Ethan
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born in 🇭🇰 | Too interested in US politics for my own good
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the next generation of liberal leaders are going to have to be of the "we have to make hard choices now so that our children will have easier choices when it's their turn" variety
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
the next generation of liberal leaders are going to have to be of the "we have to make hard choices now so that our children will have easier choices when it's their turn" variety
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
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They're just trolling! Calling a US born citizen an illegal because of his name and ancestry means nothing, don't worry about it!
“.. In the White House’s edit, a TikTok-style voiceover replaces Carpenter saying ‘hot’ with the word ‘illegal.’”
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December 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
They're just trolling! Calling a US born citizen an illegal because of his name and ancestry means nothing, don't worry about it!
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the Republican Party is going to get worse before it gets even worse*
*& it is going to continue to be bleak & wrenching to witness
*& it is going to continue to be bleak & wrenching to witness
it is somewhat bleak that the cordon sanitaire on the right seems to have totally evaporated. stephen crowder had fuentes on just a day ago
December 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
the Republican Party is going to get worse before it gets even worse*
*& it is going to continue to be bleak & wrenching to witness
*& it is going to continue to be bleak & wrenching to witness
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Can't wait to see the Supreme Court decide this is a totally legitimate way to administer the law that violates no rights
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Can't wait to see the Supreme Court decide this is a totally legitimate way to administer the law that violates no rights
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I've never heard of anyone not being moved by citizenship ceremonies. Depraved on a level that is genuinely alien
I’ve had the great joy of working in several offices where citizenship ceremonies were held and this is America leaving people at the altar
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I've never heard of anyone not being moved by citizenship ceremonies. Depraved on a level that is genuinely alien
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Saw a bumper sticker today that read "HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT POLITICAL", & I don't even know what to do with someone whose understanding of what politics is is so broken. Probably nothing because they're surely a reliable Dem voter but thank God I don't have to talk to them about it.
*taps mic*
Ahem
THE US MILITARY IS NOT APOLITICAL, IT IS NONPARTISAN. BY ITS VERY EXISTENCE IT IS POLITICAL.
Please disseminate to the highest levels because they still aren’t getting it
That is all. Carry on.
Ahem
THE US MILITARY IS NOT APOLITICAL, IT IS NONPARTISAN. BY ITS VERY EXISTENCE IT IS POLITICAL.
Please disseminate to the highest levels because they still aren’t getting it
That is all. Carry on.
December 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Saw a bumper sticker today that read "HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT POLITICAL", & I don't even know what to do with someone whose understanding of what politics is is so broken. Probably nothing because they're surely a reliable Dem voter but thank God I don't have to talk to them about it.
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I think the best parallel is the Iran-Iraq War. It’s a brutal slog between under equipped and exhausted conventional military forces that probably has no real bearing on how other contemporary conventional conflicts be will be fought.
Looking back through history, what war is most relevant for thinking about how the Ukraine war is going or a hypothetical Taiwan war? I’ve heard of people referring to the Ukraine War as “World War 1 with Blade Runner aesthetics” is that a fair characterization?
December 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I think the best parallel is the Iran-Iraq War. It’s a brutal slog between under equipped and exhausted conventional military forces that probably has no real bearing on how other contemporary conventional conflicts be will be fought.
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And then in 2031 the whole world unites to throw Putin out of Estonia?
I think the best parallel is the Iran-Iraq War. It’s a brutal slog between under equipped and exhausted conventional military forces that probably has no real bearing on how other contemporary conventional conflicts be will be fought.
Looking back through history, what war is most relevant for thinking about how the Ukraine war is going or a hypothetical Taiwan war? I’ve heard of people referring to the Ukraine War as “World War 1 with Blade Runner aesthetics” is that a fair characterization?
December 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
And then in 2031 the whole world unites to throw Putin out of Estonia?
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They genuinely don't have anything better to do. These are not people capable of great things. That she was so capable, that trans people can attain successes they must win with lies & slander, gnaws at them. Even when they win, for them it has no savor
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
They genuinely don't have anything better to do. These are not people capable of great things. That she was so capable, that trans people can attain successes they must win with lies & slander, gnaws at them. Even when they win, for them it has no savor
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they've just never had to work hard for anything, they've never had to fight for anything, they're never satisfied with their efforts, they've never had anything they wanted to fight *for*, they don't believe in anything or anyone, including themselves
December 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
they've just never had to work hard for anything, they've never had to fight for anything, they're never satisfied with their efforts, they've never had anything they wanted to fight *for*, they don't believe in anything or anyone, including themselves
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the young groyper republican is, like, excluding for income, the *textbook* example of a target for radicalization by basically every extremist group in human history, just a self-hating human-shaped vessel waiting to be filled up by the darkest thing that comes along
they've just never had to work hard for anything, they've never had to fight for anything, they're never satisfied with their efforts, they've never had anything they wanted to fight *for*, they don't believe in anything or anyone, including themselves
December 6, 2025 at 3:46 AM
the young groyper republican is, like, excluding for income, the *textbook* example of a target for radicalization by basically every extremist group in human history, just a self-hating human-shaped vessel waiting to be filled up by the darkest thing that comes along
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I truly loath the Claremonsters
December 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I truly loath the Claremonsters
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This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
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No
At some point we have to treat Republican governance as the war to be fought it is and not the natural disaster to be survived and picked up after we’ve been treating it as since 2008
At some point we have to treat Republican governance as the war to be fought it is and not the natural disaster to be survived and picked up after we’ve been treating it as since 2008
Is that really the priority? I can see one or two committees doing this, but frankly, fighting for restoration of health care etc. wherever we can might be a bigger priority.
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
No
At some point we have to treat Republican governance as the war to be fought it is and not the natural disaster to be survived and picked up after we’ve been treating it as since 2008
At some point we have to treat Republican governance as the war to be fought it is and not the natural disaster to be survived and picked up after we’ve been treating it as since 2008
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here's today's post: "piss-baby president shits his name all over yet another building" — the little horror gets a fake peace prize, too.
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piss-baby president shits his name all over yet another building
the little horror gets a fake peace prize, too
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December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
here's today's post: "piss-baby president shits his name all over yet another building" — the little horror gets a fake peace prize, too.
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calling my shot way in advance: election certification day, 2029, is going to see the largest no kings protest yet, with more than a million people in the streets of dc alone
just a message: no fucking funny business.
just a message: no fucking funny business.
December 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
calling my shot way in advance: election certification day, 2029, is going to see the largest no kings protest yet, with more than a million people in the streets of dc alone
just a message: no fucking funny business.
just a message: no fucking funny business.
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If you went back in time and told Gordon Brown's government that "In 2025, Bill Kristol will be to the social left of the Labour Party currently in government", they'd think you'd gone mad
uncritical support to Comrade Kristol
December 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
If you went back in time and told Gordon Brown's government that "In 2025, Bill Kristol will be to the social left of the Labour Party currently in government", they'd think you'd gone mad
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One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.
"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.
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trust should follow evidence and use, not precede it. and i think, basically, a lot of tech optimism is positioned against good scientific practice by presuming high trust and good outcomes before there's any evidence. this is always going to put good scientists in tension with technologists
December 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
trust should follow evidence and use, not precede it. and i think, basically, a lot of tech optimism is positioned against good scientific practice by presuming high trust and good outcomes before there's any evidence. this is always going to put good scientists in tension with technologists
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simone weil, who was near-blind, autistic, a pacifist, incapable of almost any physical activity, and actively in the process of dying during world war ii somehow found a way to try to join the french reisstance
I do not post this to dunk but to underline: Woke 2 is going to require actual civic engagement from people whose primary pursuit is competitive demonstrations of incapability and insecurity. It's going to be a lot more about rebuilding a functioning social order than catering to crybully types.
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
simone weil, who was near-blind, autistic, a pacifist, incapable of almost any physical activity, and actively in the process of dying during world war ii somehow found a way to try to join the french reisstance
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every time I think about the Trump administration, my only reaction is rage and desire for justice against the leaders of this despicable movement
a house held by the democratic party may not be able to legally order people to go to prison, but they can sure run wall to wall hearings every day of 2027 demonstrating why these people *should* go to prison
December 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
every time I think about the Trump administration, my only reaction is rage and desire for justice against the leaders of this despicable movement
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I do not post this to dunk but to underline: Woke 2 is going to require actual civic engagement from people whose primary pursuit is competitive demonstrations of incapability and insecurity. It's going to be a lot more about rebuilding a functioning social order than catering to crybully types.
December 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I do not post this to dunk but to underline: Woke 2 is going to require actual civic engagement from people whose primary pursuit is competitive demonstrations of incapability and insecurity. It's going to be a lot more about rebuilding a functioning social order than catering to crybully types.
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THESE PEOPLE ARE FILTH
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
THESE PEOPLE ARE FILTH