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Jason (LFG!)
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Lawyer and stuff. Oregonian. Always making playlists. Booze and kind people. BLM. Economic justice. Structural change. #WarrenDemocrat forever. He/him.
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April 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Imagine Trump decided to make yoga mandatory for every American for an hour a day but his conception of yoga is actually people dueling with pistols. Would it make a lot of sense to argue the various pros and cons of mandatory yoga in that case?

That is what we are doing right now.
April 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and-

Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
January 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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This is how you say “go fuck yourself sideways with a porcupine” in inspector general speak.

Going to be interesting to see how the administration responds
January 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
It's so funny that the Mueller Report laid out an airtight case for obstruction of justice and Merrick Garland just did...nothing with it, so it vanished down the memory hole like so many other Trump transgressions ($$$ from foreign gov'ts via his hotel, anyone?).

Haha.

Ha.
December 3, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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I think about this all the time. See also reactions to Dobbs.
As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).
October 22, 2023 at 2:46 PM
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Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."

This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s.

The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today.

Better choices instead of excuses.

#cities #cars #Dutch
July 10, 2023 at 2:20 AM
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"Problematic candidates" - that's the framing AXIOS is using to describe progressive Democrats such as @mondairejones.bsky.social running for Congress (without any data to show how their candidacy would be problematic).

Wonder why?

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/09/house-democrats-primaries-2024
July 9, 2023 at 7:54 PM