Rev. JWrath
@maeamian.bsky.social
Former physicist, current paper shepherd, future electrician. They series pronouns. This is not a place of honor etc you know the text
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Rev. JWrath
@maeamian.bsky.social
· Sep 27
I don't think any of these posts are good enough to pin
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The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.
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Every so often the admins of any site get pulled into ongoing site conflicts and end up radicalizing themselves against their own users. Jack Dorsey's true innovation was going off to a yoga retreat to do peyote about it for two weeks
December 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Every so often the admins of any site get pulled into ongoing site conflicts and end up radicalizing themselves against their own users. Jack Dorsey's true innovation was going off to a yoga retreat to do peyote about it for two weeks
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They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens...
"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
Immigrants Approved for Citizenship ‘Plucked Out’ of Line Moments Before Pledging Allegiance: Report
Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the ceremony. The incident comes after USCIS told employees to halt all immigrat...
people.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens...
"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
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Something I keep coming back to in my head is that once they've reached the "we will kill your kids to achieve our goals" stage it means they feel certain that we will never have power over them ever again bsky.app/profile/auto...
At some point we as a people just tell them “fuck you”. I’m there already and willing to fight for my country and to pry it from their cold dead hands
December 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Something I keep coming back to in my head is that once they've reached the "we will kill your kids to achieve our goals" stage it means they feel certain that we will never have power over them ever again bsky.app/profile/auto...
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I wonder how long it'll be before SCOTUS decides to tear down all vaccine requirements by mandating bullshit religious exemptions. Part of their overarching goal of destroying public school in part by making it unsafe for middle class parents to send their kids to
The Supreme Court asks Trump's Justice Department to weigh in on a pending challenge to New York's COVID vaccine mandate for health care workers, which lacks any exception for religious objections. Suggests that some justices are looking at this one closely. www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I wonder how long it'll be before SCOTUS decides to tear down all vaccine requirements by mandating bullshit religious exemptions. Part of their overarching goal of destroying public school in part by making it unsafe for middle class parents to send their kids to
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And this same court then intervened twice to save him from any consequences.
Incredibly galling to hear Sauer talk about how the president is accountable to the public through elections, when the president he's referring to is one who attempted to illegally overturn an election he lost
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
And this same court then intervened twice to save him from any consequences.
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Sauer saying something is unconstitutional because it "would be unconstitutional under Justice Scalia's dissent" is a remarkably cogent statement of the Roberts Court's approach to precedent.
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Sauer saying something is unconstitutional because it "would be unconstitutional under Justice Scalia's dissent" is a remarkably cogent statement of the Roberts Court's approach to precedent.
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New in PN: Let's call Trump's anti-Somali hate for what it is
It's not "heated" or "divisive." It's Nazi stuff.
It's not "heated" or "divisive." It's Nazi stuff.
Let's call Trump's anti-Somali hate for what it is
It's not "heated" or "divisive." It's Nazi stuff.
www.publicnotice.co
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New in PN: Let's call Trump's anti-Somali hate for what it is
It's not "heated" or "divisive." It's Nazi stuff.
It's not "heated" or "divisive." It's Nazi stuff.
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Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. 🤔
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. 🤔
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The presidency, which isn't even directly elected (and need not be elected with any popular vote at all), and even when it's not trying to steal elections, is not the one true embodiment of the will of the people. The only people the Constitution vests a direct democratic mandate in are in Congress.
December 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The presidency, which isn't even directly elected (and need not be elected with any popular vote at all), and even when it's not trying to steal elections, is not the one true embodiment of the will of the people. The only people the Constitution vests a direct democratic mandate in are in Congress.
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The administrative state was built by people dealing with real societal problems and governing constraints.
Hard to overstate how much of our future democracy is going to be driven by the intellectual parlor games musings by Justices that happen to align with their financial and political sponsors.
Hard to overstate how much of our future democracy is going to be driven by the intellectual parlor games musings by Justices that happen to align with their financial and political sponsors.
December 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The administrative state was built by people dealing with real societal problems and governing constraints.
Hard to overstate how much of our future democracy is going to be driven by the intellectual parlor games musings by Justices that happen to align with their financial and political sponsors.
Hard to overstate how much of our future democracy is going to be driven by the intellectual parlor games musings by Justices that happen to align with their financial and political sponsors.
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the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.
December 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.
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Remarkable that just one day after the massive Fair Games Coalition held this rally to oppose the anti-worker actions of White House Republicans they got punked by the supposedly progressive leaders in their own city
December 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Remarkable that just one day after the massive Fair Games Coalition held this rally to oppose the anti-worker actions of White House Republicans they got punked by the supposedly progressive leaders in their own city
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does democratic leadership outside of Warren and (maybe) Bernie have the vocabulary to actually challenge and contest what is happening before our eyes, ie the establishment of state affiliated media control
Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar."
fancy that
fancy that
Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix.
www.axios.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
does democratic leadership outside of Warren and (maybe) Bernie have the vocabulary to actually challenge and contest what is happening before our eyes, ie the establishment of state affiliated media control
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American democracy is backsliding and we get "uhhhhhh pls replace the army with SV Defense Tech????????"
December 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
American democracy is backsliding and we get "uhhhhhh pls replace the army with SV Defense Tech????????"
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The cool thing about Trump and Putin continuing to gang up on the Ukrainians is that no normal person is deceived by this shit. History will not absolve them. They will be remembered as evil motherfuckers and people will piss on their graves.
December 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The cool thing about Trump and Putin continuing to gang up on the Ukrainians is that no normal person is deceived by this shit. History will not absolve them. They will be remembered as evil motherfuckers and people will piss on their graves.
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caves of qud
this is the obvious correct answer and I do not know why you would buy water from these goop merchants
I thought the research was interesting, even if the conclusions it came to were unsurprising. What bugs me is that it's so busy trying to wring Meaning out of the information that it never gets around to pointing out that you can just buy the concentrate yourself and add your own water
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
caves of qud
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reposted with shadow because what is this amateur hour cmon me
December 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
reposted with shadow because what is this amateur hour cmon me
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“Guzmán’s daughter was still in the NICU, unable to eat or breathe independently. The doctors had planned a meeting to review the baby’s prognosis and care plans… As Guzmán went to buckle her seatbelt, she looked out the window and noticed they were surrounded.”
Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention.
Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.
19thnews.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“Guzmán’s daughter was still in the NICU, unable to eat or breathe independently. The doctors had planned a meeting to review the baby’s prognosis and care plans… As Guzmán went to buckle her seatbelt, she looked out the window and noticed they were surrounded.”
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What a strange coincidence
December 8, 2025 at 4:14 AM
What a strange coincidence
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Getting word that LAPD & LAFD broke up a #peoplesvisionzero volunteer crosswalk painting in Westwood today - cuffed and ticketed at least one organizer
December 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Getting word that LAPD & LAFD broke up a #peoplesvisionzero volunteer crosswalk painting in Westwood today - cuffed and ticketed at least one organizer
Dollars to donuts this bastard hasn't read it either
⚡️Trump 'disappointed' Zelensky hasn't read US peace plan.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Dec. 7 he was "disappointed" that President Volodymyr Zelensky allegedly had not yet reviewed a U.S. peace proposal to end the war in Ukraine.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Dec. 7 he was "disappointed" that President Volodymyr Zelensky allegedly had not yet reviewed a U.S. peace proposal to end the war in Ukraine.
Trump 'disappointed' Zelensky hasn't read US peace plan
U.S. President Donald Trump said Dec. 7 he was "disappointed" that President Volodymyr Zelensky had not yet reviewed a U.S. peace proposal to end the war in Ukraine.
kyivindependent.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Dollars to donuts this bastard hasn't read it either
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People want crosswalks, safe streets, to be able to get around without a car AND stay alive, keep family safe ALL AT THE SAME TIME
it’s become beyond parody to watch the gymnastics that LA City will do to withhold mandated & voted for safety upgrades, even now arresting ppl for painting crosswalks
it’s become beyond parody to watch the gymnastics that LA City will do to withhold mandated & voted for safety upgrades, even now arresting ppl for painting crosswalks
Jonathan Hale was arrested by LAPD today for painting a crosswalk, even as the city of Los Angeles funnels more money to LAPD and does gymnastics to avoid implementing HLA.
@mayor.lacity.gov, Jonny has made repeated attempts to meet with your office and has been iced out. Angelenos deserve better.
@mayor.lacity.gov, Jonny has made repeated attempts to meet with your office and has been iced out. Angelenos deserve better.
December 8, 2025 at 5:52 AM
People want crosswalks, safe streets, to be able to get around without a car AND stay alive, keep family safe ALL AT THE SAME TIME
it’s become beyond parody to watch the gymnastics that LA City will do to withhold mandated & voted for safety upgrades, even now arresting ppl for painting crosswalks
it’s become beyond parody to watch the gymnastics that LA City will do to withhold mandated & voted for safety upgrades, even now arresting ppl for painting crosswalks
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I was thinking about the amazing undergrad science being done at Winona. They have a dinosaur in a rock maybe still with skin! A public branch university creating opportunities for students.
The news from Oklahoma and Nebraska is so depressing. The US public university system is one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century, created to democratize liberal arts education, and it's being destroyed by greedy people who think only the rich are deserving of such learning.
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I was thinking about the amazing undergrad science being done at Winona. They have a dinosaur in a rock maybe still with skin! A public branch university creating opportunities for students.
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They’re clearly plugging this dude into an IV regularly and, if this were Biden, there would be demands for weekly hour long press conferences from his doctors on his health. But that’s not how authoritarianism works so stop asking questions already.
Trump last night had the complexion of a Thanksgiving turkey that was left in the oven too long and bandages were again visible on the back of his right hand
(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)
(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)
December 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
They’re clearly plugging this dude into an IV regularly and, if this were Biden, there would be demands for weekly hour long press conferences from his doctors on his health. But that’s not how authoritarianism works so stop asking questions already.