Jordan Paul
@jordanpaul.bsky.social
anglican. wife guy. board game enthusiast. attorney for children. micah 6:8. 🧦🌵🕯️
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also you do not have to think like a political operative, you aren't one and honestly most political operatives are wrong about stuff, just care about what you care about and care loudly
this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to
February 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
also you do not have to think like a political operative, you aren't one and honestly most political operatives are wrong about stuff, just care about what you care about and care loudly
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Notably, the first times Section 31 shows up in DS9, *this is not true!* Bashir is given a very clear position as our protagonist to express real, genuine moral repugnance and the show is deeply ambiguous and even straight up doubtful that what Section 31 does is good or even effective.
Hey uh I have no creative power in Star Trek anymore so this means nothing, but I 100% object to the head of the franchise Alex Kurtzman justifying a Space C.I.A. for the Federation to exist.
January 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Notably, the first times Section 31 shows up in DS9, *this is not true!* Bashir is given a very clear position as our protagonist to express real, genuine moral repugnance and the show is deeply ambiguous and even straight up doubtful that what Section 31 does is good or even effective.
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Wisdom, let us attend
January 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Wisdom, let us attend
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Remember the right-wing plot to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s re-election by urging Iran to hold American hostages longer? You don’t? It’s a shocking example of the American right’s treachery that more people should know about. (Gift link to 2023 NYT story.)
A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election (Gift Article)
A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda.
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Remember the right-wing plot to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s re-election by urging Iran to hold American hostages longer? You don’t? It’s a shocking example of the American right’s treachery that more people should know about. (Gift link to 2023 NYT story.)
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it has always been a long reaction to the New Deal. from then to now, capital had seen the New Deal as the sin that must be purged so that the rest of us understand our place as grist for their mills
“We are living under FDR’s personal monarchy.”
-Marc Andreessen, quoting Curtis Yarvin, yesterday
-Marc Andreessen, quoting Curtis Yarvin, yesterday
December 15, 2024 at 10:09 PM
it has always been a long reaction to the New Deal. from then to now, capital had seen the New Deal as the sin that must be purged so that the rest of us understand our place as grist for their mills
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Christmas shopping & realizing how much I hate the Great Beigeification—please, a color, I beg of thee!
December 13, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Christmas shopping & realizing how much I hate the Great Beigeification—please, a color, I beg of thee!
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fwiw I think Trump is sui generis in some ways but not in the ways some people (esp centrists) want him to be. The bigotry, fascism, etc, that’s all cooked into the GOP now. The charisma that people respond to, the humor, etc, the GOP doesn’t have anyone else with that juice.
But this emerging picture out of Nevada isn’t “The Democratic Party failed to address the needs of the working class and voters rejected them,” it looks more like “Trump is sui generis and none of his electoral results are generalizable to his party.”
November 10, 2024 at 2:16 PM
fwiw I think Trump is sui generis in some ways but not in the ways some people (esp centrists) want him to be. The bigotry, fascism, etc, that’s all cooked into the GOP now. The charisma that people respond to, the humor, etc, the GOP doesn’t have anyone else with that juice.
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perfect coda to the merrick garland era at DOJ. complying in advance
November 6, 2024 at 6:38 PM
perfect coda to the merrick garland era at DOJ. complying in advance
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I think this is right. Also, if anyone is looking for someone to blame, it should be focused on the people who looked exactly at what Trump was selling and said "yes."
I am going to say this once: based on what we know now, there’s no “one weird trick” that would have won the presidency. There just isn’t. This was a massive shift and massive shifts have many fathers.
November 6, 2024 at 4:44 PM
I think this is right. Also, if anyone is looking for someone to blame, it should be focused on the people who looked exactly at what Trump was selling and said "yes."
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An incredible new interactive piece from @propublica.org -- What really gets taken when a city sweeps a homeless encampment? A tent, seizure medication, an ex boyfriend's shirt, photos, baby shoes, a tiara, a husband's ashes. Devastating and illuminating
projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...
projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...
Swept Away: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments
People say having their possessions — from birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes — taken in “sweeps” traumatizes them, exacerbates health issues and undermines efforts to find housing and get or kee...
projects.propublica.org
October 29, 2024 at 1:12 PM
An incredible new interactive piece from @propublica.org -- What really gets taken when a city sweeps a homeless encampment? A tent, seizure medication, an ex boyfriend's shirt, photos, baby shoes, a tiara, a husband's ashes. Devastating and illuminating
projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...
projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...
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Parents to let toddlers decide what’s for din-din every night
October 4, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Parents to let toddlers decide what’s for din-din every night
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The best way we can all honor the memory of Pete Rose is by banning sports betting again
October 1, 2024 at 2:27 AM
The best way we can all honor the memory of Pete Rose is by banning sports betting again
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Of the many things that enrage me about the Supreme Court’s death penalty docket is its bloodlessness. You shouldn’t be able to order a death without saying anything. You should have to justify what you’re doing, or fail spectacularly while trying. You should have to sign your name to this shit.
SCOTUS won't stay the execution of Marcellus Williams. The three liberals dissent.
September 25, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Of the many things that enrage me about the Supreme Court’s death penalty docket is its bloodlessness. You shouldn’t be able to order a death without saying anything. You should have to justify what you’re doing, or fail spectacularly while trying. You should have to sign your name to this shit.
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine the Hawk Tuah girl interviewing a guy wearing dress sneakers, a blazer that's two sizes too small, and an eerily smooth face on a web show sponsored by Grok — forever.
September 20, 2024 at 7:16 PM
If you want to imagine the future, imagine the Hawk Tuah girl interviewing a guy wearing dress sneakers, a blazer that's two sizes too small, and an eerily smooth face on a web show sponsored by Grok — forever.
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*whispers* harris should do rogan
September 17, 2024 at 4:37 PM
*whispers* harris should do rogan
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this is exactly the performance he gave in june and against a competent opponent he looks as insane as he is
September 11, 2024 at 1:45 AM
this is exactly the performance he gave in june and against a competent opponent he looks as insane as he is
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We kidnapped a dean, and within a year or so a number of our protest leaders declared war on the US government and started blowing things up, and though they claim they were nice and only bombed buildings, they wanted to kill people until their friends blew themselves up.
But KIDS THESE DAYS!!!
But KIDS THESE DAYS!!!
The radicals got old www.chronicle.com/article/we-h...
May 14, 2024 at 2:51 PM
We kidnapped a dean, and within a year or so a number of our protest leaders declared war on the US government and started blowing things up, and though they claim they were nice and only bombed buildings, they wanted to kill people until their friends blew themselves up.
But KIDS THESE DAYS!!!
But KIDS THESE DAYS!!!
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What's cool about looking back at the history of college protests is that 19 year old students have been right about every single American war, and the esteemed Harvard educated opinion writers at the New York Times have been wrong about every single American war.
April 30, 2024 at 9:59 PM
What's cool about looking back at the history of college protests is that 19 year old students have been right about every single American war, and the esteemed Harvard educated opinion writers at the New York Times have been wrong about every single American war.
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Consider this alongside the decision in Citizens United, and you can derive a number of lessons about the nature of power.
the “protests aren’t really speech” argument is steadily cohering on the center-right
Free speech warrior Steven Pinker defends bringing in riot cops to shut down free speech.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/29/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/29/o...
April 30, 2024 at 3:14 AM
Consider this alongside the decision in Citizens United, and you can derive a number of lessons about the nature of power.
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Court rules 6-3 that homeless people have a constitutional obligation not to exist, with Thomas and Alito concurring separately to point out that traditionally people froze to death and ongoing homelessness is a function of expanding into “traditionally Spaniard regions”
Supreme Court justices expressed concern on Monday about punishing homeless people for sleeping outside when they have nowhere else to go while also struggling with how to ensure local and state leaders have the flexibility to deal with the growing number of unhoused individuals nationwide.
Supreme Court divided over homeless ban and rights of the unhoused
The decision in an Oregon homelessness case, to be released in June, could be the most far-reaching judgment on the rights of the unhoused in decades.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 22, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Court rules 6-3 that homeless people have a constitutional obligation not to exist, with Thomas and Alito concurring separately to point out that traditionally people froze to death and ongoing homelessness is a function of expanding into “traditionally Spaniard regions”
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ok the Reacher guy keeps it real as hell
April 11, 2024 at 5:30 AM
ok the Reacher guy keeps it real as hell
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So here's the Israeli explanation for the WCK attack.
Spoiler: Even if every word here is true (and it probably is given the referenced video) it's still a war crime
Spoiler: Even if every word here is true (and it probably is given the referenced video) it's still a war crime
IDF dismisses 2 senior officers over deadly drone strike on Gaza aid convoy
Attack on World Central Kitchen cars was against army regulations, probe finds; commanders believed Hamas gunman was in one car
www.timesofisrael.com
April 5, 2024 at 12:30 PM
So here's the Israeli explanation for the WCK attack.
Spoiler: Even if every word here is true (and it probably is given the referenced video) it's still a war crime
Spoiler: Even if every word here is true (and it probably is given the referenced video) it's still a war crime