Ben Munson
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An even better example: 1924-1932. The '24 convention split over whether to endorse the Klsn or not. Largely pro-temperance and nativist. By 1932, the left had lots of power in the party at thy highest levels.
Gramps here, lecturing leftists who say the Dems can't change that in 56 it was aligned with Southern segregationists (who got the VP noms), but by 64 with MLK, because of successful social movement organizing. Take the party over, leftists. Else you're not actually involved in US politics.
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 AM
An even better example: 1924-1932. The '24 convention split over whether to endorse the Klsn or not. Largely pro-temperance and nativist. By 1932, the left had lots of power in the party at thy highest levels.
My fathers direct male ancestors came here in 1635, long before there was any concept of the United States of America.
I have *zero* proof of citizenship because my parents has no proof because their parents have no proof and their parents have no proof… you have to go back to the early 1900s to find anyone in my family becoming naturalized.
Everyone after that got it by being born here: a birthright, if you will.
Everyone after that got it by being born here: a birthright, if you will.
December 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
My fathers direct male ancestors came here in 1635, long before there was any concept of the United States of America.
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By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...
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Please repost!
Dear People of Santa Clara County. Please make a plan to vote in the Dec 30 run-off election for county assessor.
Please vote for Neysa Fligor to show that you don't support the Hyperloop fan Rishi Kumar, who is now trying to further wreck the local cities and schools of California!
Dear People of Santa Clara County. Please make a plan to vote in the Dec 30 run-off election for county assessor.
Please vote for Neysa Fligor to show that you don't support the Hyperloop fan Rishi Kumar, who is now trying to further wreck the local cities and schools of California!
December 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Please repost!
Dear People of Santa Clara County. Please make a plan to vote in the Dec 30 run-off election for county assessor.
Please vote for Neysa Fligor to show that you don't support the Hyperloop fan Rishi Kumar, who is now trying to further wreck the local cities and schools of California!
Dear People of Santa Clara County. Please make a plan to vote in the Dec 30 run-off election for county assessor.
Please vote for Neysa Fligor to show that you don't support the Hyperloop fan Rishi Kumar, who is now trying to further wreck the local cities and schools of California!
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this is really it — this case isn't about the legitimacy of birthright citizenship or the 14th amendment, it's about the legitimacy of the court, and any ruling that doesn't uphold the former decides the latter
Counterpoint:
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this is really it — this case isn't about the legitimacy of birthright citizenship or the 14th amendment, it's about the legitimacy of the court, and any ruling that doesn't uphold the former decides the latter
If you see this, post a Comics cover you love.
December 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
If you see this, post a Comics cover you love.
Watched episode 1 of Death by Lightning and I have thoughts
- is Charlie Guiteau really just a neurodivergent smol boy? He seems a collection of ADHD ticks with criminality throw in.
- I am begging cinematographers to rediscover contrast.
- Nick Offerman is great.
Overall good, will continue
- is Charlie Guiteau really just a neurodivergent smol boy? He seems a collection of ADHD ticks with criminality throw in.
- I am begging cinematographers to rediscover contrast.
- Nick Offerman is great.
Overall good, will continue
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Watched episode 1 of Death by Lightning and I have thoughts
- is Charlie Guiteau really just a neurodivergent smol boy? He seems a collection of ADHD ticks with criminality throw in.
- I am begging cinematographers to rediscover contrast.
- Nick Offerman is great.
Overall good, will continue
- is Charlie Guiteau really just a neurodivergent smol boy? He seems a collection of ADHD ticks with criminality throw in.
- I am begging cinematographers to rediscover contrast.
- Nick Offerman is great.
Overall good, will continue
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Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
This is anti-life
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This is anti-life
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Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...
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Cool thing to hear an opposition leader say the day after the president refers to somalis as “garbage” bsky.app/profile/atru...
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Cool thing to hear an opposition leader say the day after the president refers to somalis as “garbage” bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.
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it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
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I just had the great pleasure of finishing the most complex piece I have ever colored, a new version of George Pérez’s legendary Crisis on Infinite Earths poster. Originally painted by Alex Ross, this new version was inked by Jerry Ordway and digitally colored by me. New Absolute Edition of Crisis!
September 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I just had the great pleasure of finishing the most complex piece I have ever colored, a new version of George Pérez’s legendary Crisis on Infinite Earths poster. Originally painted by Alex Ross, this new version was inked by Jerry Ordway and digitally colored by me. New Absolute Edition of Crisis!
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So they're just transparently starting the drumbeat against a new vilified group just like they did with trans athletes, racial minority students, MeToo/BLM/anti-genocide activists, etc. right?
There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"
There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
So they're just transparently starting the drumbeat against a new vilified group just like they did with trans athletes, racial minority students, MeToo/BLM/anti-genocide activists, etc. right?
There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"
There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"
Apple feature request: use that same algorithm that prioritizes Siri input to decide which one of my devices to ring on a phone/FaceTime call instead of ALL of them. Cacaphony.
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Apple feature request: use that same algorithm that prioritizes Siri input to decide which one of my devices to ring on a phone/FaceTime call instead of ALL of them. Cacaphony.
It’s been two years since my dad took that final flight.
December 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
It’s been two years since my dad took that final flight.
@criterionchannl.bsky.social @criterion.bsky.social Would really love to see better subtitle support in your titles … More often than not watching a Criterion title is more difficult for my spouse because she relies on subtitles to help interpret the sound.
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
@criterionchannl.bsky.social @criterion.bsky.social Would really love to see better subtitle support in your titles … More often than not watching a Criterion title is more difficult for my spouse because she relies on subtitles to help interpret the sound.
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conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
This explains a lot about why Thiel has been going around talking about Antichrist
(Never mind that creating a mind purportedly in the image of man - i.e. God - is graven imagery of the rankest sort, and the False Prophets are all modern product managers)
(Never mind that creating a mind purportedly in the image of man - i.e. God - is graven imagery of the rankest sort, and the False Prophets are all modern product managers)
It's pretty funny how the Silicon Valley tech bros have all suddenly decided that the actual Pope is the villain in their little narrative. sfstandard.com/2025/11/10/m...
Marc Andreessen v. the pope: VC starts meme-war with Leo XIV
The venture capitalist quickly deleted his social media posts mocking the pontiff’s call to build moral AI.
sfstandard.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This explains a lot about why Thiel has been going around talking about Antichrist
(Never mind that creating a mind purportedly in the image of man - i.e. God - is graven imagery of the rankest sort, and the False Prophets are all modern product managers)
(Never mind that creating a mind purportedly in the image of man - i.e. God - is graven imagery of the rankest sort, and the False Prophets are all modern product managers)
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Idk man, the guy with crusader tattoos who spent his whole career defending war criminals who executed prisoners of war sounds exactly like the kind of guy who would order "Kill everybody. Kill the survivors."
GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "I don't think Secretary Hegseth would be foolish enough to make this decision to say, 'Kill everybody. Kill the survivors,' because that's a clear violation of the law of war."
November 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Idk man, the guy with crusader tattoos who spent his whole career defending war criminals who executed prisoners of war sounds exactly like the kind of guy who would order "Kill everybody. Kill the survivors."
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Best of luck convincing anyone who is on nextdoor san jose, or frankly lives in San Jose, that this is true. Especially recent homeowners who dropped $1.5M and expected a gated community for that price
sanjosespotlight.com/report-san-j...
sanjosespotlight.com/report-san-j...
November 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Best of luck convincing anyone who is on nextdoor san jose, or frankly lives in San Jose, that this is true. Especially recent homeowners who dropped $1.5M and expected a gated community for that price
sanjosespotlight.com/report-san-j...
sanjosespotlight.com/report-san-j...
@profanity.accountant please and thank you
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
@profanity.accountant please and thank you
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for