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Writer. Socialist. Bob Dylan psycho. SF Giants & 49ers idiot. Proud Luddite. Unionized. Classic SF&F dork. On a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
A consequential photo. It captured such unacceptable state behavior, Florida Democrats defected to W. Bush, setting up the SCOTUS ruling which began our long constitutional crisis.
Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
A consequential photo. It captured such unacceptable state behavior, Florida Democrats defected to W. Bush, setting up the SCOTUS ruling which began our long constitutional crisis.
Relentless evisceration, glorious to behold
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Relentless evisceration, glorious to behold
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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Schumer sucks but also he's just an empty suit. Every senator went along with this deal and Schumer did not order them to nor is he capable of issuing such an order.
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Schumer sucks but also he's just an empty suit. Every senator went along with this deal and Schumer did not order them to nor is he capable of issuing such an order.
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This hidden provision is so crooked and selfish, it doesn't even apply to US Representatives. Just US Senators.
Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This hidden provision is so crooked and selfish, it doesn't even apply to US Representatives. Just US Senators.
And now they're saying, "people learned we are the party of healthcare."
Assuming this is the takeaway (it isn't), with the same effort, time, and result, they could have also become the "stop ICE," "save the CDC," and the "stop murdering Carribean fisherman" party.
Assuming this is the takeaway (it isn't), with the same effort, time, and result, they could have also become the "stop ICE," "save the CDC," and the "stop murdering Carribean fisherman" party.
We were told they couldn’t fight or even talk about anything else because health care was the winning hand.
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
And now they're saying, "people learned we are the party of healthcare."
Assuming this is the takeaway (it isn't), with the same effort, time, and result, they could have also become the "stop ICE," "save the CDC," and the "stop murdering Carribean fisherman" party.
Assuming this is the takeaway (it isn't), with the same effort, time, and result, they could have also become the "stop ICE," "save the CDC," and the "stop murdering Carribean fisherman" party.
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If the outcomes aren't the most important thing, it's not even politics. Politics is literally about the outcomes. What he's describing here is cosplaying.
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If the outcomes aren't the most important thing, it's not even politics. Politics is literally about the outcomes. What he's describing here is cosplaying.
Irony this heavy-handed would not make it past an editor.
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Irony this heavy-handed would not make it past an editor.
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I missed this awful detail in the Senate deal: helping politicians who conspired against America as part of Trump's coup hide their phone records.
That's right, as ICE brutally violates rights in ways that leave people with no recourse, the Senate found time to protect their colleagues from justice.
That's right, as ICE brutally violates rights in ways that leave people with no recourse, the Senate found time to protect their colleagues from justice.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I missed this awful detail in the Senate deal: helping politicians who conspired against America as part of Trump's coup hide their phone records.
That's right, as ICE brutally violates rights in ways that leave people with no recourse, the Senate found time to protect their colleagues from justice.
That's right, as ICE brutally violates rights in ways that leave people with no recourse, the Senate found time to protect their colleagues from justice.
Even tho 38 Democrats supposedly think this is a terrible deal that they wouldn't vote for, they all just agreed to move it forward rather than use procedural tools to slow it down.
By UC:
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Even tho 38 Democrats supposedly think this is a terrible deal that they wouldn't vote for, they all just agreed to move it forward rather than use procedural tools to slow it down.
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That it only started 10 months ago will be news to the many activists who were expelled, fired, beaten, and arrested for their speech during the Biden administration.
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
That it only started 10 months ago will be news to the many activists who were expelled, fired, beaten, and arrested for their speech during the Biden administration.
This thinking is exactly how we lost Roe.
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This thinking is exactly how we lost Roe.
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Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
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They not only said this in March, they spent the last 6 months telling us all that everything else, from ICE kidnapping people off the streets to every bit of economic fuckery to genocides around the world, are all a distraction for *this fight* that they fucking folded on.
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
They not only said this in March, they spent the last 6 months telling us all that everything else, from ICE kidnapping people off the streets to every bit of economic fuckery to genocides around the world, are all a distraction for *this fight* that they fucking folded on.
It's always the next vote. The next election. September. December. Tomorrow. Eventually.
That December vote is a huge moment we can turn into a victory. People are watching. Good bill, we win; they cheat, they will lose. If we fight united.
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's always the next vote. The next election. September. December. Tomorrow. Eventually.
Doesn't care if you die so long as he doesnt get stuck in the airport 👇
I will not support the Republican bill that’s on the Senate floor because it fails to do anything of substance to fix America’s healthcare crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Doesn't care if you die so long as he doesnt get stuck in the airport 👇
The words of a man who consigned untold numbers of people to immiseration so he didnt have to cancel his holiday plans:
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The words of a man who consigned untold numbers of people to immiseration so he didnt have to cancel his holiday plans:
30 hours ago ACA subsidies expiring was *the* existential crisis for Americans and today its a "minor-league issue within the Democratic Party."
Tim Kaine is on MSNBC accusing Katy Tur of "overdramatizing" the way he and some other Democrats caved. "This is by far a minor-league issue within the Democratic Party," Kaine said.
He's completely out of touch, or just lying.
He's completely out of touch, or just lying.
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
30 hours ago ACA subsidies expiring was *the* existential crisis for Americans and today its a "minor-league issue within the Democratic Party."
Every state gets two Senators
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Every state gets two Senators
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A fantastic investigation showing that the unit run by Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol agent in charge of racial profiling in LA and Chicago, is an outlier even in an agency already notorious for unnecessary use of force. Obama and Biden could have fired him, but didn't.
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A fantastic investigation showing that the unit run by Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol agent in charge of racial profiling in LA and Chicago, is an outlier even in an agency already notorious for unnecessary use of force. Obama and Biden could have fired him, but didn't.
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
You aren't even 24 hours out from having given him everything he wants
First, Trump pardoned the violent insurrectionists who beat cops.
Now, he pardons the key instigators of January 6th.
We need to see this for what it is:
An attempt to erase history, so it can be repeated.
Now, he pardons the key instigators of January 6th.
We need to see this for what it is:
An attempt to erase history, so it can be repeated.
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
You aren't even 24 hours out from having given him everything he wants
I wonder how many people are going to get sick or be hungry or have their lives completely ruined so Tim Kaine can have his glass of Maker's Mark on Thanksgiving.
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I wonder how many people are going to get sick or be hungry or have their lives completely ruined so Tim Kaine can have his glass of Maker's Mark on Thanksgiving.
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Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.