Enlightened Despotist in Name Only
@edino.bsky.social
A true DINO. (In reality a progressive incrementalist.) Math and board game fan.
Phila, PA
Tax the rich.
Phila, PA
Tax the rich.
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Last year, Republicans made the choice to defund Medicaid while giving ICE a $75 BILLION budget increase.
When Dems take back control, we can and must undo this abomination. Cut ICE’s budget. Fund healthcare. Reverse the House’s GOP cruelty and arrogance.
When Dems take back control, we can and must undo this abomination. Cut ICE’s budget. Fund healthcare. Reverse the House’s GOP cruelty and arrogance.
February 17, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Last year, Republicans made the choice to defund Medicaid while giving ICE a $75 BILLION budget increase.
When Dems take back control, we can and must undo this abomination. Cut ICE’s budget. Fund healthcare. Reverse the House’s GOP cruelty and arrogance.
When Dems take back control, we can and must undo this abomination. Cut ICE’s budget. Fund healthcare. Reverse the House’s GOP cruelty and arrogance.
At the end of the day, a poll tax is a very bad, unconstitutional idea.
Fetterman on Maria Bartiromo's show: "At the end of the day, showing basic ID to vote is a very reasonable idea"
February 17, 2026 at 1:16 PM
At the end of the day, a poll tax is a very bad, unconstitutional idea.
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You must vote. You must vote for the Democrat against Trump. There is no other remotely morally acceptable position. I’m sorry if this simple truth gets you yelled at but it’s still true
February 17, 2026 at 12:10 PM
You must vote. You must vote for the Democrat against Trump. There is no other remotely morally acceptable position. I’m sorry if this simple truth gets you yelled at but it’s still true
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
February 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
Think of the millions of people who will die bc of the evisceration of USAID as having something — a life — that a decent person thinks has a lot of moral value. Will you take the action, among those available to you, that is most likely to protect it? You might, if you aren’t a sanctimonious ass!
February 16, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Think of the millions of people who will die bc of the evisceration of USAID as having something — a life — that a decent person thinks has a lot of moral value. Will you take the action, among those available to you, that is most likely to protect it? You might, if you aren’t a sanctimonious ass!
“Oh so you think you should have to have a license to pilot a helicopter, but not to attend the matinee show at Medieval Times. Hypocrite much?!?”
Emmer: "Another reform they claim they want is they want ICE agents to identify themselves, to show identification. But they don't want identification for voters in elections. I mean, this stuff is just intellectually inconsistent."
February 16, 2026 at 10:35 PM
“Oh so you think you should have to have a license to pilot a helicopter, but not to attend the matinee show at Medieval Times. Hypocrite much?!?”
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The successful effort to force Biden out signaled to elite media that they had a veto over Democratic Party primary voters. Whether they successfully exercise it or simply try to in 2028 is an open question but bet your sweet nippy they’re going to try.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 8:04 PM
The successful effort to force Biden out signaled to elite media that they had a veto over Democratic Party primary voters. Whether they successfully exercise it or simply try to in 2028 is an open question but bet your sweet nippy they’re going to try.
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Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
If the criticism of Kat Abu running in IL-09 were essentially that she’s Palestinian, then yes, it would be illegitimate bigotry to be dismissed out of hand. But I thought it was that a) she just moved to Chicago from somewhere else *in the United States* and b) she still doesn’t live in IL-09.
February 16, 2026 at 3:21 AM
If the criticism of Kat Abu running in IL-09 were essentially that she’s Palestinian, then yes, it would be illegitimate bigotry to be dismissed out of hand. But I thought it was that a) she just moved to Chicago from somewhere else *in the United States* and b) she still doesn’t live in IL-09.
Biden did tons of things Americans supposedly wanted and they hated him for it. He was terrible on Gaza. Otherwise, he was the best president of my life, despite having a mostly uncooperative congress, and I’m 43.
But we didn't have economic stagnation for the working class. We had a period of unusually *high* wage growth for low income workers.
February 15, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Biden did tons of things Americans supposedly wanted and they hated him for it. He was terrible on Gaza. Otherwise, he was the best president of my life, despite having a mostly uncooperative congress, and I’m 43.
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But we didn't have economic stagnation for the working class. We had a period of unusually *high* wage growth for low income workers.
February 15, 2026 at 8:38 PM
But we didn't have economic stagnation for the working class. We had a period of unusually *high* wage growth for low income workers.
I can’t wait for this racist piece of filth who would happily participate in ethnic cleansing to die. Sorry not sorry to be so blunt.
I can wait for Elon to up and move to Dunfermline Scotland to return to his preferred heritage.
Why would he live in Texas whose cultural heritage is Spanish and Native American.
Why would he live in Texas whose cultural heritage is Spanish and Native American.
February 15, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I can’t wait for this racist piece of filth who would happily participate in ethnic cleansing to die. Sorry not sorry to be so blunt.
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Ideally you want to go ham on doing this. (I think, but I honestly don’t know what that means.)
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
February 14, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Ideally you want to go ham on doing this. (I think, but I honestly don’t know what that means.)
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The Cabinet this week
*RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat
*Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island
*Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims
*Noem blanket
*Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it
*Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”
*RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat
*Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island
*Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims
*Noem blanket
*Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it
*Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”
February 14, 2026 at 1:55 AM
The Cabinet this week
*RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat
*Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island
*Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims
*Noem blanket
*Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it
*Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”
*RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat
*Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island
*Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims
*Noem blanket
*Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it
*Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”
“Republicans have a tiny bit of agency, and, yes, they used it to do something bad, but you have to understand that’s only because democrats — the ones who have full-fledged agency, and thus deserve most of the blame — did something bad first.”
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 14, 2026 at 2:04 PM
“Republicans have a tiny bit of agency, and, yes, they used it to do something bad, but you have to understand that’s only because democrats — the ones who have full-fledged agency, and thus deserve most of the blame — did something bad first.”
DHS is shutting down shortly while the rest of the government remains open bc democrats (so far, things could change) actually handled this situation pretty well, but if you think those facts are going to have any effect on senate Gabe’s poasting, well, I’m afraid you don’t know senate Gabe.
February 14, 2026 at 1:27 AM
DHS is shutting down shortly while the rest of the government remains open bc democrats (so far, things could change) actually handled this situation pretty well, but if you think those facts are going to have any effect on senate Gabe’s poasting, well, I’m afraid you don’t know senate Gabe.
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“I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated.“
February 13, 2026 at 10:27 PM
“I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated.“
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I know a major climate group spent all of 2024 loudly and proudly proclaiming it could see no difference between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris that would justify actually voting for one over the other, but perhaps controversially I do not think a Harris Presidency would have done this
BREAKING: The EPA revokes scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger the public health, removing a key basis for the climate change fight.
Live updates: Trump's EPA revokes scientific finding that underpinned US fight against climate change
The Trump administration revoked a scientific finding at the center of U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, a significant rollback of regulations.
bit.ly
February 12, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I know a major climate group spent all of 2024 loudly and proudly proclaiming it could see no difference between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris that would justify actually voting for one over the other, but perhaps controversially I do not think a Harris Presidency would have done this
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Aside from bullshit that centrist outlets spout (which, to be clear, I am not excusing) we also need to acknowledge that the average American voter saw “Mass Deportation Now” signs at the GOP convention and thought “cool, as long as my car juice gets cheaper”. This is largely a nation of bigots.
Trump lied about immigrants in 2016 too. He then defeated an official from the administration that holds the deportation record.
If migration caused Trump's reelection (I don't think it did), it wasn't b/c of migrants. It was b/c mainstream, centrist outlets amplified fearmongering about migrants.
If migration caused Trump's reelection (I don't think it did), it wasn't b/c of migrants. It was b/c mainstream, centrist outlets amplified fearmongering about migrants.
Not going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf
February 12, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Aside from bullshit that centrist outlets spout (which, to be clear, I am not excusing) we also need to acknowledge that the average American voter saw “Mass Deportation Now” signs at the GOP convention and thought “cool, as long as my car juice gets cheaper”. This is largely a nation of bigots.
Since Bovino surely has absolutely no idea what he is talking about, we need to get someone to feed him a giant pile of elephant crap and tell him it’s like stewed wolverine or something so he eats it all and says it’s delicious.
February 12, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Since Bovino surely has absolutely no idea what he is talking about, we need to get someone to feed him a giant pile of elephant crap and tell him it’s like stewed wolverine or something so he eats it all and says it’s delicious.
“We simply have redefined due process to mean ‘summary execution if you don’t agree with us’ thank you, no questions at this time.”
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 2:54 PM
“We simply have redefined due process to mean ‘summary execution if you don’t agree with us’ thank you, no questions at this time.”
Oh word?
Update: FAMU says banning the word Black from a law student’s Black History Month flyer was a mistake, and the result of an “overly cautious interpretation” of Florida law
www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/10/b...
www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/10/b...
A Florida A&M University law student says the school told her to remove the word 'Black' from a Black History Month event flyer. The school says it is in full compliance with state law
February 12, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Oh word?