Kristina Selset
@kristinaselset.bsky.social
Advocate for the accused. More salty than snarky. Surrounded by books.
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Tell me something that brought you joy this week.
Any old thing will do. Small joys are as good as big ones—sometimes even better.
Any old thing will do. Small joys are as good as big ones—sometimes even better.
December 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Tell me something that brought you joy this week.
Any old thing will do. Small joys are as good as big ones—sometimes even better.
Any old thing will do. Small joys are as good as big ones—sometimes even better.
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expanding the court is the moderate position
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
expanding the court is the moderate position
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h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
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This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.
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Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Still processing that an economic advisor to multiple administrations, business leaders, and top institutions was asking a known sex trafficker of minor age girls to be his wingman for attempting to coerce his academic mentee into a sexual relationship—years after he said that women aren’t as smart
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Still processing that an economic advisor to multiple administrations, business leaders, and top institutions was asking a known sex trafficker of minor age girls to be his wingman for attempting to coerce his academic mentee into a sexual relationship—years after he said that women aren’t as smart
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Leftists really have to prioritize public libraries in budget fights.
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Leftists really have to prioritize public libraries in budget fights.
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I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
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A TPM Reader told me to look at the Department of Labor page on Facebook for something called Project Firewall. It's basically their name for cracking down on highly skilled foreigners on H-1B visas. Here's the Dept's description here. www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...
US Department of Labor launches Project Firewall to protect America’s highly skilled workforce
www.dol.gov
October 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
A TPM Reader told me to look at the Department of Labor page on Facebook for something called Project Firewall. It's basically their name for cracking down on highly skilled foreigners on H-1B visas. Here's the Dept's description here. www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...
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it is far better to be in a country with a mass visible protest movement than one without it
October 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
it is far better to be in a country with a mass visible protest movement than one without it
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Dear Idaho,
You know all of those Red Dawn revivals and cosplays and SovCit impulses you’ve had over the years? Well, do I have a surprise for you!
You know all of those Red Dawn revivals and cosplays and SovCit impulses you’ve had over the years? Well, do I have a surprise for you!
October 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Dear Idaho,
You know all of those Red Dawn revivals and cosplays and SovCit impulses you’ve had over the years? Well, do I have a surprise for you!
You know all of those Red Dawn revivals and cosplays and SovCit impulses you’ve had over the years? Well, do I have a surprise for you!
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Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”
Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:
Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:
October 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”
Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:
Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:
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Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”
October 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”
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“The Govt sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to the check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where ppl are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, or car washes…” -Justice Kavanaugh
"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM
“The Govt sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to the check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where ppl are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, or car washes…” -Justice Kavanaugh
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“Out of the three mass shootings TODAY” is one of the most tragic uniquely-American sentences out there.
Most developed countries average zero per year. We have single days where you have to ask “which” when someone talks about a mass shooting.
Most developed countries average zero per year. We have single days where you have to ask “which” when someone talks about a mass shooting.
Iraq War veteran Thomas Sanford has been identified as the gunman who attacked Grand Blanc Mormon church, killing 2 people and setting it ablaze. Out of the three mass shootings today, two of them have been carried out by Iraq war veterans.
September 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
“Out of the three mass shootings TODAY” is one of the most tragic uniquely-American sentences out there.
Most developed countries average zero per year. We have single days where you have to ask “which” when someone talks about a mass shooting.
Most developed countries average zero per year. We have single days where you have to ask “which” when someone talks about a mass shooting.
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Today a member of the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government said Comey "should be charged with treason" and I'm now realizing the subcommittee name doesn't actually say if they're for or against the weaponization
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/comey-indictment-making-trump-upset/
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/comey-indictment-making-trump-upset/
Trump’s DOJ Plans to Indict Jim Comey For the Crime of Making Trump Upset
In the president’s mind, the primary purpose of government is punishing his enemies.
ballsandstrikes.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Today a member of the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government said Comey "should be charged with treason" and I'm now realizing the subcommittee name doesn't actually say if they're for or against the weaponization
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/comey-indictment-making-trump-upset/
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/comey-indictment-making-trump-upset/
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I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.
“I will end my career writing dissent, that is my future. And you understand that you’re writing for a future society. That dissents are not about today. Dissents are writing for a future society that will take that dissent, that will be ready for that dissent, & enact it”
@nhannahjones.bsky.social
@nhannahjones.bsky.social
The Trump administration has attacked diversity programs, historical discussions of slavery, civil rights and more as he pressures civic institutions to de-emphasize race. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of The 1619 Project, discusses what led to this movement. nyti.ms/4msq3x8
September 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.
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Very basic fabric is made just by laying one thin thread over another in an alternating pattern. Like very tiny pliable bricks that snuggle babies, shroud elders, and comfort everyone in between.
Tell me something ordinary but magnificent
September 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Very basic fabric is made just by laying one thin thread over another in an alternating pattern. Like very tiny pliable bricks that snuggle babies, shroud elders, and comfort everyone in between.
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Breaking — FEMA Acting Chief Counsel Colt Hagmaier just resigned in an email to staff. He's worked at the agency for more than a decade.
Hagmaier's resignation comes immediately after two FEMA employees were placed on leave for comments about Charlie Kirk.
Text of his email shared with me:
Hagmaier's resignation comes immediately after two FEMA employees were placed on leave for comments about Charlie Kirk.
Text of his email shared with me:
September 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Breaking — FEMA Acting Chief Counsel Colt Hagmaier just resigned in an email to staff. He's worked at the agency for more than a decade.
Hagmaier's resignation comes immediately after two FEMA employees were placed on leave for comments about Charlie Kirk.
Text of his email shared with me:
Hagmaier's resignation comes immediately after two FEMA employees were placed on leave for comments about Charlie Kirk.
Text of his email shared with me:
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One of the defining features of authoritarian society is the ruthless but selective use of the machinery of repression—and associated propaganda about criminality and “order”—to immunize predatory behavior of the powerful while crushing everyone else into profitable obedience.
September 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
One of the defining features of authoritarian society is the ruthless but selective use of the machinery of repression—and associated propaganda about criminality and “order”—to immunize predatory behavior of the powerful while crushing everyone else into profitable obedience.
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No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.
September 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.
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I don't know exactly how and when we'll get there, but there will come a time when the Roberts Court era and especially from ~2024 onward becomes treated as an irredeemably tainted anti-canon, when citing them as a favorable precedent joins the ranks of invoking Dred Scott, Plessey, or Korematsu.
September 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I don't know exactly how and when we'll get there, but there will come a time when the Roberts Court era and especially from ~2024 onward becomes treated as an irredeemably tainted anti-canon, when citing them as a favorable precedent joins the ranks of invoking Dred Scott, Plessey, or Korematsu.
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the supreme court says you can never use race to help people but you can always use race to hurt people
September 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
the supreme court says you can never use race to help people but you can always use race to hurt people