Sean
@quasirealism.bsky.social
I like analytic philosophy and public policy. New Englander. 🇺🇦🇵🇸
Hey @cnliberalism.org come get yer boy.
Gov. Polis tells CBS that Tina Peters' sentence is "harsh" and he's considering clemency for her. Peters, sentenced to 9 years on 4 felonies, has never disavowed her role as county clerk to breach her own election system to prove Trump's lie that he won 2020.
www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
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January 9, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Hey @cnliberalism.org come get yer boy.
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Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
January 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
ICE is shooting observers dead in the streets when the administration should be DEAD set on lowering the cost of living.
January 7, 2026 at 6:27 PM
ICE is shooting observers dead in the streets when the administration should be DEAD set on lowering the cost of living.
Metriod wants us to believe that advanced extra-solar civilizations have all converged on technology that is operated by rolling a ball into a thing. Implausible!
December 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Metriod wants us to believe that advanced extra-solar civilizations have all converged on technology that is operated by rolling a ball into a thing. Implausible!
There are a bunch of different universal healthcare models. Literally any of them would be preferable to the mess that is the US system.
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
There are a bunch of different universal healthcare models. Literally any of them would be preferable to the mess that is the US system.
SDUSA merch is absolutely dire. I know it's not much a going concern anymore, but surely there is *one* active member with a design background.
December 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
SDUSA merch is absolutely dire. I know it's not much a going concern anymore, but surely there is *one* active member with a design background.
A really surprising counterexample to this is watches. You'd think it's all 500K Richard Milles' but watch guys are like, "yeah dude, that $25 Casio is rad as hell. Got two of them."
Like really if you are looking to get into speciality coffee or bikes or photography or whatever, the cheap mass market option is probably fine to dip your toe in. Hobbyists posters don’t know your needs and if you get really into something you’ll develop your own tastes and opinions.
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
A really surprising counterexample to this is watches. You'd think it's all 500K Richard Milles' but watch guys are like, "yeah dude, that $25 Casio is rad as hell. Got two of them."
This is right but concedes too much. Even if they were foreign terrorists correctly designated, that doesn't come with any legal authority to kill them!
Batya might be just fine with a dudetrustme basis for a terrorist designation, but Americans with a functioning moral compass actually expect a plausible public rationale for who is to be treated as a terrorist in our name.
December 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This is right but concedes too much. Even if they were foreign terrorists correctly designated, that doesn't come with any legal authority to kill them!
Hell. Yes.
Via Punchbowl's Ally Mutnick, a top VA Dem says they're considering a 10-1 gerrymander. It's currently 6D, 5R. x.com/allymutnick/...
December 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Hell. Yes.
This shit pisses me off an unreasonable amount. 22 USC 4603 establishes 'the United States Institute of Peace," not Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace. And they're gonna go "oh, it's just unofficial" and nobody will have standing to do anything about it. Fuck these people man.
SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This shit pisses me off an unreasonable amount. 22 USC 4603 establishes 'the United States Institute of Peace," not Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace. And they're gonna go "oh, it's just unofficial" and nobody will have standing to do anything about it. Fuck these people man.
Living in New England, looking at NYC-DSA
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Living in New England, looking at NYC-DSA
Fucked up that the first Republican to represent SC-5 after Robert Smalls was Mick Mulvaney.
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Fucked up that the first Republican to represent SC-5 after Robert Smalls was Mick Mulvaney.
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Another powerful woman standing up ✊
On November 20, 2025, in Hillsborough, Oregon, a lone woman confronted a squad of heavily armed ICE agents who had set up a roadblock and refused to retreat.
On November 20, 2025, in Hillsborough, Oregon, a lone woman confronted a squad of heavily armed ICE agents who had set up a roadblock and refused to retreat.
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Another powerful woman standing up ✊
On November 20, 2025, in Hillsborough, Oregon, a lone woman confronted a squad of heavily armed ICE agents who had set up a roadblock and refused to retreat.
On November 20, 2025, in Hillsborough, Oregon, a lone woman confronted a squad of heavily armed ICE agents who had set up a roadblock and refused to retreat.
Government by boomer Facebook nostalgia post.
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Government by boomer Facebook nostalgia post.
So this is just a way for him to do another round of stimmy checks without the counter-cyclical framing, right? Hoping for that bump when people see his name on it?
Welp. There it is:
“The only bill I’ll sign is one where insurance companies don’t get any money and instead money goes to the people who will use it to buy insurance from those same companies.”
Glad we cleared that up.
“The only bill I’ll sign is one where insurance companies don’t get any money and instead money goes to the people who will use it to buy insurance from those same companies.”
Glad we cleared that up.
So the plan is to give the subsidy 💸 directly to Americans so we can individually go sign up for insurance.
Same system but just “make it harder for people to navigate”?
And it still won’t fix the problem of affordability or protect against junk plans that don’t cover anything.
#UniversalCareNOW
Same system but just “make it harder for people to navigate”?
And it still won’t fix the problem of affordability or protect against junk plans that don’t cover anything.
#UniversalCareNOW
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
So this is just a way for him to do another round of stimmy checks without the counter-cyclical framing, right? Hoping for that bump when people see his name on it?
Embedding is to metaethical expressivism as probability is to Everettian quantum mechanics. They're real problems, but problems everyone has, so chill out and have a drink baby.
November 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Embedding is to metaethical expressivism as probability is to Everettian quantum mechanics. They're real problems, but problems everyone has, so chill out and have a drink baby.
I rest easier knowing that the party of national suicide is also the party of political suicide.
i legitimately don’t understand what they think they’re doing here, from a political or strategic standpoint
NEW: Trump is asking Supreme Court to act by 9:30pm tonight to block the ruling that requires SNAP payments to be made.
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I rest easier knowing that the party of national suicide is also the party of political suicide.
Stanley either fled the country because he believed his employer might urge him "to see the fascists as just politically different," or he's just exploiting the very real dangers of this administration to juice his profile after a career change. In either case, total loser shit.
Jason Stanley isn’t afraid to use the F-word when talking about President Donald Trump.
The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future is clear: He believes the US is currently under an authoritarian regime led by a fascist leader.
The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future is clear: He believes the US is currently under an authoritarian regime led by a fascist leader.
I study fascism. I’ve already fled America.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”
www.motherjones.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Stanley either fled the country because he believed his employer might urge him "to see the fascists as just politically different," or he's just exploiting the very real dangers of this administration to juice his profile after a career change. In either case, total loser shit.
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I do not believe that a principled prosecutor such as Jay Jones would think that Steve Bannon’s crimes warranted imprisonment.
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I do not believe that a principled prosecutor such as Jay Jones would think that Steve Bannon’s crimes warranted imprisonment.