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It is Day 2 of Early Voting - tell your friends and family to vote 'no' on them all, if they want to know why, this thread covers Amendments 1, 3, and 4...
For reasons passing understanding, Louisiana will be having several elections through 2025, with early voting beginning tomorrow for one on March 29
Four constitutional amendments are on the ballot - quick thread on why I'll be voting "no" on all four www.notothemall.org
Four constitutional amendments are on the ballot - quick thread on why I'll be voting "no" on all four www.notothemall.org
NO to them ALL, Y'all
www.notothemall.org
March 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It is Day 2 of Early Voting - tell your friends and family to vote 'no' on them all, if they want to know why, this thread covers Amendments 1, 3, and 4...
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Last year, I wrote a profile of Vought for @motherjones.com:
The bureaucrat who could make Trump's authoritarian dreams real
Russ Vought has a plan to take presidential power to new heights.
www.motherjones.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Last year, I wrote a profile of Vought for @motherjones.com:
I needed someone to articulate this. The overwhelm is different and worse this time.
February 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I needed someone to articulate this. The overwhelm is different and worse this time.
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Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight.
"I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess."
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
"I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess."
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
February 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight.
"I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess."
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
"I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess."
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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YES
THIS THIS THIS
THIS THIS THIS
January 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
YES
THIS THIS THIS
THIS THIS THIS
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New from me: Trump is a lame duck, an old, tired, easily manipulated one, whose vanity is a useful tool. Foreign leaders like Claudia Sheinbaum are right to mock him, and American elites should uncurl from the fetal position and get in on the fun.
Poke The Bear
Donald Trump is a lame duck (not a bear)—an unusually weak one, in some ways—and he knows it.
www.offmessage.net
January 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
New from me: Trump is a lame duck, an old, tired, easily manipulated one, whose vanity is a useful tool. Foreign leaders like Claudia Sheinbaum are right to mock him, and American elites should uncurl from the fetal position and get in on the fun.
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Good piece here on what an actual opposition to the current Republican Party would look like: www.the-reframe.com/being-more-l...
Being More Like Republicans
Four simple observations on the recent election about the nature of opposition.
www.the-reframe.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Good piece here on what an actual opposition to the current Republican Party would look like: www.the-reframe.com/being-more-l...
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It's almost impossible to grasp the magnitude of US wealth inequality & concentration:
$100K saved for retirement is a 4.3-inch stack of $100 bills.
$1M: 43 inches.
$1B: 3,600 feet. 12 football fields. World's tallest building is 2,722 feet.
Musk: $486B. 330 miles high. 60 Mt. Everests, stacked.
$100K saved for retirement is a 4.3-inch stack of $100 bills.
$1M: 43 inches.
$1B: 3,600 feet. 12 football fields. World's tallest building is 2,722 feet.
Musk: $486B. 330 miles high. 60 Mt. Everests, stacked.
December 20, 2024 at 1:28 PM
It's almost impossible to grasp the magnitude of US wealth inequality & concentration:
$100K saved for retirement is a 4.3-inch stack of $100 bills.
$1M: 43 inches.
$1B: 3,600 feet. 12 football fields. World's tallest building is 2,722 feet.
Musk: $486B. 330 miles high. 60 Mt. Everests, stacked.
$100K saved for retirement is a 4.3-inch stack of $100 bills.
$1M: 43 inches.
$1B: 3,600 feet. 12 football fields. World's tallest building is 2,722 feet.
Musk: $486B. 330 miles high. 60 Mt. Everests, stacked.
Helpful sign at Walgreens reminding you that employees are also humans, so please don’t treat them like shit. 🙃
December 17, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Helpful sign at Walgreens reminding you that employees are also humans, so please don’t treat them like shit. 🙃
It’s hard to believe Rick Rolling actually happened in our life times. Feels like an artifact of a lost civilization.
December 17, 2024 at 8:45 PM
It’s hard to believe Rick Rolling actually happened in our life times. Feels like an artifact of a lost civilization.
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I wrote for Bad Faith Times about the behavioral advantages of the American right, which, according to recent research, values "in-group dominance" far more than its opponents.
bad-faith-times.ghost.io/the-american...
bad-faith-times.ghost.io/the-american...
The American Right And The Desire For In-Group Dominance
We're going to need more shit slingers on the left.
bad-faith-times.ghost.io
December 13, 2024 at 3:22 PM
I wrote for Bad Faith Times about the behavioral advantages of the American right, which, according to recent research, values "in-group dominance" far more than its opponents.
bad-faith-times.ghost.io/the-american...
bad-faith-times.ghost.io/the-american...
Excellent explainer for the seismic shifts underway.
We definitely got a good look at the shaking pipes and the steam within bad-faith-times.ghost.io/were-going-t...
December 7, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Excellent explainer for the seismic shifts underway.
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Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
December 4, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
The bigger story is how utterly lax federal agencies have been. No wonder this corruption is so widespread.
December 5, 2024 at 2:54 PM
The bigger story is how utterly lax federal agencies have been. No wonder this corruption is so widespread.
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NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy.
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.
www.texasobserver.org
December 4, 2024 at 2:13 PM
NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy.
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
Outing Nazis is such a wholesome endeavor. Great work!
NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy.
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.
www.texasobserver.org
December 4, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Outing Nazis is such a wholesome endeavor. Great work!
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The lesson from Gaetz's collapse: Not just that resistance can work, but how to do it in a smart and effective way.
Building on prior analysis of authoritarians' weaknesses, I look at why Gaetz imploded and how that can be used going forward.
www.salon.com/2024/11/22/r...
Building on prior analysis of authoritarians' weaknesses, I look at why Gaetz imploded and how that can be used going forward.
www.salon.com/2024/11/22/r...
Resistance is not futile: Gaetz's implosion shows how to use MAGA's own chaos against them
Trump's first nominations reveal the serious fractures in his coalition — which can be used to weaken him
www.salon.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:24 AM
The lesson from Gaetz's collapse: Not just that resistance can work, but how to do it in a smart and effective way.
Building on prior analysis of authoritarians' weaknesses, I look at why Gaetz imploded and how that can be used going forward.
www.salon.com/2024/11/22/r...
Building on prior analysis of authoritarians' weaknesses, I look at why Gaetz imploded and how that can be used going forward.
www.salon.com/2024/11/22/r...
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Ah yes, surely one of the main takeaways from #MeToo was that if police didn’t arrest someone for a sexual assault, then the sexual assault didn’t happen.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Senate Republicans are more receptive to Hegseth despite Gaetz’s exit
Senators stressed that police had investigated a 2017 allegation that Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, had drugged and sexually assaulted a woman at a California political conference ...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Ah yes, surely one of the main takeaways from #MeToo was that if police didn’t arrest someone for a sexual assault, then the sexual assault didn’t happen.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
@ffhitman.bsky.social whispers in the bushes say this is where the cool kids are hanging out now.
November 14, 2024 at 4:52 PM
@ffhitman.bsky.social whispers in the bushes say this is where the cool kids are hanging out now.
Yes. I’ve always used “translator” but with the same meaning.
In work life — at various times, copywriter, creative director, website architecture, journalist, editor — I think of myself as an interpreter: learn enough to ask an expert questions and break those answers down to folk who don't have that expertise, including specialists in other disciplines.
March 17, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Yes. I’ve always used “translator” but with the same meaning.