Gregory Harris (he/him)
@mazinga.bsky.social
Game master, adventure designer, community radio DJ, prematurely anti-fascist, movie enthusiast, atheist, and consultant as a day job. Lives in Indianapolis, votes Democratic.
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Wilhoit's law: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
They fully intend to be exempt from the laws they enact. The hypocrisy is a flex.
They fully intend to be exempt from the laws they enact. The hypocrisy is a flex.
Evergreen.
If Trump is calling something a hoax you can have 1,000% confidence that it’s a) true and b) really bothering him.
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Evergreen.
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The Supreme Court is hearing arguments right now in a case engineered by the GOP to strike down a longstanding campaign finance law that prevents megadonors from bribing politicians for favors by laundering the money through political parties.
Guess how it'll go. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Guess how it'll go. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Supreme Court Is Poised to Revive a Key Feature of Nixon-Era Corruption
The justices will hear arguments on Tuesday in NRSC v. FEC, a case cooked up by the GOP itself.
slate.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments right now in a case engineered by the GOP to strike down a longstanding campaign finance law that prevents megadonors from bribing politicians for favors by laundering the money through political parties.
Guess how it'll go. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Guess how it'll go. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Planespotting at furfest was so much fun 🥰
December 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Planespotting at furfest was so much fun 🥰
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#indiana #protest #redistricting
#MomSky
Video from Indianapolis TV station WRTV on Monday showed demonstrators crowd into the state capitol building to protest a plan by the Republican-majority legislature to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries.
youtu.be/6yspvtKHWVM?...
#MomSky
Video from Indianapolis TV station WRTV on Monday showed demonstrators crowd into the state capitol building to protest a plan by the Republican-majority legislature to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries.
youtu.be/6yspvtKHWVM?...
Protesters in Indiana's capitol oppose Congressional redistricting plan
YouTube video by Associated Press
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
#indiana #protest #redistricting
#MomSky
Video from Indianapolis TV station WRTV on Monday showed demonstrators crowd into the state capitol building to protest a plan by the Republican-majority legislature to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries.
youtu.be/6yspvtKHWVM?...
#MomSky
Video from Indianapolis TV station WRTV on Monday showed demonstrators crowd into the state capitol building to protest a plan by the Republican-majority legislature to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries.
youtu.be/6yspvtKHWVM?...
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Having finished a book tracing US migration & citizenship from the colonial period to 1888, the lesson people are missing today from history is: 1) Without legal citizenship, all kinds of discrimination can be done to you & w/ no due process/equal protection. This is the very reason why the 14th 1/
Here is the question presented. It's a relatively clean vehicle for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether it is lawful for the president to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Agree w Steve
Not only is the fed going to meet this week and decide on rates in the absence of 2 months of data (that it will get next week), it’s also publishing a new round of forecasts. Many models use prior data as a significant input so that will be missing. It’s another reason imo to delay the meeting.
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Agree w Steve
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The fact that their explicit pitch is "We're already in on the corruption," which implies that the corruption is a feature and not a bug, is viscerally repulsive
I mean part of Paramount’s pitch is that corruption will make it easier for them, lol.
December 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The fact that their explicit pitch is "We're already in on the corruption," which implies that the corruption is a feature and not a bug, is viscerally repulsive
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How actions indicate character:
Kit, a pitcher, ducks as she's used to line drives coming back at her
Marla, a middle infielder, plants herself to field the ball
Dottie, a catcher, catches the ball
Kit, a pitcher, ducks as she's used to line drives coming back at her
Marla, a middle infielder, plants herself to field the ball
Dottie, a catcher, catches the ball
a woman in a purple hat is standing next to a man in a white shirt holding a baseball glove ..
ALT: a woman in a purple hat is standing next to a man in a white shirt holding a baseball glove ..
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
How actions indicate character:
Kit, a pitcher, ducks as she's used to line drives coming back at her
Marla, a middle infielder, plants herself to field the ball
Dottie, a catcher, catches the ball
Kit, a pitcher, ducks as she's used to line drives coming back at her
Marla, a middle infielder, plants herself to field the ball
Dottie, a catcher, catches the ball
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and this carries over from attracting partners to keeping them, which means that even the people who find a way to attract someone while behaving this way still end up miserable
being toxic and shitty to your partner won’t make you happy either
being toxic and shitty to your partner won’t make you happy either
I think an important thing to understand about brofluencer ideology is that they do not just deny that being toxic and shitty makes you a less appealing partner, they insist that women are only genuinely attracted to toxic and shitty men and being kind will instead make women lose respect for you.
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
and this carries over from attracting partners to keeping them, which means that even the people who find a way to attract someone while behaving this way still end up miserable
being toxic and shitty to your partner won’t make you happy either
being toxic and shitty to your partner won’t make you happy either
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Bull's head rhyton, Minoan, 1600-1500 BC
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Bull's head rhyton, Minoan, 1600-1500 BC
It was hardly the beginning of rampant bad faith on the Internet, but it was a time when a lot of people who should have known better fell for it.
Every now and then I think about how overwhelmingly foundational gamergate was to the hellscape which we now inhabit and I feel so fucking tired
December 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It was hardly the beginning of rampant bad faith on the Internet, but it was a time when a lot of people who should have known better fell for it.
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they do not believe democratic public’s can fix the meaning of the constitution even with formal amendment
the 14th amendment is about as clear and unambiguous a text as exists and if they are willing to reinterpret it there is no limit to their up is down, black is white legal calvinball
the 14th amendment is about as clear and unambiguous a text as exists and if they are willing to reinterpret it there is no limit to their up is down, black is white legal calvinball
so much of the conservative legal revolution seems to outright reject the idea that democratic publics legitimately constituted can fix the meaning of the constitution without formal amendment.
December 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
they do not believe democratic public’s can fix the meaning of the constitution even with formal amendment
the 14th amendment is about as clear and unambiguous a text as exists and if they are willing to reinterpret it there is no limit to their up is down, black is white legal calvinball
the 14th amendment is about as clear and unambiguous a text as exists and if they are willing to reinterpret it there is no limit to their up is down, black is white legal calvinball
Well, that's okay, then...
“Russia has welcomed President Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy, calling it "largely consistent" with Moscow's vision.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Well, that's okay, then...
Ideed, because the fascists, as always, will frame rights in terms of unfavored groups. "Do you want $OutGroup to have 'special rights'?" (As in, the same rights as everyone.) Conservatives *do not believe* everyone should have the same rights and therefore always try to take rights away.
Maybe instead of making the debate about whether one supports birthright citizenship, we should frame it as whether we support allowing the president to unilaterally decide which constitutional rights to honor.
December 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Ideed, because the fascists, as always, will frame rights in terms of unfavored groups. "Do you want $OutGroup to have 'special rights'?" (As in, the same rights as everyone.) Conservatives *do not believe* everyone should have the same rights and therefore always try to take rights away.
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The part that I can't figure out is what John Roberts thinks he is doing. He used to seem to be a judge who was very attentive to appearances, I think on a theory that you can't draw too much attention to yourself without undermining your ability to continue to shape the law.
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The part that I can't figure out is what John Roberts thinks he is doing. He used to seem to be a judge who was very attentive to appearances, I think on a theory that you can't draw too much attention to yourself without undermining your ability to continue to shape the law.
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How are 'taken by surprise' that she did the thing which she is most famous for?
Olivia Nuzzi and Vanity Fair Will Part Ways
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
How are 'taken by surprise' that she did the thing which she is most famous for?
Randy Rainbow is a national treasure.
December 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Randy Rainbow is a national treasure.
PSA of the day
Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format.
The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!
science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...
The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!
science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...
Science e-Books - NASA Science
From Earth and the other planets in our solar system, to supermassive black holes and the distant galaxies that contain them, explore NASA science and imagery through our library of e-books.
science.nasa.gov
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
PSA of the day
Everybody loves Corgis!
#ThrownbackThursday to when I hung out in the big hotel bed during our trip to Maine!
#SmileyPuppy #CorgiCrew
#SmileyPuppy #CorgiCrew
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Everybody loves Corgis!
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See also: university presidents/administrators, editors/journalists at the papers/networks of record, CEOs, etc. etc. The skills that secured peak elite status in every societal institution pre-2025 are precisely those least suited for countering a far right authoritarian threat to the Republic.
Personnel is policy is politics: the skills needed to become a senior Democrat, and the life experiences associated with being one, furnish neither the tools to respond to an authoritarian takeover nor a sufficiently visceral understanding of the stakes.
via @jmberger.com
via @jmberger.com
The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison
December 4, 2025 at 6:49 AM
See also: university presidents/administrators, editors/journalists at the papers/networks of record, CEOs, etc. etc. The skills that secured peak elite status in every societal institution pre-2025 are precisely those least suited for countering a far right authoritarian threat to the Republic.
Good. Members of Congress barely bother to conceal their insider trading, to say nothing of other kinds of potential self dealing and corruption.
Push is on in US Congress to impose ban on lawmaker stock trades reut.rs/4auFJxn
Push is on in US Congress to impose ban on lawmaker stock trades
A bipartisan coalition in the U.S. Congress is seeking action to ban lawmakers from buying and selling individual stocks, a practice that has long raised ethics questions and is stoking infighting among lawmakers over how deeply to regulate their personal finances.
reut.rs
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good. Members of Congress barely bother to conceal their insider trading, to say nothing of other kinds of potential self dealing and corruption.
The Hero House comic store in Fountain Square was open after a working lunch today. I popped in and found many good picks from their dollar bin, including a Byrne FF!
December 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The Hero House comic store in Fountain Square was open after a working lunch today. I popped in and found many good picks from their dollar bin, including a Byrne FF!
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You know that OU student who was failed by her professor for getting all biblical in her paper? When you read the actual article she was assigned to respond to, it becomes pretty fucking clear that she didn't do the assignment. She didn't respond to it. She wrote her own bullshit.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
You know that OU student who was failed by her professor for getting all biblical in her paper? When you read the actual article she was assigned to respond to, it becomes pretty fucking clear that she didn't do the assignment. She didn't respond to it. She wrote her own bullshit.
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Not joking: has one reporter responded to his preposterous Sgt Schultz “I know nothing” schtick by immediately asking:
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Not joking: has one reporter responded to his preposterous Sgt Schultz “I know nothing” schtick by immediately asking:
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
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It's important to have markers like this to help us comprehend the profound change the US political landscape has experienced in a short time. Anti-democratic norms have rapidly dissolved as tyrannical Trumpism has taken over one of America's main political parties.
It may come as a surprise, but in 2011, Michele Bachmann using the word "retardation" essentially nuked her presidential campaign. Now, when Trump uses it to describe Tim Walz, Republicans collectively shrug. My latest for @msnowreports.bsky.social
www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Opinion | Trump used an ugly slur against Tim Walz. Many on the right didn't mind.
Eric Garcia: Note how few Republicans have criticized the president's rhetoric.
www.ms.now
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It's important to have markers like this to help us comprehend the profound change the US political landscape has experienced in a short time. Anti-democratic norms have rapidly dissolved as tyrannical Trumpism has taken over one of America's main political parties.