Don Zeko
@donzeko.bsky.social
Public defender in the South, politics obsessive, nerd stuff enthusiast. Also a dad, although I'm trying to respect the privacy of my increasingly feral children.
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oh it gets worse
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
oh it gets worse
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One of the cool things about being Trump opposition is that no matter how badly you seem to have screwed up, perceived or real, he's guaranteed to (1) change the topic, and (2) unify everyone against him within a couple of days. A week tops. Often within a few hours.
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
One of the cool things about being Trump opposition is that no matter how badly you seem to have screwed up, perceived or real, he's guaranteed to (1) change the topic, and (2) unify everyone against him within a couple of days. A week tops. Often within a few hours.
My most moderate opinion on here is that there is no moral equivalence between someone who does something bad and somebody who (incompetently or not) fails to prevent them from doing that.
The ACA cuts happened in the reconciliation bill in July, every single Democrat voted against it and they got 3 detectors so Vance had to break the tie, and the Dems just shut down the government for 40 days to try and get them to undo it, it is absolutely deranged to blame this on “Democrats”
Yes - this is a loss because Democrats have now signed on to ACA cuts as a complicit party and once again made it a less effective issue for the mid terms
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My most moderate opinion on here is that there is no moral equivalence between someone who does something bad and somebody who (incompetently or not) fails to prevent them from doing that.
It's kind of miraculous that the shutdown fight was going as well as it was last week because the Dems in Congress are in such a weak negotiating position. Then the moderate wig and Schumer still managed to be terrible.
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
It's kind of miraculous that the shutdown fight was going as well as it was last week because the Dems in Congress are in such a weak negotiating position. Then the moderate wig and Schumer still managed to be terrible.
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It’s such a bad idea, when one of his crimes was calling forth an insurrection, that he’s actually forbidden from holding the office by a constitutional provision, which a unanimous Supreme Court invented a way to turn off.
To repeat: Maybe electing a life-long criminal to an office where he can pardon other criminals wasn't such a good idea.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It’s such a bad idea, when one of his crimes was calling forth an insurrection, that he’s actually forbidden from holding the office by a constitutional provision, which a unanimous Supreme Court invented a way to turn off.
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I am JUST old enough to have caught a taste of the Before Times as a young adult, and yeah, I have pretty much universally found that under-30 LGBTs *literally do not believe you* when you tell them how significant the turnaround has been, and HOLY HELL does it leave me frustrated at times.
*deep breath*
Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y
Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I am JUST old enough to have caught a taste of the Before Times as a young adult, and yeah, I have pretty much universally found that under-30 LGBTs *literally do not believe you* when you tell them how significant the turnaround has been, and HOLY HELL does it leave me frustrated at times.
Videos like this make me think it's a miracle ICE doesn't shoot a couple dozen unarmed people per week.
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Videos like this make me think it's a miracle ICE doesn't shoot a couple dozen unarmed people per week.
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Looking at the GOP acting electorally suicidally and saying “they’re not acting like they’re planning on having elections” is like watching someone driving 90mph at a brick wall and being like “wow they must have figured out a way for this not to kill them.”
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Looking at the GOP acting electorally suicidally and saying “they’re not acting like they’re planning on having elections” is like watching someone driving 90mph at a brick wall and being like “wow they must have figured out a way for this not to kill them.”
Trump has staffed his government with straight up segregationists who are almost literally spitting on the graves of people who gave their lives for this country.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Trump has staffed his government with straight up segregationists who are almost literally spitting on the graves of people who gave their lives for this country.
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the OTHER thing is that no filibuster defender has yet to articulate why it is that people who happen to live in low density states not only deserve additional representation but also deserve to exercise a veto *on top of that*
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
the OTHER thing is that no filibuster defender has yet to articulate why it is that people who happen to live in low density states not only deserve additional representation but also deserve to exercise a veto *on top of that*
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high priest of bast: brethren, we are gathered to honor the most sacred animal, slayer of vermin, beloved of the sun, daughters of delight and brings of great prosperity.
(pause)
high priest of bast: just between us priests though can we admit they're real little shits sometimes
(pause)
high priest of bast: just between us priests though can we admit they're real little shits sometimes
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
high priest of bast: brethren, we are gathered to honor the most sacred animal, slayer of vermin, beloved of the sun, daughters of delight and brings of great prosperity.
(pause)
high priest of bast: just between us priests though can we admit they're real little shits sometimes
(pause)
high priest of bast: just between us priests though can we admit they're real little shits sometimes
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As I’ve gotten older, I’ve started to realize that we acclimate very quickly to the events which constitute History Unfolding Before Us, so much so that we’re lulled into the useless belief that Nothing Ever Happens.
No! We are in the middle of significant change. Take care to pay attention.
No! We are in the middle of significant change. Take care to pay attention.
Americans have staged two of the three biggest protests ever since just this summer, Democrats won by unprecedented margins Tuesday, Trump’s approval rating is the lowest it’s ever been, and the government is straight up closed until further notice.
Things have already happened and are happening.
Things have already happened and are happening.
November 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve started to realize that we acclimate very quickly to the events which constitute History Unfolding Before Us, so much so that we’re lulled into the useless belief that Nothing Ever Happens.
No! We are in the middle of significant change. Take care to pay attention.
No! We are in the middle of significant change. Take care to pay attention.
I've got way too many unassembled and unpainted minis already (and basically no time to play Warhammer at the moment) but the new Cathay range all looks amazing.
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I've got way too many unassembled and unpainted minis already (and basically no time to play Warhammer at the moment) but the new Cathay range all looks amazing.
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The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
November 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.
It only takes a casual familiarity with David French (even as generally a David French hater) to realize this headline is wildly misleading.
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It only takes a casual familiarity with David French (even as generally a David French hater) to realize this headline is wildly misleading.
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really illustrates just how stupid and unnecessary this whole shutdown is that we're almost 40 days in and Dems repeating what they've been asking for the entire time has people howling for blood because it's so unbelievably little that it must be them caving and surrendering
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
really illustrates just how stupid and unnecessary this whole shutdown is that we're almost 40 days in and Dems repeating what they've been asking for the entire time has people howling for blood because it's so unbelievably little that it must be them caving and surrendering
I have some concerns about Gideon if the partisan composition of the court stays the same for another 5-10 years
Federal judges can compel lawyers to represent defendants without pay, California prosecutors advise
Federal judges can compel lawyers to represent defendants without pay, California prosecutors advise
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have provided judges a memo advising that they have the power to compel any of the hundreds of members of their federal court's bar to represent indigent defendants without pay amid a funding shortfall that has led to a shortage of private attorneys available to take on new cases.
reut.rs
November 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I have some concerns about Gideon if the partisan composition of the court stays the same for another 5-10 years
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
The majority in Congress deliberately abolishing their own power might legitimately be a problem the Founders never considered.
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The majority in Congress deliberately abolishing their own power might legitimately be a problem the Founders never considered.
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<scratches head>
hasn't a big theme in the last few years been people being big mad about immigrants from central american nations?
i wonder what the collapse of the venezuelan state would do to impact that.
ah probably nothing.
hasn't a big theme in the last few years been people being big mad about immigrants from central american nations?
i wonder what the collapse of the venezuelan state would do to impact that.
ah probably nothing.
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
<scratches head>
hasn't a big theme in the last few years been people being big mad about immigrants from central american nations?
i wonder what the collapse of the venezuelan state would do to impact that.
ah probably nothing.
hasn't a big theme in the last few years been people being big mad about immigrants from central american nations?
i wonder what the collapse of the venezuelan state would do to impact that.
ah probably nothing.
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yeah for whatever reason this is a problem that is very present in academic lit about Global South countries but people for whatever reason don't seem to think the problem of paying legislators enough to do their jobs effectively / attract people who won't subsist on bridges and graft generalizes
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
yeah for whatever reason this is a problem that is very present in academic lit about Global South countries but people for whatever reason don't seem to think the problem of paying legislators enough to do their jobs effectively / attract people who won't subsist on bridges and graft generalizes
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I didn't have kids when it came out but my three year old is *obsessed*. I am here for this discourse
If FROZEN were released today. The discourse….
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I didn't have kids when it came out but my three year old is *obsessed*. I am here for this discourse
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This Jeanine Pirro video of her gloating about charging Sandwich Man is sooooo amazing in retrospect.
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
This Jeanine Pirro video of her gloating about charging Sandwich Man is sooooo amazing in retrospect.
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Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani