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we're bringing back damnatio memoriae. the 45th and 47th presidencies were filled by, officially, no one
Naming US government property after a sitting President is anti-democratic and naming it *after yourself* is pathetic. Trump's name should be stripped from the Kennedy Center when he's out of office.
December 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
we're bringing back damnatio memoriae. the 45th and 47th presidencies were filled by, officially, no one
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Without Harvard Law and Yale Law, I don't know if we'd have gotten this particular wave of fascism when we got it in the US.
There is a history book to be written about the role of Harvard Law and Yale Law in the creation of this authoritarian moment in America.
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Exclusive | Trump Told by Alan Dershowitz Constitutionality of Third Term Is Unclear
Trump’s former lawyer presented him with his forthcoming book that concludes the Constitution is ambiguous on the question.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Without Harvard Law and Yale Law, I don't know if we'd have gotten this particular wave of fascism when we got it in the US.
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one reason we have to bully the yglesiases of the world harder is because there are a bunch of people whose sole reading consists of Posts who are angrily reposting this demanding dem electeds stop being matt yglesias on this issue
New Quinnipiac poll:
57% favor path to legalization for undocs vs 35% who back deporting them
Trump underwater on immigration (44-54) and on deportations (42-55)
Meanwhile DHS's Twitter feed is a white nationalist sewer pit and Gregory Bovino is swaggering around like an occupying general
57% favor path to legalization for undocs vs 35% who back deporting them
Trump underwater on immigration (44-54) and on deportations (42-55)
Meanwhile DHS's Twitter feed is a white nationalist sewer pit and Gregory Bovino is swaggering around like an occupying general
December 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
one reason we have to bully the yglesiases of the world harder is because there are a bunch of people whose sole reading consists of Posts who are angrily reposting this demanding dem electeds stop being matt yglesias on this issue
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There has been one (1) period of sustained deflation (eg prices down for multiple years in a row) since the 1910s. That was the Great Depression. I understand why people (not Chris, he gets it) naively think prices should fall but I cannot emphasize enough how Bad that would be.
December 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
There has been one (1) period of sustained deflation (eg prices down for multiple years in a row) since the 1910s. That was the Great Depression. I understand why people (not Chris, he gets it) naively think prices should fall but I cannot emphasize enough how Bad that would be.
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With all the road washouts, the state transportation budget is going to be a mess. Maybe it's time we started looking at cutting projects that increase highway capacity and induce more sprawl.
Here's $86 million we don't need to spend.
Here's $86 million we don't need to spend.
I-5 - 179th St. Interchange - Interchange Improvements | WSDOT
This project aims to improve mobility for travelers who use the I-5 - Northeast 179th Street interchange. Signalized intersections will be removed and replaced with roundabouts at the on- and off-ramp...
wsdot.wa.gov
December 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
With all the road washouts, the state transportation budget is going to be a mess. Maybe it's time we started looking at cutting projects that increase highway capacity and induce more sprawl.
Here's $86 million we don't need to spend.
Here's $86 million we don't need to spend.
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i think what disgusts me the most is that businessmen valued harassing their female employees over their everything else, including their duty to shareholders
So cool how we just willfully induced a national malaise
U.S. business activity growth hits 6-month low in December reut.rs/4p9pBW0
December 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
i think what disgusts me the most is that businessmen valued harassing their female employees over their everything else, including their duty to shareholders
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This is a real headline on the New York Times website.
Support independent media.
Support independent media.
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This is a real headline on the New York Times website.
Support independent media.
Support independent media.
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Musk WILL turn off Starlink when Ukraine counter-attacks.
Musk WON'T disable Russia's use of Starlink.
But sure, buy a Tesla. Line the Russia-supporting Nazi's pockets. Pretend like it's just the normal "business as usual".
Musk WON'T disable Russia's use of Starlink.
But sure, buy a Tesla. Line the Russia-supporting Nazi's pockets. Pretend like it's just the normal "business as usual".
Musk’s Starlinks help russia to kill Ukrainians
Ukrainian military reports indicate that Russian Molniya-2 kamikaze drones are using continuous Starlink connectivity, significantly increasing their operational effectiveness.
Ukrainian military reports indicate that Russian Molniya-2 kamikaze drones are using continuous Starlink connectivity, significantly increasing their operational effectiveness.
December 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Musk WILL turn off Starlink when Ukraine counter-attacks.
Musk WON'T disable Russia's use of Starlink.
But sure, buy a Tesla. Line the Russia-supporting Nazi's pockets. Pretend like it's just the normal "business as usual".
Musk WON'T disable Russia's use of Starlink.
But sure, buy a Tesla. Line the Russia-supporting Nazi's pockets. Pretend like it's just the normal "business as usual".
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December 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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“Tech Force will primarily recruit early-career technologists from traditional recruiting channels”
they want to hire kids they can convince to build garbage that hands money to their friends and then abuse and discard them
they want to hire kids they can convince to build garbage that hands money to their friends and then abuse and discard them
here it is. barf techforce.gov
A new .gov domain was registered yesterday: techforce.gov. It resolves to an auth page that identifies it as part of the National Design Studio.
Trump and Musk eliminated 18F and destroyed USDS, and now the feds are scrambling to rebuild the capacity that they destroyed.
Trump and Musk eliminated 18F and destroyed USDS, and now the feds are scrambling to rebuild the capacity that they destroyed.
December 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“Tech Force will primarily recruit early-career technologists from traditional recruiting channels”
they want to hire kids they can convince to build garbage that hands money to their friends and then abuse and discard them
they want to hire kids they can convince to build garbage that hands money to their friends and then abuse and discard them
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They should run politicized community services. The GOP does this via their church network.
DSA organizes speed dating and other random outings; dems should as well. friday night magic, a stable of dnd dms, fill every niche. the fuck else are you doing, going to another gala?
It would be extremely smart if the Democratic Party held trainings and maybe subsidized equipment for members of local Democratic clubs to start making video content. Given the death of local news, there is a tremendous content void to be filled.
December 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
They should run politicized community services. The GOP does this via their church network.
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Stephen A: Skip I want to ADDRESS military spending in NATO
[Bayless nods]
You KNOW the President has done better than his predecessors in getting NATO allies to start budgeting adequately for defense
Bayless: Absolutely
Stephen A: BUT!
[Bayless nods]
You KNOW the President has done better than his predecessors in getting NATO allies to start budgeting adequately for defense
Bayless: Absolutely
Stephen A: BUT!
"The president has done better than his predecessors in getting NATO allies to start budgeting adequately for defense"
December 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Stephen A: Skip I want to ADDRESS military spending in NATO
[Bayless nods]
You KNOW the President has done better than his predecessors in getting NATO allies to start budgeting adequately for defense
Bayless: Absolutely
Stephen A: BUT!
[Bayless nods]
You KNOW the President has done better than his predecessors in getting NATO allies to start budgeting adequately for defense
Bayless: Absolutely
Stephen A: BUT!
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old twitter was like a place in interwar berlin, paris, or shanghai people have romantic memories about in spite of witnessing knife fights between prostitutes daily and heroin junkies overdosing
My pleases-nobody sense of Return To Twitter Discourse is that the place can never return to what it was, and can never return to the idealized past version we imagine either, nor can that idealized past version be constructed anywhere else because it was always romantic self-regarding bullshit
December 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
old twitter was like a place in interwar berlin, paris, or shanghai people have romantic memories about in spite of witnessing knife fights between prostitutes daily and heroin junkies overdosing
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It's kind of unbelievable how hard Bari Weiss and CBS News have been pushing their interview with Erika Kirk. Just total propaganda.
December 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It's kind of unbelievable how hard Bari Weiss and CBS News have been pushing their interview with Erika Kirk. Just total propaganda.
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Software enthusiasts when I drop an actual physical muntion on them in actual physical reality:
December 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Software enthusiasts when I drop an actual physical muntion on them in actual physical reality:
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Finally, bipartisanship will allow us to handle a censorship weapon to the Trump white house. Very smart you fucking idiots.
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Finally, bipartisanship will allow us to handle a censorship weapon to the Trump white house. Very smart you fucking idiots.
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it should be non-negotiable that if built it be torn down and replaced by a new and proper east wing and everyone who participated in tearing the old one down should be renditioned
Tearing it down or spending $100M shining the turd.
If it goes up, they're going to spend 50 years fixing it and trying to make it "integrate" with the rest of the building better. They won't tear it down for better or worse.
If it goes up, they're going to spend 50 years fixing it and trying to make it "integrate" with the rest of the building better. They won't tear it down for better or worse.
December 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
it should be non-negotiable that if built it be torn down and replaced by a new and proper east wing and everyone who participated in tearing the old one down should be renditioned
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all of these people were picked, in part, *because* they had no real prospect of advancing past where they're at. trump's the only person who would promote them, and everyone — both trump, and the people he promoted — all know it. it's why they're all loyal to him. that was the point.
like, rubio was never going beyond his senate station in any administration other than this one, noem was never going to the senate, hegseth has never been a politician, zeldin was a washout, loeffler's a loser, bondi was never leaving florida, gabbard was basically unemployable
December 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
all of these people were picked, in part, *because* they had no real prospect of advancing past where they're at. trump's the only person who would promote them, and everyone — both trump, and the people he promoted — all know it. it's why they're all loyal to him. that was the point.
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basically every successful developmentalist polity has pursued an export-led strategy--aka competition on the global market--rather than an import-substitution strategy--aka tariffs--because even though developmentalism involves (often huge!) subsidies, it *needs* the discipline of competition
December 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
basically every successful developmentalist polity has pursued an export-led strategy--aka competition on the global market--rather than an import-substitution strategy--aka tariffs--because even though developmentalism involves (often huge!) subsidies, it *needs* the discipline of competition
I’m convinced every commercial for vitamins is actually a commercial for antidepressants with how the people in them act.
December 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I’m convinced every commercial for vitamins is actually a commercial for antidepressants with how the people in them act.
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Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.
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Sam Altman almost certainly has a full-time nanny who does not consult ChatGPT.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Sam Altman almost certainly has a full-time nanny who does not consult ChatGPT.
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It’s so funny they go so far right, they come all the way around and invent the Affordable Care Act
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
It’s so funny they go so far right, they come all the way around and invent the Affordable Care Act
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WHICH MESSAGE WILL RESONATE WITH DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY VOTERS?
"Better angels of our nature"
OR
"Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger... I will punish the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pomp of the ruthless."
"Better angels of our nature"
OR
"Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger... I will punish the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pomp of the ruthless."
Once again, for 2028 I'm a single issue voter and that issue is post-Trump lustration. GTFO with "better angels of our nature" for once.
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
WHICH MESSAGE WILL RESONATE WITH DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY VOTERS?
"Better angels of our nature"
OR
"Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger... I will punish the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pomp of the ruthless."
"Better angels of our nature"
OR
"Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger... I will punish the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pomp of the ruthless."