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A judge who is only allowed to rule one way
This, too, is outrageous -- firing an immigration judge because he granted asylum to six people. Trump's folks have made clear they want "deportation judges." Just rejecting any semblance of due process. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US army lawyer fired as immigration judge after defying Trump deportation agenda
Christopher Day was fired barely a month into the job after granting asylum to migrants at a high rate
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A judge who is only allowed to rule one way
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imo the actual threat to capital-A America is not the Trump administration but that the Trump administration's behaviors will not be disincentivized enough
flip-flopping back and forth between breaking things and fixing things every 4-8 years means eventually it'll stay broken
flip-flopping back and forth between breaking things and fixing things every 4-8 years means eventually it'll stay broken
Stuff like this will obviously be very easy to undo and clearly will be undone, like it would be totally non-controversial even with the most milquetoast new Dem POTUS you could imagine, but it is genuinely just Not Good when even the basic names of institutions start ping ponging every 4-8 years
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
December 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
imo the actual threat to capital-A America is not the Trump administration but that the Trump administration's behaviors will not be disincentivized enough
flip-flopping back and forth between breaking things and fixing things every 4-8 years means eventually it'll stay broken
flip-flopping back and forth between breaking things and fixing things every 4-8 years means eventually it'll stay broken
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LOL - Senate (and House) Republicans are ending their "probe" into Hegseth's boat strikes after they got Schumer, Durbin and majority of the Senate Democratic Caucus to vote for a $900 billon defense authorization bill for Trump/Hegseth.
December 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
LOL - Senate (and House) Republicans are ending their "probe" into Hegseth's boat strikes after they got Schumer, Durbin and majority of the Senate Democratic Caucus to vote for a $900 billon defense authorization bill for Trump/Hegseth.
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Yeah this all sounds about right
December 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Yeah this all sounds about right
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Carr's entire testimony yesterday focused around now suddenly claiming that the FCC ISN'T independent and serves entirely at the whims of our mad idiot king. This was so important to them that they CHANGED THE FCC WEBSITE DURING HIS TESTIMONY to prop up his lie and pivot:
December 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Carr's entire testimony yesterday focused around now suddenly claiming that the FCC ISN'T independent and serves entirely at the whims of our mad idiot king. This was so important to them that they CHANGED THE FCC WEBSITE DURING HIS TESTIMONY to prop up his lie and pivot:
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insane
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
insane
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Simply getting the state to socialize all that risk is not an alternative to substantially reducing the risk. If you do the former without the latter, you're basically hamstringing the state and penalizing low-income Californians who live outside the WUI.
This is what passes for progressivism and climate policy in California. Jane Kim’s answer for elevated fire risk and actuarial risk? Put it on the public dime. Urban renters should bail out well to do exurban property owners and landlords in fire zones. FAIR plan is already a ticking time bomb!
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Simply getting the state to socialize all that risk is not an alternative to substantially reducing the risk. If you do the former without the latter, you're basically hamstringing the state and penalizing low-income Californians who live outside the WUI.
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Why should other countries sign deals with the United States when this president is breaking **his own deals** after less than 6 months?
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
US suspends technology deal with Britain, FT reports
The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck with Britain earlier this year, which was intended to boost ties in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy, the...
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Why should other countries sign deals with the United States when this president is breaking **his own deals** after less than 6 months?
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Still always in awe of how many apartments Canada builds compared to the US
In the most recent data, the US permitted 35k multifamily housing units and Canada permitted 24k despite being only 12% of the US population! If California built 5x as many apartments, it still would trail Canada!
In the most recent data, the US permitted 35k multifamily housing units and Canada permitted 24k despite being only 12% of the US population! If California built 5x as many apartments, it still would trail Canada!
December 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Still always in awe of how many apartments Canada builds compared to the US
In the most recent data, the US permitted 35k multifamily housing units and Canada permitted 24k despite being only 12% of the US population! If California built 5x as many apartments, it still would trail Canada!
In the most recent data, the US permitted 35k multifamily housing units and Canada permitted 24k despite being only 12% of the US population! If California built 5x as many apartments, it still would trail Canada!
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The death toll at Srebrenica was about 8,400. At Katyn, about 22,000. At Babi Yar, about 34,000.
Add those together and you've just barely cracked the low-end estimate of the death toll at El Fasher.
Add those together and you've just barely cracked the low-end estimate of the death toll at El Fasher.
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The death toll at Srebrenica was about 8,400. At Katyn, about 22,000. At Babi Yar, about 34,000.
Add those together and you've just barely cracked the low-end estimate of the death toll at El Fasher.
Add those together and you've just barely cracked the low-end estimate of the death toll at El Fasher.
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Wario World is out on GameCube Nintendo Classics - NSO www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaPq...
December 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Wario World is out on GameCube Nintendo Classics - NSO www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaPq...
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Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
Federal agents are arresting American citizens.
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
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This *is* the worst case scenario, and we're only ten months into it. We cannot let the rest of it happen, but I don't know how.
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This *is* the worst case scenario, and we're only ten months into it. We cannot let the rest of it happen, but I don't know how.
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Ngl its actually batshit insane that we’re just killing the pivot to Asia to refocus efforts on adventurism in Latin America.
We really are retvrning to despotic sphere of influence politics, lmfao
We really are retvrning to despotic sphere of influence politics, lmfao
December 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ngl its actually batshit insane that we’re just killing the pivot to Asia to refocus efforts on adventurism in Latin America.
We really are retvrning to despotic sphere of influence politics, lmfao
We really are retvrning to despotic sphere of influence politics, lmfao
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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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This case is not cert-worthy. This is a bad sign.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to take up a challenge to President Trump's January 20 birthright citizenship executive order.
The court will hear DOJ's appeal of a loss below in a class-action challenge brought in the wake of June's decision limiting universal injunctions.
The court will hear DOJ's appeal of a loss below in a class-action challenge brought in the wake of June's decision limiting universal injunctions.
December 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This case is not cert-worthy. This is a bad sign.
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To put that into yet more perspective: In the chart below, the purple area is too early (the law does not exist) and the red part is too late (the Supreme Court's newest Purcell principle). The pink bit is both too early and too late. The green part is when you should sue.
December 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
To put that into yet more perspective: In the chart below, the purple area is too early (the law does not exist) and the red part is too late (the Supreme Court's newest Purcell principle). The pink bit is both too early and too late. The green part is when you should sue.
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My brother in Christ, reindustrialization is based on international capital flows, not dumbass ideas to move down the value chain by turning colleges into vocational schools. You do realize that modern industry is almost always *high* skilled automation?
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
No reindustrialising? Our academic institutions are a part of the problem, overproducing elites and funnelling them into bullshit unproductive jobs. Half the universities need to close or become vocational colleges. You didn't even mention productivity.
Brexit is in the past. That ship has sailed.
Brexit is in the past. That ship has sailed.
Well, for one, the UK has a highly competitive higher education sector that is closely tied to innovation, and yet the past set of governments don't value academic institutions as value producers.
The other part is leaving the EU has basically damaged the British ability to trade goods...
The other part is leaving the EU has basically damaged the British ability to trade goods...
December 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My brother in Christ, reindustrialization is based on international capital flows, not dumbass ideas to move down the value chain by turning colleges into vocational schools. You do realize that modern industry is almost always *high* skilled automation?
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
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Trump Administration sees its chief foreign policy role as the backer of the far right international, all foreign policy bends to that aim.
The antidote cannot be pursuing far-right policy in half-measures like Starmer is or Biden did on Israel & the border. Internationalist solidarity or barbarism
The antidote cannot be pursuing far-right policy in half-measures like Starmer is or Biden did on Israel & the border. Internationalist solidarity or barbarism
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Trump Administration sees its chief foreign policy role as the backer of the far right international, all foreign policy bends to that aim.
The antidote cannot be pursuing far-right policy in half-measures like Starmer is or Biden did on Israel & the border. Internationalist solidarity or barbarism
The antidote cannot be pursuing far-right policy in half-measures like Starmer is or Biden did on Israel & the border. Internationalist solidarity or barbarism
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They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
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Researchers tested several ways to train the AI chatbots to persuade people. The most effective tactic turned out not to be pyschological manipulation, but simply addressing voters' concerns one-by-one by presenting a ton of factual claims.
Troublingly, that worked even when the claims were false.
Troublingly, that worked even when the claims were false.
December 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Researchers tested several ways to train the AI chatbots to persuade people. The most effective tactic turned out not to be pyschological manipulation, but simply addressing voters' concerns one-by-one by presenting a ton of factual claims.
Troublingly, that worked even when the claims were false.
Troublingly, that worked even when the claims were false.
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Yeah, cons all think that all government spending is teaching crawfish critical race theory while libs all think it’s all military spending (or “corporate welfare”). Never the actual main drivers (taking care of old people)
December 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Yeah, cons all think that all government spending is teaching crawfish critical race theory while libs all think it’s all military spending (or “corporate welfare”). Never the actual main drivers (taking care of old people)
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Also the Dems have pushing for war powers resolutions quite frequently www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US lawmakers want war powers vote after Trump pledges Venezuela attack 'soon'
A group of Democratic and Republican U.S. senators filed a resolution on Wednesday that would block U.S. military action against Venezuela without congressional approval, after President Donald Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Also the Dems have pushing for war powers resolutions quite frequently www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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fukuyama predicted this
The Anglophone world getting so bored out of its mind it entered a self-inflicted death spiral is one of those "stop, get me off this ride" realizations
December 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
fukuyama predicted this