MichaelBrosius
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In light of some of the comments, feel like I should clarify:
My point is yes this seems like a clear violation of the 13A, but who knows what SCOTUS will do these days.
Radical SCOTUS reform is obvs essential, but I was just pointing out what could be done short-term to thwart its radicalism.
My point is yes this seems like a clear violation of the 13A, but who knows what SCOTUS will do these days.
Radical SCOTUS reform is obvs essential, but I was just pointing out what could be done short-term to thwart its radicalism.
December 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
In light of some of the comments, feel like I should clarify:
My point is yes this seems like a clear violation of the 13A, but who knows what SCOTUS will do these days.
Radical SCOTUS reform is obvs essential, but I was just pointing out what could be done short-term to thwart its radicalism.
My point is yes this seems like a clear violation of the 13A, but who knows what SCOTUS will do these days.
Radical SCOTUS reform is obvs essential, but I was just pointing out what could be done short-term to thwart its radicalism.
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The mainstream media only talks to Trump voters. Even in a year where Democrats win election after election, the only voters they talk to are people who vote for Republicans www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
What we learned about the state of the Trump coalition in conversations with 50 voters this year
A set of focus groups featuring 2024 Trump voters showed them largely sticking with the president, but they also showed discontent around the economy and immigration.
www.nbcnews.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The mainstream media only talks to Trump voters. Even in a year where Democrats win election after election, the only voters they talk to are people who vote for Republicans www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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This idea that people were forced to apologize for being white is part of the broader push to equate any level of discomfort at seeing one’s unearned advantages with subjugation. It’s directly related to the recent push for “meritocracy”, where merit is actually a measure of societal standing.
Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
December 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This idea that people were forced to apologize for being white is part of the broader push to equate any level of discomfort at seeing one’s unearned advantages with subjugation. It’s directly related to the recent push for “meritocracy”, where merit is actually a measure of societal standing.
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I’m only 3/4ths through this book, but I’m wrecked. Lots of people have correctly noted that it feels important, but (a) he’s a damn good storyteller, and (b) it’s hard to read this and not constantly see how the attempt to prop up the violence of western hegemony wrecks all our lives
December 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I’m only 3/4ths through this book, but I’m wrecked. Lots of people have correctly noted that it feels important, but (a) he’s a damn good storyteller, and (b) it’s hard to read this and not constantly see how the attempt to prop up the violence of western hegemony wrecks all our lives
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Joe Biden’s fatal flaw was relying on the reluctant institutionalist Merrick Garland to prosecute the case of insurrectionist Donald J Trump. Had Garland done his job, Trump would have been banned from office and America and the world would not be in this predicament.
December 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Joe Biden’s fatal flaw was relying on the reluctant institutionalist Merrick Garland to prosecute the case of insurrectionist Donald J Trump. Had Garland done his job, Trump would have been banned from office and America and the world would not be in this predicament.
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Chief Justice John Roberts has been working to neuter the Voting Rights Act since the beginning of his career—and he may soon achieve his goal, David Daley argues.
John Roberts’s Dream Is Finally Coming True
The Chief Justice has been working to neuter the Voting Rights Act since the beginning of his career.
bit.ly
December 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Our Congressional leaders need to assert themselves far more forcefully now for "Putin is a ruthless murderer who has no interest in peace and cannot be trusted" and Trump is a corrupt, venal, compromised man hellbent on selling out the West. My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/putin-is-a...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/putin-is-a...
"Putin Is A Ruthless Murderer Who Has No Interest In Peace And Cannot Be Trusted"
I had hoped to take a break this Christmas Holiday but Putin and Trump have made that impossible......
www.hopiumchronicles.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Our Congressional leaders need to assert themselves far more forcefully now for "Putin is a ruthless murderer who has no interest in peace and cannot be trusted" and Trump is a corrupt, venal, compromised man hellbent on selling out the West. My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/putin-is-a...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/putin-is-a...
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The FBI has sucked long before Kash Patel got his hands on it 😂😂😂
December 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The FBI has sucked long before Kash Patel got his hands on it 😂😂😂
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Your reminder that the GOP under Trump has within less than 10 years removed America from its position as a global leader in liberty, diplomacy, science, & education, and has cemented China's role as the next world-leading superpower.
We are now living in a Post-Peak United States.
We are now living in a Post-Peak United States.
December 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Your reminder that the GOP under Trump has within less than 10 years removed America from its position as a global leader in liberty, diplomacy, science, & education, and has cemented China's role as the next world-leading superpower.
We are now living in a Post-Peak United States.
We are now living in a Post-Peak United States.
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How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
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They’re offering sparkling white supremacy same as they were when they called themselves “Western chauvinists” and “free speech absolutists” and “classical liberals” and and and
So what he's saying here is that Roger Taney is part of that adoptive family which must be worshipped but Frederick Douglass and David Walker and and William Lloyd Garrison and other fantastic spewers of venom against the founders were not
December 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
They’re offering sparkling white supremacy same as they were when they called themselves “Western chauvinists” and “free speech absolutists” and “classical liberals” and and and
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A Unified Theory of What the MAGA Justices Are Thinking
slate.com
A Unified Theory of What the MAGA Justices Are Thinking
twp.ai
December 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
A Unified Theory of What the MAGA Justices Are Thinking
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Save this, it's perfect.
December 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Save this, it's perfect.
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this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade
December 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade
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It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
December 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
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Also true for any meaningful reform of our broken anti-democratic, non-functional institutions:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Also true for any meaningful reform of our broken anti-democratic, non-functional institutions:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
It’s going to be some bullshit respectability from the center and some bullshit bleating about identity politics from the left and some bullshit religious forgiveness from the right.
I’m just going to expire from unrequited rage.
I’m just going to expire from unrequited rage.
It’s very very frustrating to know that there isn’t much chance of any accountability for this behavior after Trump
December 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Also true for any meaningful reform of our broken anti-democratic, non-functional institutions:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Also true for any meaningful reform of our broken anti-democratic, non-functional institutions:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Tl;dr: The platform must be institutional reform, & the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over & over again & expecting different results:
🧵 Democrats need to stop promising sweeping policies like this w/o ever discussing <institutional> reform. There was <no way> any of this was going to pass the Senate. It's no wonder voters get disillusioned. You promise them magical 🦄 & can't deliver. The <platform> needs to be institutional reform
Biden promised affordable childcare, universal paid family leave, higher minimum wages, free community college, and more. Those policies would disproportionately benefit women, especially those who make too much to qualify for existing programs but not enough to easily afford paid support. 2/
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Tl;dr: The platform must be institutional reform, & the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over & over again & expecting different results:
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- DC/PR/USVI statehood
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
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Again, the needs to be & all the committees & commissions that want to Do A Popularism & focus on Kitchen Table Issues are engaged in a category mistake about What Democrats Must Do the next time they ever have power.
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Again, the
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December 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
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An Israeli soldier poses with an artillery shell in Gaza as a comment mocks Christmas by calling it a “gift” to Palestinians. Open celebration of killing, dehumanization, and genocide—shared without shame, accountability, or consequence.
December 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
An Israeli soldier poses with an artillery shell in Gaza as a comment mocks Christmas by calling it a “gift” to Palestinians. Open celebration of killing, dehumanization, and genocide—shared without shame, accountability, or consequence.
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I’m an atheist, yet this remains the most Christlike Presidential Christmas Message of my lifetime.
It overflows with love, good cheer and hope for our country. It will lifts your spirits today and inspire you to make sure 2026 is the year we return to our American values.
youtu.be/PtKBjuQblqI?...
It overflows with love, good cheer and hope for our country. It will lifts your spirits today and inspire you to make sure 2026 is the year we return to our American values.
youtu.be/PtKBjuQblqI?...
Weekly Address: Merry Christmas from the President and the First Lady
YouTube video by The Obama White House
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I’m an atheist, yet this remains the most Christlike Presidential Christmas Message of my lifetime.
It overflows with love, good cheer and hope for our country. It will lifts your spirits today and inspire you to make sure 2026 is the year we return to our American values.
youtu.be/PtKBjuQblqI?...
It overflows with love, good cheer and hope for our country. It will lifts your spirits today and inspire you to make sure 2026 is the year we return to our American values.
youtu.be/PtKBjuQblqI?...
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“Reactionaries perennially grumble about a so-called “War on Christmas.” That's because it's easier than fully living the implications of the "War for Christmas" — in the most shining truth of the nativity there is no culture war, only a class war.” Ed Simon in @hyperallergic.com 👑👑👑
The Egalitarian Vision of Nativity Scenes
In all its artistic iterations across millennia, the nativity remains inherently political in its depiction of God choosing to enter the world in marginalized circumstances.
hyperallergic.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
“Reactionaries perennially grumble about a so-called “War on Christmas.” That's because it's easier than fully living the implications of the "War for Christmas" — in the most shining truth of the nativity there is no culture war, only a class war.” Ed Simon in @hyperallergic.com 👑👑👑
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Lo de Gilead empieza a parecer un paseo comparado con todo esto...
Hemos llegado al momento en el que las bestias del ICE de Trump arrastran por la calle a una embarazada solo porque es de origen latino y no pasa absolutamente nada.
December 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Lo de Gilead empieza a parecer un paseo comparado con todo esto...
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...