Quintesson Lawyer
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Do any historians of the French Revolution like Lafayette? He seems to be a figure subject to almost universal contempt and derision.
December 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Do any historians of the French Revolution like Lafayette? He seems to be a figure subject to almost universal contempt and derision.
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Ah, yes, Ezra Klein, what vital argument have you prepared now?
Oh, wow, it's a heads-Trump-wins, tails-the-Dems-lose argument that is very light on anything beyond theorizing, supposition, and the Polls-are-King Fallacy Washington dipshits love.
Oh, wow, it's a heads-Trump-wins, tails-the-Dems-lose argument that is very light on anything beyond theorizing, supposition, and the Polls-are-King Fallacy Washington dipshits love.
September 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Ah, yes, Ezra Klein, what vital argument have you prepared now?
Oh, wow, it's a heads-Trump-wins, tails-the-Dems-lose argument that is very light on anything beyond theorizing, supposition, and the Polls-are-King Fallacy Washington dipshits love.
Oh, wow, it's a heads-Trump-wins, tails-the-Dems-lose argument that is very light on anything beyond theorizing, supposition, and the Polls-are-King Fallacy Washington dipshits love.
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Klein is fundamentally a media person and I do not trust media people on political strategy because their interests as a media spectator trump the outcomes of any political strategy proposed. Getting the story they want to tell comes before winning votes and elections.
September 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Klein is fundamentally a media person and I do not trust media people on political strategy because their interests as a media spectator trump the outcomes of any political strategy proposed. Getting the story they want to tell comes before winning votes and elections.
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Repeat after me: JB Pritzker is a great American who has literally done nothing wrong his entire life. I don’t want to hear any ‘’buts” either.
September 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Repeat after me: JB Pritzker is a great American who has literally done nothing wrong his entire life. I don’t want to hear any ‘’buts” either.
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Harry Enten said last week that trump successfully defeated the Epstein story not because he knew any facts about the story but because he knew that’s how his colleagues had already planned to cover it
August 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Harry Enten said last week that trump successfully defeated the Epstein story not because he knew any facts about the story but because he knew that’s how his colleagues had already planned to cover it
Sorry this doesn’t sound like a serious political organization.
if the twitter and forum wars stay on twitter and the forums, DSA can weather it and both sides can advance their goals.
August 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Sorry this doesn’t sound like a serious political organization.
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OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...
How to be a man
The right story narrative about male attractiveness is grounded in Social Darwinism and free market economics. Can progressives tell a better story?
iandunt.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Chicago taxpayers spent approximately $510.9M on employee overtime in 2024, with $273.8M going to Chicago Police Department members for working extra hours, according to records obtained by @wttw.bsky.social, I report with @jaredrutecki.bsky.social
Chicago Spent $510.9M on Overtime in 2024, Including $273.8M for Police, Down Slightly From Last Year
The amount of taxpayer funds spent on overtime by all city departments, including CPD, dropped in 2024 for the first time since 2021, when the COVID-19 pandemic upended the city’s operations.
news.wttw.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Chicago taxpayers spent approximately $510.9M on employee overtime in 2024, with $273.8M going to Chicago Police Department members for working extra hours, according to records obtained by @wttw.bsky.social, I report with @jaredrutecki.bsky.social
Klein has always been a bandwagoner. He has a real talent for monitoring what is bubbling up as the policy/politics smart take of the moment and jump onto it and somehow, every time, get credited with it.
YIMBYism was doing well w/o being associated with these guys IMO.
"In a few months, Klein and Thompson will headline an Abundance conference organized in part by the Foundation for American Innovation, a conservative think tank that helped co-author Project 2025" www.theverge.com/policy/70538...
"In a few months, Klein and Thompson will headline an Abundance conference organized in part by the Foundation for American Innovation, a conservative think tank that helped co-author Project 2025" www.theverge.com/policy/70538...
Why are liberals cozying up to race scientists?
“Race realists” are finding unexpected allies in the Abundance movement.
www.theverge.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Klein has always been a bandwagoner. He has a real talent for monitoring what is bubbling up as the policy/politics smart take of the moment and jump onto it and somehow, every time, get credited with it.
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A million front pages if Biden
Trump on Powell: “I was surprised he was appointed” (Trump appointed him)
July 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
A million front pages if Biden
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It is funny how left of center whites are like “Before the vile British invented evil, the people of Khlorzborpistan were a peaceful race,” and meanwhile, they’re like “The allegations that the great Khan Shi-Hang Murderrape killed hundreds of thousands are false. He killed *millions.*”
Spain would like to talk
300 years also lets you dodge the East India Company taking over most of South Asia by mere decades, though it’s also about 20 years to late for the Mughals to really be a superpower
300 years also lets you dodge the East India Company taking over most of South Asia by mere decades, though it’s also about 20 years to late for the Mughals to really be a superpower
July 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It is funny how left of center whites are like “Before the vile British invented evil, the people of Khlorzborpistan were a peaceful race,” and meanwhile, they’re like “The allegations that the great Khan Shi-Hang Murderrape killed hundreds of thousands are false. He killed *millions.*”
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I hate to say I told you so but… I told you so.
#mythofantiwartrump
#mythofantiwartrump
July 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I hate to say I told you so but… I told you so.
#mythofantiwartrump
#mythofantiwartrump
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Seems that someone in the administration issued talking points, which were then dutifully shared by those two outlets.
July 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Seems that someone in the administration issued talking points, which were then dutifully shared by those two outlets.
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One persistent issue, from the border to Afghanistan, to Gaza, is politicians assume thermostatic opinion jumps around on particular stances, when there's a consistent "get unpleasant ideas off the phone I'm addicted to looking at unpleasant things on" vibe. Ppl don't have theorized views here.
July 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
One persistent issue, from the border to Afghanistan, to Gaza, is politicians assume thermostatic opinion jumps around on particular stances, when there's a consistent "get unpleasant ideas off the phone I'm addicted to looking at unpleasant things on" vibe. Ppl don't have theorized views here.
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CPI actually came in higher than expected but the average person who gets financial news from their iphone’s stocks app is being actively lied to
July 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
CPI actually came in higher than expected but the average person who gets financial news from their iphone’s stocks app is being actively lied to
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It occurs to me that lots of folks have forgotten or never knew why Rahm Emmanuel is utterly unacceptable to segments of our community. I will not forget #LaQuanMcDonald, or who helped conceal evidence of how he was killed.
inthesetimes.com/article/laqu...
inthesetimes.com/article/laqu...
The Laquan McDonald Email Dump Shows Rahm Emanuel’s Administration in Crisis Mode
A guide to the documents released by City Hall in the aftermath of the Chicago police shooting.
inthesetimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
It occurs to me that lots of folks have forgotten or never knew why Rahm Emmanuel is utterly unacceptable to segments of our community. I will not forget #LaQuanMcDonald, or who helped conceal evidence of how he was killed.
inthesetimes.com/article/laqu...
inthesetimes.com/article/laqu...
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Also, the news loves mystery, soap opera bullshit. Once it reports a bad thing Trump objectively did, it considers the story over and done with. You need to give the amoral sociopaths a secret box to play with like Donald did with Hillary’s emails.
The answer is because it's perfectly reasonable to ask questions about what the President was doing with one of the richest pedophiles in human history, why he died under his presidency, and why he has no good explanation for any of it.
Why bother with speculative Trump-Epstein bullshit when they are so many real, terrible acts to address daily? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
July 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Also, the news loves mystery, soap opera bullshit. Once it reports a bad thing Trump objectively did, it considers the story over and done with. You need to give the amoral sociopaths a secret box to play with like Donald did with Hillary’s emails.
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I'll sign on to this and give it my own simpler version: the court is deeply and irredeemably corrupt and must be thoroughly reformed.
Ideally this would be through expansion and a new system of ten year terms and cases heard by subset panels of justices.
Ideally this would be through expansion and a new system of ten year terms and cases heard by subset panels of justices.
What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky.
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I'll sign on to this and give it my own simpler version: the court is deeply and irredeemably corrupt and must be thoroughly reformed.
Ideally this would be through expansion and a new system of ten year terms and cases heard by subset panels of justices.
Ideally this would be through expansion and a new system of ten year terms and cases heard by subset panels of justices.
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My sense is that the 22 agencies that were combined into the new Department of Homeland Security in 2002 generally functioned better before the combination. Isn't it worth seriously considering whether it's time to do away with DHS and disperse its various functions back to DOJ, Treasury, etc?
July 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My sense is that the 22 agencies that were combined into the new Department of Homeland Security in 2002 generally functioned better before the combination. Isn't it worth seriously considering whether it's time to do away with DHS and disperse its various functions back to DOJ, Treasury, etc?
“Oh, you DONT LIKE TO LICK OTHER PEOPLE’S ASSHOLES?!?!?”
Remember that like two years when everyone was convinced eating ass was the greatest thing ever and that everyone did it all the time
July 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“Oh, you DONT LIKE TO LICK OTHER PEOPLE’S ASSHOLES?!?!?”
Elizabeth Warren? Did you just start following politics this week?
NYT decided to perpetuate the nonstory of college application form—has any political candidate’s college application forms ever been a big story?—by framing it as a question (the answer is no) and “covering the controversy.”
Only newsworthy part is incredibly poor journalism. So they doubled-down.
Only newsworthy part is incredibly poor journalism. So they doubled-down.
July 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Elizabeth Warren? Did you just start following politics this week?
The NYTimes is a right wing paper that likes fancy restaurants.
July 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
The NYTimes is a right wing paper that likes fancy restaurants.
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I am no parliamentarian but if you can just hold the vote open indefinitely after the votes are in until you get the outcome you want that feels uhhh
not democratic
not democratic
July 3, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I am no parliamentarian but if you can just hold the vote open indefinitely after the votes are in until you get the outcome you want that feels uhhh
not democratic
not democratic