tonight so I'm going to maybe take a break
Robot go brrrrrr cough choke ack
Robot go brrrrrr cough choke ack
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just to drive home the point. Texas created this map in August. the lower court rendered its decision November. So three months later, a year before the election in question.
The word "eve" is doing a lot of work here in the Court's 'decision'
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
just to drive home the point. Texas created this map in August. the lower court rendered its decision November. So three months later, a year before the election in question.
We definitely need a reckoning with the fact that this court had been rogue for half a decade and serious work needs to be done to unfuck things
December 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
We definitely need a reckoning with the fact that this court had been rogue for half a decade and serious work needs to be done to unfuck things
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The constitution is colorblind unless you want to discriminate against nonwhites. Then it’s fine apnews.com/article/supr...
Supreme Court allows Texas to use a congressional map favorable to Republicans in 2026
The Supreme Court is allowing the challenged Texas congressional redistricting plan to be used in next year’s election, despite a lower-court ruling that the map likely discriminates on the basis of r...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The constitution is colorblind unless you want to discriminate against nonwhites. Then it’s fine apnews.com/article/supr...
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This isn't a Supreme Court, it's just six Republican operatives imposing law on the rest of us in order to help Trump and MAGA destroy the Constitution and impose authoritarian rule.
BREAKING: Supreme Court sides with Texas Republicans in fight over congressional map. The new gerrymandered map will be used in the 2026 midterms. The vote is 6–3, with the Republican appointees siding with Texas.
December 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This isn't a Supreme Court, it's just six Republican operatives imposing law on the rest of us in order to help Trump and MAGA destroy the Constitution and impose authoritarian rule.
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Playing Halo 5 for the heck of it and laughing again at this clip of a conversation on the plural of mongoose
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Playing Halo 5 for the heck of it and laughing again at this clip of a conversation on the plural of mongoose
Wasps are fuckin wild man
losing my mind at the 25% of GOP voters who think most Italian Americans are "more loyal to a foreign country than to the United States."
December 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Wasps are fuckin wild man
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HBO Max putting out a remastered version of this post where you can see the friends
December 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
HBO Max putting out a remastered version of this post where you can see the friends
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I mean JFC, he's framing Gallego's thing as some bold break from previous Dem policy when the bulk of it is literally *reinstating elements of IRA that Republicans killed*. Literally re-instating Dem policy!
So much horseshit attending the "abundance" push.
So much horseshit attending the "abundance" push.
December 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I mean JFC, he's framing Gallego's thing as some bold break from previous Dem policy when the bulk of it is literally *reinstating elements of IRA that Republicans killed*. Literally re-instating Dem policy!
So much horseshit attending the "abundance" push.
So much horseshit attending the "abundance" push.
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it's not the most important issue right now but I would *really* like to see Democrats who want to be president announcing in no uncertain terms that anything this goober manages to carve his name on, it comes off. anything he builds, it gets torn down.
Trump: "There's a big event on Friday at the Trump-Kennedy Center-- op -- excuse me, at the Kennedy Center"
December 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
it's not the most important issue right now but I would *really* like to see Democrats who want to be president announcing in no uncertain terms that anything this goober manages to carve his name on, it comes off. anything he builds, it gets torn down.
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i have opinions about whether you should be allowed to smoke weed and have a security clearance but it makes me angry that everyone in silicon valley with a clearance is constantly geeked on a technically legal research chemical used to deice soviet hovercraft skirts
He’s just jazzed about the possibility of quantum data layers.
They’re calling him the world’s most sober man:
December 4, 2025 at 7:03 AM
i have opinions about whether you should be allowed to smoke weed and have a security clearance but it makes me angry that everyone in silicon valley with a clearance is constantly geeked on a technically legal research chemical used to deice soviet hovercraft skirts
Had a dream the basketball team beat Indiana for the first time since 2019.
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Had a dream the basketball team beat Indiana for the first time since 2019.
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Media still has this issue where they can never call someone racist unless you can magically detect their thoughts and confirm that they do in fact believe the things they say they believe. Otherwise it’s just sparkling racially tinged
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Media still has this issue where they can never call someone racist unless you can magically detect their thoughts and confirm that they do in fact believe the things they say they believe. Otherwise it’s just sparkling racially tinged
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The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison
11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison
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Hegseth: Actually, I said "Kill them all? No, survivors!"
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Hegseth: Actually, I said "Kill them all? No, survivors!"