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Here are my concerns:
1. ending violence against women and children
2. reforming the legal system to better recognize (and protect families from) emotional abuse
3. anti-racism
4. public records law
5. crochet
[originally tweeted Nov 6, 2018]
1. ending violence against women and children
2. reforming the legal system to better recognize (and protect families from) emotional abuse
3. anti-racism
4. public records law
5. crochet
[originally tweeted Nov 6, 2018]
The thing is most people are good and kind, actually
December 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The thing is most people are good and kind, actually
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even setting aside the crazy politics of trying to override a wildly popular local ballot measure raising taxes on top earners to fund preschool for all, like, an entire-ass highway is currently closed "indefinitely" and there's no money to repair it? not the time to be blocking highway tolling
this post has everyone at christmas eve dinner crashing out. everyone is yelling / has bluesky open / is finding opponents to donate to. literally has ruined christmas lmao
Cutting property taxes for Oregonians affected by wildfires. Canceling planned freeway tolls. Pausing local new taxes in the Portland area. We have to keep going to make life more affordable for Oregonians.
December 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
even setting aside the crazy politics of trying to override a wildly popular local ballot measure raising taxes on top earners to fund preschool for all, like, an entire-ass highway is currently closed "indefinitely" and there's no money to repair it? not the time to be blocking highway tolling
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It was an unforgivable dereliction of duty that the majority of elected congressional Republican office holders were not in prison for open insurrection by March 2021.
I think it’s a reflection of their own attitudes. Both Biden and they were trying to live in a fantasy where those 4 years were a return to normalcy as opposed to the most urgent moment in American history to preserve what was left of democracy.
December 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
It was an unforgivable dereliction of duty that the majority of elected congressional Republican office holders were not in prison for open insurrection by March 2021.
If I had a credit¹ for every time the galaxy² was almost decimated because a guy named Ben couldn't get over his feelings for a guy named Anakin I'd have two credits, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice.
¹old republic
²star wars
¹old republic
²star wars
December 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
If I had a credit¹ for every time the galaxy² was almost decimated because a guy named Ben couldn't get over his feelings for a guy named Anakin I'd have two credits, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice.
¹old republic
²star wars
¹old republic
²star wars
Slow dawning realization of executives everywhere that they will not in fact be able to stop paying nerds to read stuff and know things, and that in fact those are probably load-bearing nerds
I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work?
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December 21, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Slow dawning realization of executives everywhere that they will not in fact be able to stop paying nerds to read stuff and know things, and that in fact those are probably load-bearing nerds
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I wrote my way through it on the meltdown over the Mets offseason, which has mostly topped out at a sort of abstracted melancholy for me. Includes an exclusive never-before-seen anecdote of me crying at summer camp when they traded Mookie Wilson. defector.com/theyre-outta...
They're Outta Here | Defector
I was able to hold it together until I was alone, but I cried when I learned that the Mets had traded Mookie Wilson. This was at summer camp, so the news might have been days old by the time it finall...
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December 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I wrote my way through it on the meltdown over the Mets offseason, which has mostly topped out at a sort of abstracted melancholy for me. Includes an exclusive never-before-seen anecdote of me crying at summer camp when they traded Mookie Wilson. defector.com/theyre-outta...
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The problem isn't that we can't talk to each other
The marketplace has heard the ideas
Large supermajorities reject them
Yet our anti-democratic political institutions allow the 20-25% that like those ideas to capture & control all the institutions
The problem is the anti-democratic institutions
The marketplace has heard the ideas
Large supermajorities reject them
Yet our anti-democratic political institutions allow the 20-25% that like those ideas to capture & control all the institutions
The problem is the anti-democratic institutions
CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
December 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The problem isn't that we can't talk to each other
The marketplace has heard the ideas
Large supermajorities reject them
Yet our anti-democratic political institutions allow the 20-25% that like those ideas to capture & control all the institutions
The problem is the anti-democratic institutions
The marketplace has heard the ideas
Large supermajorities reject them
Yet our anti-democratic political institutions allow the 20-25% that like those ideas to capture & control all the institutions
The problem is the anti-democratic institutions
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"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
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December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
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Since they're trying to blame this on Biden, here's annual measles cases since 2000:
December 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Since they're trying to blame this on Biden, here's annual measles cases since 2000:
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behold, the platonic ideal of social media
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
behold, the platonic ideal of social media
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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
We have Die Hard on and gas is 74¢
December 12, 2025 at 5:17 AM
We have Die Hard on and gas is 74¢
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everyone who suspected the admin was trying to hide something by spiriting him far away to a deep dark hole was right
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
December 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
everyone who suspected the admin was trying to hide something by spiriting him far away to a deep dark hole was right
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Look, it's the Mets. They have one job to do. Make it halfway through the season, to get your hopes up, before collapsing.
December 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Look, it's the Mets. They have one job to do. Make it halfway through the season, to get your hopes up, before collapsing.
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None of the Mets' moves feel entirely indefensible (so far!), but that doesn't mean it's fun to watch your favorite players go. defector.com/the-mets-are...
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
None of the Mets' moves feel entirely indefensible (so far!), but that doesn't mean it's fun to watch your favorite players go. defector.com/the-mets-are...
a billionaire, hungover, having just pulled the fire alarm at his company headquarters, standing at the window of his elevated office watching the sprinklers rain down on everybody's desk and computers: "We needed this."
December 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
a billionaire, hungover, having just pulled the fire alarm at his company headquarters, standing at the window of his elevated office watching the sprinklers rain down on everybody's desk and computers: "We needed this."
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Fifty different problems in the world just locked into one big uniform piece like a Rubik's cube in my head.
December 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Fifty different problems in the world just locked into one big uniform piece like a Rubik's cube in my head.
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I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
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December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
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Today seems as good a time as any to note my extended discussion of SCOTUS expansion here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Also, @epps.bsky.social and @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social specifically propose a lottery along @mmasnick.bsky.social's lines here: yalelawjournal.org/pdf/EppsSita...
Also, @epps.bsky.social and @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social specifically propose a lottery along @mmasnick.bsky.social's lines here: yalelawjournal.org/pdf/EppsSita...
December 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Today seems as good a time as any to note my extended discussion of SCOTUS expansion here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Also, @epps.bsky.social and @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social specifically propose a lottery along @mmasnick.bsky.social's lines here: yalelawjournal.org/pdf/EppsSita...
Also, @epps.bsky.social and @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social specifically propose a lottery along @mmasnick.bsky.social's lines here: yalelawjournal.org/pdf/EppsSita...
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Listen to the clip. Instead of immediately shutting him down when he lies that he hadn’t heard about the pardon of the Honduran president who was convicted of a conspiracy to smuggle 400 TONS OF COCAINE, Stephanopolous lets him spew insanities about how this one boat was the existential threat.
December 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Listen to the clip. Instead of immediately shutting him down when he lies that he hadn’t heard about the pardon of the Honduran president who was convicted of a conspiracy to smuggle 400 TONS OF COCAINE, Stephanopolous lets him spew insanities about how this one boat was the existential threat.
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If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
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If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.