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Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times,
up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny
also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street
up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny
also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street
January 24, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times,
up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny
also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street
up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny
also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street
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The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.
January 7, 2026 at 1:41 AM
The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.
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Six reasons why Trump’s attack on Venezuela was very wrong:
January 5, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Six reasons why Trump’s attack on Venezuela was very wrong:
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Racism and sexism are when the black lady tells you exactly what the white guy psycho is going to do and the white guy psycho ALSO tells you exactly what he is going to do and you decide the woman is lying and the man is just joking.
April 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Racism and sexism are when the black lady tells you exactly what the white guy psycho is going to do and the white guy psycho ALSO tells you exactly what he is going to do and you decide the woman is lying and the man is just joking.
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The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab
The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro
January 3, 2026 at 5:51 PM
The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab
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“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of
The Alarmingly Racist History of the Supreme Court’s Canceled 1947 Christmas Party
The Court held its first-ever office Christmas party in 1946. The following year, the clerks suggested inviting Black employees. It did not go over well.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of
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US bailing out the Argentine peso, bombing Colombians, plotting regime change in Venezuela and expropriation of the Panama canal, beefing with Brazilian exporters, destroying its own supply chains in Mexico, disappearing American Latinos into Salvadoran concentration camps
October 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
US bailing out the Argentine peso, bombing Colombians, plotting regime change in Venezuela and expropriation of the Panama canal, beefing with Brazilian exporters, destroying its own supply chains in Mexico, disappearing American Latinos into Salvadoran concentration camps
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the basic story here is simple: just over a decade ago the media frantically covered a story about the Obama IRS targeting conservatives. now, it looks like the Trump administration is doing everything conservatives pretended Obama was, and it's a non-story.
October 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
the basic story here is simple: just over a decade ago the media frantically covered a story about the Obama IRS targeting conservatives. now, it looks like the Trump administration is doing everything conservatives pretended Obama was, and it's a non-story.
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The Atlantic—one of the most prolific corporate media outlets in America—attacked me, my values, & my advocacy. And they got most everything wrong.
Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...
Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...
Journalism Without Justice: Jonathan Chait & the Collapse of Media Integrity
From Iraq to Trump to Gaza, America’s pundit class has perfected the art of being wrong and profiting from it. It’s long past time we hold them accountable.
www.qasimrashid.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The Atlantic—one of the most prolific corporate media outlets in America—attacked me, my values, & my advocacy. And they got most everything wrong.
Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...
Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...
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This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left.
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...
How a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&M
Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say the move was politically motivated.
www.texastribune.org
September 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left.
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...
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Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.
September 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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I’m really sick of the courts finding this administration broke the law in some unprecedented way, but they get to keep doing illegal things for a few months as a little treat. They’re defaulting to rewarding lawbreaking.
The ruling, however, doesn’t take effect immediately. The court withheld the mandate for its decision until *Oct. 14*
August 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I’m really sick of the courts finding this administration broke the law in some unprecedented way, but they get to keep doing illegal things for a few months as a little treat. They’re defaulting to rewarding lawbreaking.
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Every group underrepresented in academia is underrepresented because that group is statistically less likely to be qualified for professorship. Except for conservatives, who are the victims of unseen systemic bias in hiring.
The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
April 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Every group underrepresented in academia is underrepresented because that group is statistically less likely to be qualified for professorship. Except for conservatives, who are the victims of unseen systemic bias in hiring.
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this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd
April 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.
March 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.
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One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
March 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
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American civil service workers dedicate their careers to serving their country, many of them foregoing more lucrative opportunities. Likening them to Nazis is part of the needless cruelty that will produce a vengeful backlash
March 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
American civil service workers dedicate their careers to serving their country, many of them foregoing more lucrative opportunities. Likening them to Nazis is part of the needless cruelty that will produce a vengeful backlash
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Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva has died. That's two House Democrats this year who have died in office this year - Grijalva and Turner, both of whom were battling cancer in 2024 and ran anyway.
March 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva has died. That's two House Democrats this year who have died in office this year - Grijalva and Turner, both of whom were battling cancer in 2024 and ran anyway.
Newsom will own him.
March 12, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Newsom will own him.