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@thefourteenthdwarf.bsky.social
Aspiring public policy wonk, committed anti-fascist. he/him.
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NEW: In the last few hours, Minnesota authorities warned people against attending protests, with a killer on the loose.
This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
DEFIANCE. 👏
#NoKings #50501Movement
(📸 Daviss)
This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
DEFIANCE. 👏
#NoKings #50501Movement
(📸 Daviss)
June 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
NEW: In the last few hours, Minnesota authorities warned people against attending protests, with a killer on the loose.
This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
DEFIANCE. 👏
#NoKings #50501Movement
(📸 Daviss)
This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
DEFIANCE. 👏
#NoKings #50501Movement
(📸 Daviss)
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One thing to say "hey he's gotta run for reelection in a Trump +30 state" but if you're not doing that you're doing stuff like killing the CTC for the love of the game
November 9, 2023 at 8:08 PM
One thing to say "hey he's gotta run for reelection in a Trump +30 state" but if you're not doing that you're doing stuff like killing the CTC for the love of the game
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McCarthy probably could have cut a deal with Dems to save his speakership but it is very funny that the Decorum Police expected them to do it for free
October 3, 2023 at 8:54 PM
McCarthy probably could have cut a deal with Dems to save his speakership but it is very funny that the Decorum Police expected them to do it for free
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I wrote about Elizabeth Warren co-sponsoring KOSA even AFTER Marsha Blackburn said KOSA was necessary to "protect minor children from the transgender in our culture." There's simply no excuse for Warren not to understand what KOSA will do. www.techdirt.com/2023/10/03/s...
Senator Elizabeth Warren Supports Bill To Silence LGBTQ+ Voices
At this point, any Senator signing on to support KOSA cannot deny that the bill has been written explicitly to suppress LGBTQ+ voices. The Heritage Foundation said so directly earlier this year. An…
www.techdirt.com
October 3, 2023 at 11:04 PM
I wrote about Elizabeth Warren co-sponsoring KOSA even AFTER Marsha Blackburn said KOSA was necessary to "protect minor children from the transgender in our culture." There's simply no excuse for Warren not to understand what KOSA will do. www.techdirt.com/2023/10/03/s...
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People will be like "you have to judge them by the standards of their own time" about slavers like Thomas Jefferson and like, buddy, in his own time *Thomas Jefferson* was starting to think Thomas Jefferson might be one of the baddies for being a slaver, let alone what abolitionists thought
Catherine's tweet is one of the best. Bringing it over here for preservation.
September 29, 2023 at 5:40 PM
People will be like "you have to judge them by the standards of their own time" about slavers like Thomas Jefferson and like, buddy, in his own time *Thomas Jefferson* was starting to think Thomas Jefferson might be one of the baddies for being a slaver, let alone what abolitionists thought
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Looks bad but the Supreme Court has made clear, in decisions (Skilling, McDonnell, Percoco) and by conduct (Thomas, Alito), that bribery is legal, so 🤷♂️
Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is has been radiating corruption for years, yet has managed to skate by. He deserves his day in court, of course, but no matter the verdict, the people of New Jersey, and the US Senate, deserve better.
Senator Robert Menendez Is Indicted in New York
Mr. Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, was charged six years after his trial in a different corruption case ended in a hung jury.
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2023 at 1:45 PM
Looks bad but the Supreme Court has made clear, in decisions (Skilling, McDonnell, Percoco) and by conduct (Thomas, Alito), that bribery is legal, so 🤷♂️
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There are less than 100 trans athletes in public school sports nationwide. Shut your fucking mouth you lying sicko
September 20, 2023 at 11:34 AM
There are less than 100 trans athletes in public school sports nationwide. Shut your fucking mouth you lying sicko
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We have leaked correspondence from anti-trans lobbying groups where they say they’re using sports as the wedge issue because everything else failed and there are liberals still taking the arguments at face value.
September 20, 2023 at 12:13 PM
We have leaked correspondence from anti-trans lobbying groups where they say they’re using sports as the wedge issue because everything else failed and there are liberals still taking the arguments at face value.
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Most Americans really do not want to think to hard about what mass surveillance *lowering* clearence rates implies about the guilt of many people who were convicted before it existed.
September 17, 2023 at 2:21 PM
Most Americans really do not want to think to hard about what mass surveillance *lowering* clearence rates implies about the guilt of many people who were convicted before it existed.
THIS IS REAL??????
You are not prepared for the name of Elon musk’s third child with Grimes www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...
September 10, 2023 at 9:18 PM
THIS IS REAL??????
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Presumably there'd be Congressional interest in a private citizen monitoring an ally's military in real-time, chatting with the enemy about it, then thwarting the ally. But the GOP House will protect Musk, and the Senate will likely continue its proud tradition of doing nothing.
September 9, 2023 at 4:59 PM
Presumably there'd be Congressional interest in a private citizen monitoring an ally's military in real-time, chatting with the enemy about it, then thwarting the ally. But the GOP House will protect Musk, and the Senate will likely continue its proud tradition of doing nothing.
A lot of my fellow YIMBYs are quick to say that gentle density won't save us. And generally I'm inclined to agree!
But like, goddamn would gentle density being legal everywhere help us out so much.
But like, goddamn would gentle density being legal everywhere help us out so much.
These look good & fit nicely into a SFH neighborhood. Probably 50% more density than SFHs though
September 8, 2023 at 4:40 PM
A lot of my fellow YIMBYs are quick to say that gentle density won't save us. And generally I'm inclined to agree!
But like, goddamn would gentle density being legal everywhere help us out so much.
But like, goddamn would gentle density being legal everywhere help us out so much.
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This is a feature, not a bug, of the policies and decisions made by the state governments of those states. This is the intended and desired effect.
New survey of 4,250 faculty in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas: "31% of those surveyed said they were 'actively considering' interviewing in a different state this year. In Florida, it was about 46%—and 28% said they’d already interviewed."
New laws in Florida and elsewhere are pushing faculty to leave, survey says
Forty-six percent of Florida respondents said they planned to look for university jobs in other states.
www.tampabay.com
September 8, 2023 at 1:54 PM
This is a feature, not a bug, of the policies and decisions made by the state governments of those states. This is the intended and desired effect.
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I wrote about Senator Blackburn making it quite clear that she intends KOSA to silence "the transgender," and wondering how the hell Democrats like @schatz.bsky.social can still support the law.
Marsha Blackburn Makes It Clear: KOSA Is Designed To Silence Trans People
It still amazes me that KOSA has any Democratic co-sponsors, let alone 21 Democratic co-sponsors in the Senate led by lead Democratic sponsor (and embracer of any bill that will undermine the inter…
www.techdirt.com
September 6, 2023 at 10:17 PM
I wrote about Senator Blackburn making it quite clear that she intends KOSA to silence "the transgender," and wondering how the hell Democrats like @schatz.bsky.social can still support the law.
My girlfriends roommate is a conspiracy theorist of the dumbest possible flavor and I have no idea how the two of us are going to get through a year of having to hang around a "independent who likes to do their own research" all the fucking time
September 3, 2023 at 2:10 AM
My girlfriends roommate is a conspiracy theorist of the dumbest possible flavor and I have no idea how the two of us are going to get through a year of having to hang around a "independent who likes to do their own research" all the fucking time
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A Saudi man has been sentenced to death for criticizing the government on two anonymous twitter/X accounts with a total of ten followers.
www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1...
Gosh, NPR, I can't imagine how the Saudi authorities could have verified his identity on X.
www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1...
Gosh, NPR, I can't imagine how the Saudi authorities could have verified his identity on X.
September 1, 2023 at 3:47 AM
A Saudi man has been sentenced to death for criticizing the government on two anonymous twitter/X accounts with a total of ten followers.
www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1...
Gosh, NPR, I can't imagine how the Saudi authorities could have verified his identity on X.
www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1...
Gosh, NPR, I can't imagine how the Saudi authorities could have verified his identity on X.
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If there's one thing you never hear in this country, it's liberals talking about workers who have been left behind
Nicholas Kristof cite one valid example of anything ever challenge
August 31, 2023 at 1:28 AM
If there's one thing you never hear in this country, it's liberals talking about workers who have been left behind
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There's lots of stuff in the Current Affairs piece on Chasten Buttigieg that are deeply inappropriate and offensive but saying explicitly their children were adopted to soften Pete Buttigieg's reputation on race stands out as the most offensive to me
August 29, 2023 at 3:49 PM
There's lots of stuff in the Current Affairs piece on Chasten Buttigieg that are deeply inappropriate and offensive but saying explicitly their children were adopted to soften Pete Buttigieg's reputation on race stands out as the most offensive to me
No one I know seems to want bluesky codes, so if we're mutuals and you know someone wanting an invite, lemme know
August 17, 2023 at 12:03 AM
No one I know seems to want bluesky codes, so if we're mutuals and you know someone wanting an invite, lemme know
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i’m generally not an accelerationist, but if Congress passes ethics rules and SCOTUS ignores them, it would force a lot of people to confront the scope of what’s happening with this Court. it’s not that it would cause a constitutional crisis as much as it would reveal that we’re already in one.
July 29, 2023 at 5:28 PM
i’m generally not an accelerationist, but if Congress passes ethics rules and SCOTUS ignores them, it would force a lot of people to confront the scope of what’s happening with this Court. it’s not that it would cause a constitutional crisis as much as it would reveal that we’re already in one.
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There’s a jury instruction that says “You may, but are not required to, presume that a person intends the natural and probable consequences of their actions.”
I don't think it does! I think he probably posted that for political purposes. Which is exploitative. But that the purpose wasn't to spread CSAM to pedophiles
July 28, 2023 at 1:11 AM
There’s a jury instruction that says “You may, but are not required to, presume that a person intends the natural and probable consequences of their actions.”
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It's not that the SAT is a good test (it isn't) it's that any subjective measure (which is basically all of them besides standardized tests) is going to get gamed by the rich more than objective measures that make it much harder for them to cheat.
July 24, 2023 at 4:17 PM
It's not that the SAT is a good test (it isn't) it's that any subjective measure (which is basically all of them besides standardized tests) is going to get gamed by the rich more than objective measures that make it much harder for them to cheat.
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Come ON, @jay.bsky.team. This garbage is so unacceptable. You owe the community, and ESPECIALLY the Blacksky community a massive apology, alongside a firmly stated and backed up commitment to do better with tangible, objective actions that the community can track and hold you accountable to.
July 13, 2023 at 1:02 AM
Come ON, @jay.bsky.team. This garbage is so unacceptable. You owe the community, and ESPECIALLY the Blacksky community a massive apology, alongside a firmly stated and backed up commitment to do better with tangible, objective actions that the community can track and hold you accountable to.
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Some people genuinely struggle to comprehend just how horrifying qualified immunity is in practice. People want to believe it's about split-second, lives-at-stake, no-good-options decisions by police officers. Their minds refuse to believe the kind of facts routinely blessed by district courts.
July 7, 2023 at 10:18 PM
Some people genuinely struggle to comprehend just how horrifying qualified immunity is in practice. People want to believe it's about split-second, lives-at-stake, no-good-options decisions by police officers. Their minds refuse to believe the kind of facts routinely blessed by district courts.