Jess Dawn
@jessdawn9.bsky.social
29. CA. Lesbian (privileged to not prioritize men and their opinions 🙌🏼)
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“People are not adults and should not be held to adult standards” is starting to feel like the endgame of 21st century American culture.
Still laughing at this. Cannot imagine a more self-discrediting argument for socialism than “under socialism, you should be able to gesture to your crotch, tell a customer to suck it and keep your job”.
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
December 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“People are not adults and should not be held to adult standards” is starting to feel like the endgame of 21st century American culture.
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & @gavinnewsom.bsky.social enjoyed the podcast. Bummer to harp on a neg. point when I mostly enjoyed & changed my perspective on you governor, but your comment on trans rights threatening others’ rights was rough. Hope u can phrase this differently as to not enforce 0 sum
December 12, 2025 at 5:52 AM
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & @gavinnewsom.bsky.social enjoyed the podcast. Bummer to harp on a neg. point when I mostly enjoyed & changed my perspective on you governor, but your comment on trans rights threatening others’ rights was rough. Hope u can phrase this differently as to not enforce 0 sum
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I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
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i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
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Again, maybe what the takeaway we should have from political reporter after political reporter not just getting chummy w ppl like Trump or Epstein (or RFK Jr 👀) but actively running interference for them—either in their coverage or privately—is that its an industry full of ppl that are Bad Actually™️
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Again, maybe what the takeaway we should have from political reporter after political reporter not just getting chummy w ppl like Trump or Epstein (or RFK Jr 👀) but actively running interference for them—either in their coverage or privately—is that its an industry full of ppl that are Bad Actually™️
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Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible
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Three questions:
1. Is who politicians follow online newsworthy?
2. Is the vice-president more important than a primary candidate to be junior Senator from Texas?
3. If the answer is yes to the first two, why isn’t Axios doing a fuck ton of stories about who JD Vance is following?
1. Is who politicians follow online newsworthy?
2. Is the vice-president more important than a primary candidate to be junior Senator from Texas?
3. If the answer is yes to the first two, why isn’t Axios doing a fuck ton of stories about who JD Vance is following?
James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate who has put his faith at the forefront of his campaign, follows several adult film performers, escorts and OnlyFans models on Instagram, according to an Axios review.
Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts online
James Talarico has become a sensation in Texas politics by talking about how his Christianity is the basis for his progressive politics.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Three questions:
1. Is who politicians follow online newsworthy?
2. Is the vice-president more important than a primary candidate to be junior Senator from Texas?
3. If the answer is yes to the first two, why isn’t Axios doing a fuck ton of stories about who JD Vance is following?
1. Is who politicians follow online newsworthy?
2. Is the vice-president more important than a primary candidate to be junior Senator from Texas?
3. If the answer is yes to the first two, why isn’t Axios doing a fuck ton of stories about who JD Vance is following?
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i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this
October 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this
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kavanaugh seems to be channeling bradley. “When a man has emerged from slavery, and by the aid of beneficent legislation has shaken off the inseparable concomitants of that state, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he…ceases to be the special favorite of the laws.”
Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.
October 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
kavanaugh seems to be channeling bradley. “When a man has emerged from slavery, and by the aid of beneficent legislation has shaken off the inseparable concomitants of that state, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he…ceases to be the special favorite of the laws.”
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“I hold that [“do not kill”] moreover means, that we are to aid our neighbor’s life by every means in our power… therefore when [God] so forbids [killing], he, at the same time, demands all the offices of charity which can contribute to his preservation.”
— Calvin, Institutes II.8.9
— Calvin, Institutes II.8.9
October 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“I hold that [“do not kill”] moreover means, that we are to aid our neighbor’s life by every means in our power… therefore when [God] so forbids [killing], he, at the same time, demands all the offices of charity which can contribute to his preservation.”
— Calvin, Institutes II.8.9
— Calvin, Institutes II.8.9
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I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.
Gavin Newsom announces that any California university that caves to Trump and signs his “loyalty pledge” will be immediately defunded.
“CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS.”
“CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS.”
October 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.
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the idea that you could just pass specific bills on specific areas with simple majorities is just beyond the ability and comprehension of most lawmakers in congress it seems
Its insane that American politics now more or less revolves around infrequently passing a single comically large overstuffed money bill instead of like... normal legislation
September 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
the idea that you could just pass specific bills on specific areas with simple majorities is just beyond the ability and comprehension of most lawmakers in congress it seems
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It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator
September 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator
Men have dominated the true institutions of power from the States’ inception, and still do (presidency, Congress, Supreme Court) yet will whine and complain about women or gays any chance they get.
It’s truly pathetic, hope they can take a step back and see that.
It’s truly pathetic, hope they can take a step back and see that.
Blaming the gays for losing the election because there were too many of them in the only online propaganda organ that actually worked
September 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Men have dominated the true institutions of power from the States’ inception, and still do (presidency, Congress, Supreme Court) yet will whine and complain about women or gays any chance they get.
It’s truly pathetic, hope they can take a step back and see that.
It’s truly pathetic, hope they can take a step back and see that.
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The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
news.harvard.edu
September 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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We shall see if one of the most unpopular presidents in American history who is presiding over an economy he’s trying to wreck and the poisoning of our diplomatic relations can consolidate a dictatorship. I’m pretty skeptical he has the juice, especially in his decayed state.
September 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
We shall see if one of the most unpopular presidents in American history who is presiding over an economy he’s trying to wreck and the poisoning of our diplomatic relations can consolidate a dictatorship. I’m pretty skeptical he has the juice, especially in his decayed state.
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@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and Ross Douthat’s conversation is interesting in their vision of conservative’s tolerance of “liberals.” If a gay person can go debate their humanity to a Baptist church without them being in danger - that would be a better world! But it is not one that has existed
September 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and Ross Douthat’s conversation is interesting in their vision of conservative’s tolerance of “liberals.” If a gay person can go debate their humanity to a Baptist church without them being in danger - that would be a better world! But it is not one that has existed
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and Ross Douthat’s conversation is interesting in their vision of conservative’s tolerance of “liberals.” If a gay person can go debate their humanity to a Baptist church without them being in danger - that would be a better world! But it is not one that has existed
September 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and Ross Douthat’s conversation is interesting in their vision of conservative’s tolerance of “liberals.” If a gay person can go debate their humanity to a Baptist church without them being in danger - that would be a better world! But it is not one that has existed
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The Deputy AG of the United States is conducting a RICO investigation into the woman yelling at Trump in the restaurant. We’ve come a long way from the statute being used to take down the Gambino crime family.
September 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The Deputy AG of the United States is conducting a RICO investigation into the woman yelling at Trump in the restaurant. We’ve come a long way from the statute being used to take down the Gambino crime family.
Are there really people pretending that smart phones aren’t bad for us?
September 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Are there really people pretending that smart phones aren’t bad for us?
Saw you @mattyglesias.bsky.social on here today referring to the mess in the other site. IMO this is some of that mess. Do you not find in blatantly false that trans people participation in sports is a violation of others’ rights?
I propose, like an always do, a kind-practical approach on issues.
I propose, like an always do, a kind-practical approach on issues.
September 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Saw you @mattyglesias.bsky.social on here today referring to the mess in the other site. IMO this is some of that mess. Do you not find in blatantly false that trans people participation in sports is a violation of others’ rights?
I propose, like an always do, a kind-practical approach on issues.
I propose, like an always do, a kind-practical approach on issues.
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all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
August 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals
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the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
Jeffries on Trump planning a military crackdown in Chicago: "We should continue to support local law enforcement and not simply allow Donald Trump to play games with the lives of the American people as part of his effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction because he's deeply unpopular"
August 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
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It's wild that the fatal weakness of the American political immune system is open shamelessness.
FLAG: Trump says he might declare a national emergency to keep National Guard troops in D.C.
"If I have a national emergency, I can keep the troops there as long as I want."
"If I have a national emergency, I can keep the troops there as long as I want."
August 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
It's wild that the fatal weakness of the American political immune system is open shamelessness.