Bryan
@bryanjwilson.bsky.social
This is exactly right. We don't need a bicameral legislative branch. And I don't see a compelling reason to keep the notion of a "state" as much more than an administrative entity.
The issue isn't who gets representation, it's that once you start unwinding federalism, why stop at presidential elections? Why bother having "states" at all other than as national administrative boundaries?
And why keep the Senate at all? Why not just a giant House, proportionally elected?
And why keep the Senate at all? Why not just a giant House, proportionally elected?
Sorry, but this is nonsensical. Federalism isn't a binary. Elect the President by national popular vote and both the little and the big empty states STILL get overrepresented in the Senate, which, need I remind you, confirms judicial and other nominations.
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
This is exactly right. We don't need a bicameral legislative branch. And I don't see a compelling reason to keep the notion of a "state" as much more than an administrative entity.
This is insane.
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This is insane.
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Taxing the heck out of the rich and redistributing to protect non-workers with the understanding that even workers were and will be non-workers throughout their lives is good and we should do it more. I don't want less snap/wic/tanf; I want so much more.
October 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Taxing the heck out of the rich and redistributing to protect non-workers with the understanding that even workers were and will be non-workers throughout their lives is good and we should do it more. I don't want less snap/wic/tanf; I want so much more.
Extremely well said.
Every single day of this administration, I have thought of my late professor Joe Nye and his work on soft power.
Every single day of this administration, Trump finds a new way to hemorrhage soft power from a country that once had more to spare than any in the world.
Every single day of this administration, Trump finds a new way to hemorrhage soft power from a country that once had more to spare than any in the world.
September 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Extremely well said.
It seems likely that even when this AI bubble pops, those with vested interest will parrot some bullshit about "trough of disillusionment" or shamelessly blame the tariffs or something.
Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop.
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
Reality Check
I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this and still, to this day, people are babbling about the "AI revolution" as the sky rains blood and crevices open...
www.wheresyoured.at
May 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It seems likely that even when this AI bubble pops, those with vested interest will parrot some bullshit about "trough of disillusionment" or shamelessly blame the tariffs or something.
It appears that instead of saving us money, they're costing us billions in revenue. Just relentlessly losing.
According to IRS estimates, the internal sabotage by DOGE has already cost the U.S. Treasury more than $500 billion in revenues that otherwise would have been raised by April 15th. But it doesn’t stop there. DOGE is also in the process of closing down the Tax Division at the Department of Justice.
DOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax Division
I didn’t know this until this morning. And I’m surprised it hasn’t...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
It appears that instead of saving us money, they're costing us billions in revenue. Just relentlessly losing.
"It’s too cheap, and too easy, to pay off the politicians for exculpation after the crime is done."
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Donald Trump’s Greatest Scam of All Is Unfolding Right in Front of Us. You Know Who the Mark Is.
America is now the world’s largest casino.
slate.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
"It’s too cheap, and too easy, to pay off the politicians for exculpation after the crime is done."
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
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Grateful for the opportunity last night to talk about this reporting by me and @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social
If you have information about Venezuelans sent to El Salvador, or at risk of being sent there, our info on Signal is linked here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
If you have information about Venezuelans sent to El Salvador, or at risk of being sent there, our info on Signal is linked here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"This is some of the finest journalism I've read in the Trump era so far," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @motherjones.com's reporting on the Trump admin deporting people to El Salvador, and in one case, over an autism awareness tattoo.
March 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Grateful for the opportunity last night to talk about this reporting by me and @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social
If you have information about Venezuelans sent to El Salvador, or at risk of being sent there, our info on Signal is linked here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
If you have information about Venezuelans sent to El Salvador, or at risk of being sent there, our info on Signal is linked here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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one of my iron clad beliefs is that there are very few actual “schemes” in the world. instead, there are just a lot of stupid, venal people and quite a few of them hold positions of real power and authority
"Corporate leadership is as stupid as everyone else and freaked out about viral shoplifting videos" isn't as exciting as "the pharmacies are doing fascist performance art so they can uh murder all poor people" but sometimes things really are just stupid
November 30, 2024 at 11:42 PM
one of my iron clad beliefs is that there are very few actual “schemes” in the world. instead, there are just a lot of stupid, venal people and quite a few of them hold positions of real power and authority
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One of the most impactful shifts that could happen in our lifetimes. Moving the shame where it belongs - with the abusers.
November 26, 2024 at 5:03 PM
One of the most impactful shifts that could happen in our lifetimes. Moving the shame where it belongs - with the abusers.
Nice knowing ya.
Mace tonight on Fox: “I will die on this hill.”
November 20, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Nice knowing ya.
MAGA's whole thing is elites are always getting away with shit - maybe don't further prove him right?
November 19, 2024 at 3:09 PM
MAGA's whole thing is elites are always getting away with shit - maybe don't further prove him right?
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It’s so funny how there’s just the one Irish Jew, the most important character in all modern literature; and then you have never heard of a single other one
November 19, 2024 at 2:09 AM
It’s so funny how there’s just the one Irish Jew, the most important character in all modern literature; and then you have never heard of a single other one
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NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found.
www.propublica.org/article/segr...
www.propublica.org/article/segr...
Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2024 at 12:07 PM
NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found.
www.propublica.org/article/segr...
www.propublica.org/article/segr...
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A lot of the positions people like RFK jr. take (anti-vax, anti-pasteurization etc.) get described as “controversial.”
They’re not. There is no controversy. This is long-settled science. The correct term is “stupid.”
They’re not. There is no controversy. This is long-settled science. The correct term is “stupid.”
November 16, 2024 at 3:33 PM
A lot of the positions people like RFK jr. take (anti-vax, anti-pasteurization etc.) get described as “controversial.”
They’re not. There is no controversy. This is long-settled science. The correct term is “stupid.”
They’re not. There is no controversy. This is long-settled science. The correct term is “stupid.”
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The only reason anti-vax attitudes were able to take root in the modern era is because vaccines are so fucking good at their job people forgot why we need them
November 14, 2024 at 11:49 PM
The only reason anti-vax attitudes were able to take root in the modern era is because vaccines are so fucking good at their job people forgot why we need them
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when the zoning is insane and you have to pander to interested parties and local politicos to build anything, the result is only wealthy connected elites can get anything built--that is, corruption
November 14, 2024 at 4:37 PM
when the zoning is insane and you have to pander to interested parties and local politicos to build anything, the result is only wealthy connected elites can get anything built--that is, corruption