BokonOnTheHook
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Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
October 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
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It’s insane the which the Very Smart Consensus continues to be that a party wins power by being polite, avoiding extreme positions, and providing detailed moderate policy positions, when the GOP has seized total control by doing the exact opposite of all of those things
October 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It’s insane the which the Very Smart Consensus continues to be that a party wins power by being polite, avoiding extreme positions, and providing detailed moderate policy positions, when the GOP has seized total control by doing the exact opposite of all of those things
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imagine thinking, in the year of our lord 2025, that Donald Trump is capable of human empathy
It says something about Trump’s all-out war on free speech that the New York Times couldn’t find a more credible person than “presidential historian” Craig Shirley to defend it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...
September 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
imagine thinking, in the year of our lord 2025, that Donald Trump is capable of human empathy
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Truth truth truth. Anywhere where truth is valued and not systemically eliminated will be targeted. It will lead to the frustration of the centrists who try to find moderation with fascism. With liberals who try to make peace with it.
Truth truth truth. It’s an essential ingredient to freedom.
Truth truth truth. It’s an essential ingredient to freedom.
September 16, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Truth truth truth. Anywhere where truth is valued and not systemically eliminated will be targeted. It will lead to the frustration of the centrists who try to find moderation with fascism. With liberals who try to make peace with it.
Truth truth truth. It’s an essential ingredient to freedom.
Truth truth truth. It’s an essential ingredient to freedom.
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we must start a 4chan movement that 'ironically' performs acts of charity, which gradually over time inevitably become real virtue.
Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there
September 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
we must start a 4chan movement that 'ironically' performs acts of charity, which gradually over time inevitably become real virtue.
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
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The last 100 years of US politics
September 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The last 100 years of US politics
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I honestly feel like this is all being done to mock, not to persuade. They know it's absurd to use a traumatic head injury that they caused as an excuse for starvation. They know those angry about it can't do anything about it. The absurdity is a flex of power.
Netanyahu shared a video from Olivia Reingold arguing that it doesn’t count as starvation if the kids in Gaza had preexisting conditions
August 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I honestly feel like this is all being done to mock, not to persuade. They know it's absurd to use a traumatic head injury that they caused as an excuse for starvation. They know those angry about it can't do anything about it. The absurdity is a flex of power.
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Republicans: disappear people off the streets and rendition them to El Salvador, crash the economy, build concentration camp in the Everglades, declare martial law in DC, eliminate cancer and vaccine research, align with Russia, disenfranchise Black people, tank in the polls
Political pundits:
Political pundits:
August 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Republicans: disappear people off the streets and rendition them to El Salvador, crash the economy, build concentration camp in the Everglades, declare martial law in DC, eliminate cancer and vaccine research, align with Russia, disenfranchise Black people, tank in the polls
Political pundits:
Political pundits:
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Words/phrases Democrats should never use:
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
August 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Words/phrases Democrats should never use:
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
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as a leftist, leftists need to be better at realizing that there are basically two groups of "liberals", one that means it and one that doesn't, and the group that means it is what you encounter on here while the one that doesn't holds most of the "liberal" elected offices and media sinecures
It's actually important to keep in mind, given how much left-liberal infighting happens on here, that when the predominant organs of American intellectual thought talk how much they hate "the left", they mean basically everyone on this site.
Maybe it's a cliche to say "listen to my hour long podcast and you'll understand you're wrong" but I do encourage @cathyyoung63.bsky.social to listen to this www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
Unless being consistently pro trans rights and pro Palestine makes you a "left wing rag" categorically
Unless being consistently pro trans rights and pro Palestine makes you a "left wing rag" categorically
August 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
as a leftist, leftists need to be better at realizing that there are basically two groups of "liberals", one that means it and one that doesn't, and the group that means it is what you encounter on here while the one that doesn't holds most of the "liberal" elected offices and media sinecures
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The thing about the right pretending to care about free speech on campus in order to end free speech is that it was obvious that's what they were doing, mostly because they said that's what they were doing, and all the "neutral" media people who credited them with good faith were part of the scam.
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
August 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The thing about the right pretending to care about free speech on campus in order to end free speech is that it was obvious that's what they were doing, mostly because they said that's what they were doing, and all the "neutral" media people who credited them with good faith were part of the scam.
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This is the core proposition & selling point for reactionary thought: not that they are better, but simply that *everyone* is corrupt, everyone is a crook, everyone's just out for themselves, so you might as well get yours. That is the molten core of right-wing thought everywhere.
Sen. John Kennedy defends Emil Bove: "If everyone is corrupt, nobody is corrupt."
(Not the flex he thinks it is ... )
(Not the flex he thinks it is ... )
July 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is the core proposition & selling point for reactionary thought: not that they are better, but simply that *everyone* is corrupt, everyone is a crook, everyone's just out for themselves, so you might as well get yours. That is the molten core of right-wing thought everywhere.
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People used to phreak their phones now their phones phreak them
July 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
People used to phreak their phones now their phones phreak them
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All the sins of Wade–Giles romanization, rendering
北京 as "Peking" and all,
are forgiven for setting up this joke.
北京 as "Peking" and all,
are forgiven for setting up this joke.
June 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
All the sins of Wade–Giles romanization, rendering
北京 as "Peking" and all,
are forgiven for setting up this joke.
北京 as "Peking" and all,
are forgiven for setting up this joke.
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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
April 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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the dominant ideology of Silicon Valley right now is "god does not exist, but He soon will, and He will be our slave"
March 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
the dominant ideology of Silicon Valley right now is "god does not exist, but He soon will, and He will be our slave"
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we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
March 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time
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the three unfortunately frequent problems “people don’t believe negative facts about the right”, “people believe any bullshit about the left”, and “the press thinks their job is to anticipate what people want to hear” are self-perpetuating
so many of america's problems are downstream of the fact that legacy media elites are infinitely more interested in writing the one same article about some kid at Cornell shouting that toothpaste is racist instead of covering that the SecDef is a member of a rape cult
the basic issue is that hegseth is a violent, monstrous bigot who belongs to a church which nonmetaphorically considers rape sacramental
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
March 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
the three unfortunately frequent problems “people don’t believe negative facts about the right”, “people believe any bullshit about the left”, and “the press thinks their job is to anticipate what people want to hear” are self-perpetuating
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the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.
In a leaked recording, State Senator Elena Parent (D-42) said she’d vote for Republican transgender healthcare bans because trans rights are too “unpopular."
"You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"
"You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"
March 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.
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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
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the past week of this administration policy
January 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
the past week of this administration policy
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Navigating the Nonsense and Propaganda of Clownish Authoritarianism
Ignoring what Trump says won’t work. Constant outrage is not a viable strategy either. I suggest we ask three questions that can help us engage Trump’s dangerous outlandishness.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
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Ignoring what Trump says won’t work. Constant outrage is not a viable strategy either. I suggest we ask three questions that can help us engage Trump’s dangerous outlandishness.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
🧵
Navigating the Nonsense and Propaganda of Clownish Authoritarianism
Ignoring what Trump says won’t work. Constant outrage is not a viable strategy either. We must find a more productive way to engage Trump’s dangerous outlandishness
thomaszimmer.substack.com
January 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Navigating the Nonsense and Propaganda of Clownish Authoritarianism
Ignoring what Trump says won’t work. Constant outrage is not a viable strategy either. I suggest we ask three questions that can help us engage Trump’s dangerous outlandishness.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
🧵
Ignoring what Trump says won’t work. Constant outrage is not a viable strategy either. I suggest we ask three questions that can help us engage Trump’s dangerous outlandishness.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
🧵