Indiscreet Function
@homotopic.bsky.social
Jew. Mostly leftist. Queer. Most people refer to me with the pronouns "he/him" and I acquiesce in this.
Haters gonna hate but Wicked: For Good was fabulous.
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Haters gonna hate but Wicked: For Good was fabulous.
This is obviously incorrect
Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This is obviously incorrect
Amazing
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Amazing
Is there any prospect that Jared Polis would actually do this????
NEW: Colorado’s county election clerks (majority Republican) implore Gov Polis (D) not to release Tina Peters to the Trump administration. Their joint letter says it would be a slap in the face to clerks who endure threats due to Peters’ election rigging conspiracy theories.
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Is there any prospect that Jared Polis would actually do this????
These people tell us that sex is determined by whether you make small gametes or large gametes and also tell us that it is obvious, can't have both sorry!
Who does this …reptile… think she is speaking for anyone else?
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
These people tell us that sex is determined by whether you make small gametes or large gametes and also tell us that it is obvious, can't have both sorry!
A violent criminal gang on a kidnapping spree
America 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A violent criminal gang on a kidnapping spree
Zelensky should hold firm, Trump has limited leverage here--Trump will not follow through on this threat for long in the face of domestic political pressure, we've seen this movie before and Trump is even weaker now
*US THREATENS TO CUT INTEL, WEAPONS SUPPLY TO UKRAINE: REUTERS
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Zelensky should hold firm, Trump has limited leverage here--Trump will not follow through on this threat for long in the face of domestic political pressure, we've seen this movie before and Trump is even weaker now
Not the biggest issue here but it is outrageous that this plan provides for the US getting tribute payments from Ukraine's reconstruction
Read the full text of Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan on.ft.com/4ibYCHp
Read the full text of Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
[FREE TO READ] Proposed deal would limit size of Ukrainian forces and calls on Kyiv to withdraw troops from eastern Donetsk
on.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Not the biggest issue here but it is outrageous that this plan provides for the US getting tribute payments from Ukraine's reconstruction
The most offensive thing about this to me is that it doesn't even work as a dig, there are more Bluesky users than there are adopters of any uniform law because there are only fifty states
What is this dig at BlueSky doing in a judicial opinion? www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The most offensive thing about this to me is that it doesn't even work as a dig, there are more Bluesky users than there are adopters of any uniform law because there are only fifty states
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
Obviously disqualifying
November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Obviously disqualifying
I don't understand what "Hegelian" is supposed to mean in that sentence
This week’s scorecard of German Idealism in legal documents:
Kant 1
Hegel ?
Left: Hunter Biden motion for default judgment
Right: Judge Smith’s dissent in Texas redistricting case
(Smith’s reference is obviously meant to be negative, but given the tenor of the dissent, how to score?)
Kant 1
Hegel ?
Left: Hunter Biden motion for default judgment
Right: Judge Smith’s dissent in Texas redistricting case
(Smith’s reference is obviously meant to be negative, but given the tenor of the dissent, how to score?)
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I don't understand what "Hegelian" is supposed to mean in that sentence
Also, it's not just a due process issue, you can't even murder people who have been validly convicted of a crime
1) There were interviews. Fox didn't air them.
2) Due process isn't just for people we think are innocent. It's for everyone, even when we think they are guilty.
3) The US benefits from countries observing the traditional laws of the sea, and has every reason to set that example.
2) Due process isn't just for people we think are innocent. It's for everyone, even when we think they are guilty.
3) The US benefits from countries observing the traditional laws of the sea, and has every reason to set that example.
Cotton on Trump's boat strikes: "Use common sense. If any of these had been boats full of fisherman or refugees, CNN would've already been on the ground & interviewed all their families & told their stories. We can be confident all of these strikes have been against cartel-based drug traffickers."
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Also, it's not just a due process issue, you can't even murder people who have been validly convicted of a crime
"But its headline-grabbing LGBTQ+ figure requires some clarification: It is based on a survey of 181 volunteer respondents, with limited participation from Orthodox students, making it impossible to know how precisely it reflects the entire population of aspiring rabbis."
A new study finds 51 percent of current rabbinical students identify as LGBTQ, reflecting major shifts in American Jewish life. Educators say queer rabbis bring empathy, resilience, and leadership at a time of rising challenges.
www.jpost.com/diaspora/art...
www.jpost.com/diaspora/art...
Study finds surge of LGBTQ rabbinical students | The Jerusalem Post
“It signals that American progressive Jewish life has evolved to the point where LGBTQ inclusion is a no-brainer.” said Hannah Karpel-Pomerantz
www.jpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"But its headline-grabbing LGBTQ+ figure requires some clarification: It is based on a survey of 181 volunteer respondents, with limited participation from Orthodox students, making it impossible to know how precisely it reflects the entire population of aspiring rabbis."
Make it stop
so, in summary, ny-12 primary has:
* a nadler's protege
* a state assemblyman hated by the AI lobby
* a nyc council member
* a civil rights lawyer
* a rhodes scholar nonprofit guy
* the host of All Things Considered
* a march for our lives co-founder
* jfk's online grandson
* kellyanne conway's ex
* a nadler's protege
* a state assemblyman hated by the AI lobby
* a nyc council member
* a civil rights lawyer
* a rhodes scholar nonprofit guy
* the host of All Things Considered
* a march for our lives co-founder
* jfk's online grandson
* kellyanne conway's ex
"Mr. Conway outlined his pitch on Tuesday night at a private virtual event for paid members of Democracy Docket, the media outlet founded by Marc Elias, the Democratic attorney." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
November 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Make it stop
No
"Mr. Conway outlined his pitch on Tuesday night at a private virtual event for paid members of Democracy Docket, the media outlet founded by Marc Elias, the Democratic attorney." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
George Conway, a Vocal Foe of Trump, Eyes Congressional Run
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
No
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This case is well-known to D.C. prosecutors. In fact, the process of taking an indictment where a portion has been rejected, re-drafting it, and presenting the amended version to the grand jury for a vote is called "Gaitherizing."
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This case is well-known to D.C. prosecutors. In fact, the process of taking an indictment where a portion has been rejected, re-drafting it, and presenting the amended version to the grand jury for a vote is called "Gaitherizing."
Not naming the main perpetrators of the atrocities or the major backer of the perpetrators (the UAE)
Trump is now turning his attention to Sudan. We’ll see if the warring factions there want to play his games.
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Not naming the main perpetrators of the atrocities or the major backer of the perpetrators (the UAE)
This is a key fact--it wasn't Halligan who did this but the magistrate
That confused the magistrate because there seemed to be a facial discrepancy between the two documents handed up by the foreperson.
So, for the record, she had the foreperson pencil in an amendment to the grand jury’s no bill report, specifying that the no bill was to Count 1.
So, for the record, she had the foreperson pencil in an amendment to the grand jury’s no bill report, specifying that the no bill was to Count 1.
November 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This is a key fact--it wasn't Halligan who did this but the magistrate
I think this is right as to what happened and it's way worse than the "clean up to avoid embarrassment" story that it seemed to be before
The issue here is basically that the actual written document the grand jury returned just said they no-billed the whole thing. We have the GJ foreperson’s word that they *would have* voted out just the other two, but that doesn’t seem to be what actually happened and that’s not good enough.
November 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I think this is right as to what happened and it's way worse than the "clean up to avoid embarrassment" story that it seemed to be before
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The issue landscape has changed dramatically over the last year - Democrats successfully have simultaneously raised the salience and expanded our trust advantage on our best issue (healthcare) *and* dramatically improved our trust advantage on the cost of living and the economy
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The issue landscape has changed dramatically over the last year - Democrats successfully have simultaneously raised the salience and expanded our trust advantage on our best issue (healthcare) *and* dramatically improved our trust advantage on the cost of living and the economy
"Brianna Wu, a fund-raiser"
Brianna Wu, a fund-raiser who has had an “F” on her passport but expects to receive an “M” when it expires, told Amy: “A trans woman in sports understands that they’re kind of playing on the edge of something. But this makes me out myself every time I use my passport."
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"Brianna Wu, a fund-raiser"
Are they going to do a shutdown again when the funding runs out and the ACA subsidies vote fails? Or have they exhausted their credibility such that they have no leverage? I think the latter, what's the case for the former?
Is there a serious rebuttal to this argument by @eliasisquith.blog? (e.g., not yelling, hand waving or "Kaine sold out" nonsense)? If not, then Sen. @timkaine was right? bluevirginia.us/2025/11/wedn...
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Are they going to do a shutdown again when the funding runs out and the ACA subsidies vote fails? Or have they exhausted their credibility such that they have no leverage? I think the latter, what's the case for the former?
"Though he has never held or run for office before, Mr. Schlossberg enters the primary with something none of his opponents have: a direct familial connection to the Kennedys, America’s most storied political family."
The 10 contenders include a Kennedy scion, a Gen Z democratic socialist and a former journalist who, if elected, would be the first Black woman to represent the area.
The heightened interest in the 12th Congressional District makes it clear that this is no ordinary House seat.
The heightened interest in the 12th Congressional District makes it clear that this is no ordinary House seat.
Who’s Running to Replace Jerry Nadler? 10 People and Counting.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"Though he has never held or run for office before, Mr. Schlossberg enters the primary with something none of his opponents have: a direct familial connection to the Kennedys, America’s most storied political family."
Mamdani keeping Tisch is the right call and if you want a mayor who makes war on the NYPD (a cause I am basically sympathetic to) you need one who runs on that and Mamdani didn't
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Mamdani keeping Tisch is the right call and if you want a mayor who makes war on the NYPD (a cause I am basically sympathetic to) you need one who runs on that and Mamdani didn't